Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-09
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OLLACI
The first balloon ascent was made in
1898.
Detroit is often called the City of the
Straits.
ouen is often called the Manchester
of France.
a Hoboken lady has completed crazy
quilt with "a, Isl pieces in it.
Martin Kellogg of Norwalk, Ohio, is
one hundred and two years old.
In Egyptian mythology Isis was said
to have taught men to till the soil.
F. Strecker, of Reading, Penn, has
collected over 800 boxes of butterflies.
A Welsh tradition says bees came from
Paradise, leaving the garden when man
fell.
The potato beetle is said to have more
than twenty species of parasites that prey
upon it.
The ancients generally maintained that
there was a close connection between
bees and the soul.
Rome might have been called the City
of Lions on account of many lions kept
there by Cesar 600.
In an engagement near Turin, in 1893,
September "a, the bayonet was put to
actual and extended use.
The first German newspaper was Dos
Fr0akturter J0urnal, published at the
beginning of the seventeenth century at
Frankfurt on the Main.
In Warren County, n. Y, bounty of
fifty cents is paid to every one who pre-
sents to the proper officer the head and
rattles of a rattlesnake.
An army of ants of the red species
marched into SilverdaIe Township, Kan,
recently. The insects covered a space
forty yards long and three feet wide.
The grasshopper is a sufficiently I'M
welcome vlsItant of himself in this coun-
try, but in Germany his presence is
further said to announce strange guests.
The best violin strings are not, as
might be supposed, produced from any
part of the anatomy of a cat. but are
made from the Intestines of young
lamb.
A woman in Philadelphia made pur-
chases of fifty eight different clerks and
proved fifty three of them prevaricators.
The goods they warranted all wool had
cotton mixed IN.
1t is said that upon the backs of the
seven year Locust there sometimes ap-
pear marks like letter of the alphabet.
When this looks like W it is thought
that war is imm lnent.
One reason why shelled nuts can be
sold so near the price of unsheled ones
is that the shells when ground have
slight aromatic taste, and are valuable
to adulterate ground spices.
A Frenchman wants to introduce new
method of executing criminals in New
York. He has invented a chair in which
the condemned sits, and his spinal
column is instantly broken.
A cottonwood tree in front of John
Flad's residence in Marshall county,
Kan, planted in 1876, measures six feet
and one inch in circumference at top of
ground and has a spread of forty feet.
Uncle Elias Gibson, of KiIbourne, ILL.,,
who is nearing his ninetieth year, has
the distinction of having killed ninety
two wolves since the war, a record that
no other Illinois man can even approach.
They tell at Hamilton, Ca, of a won
derful Jump of horse in the ZOOS. 1t
was across twelve feet of bridge that
was down. The rider waited a mo-
ment, sank the spurs, and the horse
cleared the opening.
LON DIoohS, d ColoTeu Ooy seventeen
years of age, was found dead standing
on his feet the other day at Jackson, in
West Tennessee. He was tenant on
the farm of DR.. w. A Wood, who
vouches for the truth of the story.
The twenty four men who composed
the recent petit jury for the term of the
Buchanan County Court, in Missouri,
weighed 56"S pounds, an average of 235
pounds The Iightest man on the jury
tipped the beam at 200 pounds, while the
heaviest weighed 265.