The Kansas Pacific Railway And Agriculture

Tlie officers of the Kansas Pacific Kailway are making laudable eflorti to develop the agricultural interests along the line of thoir roafl, and aro meeting witl admirable success, as the folio wing paragraph cut from the Kansas City liul-letin will dö.uonstrate : One of the most plcasing and interesti'.ig displays mudo is that of tho Kansas Pacific Riilway, showing what they ;an raise in tho way of vegetables and coreáis along the line of road through Kansas and Colorado ; pleasing, beeauso we may look on our city as tho key to that wondorful country represonted hore, and in - turostina? bedause pooplo in tho east, who will visit us, and Indeed a Lugo projxirtion of the residouts here, look upon the idea of anything growing from the soil in those distrii:ts as utterly absurd. In obedience to a circular issued, by BeTOrly R. Keiin, general ticket agent of the Kansas Pacific llailway, who, bjr tho way, ims determinad nevor to lose a chanco of ailverlLsiug hú road, tho station agents along thu line have sent in coutributions, aud when we remembor the lateness of tho season, the show madn is really wonlerful. Ut. Weston, land agent of the eompany here, i.s managing matters at ;he exhibitiou building, and hasarrangi.'d ;ho display in a most tasly and effective nanner, and in conjunction with the rest, 10 exhibits produetsof the " Great American Desort," which attraoted so much atlention individually and from tho newsiapers at tho great St. Louis fair. Most i!' these products camo from Wilson's, two londred and thirty-nine miles from here, where the eompany has an experimental garden, and somo from Ellis and Pond treek, threo hundrod aud tour hundred and thirty milos west. Soino of tho most noticeablo woro as 'ollows : Potatoes and beets from Abileno ; do toni Potawatouiio county ; squashes from Ibiluno ; oereals and svveet potatoes from Jolorado ; coreáis and nativo groases, seodling trees of different varietio3, and sorghuin fifteon foet high, from Wilson's ; gquaahes, broom oom, sorglmm and peaïuts from Pillis ; petrified wood woighing sixty-fivu pounds; a sod of buffalo grass eighteeii inches deap and twelve i lidies hrough. We onderstand that noarly a Car load of contributions arrived this morning, which we will be able to notice when plaoed on exuibition. In the center of the display is the shuggy head of a largo buffulo buil, shot near Wilson's, which is an object of great interest to the strangers froiu the east and draws a crowd trina morning tiil night. The company certainly deserves rauch credit for making this most attractivo and novel exhibitiou. In confirmation of the above wo can give our personal lestimony from recent observation. In our recent trip to the west wo met at Ellis, 303 miles west from Kansas City, and within the borders of the heretofore called " Great American Desert," a Michigan man, an oíd acquaintance, who adds to his vocation as keeper of the railroad eating house - and ho makes a good one - tho experimental and practical business of farming. He assured us that tho vegetables with which tho tables were supplied, and in the list were potatoes, beets, onions, parsneps, cabbagos, etc., all first quality, wern raised by himsolf. And we also noticed a piece of winter wheat looking as well as the avorage fields in Washtenaw county the present soason. Mr. Edwai'.ds - for that was our friend's name - also inforniod us that ho had kept a weather record l'or the last two years, - that is by date but lacking a rain-gauge, - and that there had been rain as oí ten, on an average, as twice a month. Tho same succossful experiments we noted at other stations, and also attempts to cultívate trees, which promised all that was expected. And so that bugbear, tho " Great Amciiean Dosurt," had moved further to tho west. - Great credit is duo to ths offiaers of the K. P. 11. for the enterprise with which they are pushing their agrie iiltural operations away out upon the plains. In proving that these lands aro arabio they will do a service not only to themselves but to the whole laud-soeking country. The Xew York Ol-ohe "says : '■ It is announced tliat ono of our society belles has determined to créate a sensation at l'rinco Alexis' buil by haring her hair lit up ljy little gas jets, the resorvoir of which is to be concealcd amidst a wilderness of false braids, puffs and curls, and a French twist. She is to pay Alexander Martin 11(1 tbr dressing her hair tbr tho evening, and arranging her crown of blazing stars, while she pays $150 for the falso hair added to her own abundant tressos. This is not an original idoa of the young lady's, however. It was a devico of that Miss Fanny Carter, of Boston, who was first marriod to a grimdson of old Peter Lorrilard, and, after his dcatb, to Mr. Konalds, a brother-in law of Senator Conking. She wore such a head-dress on one occasion at a ball at tho Tuileries, in Paris." ■ -, Goological changes of great magnitude lave taken place during the last ten years n the districts adjoining tho Caspian Sea and the Ural Itivor. Tho water of he river has suuk moro than one foot, and many bngs on the northeast coast of he sea have boen entirely drained. Tho lelta of the Ural has diminished from dneteen to flve branches, and its area is ïow only geren versts instead of ono lundred. Many islands have joined the mainland. once on the seacoast, is now six versts inland.