The Mineral argus., 1884-02-07
Miscenaneous Matters.

miscellaneous maCCerS.
The head of a large manufact lring ca.
Enlistment, which paws its men weekly.
says men thus paid are better satisfied
their credit at stores is better, and they
are able to make their money 90 fur.
ther in supplying their families with the
necessities Of life than those are whose
wages are given to them only a dozen
times a year.
There were IS, 700 patients in the lun.
attic asylums of France last year, Of
whom about 81, 900 were men and 8 ,ON
women, showing that females are The
most liable to insanity. That they are
less influenced by treatment is shown by
the fact that the average duration Of
treatment for men is 276 days, while for
women it is 295 days.
The oldest and largest match factory
in the world is at Jonkoping, in Sweden.
1t was established one hundred years
ago, and there are now to be seen spec.
linens of the matches used at the.
beginning OF the present century, con.
sisting of big faggots of wood furnished.
with a handle and a tip to dip in a bath
Of sulphur.
Australia begs for more colonists
though it is receiving nearly 10000 a
year, and advertisements for laboren
often present such inducements as these:
"Healthful climate, good shooting, and
free schools"
A Meriweather (Ga.) farmer discov-
cred one of his mules feeding upon his
geese. The flock had been diminishing
mysteriously, and the loss had been at
tributed to foxes. One night recently,
hearing a disturbance among his geese
in the horse lot, he seized his gun and
rushed to the lot to investigate the cause
of the commotion. Getting as close as
caution allowed, he fred in the direc-
ton of the noise made by the struggling
goose. At the report of the gun his ears
were greeted with q most terrific squal.
ling from Lne of the mules. A light be.
ing produced it wa discovered that the
mule had received a part of the load in
his nose. 1t was, the mule that had
been eating the geese.
Cinnamon in this country, and espec-
tally in the west, have been quick to see
caused by the enforcement OF the re-
striction act. Soon after its passage the
Chinese laborers in California demanded
and received at least a third more In
weekly wages, and now many OF them
are ~agitatinE for another increase. In
the Sandwich Islands Cinnamon are
noted for their propensity for strikes.
III drugs were thrown to d~ogs-and
dogs were fresh enough to take them
it would be greatly to the advantage OF
humanity and the sheep business. And
there is more occasion for this reform
with us than any where else under the
sun-as appears from the Siglo Medico's
Oya statistics of the, percentage of doc
tors to population OF different countries;
France has 2.91 per 1000 people; Ger
many, 3.2l; Austria, 3.41t England, g.
Hungary, 6.10; Italy, 610; Switzerland,
7.U6; United States, 1924. Happily,
however, we are not restricted for Gem
etery room, and eTsmationism is on the
increase.
The Celestial Empire has long been a
favorite field for missionaries of the
Roman Church, which has established
itself in considerable force throughout
the country, as we'll as at Pekin. There
are no fewer than twenty-five bishop:
and apostolic wears in China. Abou.
hSlf of these are French priests, two o
them being Jesuits, two of the order o
st. LaZare, and the rest mostly apper
tanning to the Missionary Society of the
Rue du BAG. The Lazarites have
large and important establishment il
Pekin, close 10 the Imperial Palace. /
is a convent, originally given to tn,
Jesuits by the Emperor Handy, but L
now governed by Mgr. Delaplace, Bish
OPP of Pekin, who, has been for thirty
five years q missionary in China. 1t i
noticed as a popularity Of this conven
that every n admitted to it is required
to swear solemnly that he will not con
sought TO combine with the Roman
Catholic worship, but were prescribe,
10y a bull of Pope Benedict XIV.