The national leader., 1889-06-22
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THE prospects for the Egyptian cotton crop
Gre favorable.
PAoLA, Kan, has rented its city park to a
carpet renovator.
AN early fall trade is expected by jobbers
Ind manufacturers
BARLEY is beginning to be sown for winter
pasture in the South.
ALMOST 40, 900 men will be engaged in TAX
ing the coming census.
REPORTS from the growing grain in the
West continue favorable.
THE latest trust that is forming in the
West is the castor oil trust.
IT is proposed to lay a cable from Ostend,
Belgium, to the United States.
MILITARY service has been made obligatory
in all the normal schools of Chill.
CHINESE are said to be pouring into Cali
fornia over the Mexican border.
THE present seasons Delaware peach crop
is estimated at 5000, 900 baskets.
A RAILWAY has been completed to the top
of Mount Pilatus III Switzerland.
THERE are an even 200 patients in the
Yankton Dakota Insane Asylum.
THE total crop Of Florida oranges for the
season just ended was 2,200 eco boxes.
THE number Of Russian visitors to the Paris
Exhibition is said to be unprecedented
OVER million Italians have settled in the
Argentine Republic in thirty three years.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA has shipped thirty
per cent more oranges this year than last.
THE recent frost has destroyed over one
fourth of the grape crop of New York State.
HARVARD graduates 225 young men in her
academic department this year. Yale turns
out 1877.
A FACTORY for making altar of rose and
other flower essence is just being established
at Atlanta, Ga.
The citizens of Seattle, Washington Terri
tory, have resolved to widen their streets and
erect fire-proof buildings.
THE acreage of spring wheat seems to have
declined in Wisconsin and Minnesota owing
to the ravages of the chinch bug.
A BILL. has been presented in the Legisla-
ture of Jalisco Mexico, for the prohibition in
that State of bull and cock fights.
WASHINGTON TERRIToRY's Constitutional
Convention will be composed of forty-six Re
publicans and twenty-nine Democrats.
MANY farmers in Oregon are literally
throwing away potatoes; mucn OF the last
crop remains in the hands of the producers.
WHILE in the act of receiving the third de-
gree in a Masonic lodge at Wichita, Kan,
DR.. James L. Lawrence fell dead with heart
disease.
TWENTY years ago the British army num-
bered 1S7, 900. Now there are 211 900 men of
all arms including those serving in the
colonies.
THE Australians have forbidden the slaugh-
ter of the kangaroo from January 1st to May
1st, of each year, on account of its value as an
export article.
THERE is a rumor that the Mexican Con
gress, in secret session, is considering the
question of ceding lower California to the
United States.
IT is proposed to establish penal colony
on the fsla de Pinos, abolishing the peniten-
tiaries in the different cities in Cuba; also a
workhouse for vagrants.
THE leading gas company of Chicago is
making arrangements for replacing its pres
ent supply of manufactured gas with natural
gas from the coal regions.
THERE are said to be $4,000 typewriters
employed in Chicago, ninety mine per cent. OF
whom are stenographers. Over seventy live
! per cent. of them are women.
| THE fresh fish trade on the Atlantic coast is
| all broken up. A Providence r. II dealer,
| who handled 1000 barrels last spring, says he
lost at least $780, The public taste runs to
| meats.