Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-03-28

pardon.
IT is estimated that the yield Of wine in
California will exceed 100000 gallons the
coming year.
ANIMALS of all kinds arc being blessed in
the Church of San Antonio Abad, Mexico,
at the rate of three cents per head.
A LEWISTON. Me-, Frenchman drove six
teen miles to have his baby christened, and
when he got home had forgotten its name.
The Free Thinkers of Chicago propose to
build a vast temple to free thought, in which
discourses are to be delivered by Bob Inger-
soil and others.
A effort is being made by
some of the members of Congress to abolish
the us Surveyor Generals office through
out the country.
A FULL pack Of playing cards was discov-
cred under the pulpit of the Saybrook,
Conn.,, Methodist Church by workmen who
were making repairs.
SEVERAL Paris papers print an order ev-
cry day in their advertising columns, which,
if cut out, will admit the bearer into certain
theatres at half price.
THE commission on the Ell Paso and San
Elizario troubles have recommended the
stationing of 200 Federal soldiers at Ell Paso
which creates great dissatisfaction among
the Texans.
BECAUSE the ingredients were strictly
pure, a Boston contectloner testified that his
candies were strictly pure; but he subse-
rjlanf1y OIpo;tto1 tLu+ cn,,o ~ 1o,J --,
an ingredient.
THERE were 7O51 miles of railroad built
in this country last year, of which Texas has
over One-third. She has now more roads in
process of construction than all the rest Ct
the United States.
The works of the great German gunmak-
er and manufacturer, Krupp, are insured
for SO, 800, 1000, the premium on which is
about $12,O 600 a year,. The sum is divided
among twelve insurance companies.
NEARLY all our native rice comes from
South Carolina, Georgia and Louisiana, the
former State supplying one-halt the entire
product OF the country, and Georgia going
100000 pounds ahead of Louisiana.
A TEMPERANCE speaker in Paducah, KY.
said that the greatest drunkard in the place
was a knave. He meant nobody in particu-
lar but one of the county officials, taking
the remark as a personal insult, challenged
him to a combat OF the spot.
MONTGOMERY QUEENS menagerie has
been sold in Louisville by a sheriff. An
Gland went for $205; a zebra, $3.50 lions,
500 each ; a leopard, $50 ;hyenas, S2l each;
a wart hog, $3.50; an elephant, 81, 500: a
camel, $3.50; a royal tiger, 5000; and a rhi-
noceros, $4,000.
STANLEY wonders why more explorers
DO not go to a country so interesting as AT
RIGA. M. NJ. Mars and Crespel, who were
sent thither by the King of Belgium to ex-
plore the interior, might perhaps repeat
this inquiry, were it not that news has come
from Zanzibar that they are both dead.
TERRENCE A. BRADY, we'll known in
newspaper circles, and at one time editor
and proprietor of the San Francisco Monitor.
was found sick and destitute in the streets Of
New York on the Doth inst, and was con-
veyed to the hospital where he soon after
died.
STEPHENS, Chairman of the House Com
mttee on Coinage, reported the bill to
amend the laws on the subject of coinage.
to perfect a double metallic standard, and to
provide tor issuing gold and silver bullion
certificates. and to retire certain silver coins
now in use.
A MARRIAGE is definitely arranged be-
tween the Crown Prince Of Suodon o,a