The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-11-07

John Bright will visit the United
States during the recess of parliament.
An Atlanta druggist says there are
1900 confirmed opium-eaters in that city.
Last year Texas imported corn, but
this year will have 5O,OOO,OO bushels to
sell.
The American navy has twenty-five
commodores, with only one doing actual
duty.
"A vein Of meerschaum of extremely
fine quality has been discovered at Henry,
N. G.
- An English chemist obtained %
grains of tin from red stocking he ana
lyzed.
Crack your corn for young chickens.
1t is preferable if freshly scalded, but is
good fed dry.
AN Alabama woman claims to have
cured herself of cancer by the constant
use of clover tea.
Put In few sunfswer seeds for pro-
ducing An occasional feed for the poultry
next fall and winter.
Miss Nellie Grace edits the largest
paper at Eureka Springs-a daily, and
double-sheet weekly.
"A negro child was recently born at
Laurensburg, N. c., with a full set of
Whiskers and a moust ache
The poultry on a farm should be
worth as much to the family as the pro-
duct of good Jersey COW.
"A Missouri man said to girl: "You
look sweet enough to eat" and she had
him arrested and fined $40.
"A FIRE started on the hearth of Hart
county, Ga, man forty years ago, has
never been allowed to die out.
The Chilians and Peruvians have
had several skirmishes, in which the
former were generally victorious.
Near Canton, Georgia, six feet below
the surface of the earth, two finely sculp-
tured marble heads were unearthed.
Seventy mills in the South now work
up 100000 TONS of cotton seed, making
100000 gallons of oil, worth s. 900, 900.
The cotton mills of the North Weld
but an average profit of per cent, while
18 per cent. is realized on those of the
South.
The church membership in Baltimore
is larger, in proportion to the population,
than any other city of its size in the
Union.
The latest idiocy among young Ia
dies is lisp, and it is reported as epi-
demic at some of the Eastern watering
places.
Oscar Wilde pronounces Miss Jennie
Allen, of Montgomery, Alabama, the
handsomest young lady in the United
States
The sting of a bee is only one thirty
second of an inch long. 1t is your imag-
ination that makes it seem as long az
hoe handle.
North Carolina has 17s varieties of
minerals, twenty more than any other
State can show up. There are l12 varie-
ties of woods
One reason why you don't see more
bald heads may be found in the fact that
there are $4,000 wigs being worn in this
country daily.
AT Columbia, South Carolina, last
Monday, cotton was picked, ginned, spun
into goods and shipped to Philadelphia
in q few hours
During the past fiscal year our for
eign commerce amounted to 81 $685.
45o, which was $los, ,le4, ,ss2 less than the
preceding year.
"A Chicago butcher has been fined
500 for knocking out the eyes of cattle
before slaughtering them, In order to
make them tractable
Missouri farmers will realize harvest
of over 100000 bushels of wheat in
1892 In 1880 the census returns gave
the crop as 24,971,727.
-California well-diggers have discov-
cred trees standing upright at distance
of sixty feet below the surface. There are
no harvest apples on them.
"A hysterical hen is a curiosity of
Charlotte, North Carolina. 1t began
cackling q month ago and has never
stopped moment, awake or asleep.
1t is sa!d that railroad building has
never before been so extraordinarily &C.
tive, general, successful, widespread, and
prosperous as during the present year.
"A telephone has been successfully op-
Grated between Dover and Brussels. q
distance of 26o miles-sixty miles of the
telephone running through a submarine
cable.
-Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: An Inde-
pendent Democrat, so-called, will either
betray one party or the other. He cannot
serve both at the same time. Therefore
neither party can trust him.
"A 81, 900 diamond was found recently
in the bed of creek near Danbury. N. G.