Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1869-01-22
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


MEAT is selling in the Nashville
market at from six to ten cents q
pound.
A BALE OF Peeler cotton, shipped
from Memphis, was sold In Savannah
at forty-five cents per pound.
THE King of Sweden refused to al
low Prince Napoleon to Bernadotte,
the Kings grandfather, with view
to publication.
TIE society for the propagation OF
of the Roman Catholic faith, whose
headquarters are in New York, re-
ceived last year S1,000,000, of which
5000, 900 was from subscriptions of one
cent per week.
a NEVADA miner recently sent on
East for his family, and when he
met them the other day his wife
could not recognize him until he had
shaved, and bribes Of sugar-plums
alone reconciled his children to call
ing him papa.
1T IL not generally known that the
leaves of gcranium are an excellent
application for cuts, where the skin
il rubbed Off, and other wounds of
that kind. One or two leaves must
be bruised and applied to the part,
and the wound viii be citcatrized in
II short time.
IT Is estimated by New York
calculator that the value of the
flowers used in that city at the holi-
day season reached the sum of one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
and that the value OF all those used
during the year would exceed mill
ion dollars.
THE Florida orange trees have
been partly killed by the frost. At
Green Cove Springs the lemon and
lime trees appear to he killed 1t is
too early yet, however, to tell the full
extent of the damage done. The
trees on the east bank, to all appear
ances, are uninured.
MIR. PETER SMocK died nearTeyas
Washington County, KY, on the
26th ult., at the advanced age of one
hundred and eighty years. The de-
ceased was born in Pennsylvania, but
removed to Kentucky at a very early
period of its history. Wien he
reached that section of the State.
Harrodsburg was a small station, and
Danville consisted of n single rude
cabin.
a CORRESPONDENT of the New
York World is disagreeably inquisi-
tive. He writes to the editor of that
paper the following "Will you call
upon the executors of the late Thad-
deus Stevens to state under oath if
there were not 100000 Pacific Rail-
road bonds found among his assests,
and not mentioned i'm his will ?n-
The executors have not been heard
from on the subject.
A PARIS writer on popular science
makes out that the people of the
United States are growing to n phys
ical resemblance of the Indians
Brasseur de Bourbourg asserts i'm his
works on America the physical and
moral characteristics of people of Eu-
ropean origin, who have made their
homes In the North, have become
Ike the Iriquois, while those of the
south have become like the Chcro-
kcc.
Ten years ago, the Great Lake SUI
perior Mineral Region was compare
tive unknown. Its vast resources have
been abundantly developed within a
very few years, and to-day Ii furnish
O. annually 5000, 600 tons of iron ore
one-fOurth of all the ore produced in
the United Statcs-and is rapidly in
Crcasing its production. 1t is estima-
ted that In the next five years it will
he l,0O0, coo tons. or this quantity,
3mOOO tons go to Cleveland, Erie and
other Lake Erie ports.
THE golden yellow hair, so much
admired dsought after this season is
produced by IA solution of arsenic with
II mordant of the hydro-sulphate of
ammonia. In this case dycing the
lighter tints, however, it becomes
necessary to submit the hair to pro-
cess Of bleaching, which is common
ly effected by solution of one or
other Of the alkalies, by chlorine, by
the chloride of soda or lime. When
the arscnical dye is used, or in fact,
when any of the above is applied Sc
clusion for few days becomes n ne
ccssity.
TIE printers who formerly stuck
type at the side of Horace Greeley
have died out of the Office, and
Horace, himself, though n practical
printer, rarely visits the composing
room. The last time the writer saw
him ut work in the composing-room
wasat three o'clock in the morning fol-
lowing President Lincoln's election,
when he ran his eye over the type of
the New York election table ON the
editorial page, and suddenly cried
out: Here, sam, bring me bodliin;
some id fool has spelled Allcgany
with an H." And though the press
men were impatiently changing the
bells for the forms, Horace deliberate
~ drew n jack-knife from his pocket
and dug the "h" out of Alleghany
before he would allow the forms to go
down.
EXPERIMENTS have recently been
tried in the machine shops of the
Western Railroad, In Paris, in refer
cncc To Welding iron by pressure, in
stead of by means of hammer on an
anvil, during which IL was found
that, while union of the two masses
of iron was affected only supcrhcially
10y means of the hammer, n contin-
ucd heavy pressure had far greater
effect in causing n thorough junction.
Among other experiments, two iron
bars of ! inches in diameter, were
heated 10 the welding point and
brought under the hydraulic press. .-
welding was affected with eXtUordi-
nary quickncss, the fibrcs of the iron
being thoroughly intcrcalatcd with
each other, and the joined portion Of
the bars was quite rs strong rs any
where else, micoscorpic section of
the Joint showing n perfectly homo
gcnOus texture.