The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-03-29
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

close Of congress the widow of presiden
Tyler has attended every meeting of th
commission and the joint sessions of tn
two houses. In person, Mrs, Tyler is
short, plump, well preserved brunette
and still wears the deep mourning ent
widows cap for her husband. By
special act the franking privilege wa
once conferred on her, and all the repeal
and reforms on postal affairs have lel
this courtesy unquestioned.
THE fashion critic of the LOnden Cour
journal says: "a few years ago riding
habits were SO long that accidents vert
of frequent occurrence; they are now sl
short that they arc not habits l was
standing the other day at the railings in
the park, when young lady on horse
back passed me. presume she wore a
"riding habit" but were asked TO make
an affidavit that she was not attired in
trousers my strict love Of veracity would
prevent me from doing So"
OLIVE LOGAN is astonished at the
quickness Of young girl in London who
has remarkable gifts of elairvoyance
Olive took out of her pocket-book a
Chinese coin that she had obtained in
San Francisco and handed it to the
father Of the little girl; he stood in the
audience while the daughter remained
on the stage. "Whst is this Louie %
asked the man. "a coin, papa" an
swered the little girl. "What sort ofa
coin ?" Foreign coin, papa" "Csn
you tell me what country it'came from ?'
"China, papa" she replied, without a
pause. Olive Logan was surprised that
the man should know the coin, even
when he held it in his hands and in.
spccted it, for Chinese coins are not so
common in London as they are in San
ranciscO.
AN idea is gaining ground with aero
nauts that the solution of the polar prob
lem now rests with them. Capt. Cheyne,
retired British naval officer, has vol
unteered to conduct balloon party over
the four hundred miles or thereabouts
which have not yet been traversed, and
the project finds a warm supporter in
Mr.. Coxwell, who deems such an ex-
peditio quite feasible. The only trou-
BILE in the mind of the latter seems to be
the supply of gas in the higherlatitudes,
This, however, he thinks may be gotten
over by the use of fre-baloons. He
recommends the use of "very large
Montgolfers," in which it would be pos
sible to stow away couple Of sledges
With dogs, and "boats fit for contention
with Polar sea as a forlorn hope"
Four hundred miles at the average rate
Of atmospheric speed would not in his
opinions occupy twenty-four hours. Mr..
Coxwell's plan is we'll calculated to
startle the uninitiated in aerost9ties.
METEORoLoGY will never attain its
full rank among the sciences until the
causes Of the movements of wind and
storm, as well as thelraverage directions,
are ascertaincd. An advance in this
particular is recorded in Germany. NJ.
Gustave Hellmann had ascertained by
careful comparison that during the sum-
mer in that country there are two
periods of maximum rainfall, separated
by a dry period. With the first of these
rain periods, and partly preceding it, in
June, there is through limited strip
country succession Of currents of cold
air, coming from the Atlantic across the
coast of The North sea, and moving from
northwest TO southeast over middle
Europe. NJ, Hellmann concludes that
the cold winds are caused by movement
to supply the place of heated air rising
from the great European-Asiatic STEP
pes, as those tracts become hotter with
the lengthening days late in the spring
and early in the summer. The winds
which are thus ultimately drawn from
the North Atlantic surface are cold and
heavily charged with watery vapor, and
their advent determines the beginning
of summer rains in Germany.-M Y
Tribune.
THERE is no evidence, accordingto The
London Lancet, TO show that revaccina
tion, sonce efficiently performed at ol
after puberty, need ever be repeated
On the other hand, the frequent repeti
tion characterization, which has becomt
common during alarms Of smallpox, i
distinctly to be deprecated. Such re
petitions are as a rule futile, they ar,
wastcful of vaccine lymph when lymph
is most precious; they tend to unsettl'
the minds OF people regarding somo o
the best established facts as to the pre-
servative power of vaccination, and the.
are unnecessary. The official memoran
dun Of tho local government board OIL
rovaccination says: characterization
once properly and successfully performed
does not appear ever to require repcti
ton" The nurses and otherservants o
tho London smallpox hospital, whel
they enter the service are invariabl
submitted to vaccination, which in thei