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An apple tree in bloom is one
Of the winter novelties at White
Sulphur Springs, M. T.
In Tallahassee, green peas
are selling at so cents, and new
Irish potatoes at 90 cents per
peck.
The Massachusetts senate has
refused the woman suffrage bill
q third reading, by a vote Of 81
to II.
It is said that the mercury
froze solid in several Montana
towns during the recent cold
weather.
One garden in Tallahassee
furnished 500 camelias to. the
collection of flowers sent to the
state fair last week.
Lowell says the world never
takes a man at his own valua-
ton, and never pays moneY.for
what it does not want or thinks
it wants.
Several pounds Of sand, re
fuse cotton and seed were re-
Gently taken from the middle of
a bale of cotton received at Gin
cinnati from Tennessee.
The total annual consumption
of quinine throughout the world
is given at 22o, 900 pounds, of
which one quarter is used in
the United States alone.
Mrs. Ingersoll is strikingly
handsome woman, tall, and-a
fine figure, with a clearscut,
strong face, q quick smile, fash
ing eyes and a smooth black
hair.
Rev. Henry Highland Car
nett, the colored American
minister to Liberia. has fallen a
victim TO the climate of Africa,
at Monrovia, where he died
February 10.
A Hlllsborough, Alabama,
farmer took advantage of the
mild winter weather last week
and planted a crop of sweet po-
tatoes. There has been no
winter this year in Florida.
On the last two daysof July,
1880, the rainfall over an area
Off. 500 miles in the central part
Of England was three inches.
A single inch in such an erea
amounts to 10000, 900, ooo.l
The entire French coast is
about to be lighted by electrici-
ty, with stream trumpets for
fog signals, at a first cost of
about 81, goo, 900 and an annual |
maintenance of about 10000.
Campaninithe talented singer, |
is the fortunate possessor OF a
house in an Italian town, a
chalet in the mountains, a lake
side villa and the blacksmith |
shop in which he once worked. |
Republican harmony is be-
coming so intense in New York |
as to be fairly hilarious. To
help If along the Commercial
Advertiser refers gushingly to
the Tribune, as "The Murder
er's Own" 9lN
One Of the industries of the
mountains of western North
Carolina and East Tennessee
is the collection of ivy roots,
which are shipped to Philadel-
phia and Boston to be made in
to doorknobs and bowls for
pipes.
The Lady Essex had drawn
ajointure from the Essex estates
for 43 years. bowers are a ter
rible draught on many English
land owners incomes. Many
have to pay two, some three,
and there have been instances
Of even four.
The bankruptcy bill reported
from the senate judiciary COM
fee is generally commended by
the press. Its distinguished
feature, which leaves the prac-
tice under the act to be regula-
ted by the courts, is pronoun-
ced wise and practical.
Kossuth, who is now in his
18TH year, is to be honored this
year by the celebration at Buda-
Pesth Of the fifteenth anniver- |
sary Of his career as a journal
ist and patriot. He is to be
presented with an album con-
tanning autographs of his adj
mirers.
Under the new apportion-
ment bill Maine. instead OF
FIVE congressman, will have only
four. Gov. PIaisted refused to
call the Legislature together to
redistrict the state; so the next
race will be a kind of sweep
stakes for the state at large,
with quite number of entries.
Hundreds of immigrants are
pouring into Volusia county,
Florida, aud thousands of dol
lars are being invested, and
hundreds of new orange groves
are being planted out. The
coast towns of Daytona, New
Smyrna and Port Orange are
receiving new citizens and grow
ing rapidly.
In Madras the ,superstitious
practice of walking through
fire at certain festivals still: sur
.sives. Two deaths occurred
last year from this fanatical Gus
tom: Mr.. Grant Duff says it
took centuries to eradicate the
similar rite of rushing through
the fires of ST. John,- in Boz
hernia.
It is claimed that the ap-
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