Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-02-03
There are many profitable crops

 mate such as Arizona and with less labor than any other section of the and experiments m south ern California show that there is no more profitable industry than the production of the fence bamboo, and it is a fact that the bamboo fences are more desirable than lath, and are ten times as strong. The joints keep item from slipping up and down through the wire. Each cane makes from three to five pickets. The bamboo thriyes without cul- ture and with poorest land; though with manure and culture and plenty | of water it grows much larger, m some instances attaining night oi | 40 feet.-Ex.
 The size of tho biggest ball ever fired from a cannon was Tour feet m | length and weighed 2.6D pounds. Such were the dimensions and weight of the enormous projectile fired from the largest cannon yet manufactured at Krupp's works at Essen Tor the fortification at Cron stadt. lt IS made of the finest steel and weighs 270.O00 pounds tabout l35 tons); the calibre is l6i inches and the barrel A feet long, the core having been removed in one piece. The greatest diameter is 6k feet and the range about F miles. 1t will fire of two shots per minute each estimated to cost f3C0. At the trial the prolec- tile was propelled by a charge of 700 pounds of powder and penetra- ted nineteen inches of armor, going 1912 yards beyond the target -Ex.
 The large delinquent lists that have been returned in many coun- ties in Arizona this year may be at tributed 10 the law governing col lection of taxes. The penalty that adds to taxes becoming delinquent is just what it costs to borrow money in the territory-li per cent. Con sequently the property owner who ! has to borrow money to psy his taxes, correctly reasons that to pay the county la per cent. penalty costs no more than to pay the bank the same amount as interest. Or if the property owner has his money out at 2 per cent. he can see no good reason in being in a hurry to call it 1 in to avoid the delinquent tax pen alty of lk per cent. The old law provided penalty of per cent. to be added on the day the tax became delinquent, and under that law de- | linuuent lists were not so large Solomonville Bulletin.
 Mrs. N. Rogers Stone, Of No. 956 South Broadway gave drive whist party Monday evening in honor of her brother, F. L. Rogers, of Will Hams, Arizona, and his friends, William Benham and w. c. Barnes. There were six tables surrounded by merry players and the score cards were very dainty affairs of white and gold. The ladies' first prize was unique card table made of rope by Mir. Rogers, the wide fringe of hempen tassel which en- circled it being knotted with the effective turks head knot, which plays such an important part on the wide cattle ranges of Arizona. This was won by Mrs. Strasburg. Mrs. Barnes, Mir. Godin and Mir. Beham won the other prizes. Elegant re- treatments were served at small tables, and it was after midnight when the guests departed.-Los Angeles Times.
 | The contents of the February number of the North American Re view are to be unusually varied. In addition to the first of the four art icles by Mir. Gladstone on the Olymp- ian Religion, will be the following contributions: Tammany Hall and the democracy, by Hon. Richard Croker; How to Attack the Tariff, by the Hon. Wm. NJ. Springer, chair man of the ways and means con- mittee; A Claim for American Liter ature, by Clark Russell; Can Our National Banks be Made Saferi by
 Edward s. Lacey, comptroller of the currency; Fires on Transatlantic Steamers, by Earl de la Warr, who has recently been active in the house of lords in his efforts to prevent i'm perfect stowage of cotton; The Duty and Destiny of England in Asia, by Sir Edwin Arnold; A Perilous Busi- ness and the Remedy, by Henry Cabot Lodge-the business referred to being the occupation of trainmen;
 A Year of Railway Accidents, by 1 Col. H. G. Prout, editor of the Rail
 road Gazette; The Opera, by Ed
 mund c. Stanton, director of the
 Metropolitan opera house; and lot
 teries and Gambling, by Anthony
 Comstock.
 Secretary Rusk has no fear of the
 result of any investigation into the
 workings of his department, and he
 says of Jerry Simpsons resolution offered in the house, providing fol
 an investigation of the workings oi
 the agricultural department: q heartily welcome anything that will
 compel members of congress tC , learn more about this department I should be glad for my own sake , for the departments interest, anG for the sake of the farmers, to have ,, the workings of this department ! understood and appreciated by members of congress and citizen: generally than they are. Singularly
 enough although Mir. Simpson,
 understand, owes his election
 to farmers votes, and poses a. ! distinctively representative of tho farming interest, he has paid but l little attention to this department . and it's work. am quite satisfied that the better he becomes acquaint ed with it the more he will appre
 ciate it. This has been my experi
 ence in the case of all those who have sought a more intimate knowl edge of the work we are doing anC how we do it."