The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-13


There is an orange tree near Waldo,
Florida, which measures at the ground
eight feet five inches in circumference.
It will probably bear this year, five
thousand oranges.
Five million eggs from Prince Ed
ward Island, british America, } formed
a part of the cargo of steamer which
arr wed at Boston last month.
There is a man under sentence of
death in Paris, who cannot be executed
because there is a French law which
forbids an execution until the real name
of the culprit is known, and this man
name is secret which the authorities
have thus far been unable to find out.
|. In a late trial before the Court of Dr.
vorce, Eng, the judge who presided
said that certainly more than
one half Of the cases he had
to deal with arose in some way or other
out of drunkenness. 1t became, he con-
tinued, almost stereotyped question in
divorce suit, "were you happy in
your married life ;" the answer gener-
ally being, Yes till the respondent
took to drinking"
Experiments have been made at
Woolwich, England in ballooning for
military purposes. Balloons were
guided back~ ard and forward in any
desired direction by Mr.. Menier, the
inventor, in still atmosphere. The
test Of the value of the invention will
be it's success in currents of wind.
Says the National Teachers Month-
ly, expressing substantially our own
opinion: g The objectionable Gin of
pedagogy is that of keeping children in
grade long time to make them stand
high in competitive examinations. The
effect is to chafe and worry the bright
pupils Of the class while the dull ones
are not substantially bene6tted.'
A lady once consulted DR.. johnson
on the degree of turpitude to be at
tached to her sons robbing an orchard.
"Madam," said johnson, cit all de-
ponds upon the weight of the boy. I
remember my school-fellow, David Gar
rick, who was always little fellow rob-
bling orchards with impunity; but the
very first time I climbed up an apple
tree, for was always heavy boy, the
bough broke with me, and it was called
a judgment. l suppose that is why
justice is represented with pair of
| scales"
An amusing episode is said to have
occurred at one Of the Moody-and Sank
ey meetings 81 London, when the ex-
Premier was present. Upon heartily
grasping Mr.. Moody's hand, Mr.. Glad
stone said: 81 wish I had your body"
Mr.. Moody made reply: 81 wish I had
had your head" Mr.. Gladstone again
retorted: ~ mean I wish 1 had your
lungs" To which Mr.. Moody again
replied: II wish had your brains ~;
and with hearty good wishes they
parted.
King Kalakaua, of the Sandwich
Islands, will send his feather cloak to
the Centennial Exposition at Philadel-
phia. This article will probably rep.
resent moro labor than any other on ex-
hibition. Its manufacture was COM
menced over hundred years ago, and
fifty years has been required for its
completion. 1t is made of the feathers
of peculiar species of bird-each bird
furnishing only two feathers, one from
under each wing. In size the cloak is
a little over square yard, and it's COL
or is a golden yellow.
The jaws OF monster shark, recently
caught, have been on exhibition in Lon
don. They measure in circumference
seven feet. The anterior row of teeth
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