The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-12-10

choral habit, and suffers dreadfully from
the deprivation Of the drug which her
incarceration forces on her.
Chris Kleinz, a boy of fourteen, is
lying in a critical condition at his home
in Philadelphia, as a result of excessive
cigarette smoking. A rash has broken
out on him, and his body is swollen to
nearly twice its natural size.
The Southern Railway Construction
Company, with a capital stock of five
million dollars, has just Teen organized in
Louisville. 1t will have a branch Office
in New York and one in Chattanooga,
and figure in Southern railrord building.
One of the largest landowners in tie
world is Mrs. Emma E. Forsythe, the
daughter of a former American consul to
Samoa. She has q plantation of about
$50, 900 acres on an island near New
Guinea and employs over 500 people
on ii.
There is a lady in Greenville, Mich,
who has three daughters whose birthdays
are celebrated on the same day-the 18th
of June. They were all married in the
same month of the year, and eacho of them
married a man having four letters in his
surname.
A young man of Warsaw ordered a
dress suit from a tailor, who agreed to
deliver it on a certain day. Because of
the failure of the tailor to send it he could
not go, but his rival went, proposed, and
was accepted, and the plaintiff now wants
damages.
A negro man brought an old mule to
town, which had attained that advanced
age it could no longer nasticate corn.
He offered to trade with Mr.. Joe Hall for
a buggy, but his offer was declined. He
finally managed to sell the animal for
twenty-five CENTS.
The Chicago Herald says: At the cele-
bration on January 9th the stand which
will be used by the speaker will be n
used by Gen. Andrew Jackson. 1t is o
the property of a lady in Chicago. She
inherited it from her father, to whom
Gen. Jackson made a gift of it.
He Matte, I know that nobody car
love you as we'll as I de-" Shetland
is it possible that only you can find
anything in me deserving of lover" He
"Of course 1 don't mean that, Matte.
But you know, I'm not so particular as
most men are.-Boston Transcript.
The President is fond of driving a
high-bred bay Kentucky horse to a mail
wagon. He holds the rains and Mrs.
Harrison snugs up to him and chats away
just like woman who are not Presidents
wives, and the President scenes to be an
excellent listener, for it is not observed
that he talks back.
A Collegeville, Pa, machinist, who has
been laboring for thirteen years on a
machine to forge twist drills, has at last
obtained his reward, having sold his
patents to the Chester Twist Drills and
Tool Company for $25, 900 cash and $685.
600 in stock of the company, besides
being engaged as superintendent at $50
per week.
The annual report of Hon. B. F. Tracy,
Seere tary of War, shows that with the
completion Of the vessels authorized by
Congress the ULited States will have but
forty. two modern vessels, an insignificant
number compared with those of other
maritime nations. He recommends the
building of two fleets Of armored battle
ships, one of twelve vessels for the Allan
tic coast, and one of eight vessels for the
Pacific coast; also the elevation of the
personnel of the enlisted service and
creation of a naval militia. ID
Much of the love that promises to be
eternal fades and pales from the lack of
mutual service. Friends, at frs eager to
pour out their love in every possibl way,
thinking no task too hard and no sacrifice
too great that may add to the happiness
of each other, after a while relax their
efforts, perhaps almost unconsciously.
Each one, however, Is keenly alive to the
change in the other, and hence arise
suspicion and distrust and a sense of
| iniurv. and love in Such an atmoSnhnra is
sure to languish.-New York Ledger.
A London dispatch the
death of Martin Farquhar Upper, the
well-known poet and prose writer, at the
advanced age of 70 years. AS early as
1882 Mr.. Upper figured as an author, and
in 1888 he published "Proverbial Philos-
ophy," in connection with which he was
| chiefly known. n the success of which