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Show mi un ami air sriTrn Nearly riary etni. lie llxn (. lo. ,111m Inmr. The American tendency to apply a famllar designation to Individuals and communities has led to the adot lion of a colloquial name for near!) every elate In tho union. Arkansas la thu Hear stale, California tho Uoldon state, Colorado the Centennial. Conneellcul haaloogttourlahed under the nppela. lion of tho Nutmeg statr.togothcr with several other designation moio or Ions riljectful, while Uelaate la tho lllue lieu alate. ilia natural thai Florida should be the l'oulnsula statu and Georgia thu Cmplre state of thu south, hut uot ro obvious la thedealgn given Illinois, the Murker state, or thai of lndloua, the I lousier state. lown rrjoleea underthn cognomen ol the Ilankeye state, while Iho upi roi rlate nets of a poi ular nsme Is verllled by that of Kansas, the Uulden atate. Kentucky la tho Corncracker state; I.oulslaua, Ihu I'elloau, au alluilon tu thecoat-of-anua, while a similar reason has Inspired the nickname glvou to Maine, tho 1'lne Tree slate. Maaav ehuaetUlathe Old Hay atate; Mlehl-gnu, Mlehl-gnu, Iho Wolverlue state, .Mluueaota, lliu (loplier state, the zoology uf both furnishing thu designation. Mlsalt-elppllethe Mlsalt-elppllethe llajou atate, au allutluu lu u neugrahl(al feature, Mtiaourl Is poetically knuwu as Iho l'enmylvnule ol Ihe West. Nevada la Ihu Hagel ruah atate, New llamishlro lliAUraulluttale,New Vork Ihe l.ini Ire alatv, Nottii Carolina the lar stale, Ohio Iho lluekrje; l'ennsyl-vaula l'ennsyl-vaula la the Kuyttone, llhude Island la Iho lilttlollhody.Bouin Carolina thu l'sluiettu atate, roiiucitee la the Dig iltndatnte, Uxaa the Lone btar, Virulent Vir-ulent the Green Mountain, Virginia the Old Dominion, Weat Virginia the, I'auhanJlr, an I Wlaconalu the HaJgtr etato. St. LowiQtoba-Ocmocrat. lllllM lUllOU. London, Nov. 22 Hpeclmen jsr-oelsof jsr-oelsof eiitton alleged tu havo betu eul-thalid eul-thalid In HoUth Iluaala have been received re-ceived hero. Ihe cotton Is said to liavu beeu raleed from American seed lu Iho province of Ktierton, thu woetern half of which la very ItillU. The Itusalau aulhorltlea aro Interoetlug themselves lu the txterlment, aud teacheri from the school of agriculture aru training thu cultivators lu ralalug eotttn. l.xporta have declared that tho lottou Is euual to the American product. The presldout of tbo Manchester disinter of Commerce, while lecturing laat evening, aaaerled that the United Htatea during thu laat four yeais lira J only Increawd Iheuuuibcr of epludlm 7 pur tent, whlln India, In tllu eamii erlod had lucreaied her Dliidleai3 eroent. lllallguria huve not been proved to to rorreot. Ho blindly argued ar-gued that tho American tariff ha 1 prevented pre-vented Ibe United biiatca from com-tctlng com-tctlng luthu foreign market, while India was slowly securing Ureal llrltaln's cuatomorr, thus proving the utility of free trade. ", 7T riti - |
