Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-08-07
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man.
Carbon, Wyoming, pays its Mayor IS
year.
Eight Indiana counties haven't q col
ored voter.
The English Language contains about
385, 900 words.
Iced buttermilk is the drink just now
of swell New Workers.
The ear is said to be the most useful
organ for the identification of criminals.
The citizens of Green Cove Springs,
Fla, raised a subscription and pur-
chased hearse.
The Union Pacific trestle bridge near
Dalles, Oregon, 325 feet long, was re-
Gently rebuilt in twenty-four hours after
being burned.
lightning followed a line of gilt down
the wall paper in Methodist Church at
Belpre, Penn, and burned off only the
1ashy figures.
When Washington became President,
all the chief towns were on the sea coast,
or on the tide water of the rivers, except
Lancaster, in Pennsylvania.
Sir Walter Raleigh, while yet young
man. fought for years on the side of the
Huguenots in the French civil wars, and
afterward in the war in Ireland.
A blue heron, measuring six feet from
tip of bill to tip of tail, and six feet one
inch from tip to tip Of wings, was shot
at Pigeon River, n. c., few days
ago.
Wolves have killed large number of
sheep in Webster County, W. Va, and
the County Court offers $50 each for
wolf scalps, to which citizens commit
tee will add $40.
The Chinese think that la grippe is
caused by evil spirits. Therefore, when
one of their number is stricken with 1t,
they come around with their drums and
in neighborly sort of way make him
feel glad to die.
Charles Warner, of Lebanon, Conn.,,
now in his seventy-ffth year, has re-
Gently experienced much pain in his jaw.
He consulted dentist and found that
new set Of teeth were cutting. This will
make his third set.
J. A. Buffum Of North Monroe, n.
H., has a curiosity in the shape of
lamb; it has two perfect bodies, one
head, three ears and eight legs. They
were Joined together at the shoulders,
and it has teeth as large as a yearling
sheep.
The profits of coffee cultivation in
Mexico are very large. In the State OF
Vera Cruz the berry is produced at cost
of 81 per 100 pounds, and sells for S22
to $23 per 100 pounds, and sometimes
even hi CHER. The production has quad
rupled since 1881.
Thomas Cooper and wife, who live
near Plowery Branch, Ca, have four
daughters All except one married
widows sons, all their husbands being
named William, and all of them the
Youngest Of the family, and all married
on the third Sunday in the month.
A man named Hutch, living in Fancy
Bottom, near Weston, Mo-, stole IL
wagon load of corn from Mrs. Mary
Bland, a widow, and started to town
with it, but got stuck in the mud before
he was mile away, and had to abandon
the corn and wagon, both of which are
now in the possession of the widow.
| Nearly every one AuO"S I1dL CuLCO
balls are the arms of the Medici family,
but it is not so we'll known that they re-
fer to an exploit of Averardo de Medici,
commander under Charlemagne. This
bold warrior slew the giant Mugello,
whose club he bore as trophy. This
mace or CLUB has three iron balls, which
the family adopted as their device.
Constantinople has fifty newspapers;
nineteen of them are daily, five semi
weekly, seven weekly, three semi-month'
", six monthly. In nationality five
are Turkish, seven Armenian. eight
Greek, six French, two French and Eng
lish, one Italian, two Hebrew, two Hun
garian, one Arabian, one Persian, one
German.
Joseph Graham, of Eastman, Ga, had
fed his hogs the other morning and was
leaning on the fence watching them eat,
when he felt something chilly fondllng
and cacessing him in a peculiarly earnest
way about the head, face and neck. He
saw at once that he had placed his elbow
about midway on the body of a king
snake several feet long and was holding
him fast down on the rail, and. as one
would suppose, both ends of the snake
being loose, they cut up vigorous caper: