Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-03-09
GIeanings from our Exchanges,
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clared in favor of unshaven faces
as co nduciye to health, Sc.
Three-fourths Of the entire labos
and capital of the United States
are employed either directly or m
directly in agriculture.
The ministers of Maine are en-
deavoring to break up the practices
of burying the dead on the Sab
bath.
Won Ans RIGHTs IN Nnw YorBl
The first movement in the Leg
islature of New York in favor o.
extending the elective franchise TO
women was made Oil Monday by
the pre- enlatipn d a petition in
both houses, signed III the aggregate
by ten thousand persons Of both
sexes. III both houses select COM
mittee was raised to consider this
important subject.
4 DECIDED oTE.-The vote Of
the city OF Buffalo. on the question
of enlarging the Canal, mas-yeas
1914, nays 3.
|. The price Of eggs in Providence
lis AZ ce0ts'per dozen. Eggs orbi-
tani.
Manufacturers of crockery ware
in England, in consequence of the
high price of Goals and materials,
have raised their prices from TWEEN
ty to thirty per cent, consequently
American ware must come up in
nearly the same proportion.
The mantua makers bill of the
Empress Josephine, during the first
ten months of the year 1906, was
only $4,000
AZ enterprising Chinese merchant
at s cramento, California, adyertises
that among his goods received, he
has "dried worms for soup!'
Old in Years Jut Young in eonsiii-
tmion.-M. Bodiseo, the Russian
Ambassador who died recently at
Washington City, is said to have
stated on his death bed that he was
eighty-six years Of age. His wife is
an American lady much younger
than himself.
AS he was married sixteen years.
ago, and his wife is now thirty five,
he was a man OF seventy, and she ca
young lady of nineteen, when the
nuptial knot was tied. They have
had six children, and the youngest
is two years old.
DR.. E. T. Russell, Of III d., has
invented a saddle, the seat of which.
rests upon elastic springs, enabling
the hors, man to ride tl1tl as much
ease and comfort as if seated upon
sofa. The spring is COMPOSED Of
Indiarubber, surmounted with
sieel-spring. 1t can be made app'i-
cable Tor cars and carriages equally
as well as 10 saddles.
The Oriental Company's screT
steamer lljmalaya-of which we
have before made mentions tho
largest vessel i'm the weird. Mere
figures cannot give one a concep-
ton OF her vast proportions; bu,
when the reader is toll such is the
common size Of the Iiinalaya, that
If the hull Of the ship in which Co
lumbus discovered America were
slung at her stern, it might almost
pass for one Of her boats, he can
form some idea Of Ter immense
hulk.
A last and peg Mandatory IN
Buffalo has, duIing the past year.
worked up nearly 800 cords Of
wood for lasts, l25 logs for pegs,
1000 feet Of lumber for crimps,
1000 feet Of scantling for boot
trees, and turned ont $4,000 lasts,
1900 sets Of b ot trees, 1000 pair
of crmps, 400 toe-stretchers, and
over 1000 bushels of pegs. The
capital employed in this establish
ment is from $4,000 TO $4,000.
DR.. Bates, Of Louisville. ,(1Iiss,)
has been driven from that place by
the citizens, they suspecting that he
had caused the death Of his wife by
poison.
France, IL is thought from present
indications, will ia few years raise
in Africa cotton enough to supply
all its own manufactures.
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