Nebraska advertiser., 1878-11-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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setting on porcelain eggs.
The ninth annual Texas State Fai
will be opened in Houston Oh the 1911
of November.
Have animals ideas ?" asks the
New York World. Judging from the
utterances of Mr.. Kearney, Ben. But
tiers wounded animal. they have not
-BuGdio Express.
Young man, Miss Celeste Winans
! of Baltimore, is said to be the richest
heiress in America. She inherits $40
000, 900 from her father. lately deceas-
ed. No charge for the information
Ex-Governor Myron II. Clark, the
New York temperance leader wrote
letter advising his prohibition and
temperance friends in every district
in New York to vote for The Republi-
can candidates for Congress.
Forney says he saw much Of Grant
abroad. that his foreign experience
has not spoiled him, and that the sim
plicity and affection of himself and
wife are perfect illustration OF Dar-
by and Joan.
Wm. G. Gilman, the forger has
written to New York friend that his
first year of prison life has passed
quickly, and he looks back upon it
thankfully that the burden of an aw-
full secret is lifted from his soul.
The London Times is roughly valu-
ed at e5 900 900. An offer Of GS50, 900
was recently refused for the Telegraph.
The journalistic market over there
might be quoted firm, with an up.
ward tendency"
A California bee farmer, Mr.. Harbi-
son, expects to take over 100 tons of
honey from his hives this year. said
to be the largest quantity ever produc-
ed in one year by one man.
Washington Capital: Monsieur lie
Due denies with some emphasis that
be has turned his attention from tea
culture to promotion of post holes
and has distributed large quantities of
seed 20 that end. AS reported by the
PHILADELPHIA Times
Deacon Benson Fort wayne, Ind ;
4S years old; twelve years ago worth
$500. 600; speculated lost money, be-
came passenger conductor. then a
saloon-keeper. then a street car driv-
er, then pauper; last week buried in
potter's field.
An Indiana farmer wanted to bor-
row gun from a neighbor for the pur-
pose of killing some yellow birds in
his field of wheat, which were eating
the grain. His neighbor declined to
loan the gun, for he thought the birds
usefnl. In order to satisfy his curiOs-
ity he shot one of them, opened its
craw. and found in it two hundred
weeviIs and four grains of wheat, and
in these four griins The weevil had
An Indiana paper says: There is
an old tradition that when the husk
On the corn ear is heavy the winter
will be cold. The present corn crop
has husks thicker than usual, and if
the observation holds good we will
have Greenland weather during the
coming winter"
In New Mexico the colors of the
g rain Of corn are numerous-blue. yell
low, white. and even jet black. Blue
seems to be the predominating color
and is esteemed by the natives as the
richest of all. being almost universal.
ly used by them in making the tortil
la or corn cake. This is the only
shape in which they prepare Indian
corn for the table.
In 1860 the United States took 227,-
700, 900 yards of British cotton goods |
IN 1877 we took only 81, 900, 600 yards |
Tn the year first mentioned, Great |
Britain used halfthe whole cotton crop |
If the world; last year she used only |
!, OF 900 bales, against 8 s,059 900 bales
lsed elsewhere.
Since the yellow fever appeared in
he South, last summer, there have
,een 12.6l1 deaths. OF these, 3.Sl7
occurred at New Orleans, BIOS at |
Memphis, 1lS at Vicksburg, 317 at
Grenada, aud 3i4 at Holly Springs
deaths from yellow fever
occurred at Cairo, thirty in New York
hirty-one in st. Louis. thirty-two in
he vicinity of Gafiipolis, sixteen at
and one in Chicago.
In examining the safe of the late
James B. Hosmer. of Hartford Conn,
he executor found. among other Gu
/ rsities, q solid gold snuff box worth
800. This box was presented by the
ity of Albany to Commodore MeDon-
ugh, in honor of his victory on Lake
JhampIain. and was eventually pre-
ented to the Connecticut Historical
society. As its president the box was
urned over to Mr.. Hosmer many
ears ago for safe-keeping.
Among the manufactured articles of
xport, in which the United States
las become pre-emipent. lie that of
utlery, including spades, shovels.
xes of every description, table wear,
words, and all tools used by carpen-
ers and joiners. in fact. by any trade
cutlery implements. These
ave been, for years manufactured at
ome, making us entirely independ-
Mt of foreign nations. We now ex-
ort better article than can be made
lsewhere and undersell others in the
1arkets of the world.
We find the following in a newspa-
er, yet it may be a most valuable [