Nebraska advertiser., 1878-12-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST,".

The Protestants of America and
Great Britain contribute 5000, 900
annually to foreign missions.
A smart woman suggests that what
is needed in our public schools are
principals, not men.
"Is justice dead ?" asks the Baltl-
more Neous. No, we believe not. We
never heard of her trying to kindle
the fire with coal Philadelphia
Chronicle Herald.
The vineyardists of southern Cali
fornia are eldiscouraged, and many. are
proposing to cut their vines because
they can only realize So ton for their
grapes.
The first Gazette established was is
sued at Venice. Italy, about the be-
ginning of the seventeenth century.
1t was published once week, and
was called Gazette, from the word
"gazetta, the name of a small coin
which was of general circulation in
Italy at that time.
But for the cactus, freighting would
beimpossible through some sterile dis
tricts of Mexico. as it furnishes the
best nourishment to the cattle, who
find neither grass nor water in those
regions. The cactus. on being cut off
and roasted over a fire, so that the
thorns become softened, is eaten vara-
ciously by them, and they will go
four or five days without water when
thus fed.
Work not a rod of land more than
you ..can work we'll. 1t is easier and
far more profitable to reap sixty BUSH
els from one acre than fifty from two.
Manure and proper cultivation will
do it.
The Tennessee peanut crop for the
year ending Sept. 30th., was 3O5, ,00O
bushels, against 100000 bushels for
the year previous In Virginia the
crop was 405, 900 against $50, last
year, and in North Carolina it was
only $1,000 against 125, 900 in 1877
The growing crop, i. e., for 1883, is
estimated at 10000 for Tennessee,
800. 900 for Virginia, and $4,000 fol
North Carolina. The North Carolins
crop promises to be about the same as
to quality as last year.
Judge Nelson, who presided at the
Beecher trial, takes the Bentoniar
ground as to the name woman. Ht
decides that woman shall be called
a woman, aud not lady. "God made
woman" he says, "but lady is only
a modern fixture in fine dress"
A farmer of Boise City, Idaho
catches four hundred rabbits day
Along his fences he places traps
boards hinged upon pivots above deel
pits /; the rabbits jump over the fences
and light on the boards, which til
up, spill their occupants into the pit
and reset themselves. About fou
hundred rabbits day is the yield
The farmer gets a cent bounty 70
each ear. The rest of the rabbit b,
feeds to his hogs.
Mr.. Crandall, near Burlington
Kan, will feed this Winter some fOu
hundred head Of cattle and one hund
red head of hogs, and is still owner o
the mammoth OK Bucephalus, weigh
ing 050 pounds. This animal wa
iIARen 10 tie rSeusnu FALL and I1-iIF-'
ria fairs, where he made clean sW eel
and carried off all the prizes. Hi
girth is l64 feet; 4 feet in diameter
s feet high feet across the Drisket
apd his length from tip Of nose to tail
I55 feet. lie is in splendid condition
and will lie kept over another season
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African ex
plorer, has written istter in which
he argues that the remedy fUr over
production in England is to make u
Africa a second India. By sPiZing
the great interior regions Mr.. Stanley
believes that England may regain
what she lost when she adopted the
free-trade policy, and "avert the evil
which threatens her own sons for
hundreds of years" The letter is
published in the Manchester Courier.