The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1884-09-19
NEWS IN BRIER.

grower has weighed several bosos Of his
hope and finds that they weigh, dried.
liz pounds. against fifteen to twenty
two pounds last year, the boxes holding
ten bushels.
Many people buy tea from Chineae
dealers on account Of It's being packed
n Quaint little boxes. Tho package IL
no proof that the article Is genuine, a.
the wrappers are made and tha tea
packed by q New York firm on Water
street.
The Wisconsin tobacco crop is re-
ported to he so much heavier than was
anticipated that most growers find that
their sheds are far too smal to accom-
modate IL.
A little girl residing ON tho outski,ts
of.Sarstoea has netted fifty dollars from
the sale ofsweet pea blossoms, which
ahs raised and peddlsd in nosegays
about the hotels.
Premiums for ak kinds Of pios and
eighteen kinds Of cake, including dough-
nuts, ginger bread and cookies, are of
fsred by tho Connecticut State Agricul.
sural Society.
The amount Of money paid for riding
on railway cars in this country during
1883 aggregates almost exactly 81 for
each inhabitant.
Latest returns from crops show .be
yield Of winter wheat $4,000, 900
busbsls. spring wheat l50,0o0,0O0 !;
total, $50. 1000, 900 bushels, or 25.000,-
600 in excess Of any crop ever raised
in this country, 10000. 900 more than
last years crop. and $4,000. 900 more
than the average yield for tho past Eve
years.
A Pennsylvania farmer shot q GROW
which he supposed was pulling up bis
c,rn. Tho crows crop contained
twenty lone catworms and four kernels
of corn.
The cost Of the public printing now
amounts TO S, 200, 900 annually.
Twenty States and Territories have
adopted compulsory education.
President J j Hill, Of the 81. Paul
aad Mapitoba Railroad, has presented
10 the farmers along the road twenty
nine bloodei bulls for the encourage
ment and Improvement Of stock raising.
In Tennessee there is . decrease in
the amount Of wool clip, as compared
with 1883. The actual rAvages Of dogs
aud the dread Of their increase deter
investment in this line.
10 Southern Mexico and Yucatan,
thousands Of families, it is said, will
have to be supported by the Govern
ment on account Of damages to crops
from locus,s aud drought.
There are now about $4,000 pen
sioners of all classes. and OF these 225,-
900 are the soldiers themselves.
A citizen OF Toronto, Canada, had
bis arm bitten eff Aug. 23, while
scratching the back Of the Russian bear,
''P4,er tho Great" in the Toronto Zoo
logical Gardens.
A Philadelphia charitable society re.
ports that it has in six months had The
care of 1S5 families deserted by the bus.
bands and fathers, and that in ll2 81
them rum was the active cause. Il ID
estimated that the city has between coo
aud 7e0 desertions in year.
The man who bored q n artesian well
IN New Orleans got q vivid notion oI
the work Of the Mississippi in bringing
down silt and making land. Al the
depth If 3ls feet the drill went through
three trunks, and again at 376 feet,
while at $50 feet shells and sand were
found, and from them comes good wa
ter at slow rate.
One of the Lobg Branch young men
buys q new cane every m2rning. He
never carries the same one two days
The sensation of fresh and different
cane end to handle and nibble daily
might not be exciting to a rude, coarse
organism, but TO the gentle dude it Is
quite satisfactory.
The largest dam in the world hal
been projected bya French engineer in
Brazil. 1t will be o40 feet lsng ant
So feet higb. 1t will back the water
over 1900 acres, and irrigate 5000 acres
of bottom land.
Nebraska has nearly 250, 900 acres o
planted forests in good condition.
At the South peanuts are general,
eaten raw. Roasting is said to maxi
them more indigestible.
| The Navajos of New Mexico are sale
to be very rich. These Indians owl
large droves of cattle and horses AM
about 900, 900 sheer,