The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-09-22
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

! IN the neighborhoOd of 4Ypsiland,
Mich, farmers are shearing sheep by
machinery.
THERE are 671 professional female
models in Paris. Forty-ive of these are
Germans.
THE colored sisters of Jacksonville,
Fla, have founded ''The Rising Daugh-
/ tiers of Sepulchreo Association.
! A MAN in Paris has a pair of specta.
| cles in his stomach He got them there
in an effort to induce vomiting by polk
ing them down his throat.
THEY are trying to acclinate the Flo
rida cedar tree in Germany, as it furn.
| ishes the only kind of wood suitable for
| the manufacture Of lead pencils.
A VISITOR in South Park, Colorado,
has picked up curious piece of stone
which on scientific examination is pro-
nounced to be a petriied plug of tobac.
co.
NJ. RoBnSa, French chemist, has no.
titled the Academy of Medicine, Paris,
that we may all live forever if we use
enough Tactic acid, and recommends the
extensive use of buttermilk.
THE wooden pavements in Chicago
are all rotten or all rotting and will at
once have to he replaced. 1t was in
Chicago that such pavements became
fashionable. The fashion has proved
very costly.
THE new aquarium at Westminster,
Eng, viii be 600 feet long by 24O feet
wide The building will be two stories
i'm height, and basement tank Will con-
tain 900 gallons of water.
THE Mormons are to have female ply
-sicians of their own education. Twcn-
ty-tive girls of the Latter Day Saints are
DpVV Sfn6ufueP rua1ioiDa ar Salt F.aka
AN OreEOnian offers to furnish fir
boards one hundred feet long and twelve
feet wide for the Centennial Exhibition.
What other country can ''plank down"
such wonders as this2
On the body of Stanislau Morell who
was found struck by lightning at Clay,
Mo-, recently, was found the delicately
traced outlines of a tree near which he
was struck, every limb and leaf being
imaged in fine red lines on the skin.
THE Chinese have cruel habit of
abandoning the hopelessly sick to die
alone. A China woman, nearly dead
with consumption, was recently found
In hut in Portland, Oregon, where she
had been left without food or care by
her husband
Or the original ccdars Of Lebanon
only seven now remain. They cover
space of not over half mile upon tho
mountain side. They arc more than
thousand years old. Indeed, it is be-
lIeved that some of them were planted
by Solomon.
TIE techical name of thanks" applied
to skcins of wOrsted yarn or other thread,
it is supposed was derived from one
Hankemus de Brabanti, a Flemish wea-
yer, dyer, or fuller, who settled in York,
England, in 1881.
Mount IIolyolle Seminary has supplied
f15 wives for foreign missionaries, the
last two graduating classes furnishing
eighteen. They usually go abroad first
rs teachers, and are speedily married by
the missionaries.
THE Chinese claim to have originated
macadamized roads so long ago as to
have forgotten the circumstances. 1t is
said that the principal roads of the EN-
piae have been constructed in this way
for many centuries.
SINCE the year 1900 England has wa
red fOrty-nine wars; France, ,tllirty-eight;
Russia, twenty-two; Austria, twelve;
Prussia, eight; and i'm spite of all the
peace socities and international conven-
tions they all appear anxious for am
other,
Wfrn the exception of two or three
thinly settled parishes, all the census re-
turns in Louisiana are in. In New Or
leans there are 145, 721 whites and ST. 6H
negroes. In the State the whites num-
Der 404 ,361, the negroes, 45O,O29.
THE English Earl of DuBraven has
! bought large piece of land in Estes
| Park, Colorado, and designs to preserve
the game there for sporting purposes.
/ L l. Al \
of this, and his lOrdship will probably
have to employ large force of game
keepers.
AND now they have found out that
| Gutenberg, the inventor of printing, was
tried at Mayence, in 1922 for the assas-
sination of his uncle, and only acquitted
after a long imprisonment Thus the
art preservative is made to perpetuate q
| knowledge of his badness as well as his
| genius.
| AN astonishing thing has happened to
Thomas Fielding OF Cambridge, Mass.
He went home, and, as had been his Gus
tom, began to whip his wife. Instead
of quietly submitting to abuse, az she
| had previously done, she pounded him
with "a stove cover, injuring him SO that
he viii die Of the wounds.
Miss Annie Olivia Snowden, the young
lady who is exciting attention at the
camp meeting under the name of Miss
/ Oliver, has been refused the opportunity
of study i'm fourteen denOminatiOnal sem
| inaries, but has just been notified that
| she can enter the University Of Boston,
and prepare for the ministry.
DIR. GLENN of COlusa county, CAL.
owns ranch containing nearly $1,000
acres, having u frontage Of eighteen
miles on the Sacramento river, and ex-
| tending back five miles. Upon the
property are 140 miles Of fencing Two
tenants cultivate 10000 acres eachi one
| G. w. Hoog, expects to raise 10000
bushels of wheat and barley this season.