The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1891-01-10
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

birth to triplets. all fine, healthy calves.
Mother and offspring were doing well at
lasl accounts.
LAST year the most notorious trust was
the Bread Union in London. 1t took III
all the important bakers. p. in number,
the metropolis. The failure aid entire
dissolution OF tho trust is now an
nounced
The unusual mildness of the weather
last wintc. is curiously illustrated by
volunteer crop of oats at Galashiels,
Scotland. The field wa, under oats last
year. and from the Shcllcd-out grain TIE
ground became rcsccded. 1t took roo,
! and grew, remaining green through the
winter and Yielding an early crop this
year.
IT begins 70 be apparent that farmers
should pay some attention to what may
be under their farms rs well as attend
inc TO the surface \ Kansas man
sunk shaft on his farm, and in going
down 100 feet struck Il tive-foot vein OF
mineral paint, ten-foOt stratum OF lire
clay, a twenty-inch vein of coal and
deposit of marble live feet in thickness.
TRAMPS in Iowa are taken care Of, and
so we'll attended that most of them are
inclined to Shun the State. Those that
can work and won't work, and persist in
begging, are clapped into Jail, and put
at hard labor. While there they are de-
MED tobacco, liquor, and sporting or
illustrated papers, and are allowed no
amusement whatever. Two or three
weeks of this treatment generally effects
a thorough cure of laZiness.
A SILVER mine in Colorado is about to
be worked 10y electricity. The mine is
at the top of mountain, about 1000
feet high. and the carrying up of coal
has hitherto been a very serious item of
expense. 1t is the intention of the min
ing company to utilize waterfall at the
foot of the mountain. where an electric
plant to generate 100 horse power will
be placed. The power will he trans !
mittcd thence to the motors at the sum
NIT Of the mountain. and the mining
operations will be conducted wholly by
electricity.
THE gypsicS are the most mysterious
race on this earth. No one knows ey
actly where they came from and nobody |
knows what is to become of them. 1t is
absolutely impossible to tell whether
they are dying out or increasing in num- |
bers. Some persons, learned on the |
subject, say that there are no organized !
bands of gypsics in the United States;
and others, equally learned. say that the /
disappearance of great numbers of them
from the United Kingdom can only be !
accounted for b. their emigration to this /,
country.
An orchestra. composed entirely of
men. women. boys and girls from poor
families in New York, was established /
three years ago by benevolent lady, !
and Mr.. Theodore John, former conduc- !
tor of the City Orchestra of Freiburg. has /
50 thoroughly trained his pupils, that
many of them have become professionals. !
Their practicing-room has been the !
drawing room of their generous patron, !
and they sometimes play in public for
charitable objects.
EMPEROR WILLIAM always travels with
4 suite of telegraph operators and line I
men, even when in the mountains hunt !
ing, and the first thing ne does is to es-
,ablish telephone and telegraphic com /
nunications with Berlin. 1t must be an ,
inspiring spectacle to see the Emperor !
walk into his shooting lodge, call up the (
captain by telephone and announce to .
The special court chronicler and agent of |
The Associated Press that he has Just |
shot ground squirrel and all is we'll
NAYEMURA SAKUSABORO, q japanese |
druggist, has discovered process by |
which he can convert wild hemp into a
fabric which cannot be distinguished !
from silk. Repeated tests have been /
made of the new fabric at the silk weav-
ng establishment in Kioto and else
where in Japan with satisfactory results.
Experts have reported that the web has .
The softness, lustre, beauty and more
han the durability Of silk As the plant !
grows wild the silk worm NAV lose his ,
Job.
A RECENT Scottish paper publishes a
tctter from q traveller in Bechuanaland, |
Africa, in which is the following testi-
nony in favor of working barefootcd |
horses: at may interest lovers of horses
20 know that the roads were very hard, |
bare rock in many places; that both our .
horses were unshod, though one of them
lad worn shoes till the last ten DAYS:
hat We rode most of the way at the hand |
yallop or rough canter. which is the pace
If tine up-country horse; and that their
boots were Is perfect at the end of the
Journey as they were at the beginning"
ACCORDING to the Scientific American. |
he range and the penetrating power of
he modern rifle cannon are tremendous. |
The six-inch rifle will hurl its projccti!e !