The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-30

cording To report OF the year 1877, wa.
t fl1 ,5lS, 30 exclusive of G1,:,6O, 200
bonds issued to pay for coupons, on
; shares in arrear during part of the peri
, od for construction, It was projected
by Ferdinand de Lesseps. and built I'M
der his supervision. Its total length is
ninety-two miles. It is now controlled
by the British government.
The total population of the Russian
Empire is given in the statesman
Year Book" for 1888 at 9s, 267 ,4O7. This
Is not the result of an actual census of
the whole empire, but Of such data as
makes it reasonably accurate. The
same authority puts the grand tote; of
population of England and her posses
siOns at over 3OO,OOO,OOO. India alone
has more than double the population Of
the Russian Empire.
The reindeer skin suits for the Gree
ly relief expedition were made IN Nor.
way at cost to this government of $55
apiece. At recent sale . Spectator
OF New York city bought them for Is
apiece, and it Is said he has now sold
almost all Of them at from $40 to $50
apiece. They have been bought - en-.
riosities, and also to be converted into
rugs.
London women and girls who make
mp fashionable society have entirely
abandoned the bang and all methods Of
wearing the hair down on the forehead.
They brush their hair straight back,
lhnvgtvnry Tho Vx1,~1a ~ Aha fc~oIonl
temples. knot it carelessly on the top
Of the head, and wear it without the |
faintest suspicion OF curl or crimp.
An English physician reports Q case
IF persistent headache cured by the dis.
of meat diet, and even now
o single meal Of butchers meat will
bring on recurrence of the old trouble.
In that case the meat diet caused head
aches because in that individual the di-
gestive processes were not sufficiently
powerful to disintegrate the meat in the
natural way aud its elements went into
The blood in the form of poisonous
These impurities resulting
rom imperfect digestion Of meat caused
In other cases they may
'ause biliousness, diarrhea, skin erup.
ions or asthmatic troubles. When one
Is sick and doesn't know why, he might
veil ask himself tho question whether
he may not be eating too much meat.
Love rules kingdom OF contrasts.
deine. dreaming of angels. married .
|risotte. Freytag turned from courts
q kitchen, and espoused his house.
'eeper. Bacon, master Of philosophy,
vas joined to q woman who had loud ,
dice and dressed like a chambcrmaid
mt on holiday. What is more pite.
us than poor Keats pouring ont oil the I
ypical luxuriance of his soul at the feet {
4 Fanny Drawn. He . poet. abe . {
eminine commonplace. Idolatry on =
he one side; . mingling of curiosity I
nd vanity on the other. ID
There are about twice as many white ,
eople as colored people in the city Of a
femphis, yet the record Of mortality ,
lmost invariably shows more deaths of
olored than Of white persons. The ,
ause of this excessive mortality, is said /
o be traceabls chiefly to quackery. q
The negroes there are naturally SUPER I
titious, and believe there is more vir- I
ne in cCnjuration than medicine, and 6
hey ~ TO their superstitions and :
eem to learn nothing by the fearful
Mortality among their race. The negro
uacks reap rich harvest on this cred
lily. They have q specific for every
ilment, and. knowing nothing about
ne disease, their remedy aggravates in. q
lead of curing.
Cheap sugar, the New Pork Confec. >
oner thinks, is not likely to result at a
nee from the recently promulgated n
onclusions Of an experienced chemist, h
no announced that sugar can now be .,
ade from sorghum at an expense not :,
] cent per pound. It says y
For the past twenty years, this won. :
erful sorghum, or rather its friends a
i'd advocates, have been promising to "
the sugar trade, but as n
It the promises have not been fulfill. b
|. The realization of the DOCTORS 81
ream, il not the learned gentleman b
mself, to our unaided vision, appears 1
be % long way of" a
Carrara. Italy, furnishes the statuary a
I'd other better qualities Of marble fer a
10 world. Six thousand men work in q
10 Quarries. They are hoisted 700 q
ct in the air, and then moved horizon. u
lily to the quarries. Hundreds of ia It
] accidents occur every year. Chill. y
ZEN scarcely out of their swaddling a.
othes work amid the glare and dust u
ID die with sore eyes aud stifled lungs. u
he food is dry bread, . raw onion and . =