The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1886-02-24
WINSTON, N. c., FEBRUARY "a, 1886.

The English language is spoken
by 1O0,0OO,000 people, the French
by 45,0OO,OOO and the German by
60,0OO,OOO.
In spite of four famines in India
in the last twenty.six years, which
killed off millions of the population,
the number of inhabitants steadily
increased as a whole.
-Mainsprings Of watches break
most frequently in the Fall Of the
year, and watch makers are said to
put in more new springs in two Fall
months than in all the rest Of the
year.
A glass bedstead has been
made at a Birmingham (England)
factory for a Calcutta millionaire
1t is of solid glass, the legs, rails,
etc, being richly Gu. The King Of
Burmah also has one. 5I1a#
A record Of the mills erected
last year in the South gives $50 as
the number, Kentucky leading with
81 and Tennessee coming next with
"a These are followed by Virginia
"a, Texas, 18, Georgia II, and North
Carolina TO-
The Kentucky Legislature has
passed a bill prohibiting the saleIot
pistols and bowie knives Let this
be followed by like legislation from
the other States and we shall have
less murders. ...... ...
Mr.. Hazen, of Whitefield, N. H.,
produced $50 tons of corn fodder
ensilage last year at cost of $500,
which he considered equivalent to
$50 tons of good hay. His 100 COW;
gained from fifty to eighty pound
Of milk day, on commencing to
feed ensilage.
A mass of corn cobs completely
and perfectly petrifed has been
found near Forsyth, GA. The forma-
ton of the cobs and grains Of corr
adhering thereto were perfectly pre-
served in petritied state. The outer
surface was partially covered witt
quartz firmly imbedded in the mass.
The petrifed matter is quite dense
and more weighty than ordinary
stone.
AT the recent New York dog
show there was a magnificent St
Bernard said to be valued at So
900. He was under three years 0
age, but weighed nearly two hun
dred pounds and had won 100 prizes.
Somebody has taken the pain:
to figure out that the United State:
produces enough lumber each yeal
to load 1,428,581 railroad cars, each
carrying 1000 feet. 1t is also said
that this would make a train $500
long, or about one-third around the
world
-Advices from Kansas state
that within a radius of 100 miles
of Dodge City 100000 head of cat
tie have frozen to death, and that
100 human beings are known to
have perished, and more than 100
have been missing since the begin
ming of the recent storm.
BY the provisions Of the Blair
education bill, there would be dis
tributed from the National Treasury
for the first year, $1,000, 900; second
year, s10,0OO,000; third year, SIS,
100000; fourth year, s13,OOO,OO0 ,
fifth year, 100000; sixth year.
$4,000, 900; seventh year, 81 900, 900: !:
and for the eighth year, So, 600, 900.
Brigham Young used to swim
die the United States Government
by pre-empting land with -four
roomed house, built on runners.
When this was hauled to the centre
of a section of land, each one of the
four quarters would have room
on its quarter. Four would sleep
there one night, occupying separate
room. Soon afterwards the men
appeared at the Land Office, proved
their pre-emption, paid over s1.25
per acre, and then they would deed
the land to Brigham Young.
A man may be very gooi
man, and very well meaning Que,
and yet think quite differently from
what we do. The longer we live the
more firmly are we convinced that
it is only the fool who is opinionated.