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Show NEWSY NOTES. Tiirc phylloxera, or the vine pest, is maliinr such ravages iu the sherry wine districts nf Spain that, the government govern-ment has appropriated ftluO.oou for the extermination of the disease. Tins Danish tfovermnent has undertaken, under-taken, during the years 180a and 1S0G, a deep sea exploration in the Greenland and Iceland waters. The expedition will he accompanied by a botanist. It is said that in the past ten years the eity nf Nashville lost Sin.nnf),(H)0 in various boom schemes and wild speculation specu-lation ventures, and of this vast sura not ten per eent. was spent at home. TiltCFiE are two small Jewish agricultural agricul-tural colonies in California, the first in Orange Viile, opposite Fnlsom, and the other in Porterville, near Fresno. Koth have passed the experimental stage and promise success, Fit'BsiA proposes to connect thellaltic with the lilaek sea. according to recent re-cent report. The rivers Dnieper and Ihvina. are to be joined by a canal: surveying sur-veying has begun ut both ends of the route, and (iu-rson is spoken of as the harbor for the canal on the Chick sea. |