The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-01-10

They il@sor butter Nth s.rAc In
SPAN.
A wnA-e has been s.-n lately IA the
haTuoI - Newport h. /.
Negro boys sell young aliigators for
pets "a thv STREETS % New ORGANS.
There's a village named shoe ilyr
IN Indians, ADJOINING tie town u Ma
quoAetA
Several II the trees Oh til. Mount II
Olives are supposed - lie 80 years cid
AMI over.
Ii Il a curious fact. latcl, tested m
London, that the monkey Is proof
against SHY Gimme,
Prepared American Corn-cobs are
sold III England a. a laSontc article
Tor %hlndnns nres.
Omaha had forty-thrre shock, Of
earthquake = few 4Ay since. \ sort
81 lever ami aguc attack.
Ii i remarked as = singular fact that
much OF the ancient Japanese ware 10
decorated VIII Roman aud Grv,l.n
IL
1t Is SAID that people, ~ho have lived
long III California, can ioretcli the
coming OF an eaIthquaA. by the feel
ING OF The atmosphere.
They are proud over a threc-lesged
goose IN taston, Pennsylvania there
are a plenty Ut t~~o-lregeu ones III town
as Well 40 country,
The people Of Boston pay &C., 900 a
year Tor license fees enabling them TO
legally keep their dogs. We don't be-
iieNe III licensing n~ulsanCes.
In Selma, Ala, "A rose geranium has
been successfully grated with a IA
ponica cutting, ami the former now
bears a iull-6rown flower OF the latter.
some fine paintings have recently
been sold IN Iarls, the work Of Ducor-
net, long since deceased, and who was
without arms, but who held his brush
with his toes
\ two-tailed lizard is the last thing
III the sensation line that Florida can
produce al present. They are looking
after one with two heads, So as TO
equallZe the eXtrcmities.
Surgeon, the London sen-sationalist
preacher, Is described Is "a great
- tOdl -. sdl AltSl iiIIEl. W no SAWS
commonplace things with emphasis
of both list and voice
Moody, the revtvalist was the son OF
a brlCktaSer, and was ~tlIIussif brought
up 10 that occupation. lis father died
When he vas a child, leaving him in
charge OF an excellent mother.
The chromotype, an invention Of NJ.
/ pnn 4 lItf.sTT az R4r4Z eEt H. -
new era III photography. The I'M
provement j. IN the permancncy Of the
picture, winch Viii not iadc a. hereto
tore.
Contrary TO the popular idea, horse
halr Is not, a. a rule, round. i sec
ton under the microscope shows "A
form as though a third OF a circle had
been cut OFT, and the flat portion
slightly indented.
4 very useful alloy haas been discov-
cred, composed Of &c parts iron, 23
nickel, 4 tungsten, ) cluninuu, and 8
copper. 1t rcslsts suIphureted hyro-
gen, Is cheaper than German silver,
and more useful than silver.
Baroness Burdett-Courts gave twice
as much 10 the IndIan-rcllef fund as
did the Queen Of England. The
former gave S22OO. the latter only
$3.50. With the queens enormous
fortune she should have given at least
$40 900.
The active principle Of the arrow
poison used BY natives on the south
coast Of Africa, is found 10 he OF the
nature Of an alkaloid, one crystal 81
which placed under the skin OF afrog's
foot causes an instant stoppage OF tho
heart action.
The extrem- which Is
reached III mcucrA surveying n illus
trated by the CLOSE correspondence Of
the difference IN longitude between
Paris and Algicrs. IL j. shown by tel
egraphlc comparison to be 4m CELLS.
Loeney and Perrler had made il 2m
50.2l7s, by measurement.
OF all the stars which we see. the
only n which resembles the earth In
size II Venus all the others are either
very much larger or smaller. Most Of
them, in fact all the stars properly so
allied, are great globes Of IRE like our
sun, and three thousands Of times lar
ger than the globe ~e inhablt.
The Peabody Museum a. Yale has
received an Immense fossil tree from
the coal mines at Amot, Ia. Il j.
twenty-slx inches in diameter, and the
roots extend out two or three feet on
each side, making IT some seven or
eight feet across at the base. The mass
weighs more than two tons. IL was
found two hundred and t~sentv-nine
feet below the surface Of the noun
tam.
The obelisk Of Luxor, Dow the pride
OF Paris, tells It's own story bears
craven on IL i record Of the achieve
ments Of Se9Ostrl=, the
Egyptian monarch, who i supposed 20
have conquered all Asia and Ethiopia,
and according To HerOiotus. tie great
historian, reigned 2!l2 years - fore the
Christian era began. IL this be his
recnrd fhr nh-liak i. nNrr aI.l Nxarx