Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-12-04
REWRITTEN.

ped from Soledad, Los Angeles county,
CAL, to New York city as an experiment
1t is from Il wild plant.
:. In the whole United States there are
400 banks, with $500, 1877 1872 capital and
81, 242, 773,903 deposits.
General crop prospects ale reported TO
be good throughout India, and harvest OPP
e~rations are progressing satisfactorily. This
is good news from that starving country,
which was the result of last years failure
of crops.
Five and a quarter million acres of pub
lie lands were sold to settlers during the
past year, being an increase OF more than
500, 900 acres over the Twelve months De-
fore. These figures afford explanation or
our present prosperity, anu are 1ull OF
promise for the future.
The new flag adopted by the state OF
Georgia consists of a perpendicular blue
bar from top to bottom OF the flag. next to
the staff. and three horizontal bars-red,
white, and red.
Harvard University has now 1922 stu
dents and 1877 instructors. The medical
school contains the largest nnmber-2ol-
of students. In the grammar school there
were 35 students in botany, 20 in chemistry
and z in geology. Much good work is eX-
pected from the arboretum and the profess
sorship of arboriculture, which are being
established. "@
Major Mclaughlin. an agent OF Edison
=. a.. .-:.a. rs Cal;fnr,in in caaral of MA
tinum, is visiting Butte county. He found
that the mines of that locality carry q large
per centage of platinum in the black sand
Some of the specimens of sand collected by
him assayed $500 worth OF platinum to the
ponsof sand. This is far better than gold
hunting. "s.
The French parliament has decided to
proceed with the construction Of between
1000 and l2,C0O kilometres OF new rail-
WAYS. When all these lines are finished,
France will haYe communications with hel-
GUM at twenty-five points, with Germany
at seven. with Switzerland at six, with Italy
at three, and with Spain at two.
There is talk by the people of Dakota
about asking the admission OF that territory
INTO the I'm ion of states.
The minimum height of English in
fantry recruits has been raised from 5 fee
5 inches to 5 feet s inches-Which means
that the supply is now in excess Of the de-
mand.
"A drunkard handed a bottle OF WhiskeJ
to his son for safe keeping, at Stanford, Ky
The boy dropped and broke it, spilllng the
liquor. The loss SO enraged the man tha
he shot and killed the boy offender.
Fifty per cent Of the Mississippi cotton
crop Of tlls year is reported to have beel
produced by white labor. The cotton crol
OF the whole country is announced rs tn
largest on record. In many districts it vii
not pay for picking, and is left in the fields
Eighteen states nave civil damage lie
f uor laws. the provisions of which are sui
stantially the same, making dealers pecun
iarily responsible for harm resulting iron
the sale of alcoholic beverages. The stat
utes OF Maine. Massachusetts, New 1or
and Illinois are precisely alike.
-Astronomtr RS declare that the yermilio
colored spot now noticeable on the plane
Jupiter is an affection of the planetary bod
itself and not of its atmosphere. There
: no record of q similar phenomenon hayin
been previously observed, and the explani
ton generally given is that it indicates thu
: some great disturbances are in progress
s within the planetary substance. We ma
obtain some notion of the extent OF the oil
G turbance by noting that the size of the spt
with reference to the whole area OF Jup
5 ter's surface is as large as the whole OF III
rope is with reference to. the surface OF I'll
earth.