The Progress., 1888-01-21
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solid part Of smoke, and send the solid
3iied portion back to the furnace.
The saw-mills Of Maine now ship
great quantities Of lMled sawdust to the
market, where it is sold for packing
purposes and for bedding purposes.
Mrs GrundY hobs up long enough to
say: What arc wanted in society are
more pocket editions Of books that
teach hew to appear as ladies and
geatlemen.
Mrs. Mary Coy, Of Covode, Pa,
during the twelve months last past
we've 1859 yards of carpeting and $40
yards Of oloth with an ordinary hand
loom. ~
Farmers were given amuch needed
time to stop and think. Many have be-
gun on more careful methods, and the
thirst after specific knowledge has been
increased. Prairie Farmer.
The shipments of cheeses from
Canada for the past season amounts to
1.103,0 900 boxes, being, $4,000 more
than last year. TIE exports of butter
amounted to 10000 packages, against
the 81, 600 of 1886.
"A bit of soft paperis recommended
by an English doctor for dropping
medicine into the eye as being equally
effective as brushes, glass droppers,
etc., and fay less likely to introduce
foreign substances.
You may be one of the heirs to a
vast estate III Europe, but if you have
reason to suspect that such is the case
keep still about it. IF you admit it
you'll be taken for either crank or
swindler Detroit Free Press.
4 New York has Girls Endeavor
Club" The woods are full of them.
The girls endeavor to catch d husband,
but the club is not used until after mar
riage-and not then, if the husband be-
haves himself. Morristown Herald.
"A tree that was cut down in the
Little Shookum Valley, near Whatcom,
w. T., yielded $4,000 feet of lumber,
which, at $3.50 per thousand. makes
che tree worth 1852. The Whatcom
Receille says that the timber lands in
the. county will average ten such trees
to an acre.
While using stove black,ng on her
kitchen range the other day, Mrs. Mar
garet Twibell. of Montpelier, Ind, got
a small quantity of the polish in cut
on her hand. Blood poisoning ensued.
tho hand swelled to great size, and it
is thought that it will be necessary to
amputate it. !
willie Waflers." /" said the teacher,
which is the shortest day in the yearp"'
''Twenty-frst OF December" replied
Willie, who was correct as far as the
writer knows. ''And Tommy Tuff may
tell us which is the longest day." said
the teacher, indulgently. Sunday"
shouted Tommy. Philadelphia Cbroni-
,cle-f3
"A drunken laborer named John
Davies, at Dowlais, Eng, on his way
home lay down beside the railroad
track so close to the rails that, a train
coming along, the engine ran over and
cut off the heel Of his boot When the
train stopped and backed up the man
was still asleep and was indignant at
being made to get up and go home.
"A cat in P. Pearson's feed store at
Burlington, Kan, attacked its master
the other day and bit him severely in
the leg. He ran out for assistance and
brought back two men. who charged
the enraged animal. but were. routed
aad driven out after being badly bitten.
The cat held the premises until the
marshal came along with his revolver
and shot it.
"A New York clergyman, who went
to preach in a neighboring city, aston
ished the congregation by saying: Il
must take the first train home, after tn
service, as I have wife and three chill
dren there, and have never seen one Of
them" The people were greatly relieved
on learning that the ''one'' that the
clergyman had never seen had been born
since lss left home the day before.
A. ?. Ledger.
Carefully prepared statistics show
that there are 100000 criminals in this
country, only $4,000 of whom are
incareerated. OF the 100000 it is
estimated that one-third are under
twenty years Of age, one-half under
twenty-ene years of age, and fraction
under twenty-five years Of age, and
the chances are that all of them will
continue criminals through the rest of
their lives.
Blacksmith Miller, of Louisville,
was shoeing . mule the other day, and
drove a nail through the hoof SO that
the point projected an inch and half.
He was about to twist off the nail and
ciinch it, when the mule gave his lloof
a tremendous jerk and the nail caught
Miller's arm and completely severed
the muscles and arteries of the left fore
arm. Miller's life was saved with
difficulty.
"A wide traveller declares that the
best cooks in the world are Arab cooks,
who perfectly understand how to intro
duce good fruit to hot fire over their
little furnaces. The next best, he says,
are the farmers wives Of New England.
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