The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-09-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Evansville, Ind, has over 900 mem
bers.
Weston, the pedestrian, has just
turned up at Newcastle, England,
where he walked 400 miles in five days.
There are l4l Episcopal churches
In Connecticut, with lSS clergymen,
1850 members and 1883 Sunday
school teachers.
For the support of the seven uni
versities of Russia the Government gave
2,l4O,5OO roubles (abott 81 ,606, 500 for
the years lS76.77.
The amount paid for tuition In
Cleveland last year was $3.50, AZ GA. The
total number of pupils registered In the
schools was 81 ,659.
During the year 5,30l persons
visited the lighthouse at Atlantic City,
the highest number in one day being
226-On August 4.
The Worcester, Mass, Agricultural
Society is 10 encourage a new branch of
agriculture by offering $500 In pre-
miums for brass bands.
Germany possesses the oldest war
riOr in the world. Field Marshal
Wrangel is ninety-fOur years old and is
in good health and vigOr.
-"Lecture on FOols'-Admit One,"
was the inscription on card of admis-
sion to discourse by Philadelphia
clergyman the other evening.
Between 5000 and 10, 600 glass eyes
are sold annually in the United States.
An eyemaker gives one in l25 rs the
| DrOpOTtiOT pf nDp.nuaI ,,aon1a
The receipts of the street railway
company IN Memphis, Tenn, at the five
cent fare are largely in excess of re-
ceipts under the ten cent system.
An extreme case OF nepotism has
been found in Kentucky. Out of forty
officials in the CovingtOn internal
revenue district, thirty-One' are rela-
tives.
Boston expects about 30, 600 persons
to parade in It's procession on the 18th
of September, when the Army and Navy
Monument on the Common is to be un-
yelled.
"A man in one of the New York city
hotels bids fair to solve the problem of
perpetual motion. He peels 5000
peaches daily and shells three bushels
of beans.
Last year the State of Maine paid
81, ,725 for bears. As five dollars was paid
for each bear, it is probable that bear
culture was carried on in Maine to bull
the bear market.
The expense of horse-racing in
England is $4,000, 900 year. 1t Is
scarcely less in the United States. But
then the improvement in the breed of
horses, you know.
"A little girl named Emma Rose
ScuI, who lives at Leeds Point, In At
lantc county, N. j., has living three
great-grandmothers, two grandmothers
and two grandfathers.
When in London recently, Manager
Gemmill, of the Chestnut Street Thea
tre,' Philadelphia, attended the 757th
representation Of "Our Boys" at the
Vaudeville Theatre.
There is on exhibition in Hartford.
Conn, life size painting of the Car,
which he gave to eX- Postmaster General
Jewell while Mr.. Jewell was United
States Minister to Russia.
Citizens of Herkimer county, N.
Y, have formed an association to pro-
cure funds for monument to General
Herkimer, the commander of the
American forces at the battle of Oris-
kanny, after whom the county was
named.
Akron, Ohio, is a city of about a.
800 inhabitants, and has twenty-six
manufacturing establishments, which
turn out an annual aggregate value OF
SO, 100, 900. This is product of over
$500 for every man, woman and child in
the city.
The Howard family of Paris, Ky,
are tall. The father is feet inches;
the mother 6 feet p inch; their six sous
range from 6 feet to feet H. and
their daughters from feet to feet 3.
At least these are the figures given by
the heRtuCkidR.
1t is stated by one who claims to
know all about it, that man who
knows how to draw beer can make
profit of $4.90 on quarter barrel of
beer sold at RETAIL and half barrel of
ale, sold In half pint glasses, realizes
profit of $lS.25.
Two and a half million dollars, 1t Is
claimed, have been expended In build
ing operations in Memphis, Tenn, in
the past two years. Building associa-
tions afforded much assistance, 200
buildings having been erected by loans
from them, at an average cost of ~, l5G
per house.
"A man and wife living In New
York have obtained leave to change
their name to Salisbury on the ground
that the wife is studying for the Amerl-
can stage, and neither Burger, the hus.
bands name, nor Stimlisch, the wife's
maiden name, is appropriate in that
connection.
One million, four hundred thou
sand dollars has been offered and re-
fused for Baron Grants famous London
house. The would be purchaser Is
Mr.. Naylor, whose wife distinguished
herself during the past season by giving
ball TO the Prince Of Wales which
cost $4,000.
Only two Of the great nations will
not be represented at the Paris Exposi-
ton next year, Germany and Brazil,
the abstention of the latter being caused,
1t is believed, by the Emperor's disin-
clination to compete till the manufac.
lures Of his realm have been more thor
Oughly established.
Three English women recently dis
tinguished themselves I'm the Forest of
Dean. They attacked grocer. One
Of them brushed him down with tar
brush, another poured down his back
the contents of pot of tar, and the
third bound him up to his neck with
tarred cloth. The grocer complained
and the women were fined.
Twelve players competed In the
master tournament at the Leipsig Chess