The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-11-03
Miscellaneous Matters.

Oakland, Cal, is to haye cotton mills
backed by 100000 capital.
4 Probably the fastest train in America
is the afternoon express on the Canada
Atlantic railway, which leaves Coteau
station at 5.35 and reaches Ottawa, dis
tant 1874 miles, at 100, having made one
stop of three minutes at Alexandria.
This is almost exactly fifty miles an
hour. The fastest train in the world is
probably the ''Flying Dutchman, which
Bristol, q distance of ll8 IA miles, in
just two hours, a rate of fifty. nine and
o%ne-eighth miles an hour.
The steamship Ludwig, which sailed
from Antwerp, Belgium, for Montreal
two months ago, and has not since been
heard from, has been given up as lost.
There were seventy persons on board,
twenty-four of whom were passengers.
Pullman, ILL.,, the manufacturing SUI
burb of Chicago, has successfully tried a
a novel system of sewerage. The town
is difficult to drain, lying on the prairie
without rise or fall and without streams.
But sewers were built, emptying into a
sunken tank, from which the sewerage
was pumped through a t~wenty-inch
main to a farm three miles away. The
cost of the system was $50, 900, and the
farm returns a profit of $500 a year, or
more than 5 per cent. on the invest
ment. ..
The Burmese would be known any
where by their fruits, such is the strong
and peculiar odor of their favorite varie-
ties. The dorian is particularly bad for
the olfactory- nerves. It's rind has a
most overpowering smell, and in the
special steamers which are sent to Man
dalay for the use of the king and the
palace, the smell Of the bad dorians is
enough to announce their presence all
up the river. Another fruit, called tan
ienthe, is very odorous, and is esteemed
highly by the Burmese as an excellent
digestive and tonic. From descriptions
of its effects upon the person who has
been indulging in it, it is probably of
grealer strength than the combination Of
rum and onions perceived at some dem
ocratic caucuses.
The increase of national wealth in
Britain since the time of the Stuarts was
fully discussed at the recent meeting of
the British association. Public wealth
has quadrupled since the date of the
battle of Waterloo, and has doubled since
the accession of Queen Victoria. Where
as in 1910 the total wealth was e ,030,-
600, 900 sterling. in 1882 it had increased
to GS, 100, 000, 900. Computed per inhabi-
tant, in 1872 it was Rl27, and in 1882
G249. The purchasing power Of money
had alse increased, and also the compar-
auive number of well-to-do people. The
probate returns showed that IL per cent.
of the populstion was above want in 1910
and 81 per cent. in 1877.
The annual report of the Provost of
the University Of pennsylvania says: I'm
all college life athletics nave become a
very prominent feature. Recognizing
both the advantages and dangers of
pymnastic exercise, the Board Of Trus-
tees has resolved to establish a systema-
tic supervision Of physical C ulture, and
has so far agreed with an athletic asso-
citation of alumni and undergraduates
that a goodly lot of ground, with suitable
buildings and appliances, will soon be
devoted to achletic sports under the
careful oversight of an experienced di-
rector"
Undertaking the bituminous coal and
shale beds of Western Pennsylvania
there is a porous rock which is charged
with petroleum gas. In certain local
tiles 1t is only necessary to tap this gas
reservoir by means Of an artesian well
in order to secure a supply of ready
made highly inlammable fuel. There is
quite q strife now going on in Pittsburg
for q monopoly Of the ~privelage OF dis
tributing this natural gas, through pipes
laid in the streets, to points where it
may be needed for domestic or manu-
featuring purposes.
Leachburg, Penn, is town remark
able for being lighted day and night by
q constant stream Of burning gas. Some
years ago a party desiring to test the
territory for oil drilled a well on the
Westmoreland side of the river, directly
opposite the town, in which no oil was
found, but from which an immense flow
of gas proceeds, and which is utilized by
the proprietors Of q rolling mill in the
former place. The gas at this well not
only furnishes the light and heat for the
rolling mill, but the gas from o pipe pro-
iecting far above the mill buildings illu-
inmates the whole town. BY The use
OF The gas from this well the company
not only lights their works but saves
largely in fuel. Besides furnishing lights
for the rolling mill it supplies these me-
cessities for a steel and a glass manufac-
tory.