River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-12-11
General Paragraphs.

The Clyde ship building report fol
September, just published, shows that
there have been launched twenty-five
vessels of 81 ,012 tons, which is $500
tons over the corresponding month last
year; but, taking the three quarters Of
the year, decline of $4,000 to 10000
is shown, compared with 1888. AT tbs
English ports the figures show a cor.
responding falling off.
During the civil war the bounties
we're in some instances as high as 81 800
per recruit In the war of 1872 boun-
ties were found to be indispensable in
recruiting; each recruit in 1914, re-
celved bounty of 1924. "In fact, ;
says an eminent authority, latter the
subsistence of the first burst of patri
otism it has generally been found nee
essary to appeal to mercenary motives
in soliciting recruits. The only ulti
matum is CONSUMPTION, which, while lesi
expensive, is more unpopular, anC
furnishes unwilling recruits instead o
volunteers.
California ought to make good dea
of money out of her wine plantations il
the ravages caused by the phylloxera
are going to continue in England, says
the New York Sun. The reduction oil
value of the wine growing districts Of
Malaga is estimated at 81, 250, 900. In
Portugal the disease is so bad that +;
suspension of the production of wine is
feared 1t amounted in former years tt
over 500, 900, 600 In France the tota,
loss is so large that NJ Lalande said il
the senate that France had lost as much
by the phylloxera as by the payment Of
the German idemnity, and this was l.
600, 900. 900.
The fine old stone building in Kings.
ton n. Y. known as the Senate House,
is again offered for sale by auction. This
is now the oldest public building i'll the
United States, so far as known, having
been erected in 1876. The interior was
burned out by the British In October
1777, when Kingston was burned. IL
that same year the first Senate of New
York State held its first sessions in this
building, adopting the original State
Constitution there The structure was
rebuilt and occupied by General Arm.
strong, who was war secretary under
Washington. He resided there until
1904. The old house has sheltered
many of the old statesmen and military
heroes of those early days of the repub-
lie. The old walls are to-day as firm
as ever, defying the mason's hammer
and chisel as they did the British torch.
The London Lumber Trade journal
states that new method of tree-felling
by dynamite has been successfully in
troduced A cartridge of the explosive
substance is placed in channel bored
directly under the tree to be operated
upon, and when exploded the tree is
simply forced up bodily and falls intact
on its side. II this system works as
well as it is represented to do, and the
tree is not fractured by the force of the
explosion, large proportion of valua-
BILE wood at the base of the trunk can be
utilized which is now lost.
The famous Phillips well near Butler
Pa, is said to be the most phemome-
nal ever discovered in the oil regions
1t has produced 100 barrels an hour,
and during the last five weeks no less
than Is 900 barrels have flowed from it.
Though surrounded by rival shafts sunI
to tap the supply none have approached
it in abundance even the Johnson, the
most promising of the number, tagging
far behind. The oil from the Phillips
flows from an almost perfect pebble
sand, at depth of SIT feet. Large
numbers of people visit the well, which
flows with the regularity OF clockwork
the oil gushing out at intervals of nine
minutes and half. the flow LASTING
about four minutes.