The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-06
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

English iron masters are making money,
but are beginning to fear a declining
market.
The latest concerning beer is that the
foaming beverage is full OF the festive
microbes.
The Krupps, Of Germany, have bought
an entire village, and intend to turn it into
one vast work shop.
The Hoilanders arc heavy drinkers. A
man there will sometimes tax, as high as
forty drinks q day.
Waterpower is very cheap and plenty in
in Idaho, and is being utilized 10 operate
electric light plants.
Mrs Manning the widow of the late Sec
rotary of the treasury, will live nence1ortn
chiefly in Washington.
1t is said the most skllfull amateur bull
fighter in Mexico is the son-in- law OF the
president Of the republic.
Dr. Chamberlain, M. Pasteur's chief as.
sistant has just dis covered that cinnamon
is fatal to the typaoid microbe.
There is always a fashion in furniture as
in dress. The popular style in Paris at
this time is the Louis XIV patterns.
They have heard that camphor is to be ex-
ceedingly high for the coming year
A good many Welsh miners are being
driven back to Wales by the competition OF
Hungarian labor in our mining regions.
Ethel Sprague, daughter of Kate
of adopting the profession of IN actress.
The town of Roswell, Lincoln County,
N. NJ, is 2l5 miles from any rail DAD. No
other place in the United States can sly as
much.
Now that the ladies are not wearing
wings and plumagc on their bonnets, the
birds will have chance TO recruit their
ranks.
California has colorel woman, Aunt
Peggy Barnes. who claims to be 125 years
old. Possibly auntie don't know how old
she really is.
Mrs. John a. Log N enjoys the reputa-
tion of being skillful carpenter, and has
fitted her home with convenisnces made
with her own hands.
FROM the note book of an American tray
cling in Germany: The si.cets at the
hotels are 100 rye fos handkerch. efs and
too small for towels
Harriet B,nsoa of Philadelphia has
ducats to the extent OF millions. Harriet
is not married and she frankly says she
does not intend to be-
Down in Kentucky man has achieved
popularity Of a high order, when colt has
been named after him. This is what has
happened to Wa,terson.
Women are queer. When they are -
they are 20, when they are 40 they are 81,
but when they pass the 81 mark they are
anywhere from 100 to lis.
Beers is the name of the Australian
sculptor who has succeeded ia discovering
process for molding marble fluid pre-
cisely as bronz, is nodded.
Delaware has an pathological club and
1t Processes to have seen this season near
Phi lade.phia the very largs number Of LIZ
different species of migratory birds.
There are three men in the Oregon state
prison each Of whom cut OF hand to
avoid work. They are confined in solitary
cells Two others cut off the ends Of their
fingers.
The measurement of 1900 students at
Cambridge, England, showed that success
in literary examinations is in no way con-
nectel with stature, strength or breathing
capacity.
Miss Louise Meyer. the New southern
writer, i, only IS years of age. Her father
is General Adolph Meyer, AMI Miss
Louise has had every advantage of wealth
and position. She is sal to be very beau
tiful.
Oi1 tha Loot aw1NT n
California, now nearly ninety years of age,
is a pauper, and has been notified to leave
his old homestead Nothing remains OF
the great wealth this old man once pos
sesed.
Lake Chelan, Wash, never freezes, al
though in latitude $50 north. The reason
given is that it is SO deep, and the Warm
water always rises from tae DO tom to sup
plant the cold, which goes down to warm
itself.
new industry in Germany is the utili-
cation of the young leaves of the straw
berry plant as a beverage. Having been
carefully dried, they are used instead OF
Chinese tea, which they closely approach
in taste.
Artesian wells are being put down in
great numbers in the dis rict OF Rivers de,
Cal, and owing to them this district,
which was previously inhabited on &C cunt
of the scarcity Of drinking water, has now
population of 1000.
The ko,a nut was experimental with
during the German autumn man9uvres OF
last year with such evidences of its ability
to enable men to endure immense physical
labor that the German war Office ordered
thirty tons of it for consumption in the
army.
Artificial coffee is manuf ,ctured on an
extensive scale in Ger Gany. 1t is made
from linseed meal, roasted to a dark color
and mixed VITA some glutinous substance
before being passed through machines
which turn out the compound in the shap
of real coffee bean.
A lady in Americas, Ga, is using a lamr
chimney she has had and used daily for tbs
past eight years, ana she expects to use il
for many years yet She says that she
boiled it in salt and water when it wa: