The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-08-30
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
The making of photographs in
this country alone consumes yearly 40 tons
of silver and three of gold.
Gen. Buffers return to the asses
sors Of Lowell shows that his income from
his profession is $4,000 His horses and
yacht America are valued at $4,000, and
his real es tate in Lowell at $6o,50O.
A monument of Carrara marble,
costing only $3,OO0 is to be erected to Gar
baldi in PadIa. Italy is the land both Of
cheap monuments and cheap marble; the
busts of 100 philosophers. poets, orators,
and scientists adorn the Pincian Hill at
Rome, and the whole lot cost only $4,000.
DR.. Carlos Faremba of Mexico
has addressed circular letter to all repre-
sentatives of foreign governments now in
Washington, advocating the celebration Of
the discovery of America on it's 4OOth an.
niversary, Oct. 2, 1892, and the erection of
|
ing was made.
The War Department at Rome
has invited all Italian emigrants settled in
| foreign countries to return home and full
| fill their military duties, every male 81
years old being subject to conscription,
regardless of naturalization abroad. Italy
hos ta1l of co1 10 hor
naturalized in the United States.
Jurubeba, drug that is quite
popular in Brazil, has been recently intro
duced into the United States. 1t belongs
| to the Solanum or tomato family. and is
! said to possess all the virtues and none of
the vices of mercury. DR.. Carva.ho of Rio
de Janeiro and Dr. De Champs Of Paris
Ecall it "the vegetable mercury"
Petroleum has been found in the
province of Palmero of such excellent
quality that it can be used in lamps with
out having been previously refined. The
first experiments in collecting it resulted
| in 40 litres being secured in 81 hours. This
sign Of an abundant supply has lei to the
undertaking of works on large scale.
The Rev. DR.. Henry NJ. Scudder
of Chicago. who was for many years a
missionary in India, expresses the opinion.
that ''for unmixed wickelness and utter,
moral depravity no city of Asia could
equal Chicago or New York" and that
II, T., al ssIo
er and mcaner than the lowest and mean
est in India or China
Mineral wool is used for a pack
ing to deadan the sound between floors in
buildings, and being incumbustible it is
now pretty generally used between the
floors and ceilings in new houses Mineral
wool is obtained from the Stag from blast
furnaces, and is produced by throwing a
jet of steam az iinst the stream Of S! ag as it
flows from the furnace
That Colorado is one of the great
grazing states there is no longer room to
doubt, says the first annual report of the
Denver Chamber of Commerce. On Jan.
l. 1884, the grass feeding animals within
It's boundaries aggregated in value some-
thing over $50, O,OOO,O0O; S30,0OO,0o0 was in
horned cattle, SIC, 900, 900 was in horses and
mules end the remainder IN sheep and
goats.
The plan Of using the enormous
water power of the Alps for working elec
trio railways in Switzerland is about to take
definite shape, the idea bving to connect
the towns OF Moritz and Pontreslna by an
electric railway four aud half miles long,
the motive power to be supplied by the
mountain streams; the line, in case the plan
proves success, to be extended consider
able distance.
Old Mexico has both herd and
lease law. An exchange says when one
mans stock depredates on anothers land,
whether it be grass or grain, the owner is
notified if known, to take away his stock,
viii ,h if not done, the animals are driven
to the pound and advertised and sold. If
an individual leases land in that country
he knows he will get to use it, and not be
compelled to pay for pasturing other
peoples stock.
An engineer employed on the
Panama canal reports in San Francisco
that two miles of the east end have been
dug. 100 feet wide and IA feet deep. at
cost of million dollars. The estimate of
thousand million dollars, made by United
States engineers in 1850. is repeated, with
the calculation that the end of the century
will scarcely see the completion of the
canal; even if the work be continual with
out interruption.
Late advices from Vera Cruz,
Mexico, say that myriads of locusts have
appeared in that state and great destruction
to the crops have resulted. In Yucatan
and Southern Mexico hundreds of square
miles of the country are covered with tha
pests, and corn g,asss and other crops arc
utterly destroyed. tits said that thousands
of families dependent upon small crops
will have to be supported by the goyern-
ment during the next six months.