The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-09-03

~puDiieat1on of his new book, Christian
Heritage " in November.
Ieprosy Las existed in Norway for
nearly a century. It is a hereditary
disease and breaks out among the chill
drensof Scandinavian settlers in Mime
sofa, Wisconsin and illinois.
The people of the United States use
annually about seven postal cards for
every man, woman and child; that is to
say. their total consumption for a year
reaches 4. 900. 600, 600.
There has lately been such a glut of
behring's that the Scotch fishing smacks
are leaving Ardglass for home, herring
being so cheap and plentiful that it does
not pay to catch them.
Seyeral of the large land owners of
Scotland have imported q number of
reindeer from Norway and turned them
out in the hope that they may become
accllmated aud iscrease.
John F. Darr, of the Department OF
Agriculture at Washington, who had
been commissioned to attend the Paris
Exposition, died there a few days ago.
His body will be brought back.
The Navy Department has ordered
the payment TO Cramp & Sons, of Phila
delphia. of SIC, 200 on account of the
new gunboat. yorktown. This is the
last regular payment on the vessel.
Acting Postmaster-G General CIarkson
awarded the contract for furnishing
postal cards to the Postofice Depart.
ment for four years, beginning Octoben
/ nextieto Albert Daggett, of New York
Ayoung man at Titasville, Pa, who
could not afford to take his bride d q
wedding tour, bought So worth of tick.
cts for the merry-go-round, and they
proceeded to ride to their hearts con
tent.
Just as Pennsylvanla's State Fair has
gone. to pot the Georgians are getting
ready to boom the best and biggest
everoin their State. The date of the
beginning is October Z and of the end
ing November 2.
Three months ago the postmaster o
Chico, CAL, gave a pet dog to a friend
who was leaving for Oregon to settle
Two weeks ago the dog reappeared al
the house Of his old master, nearly
starved, but delighted to see him.
For potatoes there has been a goo6
trade in Boston, at 81. %, to $3.50 PEI
barrel. with some very choice at ST.!
to So. The long spell of wet weathe'
injured the crop in some sections, bu
in Maine there will be a good yield.
It is declared that 80, 265, 800 bushel
of peanuts are consumed in this coun
try yearly. When you see that this
an average of only half a bushel pc
capita of population, the quantity doe
not seem SO large.
The weight of the great smoke clou'
daily hanging owe the city of London
has been computed by Prof. Roberts a
fifty tons of solid carbon and $50 ton
of ~hydrocarbon and carbonic oxide case
for each day of the year. and it's valu
at So, 0OO, 900 per annum.
William G. Van Wyck, an inveterat
smoker of Newburg, N. Y, has die,
from the effects of nicotine poisoning
His system had become SO i~mpregnate
with nicotine that the stomach an
other organs of the body were unabl
to perform their functions.
Along the Hudson River Valley th
apple crop is a disappointment, no
over fifty per cent. of an average. Pear
are nearly a full crop. Early peaehe
are now being marketed. Plums onl
half a crop. Grape growers expect t
harvest fifty per cent. of an ayerag
crop.
The United States steamer Albatros
has discovered thirty-fve new specie
Vi ASAJ OuU Su0s Ano dO4UAOE oOOA LIZ
heard of a sea-serpent in all her cruises
tits only the imaginative citizen of tn
species Landlubber, Genus Homo, VIII
can spy this monster of the froth,
main.
Perhaps the greatest single industr.
of any city in the world is the carpe
manufacture carried on in Philadelphia
The establishments engaged in this in
dustry employ 1850 looms and 1870
workmen. Last year they manufacture
71,5OO,OO0 yards of carpet, the value Q
(which was $50, 600, OOO.
James and Henry Miles, brothers
Saturday waylaid and shot. instantl.
killing VIM. Miller at Brunswick, Mo.
near Kansas City. A year ago VIM
Miller shot and killed Joseph Mile