The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-04-05
NEWS In BRIEF.

London omnibus conductors work
fifteen hours a day for four shillings.
During the year 1876 the United
States yielded 42O,OOO,OOO pounds OF
rosin.
Over 5000, ,OOO, 900 are annually
spent In this country for cigars and
cigarettes.
In the year 1876 the seeds received
IN Chicago, principally clover and
timothy, were valued at more than
$4,000, 900.
The diamonds worn by Nine. Mu.
sard at the opera ball in Paris, the other
night, when placed in a row measured
nearly nine yards.
The republic of Mexico, covers an
area OF 100000 square miles, and Is d.
Vlded into twenty three States, having
population Of about 5000, 900.
"A female reporter represents the
Detroit Free Press in the Canadian house
of commans, and, furthermore, reports
the doings of the staid Canadians very
well.
Nearly 100, 900 Germans are settled
In some forty counties in Texas, par
ticularly Comal and Guadalupe, and
they are highly successful as agricul-
turlsts.
"A poor Scotchman in Dundee Is the
father of a child born with two stomachs
and the Cincinnati Commercial thinks
this an imposition, even in the land of
oatmeal.
During the past year the German
press issued S4S works devoted TO the
natural sciences, 297 to geography and
travel, and 1870 to mathematics and
astronomy.
Three of Washington's third cou-
sins, the grandchildren of Warner Was
hington, of Virginia, are now living,
old, poor and dependent, in Gordons-
vile, KY.
"A pure white muskrat was caught
In the north part of Great Darlington,
Mass, the other day, something old
hunters never saw before In that part
OF the country.
The sea serpent interviewed some
Cinnamon near San Diego, Cal. They
saw a good deal of him. They say he
was sometimes I60 feet long, and some
Cnles TWO miles,
Mrs. Pauline Spitz died at Elnano.
witz, Austria, recently, at the age of
one hundred and eight years. She had
never been known to take medicine,
and always enjoyed good health.
The first picture Mr.. Sheepshanks
the eminent English collector, ever
bought was Landseer's "Two Dogs"
and he gave the young artist ESQ for 1t.
It is worth to-day hundred times
thirty.
Applications for fish to put in Lake
Champlain are refused by Mr.. Green
because the lake is not exclusively New
York waters, and Vermont has taken
no step toward bearing her share of the
expense.
From block of marble weighing
two tons, an eagle measuring six feet
between the tips of its outspread wings
is now being cut for the Grand Army
monument which stands ut Reading,
Pennsylvania.
Allegheny college, at Meadville,
Pa, has been selected as one of the
thirty colleges in the United States to
which the government, according toa
recent act of congress, would aid and
support military department.
On the strength of map, without
personal examination, some New York
parties took a mortgage for $40, 1000 on
rocky, inaccessible hilltop in Patter-
son, n. j. Garrett Mountain), which
has just been sold under foreclosure for
500.
Tobacco Is now successfully cult.
waited in over fifty counties in the State
of Missouri. In 1869 the State had 3SY
tobacco manufactures, and she pro.
duced l9,6OO,OO pounds, occupying the
sixth rank among the tobacco growing
States of the Union.
Thanksgiving falls on November
the Goth only once In six or eight years.
1t comes on that day this year, and will
occur again only three times this cen
turg-in 1882, 1892 and 1899. The latter
will be the last Thanksgiving day of the
nineteenth century.
The Augusta Chronicle says Massa-
chusetts capitalists are investing In
manufacturing enterprises in Georgia.
A cotton mill is to be established at Au-
gusta and another on the "Powder Mills
tract" the first to run 10000 and the
latter GO, 600 spindles.
Tradition says that years ago when
the headwaters Of the Chesapeake
swarmed with wild fowl, the hands en-
ployed at an iron forge at Havre-de-
GIace once upon time refused to work
because they were fed on canvas back
ducks instead of bacon.
-Four only of the fifty-eight slgners
Of the Texan declaration of indepen-
dence In 1885 survive. These are
Edward Waller, of Virginia; John w.
Burton, of Tennessee; w. b. SCates, OF
Colorado, and Charles u.
Stewart. All are over sixty-three.
On the closing up of the Smith 4
Rogers silver-plating concern IN New
Haven, recently, preparatory to Its r..
moval TO Meriden, the floor of the pa.
ting room was taken up, burned, and
the ashes analyzed, with the result OF
pure silver to the amount Of
1881.
--Rouen, France, has the tallest
structure in the world. The cast iron
spire of its cathedral Is 402 feet high,
while the dome of st. Peters at Rome,
raises its cross 452 feet above the ground,
and Strasbourg, the highest cathedral
In all France, rerches, with It's cele-
brated clock tower, 400 feet.
The poplar forests In the region Of
country north of fLewlstOwn, Me-, have
been cut down for timber for the manu-.
facture Of paper These forests have
been considered by the farmers as al
most entirely worthless, n good deal OF
The wood or lumber hardly paying for
The cutting and hauling, but now the
timber brings high price.
Lord Nelson's paroquet lately died
At the age of llb years at the Jardin des