The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1869-07-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Kansas claims to be receiving 1000 new
| settlers per day.
There are ten Indians to one Russian in
Alaska.
Mrs. Colonel Colts income is 100000 per
annum.
Fanny Fern says, All whom we love
are handsome"
The latest fashion among London swells is
to carry poodle dog under the arm.
Red satin shoes and no stockings is the
court dress of Paraguay.
Crocheting and loye-making are fashion
able industries at the seaside.
In Iowa a man recently broke his neck
whilst climbing over a fence.
An Ohioan recently surprised some bur
glars into leaving him a team worth $500.
Some Of the coal companies in Pennsyl-
vania propose employing Cinnamon as mi
ners.
The Maine Farmer recommends giving
pigs good rock salt twice a week in their
food.
Sensational correspondents for northern
papers are now called the Literary KIN
klux Klan.T
Able-bodied Cinnamon work in China for
about two dollars "A month. and are glad TO
get that
According to Artemus Ward, there are
two things for which we are never quite
prepared, namely-twins.
The course Of lectures in the Hahenemann
Medical College in Chicago, is to be thrown
open to women as students on the same
terms as to the male sex.
Mount Whitney, in California, $1,000 feet
high, is said to be the highest peak in the
United States.
According to the Cincinnati Times, the
railroad TO Louisville Twill bind the two cit
les together like pair of cats tied by the
tails"
The steamer Russia has just made the
shortest passage across the Atlantic. She
left New York, July z, at % minutes past
nine, A. M, and arrived at Queenstown,
July 10, at IA minutes past eight, z. Nj.
Pho Mono has now reigned longer than
any Of his predecessors since st. Peter ex-
cept Plus vi, Sylvester, Adrian i, and Plus
VII. His health is at present. said TO be
good. His two brothers are respectively
four and seven years older than he Is.
Seven deaths from drunkenness is the
daily rate in Russia.
Cotton from an acre of land in Georgia
sold for $276 last week.
There are seven colored members Of the
new Virginia Legislature.
A Terre Haute, Indiana, policeman shot a
couple of editors last week.
= 1t costs $4,000 year to wash the crown
linen of France.
Italy is adopting the American fashion OF
advertising for wives.
Louisiana will have an unusually album
dant Zig crop this year.
Captain Lott. OF the Cunard steamer, Rus
STA, has crossed the Atlantic 81 times.
Hon. S. s. Cox writes from Malaga that
much of the wine is made from the potato.
A man died last week of apoplexy in New
York while sitting in a dentists operating
chair.
The real and personal property of New
York City is assessed at $964, 100000.
Spain is emulating Mexico in the discon-
tent the people feel towards the government.
New York State laid the first foundation
stone of her new capitol building at Albany
last week.
Mr.. Cyrus H. Mccormick, one OF the les
sees of the Mississippi Central Railroad,
native and resident of New York, recently
donated 5000 to Gen. Lees College.
1t is understood that as soon as the Great
Eastern returns to Europe she will take
fresh cable on board and start for India to
lay a line between Bombay aud Suez.
Balzac says, women of 40 often have new
and stronger affections than ever before,
aid their love is deeper and more disinter-
ested than when they were young.