Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-12
Here md There.

Here and There.
The archaeological commission charged
with the exploration and protection of
ancient monuments has applied to the
Italian Government that measures be
taken for clearing the temple of Jupiter
and the porticO OF Octayia from the
buildings which have grown up around
them, and also for putting them in such
a state Of repair as is necessary for
their preservation. The work carried
out means the destruction Of the Oldest
Hebrew quarter in Europe.
Two valuable colts were lately poi
soned in Ohio by white snakeroot-
eUDdtOriUm Q0crdtOidcS. The disease
known formerly as " the trembles," an
affection Of cattle, was caused by tins
weed. When eaten by mich cows the
poison to some extent passes off with
the milk. even when the COWS have not
been noticeably i'll, and persons drink
ing it have sickened, and sometimes
died. The weed ought to be more gene
rally known, so that it could be Stunned
or eXterminated.
Timber depredations on public do
main are still carried on with little eff
fort on the part Of the authorities to
check them. Among others the Chi
nese in Placer county, Cal, are said to
be cutting immense quantities of sugar
pine on Government land. The trees
are cut by them to be made into
" Shocks" and if their grain is not
perfectly straight the trees are aban-
doned and other trees cut down. BY
this method great quantities Of trees
are felled and not used for any pur-
pose.
In the June crop report Hon. j. Il.
Dodge says: 1.-The past winter has
fully demonstrated the unfitness Of the
more northern ATTITUDES for peach
growing. From the Upper Ohio Val
ley and the Lake States there comes
but one report it tells Of trees all
dead, whole orchards, even in the most
sheltered situations, having succumbed
TO the severe freezings. In New Eng
land there was much winter killing, and
the few surviving trees that bloomed
were stripped of their blossoms by the
late frosts Of spring"
According to official statistics. re-
Gently published, the city of CONSTANT
nople contains 1886 habitations,
which are thus divided 7,4l4 houses,
G4,l9G shops, contingencies, and
dep0ts of commerce, 1854 khan, l75
baths, 40 palaces and kioSks, 27S min
istries, administrations, etc, 1913 bar
rack and guard-houses, GA mosques,
$40 Mussulman schools, l46 medreSses
lseminarieSl, G5 Libraries, 23l monaS-
terieS tekes), lG hospitals, 100 churches
and Synagogues, Of which GO are
Greek, 40 Armenian, 10 Latin, and
converts.
Of'the 4l3 arborescent species de-
tected in the forests of North America.
only ten cross the continent. Three of
these, the mesquit. an elder (sambucus
Mexicana), and the Spanish bayonet
yucca baccata) belong to the Mexican
fora, and 80, indeed, does fourth,
the sand-bar willow, which. however,
extends further northward into the At
lantic region and Pacific region of the
nited States. Three others, the bal
sam poplar, the canoe birch, and the
white spruce belong to the northern
forest, and are found along our
northern boundary, and from Labrador
TO Alaska. The remaining three are
Q) The quaking asp, our most widely
distributed tree, which stretches across
the continent to the north and as far
south as X entucky. (2) The red cedar,
our most widely-distributed confer,
which ranges from New Brunswick and
Minnesota, on the north, to Florida
and Texas, and westward to the Tooth
parallel, while on the Pacific it extends
lom Colorado TO Vancouver; and (3)
TIE mountain ash, from Labrador and
Northern New England to Lake Su-
perior. and on the high ranges from
Alaska TO New Mexico.
William Pitt was Prime Minister Of
England when he was twenty-fOur, yet,
despite his youthfulness, was able to
rule England for longer period than
any one man since his time, as the fol-
lowing table will show: