Morris tribune., 1884-11-26
GLEANINGS.

The new uniforms of the Russian
army are very simple. Even metal
buttons are discarded, and hooks and
eyes used which cannot-be seen.
So we'll do the American grape vines
resist the phylloxera that $4,000 acres
of them have been set out in the De-
partment OF the Gironde, France.
The whole business of tho Dominion
of Canada in telegraphy is not equal
to the business of the Western Union
Telegraph Office in the city of Chicago.
Uncle Henry" Logan, the colored
messenger of the Registers Office in
Washington, who handles more money
than any other man living, earns 1920
a year and lives in $10-a-month cot
tage.
From the will of Quakeress, Miss
Haughton, who recently died in Dub
lin: Il bequeath the sum of $4,000 to
the national cause for tho independ-
ence of Ireland-liberty for my country
to rule herself"
Trichine, if the experimental re-
suits of the work of NM. Mignon and
| Touard, in Paris are to be relied on,
are rendered inoccuous after the meat
containing the parasites has been SUBJ
jected to a temperature as low rs 20
degrees centigrade.
Thesstate treasurer of New Hamp-
shire has issued a notice to selectmen
of towns informing them that in pre-
senting claims for bounties on wood
chucks they must certify that none of
the animals were killed on Sunday, else
the claim will not be allowed.
The Digger Indians of California
feast upon grasshoppers and wild hon
ey. To secure the former they make
grand drive, getting the game"
into pond of water and then catch
them in baskets, dry them, shake their
wings off and store them away for win
ter food.
They say that the upright "choker"
collar is gradually going out of fashion
which will be pleasing intelligence to
thousands of its victims. The gallants
of the time of Queen Elizabeth were
afflicted by similarly starched cuffs,
which finally attained to such enor-
nous proportions that the fashion died
out.
English papers have charged the
American press with being sensational
and fond of the dark side of life, but
London Truth says: Zone good, bloody
murder, from a newspaper point of
view, is worth more than anything else
that can happen, and murder in Eng
land interests Londoners more than a
campaign on the Nile.'
'Chicago will 60 down some day
will tumble into the unfathomable
gulf which those tireless miners, the
rats are digging for her. 10 think that
in this new-looking, first class hotel,
one sleeping in the ladies' ordinary
can hear rats as large as poodle dog
galloping over the floor and tables and
beds all night long!'' So writes the
editor of the Nashville World from
Chicago.
St. Bernard dogs are religiously
trained. At meal time they sit in a
row, each with tin dish before him
containing his repast. Grace is said
by one of the monks, the dogs sitting
motionless with bowed heads. Not one
of them stirs until the 'amen" is spok-
en-. If risky puppy attempts to SAM
pie his meal before the grace is over
one of the older dogs growls and gen.
tly tugs his ear.
Large fortunes are rare in Switzer-
land, and the salaries of public func-
tionaries very modest. The President
of the Confederation receives $4,000 8
year, few Judges more than 81, $50, and
there is probably no bank manager in
the country who gets more than twice
that amount. A man with an income
of $4,000 year is considered we'll off
indeed, and to have $4,000 is to be
rich.
A London scientific paper is not san
guine as to the success of the new Rus
sian scheme for reaching the North
Pole by means of sledges, starting from
the Siberian islands and having depots
at intervals, inasmuch as the most
northern point of the islands is 900
nautical miles from the pole; and judg-
ing by the appearance in other parts, it
would be no easy matter to haul sledg-
es over the hummocky ice.
New Orleans, semi-tropical city, in
stead of adopting style of architect
ure suitable to the climatic conditions
prevalent there, initiates the methods
of higher ATTITUDES; resorts to archi-
tectual forms which, however beautiful
in themselves, are utterly unsuited in
the place. The IInles-Democrat calls
this an endeavor to ''engraft upon the
stock of the equator the product Of the
arctics," and wishes reformation.
The people of Washoe county, Ne
vada, wanted the genuine Kentucky
blue grass seed with a wild western
yearning that knew no let up. So they
sent to Kentucky for some blue grass
seed, and sowed it among much local
pomp. Did it come up in due time?
Oh, no; for they had been swindIed by
son of chivalry who had given them
the seed of wild turnips and various
other villainous weeds peculiar to Ken
lucky.
Vaccination performed once does not
act as a preventive of smallpox after
certain time has elapsed. An exami-
nation of the statistics of this disease
shows that of those who had taken it
and had been vaccinated in infancy, 80
per cent. are over ten years of age,
while only 10 per cent. were under ten
years of age. Revaccination ut inter-
walls, say, of seven years, is the only
known effective measure for protec-
ton.
An Irish farmer has about twenty-five
acres of land and 10000 chickens. AZ
ter four years laying the hens are fat
tened for market in three weeks and
are fit for the market. The chicks are
hatched in simply constructed incuba-
tors, consisting of nest-like boxes,
placed in rows, and heated and kept at
o regular temperature by steam. The
eggs are covered from the light, and
as the chicks appear they are removed
to another room.
By actual count there are 1882
maiden Rocks in the United States,
exclusive of Idaho and Washington
territories, which are still to be heard
from. These rocks are widely distrib-
uted, but there are no fewer than $50
in Michigan, 300 in Wisconsin, 100 in
Iowa, 1877 in Illinois, $50 in Indiana
and 567 in Vermont alone. A maiden