ODDS AND ENDS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3614, 20 February 1906, Page 4

ODDS AND ENDS.

- The daily rail Beaumont oil ship* menta are 7,500 barrels excluaive of pipe shipments. Oak lumber loses 20 per cent of its weight in process of seasoning, and over 30 per cent, when perfectly dry.

The mountain Indiana of Mexico have different kinds of rattles, the body bearing a grotesque resemblance to the human form.

This yea* 60,000,000 young fish will be turned loose in the Columbia river, Ore. It is estimated 6,000.000 will return io get caught after fattening up along the ocean coast. The pres* ent annual-pack there takes 1,000,000 fish. '

What is said to be one of the earliest known maps of America has been discovered In the library of Wolfegg castle, which belongs to Prince Von Wald-burg-Wolfegg. The map was drawn in 1507 by Martin Waldsee Muller, by whom America is said to have been named after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci. The last addition to the membership of the president’s cabinet was made when the office of the secretary of the department of agriculture, formerly a bureau of the interior department, was added to the number of cabinet placeaduringthe first administration of -President Cleveland. Recently the Boston chamber of commerce adopted a resolution urging eongresa to create a department of *0 tamer** and Industrie*.