Morning journal and courier., 1890-02-12
a. they generally do more business on
Sunday than on any other day, or all other
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a. they generally do more business on
Sunday than on any other day, or all other
days.
Professor Anderson, lately minister to
Denmark, is remembered by not few citi-
zens of Milwaukee as a poor boy who made q
living years ago peddling apples about the
banks, board of trade, and railway Offices.
The late Alexander Mitchell took an extrsor-
dinary interest in the young man, and fire..
quently patronized him. One day he pur-
chased three spitzenbergs from the lads
stock for five cents, and to test his qualities
as business man, engaged him in CONVERSE
ton. Tho great banker undertook to get
four apples for his nickel, and argued that
his profit would then be quiet large enough.
The discussion grew quite lively and interest
ing, and before Mr.. Mitchell got through he
found that the boy knew great deal more
about financial matters than he supposed.
He never heard of Anderson again until the
latter took his chair in the State university.
Then the banker and professor became fast
friends, and it was not an uncommon sight
TO see Mr.. Mitchell's coachman serving Pro-
fessor Anderson.
The statement of the secretary of the treas
ury concerning the investment of government
money in the securities of southern States
before the war is interesting. OF the Indian
trust fuuGs invested in State bonds, of which
both principal and interest are in default,
the amount is 81, 1854, ,247, of which not quite
one-half is principal. The States which bor-
rowed this money and have refused to repay
it are Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and
Virginia. The United States also holds in
Its own right bonds of these same States, ex.
cept Florida, to the amount of $715, 800, with
accrued interest to more than twice the
amount of the principal. Another state-
mont from the secretary shows that these and
other southern States are indebted to the
United States for the direct tax of 1851 un-
collected to the amount of $2,702. .121. If the
direct tax should be refunded, as now seems
probable, this latter indebtedness would be
wiped out, but no way appears to recover the
amounts due to the Indian trust funds.
A new fiber plant has been discovered on
the Isle Of Trinidad which promises to be an
Improvement on ramie. It was found by an
argriculturist named 7. J. st. Hill, who has
called 1t "maholtine," J" but its scientific nom
enclature is Abutilon periplocifolium. The
great thing with this plant is that the rib
bons at nearly all times of the year are easily
detached from the wooden portion by simply
stripping them with the hand, and therefore
q decorticating machine is not required as
for ramie. When 1t is known how readily
the stems allow themselves to be deprived Of
their coating of bark and fiber it will be seen
what an advantage this simple fact gives the
new product over many of the fiber produc-
ing plants. All that is required is to cut the
stems, which are fully ten feet long, split
the bark at the larger end and strip off the
bark from end to end without stopping, as
fortunately the stems have no side branches
Samples submitted to London brokers were
favorably reported on and were valued at
from at TO 400 per ton