The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-09-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

China has 100000 temples, with about
3.OOO,OO0 idols.
The famous blockade-rUnner, Let Her
Il, Is now running on Lake Superior Her
speed rs twenty miles an hour.
a very unsatisfactory sort Of brsad-The
roll OF Fame.-Judy. -
Boston has fifty miles OF fire alarm tele-
graph, that cost 100000.
Twelve distinct railroads are in course of
construction in Illinois.
Edmonia Lewis, the coIored sculptress. IL
visiting her friends in Ohio.
The manner of the liveried servants IN
| New ork excites the disgust of the popu-
lace.
The almshouses in England contain peers
made paupers by Overland & Gurney's fall
ure.
The London Spectator calls baby show
meiancholy exhibition of pulpy cellular
Among the latest discoveries in the ami
mai kingdom in Missouri are feathered
turtles.
what we import from Paris.-An aggre-
| gate of $40, l00,3l2 worth of folderol.-
Boston Post.
Punch was recently sold for $4,000.
Coolies, 1t Is reported are to build GeOr-
gia railway.
The English blends are said to have made
$4,000 in New York.
Nine nephews and neices now own the
Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.
Long Island, among other notsb,I,t,os
had school of whales last week.
Gen. Basil Duke has been elected 70 the
kentucky Legislature.
comfortable collins" are advertised in
Boston. :"
The Siamese Twins haye returned to this
country. ''
Riches got by deceit cheat no man so much
as the getter.
California pears are sold at retail in Chi
caSo, SIX Tor dollar.
Baltimore manufactured 22.5Il. 1s4 CIGARS
during the last year.
Miss Orlina Lyberger, of Indianapolis.
laced herself too much and died
The American Farm Book mentions a
morse that died at 81 years Of age.
A century plant less than twenty vears
ola mas just bloomed in Louisiana.
The Mexican Congress will soon. it is said.
confer regal powers upon President Juarez.
Tom Allen whipped Gallagher at St. Louis
on the I!th, In nine rounds. Both men bad
ly punished.
I'm sitting on the style, Marv,v as lady
wearing panier said to her friend.
The house and store rents paid in London
annually are estimated at one hundred mill
lion dollars.
A curious company was recently arrested
al BrookVllle, Pennsylvania, for travelling
on Sunday.
Brigham Ioung's sons are marrying as
last as they can, In hopes to catch up with
There was set of jewelry valued at 5000
IN the bouquet recently thrown TO a New
York danseuse.
Ihe Pacific Railroad bridge now In course
OF construction at Omaha. il is said, will be ,
a model of architectural strength and
beauty.
The ladies of Paris have grown tired of
Havana dogs, and now the rage is for mon
keys-the more mischievous aud dimunitiye
the better.
The Lafayette Journal describes "bats'' as
''thOse little fellows which look so much like
a mouse that you can't distinguish them
from swallow.
A steam shovel, capable of doing the work
of one hundred men, has been put in use on
one of the Illinois railroads, with the pur-
pose of loading cars with gravel.
A woman has been arrested in Vienna for
decoying young girls into her house and
then bleeding them. The blood was used
by this female tiend to wash herself with in
order to preserve her beauty.
Twenty Cuban prisoners have escaped
from Fernando Pc. Three of them arrived
in New York on Tuesday by the Cunard
steamer, and the others are expected to fol-
low in few days.
Clara, Cooking at the bonnets etc);
Don't you think they are very handsomeS''
Amy, (whOse thoughts are on the other side
of the street), Very specially the one with
the black moustache."
1t is stated that the King of Prussia has
issued an order forbidding the further cele-
bration OF the anniversary of the great vic
tory of Sadowa, on the ground that it was
victory of Germans over Germans.
Two young ladies, aged twenty two and
seventeen, accompanied by their father,
swan across the Serpentine, Hyde Park,
London one evening recently, at its widest
part. 1t is believed that this feat has never
before been performed by females. They ac
complished the distance with ease, and their
graceful swimming was much admired.
Sitka, in Alaska. is notable as the point
where the traveller around the world either
gains or losses his day of the week. A Rus
sian reaching it on an eastward journey cell
ebrates his seventh day Sabbath there, while
the American going westward finds business
suspended on his Saturday.
There are improvements in the mechan-
ism of the Great Eastern steamship which
are of some moment and value. Her rud-
der, formerly worked by twelve men. now
answers the bidding of steam machinery A
single helmsman turns q wheel and may in
dulge himself with the pleasing idea that he
thereby steers the ship. All that he does,
however, is to act upon certain valves, and
to set in motion the power by which, In
reality, the vast hull Is guided through the
sea-
From the Canton Mail.