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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume xvx, Issue 228, 25 September 1880, Page 2

! When one reads that in the last eight . weeks from seven Atlantic ports, -more than j forty million bushels of wheat and corn have | been exported to the markets of Europe, that ! in the past month the national debt has been i reduced by 10,214,424d015; that in the past ! year the mints of the country have coined i 84,573,144d015, tbat five million more acres i are planted in wheat this year than last; that : ten million fresh acres havo this year been disturbed by the plough, that the area of the cotton land has been extended ten ; per cent; that 7000 mileß of new railroad | have been built this year; that the mining j and manufacturing interests were never more j active; and the cbdsub, though not complete, showß the population to have increased despite I a lasting war, seventy-five per cent in twenty ! years, one begins to realise that this is a ! wonderful country. — San Francisco correspondent to N.Z. Tablet. They cultivate 'carp in Californiß,.and from five fish bought in 1876,(4000 were got in 1878, and now this fljjh faroaer.has got 8000 in his ponds. Total expanses, .240d015; fish sold, i 415d015; and only half , an acre of land under crop. i A Simple and effective method of pre yen fc- '• ing rabbits from eating vinea or treefl ia to kill one and cut ifc, oped and rub ifc on the • young plant. ThiaisasUre preventive, as ; the rabbits will eat nothing where they can ' smell blood. One application is good for the , season; Tbe Eastern custom of selling wives has ; ; been introduced into New v York by Ml\i and ! Mrs. Raum, who . becoming .tired of each other after trying 1 matrimony for three weeks, agreed, to , separate: ",- Mrs. Raum bei came housekeeper for a middle aged widower, i and he wanted her/tpmaiTy-him. She con- ! sented, and by paying the discarded, husband 25 dols., he signed a/ deed". of separation. Then the marriage took place ; but the 1 grown up children of the. aged widower have since induced Mr/Raum tpj commence a suit of bigamy against their- would-be mofcher-in-