The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-06-26
PARAGRAPHS or ALL sonrs.

= on the 2Sth of May, and sold for 81 G.
per bushel.
Florida shipments of fruits and early
vegetables are not paying much thii
(, year, on account of the length of tim,
getting into market.
Receipts of Strawberries in the
Chicago market have averaged dur.
! ing the last two weeks from ten tC
twenty-five car loads per day, almost
: all from Southern Illinois.
Vermont produces 100000 pounds
of Sugar worth 100000.
A circular compiled by the census
commissioners, estimates that the
population of the United States will
foot up more than 50,O00,000 of people
A President ought to be big man to
have charge of so many people.
The army worm is seeking the
wheat fields in Fayette County, Ky.
J. w. Bales of Madison County, Ky.
sheared II pounds of wool from one
sheep.
: There are now $1,000 miles Of sub
marine telegraph in working order.
The Pacific Mills, Lawrence, Mass,
employ 5,400 hands and manufactured
last year SO,OO0,0 900 yards of cloth.
The annual product of the dairy of
the United States is S350,000,00 or
one half more than both the wheat
and cotton crop Of the country.
1t is estimated that the losses to the
Russian grain crop will this year
amount to S3O,OOO,OO0 Prof. Sinde-
mann says unless something is found
out to destroy this destructive insect,
Russia can do nothing towards raising
grain.
The white OF an egg is said to be a
fine remedy for burns or scalds. 1t is
more cooling than sweet oil and cot
ton, the old remedy.
Give the children plenty of good
ripe fruit in the summer time and you
will have no doctor bills to pay; moth
| ing better for liver complaints.
There was a mistake in the dimen-
sion of the onion copied from the
Record last week-instead of thirteen
and a half in diameter 1t should have
been in circumference.
A good washing fluid is made by
dissolving one pound of potash in one
gallon of water, add one ounce of
ammonia and one ounce of salts of
tartar. When you wash add one tea
cupful of the fluid to boiler of
clothes. The clothes should be soaked
over night.
The best material to make lamp
lighters is old postal cards. Cut them
lengthwise into strips Il sixteenth Of
an inch wide. They burn readily do
not give off sparks and leave scarcely
trace of ashes we have tried the
experiment and found it to do.
Plaster of parish is fine to sprinkle
over stable manure, to keep the ammo
MIA from escaping.
The Trustees of the State University
of Vermont have offered $3.50 90 in
prizes to boys not over seventeen
years old, for the best crops of patatoes
and corn on one One-eigth of an acre.
1t would be good idea for the trus
tees Of the University of Mississippi
to offer prizes of similar kind rs it
would be very stimulating to the
students.
A Georgia boy, j. P. Tewett only I6
years old is reported to be the inven-
tor Of what is called ''horse detach-
ing apparatus for hitching and I'M
hitching horses from all kinds of
vehic es. Its great advantage is in
case Of a runaway, where the horse
is Immediately detached from the
vehicle.
1t has been ascertained now from |
good authority that the Chincona tree
from which the world is supplied with
quinine can be grown successfully in
all the Southern States. AS the South
America supply is being rapidly ex-
hausted measures should be immedi-
ately taken to have the tree intro
duced.
1t has been found in Arizona that |
Aqua Ammonia is an excellent rene
dy for the bite of rattlesnake. Apply |
a drop or two of carbolic acid to can
terize the wound, then apply the
Ammonia quite frequently.
Mr.. J. J. Colmont, Of Columbus
Miss, writes the Rural World that the
fruit crop will almost be a failure in
that section Of country this season.