ODDS AND ENDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3547, 15 July 1905, Page 4

ODDS AND ENDS.

The daily rail Beaumont oil shipments are' 7,500 barrels exclusive of pipe shipments. Oak lumber loses 20 per cent of its wei-ht in process of seasoning,-and over no per cent, when perfectly dry. The mountain Indians of Mexico have f’ - "••••"* kind's .of rattles, the 1, 0( i v ; ■ a arotesque resemblance in tin human form. This year G 0,000,000 young fish will be turned loose in the Columbia river. Ore. It is estimated 6,000,000 will return to cot caught after fattening up along (lie ocean coast. The presiP annual pack there takes 1,000,000 .•. „„!,i v»> ore of the earliest ! 'men dis-,-v ol' o‘g<r cas- . . .... o:n mm Wilidjn.o ■■ 1- mapv.- orawniu ir,r-7 hv Martin Waldsee Muller, by whom America is said to have been named qfter the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Tim last addition to the membership of the president’s cabinet was made when tiit; office of the secretary of the department of agriculture, formerly a. bureau of Hie interior department. was added to the number of cabinet places during the first administration of President Cleveland. Keren tly the Boston chamber of commerce adopted a resolution urging congress to create a department of commerce and industries.