Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-11-12

It's best to be meek, though the atmosphere
reek
And you feel a temptation to so.
So we'd buckle right In to crow;
Nor wait TO begin our crow;
But we havnt yet heard who must swallow
the bird,
So wen wait for Il fortnight or ,so.-The Day
A Pitsburg anti-proverb man has
made Il practicable whistle out of
pigs tail. So our traditions are
swept away one by one.
The past year has been an exceed
ingly productive one for the salt mines
of Lake Superior country. AS nearly
as can be estimated, the total yield
will exceed half a million tons, and
the mines continue as fertile rs ever.
If Prof. Emil Bcrtram's process of
converting into fuel proves practicable
there is no reason why the salt mines
OF the Lake Superior country should
not become powerful competitors of
the great coal fields of Pennsylvania.
The latest government survey shows
that the entire Superior region
abOunds in vast Leds of rock and salt
of the finest quality. In numerous
localities this salt is of such an adj
amantine character that it is superior
to the ordinary granite for building
purposes. In New York at the present
time an immense corporation is being
organized to purchase large tracts of
lands i'll the Superior country for the
purpose of handling the saline pro-
duct in all of the forms in which it is
serviceable.
Advices from Java are to the effect
that that island is recovering rapidly
from the effects of the dreadful volcan-
ic outburst which afflicted her last year
Her commerce has been restored and
her products this season have been UNI
sually large. Expectations of ivory,
nutmeg, cinnamon, and other spices
| will exceed in bulk those of former
years. However, none of the coffee
plantations has resumed, and prob
ably none will for the present. 1t is
said that the merchants of Suatra,
Maumi, and other Java towns have
enough coffee in their grauaries at
the present time to supply the markets
of the world for the next three years.
Coffee we pay IS cents a pound
cost two lilas in Java; the lila is about
| three quarters of a cent. Since the
volcanic eruption last year the waters
of the sea have receded gradually, and
| the shape of the island is now very
nearly what it was before the distur-
bance. But the natives have a super
stitious dread of reoccupying the re-
deemed territory. Monuments will
he erected to mark the sites of the de-
stroyed cities and villages.-Chicago
News.
Notwithstanding experiments
in balloon steering-will have Il place
at the worlds fair in London in 1855.
In Switzerland, the winnow reaches
an altitude of about 1900 feet above
sea-level, according to Mons. V. FatIo
and the miller's thumb one of 200
feet, although the carp, tench, rudd
and club have been successfully in
| trodued at $500 to 5000 feet.
DR.. Klein, appointed by the Govern
ment Of India to investigate the
cholera question, has satisfied himself
that the minute organisms, or "mi-
crobes," discovered by DR.. Koch are
not the cause of cholera. He has
shown the strength of his conviction
by swallowing some of the microbes
and no evil result followed.
Some of the dwarf race of men re-
ported by several travellers as dwellers
in equatorial Africa are now at the
Royal Aquarium, London, to which
anthropologists are invited for study
ing this remarkable people. The tall
est of the dwarfs is only four feet and
a half in height, and he processes to
be a giant among his own people.
A Frenchman has devised process
of giving to felt a slight coating OF
plumbago or metal, by which the APP
pearance of FURNISHED steel, copper,
bronze or silver may he initiated. The
product is likely to prove very useful
when applied to stage properties, as
besides being inexpensive, it does not
materially increase the weight of
articles treated with it.
The hair of q young girl, who died
at the age of fifteen in an insane as
YUM of Hamburg, is reported to have
shown alterations of color coincid1ng
with periodical changes in the pa
TENTS mental and physical condition.
Besides epileptic fits, 1t was noticed
that she experienced, while in the
asylum, quite regular alterations of
excitement and calmness, each of
about weeks duration; and that the
color of her hair was red during each
period of agitation, while it became
blonde i'm her quite intervals, a COM
plete change of tint taking place in
| two or three days:
Mr.. f. i. Beddard states that earth
worms two feet in length have been
found in the Birth Isles, and various
species as large or larger are known to
exist in South America, Western
Africa, Australia aud New zealand.
The largest species known, however,
inhabits South Africa. Forty years