The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-09-15
farusers's Omnibus.

SvusS'"ssS.
The wheat harvcs, of France will hc
about onc-l"ur,h below the average.
The tract of unapprorrii;ed govern
ncni land in Kansas is nearly IL large rs the
whole State of Iowa.
The field crops in New Brunswick
promise well, but the supply Of garden pro
duct will be very short, owing To- the dry
weather.
All plants grow stronger aud ripen hct-
ter when the air circulate' freely around
them, and the sun i, net l'rcvcnt., from am
Immediate influence
The Knoxville Wing SAYS Est Tonne
see has raised this wear 5000, too bushels -,
wheat, and will have surplus Of 1000, "D
bushels for sale.
a western writer s,vs il is much :,tt,n-
ton was paid To improve corn aS is given to
grapes, 1000 bushels might he ad,iei to
the annual crop.
The excursions of the bees to collect
honey are variou-ly estimated 1T from one to
three miles each. and they are supposed I"
make about ten trips day.
The Stock,lalc beef packery, near Hrcn-
ham, Texas, began operations last rill, ami
for its first seasons work killed ,Wo cattle,
packed 5000 ticrccs of beef, aud shipped
off 900, 900 pounds Of hide and tallow.
The toad, which Is an efficient Ing
hunter in the garden, is said by the ohm
Farmer To eat honey bees with an equal
relish, and bee keepers are advised to ar
range the lighting boards of the hives IN
such manner Us no; To b. accessible, To- hi,
toadship.
Especial arrangements are BEING m,d.
by the Central Pacific To accommodate the
farmers along the line of that road. Tenn
porary side tracks. and where necessary,
special trains will bc run. Freight tor the
Stanisla,is river has been fixed at y 80 per
ton.
A san Francisco paper says: ~
shipment of 5000 Japan chestnut trees WIZ
received ut this por, short tiHc since, whr'ir
are selling at So per 100, This is the see
ond large shipment of the kind, and Cali
krnia will In stocked with the finest chest
nut trees in the world.
"A correspondent of the (bunt,y Gond.-
man. in an article ON raising wheat, SAYS
"If the farmers Of this State would try hall
~ hard tn raise their own bread ~ Some 81
them do tn raise fast horses To spoil thcrt
children with, we should soon hear TIE Last
Of importing wheat from The West.
The region of ~Gantv rains embraces the
country about the one hun,ircdth degree ri
longitude and the Cascade and Sierra W
vada Mountains. 1t includes the northern
and southern divisions III the P:riiic SLOPE
the inland basin of Utah, the table lands pi
Texas, and the sterile region east ii tie
Rocky Mountains.
A writer from Brazil SAWS that y"u will
see no corn, no POTATOES, ne fields of gram,
or grass about Rio. The butter used nearly
all comes from England, as well IL chess,
the -four from the Uuited States, the poia-
toes mostly from England. Meats, rather
than vegetables, are the table staples. Rice
is usesl in the place Of POTATOES.
An implement maker in France hi5
constructed a species Of plough, by mean
of which the beet bulbs are lifted from the
ground and thrown aside BIZ n swinging
mould hoard, and then topped by women
and children who followed the machine.
One Of these worked by man and two
horses, will dig ahou, two and half acr,s
yer day.
Change Of French Rulers.
Louis XVI. was executed in 1898, and HI
son, the Dauphin, after barbaroIs usage, died
in 1895. Napoleon ]. had two abdica,inn.
and two exiles. Ills sou died in Austria,
and never attained the imperial scep;re.
Louis XVIII, who came next, WIS an exile
for twenty years; restored to- the throne
by the bayonets Of Europe; was chased III
il by Napoleon, driven into exile, bat wa
again put back By the military forces of the
continent. lie died after reign of nine
years. His brother, Charles n, Whose
youth had been spent in exile, was driven
from the throne by the revolution of $50.
and died far from his native land. Hi, SITE
ce=ssor, Louis Philippe, whose father had
been executed in 1893, WIS in tnrn driven
from the Kingdom, when an old man, after /,
prosperous reign Of eighteen years. His sue
cessor was Louis Napoleon. Oi all the soy
ereiens If France since l711133, he has had the
longest reign, as President and Emperor
They thus compare:
Louis XVI, eighteen years.
Napoleon J., fifteen years.
Louis XVIII, nine years.
Charles X, six years.
Louis Philippe, eighteen years
Louis Napoleon, twenty-five years.
Mr.. STEER has completed the c,n-,l, OF
Brown County in good time, and made out
his reports and forwarded them to head
quarters We are indebted to him for the
ollowing figures, which show the extent of
he population Of this county: White males,
J, 737; white females, 1886; colored males,
Is; colored females, 4S; Indian males, );
indian females, 9. Total population oil
Brown county, 6,S23. The above does not,
# course, include TIE two hundred Indians
N the reserve. The deaths which have oc-
urred in the county in one year, are Il,
mi the number Of bushels of corn r,i-cd
asst year amounted to Coz, 900, besides seve-
al large crops which could not be got at
fiaratha Despatch.
"A little five year old at ithaca had :,
title house built for his cat, which was
mt on the porch, when shower came up.
The young man was discovered soon after
nth the cat by the nape Of the neck, b,k-
ng up in the clouds and giving vent to his
utraged feelings. Says he, ''Look here,
>od, don't you know what you're doing.
aiming all over my tat! You'll dit her all
usay."