The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-01-15
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john the BapGlsG ate IOCusG anu WuQ
honey.
QUENTIN Matsys was extremely fond
of any kind of fruits.
In 1874 a we'll written Bible was sold
for so marks, about $170.
A house of 10 rooms in Pompeii cost
the builder nearly S., 900.
Belize said there was nothing better
than fish and potato salad.
Liszt was as simple in his eating as
he was abstruse in his music.
A Mazarin Bible, printed in 1855,
sold a few years ago for 81, 500.
The boar's head used in Cambridge
college in 1879 cost 10 shillings.
Schubert loved corned beef and cab.
bage better than any other dish.
Peter the Great filled himself with
baked goose, stuffed with apples.
Henry VIII. could always eat him.
self stupid on a haunch of vension.
Among the bills of Marie Antoinette
is one of $500 for a pair of carriers.
Rembrandt ate behring's and rye
bread. This was his ordinary diet.
Frederick the Great was satisfied
with salt beef or pork and cabbage.
The fur-trimmed cloak worn by
Cromwell as lord protector cost $40.
During the reign of Nerva a fee of
four cents was demanded at the bath.
Poppaea, Nero's wife, paid four
cents a quart for asses milk to battle in.
Common knives for belt and table
use cost 40 cents apiece at Florence in
1860.
Hogarth liked good English beef
and mutton. His common drink was
beer.
A Roman military saddle cost eight
dollars; a whip, "a cents; a bride cost
81 go.
Moore hated onions. He said that
a man who would eat onions would
steal.
Allan >Ramsay's favorite dish was
oatmeal porridge, and his drink was
water.
In China ordinary day board can be
had for a Chinaman at about three
cents.
Japan's great general, Field Mar
shall Yamagata, is a poet and essayist
quite a magazine gun himself, as it
were.
Gen. DeGalIifet, who has just been
retired for age, was the last office on
the active list who held the rank of
general at the outbreak of the war of
1870.
John Sullivan, in whose honor a
handsome. granite shaft has been
raised in Durham, N. H., is not the
muscular artist. He was mere a revo-
lutionary hero.
"A Christian Endeavor society with
40 members and representing six differ
ent denominations, has been formed In
the Eighth regiment of the National
Guards of Pennsylvania.
The whiskers of a cat are supposed
by some ~naturalists to be provided
with nerves down to the tip, while
others believe that the base of the hair
is better fitted out with nerves than
most other part of the skin.
Vice Admiral Butler, @. B., who has
been appointed to command the North
Atlantic squadron to succeed Vice
Admiral Sir John Ommaney Hopkins,
who was our guests at the Centennial
celebration.
The will of the late Jose DeLavega,
OF Ganta Cruz, Cal, contains a bequest
OF real estate in San Francisco valued
at more thru $500, 900 as a sustaining
fund for an asylum for the blind,
dumb, lame, paralytics and aged peo-
pie of both sexes
Wemyss Reid, now Sir Wemyss
Reid, the editor of the Speaker, who
was for a long time editor of the Leeds
Mercury, is one of the most ~conspicu
u men in the liberal party. His
biographies of Mr.. Forster and OF
Lord Houghton are finely done, and
his one novel, "GIadys Fame" has had
a fair success.
AUianceman, If you receive a sample