The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1896-01-02

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1880, the date Of the f3rsk e1fn 81 I'M 4
nent. and 1910 that la tho Latter ~ w
there were one hundred and elRhtv~,
i've paper mills Ia this country.
The rags used In the man ufsott.rx
OF paper are first placed in cylindrical
machine, called thrashsr, which
shakes them violently, In order 10 SOP.
aratc rs far as possible all foreign srb.
stances; they are then sorted. accord
ing TO texture, fiber aud color. after
which they are placed In machines.
which cut or tear them into very fius
short filaments.
--Foolscap paper takes It's name from
the water marks introduced by the
paper makers during the English conn
monwealth. Previous to that time
this size OF paper had borne as a water
mark crown, but after the overthrow
and execution of Charles l. tho parlia-
mcnt. In contempt and derision, or
dered the crown to be removed and a
FOOLS cap and bells to DO substituted.
During the half-year which ended
ut Lady day there was spent In En-
gland on poor law relief the snm OF
81, 5e5.223 nearly equally divided be.
tween circumference and outdoor
pay. The sum expended in London
during that period was s8o4, 100, equal
TO cost OF 2s Cd per head OF popu-
lation. OF that sum E479. $40 went to
the workhouse and similar esta blish-
ments and ale4. 960 to outdoor assist
ance.
Fifteen hundred sea otter skins
were brought TO the traders by Alaska
Indians this year, according to the es-
innate of trader just returned to
Seattle. Furs of bears and foxes ag-
gregating many thousands of dollars
in value we're also brought In. He
says Alaska's wealth in furs ia very
great, and ia many regions is yet prac-
tically untouched. The tract between
Cook inlet and the Yukon, he says,
produces the finest furs in the world,
and only one or two white men have
ever been in there.
y John Therasiwick, of Meriden,
Conn, a Pole, forty years old, at
tempted to treat himself for rheuma-
tism the other day He and his wife
made mixture of alcohol, turpentine
and camphor, which they rubbed on
his legs Then the wife lighted torches
and held them under his knees. In
the man was encircled by
danes and was dancing around the
house like dervish. His hands and
knees were fairly roasted aud the
flesh was ready to drop off in patches
at the slightest touch.
lit Is believed that an extensive
field Of valuable coal has liscov-
cred within fifty miles = aeau,
Alaska IL this proves to be SO, 1t will,
of course mean very much for the de-
velopment of that region. 1t is known
that excellent coal exists In many
parts OF Alaska, but the discoveries
hitherto have been remote from the
oroughtinto Juneau some weeks ago
several pieces of an thracite coal which
lie said he found at a place fifty miles
rom the town, and from his descrip-
ion it was thought there was vein
everal feet thick cropping out on
hillside.
Gold strikes Of wonderful richness
ire reported to have been made in sew
raj parts of British Columbia In the
asst few weeks. At Elburn, a few
niles from Vancouver, man boring
or water in a lot adjoining the Meth
dist church struck quantities of fake
old two hundred and sixty feet below
he surface. He galloped into West
ninster and stalsed his claim and re-
urned to prospect. His find ran nearly
dollars an ounce. It is be-
eved he struck the bed of an old
liver, and prospects are being made all
yer the neigbborhood. Big strikes
re reported from Cariboo county
nd from South Kootcnai, twenty-five
lines of excellent promise having
cen recently opened in the latter
sgion.
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