Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-05-28
HTTi7TH TIT 4 I'll 1
GLEANINGS.

with an aggregate capital OF S1ool'-
900.
The manufacture of perfume from To-
cal-grown flowers is becoming an ex-
tensive industry in Florida.
The average weekly receipts OF but
ter in New York last year were 1,50o-
900 pounds. At present the weekly re-
ceipts are over 800, 900.
Great impetus is lent to culinary &C
complishmonts in Norway from the TACT
that no girl is allowed to have q beau
until she can make bread. ~a.
The New York Board of Health has
experimental on some adulterated mus
tard sold in that market, and dog
whose meat allowance was spiced with
the condiment, died in three days.
Almond growing is declared to be o
failure in Northern California, the fruit
blossoming too early and not bearing a
full crop. General Bidwell has recent
ly grated his almond orchard to
prunes. '''.''
James Riley, a telegraph messenger
was found in the streets of New York q
raving maniac. He kept crying con-
stantly: II am Butts, the boy detec-
tive" His brain was turned by boy
Slavery still exists in China. The
female slaves are by far the most
numerous. The average price is
from $40 to $50 per head. Young and
healthy girls of twelve sometimes fetch
as high as 800. ... .... ...........
j. S, Fogg, of Boston, is President OF
the syndicate of bankers and capital
lists of the Hub who have 800, 900, 900
invested in the Northwest. Their Sc
curities are land mortgages, bonds and
commercial paper. .., 20. 49,.
The widow of General Fitzpatrick is
soon expected home from Chill, and
her friends are raising $4,000 to dis
charge a mortgage on her late hus-
bands house in New Jersey so that
she can come to an unincumbered home.
There are only two American books
which have market value approXima-
tine 81 900; they are the Bay Psalm
Book" which has been sold as high as
$1,000, and Eliot's Indian Bible-"Up-
Biblum God,' in the aboriginal tongue.
CAPTAIN Hoxie, the husband OF: Vim
ME Ream, the sculptress, has had abb
solutely snow-white hair eyer since he
was twenty-four, and his features are
like a cameo; the only vivid color
about his face is in his eyes, which are
purple-blue. '. ..''. W -...''. '''
1t is significant fact, according to
New York criminal lawyer, that among
all the nations of the world whose peo-
pie have made the United States their
home, it may be exceptionally recorded
of the japanese that no one has been
convicted of q criminal otfense in an
| American court. ."'. -..:4 .
There is place in the Blue Ridge
Mountains in West Virginia, where
snow melts as fast as it falls, and
and where the temperature of the
ground never reaches the freezing
point. Vegetation is almost q month
ahead of the surrounding sections.
! There is about one acre of %this warm
area The State sGeologist is of the
opinion that there may be volcano
slumbering few hundred feet below
| the surface.
The following are said to be the six
| teen American inventions of world
wide adoption; The cotton gin, the
| planning machine, the grass mower and
reaper, the rotary printing press, steam
NAVIGATION, the hot-air machine, the
sewing machine, the India rubber in
dustry, the machine manufacture of
horseshoes, the sand blast for craving,
| the guage lathe, the grain elevator, ar
| tifcial ice making on = large sca'e, the
electromagnetic in its practical applica-
ton and the telephone.
A citizen of Fitchburc. Mass, whose
house, barn and shed were overrun
with rats, tried q method which he
had heard recommended to get rid OF
| them, though without any expectation
of it's success. He caught u rat in a
trap, and with piece of lighted pa
per, snged off the hair of its back, tax
inc care not to burn or hurt the hide.
He then let the rat 90 back to It's old
haunts, and within three days every
rodent but tie singed one had quit the
premises.
The common sparrow, that was new
| er great favorite in Great Britain, is
now looked upon rs post in the Un-
tied States, where the bird was lately
welcomed, housed, fed and protected
by law. 1t has been. found that the
sparrow does drive away birds, does
play havoc with the flower garden and
the winery and the orchard and does
not destroy grubs and worms when bet
ter fare can be had. The squirrel has
also fallen into disfavor. It is alleged
by naturalists that the squirrel robs
+ BIRDS nests and destroys fruit-in fact,
| some have considered this little animal
a sort of tree rat.
| DR.. Murray Gibbes reports, In the
London Medical Journal, thirty-seven
cases of diptheria claimed to have been
cured by saturating tho atmosphere of
the room in which the patient was
placed with the vapor of eucalyptus
globules. The atmosphere must be
constantly loaded with steam, and the
vapor of the eucalyptus is obtained by
pouring boiling water on the dried
leaves. To assist nature in throwing
off the membrane DR.. Gibbs used a So
luton of steel and glycerine, with
which he brushed the throat when the
membrane is loose enough to come
away easily,
| Northern Georgia has peculiar in
stitution in conjunction with the Spring
terms of the courts. 1t is horse swap
ping. The meeting of the court is the
signal for all the professional horse
swappers in the vicinity to hasten to
the scene of their favorite business.
Long before the hour of the court to
convene they will be seen to come in
on every kind of an animal, from $40
horse to 50 mule The fun soon be-
gins and continues from day to day
while the court SITS One man, who is
reported to have made eighteen swaps,
had $25 in money, three pocket knives,
two brides, two quarts of whisky, and
horse worth just about as much as
the one he had brought
In October last two respectable En-
glish physicians performed the opera
ton of inserting a tube into the trachea
of child as q last resort in q case di-
agnosed as Group. The tube becoming
INSTRUCTED, the father sucked out the