In The West

Some one with a grudge against Henry Puff of Louisville reeen tly poisoned thirty-flve valuabie pigeons belonging to him J. W. Jones of Robertson, Ky. , has found a pearl on which is the perfect outline of a man's hand. Seen through a microscope even the veins appear. It is valued by experts at 8150. Horses in Oregon are so cheap that they can be shipped several hundred miles to California and sold at frotn $40 to $50 at a protit. These are good, every-day, business and work horses, of fair size and in g-ood condition. The average cost of power for the manufacture of a barrel of flour in Minneapolis is said to be 1)4 cents for water and 6 cents to 7 cents for steam, while at Duluth, where steam is used exclusive ly, the cost per barrel is 2% to 3) cents a barrel, the coal used being the refuse from the docks. The lovely dells of the Wisconsin river, famed as a summer resort for Westerners on account of their idylHe beauty, aro for sale. It seems that one man owns the five miles of sandstone bluffs and wants to get rid of them. The dells are cut out of tho solid sandstone rocks by the action of the water. The river narrows at ona place to fifty-two feet, rushing through the strait with irresistible forcé over eighty feet deep.