The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-11-22
NEWS In BRIEF.

| -ldIIy nulleTJ OI texas, 10 years
old, is six feet five inches tall, and as
serts that he is still rising.
-Thirty-One thousand acres of
Holmes county, Fla, can be had for
seventy-hve cents an acre.
-LOuisyille's great hotel, the Gait
house, which cost more than million,
has just been sold for $l57, 900.
"A brother Of Admiral Semmes is
candidate for the position of doorkeeper
In the House OF Representatives.
"A powder-horn, said to be one hun.
dred aud eighteen years old, has Just
been found at CrawfOrdville, Ga.
Jefferson Davis has almost finished
his memoirs of the civil war. He Sc
verely censures Gen. Jos. 4. Johnston.
There are said TO be 600 children In
Danville, Ill.,, whose parents are too
poor to buy books and send them to
school.
The Illinois Board of Agriculture
estimates the value of the oat crop of
that State the present season to be $l6,-
269, ,647.
"A Canadian Indian has accom-.
plished the feat Of running twelve miles
an hour. His wife chased him the first
two miles, however.
There is tank in the Westminster
Aquarium, London, capable of contain
ing 81, 200 gallons of water. 1t is $50
feet long and 20 feet broad.
Mr.. Dalrymple, the great Mime.
sofa farmer, cultivates 5000 acres of
land. He raises nothing but wheat.
His profits this year will be $4,000.
British sailors in an English port
have demanded the official Inspection
of the Truelove, barque, which is said
to have been built at Philadelphia in
1894!
"A mussel was recently taken from
the Tennessee river, near Chattanooga,
containing five genuine pearls. They
are quite lusUrous, of good quality, and
valuable.
Senator Morrill, Of Vermont insists
that the BarthOldi fountain in Washing
ton is worth all the government paid
for it-$6, ,OOO-even if 1t is painted iron
instead Of bronze.
"A bunch of grapes from the mann
moth grape vine of santa Barbara is on
exhibition at San Francisco. 1t is three
feet long and six in circumference, and
weighs l25 pounds.
The members of Christ Church.
Boston, the oldest church building in
the city, still use the Bible, prayer-book,
and silverware which were presented
by King George ii, in 1873.
The youngest tourists-so it is said
to ascend Mount Blanc are the sons of
Alderman Cotton, M. p, of London,
Masters Percy and Stanley, aged re-
spectively nineteen and sixteen.
Mr.. Roe, great distiller, has mag
nificently restored Christ Church Cathe-
dral, Dublin, just as Sir B. Guinness
restored its sister fame, St. PatriCk's.
The liquor business is a thriving one in
the green isle.
"A brass cannon sunk in the Hudson
by BurgOyne during his retreat hum
dred years ago Is soon to be raised. 1t
is a l2-pounder, and lies in 10 feet of
water, 200 feet from the shore, under
three feet of mud.
The Leipsic police are making war
on ladies' trains in the street. Notice
has been given through the newspapers
that all , IONS whose dress is found
trailing on che sidewalk will be fined
from TO 90 marks.
The enduring odor of musk is mar
vellous. When Justinian, in in 53S, re-
built what is now the Mosque OF st.
Sophia, the mortar was charged with
musk, and to this day the atmosphere
of the building is filled with the odor.
DIR. Strousberg, the Russian railway
magnate, bankrupt, prisoner and exile,
has gone to the extensive estates for
merly owned by him in Bohemia, and
is to take charge of and develop them
in the interest of his numerous credi-
tors.
There is only one revolutionary
war pensiOner on the roll at the United
States Pension Oilice-Mrs. Eliza Scar
ritt the widow of James Scarritt, pri-
vate. She must have been married very
young, as she is only eighty-nine years
of age.
The United States, with popuia-
ton less than that of Germany, has
more miles of railroad than Russia,
Turkey, Germany, Austria, Great Brl-
tain, France and Italy combined, their
total mileage being Il, 500, while ours is
nearly $4,000.
1t has been demonstrated that the
cork tree can be raised without diff
Guilty at Los Angeles, Cal. and as the
demand for corks in boUtling wines and
brandies is very great on the Pacific
coast, the growth and manufacture of
cork is likely soon to become an impOr-
tant industry there.
The postal statistics for the last two
years show that New Haven propor-
tionately mails more letters than any
other city in the country. Her popula-
tion is 50,S40, and 4l6'654 letters are
mailed there every four weeks, so that
while she is the twenty-ffth city in
population, she ranks eleventh In the
letters sent.
-Marriageable young men may be
interested in knowing that in female
college at Poughkeepsie 1000 pounds of
rare beef and 800 pounds of veal are
consumed every week. If delicately
educated young women have such appe-
tites, what is to be thought of those
powerful young women whose educa-
ton has been neglected?
The American association for the
advancement of science are going to r
TO secure from Congress some active
forcement of the law maintaining
Yellowstone region as a natural ~
so far as to prevent the further dS
tion of Its natural curiositie-
mineralogical thieves have
facing ever since their discoN
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regular practice u,
wears trouseNn, TENN
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