Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-03-27
TORIES OF THE DAY.

TOplc, OF THE DAY.
Every English lord chancellor gets
pension of $4,000 a year, aud some
times there have been as many as h'e
in receipt of such pensions Loro
Cairns is now the only one.
The annual report Of the California
State Board If silk Culture represents
sill culture to be in an encouraging
condition in that state The cocoons
raised have never been surpassed IN
quality and the amount Of silk pro-
duced would have been doubled Il ho'
treblel last wear but for disappoint-
mcnt in eggs in the spring. There Is
a lively interest in the industry. I
There are a number Of soap trees
growing in Tallahassee. They are
prolifcfraiters. the berries being about
the size Of an ordinary marble, having
a yellowish. soapy appearance, with a
hard black seed. from which the trees
are propagated. People in Tallahas
see boil the fruit to make soap, but in
China, Japan, and other tropical coun-
tries the berries are used as substl-
tute for soap just as they are taken
from the trees.
In 1870 about 10000 pounds of
opium we're consumed in the United
States in 1880, 533,45o pounds In
1865 there were about 10000 habitual
opium eaters in the country; now they
number over 100000 More women
than men are addicted to the use of
the drug. The vice is one so easily
contracted 50 easily practiced in
private and so difficult Of detection
that it presents peculiar temptation
and is very insidious.
A dozen East African tribes between
the north end of Lake Nyassa and the
Indian Ocean have been reduced to a
deplorable state by famine. Their
crops. which are their main depend
ence, we're almost total failure last
year. MANY have died, and many
others, tempted by the grain the coast
Arabs took among them, have sold
themselves into slavery for a few days
provisions. Many of the Iulus in
South Africa also are starving on ac-
count ,of the failure of the crop OF
mealsa and Zulu famine fund has
been ned in London.
- rdustrial depression and dis
c a.GE.ussia are beginning t
discontgiGs. attention; ..,9t. j.. 900, ON a
anon the factory hands and tn
work. g population generally. Agra
rian elttes have lately given place t
distuHanees and outrages of an in
dustrial character, and the purely po
litical crimes of the Nihilists seem also
to have ceased in favor of those per
, petrated by the malcontents of labor
The latter have been greatly increased
: this winter by the curtailmcnt of worl
!. in most Of the large manufacturing
districts, and many peasants who ha'
been driven by agricultural distress t
become factory operatives now dn|
> themselves worse off than they were
, before.
1t Bills to prevent the useless deyasta
N ton of forests and the pillaging O
N timber from school lands are pendin
ri in the legislatures of Minnesota, Wis
E. consin and Michigan The LHmbeI
IN man hopes that if these measures be
IN come law the United States Govern
ke ment may be induced to stop givin
ne away timber in all the states Of th
on 4IFiar4 Shnnld this he done il
I'D thought the natural inclination
Mt. farmers to preserve timber section
"a and the efforts of the forestry peop
IT, to stimulate tree-plaating will be au
M 6cient to maintain a timber suppl
IN ample for all needs of the country
as.
eIa- The Russian oil region covers
md area Of over 1900 square miles, wit
40 oil wells in one district, over hn
dred in another, and 400 in thir
> while there is still richer regions wa
:. . ing to be developed to produce st
,on. greater results One spoutlng We
- nroauces 100000 gallons a day I.
, - oil is found in places at depth Of
'.t iV,l hundred feet. and no well has go
.i i'i below 875 feet. Three swedish brot
C,,,, on,. ers and few Americans and Russia
,aa who have been in America have
ran. troduced method and system pipe I'M
and A. oil carrying barges and steamers ta
yben carts, refneries, Joint stock eomPanI l..I 4
'iled railroads, and now produce 9oo'
,iioa. ,iloa. tons of crude and 100000 tons Of
,iDe "iDg. fined petroleum, and are rapidly fl fl
than inc new markets. To sink a wei"
= r'i"l ral Russia costs now 5000 to $l5ooo.a
/, min. IL that in a region 50 poorly supplied y
, tha the owners have to house theI llieH
,ssive barracks.
will France has followed the example
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