Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-08-08
mIsCELLANEOUs.

+ ANeW1ngGOn, N. h. farmer, one Gay |
lately, harvested the bug crop from one
acre. of potatoes, and secured 27 lbs. of the
insects, 81
''That would be house." said a little |
girl pointing to the unfinished walls of
new building, elf they would only put a
lid on it.
The largest farmer in California is DR..
Glenn, of Co1usa county. He farms 20,-
600 acres. He sold last years wheat crop |
for more thay 100000. His farms are
constantly being improved.
A Dighton man is tanning the buckle
berry, and claims that by cultivation he
will show a fruit as large as a cherry,
and great deal more pulpy and juicy
than the native wild berry.
The wheat crop of the State of Cali
fornia is the largest ever grown, and it is
estimated that 2OO,Britfsh ships of large
tonnage viii be freighted for England be-
fore the close of the year, there being a.
large feet already at San Francisco
awaiting the crop.
That petroleum must become most inn
portant article of commerce was felt to be
inevitable when Col. Drake struck oil on
August %, 1859. In 1861, ~ 900 barrels,
worth 81 ,OOO, 900, were exported. In 1877,
the aggregate value of the petroleum ex-
ported was $62 ,Ooo, 600.
Prof. Leviteux, Pole of Warsaw, has
just discovered method of taking entire
clay casts of the living body without the
slightest injury. Hitherto such could only
be had of corpses, and hence the new dis
covery promises to be extremely advant-
ageous to senlptors,
A correspondent gives four reasons why
the report that Miss Kellogg will marry
Mr.. Verdi is untrue: First, she does not
love him7 second, he does not love her;
third, Miss Kellogg viii never marry;
fourth, Mr.. Verdi is married already.
That ought to settle the matter.
A Louisiana farmer set spring gun in
his eorn-f1eld to make short work Of bear
which was prowling in the neighborhoOd,
and then pulled the wire to see if the ma
chime would work. The buckshot missed
him, but the small shot made his face re-
semble the top of pepper box.
1t takes one hundred and twenty three
trunks, packages and parcels to contain
the travelling outfit of James Gordon Ben
nett and sister. A family of eight per-
sons out West can travel from place to
place with no more luggage than tobac-
co-box and a dog.
A negro down in Mississippi says that
last week he shot moccasin snake twelve
feet long, weighing one hundred and fifty
pounds, and had horn seveninches long
protruding from its back. Evidently this
colored individual wants to be summoned
as a witness by Congressman Potter's
committee.
was sadly disappointed. He expected that
a dozen men would rush up. pull whisky
, TASKS out of their pockets and give him a
drink to revive him. The TASKS were
forthcoming, but they didn't contain
enough liquor to moisten his lips. He
tainted too late i'm the day.
'DO yon know what Bulldozing is ?'
asked a man of an old farmer ''I thought
I did, said bAe granger, ''but the bull
, wasn't lozinGS he was only making be-
lieve, and, being in the middle of forty
acre lot, I naturally had to make pretty
quick time to reach the fence ahead OF
him.
The Scientific American is of the opin-
ion that the fax and linen industry af-
foFds rare encouragement for the employ.
ment of capital and skill in the United
Estates. Very little is done in this coun-
try at the present time in the production
, and manufacture of fax. Last year we
imported 81 ,25O, 900 of raw fax, Sc, ,OOO, ,OO(
worth of linseed and Sic, 900 600 of linen
goods.
The Secretary of the Treasury holds
over 5000, O,OOO, 900 of coin and bullion
Ehls will become part of the currency
= Oh the country as soon as coin payment i
resumed, carrying the circulating money
up to more than 5000, ,OOO, 900. why should
thls not De done at once? 1t is an expen
slve folIy to hold so much coin as a com
modify, when only word is wantad +,
change itinto money.-Neeo Repmb1ic
Newspapers in Wyoming Territory ar
illustrated with pictures of cattle show
ing the peculiar brand adopted and claim
ed by an owner who has large number
roaming on the Plains. Some of thes
brands are funny, making the side of
newspaper look like a conglomeration {
Oriental alphabets. The cattle have ais
ear marks; as for instance, "right ea
f., swallOwtail cut, split or "crOp an
ssplit in right ear.'