New-York tribune., 1874-10-28
GENERAL NOTES.

j. g. Shepherd of West Hartford, Conn.,,
raised 5000 bushels of fruit this from 800 trees
1t is estimated that over 100 cattle have died
OF fever in Connecticut since it broke out
The vintage this year in California is placed
at 4oOOoOOO ga lons against 100000 in 1879 and 100000
IN 1872.
The new elevator of the Wabash Company
in Toledo the largest in the world, holds 100000 bush
els Of grain.
The first fair of Carroll County, Ind, gave
net profit the society Of $1,000 and was considered
entire success.
The coored farmers of Boone County, No.,
refused to anslgamate, but held private and exclu-
sive agricultural far OF their own
Physicians are speculating upon probable
paralysis oceasioned by eating fruit put up in lead
coated with impure or iDsufhcleDttin
Burlington, Iowa, has a-Base Ball Club
called the Pretty Pets They part their hair mid
die and WELD the bal in yellow gloves.
A porker who in her day had been the
mother Of 27 pigs-l6 the greatest number one te
was killed in Roy alton, VT. aged years.
Squashes. three of them, weighing 115!. 1877,
and 1894 pounds respectively have been raised this
A Terre Haute man, not being able to COL
lect bill for SIC against DOCTOR concluded to take 1t in
physc. He lost good deal tof fesh) by the operation
The proprietors of The Io,ra City Press offer
the premium of years subscription 10 any who
will bring In " wekilled burglar caught IN the
Britain Conn., full Of ees that householders now
use them as handy and economical article for break
fast.
A potato weighing four pounds early Rose)
has been raised by Louis Hansen OF East Prairie Mime
sota The distance round it the nearest way was 20
inches
Ex-Governor Austin has sent to Minnesota
Falls herd Of Ayrshire cattle the nucleus OF herd
for cheese factory which ne proposes TO start
Spring.
About $4,000 cases of the 1874 crop of to-
bacco have been sold in the Hartford, Conn, market
and about 1900 left No demand for the
'73 crop.
At the fair of the Muscatine Qowa) Agri-
cultural Association young mss rode fiery and
tanned seed brideless round the ring only guiding the
animal with her whip.
1t is pleasant for everybody but the under
takers know that fewer cofins were sold in Macon
during the ssS3 %Snn Of than month
A flial Newport Or. I) Spiritualist has re-
moved the body of his father the sepucher where
IT had rested for 80 years. in response to communca
ton the departed, who complained that the grave
was damp.
There is an old Indian in Kansas who has
been ncknamed "old Prob" When asked to prophecy
Of the coming weather, he sagely and safely says
"Mebbe snow; mebDe heap d not Better wait lit
tie, you bet"
Inscription upon the wall in an eating house
in Fl. Howard. the line Of the Chicago aud North
Western Railway: "All meals taken In this hOuse will
be rs cents gardless OF age sex business
politics. religion, or previous occupation or condition Of
servitude."
Mention is made of q wedding in Indiana
on scale which one hardly expects to encouuer outside
OF the pages Of Rabeais. The happy couple together
tipped So3 pounds while IA gallons Of wine and II kegs
Of lager did gladly furnish forth the marriage table,
1t isn't easy to make good catalogue of
large library and 1t often happens that bad catalogue
Is made even Of small That which has just been
printed by the Topeka Library Association Is described
az curiosity OF cumsness inaccurscy, and ignorance
abOunding In such GEOGRAPHY as: "Princip-alis Of
Physiology !" Little Tom Grubb~ and his Wonderful
dog" "sketch OF the Life and Character Of Ciscero"
The author OF the "view OF Europe during the Middle
Ages" set down Henry Hallow. In the catal0gue
by means long one. there are eighteen msspciled
kind, but this Topeka production only makes Us wender
how they came " have library there ~ all