The Morning herald., 1876-03-31
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The Grangers of the United States have
over SIS 900, 900 invested in their various
enterprises.
France makes 900 dolls every year,
many of them wonderful pieces of mechan-
ism. England furnishes the rag dolls, and
Germany the wax and china heads.
A "ranchero" near Santa Fe, owns 80, 900
head of cattle, he pastures on 18, 900 adj join-
iuc sections of land. One hundred "vaque-
ros" and one hundred boys take care of
them.
drunken herder near Fort Koarney
killed man last Fall. The murdered mans
wife has sued the saloon keeper that sold
the li1uor to the herder that killed her hus-
band and will probably make a case.
Dion Boucicault is going to erect foun-
tain at Huntingdon and restore the gram
4 mar school outside and inside, as memOri-
ais of his son, who was Killed at the Abbot's
Rpton Railway collision.
Basil Hayes of Lawrence county. Ky. was
twenty-six children; the grandfather Of
ninety eight, and the great grandfather of
seventeen, aud still does good days work
every day.
A French surgeon, noticing that the foot
and mouth disease does not attack cattle
affected with COW pOX, vaccinated twenty
five oxen, and not one Of them had the dis
ease, though living with animals largely
infected with it.
Beethovens Ninth Symphony was recently
performed at Brighton, England, as duet
for two pianos one of the players being a
boy of five years. This beats the arrange
ment of the fourth act of the "Hugenots"
for flute and banjo.
By an agreement between the two collie
ges, Julian Kennedy the Yale oarsman who
won the single scull race at Saratoga, last
summer, and Mr.. James, member of last
years Harvard crew, will row in the eight
cared race between Yale and Harvard next
June.
A Cincinnati veterinary surgeon has sue
ceeded in remarkable experiment. He
has gifted wind-broken horse with a sill
YER throat" An incision was made in the
windpipe, silver tube inserted, and now
the animal breathes freely and seems to
suffer no inconvenience.
Michael Rigney, having prospered in the
United States, lately returned to Kings
county Ireland and elected some relatives
from farm they had taken possession Of.
His dead body has been found with q bullet
in his head, but the perpstrator of the out
rage has not yet been discovered.
A. L. Robinson, of Evansville, Ind, is
the kind of a man this country needs. He
held an office as customs appraiser, the ex-
pensese of which were $4,000 more than
the receipts. He wrote to the Secretary of
the Treasury that his Office was sinecure
and should be abolished, thus giving up a
$4,000 position.
Between the years of 1865 and 1874, 1885,
659 men enlisted in the regular army. OIL
these 81 ,066 were born in the United States,
SS $40 in Ireland, % 1877 in Germany, 9,O37
in England. 4,7O3 in Canada, 2,456 in Scot
land, ,594 in France, 1864 in Sweden, 719
in Denmark, 5s1 in Austria, s in Africa, 8
in Arabia, and rs at sea.
A dog got into hydraulic pipe in Neva-
da City recently, was forced through FIVE
inch nozzle, and landed against an embank-
ment several hundred feet distant. The
journal that records the fact adds: I'm his
canine flight Chinaman was knocked into
the current, and both animals perished sim
utaneously.
Vienna uses 72O, 900 pounds of genuine
meerschaum worth over 81 900, 900 yearly,
and 4,10O, 900 pounds Of meerschaum chips,
which are ground and compressed and made
into imitation pipes and cigar holders. The
Imitation is carried to such perfection that
The best Judges are often puzzled to distin-
gush it from the real article.
Bee culture is spreading rapidly in Cali.
lorna. The Los Angeles Herald says that
at the present rate in four years there will
oe ,OOO,0OO stands of bees in that and the
,%o ,%6 az aHdloining counties, producing annually
loOO0O, 900 pounds of honey, which are
more valuable than the sugar and molasses
crop of Louisiana, Texas and Florida COM
bned.
The force of example is newly exempl-
ned by the Glasgow magistrate, who at din
heF recently raised his right hand as was
MS habit to ask the blessing, ,and astonished
MS family by saying: "You promise to tell
.he truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
inc truth" adding, !Heesht ye, jist tell the
aory in your ain words, and be as brief as
yecan"
A China Jewel case, one hundred and
seventy years old, which was exhibited in
bermuda during late industrial exhibi-
uon, had on its embsllished lid this stanza:
Fear God
Honor the king,
And kiss pretty girl
That's no sin.
A man in South Africa has lost his pet
ostrich, and thus advertises: "e10 reward.
Lost tame ostrich. Said ostrich was mis-
sms Yesterday, after having swallowed GER
IAN pieces of machinery which one of the
laoles OF the house was cleaning on the We