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

Nor wait to begin our crow;
But we havn't yet heard who must swallow
the bird,
So we'll wait for fortnight or so.-The Day
A Pitsburg anti.proverb man has
made a practicable whistle out of a
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 as ever.
If Prof. Emil Bertram's process of
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 i'm vast Ieds Of rock and salt
of the finest quality. Tn 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 ut the present
time an immense corporation is being
organized to purchase large tracts of
lands in 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 graparies at
the present time to supply the markets
of the world for the next three years.
Coffee we pay IS cents pound
cost two lilas in Java; the lila is about
three quarters of Il 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 super
stitious dread of reoccupying the re.
deemed territory. Monuments will
be erected to mark the sites of the de-
stroyed cities and villages.-Chicago
News.
Notwithstanding experiments
in balloon steering-will have place
at the worlds fair in London in 1885.
In Switzerland, the winnow reaches
al altitude of about 1900 feet above
sea-level, according to Mons. V. FatIo
and the miller's thumb one of 700
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 uni.
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 tc
be a giant among his own people.
A Frenchman has devised process
of giving to felt slight coating Of
piumbago or metal, by which the ap.
pearance of FURNISHED steel, copper
bronze or silver may be initiated. The
product is likely to prove very useful
when applied to stage properties, as
besides being inexpensive, it does moi
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 a 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, COM
plete change of tint taking place in
two or three days:
Mr.. r. T.. Reddard states that earth
worms two feet in length have been
found in the Birth Iales, and various
species as large or larger are known to
exist in South America, Western
Africa, Australia and New zealand,
The largest species known, however,
inhabits South Africa. Forty years
ago aspecimen was described which
measured six feet two inches i'm length
but it seems to have been nearly for
gotten until the other day when gi-
gantic creature Of the same species,
nearly five feet long and half an inch
in diameter, was sent to the London
Geological Gardens from Cape Colony.
One Of the most remarkable of cleo
trical manifestations is that known as
globular or ball lightning, which is so