Nebraska advertiser., 1878-09-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A cargo of cats was recently ship
ped over the Canada Southern Rail
way for the West. They are to be
turned loose on the hordes of rats
which are destroying the granaries in
many sections.
The Prohibitionists of Massachus
etts are again in the field this year
but it is said that they will not cast
more than one-third as many votes as
the did last year.
An old Indian on the Pacific slope
informs an editor as to the kind OF
weather they will have there: that In
five moons we have heap big snow,
papooses heap die, horse heap no catch
'um grass, no catch 'um sage brush,
heap eat him cedar trees" and then
requests the editor to spread the warn
ing by cheap paper talk"
The census of Washington has just
been completed, and shows a popula:
tion of 131 900, $4,000 of whom are
colored. There were found twenty
two coiored persons over one hundred
years old one being reported as old as
10. There were seventy persons
found whose ages were between 80 and
100.
They have had, apparently, a fierce
discussion of the question of the BIZ
BILE in the public schools in the Meth
erlands, aud have settled it. The
King has approved the bill excluding
the Bible and religious teachings
from the primary schools.
Mosby as an applicant for office had
recommendation from radical Repub-
licaus, conservative Republicans,
Dem ocrats, eX-rebel officers, and old
Union officers. Among the Republi-
cans was Simon Cameron, and among
the Democrats was Alexander H.
a new bug has appeared in COnnec-
ticu which alarms the Farmers. 1t
has six legs, is brown in color, and Is
longer and fistter than the potato bug.
1t goes ravenously at the growing
corn, and. beginning at the top. goes
to the butt, destroying every kernel.
1t is a swift flyer.
Calamities have overtaken the in
habitants of the old world as well as
the new. Last week q storm swept
over Hungary, from the wreck of
which over five hundred corpses were
recovered, and this week is made
by the going down of the
Princess Alice with her five hundred
women and children.
A petrified wasp nest has been
found near Eureka, New. by blasting
In the solid rock forty feet below the
surface of the ground. On breaking
i open, cells, larvae, and two perfectly
iormed wasps were found, also petri-
led. The rock is gigantic sandstone
If sedimentary formation.
Some of the New Orleans physi-
,ians contend that the scourge that is
devastating the Southern cities is not
yellow fever, but the African plague.
They cite as supporting this theory,
he fact that N mortality is this time ex-
;essive among children and negroes,
yellow fever has rarely if ev-
II been known to prove fatal among |
ither of these classes.
Mr.. Hayt, of Carroll, Iowa, is ship
ling a refrigerator carload of butter
weekly from that town to Hamburg,
Germany, and London, England. 1t
5 packed, after being worked and re-
alted, in firkins. He buys of the
armers, and divides into first and Sec
nd class. He has regular engage
nents In Europe. This shows what
ur dairymen can do in an individu-
! capacity. and should be an encour-
cement TO all interested in the busi-
ess.
In lS4l Nicodemus Yocum, captain
f an American whaling vessel, res
ued, off the coast of China, a disabled
INK on which were Ave Chin
se mondrains of high rank. He
,wed the disabled vessel into the
arbor of Yungao, and the man darins
ecame his friends. At O. later date,
aptain Yocum returned to China. ,
king with him his three year old
IN. The mOndrains took charge of
le son educated him, and last year I
3 was made mandarin, and is now G