The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-26

| Christianity. AS the Sultan is a respect
able Mohammedan he wouldn't embrace
the kind of Christianity which Bro. Shep=
ard exemplifes in'his paper for 5000, 900.
Wilmington Star.
The County Educational Institute will
open in Raleigh on Tuesday, the I'd of
December, conducted by Prof. Chas. D.
McIver. Everybody is invited, and on
Friday, the 9th, public addresses will be
delivered by Prof. McIver and other
prominent educators. The farmerso of the
county are especially invited to attend
The first statue erected in this coun-
try to a workingman will soon be un-
yelled in Sacramento. It is in honor OF
E. J. Stevens, late master mechanic of
the Southern Pacific, who had for years
been in charge of immense railroad shops
in Sacramento. The funds for the monu-
ment were contributed entirely by work
ingmen.s -
The $500 prize offered by the American
A~gricuHurSst for the largest crop of oats
from one acre has been awarded to R. W.
Strickland, of Albion, N. Y. His acre
yielded a few pounds more than 134
bushels of oats. Similar prizes haYe been
offered for the best crop each Of wheat.
corn and potatoes, but the. returns from
them are not all ini So 4nA zv&
The Progresssve. Farmer, of Mount Yer
non, I'll, sums up and dismisses the whole
thing as follows: "Do whatever you
can dobest, regardless of any competition,
and whenIyou have decided what you can
do best, do'it W tn all your might and
with all your energy, not o~vertaxing the
system, ut devoting the entire business
time to one industry"
The Washington City restauranter who
furnished the luncheon to the South
American delegates at the White House,
has had experience with six presidents.
He y "Mr. Harrison is quite liberal.
There were four cases of champagne, be-
sides sherry and Chateau Margaux, and
three cases of champagne were drunk.
There was no limit placed upon any
thing"
To the States of New York and Mis-
souri, must be awarded first blood in the
battle with the trusts. The courts of the
Empire State have dealt a staggering
blow to the Sugar Trust, and in Missouri
the White Lead Trust has been brought
to sudden grief. The bottle holders for
monopoly must either find out some new
device to cover their spoliation or go out
of business.
Over 100 guests in a Kalamazoo CMich.)
hotel tried in vain to guess why a drum
mer had W. little plaster of paris skele-
tons fastened in the crown of his tile.
After all gave up he explained, saying:
1t is simply a case of BUSINESS. I used
to have so many hats stolen it kept me
poor buying new ones, but I find nobody
will steal a hat with skeletons in it; hence
the skeletons"
The young ladies of Peace Institute, of
this city, propose starting at an early day,
a Monthly Magazine for the mutual bene-
fit and pleasure of the young ladies of the
school and their friends. It will make its
appearance about the first of December
next, and will be furnished subscribers at
the very moderate price of $1.O0 per
year. The PROGRESSIVE FARMER wishes
the enterprise abundant success.
An affidavit does not accompany the
following story, which Ohio sends along:
"a lady of Columbus used for her com
plexion a mixture of arsenic and nitrate
of silver. Then she went to the White
Sulphur Springs and took the baths. The
sulphur decomposed the silver salts in her
skin and turned her SO black that she has
gone into retirement and will not be seen
again for a year" "as@2
It is announced that President Har-
rison's message will be sent to Congress
in typewriter form. Heretofore it has
been the custom to have it put in type
and copies printed by trusted men at the
Government Printing Office. The Presi-
dent, however, has decided to departfrom
the practice of his predecessors, and the
newspapers will be thro wn on their re-
sources to obtain this much-sought-afte r
document.
stockman Chapman of Grant county
hired a very inexperienced boy to help
him about the ranch. One morning he
told the lad to go and salt the calf yer
in the pasture. The boy took about a
$4,000 1e eo1@ ~,hhod - oil nuor kho ooH