Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-14

breeders of Shetland ponies is to keeI 1 down the sizes of the animals. The price | increases in inverse ratio to size. This is partly from fancy and fashion and partly
 because the smaller the ponies the better fitted for working in the seams of coal in the mines where they find their chief use, fulness.
 Concerning 8 paragraph that has been circulating among the daily papers de- scribing an electrical method for prevent ing caterpillars from crawling up trees, l the Electrical World says that the sugges-
 tion is not so absurd as it is made to ap- pear, but is based on quite rational princi- ples. Around the trunk of the tree are placed two wires about one-quarter of an inch apart; one of copper and the other Of
 zinc or even galvanized iron. Underneath
 these is piece of plotting paper or cloth
 moistened with salt water-a very impor- tant feature-thus forming galvsnic cell.
 The caterpillars in crawling up will con- meet the two wires by their bodies and re- ceive such shock that they will decide to turn back.
 William E. Knight, Philadelphia drug gist who has just died, was a character. He had e regular list of beggars, who
 came at appointed days and received a modest pension from the old druggist. Occasionally one of these vagabonds, many of them unworthy of the charity bestowed on them, would return before his day, when, with 8 mild reprimand, usually in the shape of information that it was not his time to call, the beggar would re- ceive some money. His customers usually addressed him as Doctor" and he prescribed for all who asked his advice, and often, when his patient was unable to pay for medicine, the prescription was filled, and renewed, if necessary, without charge. If there was one characteristic more strongly marked
 than another in the dead druggist,
 it was his utter disregard for his
 personal appearance. Another peculiarity
 of his was his lack of interest in monetary
 matters. A handful of small change
 placed on his counter in payment for a
 bottle of medicine was never counted, but
 brushed off carelessly and thrown upon
 shelf with the remark, ''I guess it's all
 right"
 Minneapolis has had the convention, but
 that isn't all she wants. A most impor-
 tant matter is now before the interstate
 commerce commission, whose decision is
 considered to have an important bearing
 on the future commercial prosperity of
 Minneapolis Duluth and some other lake
 port cities have within recent years been
 coming into prominence as four cities,
 and by reason of water communication
 are so situated as to obtain cheaper
 freight rates to the east. Minneapolis millers now declare that the railroads are discriminating against Minneapolis and in favor of Duluth, and one or two other lake cities, in the matter of transportation of wheat from the farmers to the mills. Ac- cording to MT. Washburn, one of the largest producers of flour in Minneapolis and in the world, there is at best but profit of ten cents on barrel of flour, and if the discrimination against Minneapolis
 by the railroads is not stopped the future
 of the flour business there will be insigpifi
 cant, result that would of course prove
 highly disastrous to the welfare of the
 city, built up as it is around this one
 great industry.