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

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The Methodist Protestants are thinking
of founding a college at Kansas City.
Armour hatters himself that the dressed
beef investigation is only a wild Vest
show.
An able man shoes his spirit by gentle
words and resolute actions he is neither
hot nor timid.
A w~ineglass of strong borax-water in a
pint of raw starch will make collars and
cuffs stiff and glossy.
The total production of the silk manu-
factories of America now amounts to sixty
million dollars per annum
Let our repentance be a lively will, a
firm resolution. Complaints and mourn
ing over past errors avail nothing.
The Baxter family of Norwich, Conn,
found a valuable diamond ring slowed
away in the interior of their Thanksgiving
turkey.
James Wright, of Denton, Nd, has a
2~3-year-old goose which has for twenty
one years annually reared broods from
her own eggs.
The big tree of California had better lie
down and be measured. Thirteen cords
of wood have been sawed from a single
tree in Pennsylvania.
A recent number of the Wittburg
Wash.) Times had the following ad
Wanted, a saddle horse for a woman
weighing $50 pounds"
Oliver Wendell Holmes sayes he fe-ls
that it is time for him to stop writing
poems. 1t is a wise author who knows
when he has written enough.
A Harrisburg woman placed her sleep
ing infant on a railroad seat and covered
it with a newspaper. A careless drum
mer came in and sat down on it.
Of the $4,2OO,O 900 in gold produced in
Montana last year fully IS per cent was
taken from the quartz mines. The out
put Of the placermines is declining.
Of the twenty-one young women now
at the Brussels university ten study phar-
macy seven physical science, three gen.
eral medicine, and one philosophy.
Philadelphia aspires to be the carpet
city of the country. There are $4,000
carpet workers in the city. Nearly half
of the number are women and girls.
There is but one great violoncello
school in the world; the institution con-
Quoted by David Poper at Pesth. Many
of the students come from remote parts of
the globe.
The crossing of two electric wires in
Chicago Saturday niget set fire to the
seven-story Office building on Fifth avenue,
owned by the Rev. R. d. Sheppard caus-
ing a damage of over 100000.
A musical kettle has been invented by
an Englishman in Birmingham. The de-
vice consists in fitting a reed into the lid,
so that the steam, when the "kettle
boils," should cause the reed to sound.
A single sheet of paper, six feet wide
and 9 ga miles in length, has been made
at the Watertown (N.'Y.) Paper Works.
1t weighed 2,207 pounds and was made
and rolled entire without a single break.
The big dog he was fondling in his
armes saved the life of a gunner at Pitts
burg by intercepting a stray bullet which
would have entered tho mans body had
not the dog received it. The animal was
killed instantly.
The new flag of the United States of
Brazil, which takes the place of the
imperial emblem, with it's crown and
coffee leaf, is composed of green and gold
stripes, with a blue field, on which are
emblazoned nineteen stars.
Inc Brazilian minister at Washington
expresses he opinion that Dom Pedro
the deposed Emperor of Brazil. will take
up his residence in France, and will
probably visit the United States. as he
has a warm attachment for this country.