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Might million dollars is the
ated value of the finger-rings oi
to isouittry actually worn.
Cedar Key, Florida, has a popula-
i of 8,000, and but four deaths oc
red there during twelve months,
from the western, cattle
show that the average losses by
i will be ten per cent
A Victoria (Columbia) Chinaman,
vorth 1200,000, is to marry a white
rl, with the consent of her parents,
! governor o| Michigan gives pe
g for pardons full publicity before
kes any other action in regard to
Iowa' legislature recently de-
a bill raising the salaries of
i in that state from $2,000 to $3,-
jOQ per annum.
Ninett-six students were lately
struck off the list of the university of
Berlin because they had not even
paid for one lecture.
a monograph on the Princess Char-
lotte will be published soon. It will
contain ten miniature portraits taken
between 1799 and 1815.
! WorthHut, whieh hM oe*s#d
Th4 yacht Atlanta has ahrirad at Havana
wife Jay Oaald and family.
The bill introduced in th^aeuats by Mr.
Ectamncta to provide for a farest reservation
at the headwaters of the Mieaouri river, and
at the headwater! and Clark's Fork of the
Columbia river, provides that a tract of land
in the territory of Montana, embracing an
area of 6,900 square mltee, the boundaries of
which are described is the bill, be reserved
and withdrawn from settlement, oecupancy
or sale, and dedicated and set apart forever
as a national forest and reservation fer the
preservation of the national forests protect-
ing the headwaters and tributaries of the
Columbia and Missouri rivers.
The house committee on militia agreed to
report with a favorable recommendation,
Representative Connelly's bill for special and
uniform instruction of state militia. The com-
mittee also agreed to report favorably, with
amendments. Representative Strait's bill in-
creasing the annual appropriation for the bene-
fit of the'toilitia from $300,000 to #600.000, the
same to be apportioned among the states and
territories.
trolling this immense congregation of
Hekrt M. Alden, the editor of Ear-
ner's Monthly, and George William
Curtis, the editor of the Weekly, are
paid 910,400 a year each.
An Anti-Starvation Club is a novelty
of Cedar Rapids. The object is to pro-
vide for members the best boarding ac-
commodations at the lowest terms.
Things lVorth Knowing.
There should be good news for suf-
ferers from neuralgia,if the experiment
of an eminent physician can be repeat-
ed. He has feund that the application
of a vibrating tuning fork passed along
the course of the nerve relieves the pa-
tient completely in about a half an hour.
Sufferers will have to learn how to
trace the nerves, and eleotrieianB will
supply them with the means of keep-
ing the fork in vibration; 'for, in the
absence of any, special mention as to
the pitch of the fork, it appears that
the relief is obtained simply bv the ef-
fect of the vibration. It is a well-known
remedy for sciatica.
Home-made peppermint drops are a
harmless delight to children. With a
little direction they can make them:
Take two cups qx sugar and a half a
cup of water; let this beil for five min-
utes; take from the fire and flavot with
the essence of peppermint; the quan-
lity must depend on the strength of
the essence:^ few drops are usually
sufficient. Stir with a silver spoon
until it is quite thiok, then lay a but'
tered paper on a platter, and drip the
mixture upon it in little circular
Mennonitkb in Nebraska ocoupy
three whole counties, are good farmers
and hard workers, and so economical
that their prosperity is remarkable.
Resolution by the miners of Alene,
Dakota: "Not a Chinaman shall evfer
enter the diggings unless he climbs a
ie with one end of a lariat over a
b."
Russia produces annually about
$4,000,000 worth of honey, or over 18,-
000 tons, besides 6,000 pounds of Wax
worth $2,000,000. It is nearly all con
gamed in the empire, however.
It a teamster cracks his whip a little
louder than usual in the streets of an
Arkansas town all the people rush to
the doors and windows and call out to
each other "Who's shot now?"
A cow horn measuring four feet
eleven inches in length, and eighteen
inches around the base, is on exhibi
tion at Monticello, Fla., and is sup-
posed to be the largest cow horn in
the world.
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Kate Field says that when she goes
lachusetts, "the land of the Pil-
the home of Garrison,
lips, Whittier, Lucy Stone
and Julia Ward Howe," she finds that
the women,'the mosts enlightened in
this country, are praying in vain to
have aVoice in" the making of the laws.
When she goes to Utah, "where educa-
m ia at its lowest and culture almost
she finds women enjoying
eulirage.
A Movement in England has for its
object the abolition of the action for
breach of promise. . Such suits arc al-
leged to have become so numerous that
their influence is demoralising, and
justice obtained by the action has be-
come insignificant in comparison witL
its demoralizing results.
A new piano, invented by M. Wil-
i Fischer, has been brought out at
In outward appearance it re
, cottage piano, and has the
immer action, but in lieu of
• strings, tuning forks are
uted for the purpose of procur-
f pure as well as superior tone.
The Cincinnati'"fvnts-filar remarks:
j to Ohio river has brought wealth to
rmr doors for a hundred years, and oc-
sionally it will take some away. This
,s been the case in the past and will
in the future. When a new building
cted in the bottom it should be
I with very high ceilings and so
ntiaJly built as to withstand the
shaped pieces.
To clean stained woodwork which is
also varnished, an old house-wife rec-
ommends, the saving of tea leaves from
the tea pot for a few days. Drain thera,
and when you have a sufficient quanti-
ty put them in clean, soft water; let
them simmer for half an hour. When
almost cold strain them out, and dip-
ping a flannel cloth in water wipe eff
the paint, drying it with another flan-
nel cloth. One cup of tea leaves to
one quart of water is the due allowance.
It is not generally known that when
coffee beans are placed upon hot coals
or upon a hot plate the flavor arising
is one of the most effective and at the
same time an agreeable disinfectant.
If no heat is obtainable, even the
spreading of ground coffee on the ob-
ject to be disinfected is most satisfac-
tory.— American Queen.
Texas Press Association.
A majority of the executive commit-
tee of the Texas Press association hav-
ing signified their approval of the date
suggested, notice is hereby given that
the next annual meeting of the associa-
tion will be held at Dallas, beginning
at 11 a. m., Monday, May 5, the session
continuing till the evening of the 7th.
All members are requested to for-
ward to the secretary $1 for the dues of
1884. No member who is in arrears for
dues will have hjs name entered upon
the list of members in gocd standing.
Applicants for membership must have
their applications endorsed by two
members of the association in good
standing, send the application to the
secretary, inclosing $1 for dues and $1
initiation fee.
The secretary earnestly requests that
all the members whoexpeot to be pres-
ent will send in their names as soon as
they decide, that he may havo proper
assignment of accommodations.
The association will be the guests of
the city of Dallas from the evening of
Sunday, May 4. until the evening of
Wednesday, May 7.
Subsequent notice will be given of
the arrangements for the trip to Hous-
ton to witness the Inter-State Drill, in
which city will be, at the time, the
grandest gathering of citizen soldiery
ever seen on this continent.
•The members of the association are
requested to publish this notice, or its
substance, in their respective papers.
W. Alex. A bey, Sec.
Longview, March 1, "84.
Mirth at Meal Time.
Everybody' should plan to have
pleasant con venation at the table just
as tliey do for having good food, A
little story telling, a little reading—it
may be of humorous things, anecdotes,
etc., will stimulate the joyous element
of the mind and cause it to act vigor-
ously. Try to avoid going to the table
all tired out. Let all troublesome
topics be avoided. Do .not scold do-
mestics. Do not discipline children,
Think and say somothing pleasant,
Cultivate
anything witty
The career of this person has been
remarkable for its brilliant success,
financially, At twenty-two years of
age he traveled from bis native place,
Green county, Penn, to Iowa, locating
in the latter state on tome wild land
when everything in that commonwealth
was comparatively free from the intru-
sions of civilization. This was in 1853.
At that time he had just $1,000 cash in
his pocket as his stock in trade. After
making some improvements on his
land he sold out at an advance, and
then pushed still farther on the fron-
tier, again investing in land. Two years
after his first entrance into Iowa, he
returned to Ohio, whore he purchased
a farm, remaining in the latter state
seven years, at the end of which tim»
ho again returned to Iowa and began
dealing in sheep and cattle, buying and
selling. Taking his brother in as a
partner the two began turning their at-
tention to the cattle business exclu-
sively, beginning with a herd of 8,000
This herd was increased at various
times as follows, naturally and by pur
chases: In 1874 to 5,000; 1875 to 7,500;
1876 to 10.00U; in 1877 to 11,000; in
1878 to 14,000; in 1879 to 19,000; in
1880 to 24,000, in 1881 to 28,000, and in
1882 to 33,000.. Most of the increase
was natural.
' By this time the profits of the two
brothers in the stock business had
been so great, not including the stock
on hand,that the next year, (1883) with
several other stockmen, they purchased
31,000 more cattle on a range west of
the Black Hills, merging their two
herds into one, and with some other
parties forming a Land and Cattle Syn
dicate Companv, with an invested cap-
ital of $2,555,925, AH Sw an being made
president of Jbhe same, at a salary of
$10,000 a year, the amount of cattle
numbering 115,000. Negotiations are
now pending for the sale of Mr. A H
Swan's interest in this company at the
princely sum of $750,000. Mr Swan
next organized four other companies
on a similar basis, tp all of which he
has been given the direct management.
One of the companies known as the
Ogalalla Land and Cattle Company,
of Nebraska, owns 85,000 head of cat
tie. The latest enterprise in which
this cattle king has been engaged was
the organization of a land syndicate
and a stockyard company, which pur-
chased two thousand acres of land ad
joining the city of Omaha, Nebraska, a
portion to be sold in lots, and the bal-
ance to be reserved for this land syndi-
cate and stock yards company for the
slaughtering and shipping of dressed
beef in refrigerating ears to Eastern
markets. This latter establishment is
to be ready foropsration by July, 1884,
and its capacities are placed at 1,000
head per day. Among this cattle king's
jrivate possessions are 150,000 acres of
and.under fence, with ten houses, eight
barns and fifty corrals ior the shelter of
stock. He is also the owner of land in
Iowa valued, forty miles from Des
Moines, valued at $350,000.
He claims never to have had any lit-
igation about contracts, never having
forfeited his word to any person with
whom he has had any business trans-
actions, either in buying or selling. In
appearance he is tall, but well pro-
portioned, and his countenance bears
the imprint of modesty, frankness and
intelligence; and though naturally easy
in his bearing, yet he is free from that
suavity and independence so common
among frontier stockmen.
Comparative Distances.
Grecnvlllo Banner
If a boy who has never been farther
from home than from Greenville to
Sulphur Springs is told that it is 300
miles to Galveston he can not fully re-
alize what such distance means, but if
you tell him it is ten times as far as
from Greenville to Sulphur Springs,
his eyes will sparkle as his mind com-
prehends fully the distance.
In like manner, men can comprehend
distances better by comparison In
this way some interesting measurements
may be made, with distances in Toxas
as a basis.
For instance, the distance from Dal-
lam county in the Texas Panhandle to
Brownsville, at the mouth of the Rio
Grande is 800 miles, but we can better
realize how far it is by saying that
it is nearer from Dallam county,
Texa«, to St. Paul Minnesota; or
to Bismarck, Dakota; or to Helena,
Montana; or to Yellowstone Park, in
Wyoming; or to Salt Lake City in
Utah, than it is from Dallam county to
Brownsville, Texas. It is also nearer
to Brownsville to Gautemala, in Cen-
tral America, than from Brownsville to
Dallam county.
Again, it is nearer from Lipscomb
county, Texas, to St. Louis, than from
the same county to Galveston. And
even Chicago and Cincinnati are near-
er to Texas than Dallam county is to
Brownsville. It is farther from Tex-
arkana to El Pa30 than from Texar-
kana to West Virginia, Old Virginia,
or North Carolina. Suppose a gentle-
man should start from Savannah, Ga,,
on the Atlantio, to look at a tract of
factory? ' It
Salf a million of
buy it. Well, it w»
a little pieoe qf cord not more
six inches long." Here the speak-
and scrutinized the reporter's
ice for indications of incredul-
ity, not to say astonishment. But the
narrator was talking to a man who since
the introduction of the telephone haa
le it a point of principle to be read^
anything, and to believe all that he
hears. The speakerjadded: "Eight
years ago there lived on the West Side
in the-third story of a cheap tenement,
down' ne&r the NorthSRivar, a poor
mechanic, who was kept poor because
he had a passion for inventing; it
amounted to a passion. He didn't
drink and didn't travel with the politi-
cians, ;and all who knew his family
wondered why they should be so poor.
Time passed on, and still the man was
poor, but at last he perfeoted an in-
vention—th e simplest thing on earth—
and with his patent in his hand he
went down town one day and called for
the head of a house whose check was
current for five figures anywhere in
'the street.' The inventor offered to
Sell two thirds of hia patent for $20,000
if the house would bind itself to put
$10,000 into factories for producing
the littlo thing that he had invented.
The firm signed papers in less than an
hour from the time of hearing the pro-
posal! and in another hour the invent-
or had converted the firm's check for
$20,000 into greenbacks. Lots were
bought and a factory erected. The
business speedily grew to gigantic
proportions, and at last the firm ac
quired all the rest of the block, and
covered it with briok and mortar, and
npw the inventor is able to associate
with the Millionaires. The little glove
fastener—a piece of oord about six
inches long and a dozen little metal
hooks or buttons—iB the thing that was
invented."
Texas Penitentiaries.
The Penitentiary Board met March
14 in the executive office of Governor
Ireland. The report of tho financial
agent of receipts and disbursements on
account of the state penitentiary for the
menth of February, 1884, was exam
ined and approved. The report shows
a balance on January, 1884, of $50,026
82; collections $33,669 22, making a to
tal of $83,686 07. Expended at Hunts-
ville prison $21,285 38, and at Rusk
$2,597 14f total $23,888 52v balance on
hand $59,813 55. The available re
sources for March is approximated at
$90,010 22, being made up of balance
on hand February 28 and the proceeds
from farm and railroad hands, and the
amounts paid by contractors at the pen
itentiary for hire of convict labor and
miscellaneous work. The estimates of
expenses for March amount to $32,704
48, which is made up of regular month-
ly expense and outlay, to inaugurate on
the part of the state, at Huntsville,
the manufactory of wagons and furni
hire, leaving an approximate balance
on hand March 31 of $56,305 89. There
was a decrease in radroad labor for
February of $2,100 39 from what it was
in January, owing to the price of labor
being reduced from $1.25 to $1,15 per
day. The estimate of expenses for
Mar&h was a great deal larger than for
February from the fact that a large
ameunt of material for the wagon and
cabinet shops at Huntsville, which was
contemplated some time ago, but the
purchase had to be made on account of
the probability of contracting these
shops. As to the first, he says: "The
month closes with 2,462 convicts on
hand. The receipts for this month
have been large, and much to my grati-
fication-we have no esoapes to report
the first time sine my connection with
the prison. There have been a few un
successful attempts to escape. During
the month the deaths have been com'
paratively few—only three. There are
711 state convicts in the Rusk peniten-
tiary, and 1,741 state convicts in the
Huntsville penitentiary. There were
received during the month 25 at the
Rusk and 38 at the Huntsville prison
There were 2 captu ed, Levi Grant and
Alexander Manning. Discharged 43
Pardoned Delphine Harrango, Calorie
Banister and Albert Gilover. Died,
W. D. Allen, R. C. Hayes and Tom
Mills.- Paid for transportation $504,
In the Huntsville prison 537 of the
convicts are worked inside and 1,225
outside. In the Rusk 465 inside and
246 outside.
land ftt J31J
days and i
Alter traveling three
s" Jill
Need of Economy.
One of the hardest lessons in life for
young people to learn is to practice
economy. If is a harder duty for
young man to accumulate and save his
first $1,000 than his next $10,000. A
man Can be economical without
being mean, and it is one of his most
solemn duties to lay up sufficient in
his days of strength and prosperity to
provide for himself and those who are
or may be dependent upon him in days
of sickness or misfortune. Extrava-
gance is one of the greatest evils of the
present age. It is undermining and
overturning the loftiest and best prin-
ciples that should be retained and held
sacred in society. It is annually send-
ing thousands of young men and women
to ruin and misfortune,
Cultivate, then, sober and industri-
ous habits; acquire the art of putting a
little aside every day for your fu-
ture necessities; avoid all unnecessary
and foolish expenditures. Spend your
time only in such a manner as shall
out, and
tfie.
mark
attack.
co1
would hardly bai
the circle of > his
tific invest!
involve
of words.!
■I the re -
discoveries upon1
became at once a
an object of popular
have been the dis-
new stars, and his name'
have been known beyond
associates and scion-,
nvestigators generally. His views,!
now almost universally admitted and
con-!
adopted in the world of science, c
tinue to be derided and combatted by
"
Probabiy
transaction
the tapis in:
than the ti
and water
Wilson, on
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This is
of the ranges,
owned by Gea»; W;
blican river* t» a new
English cattle company, known as the
New United States Cattle Range com-
itors generally. His viewsJNteny (limited). The sale is as good as
made, Mr. L. Wilkes, of England, who
represents the company in Denver, be-
" for the statement,
theologian* and laytnen, and in some
inst^ncA. with considerable sharpness
and ability. The popular confidence,1
so far as it is influenced by such writers
does not rest with Mr, Darwin. The!
stupendous problems involved in as-
tronomical science, and upon which it
rests, puzzle and bewilder the popular
mind, and but a kind of half assent is
given to them. When the astronomer
states in a public assembly that the sun
is distant 92,000,000 miles, a majority
are tempted to inquire, "How do you
know that?" or when he states, further,
that the orb is enveloped in a vast cov-
ering of incandescent hydrogen and
other forms of matter, the unspoken re-
ply is, "It may be so." Wo hesitate
not to say that if astronomers and
mathematicians had not been able to
foretell eclipses, occulations of stars,
approach of comets, etc., the great
facts and principles of astronomy would
have occupied in the popular mind a
place scarcely higher than the astrol-
ogy of the ancients.
This former state of indifference and
doubt has now been broken, and tho
pendulum swings far the other way.
The popular mind is ready to. believe
devoutly almost anything which men
of research offer for consideration. The
impossible, which once was observed in
every direction, now has faded from
view, and science seems to work mir-
acles as did tho apostles of old. The
fidl establishment of the telegraph in
all parts of tho world immensely in-
creased the popular respect for science;
but when to this are added the tele-
phone, microphone, audiphone, phono-
graph, electric lighting and the numer-
ous other recent triumphs of science
and art, the possibilities of scientific
accomplishment have no longer a limit.
There is a danger that this extreme de-
velopment of faith may lead uninform-
ed persons into errors through misap-
prehension, or extravagant claims of
sxpi
of gas stocks and other kinds of prop-
erty supposed to be influenced by new
discoveries should bo cautious about
sacrificing their securities in conse-
quence of what is published in the
newspapers. There are still many fal-
lacies in the world claimed to be tho
outgrowths of science, and a wise dis-
crimination and reserve should ba
maintained in all actions based upon
what is claimed as new in scienco and
art.—Boston Journal of Chemistry,
Historical Facts.
Prince Rupert introduced the art of
mezzotint engraving in England.
Sugar was worth thirty shillings a
pound in England in the thirteenth
century.
lh«f Chinese invented the tread mill,
and used it to raise water in irrigating
fields.
Silk was manufactured in the United
States as long ago as 1832 by Ger-
man immigrants living at Economy,Pa.
The relative distances of the sun and
moon from the earth were first calcu-
lated by Aristarchus, about 280 B ,0.
The ancients were accustomed to
place a crescent at the beginning of a
book, and a crown, or something like it
at the end.
A Hebrew colony landed in Georgia
in 1733, and some of the inhabitants of
Savannah are descended from its mem-
bers.
It was formerly the custom to exempt
the prosecutor of any person executed
at Ryburn from serving on juries and
in porochial offices, but the act grant-
ing tho exemption wa% repealed in
1818.
Potablo gold was a liquor which the
anoients never tired of trying to make,
and which they thought would preserve
health and youth and heal aU diseases.
It was distilled with lemons, honey,
spirits and salt. ~
In the reign of Elizabeth, butchers
were forbidden to sell meat in Lent,
not from a religious motive but to re-
duce the consumption of meat so that
it would be more plentiful" at other
times and to encourage the fisheries.
It was formerly customary in Eng-
land for the sick to wear a kerchief oa
the head, and a certain virture wag at?
tached to the custom so that in Che-
shire tying a kerchief on the head and
drinking a posset was a remedv for
everything.
The earliest statute against the em-
ployment of playing oards bears date
in the reign of Henry VIII., and is
entitled "An act for the maintenance of
artillery and the debarring of unlaw-
ful games." In fact, it is simply in-
tended to encourage archery.
Cursed Poverty.
Oh, cursed poverty! I know thee
to be of Satan, for I myself have eaten
at thy scanty table, and slept in thy
cold bed. And never j et have I s#eu.
thee bring one smile to human lips or
dry ono tear as it foil from the human
eye. But I have seen thee sharpen the
tongue for biting speech and harden
the tender heart. Ay I I've seen thee
making even the presence of love a
burden, and cause the mother to vieh
that the babe nursing at her scant
breast had never been born.—A'Hron-
dack Murray. *
a Dakota Blizzard!
M A Dakota paper gives tho *
"'tion of the -
r day i*
Fenn.
I of the
r, Wilkes was interviewed by a
News reporter at the Grand Windsor,
yesterday, in relation to the matter.
He stated that his company is organised
with a capital of £250,000, or $1,000,000,
all of whioh is to be invested in the
stock business in Colorado, as the
company's business may warrant, He
said that the investment of English
money in Colorado ranges has reoeived
wonderful impnlse from the two divi-
dends recently deolared by the Prairie
Cattle company, one of 26 per cent and
one of 20, the first which this company
has had time to make.
"English capital," he said, is practic-
ally valueless at home, the profits,on
its investments being so small as to be
insignificant, and where there is a pros-
pect of such returns as these it is not
strange that money is ready to come to
Colorado. I have long looked upon
America as the legitimate field for sur-
plus English capital. It depends large-
ly upon the aotion of the government,
however, whether it will bs placed in
range property or not. There has been
a good deal of fear felt least the govern-
ment should undertake to make the
stockmen pay for the use of the gov*
ernment lands, but this appears to be
dying out and, much more confidence
is felt in Colorado as a place for in-
vestments. There are two or three
other large companies in process of
organization which will make Colorado
their place of business."
"What is the extent of the property
whioh you are purchasing from General
Wilson?"
"There are 135 square miles under
fence, with full water rights secured,
besides an unlimited amount of free
range. There are 9,000 head of stock
in the herd."
The consideration could not be
learned.
TEXAS TOPICS
—A Gainesville stockman has sold
4,000 head of ono and two-year-old
Eastern Texas cattle for $1310 and
$17.50 per head.
—The shipment of pecans hy the
merchants of San Saba the past season
amounts to over 135,000 pounds. The
crop was light, and a great many were
carried to Lampasas and other points
and sold. The revenue derived from
good pecan crop in this county is about
equal to that of the cotton crop
—Somo of the papers of western
Texas are advocating the division of
the state into four new states as the
best solution of the wire fence and
herding difficulties now agitating the
public mind. They claim that then
each state could have its own laws,
regulating its own interests, without
any clashiug of diverse interests of the
different sections of one state. Thus,
the northwest could have its free range,
the southwest its pastures, the middle
its farming and the eastern its grain,
cotton and sugar. It is also hinted that
eight United States senators, instead
of two, might be worth considering.
That there is something in these claims
cannot be denied, but it will be a long
time before our patriotic pride in the
glorious Lono Star state will consent
to a division.— Qatesville Sun.
—Tho farmers in the Gunsight neigh-
borhood havo been troubled for several
years by the depredations of the rab-
bits upou thoir growing crops. Last
year, by offering a premium for the
scalps of the pest, they succeeded in
getting 287 put out of the way, but
this year the rabbits are found to be
more numerous than ever. The citizens
of the vicinity, comprising a scope of
country about seven miles square, held
a meeting to devise means of extermi-
nating them, and the following was the
plan adopted: That the time between
the 28th of February and the 1st of
April be set apart for a general rabbit
hunt by the citizens of the community,
divided into two »ides, one to be chosen
by N. W. Murchison and the other by
O. S. Johnson, the two sides to huut
against each other, aud an award of
honor to be presented to thesidt bring-
ing in the largest number of scalps to
the barbeoue at Gunsight on the 1st of
April. The presentation of the award
is to be made by one of the handsomest
young ladies of tho community, and it
is safe to predict that there will be a
great many rabbits slaughtered. There
have been so far sixty-eight persons
chosen upon each side, and there is no
doubt but that the contest will be in-
teresting and of great benefit to the
community.—Breckenridge Texian.
The latest device of several Boston
swindlers is to write a letter to differ-
ent persons saying that a now pilot-
boat has been launched, bearing the
name of the person addressed, and
that the writer would be pleased to act
as agent, if desired, in purchasing a
presentation set of colors costing
about $300.
i'.aimod that St. Louis is the
rket of the world in
s gati j
nually j
nd (if 1
In a Chii
ont after d;
tern with hi*
It. - .'V
New York
and the agi
gained by them last year was
000.'
Credulous people In NeW En
are still searching for the treasure i
have ba* baried
H. B. Plant, the leading rkil
steamboat manager in Florida, is
down by Henry W. Grady as wot
910,000,000.
The will of Ralph G. Sefiew, of
York, is to he contested because
rives $1,200,000 to his nephew,
disinherits his brothers and sisters.
Eight hundred rag dealers
$750,000 worth of rags annn
New York. The cotton rag find c
United States is worth $22,000,000)
annum.
A statue of Apollo, which is said
be a fine one, was found reoentiy
Rome outs|de the Porta San Loren
The' height is one metre and eigi
centimetres.
A wedding party of thirty-five m
women and children was crossing l
River Theiss, in Hungary, 'about th
weeks ago, when the ice suddeny
broke under them and the entire cod
pany, with one exception, was drowne j
The part of "Hamlet" was played
a St. Petersburg theater two wet
ago by a young Armenian actor nam
Admianl, who spoke his native 1
guage. Russian actors, as a rule,
adepts in foreign tongues, but AI
ani put them to confusion.
The cheapness of maize, aecor
to the Pall Mall Gazette, has
made that article very eoonomir
for horses and stock. Th\s
General Omnibus company e
10,413 tons of maij^kdurwr
half year, andonlflf?7|bfjt
Near Rudolfsheim.fc A
entire family, consisting" .
mother and three children, '
cated to death recently throi
fault in the draught of the st<
of them were alive when foui
attempts to restore th<ac to
ness failed.
The mortalit;
lish towns uW
week 20.5 per
diff made tlie f
centage bei
was 19, that
Chester 24,
Oldham's
Columbia,^
freatest mi]
tates.
tore them
f in twi
Josh Bill!
this, that ti,
into partner!
yu will often
lazy, and
besides."
The pows
Beechers PI
were sold bj
total amounl
and of rent;
$34,844. Li
to about $3£
Part of tl
from the Ha
setts, treae
other day I
in a foundry
a large canv
$241. Sevei
in the sack,
A promii
when pneui
square drlnt
larly his p
daily, the tr
under the d<
as the ffrst c
be reported.
A wild boj
Santa Rosa
Tancauhintz
tamed, and e
and flesh.
8-year-old ch
and then d<
part of its fa<
All the old
wrappings,
accumulate li
at Washingtol.
what is called the w?|
All this refuse is sort®
and women, and sold •
New York. Tho recoi
quite a handsome little w
A pretty way to vary
made of Seine twine is to c
in stripes like tho tidies,
bons can be run in. If yi
basket to be particularly"*
and to put it in the gues
take three round poles, paii
gild them, tie them togethei
with ribbons, and hang t
within after ifhe fashion o
kettle.
Sometimes a young eVre, f
hibiting sufficient fondues:
lamb, will not stamffor it t<
in this case, if the lamb
strong and persevering, a
larly if the weather is i
grows weak and perishes
duct of tho dam in such
occasioned by inflaming
about the bag and teats, am
somewhat by the novelty of
tion. In this ease, remafks t
Farmer - from which we ■
should be caught and 1
T sled hor
jo be an;
■nil
xowd
•-an, 0-
1
n a p
inert,
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