The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-06-04

me Canadian Legislature he's struck
a vein of economy. ct has discharged
a chaplain whose salary is 300 a year,
but resolutely maintains its dignity by
retaining an usher of the Black Rod at
$1.35O, This looks like a case of spare
the rod and spoil the chaplain.-Shoe
and Leather Reporter.
In an interview Representiye Perkins,
OF Kansas, expressed the opinion that
the next congress would pass a bill for
the regulation of congressional cleo
lions. This measure, he said, would be
aimed at the South, but its provisions
would, of course, apply equally to all
sections of the country.
The Halliday Age says that 3d. 36
miles of new railway have already been
projected in the first quarter of 1889.
There are 666 new lines. Nearly half
of the new mileage will be in the South
and Southwest, which now seems to be
a favorite field for investment of many
~ OtU L6StOE ONH" .s
A dispatch from Port Huron, Michi-
gan, gives the particulars of the work
ofamob in that city, Monday morning,
which is really of a blood-curdling
character; a negro outrager was taken
from jail, dragged through the streets
until almost I~ifeles, and he was then
hung to the stringer of a bridge.
Yokohama papers give an account of
the severe punishment of two Japanese
Journalists who published with a sketch
a new liberal constitution and a picture
ola skeleton on the Emperor's throne.
One wa sentenced to three years i'm
prisonment and fined, while the other
received one year in prison and was
fined.
California fruit growers have recently
imported some Australian parasites war
ranted to kill fruit pests. These little
bugs, no larger than flies, feed on in
sect pests and rapidly destroy them.
Congress will be asked to sanction the
importation of these parasites, in order
to clear California orchards from insect
pests that are increasing every year.
The Piedmont Reduction Works at
brownsville were sold at auction Mon
day by the receiver, and were bid off
by the company's attorney at $29, 600.
These works were erected for the ma
nipulation of ore from the Silver Valley
mine at a cost of 500, 600. A log rail-
way was built to the mine Is miles dis
tant. There are as yet no indications
that work will be resumed.
A gentleman living near Portland,
Me-, recently dream ed that in q certain
hole, under a stump of a tree, he would
find a fur collar which had been stolen
froMl his wife. He visited the field,
found the stump, and placing his hand
in the hole felt a furry substance, pulled
it out and dropped the skunk on short
notice, and has since been fumigating
the clothes he wore on the occasion.
A little fellow in Brunswick, Me-,
whose fifth birthday is at hand, heard
the question asked of a new conner,
Chow old is that ~infant?" His reply
was, ''she amt old at all; she has just
begun" After he had seen the infant,
he said to his mother: Mamma, that
baby had her hair cut in heaven. I
suppose they thought she would not be
strong enough to walk to the BARRIERS"
Advices from japan by the steamship
Belgic, at San Francisco, note an earth
quake at Toxic, in which the o~scilla-
tions were extremely slow, it. taking
from four to seven seconds to complete
one forth and back motion, chiefly in a
horizontal plane lying south of north.
There were a few vertical motions, how
ever, of equally slow periods. The
phenomenon lasted ten minutes and
t~hirty-six seconds.
There is a cradle in New York that
has rocked over $4,000 babies It be-
gan to rock nineteen years ago, when
the Sisters of Charity started a little
founding hospital on Twelfth street,
New York, with SIS in the treasury. Sis
ter Irene was at the head of it, as she
is still, a wonderful, frail little women,
whose genius and devotion will always
be remembered by those who have once
beheld her among the babies whom she
has saved and succored.
A Wichita teacher who commanded
n of her pupils to purchase a gram
mar received the following letter from
the girls mother: 81 do not desire
that Matte shall ingage in grammar as
I prefer her to ingage in more useful
studies and a learn her to speak and