The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1896-01-11
or GENERAL INTEREST.

or GENERAL iNTEREsT.
house were anointed with perfumed oil
by tho servants OF tine 0stA bl ishment
- Q mark of respect.
The Egyptians were the nrst hu-
man paper makerA some Of the papy-
| ri are said to date from nearly 5000
B. c.. exceeding In antiquity the earli-
est Chinese paper by about 1900 years.
| "A farmer Of Albany, Ore. IL ese-
| hibiting bunch of forty.tvNo stalks Of
wheat with 0e4 meshes and about 8. SOC
| grains, which grew from angle
| kernel Another farmer In Cedar Rap
ids, Ne6. has q cucumber Eve feet Ion 3
and still growing.
1t Is annodneed that the historic
Fairbanks house in Dedham, Mass.
has teen offered for sale and is In dan
ger of being destroyed. This is ono of
the oldest houses in the country. It
was built shortly after the settlement
of Dedham in 1886.
herman papers assert that gas pipe
made OF paper are o success. Manila
hsphnltulh and then nodded under
heavy pressure. After cooling the
pipes, which may be of any desired
length, they receive water proof
coating.
pine aud fr have long fibers. exceed
ingly we'll adapted to the use of the
pa per-maker, but the resinous sub
stances contained In these woods form
SO large a percentage of the compost
ton and are SO difficult of removal that
the paPer-malkef's are compelled to use
other varieties.
The FIRST water-marl used, 50 far
as known, was that of Tates in l40s. It
was an eight-pointed star in double
circle. Fancy prices are now paid for
specimens of Tates' paper, and it is sus-
pected that the demand has created q
supply and that specimens have been
manufactured closely resembling the
original.
Two Jewish merchants of Vienna
were recently insulted and beaten in
the street by four Austrian officerj and
complained, through a lawyer, to the
war minister. The officers brought
suit against them for having offended
their honor; the merchants were ac-
quilted, but the lawyer who had spolk-
en- of the officers conduct as cowardly,
though he proved that they had half
drawn their swords on unarmed man
while calling them dogs of jews and
''pigs of jews was held not to have
proved his case, and was fined one hum
dred forms.
-Discouraging reports about the
gold fields in Alaska have been
brought down from that region re-
every once in q while some one turns
up with the other side of the situation.
Recently Peter wyberg arrived in San
Francisco from the Yukon river, bring.
ing with him forty-five thousand dol
lars in gold dust, the result of two
years work in the diggings at Forty
Mile river. He says the unsuccessful
miners are mostly from Cooks inlet,
and he doesn't think much of the re-
porced big gold finds in that region.
One odd result of the close of the
war between China and Japan is war
of rates between the steamship lines
plying between the Pacific ports of
this country and the Orient There
are three lines now competing for the
business After the cessation of hos
tilities several ships which were char
tered as transports were released and
began seeking freights. But the main
trouble is that the Japanese govern
ment is about to start line of steam
ships, using several vessels that were |
bought for transports or for make |
shift cruisers and are now available |
for peaceful purposes. Freight rates |
already are being cut in all lines, and
there is every prospect of a cut in pas |
'enger rates.