Nebraska advertiser., 1878-07-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Davenport. Toa., has about 4, 600
tramps collected there.

Davenport. Ioa., has about 600
tramps collected there.
w. Ii. Thomas of South Carolina,
recently appointed Consul at st. Paul
de Loando. is coal black negro.
A Missouri writer says IF boy
ten years of age starts on the Western
prairie with ten sheep, and permits
them to multiply until he is twenty
one years of age. he then will be
rich man.
A California farmer has novel
way Of sewing wheat from his horse.
The sack of seed is made fast In front
of him, while the bride reins are at
tached to the stirrups. He then uses
both hande scattering right and left,
while the horse is guided by his feet.
Among:the new industries develop
ed by the war. that of gathering lead
from Southern battle-fields is novel
one. Nearly half-million pounds of
leaden bullets have been gathered
near Marietta, Ga, and sold,
The Supreme court of Louisiana the
other day opened with the same form
ality prescribed by the Chief Justice
last year and then used for the first
time. At the usual hour the sheriff
and clerks attended the judges at
their lodgings, and all walked thence
In possession to the courthouse. The
lawyers rose as the Judge entered,
and each bowed to each other.
The amount of pleasure, says the
Courier-Journal, young man can
scare up with the help of an income
of upward of half a million year
must be immense, and yet it is said
that James Gordon Bennett, with
just such an income, is about to turn
his back upon all the pleasures with
In his reach aud run the imminent
risk of having that classic nose of his
frozen in a foolhardy attempt to reach
the North Pole-a pole he Is likely to
find not worth reaching when reach
ed.
The republicans Of Illinois, says
the Chicago Journal, were never in
better fighting trim. And no
thanks to Hayes.
Omaha Republican The grasses of
the country are being analyzed by
Professor Collier, of the agricultural
department at Washington. to asoer-
tain their nutritive qualities. IfCol-
lier will come this way he can arrive
at the result in a much easier and
pleasanter way by "analyzing"
some of Nebraska's porter-house
steaks. butter and cheese.
A Georgia paper having said:
Alexander H. Stephens still defies
the Democratic party of the Eighth
District. Will they succumb? ? That's
the question:" the Augusta Chronicle
says: "They will succumb. Ask Us
something hard"
The Turkish territory In Asia over
which England and Turkey will
rule as one power" is CSC, $40 square
miles in extent and contains popu-
lation of 100000. OF the inhabit-
ants 100000 are Turks, 1000. 600
Armenians, and therest Greeks, Jews,
Tartars. Arabs, Syrians, Kurds, and
Turcomans.
The Cincinnati Commercial Is au-
thority for the statement that IL is not
true, as has been represented, that,
General Sherman gave his con sent to-
the resolution of his eldest son to be
a Catholic priest. The Commercial
says: IA few months ago he aston
ished bis parents by stating his pur-
pose. and told his father that his pas
sage was already engaged to Europe,
and that he proposed to attend an
English Jesuit school. 1t has been
represented that General Sherms n
cheerfully acquiesced In this, but be
did not. The incident was a very
painful one to the General, and the
action of the young man has not In
any form met with his approval"
The rumor has crept into circula-
tion that Tilden's barrel of money Is
exhausted, but from the fact that the
great tax-dodger hopes to yet see the
Presidency come around to him, 1t is
to be presumed he regards ii as six
barrel revolver.