Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-05

or harvested, but left standing, Wills cattle
and hogs are turned into the fields in winter
to help themselves. In Virginia 10 per cent.
of the crop, nearly 3,00O,0O bushels, was
left in the field over winter last year; in Ten
nessee per cent, or 8, 1886, 900 bushels; Zen
lucky and Ohio had each nearly 100000
bushels, while Illinois LETT II, lis, 900 bushels
unharvested. Thrifty Kansas had left % per
cent. Of her crop; or 81 ,905, 1000 bushels, un-
gathered, while III the Nh5fs United States
119, ,811 900 bushels was left to the mercy of
husbandry
A standard rose, said to have been planted
by Chsrlensgne, is one of the great curiosi-
ties of the ancisnt city Of Hi.desheim, in
Hanover. This rose bush is gnarled and
rugged, as becomes its extreme age, and in
some places the principal stem is as thick as
a mans body. 1t grows at The eastern side of
the apse of the cathedral, and this Year the
venerable and venerated object has put forth
several new and thrifty shoots. Fears have
been entertained for long time that, after
it's life Of Thousand years, the plant was
losing its vitality. But now it is taking a
new lease of life, and there is joy in Hides
helm. The gardener in charge is strictly for
hidden to give away cutting, and its flow
ers, the very sweetest of their kind, are
jealously guarded from vandal hands.
The increase in the quantity of oil shipped
from Baku to all other points in and out of
Russia was over eighty per cent from 1888
to 1884, namely, from 2g, ,000; 900 poods to
about five gallons, the quantity shipped in
1884 was about 268, 100000 gallons. But
this includes residue, 2S, ,539, $40 pools, as
naptha luhricating oil, benzine and asphal-
tum, leaving only 81, ,7a1 ,s71 pools, or about
108, ,000 900 gallons; of refined petroleum.
Nearly all the refined was consumed in Rus
sia, and it is said that not more than 90, 600
barrels went into consumption in other parts
of Europe last year, but the rapid increase
shows that there will soon be a large surplus
for sale, and that the prevailing low price
does not check production there any more
than It tf1es in the oil region of Pennsylva-
mia.
The American Register calls attention to
''the reserve force of free people" as fol-
lows: 1t was only the o.her day that the
British government called for 500 men know
ing how to ride, and accustomed to the
use of the rife, for special service at the
Cape, and in the course of d few days it re-
ceived 10000 applications. AS an instance
of the reserve force of a free people, it must
not be forgotten that during the War of Sc
cession, the United States had no difficulty
in maintaining under arms an army of mil
lion men, all raised by voluntary enlistment,
and there is no reason why England should
not do the same in ease of need. In short,
without wishing in any way to exaggerate
the forces of England or to underrate those
of Russia, it seems impossible to resist the
impression that Russian statesmen are not
aware of the strength they are so recklessly
Drawing; and of all the self -deluding dreams
in which astute men of the world indulge
from time to time, none are more liable to
lead to a rude awakening than an unlimited
reliance on the timidity of vaeillating
government.