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2
Month
May
Year
1879
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Public Domain
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Ice is now manufacturad in Tennessee and Georgia at one cent per pound. Oregon has a boiling lake, from the bosom of which a black smoke arises constantly. Thirteen States and two Territories have laws making education compulsory. The tomato is a nativeof South America ; the onion is a native of India, the beau from Egypt, and the pea was iirst found in the West Indies. A petrified pike, which when alive must have weighed tliirty pounds, lias been dug up in Indiana, from forty feet below the surfaee of the soil. The new constitutioir of California pro vides that "no native of China, no idiot, insane person, or person convicted of any iníamous crime, and no person hereafter convicted of the em, bezzlement or misappropriation of public money shall ever exereise the privileges of an elector in that State." Two millions of eucalyptus trees have been plauted in Algeria. In Corsica more than a million trees have been planted. In Cyprus thirty thousand have already been planted by the British authorities in the fever-infested localities.' The Italian government is planting quite a forest of these niiasma-absorbing trees in the vicinity of Kome. A spruce tree scaling 3145 has been "boomed" on the Kennebec, and one scaling 2,500 feet. This log is perfecüy sound, and measures 10 feet 9 inches in circumference at the butt; 41 inches in diameter, 9 feet 6 inches in circumference, 35 inches in diameter 19 feet from the butt; 8 feet 3 inches around at the top, 28 inches through, and is B2 feet long. Some years ago a good deal of attention was attracted totheso-called liainTree of the West Indies on account of its extraordinary action in colleeting and diffusing moisture. An attempt to introduce it in India has been made at the Calcutta Botanical Garden, and the last report of the Director staten that it seems perfectly at home in the soil and climate. It is likely to be esteemed most as a shade tree in the East, and for its sweet pods, which are said to make excellent food for eattle. The cash value of our erop exports in 1878 was as follows: Cotton, $180,031,484 ; wheat, $121,967,737 ; corn,$49,866,546; tobáceo, $24,803,165; cheese, $14,103,529; butter, $3,931,822; rye, $3,082,514; barley, $2,565,736; oats,8l.277,920; potatoes, $541,593; hav, $141,340. Of our total wheat erop 25.2 per cent. was exported ; of the corn erop 6.5 percent.; of the barley erop 11.3 per cent., and of the tobáceo erop about 51 per cent. The amount of timber required to replace the ties once in seven years on the 85,000 miles of raüwaya in the Inited States, is 34,000,000 sleepers annually - an amount equal to 30 years' growth on 68,000 acres of the best natural wood land.

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Michigan Argus