Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-02-20
will endeavor to enumerate next week, ana
''give credit to whom credit is due" for us
good work as we'll as the bad. WILL.
REWRITTEN.

United States In consequence Oh tie Rro"s"
OF the Catholic church in this country.
The first importation OF American
meats into Germany some years ago result
ed in failure. The last season 53,O0O.W
hounds were imported there of beefof the
best quality. sewn tightly in thick canvas,
and kept while on ship in cases constructed
for the purpose, and kept cool.
Increase of ostrich-farming in South
Africa and a falling off in the demand
caused a decline in the price Of ostrich feath-
ers. vet feathers of a superior quality con-
tinue to bring high prices. at a recent
sale at Grahamstown thirteen splendid
.'primes'' or perfect white feathers fetched
a guinea each, or at the rate OF SGD per
pound.
France spends fifteen and a-half times
AS much on her army as on her schools TIA
ly twelve times as much, England five and
a-half times, Germany tour and two-ftth
times, Austria four times, and Switzerland
one and one-eighth times.
1t is estimated that the State of New
York has 6,4O0 ecclesiastical organizations,
with sittings tor $500, 900, and a member
ship of 1900, 900. The value OF the church
property is reckoned at $117 100000. The
M%ethodists are the most numerous and pow
erful sect.
A horse in Elizabeth. N. j., was recent
" stricken with paralysis OF the hind legs
in the street, and stood Tor four hours lii a
| static, unable to move, despite the best ef
forts of his fore legs. The horse was rub
bed and warmed, but still his hind legs and
part of his body were as stiff as IT petridef,
and finally the beast had to be shot to pre-
vent his freezing to death.
An angry father IN Hardin county,
Iowa, his daughter having eloped with the
man OF her choice, pursued the fugitives,
and after a tremendous chase overlook the
wagon in which were a young man and II
closely yelled woman. He discovered that
it was another young man and his daugh-
ter's next friend, who had obligingly divert
ed pursuit, while the real true lovers had
got off by another road at their leisure and
got married.
"A man dressed like aspeasant and bear
ing a heavy burden on his shoulders, telf
against a shop window in Paris and broke a.
sheet OF plate glass WORTH at least 500
francs. The proprietor seized him but he
averred that he had no money to pay with.
Two passcrs-by advised the ~shop-keeper to
search him, which was done, and Oh him
was found a bank-note for a thousandfrancs.
He ayerred with feigned grief that it be-
longed to his employer, but the shop-keeper
insisted on paying himself out of it, and to
that effect gave him 800 francs and sent him
away, sobbing bitterly. The note was forg-
ed, the advisers were confederates, and the
victim not only lost his plate glass window,
but 800 francs into the bargain.
The great excitement prevailing
throughout Europe concerning the fate Of
Professor Nordenskjold's Swedish Arctic
exploring expedition, which attempted to
find . northeast passage from the Atlantic
to the Pacific ocean via the north capes of
Europe and Asia and Behring straits, is
daily growing more intense. 1t being con-
sideped certain that the expeditionary
steamer Vega is beset in the ice sonae forty
miles northeastward of East Cape, at Beh-
ring Straits, and at . considerable distance
from any settlement, the friends of the ia
nous Swedish explorer and of his party are
alarmed for their safety.
1t is reported from Yakutsk, the capt.
tai of eastern Siberia and situated on the
Lena, from the mouth of which river Pro-
lessor Nordenskjoldss his last report of
the progress OF the expedition. that the
cold this winter in Northeastern Siberia has
been and continues to be unusually severe.
At the mouth of the Lena the thermometer
has registered forty degrees below zero.
Hence the position of the party in the We
ga is considereds very perilous, and the