The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-12-15
which lue attention is TO be paid
to the interests of Cuba.

which lue attention is to be paid
to the interests Of Cuba.
The result ofthe last grain har.
est in Ontario is by no mean.
sctisfaetry. The produce OF fall
and winter wheat is placed at 21,.
100000 bushels this year, against
10000, 900 last year, while in bar
ley, there is 4 decline of 100000
bushels and in rye, of 100000 bu-
shells.
! In the California fruit growers
convention, Mr.. Richard Wheeler
said that fruit canned in the or
chard is richer and stronger in fiber
that canned elsewhere, and will en-
aure transportation better. 1t
should be allowed to ripen on the
trees. Orchard canning will save
much fruit that now goes to waste.
The pool known as the Consoli-
dated Paper Company, comprising
fifty mills throughout the North
west, manufacturing wrapping pa
Ter, have resolved, in view Of the
overstocked condition of the mar
ket, to shut down all the mills from
December 1st till February 4th.
About 1000 men will be thrown
out of work.
The total number of national
banks in operation on November
lst was 1922 the largest number
that have been in operation at any
one time. The total earnings of
the banks in operation an October
lst of this year were 50, ,372, zoo, 900.
During the past year 1852 banks
were orsanizel anl 40 li,:oluln-
ued business.
The Chief of the Bureau of Sta
tistics reports that 1885 immi-
grants arrived in the United States
during the month of October,
against 67,920 during the same
N onth of 1882. During the ten
months ended October 31st last,
sol ,O3S immigrants arrived, or 166,-
978 less than during the same per-
iod last year.
The attention of the United
|
States government has been invited
to the International Forestry Ex-
hibition to be held in Edinburgh
in the Summer of 1884. The ex-
hlbision will be open to contribu-
tors from all countries, an is de-
Signed to include everything con-
nectei with or illustrative of the
forest products OF the world.
General Joaquin Zavala, ex-presi-
dent OF Nicaragua, has been appoin-
ted envoy extraordinary to the
other Central American republics
for the purpose of endeavoring to
obtain their acceptance of the pro-
posal made by Nicaragua that the
five republics shall Jointly gauran-
tee three per cent. on the sum OF
SIS. 100000 to be expended in con-
structing the Nicaragua Canal.
Mr.. Ralph Cope an | has proposed
the establishment of an astrono.ni-
cal observatory on some lofty point
in the Andes. He believes that an
observatory might be really main
tain..I at a height 5000 or 1000
feet, and that an experimental
station might be established dur
ing tew weeks in summer at an
altitude of $4,000 or even $4,000
feet. The clear atmosphere of ele-
vated places offers great advantages
for astronomical work.
Secretary Teller has made an i'm
portaht decision concerning pens
ions to dependent mothers whose
sons We're killed in the late war.
The statute, says the Secretary, was
enacted to give to dependent rela-
tives some compensation for the
damage they have sustained by the
loss OF the person on whom they
did in fact depend or might depend
for their support, and he decides
that in all ordinary cases a mother
is entitled to pension.
At the Seminary of the Foreign
Missions in the Rue ,lu Bac, Paris,
where the missionaries are instruct
ell in Asiatic Ian ;la5es, there is
room full OF horribl, pictures which
represent cruelties that have beea
practiced in different lands on for
mer pupils of the house. Neoph-
ytes are made to study these pic
lures so that their nerves may be
proved; and this ordeal is only one
among many by which they have
been previously tested in discretion,
temper, and endurance.
The consul Of the United states
at Cape Town reports to the De-
partment of State the shipment of
twenty four ostriches to New Or
leans, destined for: San Diego,
Cal. Th,sc b;rls range from five
to nine years OF age, and were Sc
lccted with great care from the best
hocks in the colony, without regard
to cost. AS San Diego is about as
far north OF the Eduator as Cape
Colony is south, and as the topogra-
phical features of the two sections
are much alike, the birds will prob
ably thrive ia their new home.
Wilkie Collins, when working