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

Observation-Disclosures" idea has been
applied in England to electric lamps
intended for use in omnibuses, street
cars and railway cars You puta penny
in the slot of such q lamp, press a knob
and out streams the Light. By clock
work machinery at the end of hall, an
hour the light is extinguished and can
be ignited again only with penny
taper.
AT South Beach. L. L, on Saturday.
New York Sun reporter saw SyimmAr
Donaldson come out of the water clad
in a white shirt and blue tights. The
reporter talked with him In a commo
dious dressing room, and noticed that
he dressed without removing his vet
swimming suit. In explanation. Dom
aldson said 81 never dry myself when
I com out of the water. Salt water is
very healthful. It has never given me
q cold"
At Paris, the Boulangists held a
stormy meeting to discuss the selection
of candidates for the coming general
election. M. Laguerre declared That,
although he was q personal friend of
General Boulanger, he was not pre-
pared to follow Boulanger blindly. His
paramount desire was to witness the
triumph of the ideas which Boulanger
represented. The meeting dispersed in
disorder. 70 candidates were chosen.
DR.. Probst, of the Ohio State Board
of Health. reports that at the village of
Moscow. a place of 600 inhabitants on
the banI Of the. Ohio river. there are
4 76 cases of diphtheria and have been
u deaths up to date. The village is
Upon the hills. There is plenty pure
air and it ought to,be a .healthful place,
butthe. sanitary conditions are awful.
Death frequently results from blood
s~tpoisoning when the patient is appa-
rent1y convaIescing.
Visitors ut the Pixies Peak obserya-
tory have for years been RECALLED with
the statement that ss.this is the highest
point on the globe which is inhabited
the year round" It now appears that
regular meteorological observations are
made on the Andes, in Peru, at height
IA, 800 feet, which is about 200 feet
higher than the Pixies Peak station. In
Europe there are but two stations al
any considerable height, these being
about 10, 900 and 1900 feet, .respec'
lively.
A queer yarn about lost jewelry comes
from Pennington, N. j., on the authority
of the Democrat and Advertiser of that
town. Joseph We'll lost a gold ring
|, while administering medicine to a COW
! in November last. Shortly afterward
he sold the COW to Congressman Pid'
cock, and a few weeks ago bought i
back. A day OF two ago Mr.. We'll sold
the COW to Mr.. Abbott, butcher. "Wher
!. the animal was slaughtered, reads the
story, sJoe was on hand looking fol
the ring. and was rewarded for his
patience by finding it none the worse
: for having been in the cows possession
. for over eight months"
. Men are cheap, but fancy cattle come
. high these days, says the New Yorl
. correspondent of the Baltimore Sun
A whole lot of people would be willing
to pay $25, 600 for Ell Rio Rey because
: he showed himself a veritable equine
king in the race for the Eclipse stakes
:. It is not hard to understand financia
!. enthusiasm for such a royal animal, bu
: one looks twice at the figures when i
Q is announced that the COW stable ant
dairy that W. Bayard Cutting has jus
finished at his country seat at Oakdale
s Z. l., cost $50. 00O.' The glazed bricks
for the milkman's floor were brough
from England, anda clock put in thu
tower of the building which cost $500
Charles Stanton, 20 years old, of No
1881 First avenue, and Tennis Mardel
II years old, of No. 9 Ludlow street
N. Y, were a~rraigned yesterday on
: charge of kissing each other in broaG
daylight. The policeman who made
. the arrest had his attentioncalled to th'
osculatory enioyments of the younl
, couple by two ladies, who expressed
themselves as Mortified at the sight
Stanton pleaded that the girl and b,
J were old acquaintances. and that the,
t meant no harm. The girl acknowledge
;. the truth of the statement regarding
the kissing, and did not seem at al
D abashed. As the code prescribes n,
| punishment for the %ofense, if ofense
{ be, the prisoners were discharged.
A Society event in Wyoming is thu.
set forth in a descriptive gem dug from