The Osceola times., 1875-11-06

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Alabama........ ....................... 2O2Ss, ,OV
Virginia 1909, on
Mississippi 1887 90
New York 1880, 90
Kansas 1864 O0
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Other 9l,739, ,o0
In all the States ................S5 ,14S, ,Ou
THE principal time-piece of the Pari
observatory is located in the catacombs, so u
to he free from the disturbing influence Of al
vibrations, and by it are regulated all tn,
numerous clocks employed in the observato
ry. II is described as an instrument of sucl
precision that il scarcely varies TO the exten
of one second in twelvemonth. A PROPOSE
tion, it appears, has Just been made by NJ
Leverrier, the director OF the observatory, :,
place all the public clocks throughout Pari
in direct connection with this time-piece. II,
proposes to lay telegraph wire which shal
connest the regulator of the observatory witt
the clock of the Luxembourg palace, nov
used for the prefecture of the Seine and tn,
municipal council; and that time-keeper il
turn, it is proposed, shall be put in electrical
communication with those at the Bourse
Palace de Justice, mairies of all the arron
easements OF the city, churches and Other
public buildings.
Agricultural returns for October
show the wheat crop of the present year to be
short one, and there is marked deteriora
tion in quality. The average is about eighty
per cent. OF last years production. II thi'
Indicates a total depreciation, il amounts
10 nearly 62,O000OO bushels, and gives the
crop at 2i6,0W,0O0 bushels. In quail
ity, the crop averages fourteen per cent
below sounds condition. The condition
Of the corn crop is exceptionally high
The produce reported this year falls
short Of 1874, about 4 per cent Oats
product 3 per cent. greater than last year
Potatoes promise to be extraordinary both
in yield aud quality. Tobacco 2 per cent
above the average. Barley is 81 per cent.
of last years crop, and buckwheat not far
from the average.
The burning of Virginia City, the
cnterprising and thriving capital of Nevada,
casts n cloud over the Frightening prospects
at the country. The destruction of eight
millions of property in day by fire is a ca
lamlty that no insurance can cover and no
sympathy can alleviate. The losses in Chi
cago and Boston and Baltimore have taught
us what such distractions of property mean
and how much suffering they entail. The
causes Of the fire have not been reported
But the city was largely constructed Of wood
and it only needed the conjunction of wind
and flame to sweep it out of existence. II
certainly seems as though we have had con
tlagratonS enough to teach our people the
criminal folly Of building tinder-boxcS to in
yite destruction.
The Russians are discussing the CON
struction of n canal to Join together the Cas-
plan and Black seas. The Caspian is a salt
lake Of from four hundred to four hundred
and fifty feet depth of water, which is con.
sidcrably below that of the Black, owing Ia
the copious evaporation under the fierce
summer heat. The canal is proposed to he
seven hundred and fifty miles long, thus con.
stituting il n far larger and costlier enter
prise than the Suez canal. Russia actually
has u coasting fleet of eight hundred vessels,
of siXty-eight thousand nine hundred and ten
tonnage, on the Caspian, and il is exclusive
mistress, with the exception Of few Persian
skifis.
a medical contemporary, lauding the
system Of international weather bulletins
lately established by our signal service bu.
rcau, goes ON to hope that similar scheme
may ere long be applied to the record OF
prevalent zymotic diseases, in the form oi
IAN international bulletin setting forth Of
licially the movements of the waves Of epi
dcmic disease from their initiation to their
decline, medical signal officers becoming
the counterpart of the weather observers"
Folevs statue of Stoncwall jackson,
which was unveiled at Richmond last week,
is thus spoken of by the London AthenIum
"Of it, critically, we are bound to say that
we wish il had been better work of art and
We say this not only for the reputation of the
sculptor, hut for the honor of the heroic
general himself, as we'll rs on account of the
sympathy which has led many English adj
mirers Of 'Stonewall to subscribe funds and
present the statue TO the state of Virginia.
The merchants of Manchester, Eng,
the city which has been supposed to stand
unrvalcd in the manufacture Of cotton goods,
have begun to import calicoes from the
United States. This statement is made by
the London Times on the authority Of the
Diapers Trade journal. The importers say
that the American goods are much better in
quality and appearance than those of English
manufacture.
Is it not astonishing that men, who
have the whole world to conquer, will bother
their great heads with the tightness of a
womans skirt. How about your stove-pipe
hats? They make your heads bald and
greasy AS dish-cloth, vet YOU wear them.
Would that some prophecies might arrive
in Israel and tell the awful consequences of
this fashion.
Remarking upon the great rain
storms of July, August and September, a
writer in the Country Gentleman says
These great rains point to an open winter,
and perhaps n stormy, changeable one for the
west, for which reason those corn-growers
who make haste to harvest their crop as early
rs il is fit for the crib will have advantage.
ously taken time by the forelock."
Gen. w. ID. Washburn, of Mime
apolis, Mimi, made an assignment of all his
property for the benefit of his creditors a
wear ago, and now the asSignees, after paying
all debts in full, have restored to the general
assets 10 the amount Of S3OO,000 II man
must fail that's the way to do it.
Susan b. Anthony is severe. She
saws, in recent letter: Il couldn't 20 five
miles out of town, when | was in Missouri,
without meeting flock Of grasshoppers that
would make Il better bench Of Judges than
the present supreme court Of the United
States;' Their woman suffrage decision
worries her.
The visitors to the gardens of the
Philadelphia geological Society are 81
numerous that in eight months the receipts
were Sis,0N, and the average attendance
was 1886 With such prosperity the society
will before long possess one Of the best col
lcctions Of animals known. 1t is intended
10 prepare very full collection of American
animals for the centennial.
The Rev. Father Murphy, who has
been iecturing at Montreal, admits that the
pope can sin and is quite liable to go to bel
therefor. This is lecture ON "paPsl infal
libilitvn