Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-11-04

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MINERAL POINT. WISCONSIN,
Rrrs in their search for honey visit
only one kind of flowers on the same trip
This is not accidental, but it is wise pro
vision for preventing liberalization OF
different varieties from the pollen which
bees always distribute in their journeys
from flower to flower.
RUSSIA is going to have railroad tun-
mel three miles long, at the cost OF 3'5oo'-
600. She has $1,000 miles of railway, but
her only tunnel is 700 miles long. More
great works of this kind are contemplat
ed. and as Russian engineers are ignorant
of tunnel making, there is demand for
foreign skill.
THE new "brown" or cocoa powder Is
departure in military affairs. Wood
charcoal has given piece to new mater
ial, and the proportion of saltpeter and
and sulphur has been changed. The new
nowder makes less smoke and is slower to
exnlode when not confined. It has prov
ed its efficiency in the artillery, proVid-
ed always that the guns are breeeh-load-
ers.
RECENT issue of the Electric Review
gives the details of an invention that is
destined to work radical change in the
hotel system of waking guests. 1t IS an
electrical annunciator, working both ways
from rooms to Office as well as Office to
rooms. and is particularly acceptable as
by its means one guest may be awakened
in the morning without arcusing every
one else on the floor. An instantaneous
alarm can also be sounded by it in every
room in the hotel.
TnE reports from all over the country
show anincrease in the general amount
of business done, and feeling
of encouragement for the business future
The feeling Of encouragement has evil
IDENTITY come TO stay. 1t was with US last
fall and in the winter and would have
received no Encouragement had II not
been for the unsettled feeling that grew
out of the labor strikes and the agita-
ton of the eight-hour question. Now
these questions are practically settled,
business seems to be reyiying and the !
outlook is hopeful.
THE Sanitarian records an instance Of
flies acting rs sanitary inspectors In |
one of the rooms of a residence IN an /
American city offensive odors were de
tected but their exHct source could not
be located The carpets were raised,
and carpenter engaged to take up the /
entire floor. At this moment friend
who CHANGED TO come in suggested that
an appeal be made to the instinct Of the
Nv. Two blue bottles were brought from
a neighboring stable, and the doors and /
windows of the room closed. The flies
soon settled upon one of the cracks in
the floor, when the boards we're raised at
this point decomposed rat was found |
nder theboard.
TIE cotton crop Of the United States
for the year ending September 1, was
G,575,Gsl bales, averaging very nearly
lsi poundslor 4S3.95 pounds) per bale, I
making a total of 3,ls3,000,oo0 pounds.
OF this two-thirds or Sc per cent, or f.
$50, 103 bales, we're exported to other
countries, viz, to Great Britain, 2,535,243 /
bales, or 80 per cent of all; to France .
4OS 1913 bales, 6 u per cont; to the rest of
Europe, l,36l,97l bales. At an average
price of 81 cents per pound the total
crop would be worth S3o2, 100000, and ,
the exported portion return to us $500 .
100000. OF the total crop 5,35s,t3l /
bales went by water to ports inthe United
States; 1,l5o,1s5 bales were shipped
overland Thy roilroad) to the northern
States and Canada Northern mills spun
Pig. 544 bales, Southern mills 3Sl,096
bales. Sea island cotton amounted 20
37S7s bales.
A CURIOUS feature in the National Ma
scum in Washington is the geological sec
ton, Of the department devoted to birds
eggs. 1t has about $4,000 birds eggs
packed away in little trays placed in
eases along the walls of the building. The
eggs in the collection vary in size from
the tiniest hummng bird TO the giant bird
of Madagascar. There lisa little egg of
a tiny humming bird lying in a diminu-
tive nest, The hummjug bird that made
the nest and laid the egg les the smallest
bird in the world. The little egs has
length or long diameter of threeteuth
of an inch and a short diameter of three
hundreths of an inch. The nest is one
twentieth of an inch across one way and
% 100 the other.
THERr is a curious custom among the