The Saint Paul globe., 1899-12-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

In cold weather blanket your horse
while stopping.
Glass is showing signs of brittleness.
Prices declined SO per cent this week.
The Piilsbury mills are all running full
capacity.
The Washburn c, D and E were shut
down about the middle of last week, and
the and E are not running this week.
Frost put an end to the lumber manu-
featuring season In Minneapolis the latter
part of last week, and the hum of the
saws is quieted until another spring.
The new mill of the North Branch
CMinn) Milling company. for which the
EdwaTd p. Allis company had the con-
tract, was started Saturday.
1t is not generally know that clippings
from masculine heads of hair are used for
making strainers, through which sirups
are clarified.
Morton (Minn.) Merchant Milling COM
pany: The -four trade is in bad shape
Bids are out of line and would represent
loss if accepted. Feed is in good de-
mand at fair prices. The wheat move
ment is light"
There are II mechanics and 101 farmers
in the lower house of the Connecticut
legislature.
The South Dakota Land and Cattle
company has been Incorporated at Pierre,
with a capital Of $1,0OOO0O.
warehouse receipt is not a negotia-
BILE instrument, except where it has been
made so, in Illinois. by statutory en-
actment.
Montreal, Canada. during the past sea-
son of lake navigation, handled only 3D.
$4,000 bushels Of grain, compared with
S9,103,00O in 1898. The loss was largely
due to the Grand Trunk hauling 900
bushels to Portland, Me.
A thirty -two-quart can of milk weighs
$3.50 pounds; a gallon of milk, $50 pounds
a quart, 2.15 pounds, and a pint, 1.01
pounds. Thus a quart would weigh two
and a half ounces more than two pounds,
and pint and a gallon In the same pro-
portion.
movement is on foot. in Manchester,
Eng, to form a packing case syndicate
for the purpose of raising prices to cor
respond with the increase in the price Of
material And this Is in free trade Eng
land too.
The manufacturers of yellow pine Ium-
Der met in St Louis last week and decid-
ed to let prices stand as they now are,
except that they have raised delivered
lists to correspond with the advances in
freight rates on yellow pine lumber.
Conservative estimates of the coming
crop of California oranges are to the
effect that it will be about IS 900 car
loads. The quality of the crop is said to
be exceptionally good, and there promises
to be less waste than ever before.
Northwestern mills were today (Tues-
day. quoting patent at $3.S003.9O per bbl
in sacks. thirty-day draft, for delivery
at Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin points
outside of Chicago and Milwaukee; bulk
shorts S13 and bran S1S, in mixed cars
IL draf ET0v o-I, SO ~
and 25c per ton is discounted from these
quotations.
1t appears that the excellent system of
protection afforded the timber of Mime
sofa by the chief fire warden and his as
sistants IS imperative on the Indian res
ervatiOns so far as the Indians are con-
cerned. Some provision should be made
for extending this protection to all tim
Der within the boundaries Of the state.
Reports from the vicinity Of Grand Rap
lbs, Mimi, are to the effect that the
whole country is so flooded with water
that logging operations are practically at
@ standstiu The ROADS are almost i'm
passable, and it is only with the great
est dImculty that supplies can be taken
to the camps. The crews are leaving the
woods and refuse to work ~under the ex-
listing conditions.
Few people can be found who will take
winter weather is holding off, but the
loggers who have planned to get out the
greatest cut in the histsory of lumber
Ing in the Northern woods are being
somewhat delayed. Most of them have
their camps in shape. and are waiting
for snow, that they may commence skid
ding and hauling.
The following grain dealers. not ele-
vator owners, at Winnipeg, have organiz-
ed an association for the purpose Of max
Ing shipments of grain for export: IJun-
can G. McBean, VIM. S. Logan, Thomp-
son, Sons & Co., Walker &: Boston, w. c.
Graham, F. J. Parker, Mclean Bros
MacLennan Bros, John McEicar, John
"A. Logan, w. Gibbons & Co.
A recent issue of the Aitkin Age gives
carefully prepared statement, compiled
from reliable cruisers, in which the
amount of standing pine in Aitkln county
is estimated at 159, 100000 feet, so far as
the knowledge of the cruisers extended
The total amount of standing pine in the
county is estimated from this to be up-
ward Of 20O,000,0O0 feet.
Some big Eastern breweries it is an
nOunced, together with L. J. Merkel of
New York, formerly of the Kraus-Mer-
kel Mailing company. will erect a malt
ing plant at Milwaukee, to cost So" Gee
operating it under the name of the Stand
ard Mating company 1t will be rival
" the COiuDiilG, anu Will D6 dDl6 TO nam
die 100000 bushels from the start
Grain transportation on the Great
Lakes during the past season has
amounted to 30 per cent of the total ship
ped from Chicago, 65 per cent having
gone by rail, according to newspaper re-
ports, on account Of the high lake rates
on grain. In former years the proper
tons were reversed. 1t is predicted that
next season rot more than % per cent
Of the grain from Chicago to the sea-
board will go by water unless there is
revolution III rates.
1t is said that the plow is a pretty good
indicator of the degree of civilization to
which a people may have attained The
Pueblo Indians use still an implement
such as the Egyptians used two thousand
years ago and such as was used in Pal
estine. To Thomas Jefferson is attrib-
uted the adoption of the iron plow in our
country Jethro Wood is said to have