New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-06-20
NEWS CLIPPINGS,

=, -locusts have appeared in Kentucky Inv
lhe million and there are fears that thcv will
do great damage to the fruit. -,
The Pullman Palace Car Componv have
purchased large tract of land near Topdo,,
Ianada, where they propose manufacturinr y
supply oil their coaches for the Dominion.
| 1t is seldom that man shoots b;,,solf;,,
splitung wood; but Kentuckian accom-
pushed the feat successfully. recently nv
handle. '''' ''>o
Ten cents busnel is thouobt to he q
nigh market price for lemons and ORANGES in
brazil. Native fruits are a DRUG in that pro-
me climate, where vegetation and pestilence
much do thrive.
"A narrow gauge railroad is TO he con-
structed from Julesburg. on the Union pa
enc, 10 Denver, which will make n route to
DenVer 40 miles shorter than either of the
broad gauge routes.
"A new system of telegraphy, said to be
quite simple, yet exceedingly ingenious. has
iateiy been invented by three young China
men, resident in Paris. They have applied
TO the French authorities for a patent.
A noted wag in Western college one
morning read a theme of unusual merit. The
PRESIDENT, being suspicious, asked pointedly
if it was original. "Why, YES, sir was the
reply, lit had original over il in the paper l
took it FROM"
An African king has arrived in Europe.
lie Is accompanied by his premier, an eunuch,
number OF women, officers of his army, and
cook. 1t is probable that he may make a
tour to the United States. In Europe he is
officially received.
American ladies may be interested to
Know that the government of Japan has re-
Gently repealed the law heretofore in force
there, which made it punishable oflense for
any person OF the Japanese descent to inter-
marry with foreigners.
"A new form of religious lottery has lust
been invented in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
"A tea meeting' is held, and a silver brick
from Nevada given to the person who esti-
mates It's weight correctly by "betting"-
each estimate twenty-five cents, for the bene-
tit of the infant class.
Horace Greeley has discovered the weak
ness OF the currant worm. 1t is tin. He
says: Nail two or three narrow strips of tin
on the outside of the currant and the worm
will not touch it. Some cultyators fasten
the strips with screws as they are more easily
removed than nails when the fruit is ready to
pick"
spects. Among other of its advantages it
| Is claimed for it that it is adapted to the
growing OF Olive trees. The net income
from an acre of these trees is put at $2,S12,
and the cost of planting an acre of the trees
| including cost of land at 1925. Olives, at
| that rate, would pay.
The Baltimore Ame,icGR has the follow
ing: " Over the doors of the Baltimore Con-
vention ought to be placed the following, en-
| bazoned in letters OF gold by day and fire by
night, which is quotation from an article
written by Greeley short time ago: 'All
Democrats are not horse thieves, but all
horse thieves are Democrats
| "A French newspaper describes the pro-
| gresslve journalism of Great Britain as fol-
lows: The Schot-maR is printed on the road
from Edinburgh to Glasgow in a wagon be-
longing to the paper, which contains a print
| ing machine, cases Of type, and quick COM
posltors. During the journey the edition for
| the provinces is worked off, with the addition
OF the news and kilograms received on the
road"
The father of Thomas Mast, the great
carcaturist, was professional musician, a
| calling which he intended his son should fol-
| low, to which end he used to thrash him most
enthusiastically and faithfully, in order to
make him learn the scales on the violin.
Thomas, however, had genius for drawing,
and he knew it. He is happily married to
the daughter of an English lady, and has
| three children, all living.
"A Glasgow exchange informs us that
specification are at present in the hands of
| Clyde ship-builders for vessel to be built
for the National Steamship Company, to run
between Liverpool and New York, Of dimen-
sions second only to the Great eastern
Her length is to be 5T6 feet over all, and she
is to be fifty feet beam and thtrty-five feet in
| depth. 1t is expected that the great steam
| ship will make the voyage from port to port
in seven days.
| Edwin Forests agent lost 5000 of his
masters money, the other day, in the bar
ber-shop Of the Continental, Philadelphia.
He supposes that he dropped it on the floor,
and that some individual who wasn't honest
| picked it up and held fast to it in silence
Mr.. Forrest says it's all very well to say on
the stage that she who steals my purse
steals trash," but when it comes down to
real life, and disgusting, sober reality, it
alters the case very materially.
The New York delegation marched to
| the hall of the convention two and two, es-
corted by boby-guard of friends. When
the four Senatorial delegates were called to
head the column, it was found that Gerrit
Smith, on account Of intirnity, would 90 in a
| carriage, so that the three remaining dele
gates had to walk abreast. At once Mr..
Horace b. Claflin, the eminent dry goods
merchant of this city, and Mr.. William orion,
the great telegraph manager, each took the
arm of the Rev. William +. Butler colored
clergyman of this city, and thus they marched,
significantly, INTO the hall, the negro in the
place of honor, as the head of the New York
delegation. And everybody rejoiced that it
was so. The enfranchlsed race know that
they can rest in the support Of the Republican
party.--N. Y. Independent.
| "A correspondent of the Warren (Pa.)
Naa tells good story of Horace Greeley,
which is not found in his Recollections of
a Busy I.ife.' In 1871 the correspondent was
working at a saw-mil in Wrightsville. Gree
lev being in that section on visit to his
fathers family, came along canvassing for
his paper. He started to cross the pond ON
loose logs. Now such logs never will keep
still. They bolt, and the boiling philosopher
soon found himself on two logs, and two legs
spreading wider and wider apart the longer
| he tried to stand still. The writer called to
him to 60 ahead, but he didn't; he only went
in up to his neck, and that's all he knows