Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-10-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Texas is about to add canned turtle Z
its list of exports.
The internal revenue receipts for the
| fiscal year to date have been $50, 1861, 1892
The longest tunnel on the Chesapeake
and Ohio Railroad-over mile in length
is completed.
A Times reporter says that house build
ing in Chicago has been going on at the
rate of one house per hour during the
building season, since the fire.
At the Kansas Agricultural State Fair
the sum of $500 is to be distributed in
prizes to those raising the best newspapers
Other State Fairs please copy the idea.
1t is proposed, in Paris, to DESIGNATE the
different business houses and offices By
means of colored lamps. Thus, doctors
would have green lamps, telegraph stations
and post-offices blue, hotels and boarding
houses yellow, etc.
An English gentleman propounds the
practicability and economy of using chalk
as substitute for coal. he says that he
has studied the matter, and that he has dis
covered how chalk may be burnt with Goals
as fuel, the result being saving of 30 to Al
per cent of coal.
Independence, Kansas, has just completed
the third year Of its existence, and already
it has 5000 population, 3 banks, $25, 00C
public school house; a railroad, large -four
ing mill and several fine hotels and church
es, besides number Of elegant and stylish
residences and newspapers.
A Kansas farmer says cotton culture will
prove great success in that State. He
planted some in June on piece of ground
most liable to become dry, being upland.
He did not, in this experiment, cultivate it
in any way, aud, at this writing, the stalks
are three and half feet high, with large,
well filled boils.
As an illustration of the extent to which
the shoe trade has been driven from Lynn,
Massachusetts, by the iDjudiciOus tyranny OF
the Crispins, it may be stated that III Sea-
brook. New Hampshire, large amount of
shoes is now made for Lynn manufacturers,
the proceeds oflabor yielding annually from
S250,OO0 to 100000.
jenkins, the New York EreniRg Post
insists, is dead. Nothing has been heard
from him in watering-place letters during
the summer, and distinguished people have
not been bothered by him. The cause of
his death Is the absence of Mrs. Shoddy in
Europe, and the temperance of modesty
and unaffected gentility al the pleasure re-
sorts.
Prof John Tyndall, who is to visit this
country In October, will remain here six
months. He will be the guest of P1efessor
Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition Washington. he will lecture in sll
our large cities on physical researches,
though il is not unlikely that he will find
time during his stay TO speak upon scien.i-
fic education, to which he has given a
great deal OF attention.
The total yield of the new hop crop in the
United States is now estimated at 14,000,-
600 pounds, or about 10000 bales. The
total supply in this country is less than it
was last year, and as the demand from
manufacturers will be fgreater than ever
before, the brewing business constantly in
creasing, foreign hops will be needed,
but at what price remains TO be deter
mined.
The latest novelty is a new musical in
strument, called the Xylo- Calame piano,
which signifies the wOod-straw piano. 1t
Is composed ofpieces of pine wood all inch
square and varying in length, held together
by two pieces of string, with washers be-
tween the blocks, the whole resting on a
bed ofstraw. The inventor has experiment
ted some time with the instrument, until he
has been able to obtain perfect chroma-
tic scale, and, as he thinks, nearly al the
vibrations that the wood is capable Off
THE storm-signal man on the top of Mt.
Washington holds the "highest office" in
the gift Of the nation.