Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-23

the nacnlnery or the mlu stopped, put the cat was killed.
 And still they come. One of the suc- cessful real estate firms in Chicago is that of Wilson & Wilson, the members of which are two pretty and progressive young women who found the millinery business in Michigan too slow and moved to Chicago in search of fortune. They have already secured profitable patronage.
 According to Dr. Hermann Wagner, the best authority on population, the worlds inhabitants now number 1 1,479, 729, 400. This is over 40, 900, 900 more than the esti- mate in 1882, indicating an annual increase of 5, 700, ,000. These figures, however, are only guesses, as there is no means of ascer- taining the true figures on nearly one-half of the earth's surface.
 A recording apparatus which has been for some time at work on a number of cabs in London is calculated to prevent disputes between cabby and his fare. It is fixed inside the cab in full view of the passenger, The recorder has on its face 8 disk which is divided into twelve parts, each part representing mile, and as the cab travels the distance covered will be in- dicated. Besides this there is an arrange ment by means of which the work done and the money taken are recorded on a cardboard disk at the back of the machine.
 Tba yUo,oorfs union of Pennsylvania has showed good sense in giving up politics. One of the leading members of the State convention at Pittsburg said: We expect nothing or very little from legislation. It has been shown that the law cannot make a sober man ont of drunkard, or turn bad par ent into good one. We must go from house to house to SOW the seeds of temper ance if we wish to harvest higher stand ard of morality and better understand ing of the duty of Christian.
 Farming pays if you farm in the right place and in the right way. William L. Kennedy of Falling Greek, Lenoir county, North Carolina, has shown what can be done. At the close of the war Kennedy was eighteen years old. He had carried a musket for two years, and returned home to find the family fortunes broken. Un- complainingly, he went to work as a day laborer on his fathers plantation. After what might be termed an apprenticeship of four years, he became ambitious to far, h am farm was in the market, and, as payment could be made by installments, young Ken nedy bought the property. The price was to be $50 an acre. By dint of hard work, this was paid for in few years, and Mir. Kennedy now owns two plantations of about ,000 acres each. He puts in all kinds of crops, and sells every thing that can be produced on a Southern farm. He plants 200 acres of cotton, and obtains a 500-pound bale to the acre, One hundred and sixty acres are given to corn, 40 to wheat, D to oats, and 25 to native grasses. Peas and sweet potatoes are extensively cultivated, the peas being sowed on wheat and oat stub ble. He has herd of 100 cattle and milks % Jersey COWS. Every year he sells 5000 worth of butter. His pigs, of which he feeds about 125, bring him in snug sum of money. With turkeys Mir. Kennedy has great success, many of the gobblers weigh ing forty pounds when they are killed. He feeds them on wheat, bran and clabber. Twenty men and their wives and children are employed on the home plantation, the other being leased on shares. Each man has house and garden free and is paid forty-ive cents day. The women and children receive from 20 to 40 cents day