The Delta independent., 1891-04-07
WINGED MISSILES.
Labor is restless. In 1890 there wer,
[, 900 strikes In the world.

Labor is restless. In 1890 therc were
1000 strikes In the world.
Philadelphia has eighty-five shoe factor
les. Manufacturing is the basis of the old
sity's prosperity.
It is reported that white servants are
rapidly replacing colored help in tie towns
Of southwestern Georgia.
The English factories are forming a
calico syndicate and the cost of the staple
dress is likely to advance.
Henry Ward Beecher used to say:
every man consents to slavery who docs
not exhaust himself to prevent it.
Two convicts have died in the Concord,
Mass, reformatory from drinking alco-
holine, a preparation used in the shoe
shop.
Probably Prussia will never get out of
debt. She now owes 81, ,450, 900, 600. Wars
and a standing army are expensive institu-
ions.
Albuquerque, N NJ, has a large surplus
Of unmarried young men, and an influx Of
New England girls would be gladly well
romed
Betting on the rainfall has been carried
to such an extent In India that the Bonn
bay government has passed an act for
bidding it.
Some idea OF the size of London may be
had when It is said that New York, Paris
and Berlin all together have not so largo
an area as London.
A witness In contested will case at
Philadelphia said the testator was not a
hard drinker, as ''he only took twenty -five
or thirty drinks a day.
1t Ia said that in Paris twice as many
'rimcs are committed by persons between
the ages of fifteen and twenty as by those
between twenty and forty.
High play in country houses has be-
come subject of discussion in England,
though the houses where high stakes are
the rule are said to be very few.
Virginia, North Carolina and tennessee
raise an average Of 100000 bushels Of
peanuts year. The annual value of the
trop averaged $4,000, 900 for the last four
years.
General Lew WALLACE, the author of
Ben Hur,' says he can cure rheumatism
in one night without fail with a poultice of
mustard and garlic applied to the soles Of
the feet.
In England tho old four-posted bedstead
is the pride of the nation, but the iron or
brass bedstead is fast becoming universal.
The English beds are tho largest beds in
the world.
The greater quantity of hair from
which wigs are made for England's judges,
lawyers and clergymen comes from China,
whore 1t is cut from the heads Of beggars,
criminals and the dead.
Hens and chickens worth Sc, 900 apiece
attracted curious sightseers at the poultry
show in New York, while domestic fowls,
worth each few hundreds, were 30 COM
mon that they hardly won any notice.
Two hundred thousand dollars a year are
spent by tho London school board in en-
forcing the attendance Of children. They
are advised to try the French plan of get
ting children to school by good lunches.
An English bacteriologist, who is notable
as the discovercr of taxalbumens and who
is now studying the Koch method at the
Hygienic Institute, Berlin, announces that
he has discovered q remedy for anthrax.
Some of the Alaskan natives acquire
very respectable fortunes in the fishing
trade. A Nicholas Bay Indian has been
known to pay down 81 900 in hard cash
for blankets and trinkets for one potlach.
The Prince dc Rohan, In a bet with
Prince Torlonia, has lately driven trap
and four down the stone steps of the town
of Monaco. The descent was rather
steep, but 1t was done without stumble.