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NEWS CONDENSES, 
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— A gold mine ha* been found in Northern 
Vermont. 
— The death of the wife of Garibaldi is 
announced.: 
— There are about 1,295 convicts at the Au¬ 
burn prison. 
— It is proposed to widen London bridge at a 
cost of £55,000. 
— The acho'd population of Richmond, Va., 
amounts to 20,754. 
— The Jesuits are to open a university at 
Vaugirard, France. 
— The Brooklyn anchorage of the East river 
bridge is completed. 
— There are 30,000 acres containing 30,000,000 
grape vines in California. 
— The tobacco crop in the United States is 
unusually large this year. 
— Nevada expects to produce this year bullion 
to the value of $25,000,000. 
— The county fair will be held at Norwich, 
Ct., September 8,0 and 10. 
— The lirltlsdi Polar Expedition has arrived 
safely at llisco, Greenland. 
— A woman caught 150 blue flsh in two hours 
at Norwich, Conn., recently. 
— There nro 80,000 pending applicants for 
pensions In the pension office. 
— There are about 18,000 English miles of 
railroad In operation in Russia. 
— Velocipedes are to he used hereafter by’ the 
messengers in the Italian army. 
— The London Underground Railroad last 
year carried 70,000,000 passengers. 
— A citizen of Henderson, Kentucky, posses¬ 
ses a Roman coin 1,525 years old. 
-Thirty-seven foreign Governments have 
accepted the Centennial Invitation. 
— The late rain storms In Minnesota have 
done damage estimated at $15,000,000. 
— It Is thou gilt that over 1.000,000 pineapples 
will be shipped from Florida this year. 
Counterfeit $10 notes of the First National 
Bank of Philadelphia are in circulation. 
— The Gregorian Calendar is now used 
throughout Russia by Imperial mandate. 
— A man named Clark, near Denver, Colorado 
raised 25,000 bushels of potatoes last year. 
— The total population of Chill is 2,007,524, an 
Increase of 217,701 since the census of I8ti5. 
— The ladies of Memphis are working indus¬ 
triously to form a Centennial Commission. 
— The increase of the mail service in the U. 
£». for new routes during July was #9,710.75. 
— A new Industry Is being developed in the 
South in the raising of fruit for the m .rket. 
— A rough diamond valued at $5,000 was 
recently found at the Newport mines. Mass. 
— The total coat of mail service in New 
England for the lust fiscal year was #1,192,787. 
— During the past year the sum of $4,827,- 
288.10 was raised in Iowa for school purposes. 
— Several horses In a stable at. Lancaster, 
Penn., were made deaf by lightning recently. 
— The recent funeral of Mr. Noe of N. Y., 
murdered by a burglar, was very largely at¬ 
tended. 
— Three large tobacco growers in Connecti¬ 
cut figure up their losses fur the past year at 
$200,000. 
—There are thirty-eight agricultural colleges 
in the United States, 389 teachers and 3,917 
students. 
— The total number of hogs packed during 
the lant twenty-live years 1*, in round numbers 
74,000,000. 
— The sum paid by the British Government 
last year in the way of pensions amounted to 
£1,080,715. 
— The entire amount needed by the N. Y. 
Fire Department for the year t87(i is estimated 
at $1,300,785. 
— A proposition is under discussion in Aus¬ 
tria for the introduction of a ;:old standard In 
that country. 
— The amount of appropriation for inland 
mail transportation for the present fiscal year 
is $17,548,000. 
— A deposit of red granite resembling that of 
Aberdeen, has been discovered in Stearns 
County, Minnesota. 
— The number of communicants In tha Prot¬ 
estant Ep’scopnl Diocese of Jowa Is 3,251. The 
number of parishes Is 61. 
— The steamship Ohio, which sailed from 
Philadelphia recently for Liverpool, had 2,400 
crates of Delaware peaches. 
I -Seventy-two per cent, of the school popu¬ 
lation of Illinois were Instructed in the public 
schools during the past year. 
— A collision occurred recently between the 
steamers Manitoba and Comet on Lake Supe¬ 
rior, and leu lives were lost. 
A The famous Hotel du Louvre, in Paris, has 
just been sold, together with Its furniture and 
fittings, for 17,500,050 franca. 
— The velocity of electric waves through the 
Atlantic cable h&s been ascertained to be from 
6,000 to 8,900 miles per second. 
— A Bcient'.flc cornmisBiou has been appointed 
by the Government to examine a patent process 
for water-prooftng banknote paper. 
SPECIAL COURSE OF I.VSTIitJCTrOX IX THE PBIX- 
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In agriculture and useful and ornamental gardening 
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1. The structure and dlsensos of domestic animals. 
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2. The fungi injurious to vegetation. Ass’t Prof. 
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3. Agricultural Chemistry. Trof. 8T0UER. 
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HISTORY AND MODE OF ORGANIZATION OF BUTTER AND 
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By X. A. WILLARD, A. M., 
Editor of the Dairy Department of “Moore’s Rural New-Yorker,” and Lecturer at the Maine 
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Manufacture. XIII,—Appendix. 
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