The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

Beware of the man with half shut eyes.
He's not dreaming.
Mexico sold the United States $1,000, 900
worth of hides last last year.
The Wisconsin tobacco crop for 1899 is
valued at S5,000.000.
The Florida Horticultural society will
hold it's convention In Jacksonville
May l.
Minnesota IS making a cheering increase
in the number of her sheep. This is we'll;
may the good work go on.
Cedar men report prices so good for ce-
dar posts and poles that shingle stock
will be short.
The hog must have pure drinking wa
ter. Stops can never supply the place of
water
The farmer who reads good farm ntera-
ture Is generally the one to reap a golden
harvest.
A scrap jar is a good Idea for saving
clear grease. Fry out pieces of fat meat
to cook potatoes with.
The apple and shade trees you plant
this spring may refresh and cool the
weary long years after you are gone; and
you may then know that you did not live
in vain.
In Devonshire the cycle has been APP
piled to butter making. a man sits on
his bicycle, pedals. and by means of a
chain turnsstherc hurn.
Hens haveghe so industrious this win
ter IN laying strictly fresh" that the
storage eggs have been sold at less than
they cost when put in store last April
The membrane OF hens eggs was re-
Gently used by a Brooklyn surgeon for
grating skin over a very large surface
OF an amputated arm, and the operation
mas proved entirely successful.
The mill Of the newly formed Central
Lumber company, formerly operate by
the Hudson Sawmill company, at Hud-
son. Wis, will be operated night and day
during the coming season.
Jones-How are the eggs this morning?
BroWn-Very interesting.
Jones-IntereSting?
Brownies; so full of "chic."
The Greet Northern railway Is prepar-
ing TO tunnel through the hill on which
the city of Everett stands and several
buildings on the water trent will be torn
noWn 10 make way. The tunnel will be-
one-half mile long and will save about
seven miles Of line.
The largest beet sugar factory In the
world is To be erected at Rocky Ford
Col 1t will cost 81, $1,000 and have an
annual capacity of $4,000 tons of sugar
TO be produced from beets raised on so 900
acres under contract with farmers.
If farmers could see piled I'D before
them the thousands of tons of puEyerized
screenings, corn meal and shorts. worth
30 to $40 ton. that they are paying $3.50
TO S2Oo ton for in the form of perfumed
STOCK Foods, they would see an object
lesson that would rivet to their pockets
many dollars now uselessly spent
The recent severe floods and heavy
sleet and snow storms have killed thou
sands Of trout In brooks and deprived
quail and other game birds of the means
OF subsistence. The birds and fish that re-
main should be jealousy protected. For
months to come cfose watch should be
kept on pot hunters.
Minnesota boasts justly Of its dairy in
terestS, yet last year consumed 343 865
pounds of oleOmargarine on which in
ternaI revenue taxes We're paid, and hum
nredS OF thousands Of pounds which Were
smusgled past the revenue officers 1t is
tsaIe TO estimate the total CONSUMPTION
'seI this packing house grease to exceed
one pound for every man, woman and
child In the state. Yet we do make good
genuine butter
President Hill, OF the Great Markham
railroad, recently said that that road
carried $4,000 more head Of cattle TO mar
ket from points east of MinOt than from
west Of that station. West of Minot are
the ranges east are the farmers. In for
mer times hardly any cattle came from
the farms along that road. He further
says that the hog crop has trebIed in the
last five years. That is very encourag-
ing to live stock interests in the North
west, for practically the same is true
along other lines of traffic