The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1889-11-19

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the summer with the CheFokees, carrying
with him basketful of dead languages
and usages. Among other things. he has
obtained copies of the secret formulas
and sacred ritual of the medicine man."
including hundreds Of their inyocations to
beasts and imaginary beings.
fo Do you know that the largest room in
the world, under one roof and unbroken
by pillars, is at st. Petersburg. 2 It is 620
feet long by $50 in breadth. By'daylight
i is used for military displays, and a bat
alion can completely maneuver in it. 20
900 wax tapers are required to light it..
The roof of this structure is a single arch
Of iron, and itsexhibits q remarkable
engineering skill in the architect. /
Col. L. L, Polk. editor of The PRoeREs-
sEEE FARMER, whose speech at the Atlanta.
Exposition attracted so much attention
anda was so highly compimensed, has,
been invited to deliver an address at the
Southern Exposition at Montgomery,
Ala. The Colonel is in demand as a
speaker at Southern expositions, for he
makes rafting, good speeches, without
any chaf in 'em.-W Wilmington Star.
Frank Engelman, a farmer living near
Nashville, ILL.,, was attacked by an eagle
as he was riding on horseback, Tuesday.
After nearly an hours hard fighting,
having started to run twice, but: being
followed by the enraged bird, he sue
ceeded in. killing the eagle. Epgleman,
went to town and sent other parties out
after the eagle, which he could not carry.
The bird measured six feet four inches
from tip to tip.
The health authorities of Philadelphia
are talking of putting up a cremstory to:
eliminate the bodies of the poor who have
to- be buried at a public charge. The
Washington Star thinks the paupers are
to be congratulated on this. 1t will
doubtless be comforting for them to know
that instead of being turned out into the
cherries potter's field, their bodies will
be nicely roasted. Dying want be such
a grave matter then.
A London dispatch says that lately a
message was sent around to the daily
papers asking them not to print any re-
ports their correspondents at Athens might
wire about the Prince of Wales health.
TheGpapers in London all obeyed the sug-
gestion. A medical report received in
that city Says the effects of Bright.s dis
ease are beginning to be obvious, and the
result Of his voyage to Egypt will be
watched for with deep interest.
Mr.. Windham R. Meredith, the counsel
for the Richmond, Va, electric railway,
hasjust returned from New York, where
he went to attend a meeting of the direc-
tors of that company. Mr., Meredith says
that the board appointed all expert, who
had been recommended by the Sprague
Company, for the purpose of having the
road and equipments examined with a
view of having the same thoroughly over
hauled and put in perfect order.
Miss Kate Drexel, of Pittsburg, Pa,
whose wealth is estimated at $5,O0O,O 900,
entered upon her duties as a novice in
the Convent of. Mercy last week. Hith-
erto, during her stay in the convent, she
has been merely a "postulant" or appli-
cant on trial for admission. This prelim-
mary probation being ended, she now re-
ceives for the first time the habit of a
sister, with the white veil, which admits
her to the novitiate and the duties and
regulations of the Order.
The new Australian ballot system of
Missouri received a partial trial in the
ST. Louis school elect; ons of Tuesday with
the most satisfactory results. Although
the questions involved aroused much in
terest and called out a large foreign vote,
yet the loafers, ballot distributors, bribers
and heelers, who crowded about the poll
ing places under the old system, were
conspicuously absent, and the voters were
for once able to cast a ballot quietly and
amid decent surroundings.
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"A Washington correspondent of the
atlanta Journal gets off the following
lottery story: "L. Gould, Banker" is a
sign over a basement door on F street.
Il Gould is the representative of the
Louisiana State lottery in this city, and
is doing a land Office business. He has
hundreds of ~sub-agents who visit the de-
partments and sell tickets, and it is esti-
mated that at least $4,000 is sent away
eVerV month for tickets from Washing