The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28
Current Notes.

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height of four to five hundred feet, II
California 1000 feet, along the AppH,
lachain chain 5000 feet, in the West
Indies fourteen to eighteen hundred
feet, in India 2,OOOfeet. On the Ande'
it is sometimes found at the height o
1900 feet. Under ordinary clrCum
stances a moderate altitude will be
found comparatively free from ma
laria.
What would some of our good ole
forefathers say if they were able tC
step down to the station along about
10 o'clock in the morning, and see the
two Boston expresses whizzlng by at
not much more than a mile a minute
r between 4 and 5 in the afternoon
or more startlingly surprising still
could catch a glimpse OF the evening
expresses into New York. At night
there is a terrible whirl and rush, 8
ligh~tning-like flashing OF light, and II
an instant the train is out OF the cut
and away out of sight. 1t seems a
frightful rate OF speed, but the people
in the car do not appear to realize
how fat they are going, so perfectly
do the trains run. A yank arounC
the curve however, in the rear cal
must slightly strain the equilibrium
Greenwich Comm Graphic.
The following is one OF the "Blut
Laws' of the New Haven, Conn, col
ony, 1869: "Whoever shall ~inveigIe
or draw the affection of any made or
Made servant, either to himself OF
Others without first gaining the con.
sente of her parents, shall pay to the
plantation for the first Offense 4Os
the second AZ; for the third shall be
imprisoned or orporeously punished
Then follow the proceedings Of a case
tried under the above law, in May,
1869, which says: "JaCObeth Murtlnf
and Sarah futile were prosecuted fol-
sitting down on a cheste together, his
arme around her Waste, and her armt
upon his shoulder about his neck, and
continuing in that sinful posture about
halle an hour, in which time he KISSED
her and she KISSED him or they KISSED
one another, Is we witnesses testified"
The strong coffees, Rio and Santos.
are mostly grownin Brazil. The West
and South are the principal consum'
,ers of Rio. A very small amount o!
Mocha is brought into this country,
that sold under the name not being
Mocha at all. The most important
of all mild coffees is Java. 1t is raised
on the islands of Java and Sumatra,
and ranks first In the estimation OF
the ofee-drinkers in the United States.
Ceylon is the rival of Java, but we sci.
dom get any plantation Ceylon coffee
here, as it is sent to England. Mexico
some coffee, and there has been
a wonderful Improvement in thevarie,
ty grown there IN the last five years.
Between 500, 100000 and 700, 000,.
900 pounds of coffee is consumed in
the United States yearly.
The camphor sold in this market
comes chiefly from Japan. Formosa
and Borneo furnish some. 1t is OBJ.
tanned by cutting up the camphor
leaves and all, and distillina
them. There isanother kind, foundin
the heart of an normo tree which
grows IN the mountains of Borneo.
The trees are eutdown and split open,
and the gum is picked from the centre.
Sometimes Jumps a yard long and
three inches thick are found, but 20
pounds is a good quantity for the
average tree. The Chinese have q
great liking for this quality, and have
been known to pay as high as $50 a
pound for it though the difference be.
tween it and common camphor is
mostly imaginary. The crude cam.
phor has to be redistilled before it can
be used
The Charleston News and Courier re-
cites the following as reasons why the
people OF South Carolina should be
contented with their State and not
seek homes elsewhere: Several black
bears have been seem in North Carolina
recently. There was a shower Of tur-
ties as S:1ge as silver doilarsin Raleigh
a few days ago. A bolt of lightning
struck a pond near Asheville and kill
ed q number Of fish the week before
last One hundred and sixty-seyen
snakes were killed in on old fort neal
Beaufort in one day, and a ghost has
beenseen near Rockingham. InGeorgia
a mao living near Athens dropped a
spool of thread into a holefrom which
a locust had just emerged, and the en-
tire spool unwound without reaching
the bottom Of the hole"
According to the London Times the
price of diamonds has steadily fallen
from SIS to 1915 per carat. OF old
the world received each year new dia,
monds OF about $780, 900 in value on
1tha average. But suddenly from South