The morning news., 1894-09-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

fees $500 years ago They are two yards
long and highly adorned.
The new Union station in St. Louis. now
open for trafic is said to be the largest in the
world. 1t covers eleven and a-half acres, The
yards, storage space and tracks about thirty
more.
Twelve years ago Japan contained only one
spinning mill. The latest statistics from that
country tell of no less than thlrty-eight now
IN operation. with over 3s5 ,UOo spindles and
representing capital OF over sI00OO,OOO.
The use of aluminium is rapidly increasing.
Some Russian bishops are having their mitres
made Of the metal But rle old-timers look
upon the practice as sacrileglous. '' i hink Of
81. Faul with an aluminium mitre. they ex-
claim.
The smallest bird now eaten in England is
the wheateater, an exquisite little white
heshed bird, like a miniature partridge in
flavor. The smallest Quadruped that was
once dainty, but is only remem uered in
Roman tradition is the dormouse.
Another bullet and dagger proof cuirass is
being exhibited, this time at the Crystal
Palace in London. Prof. Loris is The In
Ventor. and he claims for his invention that
II is the only lmpenetrable cuirass in exist
ence The cuirass is flexible and is of light
weight.
The regulations Of the British postodice
oblige every employe to have all unsound
teeth extracted before entering the service so
as to do away with the necessity OF leave of
az atsence for tCothache. As a consequence
glr! recently had fourteen teeth taken out at
sitting.
At the German maneuvers new shoe sole
for sold ers will be tried. 1t consists Of
kind of paste OF linseed oil Varnish and iron
hllngs with which the soes Of new shoes are
palLt ID 1t is said to keep leather flexible
ana gives the SHOE greater resistance than
the best nails.
The reservation Of the Onondaga Indians
contains 5000 acres, AMI is only a short dis
tahce from the city of Syracuse where it's
dwellers are well known, and are pro obably as
far advanced in civilization and maintain as
correct a social order as any of the survivir
remnants OF the great tribes which formerly
lnhaolted tie continent But the imp re-
ment In their manners and condition appears
not. TO have eXtinguished their lnu rmities,
and their wise men still warn them against
the evils OF drink as they did a hundred years
ago and with as little permanent eject upon
their habits.
This is one of the unique experiences that
befall the hardware trade, says Hardware.
Some days since a dear old lady from the
country went into a grocery store in Lewis
ton. Ne, and offered some glue for sale.
Where did you get it:' 0sked the dealer.
where dld get 1t she repeated proudly.
Il made It, Where dc you suppose% l have
been saving up the feet of all the critters that
we have killed in years and here S the glue.
blled 1t out myself" When she was paid
the small amount Of money the glue was
worth, she went OF apparently happy and
contented, though she got only IS cents.
According to a correspondent of the St
Louis Republic, man originally came to the
earth from Mars, riding on the tail OF
comet. At least he gives that as the opinion
OF Mr.. Virgins, the st. Louis weather
prophet and all around scientist. Ihe pro-
hp #haF
out the law of graYitltion is way of; in
fact, there is no such thing He saws that
electricity is the great thing in the universe
now. and that all the motions of the nlanetrv
bodies are on,rolled by that 1t is well
known that when two bodies are similarly
electrified, they tend to fly apart. and when
they are oppositely electrified. they tend to
come tOgethtr. The prof6 SSOr seems to think
that al some long past period some comet ap
plol he'd the planet Mars and becoming
similarly electrified, started of toward the
earth A Mar5ian ana his wife. too per
haps, happened to be close by. concluded to
take little excursion, and jumping aboard
were soon landed safely on the earth which
they liked so well that they concluded to col
onize it.
"One effect of the war between China and
Japan will be to shut off the supply of the par
ticular kinds of tea that the Ameri san drink
ers are used to- said \ r Fred L Eowren of
New York to the Washington Post. The ger
tleman Is in that line of business and knows
whereof he speaks. Our tea lovers" said
ne, must accustom themselves TO kind diff
fering IN taste and quality or else do without
They will also have to pay more money for
the new goods, The war is being conducted
so near to the tea growing territory that
future importations are uncertain. Whole
sale prices of the cheaper teas have already
advanced 100 per cent. and the retailer viii
soon be aware of the difference in CCSs. There
is nothing for our home drinkers to do but
educate their taste drink higher grade teas
and pay Dig prlCe lor them. OF late teas
from Ceylon and ILdla have been crowding
the Chinese article out of the market, the in
crease in Ceylon tea brought here being over
400 per cent. ina year, which was one of the
results OF the world fair. A great many
dealers affirm that the Ceylon variety Is far
| better than the Chinese. and it usually
brings higher price"
The Nez Perce Reservation in OREGON.
which is soon to be thrown open to settle
ment, viii probably attract a greater host
of home-seeLers than even Oklahoma, to
which in ferunty OF soil and beauty of
natural scenery, not to speak of mineral
wealth, 1t is far superior, sas the New ork
| Post. every traveller returning from tne
! borders of the res Q walton has CLOWN ,
story to tell Of lt One of them says I'm the
1000 0OO acres of land on the reservation there
are not ~ OOO that count as waste. The rest
! Is all agricultural timber, or mineral land
| And such farms as Il VIII make Even Canas
prairie, though it has wheat crops aver
aging forty-elght nushe TO the acre, can
/ iON olNuW 81 SOOu SOtl dS LIe reSerVa-
tion can. The indians have nearly all
selected the land they mean to hold
The township lines are run, anu they measure
the subdivisions by pacing. 1t IS a mistake
to think tLeJ are taking the best farming
land. Forty acres is all an Indian ever cares
TO cultivate. For the rest they want land
that contains springs or running streams
where they can hunt a little and fish and loaf
great deal. he Indians showed me where
the ralll DAD has leea surveyed. The hrst
plan was to run direct from Lewiston into
the Camas Prairie country. III proved i'm
possible on account Of the mountains Then
| survey was run up the Clearwater Valley
! following close by the river to the north fork
where 1t swings out into the great ptairie
The road viii make fine tim Der country ac-
cessible."
The toxic effects Ct tobacco among the lower
classes in England are com paratilely not in
frequent, says the Nineteenth Century. The
form which the poisoning takes is that known
to ophthalmic surgeons as 20 ac.o amolyo-
pia." The men come to the hospitals com
planning of loss Of siJht Commonly they are
found to be DoOtm0kegs or those t. whom the
oppol tunity occurs Of smoking While they are
at work. In most cases there is a serious
failure OF vision. Associated with this is the
loss of per option for the co!ors red and
green, which is confined to the central part OF
the retina lhe diagnosis, however, having
been made, the treatment is easy enough
Practically this resolves itself into the EN-
phatlc prohibition OF all smoking. It is
always lest TO give the patents instructions
to burn their pipes AS long as an old "trusty
friend" is permitted TO lie on the mantelpiece
or anywhere within sight and reach the