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St. Louis, April 26.—It is announced that all the breweries of this city and East St. Louis, except those of the Anheuser Bush Company and W. J. Lemp, have consolidated their works, to be run under one management. There are eighteen breweries, representing a capital of $5,000,000, concerned in the movement. Fifteen million dollars in stock and bonds are to be issued, each company receiving the full value of its property in each.
Why the Young Should Be Taught to Shun the Slavery of Debt.
In all crusades against evil it is essential to find out as near as possible its primary source. No wrong-doing ever springs up at once, full fledged in society. It is usually the gradual growth of certain habits which, in their earlier stages, were not regarded as of much importance—were not checked as actual sins, and which have thus crept insidiously into character and life, to develop at last into something which is fully recognized and censured as iniquity. There is no more striking example of this than the many forms of dishonesty which excite righteous indignation afresh at every reappearance.
Copper Traders Apparently Are Still Afraid of It
“With the syndicate practically a corpse, there is no reason why trading in copper should not return on the floor,” said a member of the Metal Exchange yesterday. “The trouble is that the copper traders are afraid of the syndicate’s ghost now that the body has been buried with 160,000 tons of copper resting upon it and forbidding all hope of resurrection. And I do not blame them. This is the third time within the year that a piano has struck this Exchange. Last April tin raised a storm, in October lead followed suit, and now copper caps the climax. All that is wanted is some plucky operator to step in and set the bell rolling, but that individual is not to be found, and day by day goes by without any business in copper being done or any tangible assurance of a collapse of the disturbing element, with subsequent resumption of trading.
The great Paris saving fund, established in 1818, with over 560,000 depositors, owning $25,000,000 and average of $50, has a chief office and 88 branches and encourages in every way a large juvenile element in the practice of economy. In England almost every primary school has a penny savings fund, while in Paris 224 schools have each its own fund of that kind; in one word there are 33, 16 for boys and 17 for girls, with over 20,000 depositors, and in all of them there were nearly 58,000 depositors, with a total of $250,000 invested in those useful agencies, the result of 13 years of education in this direction. In Belgium, in Switzerland, in Italy, in Spain, in Holland, in Denmark and Sweden, and in Germany the Penny saving fund takes its place alongside the great and growing saving institutions in this way $6080, while the adults saved $3,000,000.
Leghorns lay more eggs than any other variety of fowls; so says Felch, the patriarch of poultry in America. He also claims that the white Leghorn will lay larger eggs than other varieties of Leghorns. He commends as an excellent cross for practical purposes-meat and eggs- a white Leghorn cockerel on light Brahma hens. A correspondent in Southern Fancier says:
One of the best utilized waste products in Austria, resulting in the manufacture of large quantities of paper and cloth are corn husks. These are boiled within an alkali in tubular boilers, as a result of which the fibers of the husks are found at the bottom of the boiler in a spongy condition, filled with glutinous substance, and which proves to be a perfect dough of cornmeal, containing a concentrated form all the pabulum originally contained in the husk.
Some of the Marvelous Deeds Ascribed Him by Ancient Scribes.