The Mineral argus., 1885-02-05


General Paragraphs.
The Clyde ship building report fol
September, just published, shows that
there have been launched twenty five
vessels Of 81. O12 tons, which is $500
tons over the corresponding month last
year; but, taking the three quarters Ol
the year, q decline of 60, 900 to 10000
is shown, compared with 1883. At thu
English ports the figures show a cor
responding falling of.
During the civil war the bounties
were in some instances NJ high rs 81 500
per recruit. In the war of 1912 boun-
ties were found to bc indispensable il
recruiting; each recruit in 1914. re-
ceived a bounty Of $l24. ain fact"
says an eminent authority, "after the
subsistence of the first burst of patri.
Otism il has generally been found nee
essary to appeal to mercenary motives
in soliciting recruits. The only ulti-
matum is conscription, which, while less
expensive. is more unpopular, and
furnishes unwilling recruits instead OF
volunteers"
California ought to make a good deal
Of money ont Of her wine plantations il
the ravages caused by the phylloxers
are going to continue in England. says
the New York Sun. The reduction OF
value Of the ine-grOwing districts OF
Malaga il estimated mt 81 go, 900. In
Portugal the disease is so bad that
suspension of the production Of wine j.
feared. 1t amounted in former years to
over 80, 600. 900. In Francs the total
loss is so large that NJ. Lalande SAID in
the senate that France had lost ~ mucl,
by the phylloxera M by tl,o l'~yrasnt 81
the German idemnity, and this was L.
OOO, 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 bull ling in the
United States, so far rs known, having
been erected in 1876. The interior was
burned out by the British i'm October
1777. when Kingston WAS burned. In
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 10y 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
~ ever, dcfying the mason's hammer
and chisel as they did the British torch.
The London Lumber Trade Journal
states that new method of tree telling
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 il
simply forced up bodily and falls intact
on its side. Ii this system works as
we'll as it is represented to do, and the
tree is not fractured by the force of the
explosion, a large proportion of valna.
BILE wood at the base of the trunk can bs
utilized which is now lost
The number of dwelling houses in
Paris is $4,000. The erea of the whole
city is % square miles, and the popula-
ton over 100, 900. A recent measure
Of the Conseil Fiat ortlains that hence
forward no flats shall he less than eight
feet high; that in streets % feet wide
the height Of the houses must not ex-
coed 40 feet; in streets between % and
81 feet wide the height must not exceed
80 feet; in streets between 81 and ~
feet wide the height must not exceed ~
feet; in streets above 81 feet wide the
height must not exceed Is feet, and no
buildings are to have more than sever
stnries, all included.
The famous Phillips well near Butler,
Pa, is sail 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 1000 barrels have flowed from it.
Though surrounded by rival shafts sunk
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 pehbl,
sand, at depth of | 81 feet. Large
numbers of people visit the we'll. which
flows with the regularity of clockwork.
the oil gushing out at intervals of nine
minutes and half, the flow lasting
ABOUT four minutes.