The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-06-02

THES Rus1ian cover nment conte m
plates ping mp the railways in the
southwc h II Russiss amounting alto
gether to- ,'out 5000 miles. before the
end of the s,essnt year, according to the
London II I and Coal Trades Review.
1.-THE desir; ,,of the government is sup
posed to be }ue to military considera-
tions. The government railways Of
the western portion of Russia will be
divided into circuits-the Warsaw,
wilma, Kieff, Charkotf, Moscow and
Caucasian. The further question of
constructing railway to the Polar
and White sea is to be considered by q
special commission appointed by the
government and the st. Petersburg
town council. The scheme of con-
structing line across Finland from
Uleaborg to the Norman coast on
the Arctic ocean seems to have been
abandoned, both from commercial and
strategic reasons. 1t is proposed,
however. to construct railway line
connecting St Petersburg with Kemi,
on the extreme north Of the Gulf of
Bothnia, via Ladeinoe Pole and Petro-
zavodsk-a distance of some 600 miles
This railway, it is thought, might be
afterward extended to one of the open
harbors on the Norman coast, which
would furnish Russian warships with
a naval station. Another contem-
plated scheme is for line from st.
Petersburg to vologda, in order to
place the capital in more direct con-
nection with the Trans-Siberian rail-
way, and to develop the resources of
the northern governments, which are
greatly in need of railways and roads.
The question of extending the vologda
line to the once fourishing seaport of
Archangel is also being seriously dis
cussed."
WASHING BUTTER.-Mr. F. N. Mem
zies, late secretary of the Highland
Agricultural society, writes as
follows on this subjects / hold that,
by the system Of utter-making now
taught, the whole bloom, color and
taste of the butter is washed out;
moreover, it takes as much trouble to
get the water out of the butter as it
does to get the buttermilk out. My
system is, when the butter forms into
small granulations, to run off the but
termilk and allow it to draw off the
butter for few minutes; then lift it
out with wooden scoops or spoons, and
put it on the butter worker, and press
as much of the buttermillS out with
Scotch hands" Qittle wooden fiat
spades) as possible; then place all the
butter on cold slate, and work it in
portions in the butter worker till it
appears quite solid, and all the milk is
out of it. If the butter is to be kept
fresh, it is then weighed into pounds;
if it is to be kept picked or powdered,
this is done in the butter worker after
it has been weighed, and it is sailed
according to taste l use mixture Of
one pound of granulated cane sugar
to three pounds of Scotch sea salt /
may add that have for many years
got the highest price going for my
butter, and could sell vast deal more
than have to spare.
ANTARTIC ICEBURGs.-M Bruce OF
the Dundee Antarctic whaling fleet,
describes the whole of the district
south of DO degrees south latitude as
strewn with icebergs, which become
very numerous south of SO degrees.
The base of the bergs was colored pale
brown by marine organisms and other
brown streaks were seen beyond the
water level. No luminous glow was
observed Clothed in mist they rise
their mighty snow clad shoulders to a
stately height, or shine forth bril-
liantly in the sun. Although they are
Of the purest white yet they glow with
color. The crevices exhibit rich CO.
baltic blue and everywhere are
splashes of emerald green.
In 1878 this country exported /, sos, 401
pounds of oleomargarine. In 1893 this
export trade had increased to 3, 479, 322
pounds of the solid and liz, $50, 1853 gal
Ions of the oil. This oil was sent
abroad, chiefly to Holland and Ger
many, to be made into bogus butter, a
large part of which finds sale in Eng
land. Holland is the great exporter of
oleomargarine. In 1891 that country
exported more than 40, 600, 900 pounds
of the stuff-principally to England.
1t is this immense flood of fraudulent
butter that has compelled the English
to pass stringent laws against adul-
terated goods; but even these laws are
evaded. 1t is hard to think that indi-
rectly at least this country is at the
bottom of the European cheat by pro-
viding the oil
FARMS IN LoNDoN.-Those who re-
gard London as densely populated
province covered with houses, will
be surprised to learn from recent pub
lished agricultural returns that $4,000
acres, or one-fifth of the total acreage
embraced within the metropolitan
limits, are devoted to agricult-
ure and actually under crops.
This is made up of sls acres
of grain crops, 2,s40 acres OF
green crops, 4Ol acres of clover and
rotation grasses 10, ls2 acres of perma-
nent grassland, 333 acres of small
fruits, and 800 acres of bare fallow.
Within this area are kept 1880 head
of farm live stock-horses, cattle,