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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4014, 9 November 1881, Page 2

To make shoe pegs enough for American use consumesNinnually 100,0i)0 cords of timber, and to make our lucifer matches bOO.OOO cubic feet of the. bost pine are required every year. Lists and boot trees take 500,000 cords of birch, beet, and maple, and the handles of tools 500,000 more. The baking of our bricks consumes 2,000,000 cords of wood, or what would cover with forest about 55,000 acres of land. Telegraph poles already up represent 800,000 trees, and their annual repair consumes about 300,000 more. The ties of our railroads consume annual^ thirty years' growth of 7&000 acres, and to fence all our railroads wcrortd cost 45,000,030 dollars, with a yearly expenditure of 15,000,000 dollars for repairs. These are some c c the ways in which American forests are going. There are others: packing boxes, for instance, cost in 187<l 12,000,000 dollars, while the timber used each year in making waggons and agricultural implements is valued at more than 100,000,000 dollar?. —American Paper. Mugwoet Cube for Epilep3Y.—Six ounces of fresh roots, stalks, and leaves of mug wort, the roots to be one-third of the stalks and leaves; cut the roots small and bruise them ; boil in one quart of beer down to a pint. An imperial naggio to be taken three time a day, and one when an epileptic fit comes on. Two ounces of dried roots, will answer as well as six fresh ounces. The following is also highly recommended:— Bromide of potassium, one ounce, and water oue pint; half a wioeglussful twice or three times daily, as the patient gels better, reduce the quantity. Afterwards continue oue glass on fasting stomach. We have kuowu this to be a success in a very serious case. An American paper says:—" At a state dinner given by an African king last year some boxes of American sugar-coated pillf furnished the dessert." *