The Advocate and news., 1899-03-15
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in Philadelphia to be coined into ten and
twenty dollar pieces.
In the Alabama legislature the House
voted unanimously that our national flag
must float over every school house in the
State. This is a most worthy example
for every State in the Union to follow.
The Senate in Idaho has rejected bill
making eight hours legal days work in
that State. Eight hours are long enough
for legal days work anywhere, and es-
pecially In damp and unhealthy mines.
Free rural mail deliveryis being tried in
the vicinity of Alton and Belleville, ILL
nois. It will not be many years until
it will be in general use in the thickly
populated farming districts all over this
country.
Winter wheat is said to be badly dam
aged by the hard freezing in northern
Nebraska. So far as reports have been
received no damage Of this kind has been
found In Kansas and the wheat is said to
be in splendid condition.
A curious case has arisen in a Massa-
chusetts court. A farmer has been sued
for sneezing so loudly on the public high
way that the plaintiffs horse was thereby
frightened and ran away to the great
damage Of the plaintiff
On March 8, the United States ship
Relief sailed from New York to Manila
with supplies and hospital stores and 200
men, surgeons and hospital stewards for
the assistance of the sick and wounded
men under Otis and Admiral Dewey.
Johsn Billings was one of the drollest
and most pointed humorist of his day.
Upon the subject Of farming he said:
"Agricultur wuZ fust discovered by
Cain, and has been discovered sence to
be an honest way to get hard living"
During the cold weather in February
the thermometer ranged from IL degree
below zero in northern Georgia to zero
on the coast, and the loss to the fruit
crops in that State from the severe frez-
ing is estimated at several million dol
lars
The use of horse flesh for human food
is steadily increasing in France and even
mules and dOnkeys are used for that pur-
pose to some extent. Last year 21 900
horses, 303 donkeys and 81 mules were
slaughtered in Paris for use as human
food
The contract labor system is to be re-
established in the Indiana State prison
at Michigan City. One-half the con-
victs are to- be employed under contract
for five years and the other half are to
cultivate farm lands to be leased by the
State.
The fair grounds of Morgan County, IL
linois, were recently sold by the sheriff
to satisfy an execution against the Fair
Association and brought one-half their
actual value. Mismanagement some
where must be at the bottom of this mis-
fortune.
The dry weather has been so severe in
California that the almond and cherry
trees are in bloom fully month earlier
than usual, and great fears are enter
tained that late frosts may catch the
blossoms and destroy the crops of fruit
and nuts.
AN artesian we'll near Waco, Texas,
which has yielded pure water for several
years past, recently Of its own accord and
unannounced, commenced flowing oil of
high grade What the poor people of
Texas will do for water to drink may yet
become a serious problem.
The South Carolina legislature pro-
poses to get after the poll tax dodger by
a law that makes the non-payment a
misdemeanor punishable by fine Of five
to ten dollars with imprisonment in the
county Jail from ten to twenty days and
commitment to the chain gang.
Bee keeping has been an extensive and
profitable industry in Kentucky, but the
intensely cold weather the past winter
has killed so many of the bees as to prac-
tically destroy that industry in that
State for the time being and until the
business can be built up again.
From careful calculation it has been
determined that the energy that can be
produced by pound Of coal is equal to
the work of one man for one day, and
that the energy in square mile of coal