Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-26

each produce $12O worth of feathers an } nually in the southern States. An ostrich ] two years old costs about $375. Breeders can be had for $1, 75O per pair. For four- yearold birds, which may be expected short ly to breed, the price will be $1 200 per pair, l and for two year olds s750 per par, pair of breeders will sixty chicks annually. A particularly mean swindle has been brought to light in Minnesota. Circulars were sent throughout England, saying that the care of young men desirous to learn farming in "the Golden Northwest" was de- sired by the advertiser The trouble of the instructor would be recompensed and the ex- penses of the trip repaid to the teacher by deposit of $375. Of this amount $50 was to go to the farmer who received the young man as an apprentice for one year. Each appren- tice was to receive $6 per month for four months, and $12 for each succeeding month, besides board. Recently the author of tho circular brought party of seventy-ti five Eng fish young men, and distributed them along one of the Minnesota railroads. It turns out that some of the Englishmen were not placed on farms at all Others received no stipend for their work Tho swindler made each man pay $2 in passing his gun through the New York custom house, though the authori- ties declared the arm exempt Several thou- sand dollars rewarded this confidence man. Some of the young men represented excellent families.
 Unless General Wolseley can get 8 chance to fight with Arabi soon, the Nile may make his campaign ineffective. The Nile, when it rises in the latter part of the summer, reach es an average height of twelve feet above it's banks, and makes of the whole valley vast lake, crossed here and there by narrow en- bankments, and with villages and ruins on slight elevations, showing here and there like little islands above the flood. Tho overflow of the Nile is caused by the spring rains and the melting of the snows in the mountains of Abyssnia. The river usually begins to rise in June, but the increase is generally slow until the middle or latter part of August, when it be- comes more rapid, and the banks are over flowed usually about the first of September. It is apparently somewhat earlier than usual this year. The highest stage of water is reached between the first of September and the middle of October. The earliest high Nile in late years on the 27th of August, and the latest on the 2Oth of October The average rise is about twelve feet above the banks, but rise of nineteen feet above at Cairo occurred in 1874. The water cannot be expected to decrease in depth before the first of October, and for several weeks before and after that time the country is impossible except in boats along the embankments, and the climate is deadly to Europeans. The depth of the water in it's earlier stages can be controlled in some measure by system of canals and sluices by which the flood may be directed to portion of the valley or another, and the general inundation of tEe country may be delayed for some days by di- verting the flow into large basins of capacity enough to absorb the surplus for while All these means of directing or controlling the overflow are in Arabi's power.