The Arizona sentinel., 1890-12-27
ODDS AND ENDS.

only Republican county in thc
 State.
 The sheep seized by the Custom
 House authorities on the boundary
 line below Tucson were prized al
 $1.25 per head.
 Lets all go to Yavapai county
 and become Supervisors. They al
 low themselves $2,S00 per year
 which the Grand Jury finds legal
 but not polite.
 Plant the olive. IL grows any
 where, that the thistle or cactus grow. No other tree is more hardy and thrifty or more profitable. It grows from the cutting like a willow.
 Dismissed from the service, Al Sieber, chief of scouts at San Car los. Why? Quein Sabe. He has been of great service to the United States Government and deserves great credit.
 A third political party is to enter the field. Made up of all disaffect- ed elements running loose. A call has been issued for a meeting to effect an organization. This new party wants to gather in all of the sore heads, and there are a lot of them.
 As rule an orange tree 10 years old will bear 500 good oranges. A box holds 100 fair sized oranges, Last week in New York they were worth from $3.50 to $4.75 per box, and in Boston from $3.62 to $5.15 per box. At this rate the crop on ar acre would be worth $650.
 The Mummy Pea" which is re- ceiving so much attention at the present time, comes from seed found in a vase in the tomb of the Pharaohs in Egypt, supposed to be 5000 years old. The seed was first tried on the island of Guern- sey. The mummy wheat also had it's origin in the same way. Both are now famous.
 A Tustin nurseryman sold 30,- GOO Walnut tlees 3 years old to a firm in Los Angeles. They are to be set out in the San Fernando valley. It is the largest sale of walnut trees ever made on the coast. Why do not our farmers set out walnut trees? Even our people in town can put out a few trees in their gardens, in place of the worthless mesquit, pepper and other trees of their like. Now is the time to plant your fruit and nut bearing trees. Thousands should be planted.
 The Anaheim Gazette is author ity that Col. Keith shipped 136, 383 lbs. of walnuts this season. Price received g cents. Result, | $12,274. Max Neberling shipped 8O,OO0. lbs, received $7,2OO; MT. Kroeger gathered 26O lbs. from one tree, received $23.7O; R. H. Gil man shipped 44,OO0 lbs, received $4,000. The walnut crop in that one little valley this year brought S20,000. Plant walnuts, chestnuts, or graft them on the live oak where they will grow and bear luxuriantly, Try it farmers.
 In India 30,OOOpersons die every year from snake bites. Baron Herr Won Muller claims to have discovered an antidote for the poison, in strychnine. He injects from 10 to 20 minims with hypo- 1ermic syringe into the system every 15 minutes until slight spasms of the muscles are noticed. which is sure sign that the patient is out of danger. There are over 300 different poisonous snakes, several of which the bite hereto ore has been certain death. Von Muller claims that the poison of he bite suspends nervous action.
 It is estimated, that our best oils, taking the surface of an acre md to the depth of one foot, con- aims of life giving principle and 'igor to plants, not less than 4,OOO pounds of phosphoric acid, 5000 pounds, of potash and 16,OOOI pounds of nitrogen. The question ,;+b +bo fo,.,,,1 ..