The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-30
General Paragraphs.

The Clyde ship building report fa
September, just published, shows thai
there have been launched TWENTY-FIVE
vessels of 3T,012 tons, which is 5.50
tons over the corresponding month"; last
year; but, taking the three quarters Of
the year, o decline of $4,000 to 10000
is shown, compared with 1883. At III.
English ports the figures show a cor
responding falling off.
During the civil war the bounties
were in some instances as high as 81, SOC
per recruit. In the war of 1912 boun
ties were found to- be indispensable ii
recruiting; each recruit in 1914, re.
ceived a bounty of 1924. I'm fact
says ali eminent authority, "after the
subsistence of the first burst OF patri.
otism it has generally been found nee
essary to appeal to mercenary motives
in soliciting recruits. The only ult.
matum is CONSUMPTION, which, whileleS
expensive, is more unpopular, md
furnishes unwilling recruits instead d
volunteers"
California ought to make a good deal
of money out of her wine plantations il
the ravages caused by the phylIoxers
are going to continue in England, says
the New York Sun. The reduction Of
value of the wine-growing districts oil
Malaga is estimated at 81, 250, 200. In
Portugal the disease is so bad that d
suspension of the production Of vines
feared. 1t amounted in former years TO
over so, 600, 600. La France the total
loss is so large that M. Lalande SAID in
the senate that France had lost as much
by the phylloxera as by the payment Of
the German idemnity, and this was y
900, 600. 000.-
The fine old stone building in Kings.
ton n. Y. know as the Senate House,
is again offered for sale by auction. This
is o the Oldest public building in the
United States, so far as known, having
been erected in 1916. The interior was
burned out by the British In October;
TIT, when Kingston was burned. I'D
that same year the first Senate OF New
York State held it's first sessions IN tDis
building, adopting the original state
Constitution there. The structure was
rebuilt and occupied by General Arm.
strong, who was war secretary unue,
Washington. He resided there untl
1904. The old house has shelterea
many of the old statesmen and military
heroes of those early days OF the rePuo.
lie. The old walls are to-day as nip
as ever, defying the mason's hammer
and chisel as they did the British torch
The London Lumber Trade Journai
states that q new method of tree-felllng
by dynamite has been successfully n
troduced. A cartridge of the explosive
substance is placed in o channel poiss
directly under the tree to be opera1eu
upon, and when exploded the tree =
simply forced up bodily and falls lnIac'
on its side. If this system works q
well as it is represented to do, and .ns
tree is not fractured by the force Oh .ns
explosion, a large proportion OF vaiua
bic wood at the base of the trunk can Y
utilized which is now lost.
The number of dwelling houses Y
Paris is 8 10000. The erea of the wnois
city is 20 square miles, and the popula
ton wei 1900, 900. A recent measure
of the Conseil d'Etat ordains that henep,
forward no flats shall be less than eleh'
feet high; that in streets 70 feet WV.
the height Of the houses must NOT "a
coed 40 feet; in streets between 70 ans
80 feet wide the height must no exces &
30 feet; in streets between 52 anu al
feet wide the height must not exceed M e
feet; in streets above 60 feet VIDE 'ns
height mustn not exceed 60 feet, ana -
buildings are to have moro than so'o"
s~tnries, all included.
The famous Phillips well near Bu'le''
Pa, is said to be the most phemoi'e
nal ever discovered in the oil regions
II has produced 100 barrels an n4ul'
and during the last five weeks no III
than 10 900 barrels have flowed ffodn =
Though surrounded by rival shafts 49,
to tap the supply none have a~pproaslIsss
it In abundance-eyen the Johnson' sn'
most promising Of the number, lag8lhs
far behind. The oil from the Phi,apf
flows from an almost perfect psD1l
sand, at a depth of lott feel. Lats'
numbers OF people visit the well, wI's 4
flows with the regularity Of clockWo1n
the OIL gushing out at intervals oi ~
minutes and a bali. the flow ias'ip'
anont four minutes.