The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1884-06-07
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
The Rothschilds own $4OO, 900. 900
of United States bonds
In the room of a kleptomaniac in
London were found 900 umbrellas.
In February 223 slaves, worth
$37, 600. were freed in Brazil. There are
still ], 800, 900 slaves in the empire.
There is a rumor to the effect
that the scribners propose to start new
weekly, something after the style Of Har-
pers'.
Chicago has one liquor saloon
to every 35 families, which is more than Is
times the number of bakers, and nearly six
times the number of butchers. The gro-
GERS number one to every SO families. :.
A Baltimore firm has introduced
the Japanese persimmon into this country
and planted 1000, 900 trees. The fruit is
said to be delicious, and the general opin-
ion is that it will be we'll received when Of
fered for sale.
The London Telegraph thinks
the time is not far distant when every
nightfarer will carry his own ray OF elsc-
trlcity about him, inclosed within the
compass of a machine not larger than the
watch now ticking in his pocket.
Twenty-Five per cent. of the
acreage of Europe. it is estimated is still in
timber, and 40 per cent. of the territory Of
Russia is in forests. Twenty-seven per
cent. of Germany is in timber and. it il
said, but four per cent. of Great Britain.
Lime slaked with a solution of
salt in water, and then properly thinned
with skim-milk, from which all the cream
has been taken, makes permanent white
wash for outdoor work. and, it is said. rem
ders the wood incombustible, 1t is an ex-
cellent wash for preserving wood and for
all 1arln purposes.
The decline in the price of cop
per makes it probable that it will be used
as roofing. among other new purposes. 1t
does not require to be painted like the tin
roof every two or three years, and it is not
subject to rust. Even at present prices,
though copper roof might cost two or
three times as much as a tin roof, in the
end it would be much less expensive.
In Green county, Wisconsin,
there are 43 LimburSer cheese factories.
using 100000 pounds of milk daily, the
produce of 1856 cows, and making 21, 1Ss
pounds Of cheese each day. Sixty thous-
and pounds of milk are also used in 20
Swiss cheese factories, which make
6,7OO pounds Of cheese. There are also
seven American cheese factories, using
$500 cows and 10000 pounds of milk, and
making daily 1850 pounds of cheese.
Some curious Investigations have
been made by DR.. Richardson, the famous
writer on the physiology Of alcohol, show
ing that mortality from that substance has
its seasons in sEngland, declining below
the mean from February to April, rising to
its maximum in July, declining again until
the close of December, and finally rising to
tho smaller maximum in the first week of
January. The government revenue returns
are also said to follow the same variation.
The emancipation Of the slaves
in Cuba began in 1879, when all above the
age Of So were freed. The emancipation
.et provided that slaves from so to IS
should be liberated l.. Snnte,rher 1881:
those between IS and so in September, 1882;
those between 40 and 46 in September, 1884;
those between IS and 40 in September. 1885;
those between 30 and 35 in September, 1888,
and those under 30 years of age in 1890.
There remain now less than lao. 600 slaves
on the island.
Fish culturists will be interested
in an enormous ice-pond, the largest in
America, ON q farm in the town of River
head, Mass. 1t covers five acres, and is 50
full that the eels can he raked out with an
ordinary garden rake. Two thousand
dozen cells were put into the pond fve years
ago, and their number has now increased
to millions. They are fed regularly every
third bay on ''horse feet" peculiar sheil-
fish, and at meal TIME crack from their
owners whip will bring thousands Of them
to the surface and SO sagacious are they
that they will appear for no one else.
The Pixies Peak Railway, which
will be in operation next year, will be the
most notable piece Of track in the world.
It will mount 1000 feet higher than the
Lima & Oroya railway in Peru. It's now
in operation to a point over 1900 feet
above sea level The entire 30 miles Of its
length will be succession of complicated
curves and grades. with no piece OF straight
track longer than 800 feet The maxinsnm
grade will be BIG feet to the mile, and tho
average grade 270 feet. The line will
abound in curves from 500 to 1000 feet
long in which the radius changes every
Chain.