The Mineral argus. [volume] (Maiden, Mont.) 1883-1886, 1885-06-18
FACT AND FANCY.

say the florists.
jacksonville. Fla. has organized
humane society.
The giraffe has never been known
% utter a sound.
The peach crop is promising in
spots in South Carolina.
The erection of 800. 900 hotel al
Gainesville. Fla. is assured.
There are ll6 students in the North
Georgia Agricultural college.
Selma. Ala. had $4,000 worth of
property destroyed by fire last year.
There are fourteen Mormon preach
ers in the vicinity of Ashcboro. \. {.
Good farm labor is difficult to OBJ
tain in many South Carolina counties.
Religious services are held in the
Washington dime museum every Sun.
lay.
Woman suffrage has received sixteen
iefeats Ia the Massachusetts legisla
lure.
The recent cold spell did more dam
age in Texas than in any southern
state.
The poetry of motion is shown when
AIS CutOi Tvs tiC sVSt w .to'N Nhe
sanctum.
Atlanta's artesian well has already
cost that city $4,000. and 1t is far
from being bored vet.
A whale forty feet long was captured
at Cape Lookout. n. C.. last Sunday.
1t was valued at $1,000.
A half-dozen Pima Indian children
have been received ut the Al5uquer-
que. New Mexico, school.
n letter was picked up on the street
in I.aui encevilie. Ga. the other day
that is thirty-live years old.
One of the best Latin and Greek
scholars IN Athens, Ga. is working
.or 40 cents per day sodding grass.
The police force of Charlotte. n. C..
las been reduced from twelve to eight
men. and the mayor has turned over
5000 of his 81, POO salary to the grad
ed school.
The wheat crop of San joaquin
county, California. this year will come
from the islands and tule lands. Farm
srs are much discouraged throughout
the county.
The .bOss" peach tree in the Della
ware region. according to local fame.
tree eight or ten inches through.
and hoary with age. Last season it
yielded eight crates Of merchantable
fruit. besides bushel and half picked
from the ground.
There are now 1898 newspapers
published in the United States, a gain
Of 1923 since 1884. Kansas shows the
greatest increase. her gain being IS.
Illinois coming next with II. One
newspaper Is now printed tor every
1867 Of population.
The demand for copyright protec-
ton is illustrated in the fact that The
Century secures copyright protection
in Great Britain by issue there day
or two in advance great advantage
to contributors, since their articles are
now protected in both countries.
A Spartansburg, 5. c., young lady
advertises in the local paper for . hus-
band. She describes herself ''yOung
and pretty, charming and witty, petite
and piquante." Either there are no
Young men in Spartansburg or the
damsel has Overrated her charms.
At an official reception in Washing
ton an old captains wife was heard to
say to a pretty young lady standing
near: See Edith! Look at that
young man with the eyeglasses; and
lust think, he can send your Uncle
Frank to the uttermost parts OF the
EARTH"
The new Catholic university is to be
placed in Washington, because that
city possesses greater literary. sci
entitic, and philosophical advantages
than any city in the country. 1t is
the capital Of the nation and the CEN
ter of the social aud literary life of the
country" This is exorbitant praise
for Washington.
The tulip is very prolific. A cOrre-
spOndent of The Garden, an English
horticultural paper. says that in 1880
he had fifty bulbs given him. which
had been forced in the spring and
placed out of doors to dry of. He
planted them in November the same
year and took them up the next June,
repeating each year, and now finds
himself the pOssessOr of more than
three thousand good towering bulbs.
BY the excrtion of the late Capt.
Marryat (mainly instrumental in sup
pressing the vile system of press
gangs) no naval officer may iniict
/ logging until twenty-four hours after
the commission of an Ofietse, So that
punishment may not be the result Of
passion. In Scotland, by an act Of
( GEORGE l.. no sentence of death can be
inflicted on the south side of the Forth
in less tina, thirty, and ON the north
in less than forty days.
A New York company which manu-
features every day 1880 bustles stuffed
1 with renovated antelOne hair has in Il