The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-07-18
TINS AND THAT.

North Carolina has sevcnty-seven
newspapers.
Central Park, New York, u to be
lighted bygas.
/ Watermelons bring el apiece in
North Carolina.
The trade in ginger beer is getting
to be enormous.
One acre Of Texas oats brings sew
enty-6ve bushels.
Sunfowers are said to inhale ozon-
lied oxygen.
Roasted coffee is one Of the most
powerful disenfectants.
There are 96,S42 scholars in the
public schools of New York.
Gold seekers are said to bag go .
day at the Carsboo diggings, Utah.
Marriages are most numerous in
autumn in Massachusetts,.
A Goliah's sword, about ten yards
long, was recently found in Prussia.
Denmark ties the Mormon Mission
aries up by the thumbs and fiogs
them.
Croquet, though generally dis
carded by civilized people elsewhere,
is having a great run at Newport.
The State Geologist Of Indiana has
discovered another bank Of glass
making sand in Clark county.
An automatic scale, to be used by
millers and others in handling grain
and -four, has just been invented,
One English life insurance company
issued in 1871 more policies than al
the American companies.
A few days ago rattlesnake meas
uring six feet eight inches was killed
by = negro in Long Creek, N. c.
A vast deposit of guano has been
revealed some distance to the south
of Lima, and several miles inland.
The Signal Service Department has
decided upon locating an observer
upon the summit of Pixies Peak.
Canada anticipates rare sport from
the expected arrival, in August, of
the English Gentlemen's Cricket
Club.
The finger nails should only be cut
when the hand is moist: Otherwise
there is danger Of tearing or break
ing them.
Central Park, New York, is S67
acres in area, and Phoenix Park, Dub
lin, one Of the largest city parks in
the world, 1,752 acres.
The police Of New York lately
discovered in a secluded alley an es-
tablishment in which children are
MANNED to order.
One hundred and fifty hogs were
recently roasted alive at Buffalo by
the burning of the shed in which they
were confined.
A hundred families are about to
start from Hamburg and Bremen, to
settle on the lands already selected
for them near Dallas, Texas.
All of the iron to be used in the
construction of the Northern Pacific
Railroad will be made in this country
from native ores.
The newspaper Offices in London
have adopted bulletin boards in place
Of the old bill of daily contents stuck
outside the window.
The front of the altar Of the
Church of st. Ambrosia ct Milan is
sheathed with solid gold, wonderfully
enameled and ornamented.
The representatives of the press,
according to Boston paper, ct the
Jubilee during its first week used up
twenty-two reams of paper.
Canadian papers say the emigra-
tion of French Canadians to the
United States from the townships is
assuming larger proportions than
ever.
All the prisoners in the Anderson
county (Tennessee) Jail escaped re-
Gently excepta colored man whose
term of service was to expire in .
few days.
A little child in Shiocton, Wis.
ran in to her mother the other day
and begged her to come out and see :
: big cat on the fence" The big cat
was big bear.
1t is stated that forty-five per cent.
of the gross products Of California is
from agricultural sources, while six
teen per cent. is from gold and other
metals.
A Kalamazoo Judge fined q re-
porter for appearing within the bar
in his shirt sleeves. The reporter,
however, proved to the satisfaction
of the court that he had no coat, and
the fine was RENTED.
A Kentucky man cures his neigh
bors Of snake bites by the admins
tration Of crab orchard salts, instead
Of whiskey. The advantages Of the
treatment are that the same man is
never bitten twice.
John Miller, Of Tuscarawas county,
O., is the owner Of . blind eve
twenty-five years old, which is the
mother of sixty-two lambs.
The next election occurs In North
Carolina, on the lst Of August, for
Governor, other State officers, Legis-
lature and eight CongressmeD. In
1858 the State gave General Grant
1856 majority; In 1870 q Democratic
majority of 4, ,995 and In 1871, on the
Constitutional Convention, q Repub.
lican maioritv ~ 9A6 Thie S,ae ~,