Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-06-26
ITEMS AT LARaE.

MIX Of almonds is as good a. anything to
,nke out sunburn.
In Kan sas they now put their wheat crop
at a possible forty millions bpeheIs.
Twenty-hvo thousand head of cattle are be-
Ing hesded IN Wright County, lows.
A forty.pound meteor Killed sheep near
Little Rock, Arkansas, q few nights since.
Man is gudgeon--woman Is the line; heY
smile the noat, her kiss the bait. Love Is
the hook. And marriage Is the frying pan.
lGi sacks of new wheat, the FIRST Of the sea-
son In saable quantity was sold on Change
in 81. Louis last Friday, it came from New
Madrid county, Mo.
Red clover cut when e 10 flcwer
contaius 50 AZ ntFacent of NJ sritive food; II
cut Vi fiif flower, IL contains 10 OF per cent;
so says Wolf, the German chemist.
Dallas Herald: We have three per cent.
more acreage Ia cotton in Texas this year
than last, but the crop does not begin 10 look
as veil as II did last June, and 1t Is not likely
as much will be picked unless We have rain
pretty soon All over the State.
We have learned from experience that cold
nighls are uniavorable 70 tho growth OF Hun
garian grass and German mlllet, they SUIT
iering each in about the same proportion.
4ht1 EtHNAO NV fHeNANA w hahhN Wv HNeh
crop for forage.
Cublugal affection depends largely upon
mutuzi confidence. Il make 1t a rule" said
wsescre to his friend, 'to tell my wife every
thing that happens. In THIS way we manage
10 avoid any misunderstanding" Not TO DO
outdoue in generosity the friend replied:
"Well. cir, you are not as open and frank as
am, for tell my wife great many things
that never nappen,'
Professor Tanner, an English Agricultural
chemist, says II has been found by expert
ment that Il requires TO produce pound OF
hya weight in cattle, severaly, ~ pounds OF
clover hay, 8 pounds of peas, pounds of
oats, poInds o! barley Sc OF y pound OF
lnseed cake and lOO.lD pounds OF Swedish
turnips.
According to estimates, 81 300, 600 worth
of land aud cows are invested in the dairy
business. The value Of butter aud cheese
produced annually is $3.50 ,000, 900 more than
the wheat crop. The demand for buttet--
the kinds that sell from 90 cents TO 81
poUnd--it 10 said ls greater than the supply.
Let makers OF the other kinds Of butter note
This.
"A Memphis woman who wished TO vote
was escorted 20 the polls by three colonies,
and now all the other strong.mnded women
demand the same thing. But the trouble 10
the country DON'T sport three colonies 10
every woman, except In the region Of Mem
phis.--BOstOn Post.
An old resident of Zululsnd says that the
Zulu king has thus far received no injury at
all from tho English. His sole wealth lies in
his crops and his cattle--he has gathered the
former and kept the latter. Some q HE
warriors have been killed, but then he loses
= certain number every year, either by mas
sacreing them himself or by their flight into
Natal. He has gained enormously in arms
and ammunition captured during the var
n. Y. Evening Post.
The peril of employing highly educated
young men as clerks was again illustrated
the other dav. A womsn stopped ut green
groceT's on Woodward avenue aud askedI "ls
them lettuce fresh?" "You mean that let
tuce," suggested the clerk, sand 1t is fresh"
"Then you'd better eat il!' she snapped as
she walked on. Tne grocer rushed out and
asked tho clerk what on earth had happened
10 anger her, and the young man replied:
"Wbv, nothing, only corrected her gram
mar" "You have turned away one OF my
best customers! Only yerterday she came
in and asked me how / sold those white
sugar, aud got an order for whole barrel.
Hang you, sirl but II them customers want
grammar they don't expect to find her in a
grocery! No, sir; and il you see she again
you want to apologize In the most humber
est manner"-Detruit Free Press.