Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-08-22
Current Notes.


districts. In Italy it rises to the
hei,ht OF four TO five hundred feet, IN
California 600 feet. along the Appa-
lacluin chain 1900 feet IN the West
ladies fourteen to eighteen hundred
feet g., in India =. .OOGfrct. On the Andes
it Is sonnet ines found at the height of
l 900 feet. Under ordinary circrun-
stances a moderate altitude will be
found comparatively free from ma
laIia.
What would some OF our good old
fortiarhcrs say il they were able to
step down to the station along about
10 O'Clock in the morning. and see the
two Boston expresses whiEKing by ut
not much more than a mile minu' e,
or between 1 and > in the afternoon;
or more startlinrly surprising still,
could catch II glimpse of the evening
expresses into New York. At night
there is q terrible whirl and rush, q
lj-htning-like flashing Of li1hJ. and in
an instant the train is ont of the cut
and away OUT OF sight. 1t seems II
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. \ yank around
the curve however. in the rear car
must sli-h;ly strain the equilibrium
Greenwich Conn., Graphic.
The strong cofTees. Rio and Santos,
are mostly grownin Brazil. The West
and South are the principal consum-
er- ot Rio. \ very small amount of
Mocha ! brought into this country,
| that sold under the name not being
| Mocha at all. The most important
| OF all mild coiIeeS is Java. It's raised
on the islands of Java and Sumatra,
/ and ranks first in the estimation OF
| the cotIce-dIinkerS in the United States.
/ CcylOu i 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
wonderful Improvement in thevarle-
ty grown there in the last five years.
Between 800, ZOO, 900 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 Borneo furnish some. 1t is OBJ.
tanned by cutting up the camphor
plant, leaves and all, and distillins
| them. There is another kind, found in
the heart OF an enormous tree which
grows i'll the mountains of Borneo
The trees are cut down and split open
and Inc gum is picked from the centre
Sometimes Jumps yard long and
three inches thick are found, but 2C
pounds is good quantity for tn,
average tree. The Chinese have 6
! great liking for this quality, and hav,
been known to pay as high as $50 &
pound for it though the difference be
tween it and common camphor j.
mostly imaginary. The crude cam
phOr has to be redistilled before it cal
be used.
The Charleston News and Courier re
cites the following as reasons why tn,
people OF South Carolina should b,
contented with their State and no
seek homes elsewhere: Several blacl
bears have been seen in North Carolina
recently. There was q shower of tur
ties as large as silver dollars in Raleigl
a few days ago. A bolt of lightnin,
struck n pond near Asheville and kill
ed q number of fish the week befor
last. One hundred and sixty-sever
snakes were killed in an old fort nea
Beaufort in one day, and a ghost haa
been seen near Rockingham. In Georgis
a man living near Athens dropped ,
spool OF thread into holefrom which
a locust had lust emerged, and the en-
tire spool unwound without reachin
the bottom of the hole"
According to the London Times tn
price of diamonds has steadily falleI
{ from SIS to 1915 per carat. OF old
/, the world received each year new dia
monds OF about S25O,000 in value ol
, the average. But suddenly from Soutl
, Africa comes a new supply, exceeding
$40, 600, 900 worth each year for tel
; years. 1t is true that recently in Aus
! tralia, North America, and other extra
, European centers of European civil
, ization, a new population has come i
!, being, numbering over 10000, 900, tn
upper ten thousand of which are eS
! pecially prone to diamond ornaments
. and no doubt at the first there was
!. great void to be supplied. But no.
the limit has been reached, and tn
= world thus supplied seems hardl
likely to take more than 100000
per annum..