The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-10-02
PARAGRAPHS or ALI SORTS.

dunn size horse is much better for service
The American Association for the ad
vanccment of science, ut Il recent meeting
at Cincinnati, recommended that the State
Legislatures throughout the United State,
encourage tree planting, A good idea.
Cider made very late in the season and
kept in cool cellar, will be sweet and
good.
jersey Queen, owned at Baonet, Yer
mont, is II wonderful COW. Last year she
produced TAG pounds Of unsalted butter
If all the the milk had been used, and the
butter sailed she would have produced 500
pounds.
Mr.. W. W. Samuels, of Clinton KY, was
awarded the first premium of 800 for the
best ten varieties of fruit trees for market.
Mr.. Samuels understands his business, and
those wishing fruit trees would do well to
send for his fine catalogue.
There is a hair oil spring at Eureka
Springs, Ark, the young ladies and gents
can leave their oil ut home when paying
these springs Il visit.
Natchez consumes annually 1000 beeycs.
This accounts for it being such n Jully
country.
Cotton pickers are going from Tennessee
to TeXas-the latter State has none to pick.
Lonokc, Ark, has pear which weighs
twenty-siX ounces. We believe our aritl-
metic says 16 ounces make pound.
Texas expects to produce quarter of
the cotton made this year, She won't doit
Richmond, Va. shipped last year, ending
June .3Oth, 1G2 $40 barrels of flour to Brazil.
Fifty thousand new ears will be built in
the United States this year. Last year
forty-thousand were built.
The free ice fountains introduced into
New York, have reduced the business of
the saloons. Some people take the ice water
and cool it with Il little stimulant
A man in Chickasaw county, has patented
a brick machine which will make 10000
bricks per day; and the machine is worked
by hand.
Floridians are deriving Il profitable bust
ness from catching rattlc-snakes and ship
ping them North. According to the last
quotations, il good sleek, venomous look
ing ratte-snakc was bringing five dollars.
We don't think we would be able TO cap
turc one for less than $4,000.
The Trcdgar iron works in Richmond,
Va, are working more hands than ever
before.
Belgium has 100000 cotton spindlcs,
which ismore in proportion than any other
country outside Of England
One Of the most curious railroads in the
world is the ten inch guage road going from
North Billerica, Mass, TO BE dford, II dis
lance of about IL miles. There are
eleven bridges on the road, one q" : hIch
is over hundred feet long. The rails
weigh twcntv-tiY, pounds to the yard The
cost 81 the road was about "a, 800 per mile.
\ series of recent experiments have
proved that bran is Il superior fertilizer to
guano. About half-ton applied every
three or four years will produce enormous.
Before believing it, we would like to give
it Il trial.
The largest cotton seed mill is now being
erected at Little Rock, The building is
run by IL 800 horse power Corliss engine
The works will employ $50 men, and con-
sumo 300 tons of cotton seed per day.
France is the largest wheat producing
country in Europe. She produces annually
.S6, 4lS,000 bushels of wheat; but she con-
,umcs nearly all she makes and imports
very little.
To preserve a bouquet, sprinkle it lightly
with fresh water, and put it in vase con-
tanning sOap-suds. Each morning take it
out of the suds and lay it sidewaysin clean
water; keep it there Il minute or two, then
AXE it out and sprinkle the flowers lightly
by the hand with water. Replace it in
he Suds, and it will bloom rs freshly as
when first gathered. Change the suds
every three or four days. This method
will keep bouquet bright and beautiful
for at least month.
A COW that is MIXED three times day
will give more milk than when MIXED
every twelve hours.
A teaspOonful of fine salt or horse-radish
Will keep pan of milk sweet for several
lays; but it can be kept year or more as
resi- rs when taken from the cow, by the
ollOwlng method: Procure bottles, which
must be perfectly clean, sweet and dry
lraw the milk from the cowinto the bottles,
nd as they are filed, Immediately cork
hem well and fasten the cork with wire.
Then spread a little straw in the bottom of
he boiler, on which place the bottles with
traw between them until the boiler con-
aims a sufficient quantity. Fill it up with
old water, and as soon as it begins to boil |
raw the fire and let the whole cool gradu- |
lily. When quite cold take out the bottles
nd pack them in the sawdust in hampers,
Which stow away in the coolest part of the
Ouse.
At the recent horticultural meeting at
t. Louis, there were on exhibition, 249 |
''''HSo '"iiN Vi AhiiSllO'h anu
here were about 5000 plates of fruit on
Exhibition from the following States
lissouri, Michigan, Illinois, New York,
.cntucky, Arkansas, Minnesota, District
Columbia, Kansas, Texas, Louisiana,
'cbraska, Ohio, Wisconsin Mississippi,
Alabama and Tennessee.
Rains for the last few days have again
realty intcrfered with cotton pickers, and
Irmers are again wearing doleful faces.
'hen the equinox is passed, we may look
n some fine weather.
The peach orchard of John Parnell, in
roup county, Ga, is the largest in the
Orld-cOntaining $50 acres; from which
, expected to realize 100000 this year.
Columbus, Miss, has offered $4,000 in
'emiums, and reduced rates on the rail :
ads as inducements to secure the meeting .
the next Horticultural Society. There
great complaint against st. Louis that
C meeting in in that city was poorly APP I
'eciated by her citizens.
For large raspberrics or blackberrcs, cut
ck severely and mulch.