The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-08-27
Current Notes.

Current Notes.
Malaria is not confined to low lying
districts. In Italy it rises to the
height of four to five hundred feet, in
California 1000 feet, along the Appa-
lachain chain 5000 feet, in the West
Indies fourteen to eighteen hundred
feet, in India 2, OOOfeet. On the Andes
it is sometimes found at the height of
IL 900 feet. Under ordinary circum-
stances a moderate altitude will be
found comparatively free from ma
laria.
What would some of our good old
forefathers say if they were able to
step down to the station along about
10 O'Clock in the morning, and see the
two Boston expresses whizzing by ut
not much more than q mile minute,
or between 4 and in. the afternoon;
or more startlingly surprising still,
expresses into New York At night
]ightning-like flashing of light, and in
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 fast they are going, SO perfectly
do the trains run. A yank around
the curve however, in the rear car
must slightly strain the equilibrium
Greenwich CONN., Graphic.
The strong coffees, Rio and Santos,
are mostly in Brazil. The West
and South are the principal consum.
ers of Rio. A very small amount OF
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
OH the islands of Java and Sumatra,
2. franks first in the estimation OF
Ceylon is the rival OF Java, but we sell
dom get any plantation Ceylon coffee
here, as it is sent to England. Mexico
raises some coffee, and there has been
q wonderful Improvement in the varie-
ty grown there in the last five years.
Between 5OO,OOO,OOQ and 100000
600 pounds OF coffee is consumed in
the United States yearly.
The camphor sold in this market
comes chiefly from Japan. Formosa
and Bornco furnish some. It is ob-
tanned by cutting up the camphor
plant, leaves and all, and distil1ing
them. There is another kind, found in
the heart of an enormous tree which
grows in the mountains Of Borneo.
The trees are cut down 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 good quantity for the
average tree. The Chinese have a.
great liking for this quality, and have
been known to pay as high as $50 a
pound for it though the ditferer ce be-
tween it and common camplor is
mostly imaginary. The crude CAM
phor has to be redistilled before it can
be used
The Charleston News and Courierre-
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 seen in North Carolina
recently. There was a shower of tur-
ties as large as silver dollars in 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-seven
snakes were killed in an old fort near
Beaufort in one day, and a ghost has
been seen near Rockingham. In Georgia
man living near Athens dropped o
spool of thread into hole from which
g. 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 $25O,OOO in value on
the average. Butsuddcnly from South
Africa comes q new supply, exceeding
$2O,OOO,O0O worth each year for ten
years. It is true that recently in Aus
tralia, North America, and other extra
European centers of European civil
ization, new population has come in
being, numbering over 7O,OO0,OOO, the
upper ten thousand of which are es-
pecially prone to diamond ornaments,
and no doubt at the first there was a
great void to be supplied: But now
the limit has been reached and the
world thus supplied seems hardly
likely to take more than $1O,OOO,OOO
per annum.