Evening journal., 1902-02-20
STORIES FROM
HERE AND THERE

Ausll Bailey Keeps good many
sheep on his farm in the town of Ur-
bana. N. Y. He noticed the other day.
on going out to feed his flock a black
spot on the back Of one of the sheen.
When he went to look at it the spot
Instantly disappeared. Farmer Bailey
rubbed his eyes. Then another spot
appeared for an instant on the sleeps
back and as quickly went out of sight.
This time the farmer saw that the
black spot was mouse, and while he
was looking at the place where it had
been a third black spot came into sight
at the same place on the Sleeps back
and disappeared as the others had.
Then Farmer Bailey thought it was
time to investigate. and he thrust his
hand down into the sleeps thick coat
of wool and found three snug and coy
mice nests. each with newborn litter
of young ones in it, He lost no time
/ in breaking up those old mice colonies,
and then looked over others of his
sheep. with the result that he found
four more in the depth OF whose wool
mice had chosen warm places to build
nests and bring forth their young
Ten nests were found in all, contain
ing an aggregate of seventy young
mice. The sheep seemed not only not
to mind the presence of the mice nests
in their feeces. but acted as If they
were not pleased with their removal
and the destruction of their contents.
Minnesota has heretofore been known
as the Gopher State. Now it is begin
ming to be called the Bread and Butter
State The reason of the change be-
comes clear when it is said that last
year its mills turned out 26,630 900 bar
rels of flour and there were churned in
the State 50OOO0O0 pounds of butter.
In the product of the spring wheat
Minnesota stands at the head of the
States of the country and its -four mills
are noted not only throughout the
Northwest, but in foreign countries
as well. The extensive development
of its dairy interests is comparatively
recent
The combination of wheat and flour
with milk and butter is more clearly
marked in Minnesota than in any other
State. New York and Illinois are i'm
portant dairy States. but the value of
the wheat crop in New York is less
than one-third the value of its oat crop
and less than One-eighth the value of
its hay crop, wheat being now one of
the minor agricultural products of New
York. once the chief wheat State.
Illinois raises a fair amount of wheat
but the corn crop, which is of very
much more Importance, yields in a year
IS to every dollar received from the
product of wheat
There was a mass meeting the other
dav of the residents of Cleator Moor,
district of London, in favor of a
Sunday delivery of letters for the dis
trict. One of the speakers opposed to
the measure was the vicar of the par
ish. who aid Il am here in the name of
God Almighty, and those who oppose
me oppose Him." This statement
seemed to settle the question, for a res
olution in favor OF Sunday delivery
was at once carried by an overwhelm-
ing majority.
AT Plevna. KAN" says the Kansas
City Journal. "A Joint keeper cor
nered the Rev. W. II. Houston in the
DOstofnce and informed the reverend
gentleman that he must take a licking
on account of a temperance sermon
which he had preached the day before.
/ All right responded the parson, Greer
fully: and two minutes later the friends
of the Joint keeper We're taking him
down to the butcher shop for an appli-
cation of beefsteak to a pair of heautie
full black eyes Showing again the low
down. deceptive wickedness of our
theological seminaries in maintaining
physical culture departments"
Il see in some of the papers that a
new way of cutting diamonds has been
discovered. said a ieweler. This will
be welcome news to collectors of freak
stones. There are almost as many
new ways of cutting diamonds discov-
cred as systems to beat the bank at
Monte Carlo. and they are about as
successful. AS a matter of fact, dia-
mond cutting has been reduced to an
exact science. The two best known
lsvstems are the brilliant and rose cuts.
To obtain the greatest possible bril-
lance with the least waste. stones are
brilliant cut-that is. cut with a fiat
top. or table, as il is called. Rose
cut stones are cut without the top table
and are fiat in back. A bigger diamond
can be produced by rose cutting tnan
by brilliant cutting, but il will not pos
sess half the brilliance of the latter
/, Rose diamonds are used largely in in
crusted iewelry. There have been lots
, OF methods of diamond cutting invent
8 ed. but none will produce as fiery a
h stone with as little waste in cutting
/ as the brilliant method. Stones cut by
y other methods are valuable to collec-
= tors as freaks but usually they would
d be far more valuable if they had beer
brilliant cut-Philadelphia Record.