The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-01-17
NEWS In BRIEF.

There are over l,0O4 professional
lawyers in Boston, aud yet everybody
isn't happy.
Nine women have been elected
County Superintendhnts of Schools In
Illinois, at this years. county elections.
The sexton of a church In Pitts
burg has fallen heir to fortune of
500, 900, lett to him by relative In
Ireland.
Indiana is not regarded as very
good State for pumpkins, still David
smith, of Gibson county, raised 81 on
single vine.
1t is estimated that there are at
present 400 colleges and universities in
the United States, which graduate an
nually between six and seven thousand
students.
"A shark was driven by the storm
over the Saybrook, Conn, bar and cap
tured, recently, that measured nine feet
long and six in circumference, and
weighed 76O pounds.
Just as a young ady of Rockford,
Texas, was about TO jump into bed the
other night, she was scared to see
large tarantula resting quietly in the
place where she about to deposit her
self.
-Keokuk, Iowa, has an Odd Fellows
lodge named Puckechetuk, and the
wives of the members that come home
after midnight make their spouses pro-
nounce 1t to see If they are telling the
truth.
The Astor Library New York; now
contains 10000 volumes, $4,000 of
which have been added during the past
Is months. During the past twelve
months $50, 900 has been spent for books
for the institution.
"A farmer residing near York, Pa,
has kept record of the number of
tramps visiting his premises In quest of
food. The number from April l, 1877,
to November Is was 545, or an average
of l6 per week.
John Rousseau and George Finley,
of Wilkesboro' N. c., are each six feet
and a half high, each weighs one hun
dred ana sixty-fOur pounds, and stands
in number ten smashers. They are
both "a years old.
In the Utah legislature there are
only two members that have but one
wife. All the other thirty.nine are
deubly blessed in this respect, and
some of them are considerably more
than twice blessed.
Mr.. Henry Martin, of Lauderdale,
county, Alabama, has in his possession
an eight-legged sheep, which was
foaled on his place and when found was
dead. He has it in a box, and charges
a nickel to take peep.
Prof. Cook, and others who re-
Gently explored an ancient mound near
Pine Lake, Mich, found therein three
skeletons and four silver crosses. The
skeletons and the crosses have been
presented to the Natural History So
ciety.
Michigan is great fruit producing
State, and many parts of it are fully up
to New York. The crop of apples in
that State is estimated by President
Lyon at 81, ,000,0 900; peaches at 81 ,000,.
600; other fruits, 81 900, ,000-or total
of $4 100000
"A well sinker at Conshes, near
Rouen, France, Is years of age, has
been extricated from well after 20
days Imprisonment, caused by the
giving way of mass of earth. His
fIiends managed to supply him with
food and drink.
"A New York toy dealer has a live
grizzled monkey dressed as as Santa
Claus in the Christmas goods depart
in his store. A chimney is provided
for Jocko to descend, which he does
with great agility, to the delight OF
crowds Of children.
Mr.. T. w. Nettiess found on the
public road between Darlington, Ca,
and his fathers residence, few days
since, large silver coin, which was
found to be French crewn, two or
three times the size of silver dollar,
and bearing date 1892.
In recent trial before New York
court, it came out in the evidence that
an organ grinder with common organ,
could earn (or geD from 81 to So day,
while those trundling piano organs,
mounted on wheels through the streets,
earned ordinarily from So to $40 per
day.
The First National Bank of Mauch
Chunk, Pa, having obtained a judg.
ment against John W. Young, at Salt
Lake, for $l0,4 ,474, Marshal Nelson has
seized the Salt Lake Museum, and the
horses, carriages, and household effects
of the late Prophets son to satisfy the
decree.
During the past twenty years 35,-
$40 shipwrecks and casualties have oc-
CURED on the British coasts. Between
1861 and l875-76 the number Of vessels
which met with casualties, attended
with loss of life, on the coasts and seas
of the British IGles, was 2 592, causing
the death of 1892 persons.
The clock for the new court house
at Providence, II. l., Is claimed to be
the largest in New England and the
best in the country. The dials are seven
feet In diameter, and the pendulum rod
ID feet long, with 30e-pound ball, and
the clock, by an ingenius device, regu
lares all the other twelve clocks in the
The manufacture of steel pens Is
conducted extensively in Essex, Mass.
Two hundred hands, mostly girls, are
Each pen passes through
twenty to twenty-five distinct opera
tions, many of which require special
machinery and skilled operatives. The
steel imported comes from Sheffield, and
the pens are exported to Canada, South
America, Mexico, Cuba and even TO
England.
THE Rochester Tumbler Company,
of Rochester, Beaver county, Pennsyl-
vania, is said TO be the largest establish
ment of the kind In the world. The
works manufacture tumblers exclu-
sively and are said to have orders on
their books from Glasgow, Dublin,
Liverpool, London, Manchester, Bir-