Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-04-03
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ing forth new leaves. much to the gratifica.
ton Of the gentlemen who are experiment.
ing to see whether banana culture may not
be included among Sacramento's advan-
tages.
Many italian immigrants have written
home from Brazil that the country they had
expected to find a paradise is quite the re-
verse. and that they are treated like beasts
while alive and when dying are without the
benefit of priest or doctors. Hence a mem
Der ofParliament has introduced a law ITO
restrain the insane desire Of emigration"
The breeding of horses has greatly de-
clined in Italy, and the press urge Govern
ment intervention, on the ground that other
continental Governments have found it nee
essary to maintain stations tor public breed
ing purposes. The last census gave the
kingdom only G50.000 horses, of inferior
quality and very little higher than ponies.
English newspapers announce with con-
siderable interest the discovery made by the
Paris Acclimatation Society, that "Japan-
csc wheat, planted in April or May, is ripe
and ready for the harvest quite as early as
European grown wheat, sown some five Or
six months EARLIER, and that the yield is
equally large with that produced from any
of the varieties of European wheat" If
the same result can be obtained in other
places, says the Toxic Times, the use of jap
anese wheat, it is presumed, will become
universal, though no explanation Of the
phenomenon is yet supplied.
Some of the London barmaids have en-
ulated the example set by those above them,
and dress in Greek costumes.
Some of the twenty odd "Pinafore"
companies pavigating the country are hav-
ing bad luck. In Elizabeth, N. j., cabbage
bouquets were presented to some of the per-
formers of the ''Fith Avenue Company"
and in New Brunswick a squad of Rutgers
students peltea the performers with eggs.
A coal mine near Watershed, in Ger
many. is now lighted by electricity at a cost
of about five cents for each light per hour.
This is the way in which q Louisville
girl disposes ola young:man, according to
the Courier Journals: She says "You have
asked me pointedly if | can marry you, and
/ have answered you pointedly that I can.
[ can marry a MAJ who makes love to a diff
ferent girl every month l can marry a man
whose main occupation seems to be to Join
in gauntlet in front of churches and thea
tres, and comment audibly on the people
who are compelled to pass through it. I can
marry a man whose only means of support
is an aged father. can marry a man who
boasts that any girl can be won with the
help of a good tailor and an expert tongue.
| can marry such a man, but l w-o-n-t!,
The Madrid Historical Academy an.
nounces, after investigation, that therei is no
truth in the report that the remains of
Christopher Columbus had been discovered
i'll the cathedral Of San Domingo.
Some of the fashion writer's say that the
models ofnew dresses show a; decided fuI-
ness. Clihging dresses, it seems, are slow
" but surely going out, and tied-back
dresses are becoming things of the past.
Many OF the women drowned when the
Princess Alice went down were so encum-
bered by their skirts that they could not
help themselves when help was given them.
January l, 1880, there was in operation
in the United States S2,S04 miles of rail-
roads,
Fifty millions tons of coal are produced
annually in tha United States.
The Williams & Guion line steamer Ar
1zona, the largest merchant vessel in the
world. except the Great Eastern, was sue
cessfully launched at Glasgow March 10th.
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