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Show some time ago by a rabid dog, which was afterward shot. Mr. Harvey carefully care-fully attended to his horse and expected to save him, but all tho well-known symptoms of hydrophobia soon developed. de-veloped. Tho horse bit his stall, snapped snap-ped viciously at every thing within reach, and finally died after suffering intensely. Last year the world raised 2,000,000.-000 2,000,000.-000 bushels of wheat. The United States grew 400,000,000 bushels; France a00,00ll00 India; 287,030,000; Russia (with Poland),8,000,000; Portugal, 9.000,-000 9.000,-000 Denmark, 0,000,009; Spain, 73,000,-000; 73,000,-000; Switzerland, 2,500,000; Germany, 84,000,000; Hungary, 05,000,000; Asia Minor, 87,000,000; Persia, 22,000,000. Mr. Youngblood. an old settler m Coffee County, Georgia, but yet a strong and robust man for his advanced age, has killed 003 deer in his time. Ho sticks to his old tlint-and-steel rifle, and says ho can yet see to cut a turkey's head off a distaneo of seventy-live yards. Ho says he would not give the old gun now for a carload of Winchester Winches-ter rifles. ( A queer while and red robin astonishes aston-ishes tho fisherman of Quonochontaug, R. I. It has built its nest in a shaggy reach of pasture near the thundering ocean breakers. The bird's body is of a snowy white, even to the tip of its tail, except its breast, which is of a rosy red. An albino robin is very rare, but a red and white robin was never heard of before. The library of Cornell University possesses pos-sesses an oriental manuscript written on palm leaves consisting of 1!)!5 strips or leaves, each seven by ono and a quarter inches, fastened together by a cord passing through a hole in the center cen-ter of each leaf. The writing is done on each, side of the leaves by etching tho characters with a sharp instrument on the palm leaves which have been afterward rubbed over with -a black pigment. Texan farmers have been greatly tor-menleil tor-menleil by tho depredations by rats, which have destroyed their crops iu many eases. ., In or'der to exterminate the rodents all the entrances but one to a burrow arc slopped up. At the open one an iron teakettle, is placed with a pipe leadiugfrom the nozzle down into the burrow. Sulphur is placed in the kettle, a lire made under it and tho fumes of tho sulphur being driven into the burrow every rat in it is quickly killed. VhlWKD AND CONUKNSEU An exulting 8uchi! took place at a burial in Syracuse, N. Y., the family nionnmcnl falling, smashing the colliii and precipitating it, tho body, uiul a pall bearer into tho grave. A new coffin cof-fin was soon obtained and the corpse buried. . . It is Hid that some genius has invented in-vented un electric reeoruer which may be attached to a gas meter and which will infallibly anil correctly record the xaet amount of " as consumed, no matter mat-ter what may bo the vagaries of tho meter itself. Not less than fifteen parishes, or ouo-fourth ouo-fourth of tho state of Louisiana, is affected by the present flood, and the dumage is almost incalculable. ' In 1882 it is estimated that the loss was $1.V 000,000. It will probably exceed half that amount this year. There is a craze in London for queer leather. Some shops aro stocked with f,.,.,. ..,.r,.,i.. ...... i.. f,.... . i. t KlllVjr mill KB llliltiu Jll.lll bllC niviiis IU all sorts of beasts, reptiles and fishes, including pelican skins, lion and -panther skins, lish skins, monkey skins aud snake skins, etc. It is an interesting point iu American history if, as stated, tho confederate fray uniform was borrowed from the 'irst Virginia regimeut, Which borrowed bor-rowed it from tho Seventh New York regiment. Tho confederate song, "Dixie," was of northern authorship. Forcight hours an infant of Stephen Bnrlecuof Bridgeport, lay in a trance, and an undertaker canto and put the. babo in a casket. Everything was ready for tho burial when the child suddenly woke up and sang out lustily, "Ma!" It is all right now. Tho servants and mistresses of Vienna Vi-enna have to mauage their affairs under un-der the superintendence of the police. Tho latter keep a "servants' boot," iu which each girl's dismissals and rc-en-gageinenls aro recorded, together with copies of character given by each cm-player. cm-player. Tho little town of Pankow, near Germany, Ger-many, is preparing for au event which promises to make her name famous. From July 6 to 10 10,000 Gorman marksmen marks-men will assemble there to celebrate tho tenth national German shooting festival fes-tival by competing for $100,000 worth of prizes. Between the Ural and Okhotsk seas there is a spot half as large as the stale of Michigan, which is frozen ground to the depth of ninety-four feet. That is, it has never thawed out sineo the world was created, and probably never will, and even if it-should nobody would havo any use for it. That mysterious disease, La Nonna, lias appeared in western Franco. A farmer belonging to a village near Dole, iu tho Jura, slept for four days and nights, anil awoke in such an exhausted condition that bo died two days later. Another fatality occurred near Press-burg Press-burg in Austria,' a boy of ten dying after a similar sleep of four days. Tho New York Coaching club, which has begun its trips, uses three different classes of horses, tho fancy "city" team, which prances along to One Hundred and Twenty-eighth street; the gallopers," gallop-ers," which will make up for any lost time, theneo to Unionporl, and the "business" horses, which will tackle the rougher roads on the last part of the journey. The statement in an eastern magazine that "butlcrllies have gone to the remarkable re-markable height of 800 feet in the Alps" lias elicited from Mr. Maxwell of California, Cali-fornia, a letter to the Scicntilie American, Ameri-can, in which he pronounces the trip not at 'all- remarkable. Ho writes that last summer he encountered numerous butterflies ou a peak of the Sierra Ne-vadas Ne-vadas 13,000 feet high. Tho roads are not so straight as they might be in Redinglontowr.ship, Maine. Last week a man who wanted to drive two yoke of oxen to the camp from the other side of Saddle-back Mountain, only six miles away in a direct line, had to travel fifty-eight miles before he reached the camp. An old duck hunter of Savannah says that a flight of ducks coming south on one day, if followed by other flights in the same direction days or weeks afterward, after-ward, will not vary to exceed twenty-live twenty-live feel from the path of the ducks which have preeeod them, aud they will alight in almost the exact spot where proceeding flights have settled. A Lancaster, horse was billeu |