Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-01-02
GLEANINGS.

80, 900.
North Carolina is cultiyating the corl
tree.
A genuine Baron is an editor in Green,
county, New York.
Six thousand operate scores have beer
written since 1920.
Snow-shOes take the place of skates in
Northern California.
There are two insurance companies in
America to one in England.
Paducah is said to be a corruption OF
Pat Doogan, the name of its first settler.
Flour is selling in Prescott, Arizona, at
S42 per barrel
Extensive smelling furnaces are being
put up at Shermantown, Nevada.
In Illinois there are ninety-five paupers
to every ten thousand of population.
A band of '3Iahawk and Chippeway
Indian Vocalists" are travelling in Penn
sylvania.
The Police Justices of St. Louis fine
negroes s25 for carrying razors in their
sleeves.
A company is forming at Leavenworth
to jerk buffalo meat for transportation to
Europe
a Paris Countess gets a good living by
giving characters" to servants seeking
situations.
They have establishments in France for
curing consumption by feeding the pa
tients grapes.
s--Fhe Paris Mint is about to issue new
gold coins, of the value of one pound
each, to be styled internationaIs.
A fastidious young lady was recently
heard TO ask a music dealer for ''feline
mtestines for lyrical purposes.
Twenty-Five English peers and eleven
members of the House of Commons have
died within the year.
John Vance, of Springtown. Indiana
sold hog the other day weighing seven
hundred and se7enty-seven pounds.
Shawano county, Wis, has an Indian
population of two thousand, and a white
population Of about the same.
1t is said that there are no less than
/ 800 boys and girls from the United
in the various universities and schools of
Germany.
Old shoes are ground up and made into
buttons, knife-handIes, combs, etc. Many
a man has combed his elegant whiskers
with what was once part of boot
\ portion Of The Christmas dinner of
the conyicts in the Kentucky Penitentiary
was huge OK, contributed by Mr.. II. c.
Dorsey, of Pawtucket, r. l.
The Los Angeles (CaL) distillers are
jubilauL over a long-sOught discovery,
which they assert enables them make ma
tive brandy to rival the best French brands.
Pi0us John Coyode, of PENNSYLVANIA,
who managed the Radical campaign in
that State, last fall, recently told his po-
iitical friend, VI. b. Lowry, that she had
witnessed so much political fraud and
rascality during the last campaign, that
he hoped he would not die within the
next six years.
The second class convicts in Russia are
terribly logged before they are sent of to
Siberia. At Kief nine turkeys have to
perform the task every week. The bowls
and yells Of the poor wretches as they re-
ceiye their eighty or hundred lashes in the
jailyard can be heard all over the city.
The sale Of school lands in Minnesota
so far this year has increased the school
fund over $500, 600, making the school
fund over s., 200, 600. The sale Of Agri-
cultural College lands has increased the
fund over sos, 900.
A man In Ironton, Ohio, has applied for
a license to marry his wife "a woman to
whom he was united in Kentucky seven
teen years ago. in order, be said, ito
quiet q fuss in their church The first
marriage occurred when they we're
small children.
Several tuns Of California fax have lately
been worked into bagging, and the result
Of the experiment is said to be highly salts
factory. 1t is considered that the fabric
made from the California article is superior
to that from the jute which is imported at
a heavy expense.