Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1885-1890, 1886-03-20
NEWS OF The E

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yards.
Pear trees in Florida are being ru-
ined by spiders, which eat the buds.
The spring drive Of cattle from
Texas is expected to exceed 100000
head.
Professional boxers are not allowed
admittance into Harvard's gymnas-
ium.
The average age Of those who enter
college in this country IS seventeen; a
century ago it was fourteen.
Southern fishermen report the shad
at Cape Fear now larger and more
numerous than in years past.
The Comstock lode has been work
ed to a depth Of 5000 feet and has
produced about $3.50, 100000.
The Newark, n. J., children opera
ted upon by NJ. Pasteur have been
placed on exhibition in a dime mu-
scum.
A mining ditch sixteen feet wide
on the bottom and twenty-five miles
long is being constructed in Utah.
Central Illinois farmers have con
tGacted with Tennessee parties To stock
the farms Of the former with quail.
The new postmaster at South Had
ley, Mass, has been boycctted by
four-ffths Of the inhabitants Of that
place.
An extensive mine Of iridium, a
rar metal worth $4,000 per pound,
has been discovered near Rock Greek,
Wyo.
The magnificent female college at
West Point, Ga. burned. It has late
" been used as a public school. Loss
unknown.
It has just been discovered that the
green sands which are very plentiful
in Georgia have valuable fertilizing
qualities.
An Illinois man is supervising the
making Of his own coffin. He is a
heavyweight, and fears an ordinary
n will not suffice.
Clafin, Allison & Co., one Of the
Oldest wholesale tea and ceffee firms
in Boston, has failed. Liabilities,
$4,000; assets, $780, 900.
Sixteen months ago the Kemble
Iron company banked their furnaces.
last week they were re-opened, and
the fires was still burning.
California ostrich feathers are said
to be very much finer than those
plucked from the birds in Africa,
while the yield per bird is greater.
The ice in the straits at Sault Ste.
Marie is covered with water and be-
coming porous. Open water is visi-
bic a short distance from Cheboygan.
Nathaniel F. Ferguson, the wealth
lest resident at Reading, Pa, has be
come insane on account Of an acct
dent at his mill, whereby six men
were killed.
Parson Downs is in Hartford,
looking up evidence il his
adultry suit, and claims to have Sc
cured information entirely exculpa-
ting iIrs. Taber.
The performance Of Faust at Her
Majesty's theater, London, broke up
with much confusion, owing to a
among the performers and en-
Connecticut tobacco growers are
discouraged at the incursion Of Sum
leaf and will have to use cheap
fertilizers this spring to sheapen the
cost Of production.
Imports into England nuring Feb
ruary decreased .ee2, 100000, as com
paaed with those of the correspond |
ing month last year, and exports de-
creased f470,0OO.
The supreme court Of Georgia yes
decideded IN favor Of the Pro
hibltionists' appeal, which grew out
Of the recent local option election
cases in Atlanta.
William K. Vanderbilt has let the
contract for a $4,000 steam yacht,
It will be built more for comfort than
beautifully finished and mag
.nlficently furnished.
Money and securities tothe amount
$4,000 was found on the premises
If a man named Gibbs IN Holyoke,
who had died apparently in
great poverty.
Thomas G. Jenkins, Piitsburg, Pa,
1as the largest wholesale grocery and
TOUR house IN the world. It is $50
'eet long, $50 feet wide, six stories
nigh, making over five acres Of floor
Archbishop Corrigan signalized the
lay Of his installation into the see Of
New York hY ramitting The ahsfan-