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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
June
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Female carpenters have appeared In London. The Yalue of the animal output of buttcr In Ireland Ia estlmated at not lees tban $30,000,000. Tbe average Mexlcan laborer supports hls family oa tea ccuts per dlcm, iuvested la corn and beau. There ar now twenty-two crematories In Europe, where more tban 1,400 Inclneratlons took place last year. Seals are renorteil to be creallog sad havoc amone the salmón at tbc moutb of tbc Penobscot Uiver lu Malac. The United States, In callhig for bodies of cavalry luirse, gires special mentlon to lts prefcrence for Montana stock. A correspondent writca tbat many sbeep are dylng in Franklln, K. II., and vIclnltT, íroni a dlscase thought to be erub in tbc bead. Accordlug o tbe Hungarian minister of agricultura, the loss of Hungary from pleuroDneumonla bas of late years amounted to $6, 150,000 yearly. At San Antonio, Tex., there Is to bc a hospital establlsbed for tbe cure of hydropbobla bjf Dr. Spohu, who bas recently been to Pari and studled tbe metbods of Pasteur. Japanese englneers propose to adopt a systi'in of c:rtbwork defences protreted by an irou shleld one foot in thiekness, and extendIng twcnly-fivc fect eacb side of tbe gun. Large numbers of cattle are reported to hare dled In Cookc and Montague counties, Tex., trom the plague. Tbe anlmal's throat swells, ehoking lt to dealb in a few hours. The United States Government has already purebased vinder tbe circular of April 17 bonds to tbe ainouut of $18,088,00), costlncr tbe Government , inclndlng premiums, $21,665, 500. A collectlon of orchids, owned by Mr. Willlam H. Chadwick, of Chicago, Is probably tbc flnest In tbe United States. He has in hls green house about 8,500 planta, comprisIng 560 varietles. American authors are more read than tbe Engllsh In Japan. Last year 85, 000 Engllsh and 119,000 American books were imported Into that country, so ihat tbe old queatlons, "Wlio rcads an American book?" was fairly answercd. European natlons have alrcad.v appropriated about 6,500,009 of the 11,000,090 square miles of África, and as tbc Great Desert occuples 2,300,000 square miles, only about 2,500,000 square miles remaln to be serambled for. The number of bales of wool Imported Into New York during tbc past weck amounts to 1,429 bales of forelgn and 1,166 bales of domestlc. Slnce Jan. 1, 43, 156 bales of forelgn and 18,592 bales of domestic wool have been ! ceived at New York. II. Paul Leroy-Beaulleu gives figures showIng tbe quantity of tobáceo consumed In the different countries of Europe. Therate per 100 Inbabitants is, according to him, as follows: Spain, 110 pounds; Italy, 128 poundi; Great Brillan, 138 pounds: Russia, 182 pounds; Denmark, 224 pounds; Norway, 229 pounds; Austria, 273 pounds. The Western packing of hogs for the week has been about 155,000, against 163,000 the preccding week and 175,000 the past year. Prices of hogs have gradually strengthened during tbe past week, the advance being ten to flfteen cents per 100 pounds In most centres, wlth twenty to twenty-flve cents being reacbed at Chicago. Tbe consul-general at Harve,ln hls report ou the export of butter from Nonuandy, says tbere can bc no doubt tbat a large proportlou of tbe butter sent from Normaudy to England is more or less mixed wltb eleomargarlne. Sonie experts say that lt Is posslble to mix ten and liftten per cent. of oleo in sucb a manner as to defy detectlon. , Eacb year soroe of tbc strongest rallleri In tbe Winter wheat Stiltes are la the hablt of sending out experieuced men all over the Winter wheat belt to ascertain the condltlon of tbe erop. From these rellable sources, tbe j returns sent In tbus far indícate only flfty per cent of the wbeat erop of last year In tbe States of Oblo, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. A lot of Iridian boncs were uneartbed in a field lu Baldwlu county, Georgia, a few days ago, tbat has been In cultlvatlon over fifty ycars. They bad been placed in a pot, whlch was brokcu to pleces. Tbe bones were niucli wastud, on ing to the long time they had beei burled. Among thcru was a jaw bone, wltb several teetb In it. Tbere was also In the lot a stone pipe, wbtch was much worn. Advlces from the Red Rlver county report tbat the damage done to tbe Inhabitants o] tbe Red River valley during the past few dayi Is almost bevond coraputatlon, the overflow being the largest for forty-flve years. Most of tbe plautations near tbe river have been covercd with water four to slx feet deep, and ! crlbs, barns and many miles of iences baye been washed down and carried away. It is reported from Detroit that a lad named Frank Balley, sixteen years old, has such a manía for thrustlue plns and ueedlcs into thi rigbt slde of hls face ana neck tbat lt has become necessary to send hlm to tbe lunatlq asylunj. At tbe time of hls departure hl had from thlrry to forty pins burled to th head in hls cheek, besldes an uuknown number of needlcs tbat were out of sigbt Tbe average wateb Is compexed of 175dlfferent pleces, comprlslng upwards of 2,40J separate and distinct operatlons in lts manufacture. Tbe balance bas 18,004 beats or vibratlons per bour, 12,960,080 In tblrty days, 157,680,000 In one year; it travels 143,100 Inchet with eacb vlbratlon, wblch Is equal to 8% miles in twenty-íour bours, 2ÍÜ3Í miles In ! thlrty days, or 3,558% miles in one year. Experimenta in pig feeding, lustltuted under tbe Danlsb Agrlcultural Society, go to show tbat ekimmed milk bas doublé tbe feeding value of buttermilk; tbat rye and btrlej are of about cqual value, with a alight percentage in favor of rye, and that slx poundi of skimmed milk havo tbe same feeding; value as one pound of rye or barley, and twclve pounds of buttermilk are required to obtaln tbc same resulta of feeding value. A few weeks ago a citizen of Thorp, Wis., golng through tbe woods ncar there, founO two deers with their horns locked together. One was dead and Irozen stilt, and the othci bad dragged tbe dead body over forty rodi , and torn up the ground and brush In Iti f rn tic efforls to get free. It was stlll alive, but very weak, and the hard-hearted citlzeu killed tbe poor animal, and then bad to break the horns in order to get tben apart. lu 1S76 Frank Bensou, a clerk In a commlssion house in Macon, Ga., scrawled a few words In pencll on the cover of a box ol eires that was packed for shlpment to a distant vlllage In Georgia, remote from tha railroads. He Is now In business for hlmself, and laft week, in removing tbe lid from box of cggs receivlng from anotber part ol tbe state, be was surprised to see on the reverse sldc tbc identlcal words be bad wrltten uine years ago. A plague of caterpillars is reported In Chenango county, N. Y., In the shape of ths commem apple tree worms, hicb are just beglunlng to make tlielr appearance In tbat locallt. In all tbat sectlou they are seen in greater numbers than ever bef ore. The first preaence oX the pest is easlly dlscovered, as every observlng person knows, by tbe appearancs of tiny silken webs or tents on tbe outer branches of the applc and some other rarieties of fruit trees. lt bas been legally settled in Texas that ths moon has an Immense influence In enlarglng tbe brand of cattle. A lawsult was pending relative to tbe ownershlp of a heard of cattle and the solutlon depended upon the proof of tbe brand, whlch was found on comparlson to be three times as large as the branding Iron wblcl tbe clalmant used. Thlrteen wltnessea were lntroduced, all of tbem experts In branding and cattle berdlng. They all iwore tbat when cattle were branded in the dark of the moon the brand wlll never, no matter how large the animal may grow, get larger tban the dlmcnslons of tbe Iron used. On the other hand, when elther grown cattle Dr calves are branded lu the llgnt of the moon the scar wlll spread, and the llgbter the moon tbe larirer wlll be the spread. And the mlt, Involvlng several tbousand dollars worth 5f cattle, wal üettled on tbis tcstlmony. 8o tbe questlon Is legally settled that it Is tbe noosi that does lt.

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Ann Arbor Democrat