The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-02-18
QUAINr AMI CURIOUS.

A Texas man of 85 years has just had
his 21st son born to him.
The total number of whippings in the
Pittsburg (Penn.) public schools during
n month was 249.
In a handful of clover plocked in his
yard, Edward Koehler, of Bethlehem,
Penn, found so four-leaf stalks.
As eastern Ohio man has been married
three times. Each time there was oppo-
sition, and he had to elope with the girl.
In Clearwater harbor, Fla, there is a
spring of delicious drinking water, bub-
bling through the mass of salt water
which envelopes it.
Lorenzo D. Teter and Gertrude S. Harp,
students of the Des Moines Qowa) col
lege, have been expelled because they
eloped and got married.
BENJAMIN Harrison was in q police
court in Washington for an assault, and
Levi Morton the same day was found to
be insane. They were both colored men.
A woman residing near Tubes Hill, N.
Y, has a pet snake. The reptile is very
tame, and spends hours in playing with
the cat, with which it is on the best of
terms.
The Lancaster PENN police, unable to
fix any crime on a suspicious character
arrested there, bought a railroad ticket
with the money found on him and ship
ped him out of town.
Near Silverton, Oregon, is a quarry Of
what is called fireplace stone" 1t is
soft when mined, and can be sawed or
chopped in any desired shape, and when
subjected to intense heat does not seem
to be affected.
Sweden is perhaps the most Protestant
ton of 5000, 900 there are only 1000
Roman Catholics, the remainder of the
population belonging almost entirely to
the Lutheran church.
A few days ago workmen at Morris
vile, n. j., unearthed a fine paleolith of
argillite, ten feet below the surface, which
is pronounced a relic of a preglacial man.
1t had a jagged edge, evidently having
been fashioned for a weapon.
An English scientist says that if we
were to visit the moon we should find the
days and nights a fortnight in length,
and if we survived the scorching during
death during the ensuing night"
Three men being unable to drive or
drag a 4O0-pound pig from its pen at
Reinhold, Penn, they called in the assist
ance of John Berkeley, a giant in strength.
He deliberately picked the kicking porker
up aud carried it out unaided.
George Jennings, Of New Portage, O.,
was fishing in Wolf creek and had set a
line and went further up the stream.
When he returned he found a duck had
swallowed the minnow and swan away
with the pole and line. He followed it
up and captured it. This is a new way
to get ducks.
In the Cascade Mountains, about sew
enty-fve miles from Jacksonville, Ore
gon, is to be found the Great Sunken
Lake, the deepest lake in the world. 1t
is said to average 1000 feet down to the
water on all sides. The depth of the
water is unknown. 1t is about fifteen
miles long by four and a half wide.
A sign that is attracting hundreds of
people to where it hangs, on a carpenter
shop, in Patterson, N. J., reads: "Cofins
made and repaired. Extra strong ones
for country people" The old man who
owns the establishment has his own coffin
on hand. 1t is made of pine wood, and
is covered with a neat pattern of wall
paper.
While ~remodeling a chimney in an old
homestead in C~herry6eld, Me-, for the
purpose Of attaching a hot air furnace, an
interesting relic in the shape of a little
brown jug of unusual shape was found in
an arch of the chimney, which certainly
had not seen the light for 100 years. 1t
vas empty, but smelled of other days.
Millions of gallons of rich brine, de-
rived from the action of the in6ltrated
rainfall on the rock-salt beneath, run to
waste in Pennsylvania and Wallachia, be-
cause prices are too low to render the
manufacture profitable. Yet the salt is
so pure that, merely crushed into powder,
it is fit for use without undergoing any