Morning journal and courier., 1893-11-09

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municaiion between this country and Europe.
 Of the 6, 1885 women postmasters in the United States-Pennsylvania having 465, Alaska and the other states scattered be- tween-the oldest is Miss Martha E. Stone, of North Oxford, Mass. She received her commission April 27, 1857, from Horatio King, who was then first assistant post master general. There were then only two mails day at North Oxford, but since that time the business has nearly quad rupled. Miss Stone has always had the office in her sitting-room.
 The New Orleans Bee estimates the Lou isisna sugar crop of this year at 700, ,OOO,- 900 pounds. Last year the crop was 450,- GOO, 900 pounds, which was within 20, ,0Oo,- 900 of the largest production in ante-bellum times. This years crop exceeds the great est ever before raised by nearly 50 per cent. The Bee ascribes this great increase in production to the sugar bounty, which has encouraged the introduction ot new machinery and processes, and says that this great progress will bs blighted if the protection offered by the bounty Is re- moved.
 An admirer of John Gresnlsaf Whittier has gone through his poems stanxa by stanEa in order to ascertain what flowers are mentioned by him. She found forty nine, as follows: Azalea, aster, smarsnth, asphodel, brier rose, buttereup, crocus, clethra flower, dsffodil, dogwood, eglantine, fern, gentisn, golden rod, harebell, helio- trope, honeysuekle, heatherbell, jasmine, locust, lily, life-everlasting. lotus blossom, lilac, msyhower, mignonstte, myrtle, mag nolia blossom, nightshade, orange blossom, orchid, pansy, pink, passion flower, palm, primrose, poppy, rose, rexia, sumsc, sweet clover, stsrmist, star-fower, suufower, snowball, tulip, violet, windAower.
 Paper bslting for the purpose of trans mitting power Is the next thing which is going to astonish the manufacturing fra ternity. The inventor was five years as- sistaDt to the superintendent of power of OuC o1 NAC skCdt AnOto3loa All 14OuChB @AAao- sachusets. It was while in this position, in which he had much to do with lacing and tightening belts, that he conceived the idea that belting made of paper could be made to do better work than either leather, rubber or cotton. He argued that as 8 thick piece of pasteboard can be made to take on 8 firm, smooth and durable sur face by holding the game against another moving surface for several minutes, 8 larger piece of paper made In the form of 6 belt and permitted to run upon the sur face of pulley day after day would soon create upon its surface firm, hard, shin ing coating that would last long time. In making the belt links made from paper pulp are used. As soon as a belt is put into working order hard, shining coating Is put upon the surface next the pulleys, and this becomes harder and harder and harder as the months slip by. It becomes so hard finally that only the cold chisel can cut into 1t. Such 8 surface works well on the pulleys.
 The New England codfshing industry is threatened with competition on the Pacific coast. Dried fish is already being shipped by the carload over g trsnscontinental railroad to New York, and thence to the West Indian and South American mar kets. A reduction of 40 per cent. in rates has made this enterprise profitable. A Puget Sound packer of the fish, being asked what were the prospects of taking away the market from New England, said: Cod can be caught in Boring Sea, brought to the sound, and dried or cured for one cent a pound less than on the New England coast, and at the present rates we can compete with the New England fish cries right in their own territory. So far this year have shipped two carloads, l twenty tons of dried cod to New York, where they are sold to brokers for ship ment to the West Indies and South Amer l ica, and the business can be done at a good | profit. I have had a schooner in Boring Sea this summer catching cod, and have put up 150 tons so far. Dried f.h are the only kind suitable for hot countries, and
 they are put up In drums or casks holding
 from 250 to 400 pounds. Cured fish are
 sold almost entirely In the United States.
 We should be able to work up market ir
 Hawaii and Australia. for there are no cod
 south of the equator, as we'll as on the west
 coast of South America. As fast ss the ist
 are caught they are cleaned and salted or
 board the ship and slowed away unti
 there Is full cargo. Then they ST,
 brought to the drying and curing works
 dried in the sun and tied up in bundlel
 for shipment. The piokls-oured ish ar'
 soaked in tanks of brine for a month o
 so. have been using Csrman Island sal
 from the Gulf of California, and 1t Is tn,
 best on the coast and does not discolor th,
 fish. A similar business might be worket
 up in shipping smoked halibut East
 Gloucester, Massachusetts, now control
 the trade, but fish are more abundant ol
 this coast and can bs caught and smoked | more cheaply.