New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-05-31
THE Talk OF THE DAY.

acreage in cotton Of the cotton growing States last
year l. 322.3sS The crop for the
5774665 bales equal to 27429 OIL pounds Of lint
or about s,22s, 1898 pounds Of seed cotton. The
great expense attached to cotton growing Is the cost or
picking. The lowest price paid for picking in any Of
the Southern States Is fifty cents per 100 pounds As
the crop amounted to 0S3 pounds the cost Of
picking $4l Ala, 449.
or the six gentlemen who gave 500 each The irish
Worlds Famine Fund cnly two can be called Irish
Irish IN sentiment and sympathy as well as In name
but Mr. Walters OF The London Times will have to stretch
his alre very elastic imagination In order To include
James q. Blaine. Levi p Norton stephen b. Ekins and
b. F. Jones among the noisy Irish" who alone IN
America, he says have any sympathy for lIhe
Irish World
Tho latest attempt to exerminate rabbits In Australia
wickedly cruel that 1t is to be hoped tnat It Will
fail. number OF rabbits suffering from rabbit scaD
being imported from Europe with the expectation that
the loathsome disease will spread among the Australian
rabbits and kill them of Professor WATSON OF Adelaide
University, some time went to Europe and bought
two dozen diseased rabbits for this purpose, but they
died voyage lie has, however. ordered a fresh
supply, which expected to arrive in Adelaide,
when they will bc turned loose.
Some forty years ago. when thu Rev. DR.. Osgooi
pastor OF the First Church, he conducting even
ing service In the little wooden chapel that stool at the
side OF The church, The pulpit was OF tue plainest de-
scrptOn and was lighted by two small oil lamps. As
DIR. Osgood was Offering q prayer he made gesture
which knocked one OF the lamps to the floor IN front OF
that the lamp was not broken. remarked We'll II was
good glass any way" and then closing his went
with his prayer whore he left o.-lspringhed Union.
Gorham, Me-. which has been celebrating its both
birthday. is famous for its hay-aeis, ami is unique
among Maine towns In having rock on Which It's first
settlers landed It's sturdy cizens worthy descend
ants Of their ancestors.
on an average each inhabltant OF London consumes
each year thirtytwo times much fish each inhabt
ant OF Berlin and Paris consumes fish than the
whole OF the German Empire. Efforts being
made to popuiarz, tho eating OF 1sn In Germany. To
bring this about, German paper suggests that fish be
made into sauslges
A Chicago dispatch that the Hessan ny. chinch
bug and grasshoppers getting In their work the
wheat fields II these workers conld only be induced 10
join tho Knights o. Labor and con ane their
operations to eight Lours day. tho cause OF iabor
would tho biggest boom II has yet received
even In this year or labor Dooms Boston Transcript
According tho newspapers I, is Particularly geld
one this country. Tho report that these mummies
are the whom no has talked to DEATH Is doubtless
campaign lc invented by too Jealous supporter
OF tho Hon. Tim" Campbell
This seems to be tho Iron Age for eX-Aldcrmen.
straw ride Is now the proper caper at Augusta. Ga.
IL Is moonlight straw ride aud the straw used OF inc
Kind that does toll which way tue wind DlowA-
lNew-Oricans Picayune.
1t has not been altogether plain sailing for tho Ameri-
can Opera Company In tho West. When II WAS In St
Louis tho lRev. @. s. Blackwell. OF that city. de-
nOunced Its performances rs indecent IN sermon
"What s tho difference he asked. "betweon forty high
kicking females IN the old Black Crook and the Same
high kickes only with less cothng In the ballet OK the
American Opera Company. performed in thu musc nall
Of The Exposition Building. The only difference 10 that