Nebraska advertiser., 1878-08-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DR.. Peabody recommended some of
the Harvard graduates to go to farm
ing for living.
After suppressing the Indians, Gen.
Howard had better exterminate the
Indian agents.
JEFF Davis is warned by the New
York Graphic that "it doesn't pay to
put new whine into old bottles"
In 1870 the United States purchased
45O, 900 tons of railway iron from En-
gland. This year not 500 tons will be
imported.
The greatest part of the sherry
which is consumed in the United
States is made in the city of New
York from tomatoes (?)
On account of the grasshopper
plague the farmers of Sierra Valley,
CAL, are cutting their grain for hay.
These pests are now only one-third
grown.
Maine farmers are paying attention
to the production of beets for sugar.
At least two thousand are cultivating
beets for this new business which the
State aids by bounty.
The rice culture of the country, de-
moralized by the war, is recovering
itself. South Carolina will this year
yield forty-four thousand tierces and
Georgia twenty-six thousand.
The Cincinnati Times believes that
the nomination of Foster makes the
Toledo (Ohio) District safe. The gen.
eral impression is that Mr.. Foster
will accept the nomination.
Ben Hill has written letter 90 a
friend in Washington severely con-
demDing the course of Alexander H.
Stephens. But he believes that Steph-
ems will be reelected all the same.
Mr.. John B. Cough, who sailed for
Europe, recently, was presented by
the people of Boylston, Mass,
with a beautiful goId-headed ebony
cane. In return he made the Boyls-
ton band a present of a sum of mon
ey.
An uncle of Anderson, the red
headed truth-teller of Louisiana, says
that he fed and cared for him at his
home, in Wooster, Ohio, for three
months, but finally James ''stole his
watch, and he drove him off.
Mr.. A. II. Stephens has a strong
aversion to pork. He once astOnished
mel waiter who brought him plate
of 8 ausage cakes, by throwing them
at him. Baked coon, however, is said
to be favorite dish with Mr.. Steph-
ems, and while he is at Washington
several Virginia negroes keep him
supplied with this delicacy.
If the President will boldly and
honestly declare that he proposes to
have those in. office who are in SYM
pathy with his administration, the
people will have some respect and
sympathy for him; but in the name
of everything that's manly and SEN
sible let this cant about civil-service
reform cease.
Lately were sold sold in Mcdowell
County, West Virginia, three hun
dred and sixty thousand acres of
white oak and mineral lands in lots
of one thousand acres or more, to suit
buyers, by auction, in New York.
Half the tract sold for half cent per
acre, and the rest of it from a cent to
a cent and half per acre.
1.-The Directors of the mint received
dispatch from the Superintendent of
the mint at San Francisco saying that
$3.50, 900 in silver dollars bad been ex-
pended at that mint, at par for gold
coin, since the Ist of July" And
yet some of the fool friends" of re-
sumption are quoting the silver dollar
at SS and 92 cents.
The Democrats of the Fifth Ohio
Congressional District are in trouble.
They met in convention and voted 2l5
times on Congressman before they
nominated Gen. Ben Lefevre. 1t Is
said there is enough Democratic oppo-
sition to Lefevre in the district to de-
feat him, to say nothing of the Re-
publican vote.
An ingenious water faucet, through
which water is drawn as cold as ice,
il the invention of a Californian.
Boiling water placed in any recepta-
Gle and allowed to run through, will
be found cool sHd fit to drink. The
faucet contains numerous small tubes
enclosed in larger ones, and between
the outside of one and the inside of
the other certain chemicals are packed
which produce the desired effect.