Nebraska advertiser., 1878-08-08
ITEMS OF IyTERNST.

A visitor at the first Paris exposi-
tion saw three Chicago elergymen at
horse-race on Sunday afternoon,
and at an opera in the evening. He
was led to believe that they left their
sanctity on this eide of the ocean.
In Prussia it is said the potatoe is
cultivated with peculiar success. AS
the stalk grows the earth is heaved
up, leaving only three leaves at the
top; roots are thus greatly increased,
while the produce is said to be aston
ishing.
1t is said by farmer who has tried
the experiment so oftenas to be sure Of
his his ground, that buttermilk pour
ed over the back of a scurvy pig will
entirely and speedily remove the
seurf. The remedy is simple. AL
most every farmer can boast of one or
more scurvy pigs, and if buttermilk
will cure it, it should be spared.
The potatoe disease in Ireland Is so
widespread that fears of famine, such
as prevailed in 1S47, are expressed.
Up to the second week in July, the
weather greatly resembled that of the
summer of 1917, and if the "hot
wave" has crossed the Atlantic, as
reported, the danger will be inoreas-
ed.
II is stated that the new secret So
ciety of workingmen called the
Knights of Labor now numbers S74, :
600 persons in its membership, aud
has clans Qodges) in every city and
large town in the country.
The award of $40, 900 for the best
steam road wagon will not be made
by the Wisconsin Commissioners at
present. Nearly all the vehicles en-
tered for the contest broke down.
Forty-three reapers competed for
the prize at the Paris Exposition.
The McCormio received the award.
A Canada cheese factory has turned
out cheese weighing 1000 pounds.
1t is said to be 6 feet 10 Inches in di-
ameter, or 81 feet in circumference,
and required 50 tons of milk to make
it, the produce of 1000 cows.
The Rev. John Baker, who preach
ed the first sermon ever heard in
Marshall, Texas, died there recently,
at the age of So.
Josie Fowler of New Haven snuffs
candles and cores apples with reyol'
yer. The young men are exceeding.
ly respectful in their attentions tC
her.
A kiss recently cost Beloit wis
man $500. He was q bachelor, kissed
married woman, and paid that
amount to the husband to settle the
affair.
A woman in Mount Sterling, KY,
has been married six years, has three
children and is now only eighteen
years of age.
Professor Hall, the American dis
coverer of the satellites Of Mars, has
been awarded the Lalande prize in
astronomy by the Academy of Scien-
ces at Paris.
1t is claimed in Germany that the
drug known as curare is sure cure
for hydrophobia, as it paralyzes the
motor nerves, without affecting the
sensitive ones and so stops muscular
convulsion.
A discharge of buckshOs from q
gun killed man In the Capital Thea
tire, Austin, Texas, and made hole
In the wall. The fresh plaster has
cracked In such a way as to present
the outline of a mans face-a like
ness of the murdered man, as some
say.
Mr.. Doane. of Gold Hill, Nevada,
shot and killed his chinese cook for q
supposed assault upon a child. 1t
was afterward shown that the China
man was innocent of any offence, but
as the local paper calmly says, "Mr.
Doane did not know so at the time,
and is, therefore, not to be seriously
blamed" He was not even arrested.
Some girls are like old muskets {;
they use great deal of powder, but
don't go off.
The farmer who sprinkles paris
green over his potato patch cannot al
ways calculate the mischief he is pre-
pairing. In many cases the cattle and
poultry have devoured it and died,
and it is now asserted that it has been
washed from the potato fields on the
banks into the Connecticut River and
killed the fish.
While the Democratic House of
Representative reduced the needed
number of clerks in the Departments,
it appointed more employees of the
House than is needed or than is al
lowed by lag.
TOnSOr;al.
For anything in this line, call at
the old, neat, pleasant rooms of Albert
Smith, who Is an expert without q