Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-11-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

Paris, 1t IS reported, Is 10 nave
Russiansnew paper,published under
supervision OF the Russian Embas-
sador.
The prevalent superstition that
TO spill salt is unlucky, arises from
the well.known legend that Judas,
the betrayer, spilled the salt at tho |
Last Supper
Since the election tho Vermont |
legislature, at whose disposal Son
ator Morrill, placed his back pay, |
has voted to return the money to !
the United States Treasury.
Mr.. Beecher has not yet paid off
the mortgage Of $4,000 which he
took on his house in 1873 for the
support Of the Golden Age. The
Brooklyn Savings Bank holds the
bond.
Andrew Jackson Davis says that
the SummersLa is 65, 000,000,000
miles from the earth. Spirits who
would come back all that distance
to write ungrammatically must have
been confirmed carpet-baggers.
Professor Watson's boast, that
he has discovered sixteen new
stars, must pale before the an
nouncement of a Nebraska gentle
man named Sandy John, who fell
on his nose and discovered sixty
two, most of them of the first mag
nitude.-DetroIt Free Press.
Nineteen years ago a Tennessee
father refused to let his daughter
90 to a candy-pull, and she disap-
peared. The other day she return
ed lifted eleven children out of the
wagon, and entered the house and
took off her things as coolly as if
she hadn't been gone over q day.
Sir Moses Montefore is a veal
thy London Jew, ninety years old,
in whose honor tho Jews of that
CITY propose to erect a university
to bear his name. The building
will cost, according to estimates,
$3.50, 900. The students are to be
taught in the Hebrew language and
religion, and also in the classics and
other sexual branches of education.
The editor of Mr.. Bartlett's pa.
per, having been invited to a mas
querade ball given by a club in the
town where he lived, in acknowl-
edging the invitation said: There
is a quiet sarcasm, though of course
not intended, in inviting a country
editor who has but one suit, and
that poor one, to such an affair
without accompanying the compli.
ment with the necessary Clothes
Wore wo to accept, We should be
compelled to appear in the charac-
ter of adam before the fall This,
though painful to admit, is literally
theInaked truth
In 1888, Benjamin franklin be-
queated to Boston and Philadelphia
$1,000 each (S4,44O) to be loaned
in small sums to married mechanics
to assist them in starting in bust.
ness, the interest to be compoun-
ded for 100 years, at the end OF
which time the accumulated funds
should be appropriated to certain
public improvements. In Phila-
deIphia the original sum has increas-
cd to S46,l35, while in Boston it
amounted on January l, 1874, to
S1S2,27S, which will further grow
to S408,300 in the remaining four
teen years if kept compounded at 6
per cent.
A grocer OF Gratiot street keeps
"a little brown Jug near his cider
barrel, and whom he wants to do
the fair thing by customer he
mingles some of the contents of the
aforesaid jug with the cider. He
made a mingle yesterday for an old
farmer, but got a great deal of
whisky and very little cider. A
bout an hour after drinking the far
mer was observed leaning against a
fence, and was heard to soliloquize:
Its too lato for sun strokes and too
early TO freeze to death, and l guess
it's touch of tho shakin' ager. -
Detroit Free Press.
Any number of figures you may
wish to multiply by 5 will give the
same result If divided by "a much
quicker operation; but you must re-
member to annex 0 to the answer
when there is no remainder, and
when there is a remainder, what
ever it may be, annex to the
answer. Multiply 494 by 5, and
tho answer will be 1890; divide the
same by 2, and you have 232, and,
as there is no remainder, you add
an 0. Now take $50, multiply by
., the answer is 1,795; and dividing
this by ?, there is I79 and remain
der; you therefore place at the
end Of the line, and the. result is a
gain 1875.