Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-05-09
REWRITTEN.

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Boston has doubled it's police force with
in ten years, and many citizens wanb it stu
further increased.
More snow fell during the past winter
along the sunny shores of'the' Meditefrailean
than for many, years.
Jefferson Davis is at present in Missis-
sippi City. Miss, quietly engaged in writing
a history of the late war.
Notice of a reduction in wages of five to
fifteen per cent. has been given in all the
mills at Lowell. Massachusetts.
Lord Charles Beresford, a friend OF Al
bert Edwards is to marry a Miss Gardherin
July. She has an income of 3d., 600.
"A Chicago firm has purchased a large
drove of steers, which are to be sent to the
pastures of North Germany to be fatted and
sold.
Popular interest in the Paris Fair seems
Just now to be. revolving around the great
central question whether the Koh-i.Noor
will he stolen.
-Ihe elevated railroads in New York
city are nearly completed. Twenty locomo-
tives of fourteen tons each have been order
ed for their use.
A Paris journal estimates at $4,000 the
number of American visitors who will spend
freely the dollars of their daddies at the
Paris Exposition.
1t is calculated that if all the insects in
the world were piled in one mass, the heap
would be greater than that of all the COM
bined beasts and birds.
Virginia annually fritters away fifteen
millions of dollars exclusively on whiskey,
and. in proportion to its resources, no State
in the Union can hold a candle to it in the
bell-punch line.
A German has devised a Bank Note
Album with leaves of Asbestos paper.
Papers placed betwixt the leaves will, it is
said, be legible even after exposure to a tire
which reduces them to cinders.
The Germans are the healthiest class of
people in the world. Vital statistics, slow
that the rate of mortality is nearly twenty
eight per cent. less than any other citizens,
while their increase by births is larger.
In the province of Nassau, Prussia, the
common nettle has been treated like hemp.
and is found to yield fibre quite as durable
quently been started for its manufacture.
The exploring expedition sent out by
the Geographical Society of Rome have re-
ported back to headquarters their rapid pro-
gress into the heart OF Central Africa. The
expedition aims to go over ground left un-
touched by Stanley.
Three and one-halftons of wild pigeons
were shipped in one day from tie pigeon
roost in Forest county, Pennsylvania. to
New York city. From five to ~six-hundred
men are engaged in netting the birds, and
immense numbers are captured.
Church society in England has again
been stirred to its depths by the discovery.of
another extremely ritualistic brotherhood
with Roman Catholic procliyities. 1t is call
ed the Contraternity of the Holy Trinity,
aud numbers between 800 and 400 members.
Cooper, the British political agent at
Bhamo, in the kingdom of Burmab, and
two Sepoys, have been murdered by the Sc
pQy guard. The assassins have been arrest
ed. There is no reason to suppose that the
assassination was the result of Il native DO
lit Gil plot.
-As,tlle minister of a country church IN
Georgia was about to marry a couple. a la
dy objected on the ground that the intended
bride was not of age, and her parents were
ign~orant..of Il act The clergyman said it
was, not a legal objection, and decided to
put the matter to vote. 4 unanimous ave,