The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-14
the prospects for the future were never

THE japanese make a paper TO initiate
leather, in which the surface has every ap-
pearance of finished skin with extraordi-
nary firmness and elasticity, and it can he
subjected to washing without any injury
from the water. These peculiariti.s are
not so much due to the superior quality OF
the material, as to the mode of mauuiac-
tare, the surfaces remaining intact, even
when the paper Is very thick, while with us
paper of this kind soon loses its iirmness,
and the grain is impaired Japanese leather
paper is made extensively at Flangawa,
near leddo, the capital of the empire,
Nobody knows where the potato came
from originally. 1t has been found appar-
entity indigenous in many parts OF the
world. Mr.. Darwin, for instance found il
wild in the Chonos archipelago. Sir w. j.
Hooker says that it is common at Nalpi.
raiso, where is grows abundantly on the
sandy hills near The sea. In Peru. and
other parts OF south America, it appears to
be at home, and it il = noteworthy fact that
MIR. Darwin should have noted it both in the
humid forests OF the Chonos archipelago
and among the central Gillian mountains
whore sometimes rain does not fall for six
months Al n stretch. 1t was to the colonists
whom Sir Walter Raleigh sent out in Eliza,
beth's reign that England is indebted for
potatoes. lieriot, who came out with
these colonists, and who wrote an account
OF his travels, makes what may perhaps
be regarded rs the earliest mention of this
vegetable.
Experiments with the silk-producinc
mulberry will be made in the Rio Grande
valley in the ensuing spring. If successful
there is likelihood that the raising of silk
worms and cocoons for market will become
one OF the enterprises of that vicinity
The Grocers' Bulletin says: Protests
against the frauds perpetrated in the cheese
ana DuttermarketS are common. Now and
then some shipper, who has laid his plans
to deiraud the foreign market, finds himself
stranded with large amount of leaking
lard-cheCsc and oleomargarine turned ia
tallow on his hands, and then renounces
the business for IL time.
Glyceriuc, 10 which few drops of alcohol
have been added, is an excellent application
Tor oll-stoncs on which fine Instruments are
to be sharpenrd.
a turnip covered with a sort Of second
growth or cNcrescense, which numbered MOI
less than 100 small and imperfect turnips OF
all sizes, from bird-shot to heriis egg,
grown in Orange county, Florida, has been
seen by the editor of the Orlando Reporter
-, AisS h'NN u lullllbll DOuluS oil
blasting powder in 1881. Colorado is like A
girl with fair hair-she likes to 90 oil with
bang.
The Clerk Of the House has been able to
count up. the number of bills offered in
Congress during the late flood, and finds
tlat $3.50 were introduced requiring the
printing OF 100 copies, and the work is
only just begun.
This year the Irish farmers are scndinc
cGarsoes OF potatoes to the western ports Of
Great Britain, Moreover, considerable
quantity OF Irish potatoes is being shipped
to the United States. Scotch and German
potatoes are also being Skinned to
the United Stases. Scotch regents are
very scarce in all the wholesale markets of
the North, and champions are plentiful
champions are not liable to disease. whereas
the best East Lothian regents have su 1,red
considerably from it,
In the mining of anthracite coal in the
census year lS70-s0, there were 273 collerics.
the understandable product for the wear was
Zh455,30 net TONS the value of this. de-.
lNered Tor transportation, was $40, 33l .9Sl.
the total number of nployes was 6S, 800. the
total vases paid were s2l $50, 100; the aver.
sSe yearly Income of each man was $3.50 OS.
a ane percentage OF year worked was 7O69,.
rms industry is all in eight counties of
pennsylvania, and nearly all of il is In
threc counties. Compared with 1870. there
mas hecn gam of 29,0i per cent in the
however, is in boys. Wages have lall.n
AN per cent, which is a little more Than
the currency has appreciated.
The telegraph statistics of the Unitod
states and leading European countries arc