The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-01-10
NEWS IN BRIEF

the Lords Prayer, only five are not
| Saxon.
1T is estimated that the population
of Texas has increased 300, 900 by immi-
grafton last year.
"A Louisiana man married five times
In eleven months, and swapped his last
wife for a shot gun.
Now bring out your old pocket
knives. DIR. Name, of Jessamine, Ky,
has one which he claims TO be III years
old.
Governor Zeb. Vance says agrlcul-
| tural fairs have been killed by horse
racing, three card monte, and prize
candy.
One lady in Maine boasts of hair
eight feet and one inch in length, and
that she has refused an order of $4,000
for it.
The spire of the Cologne cathedral
has monster bell cast from twenty
two cannon captured in the campaign
of 1870.
The Bank of England has G3,506,-
956 of unclaimed dividends of which IL
is anxious TO get rid. Don't all speak
at once.
Bass, the brewer, is the largest con-
tributoT TO the revenue of Great Britain,
averaging 50, 900 for every working day
of the year.
Edmond Rothschild gave 100000
francs as a dowry for professional
schools In Paris, on the occasion of his
recent marriage.
During the last ten years the Italian
Government has cOnfiscated and sold at
public auction $l0G, 100000 worth of
church property.
The "Newsboys' Union" in Gin
clnnati, has just completed its fifth
year. The organization at present has
over 100 members.
This Emperor of China is in favor
of subsidies, and has advanced 81 ,500,-
600 to steamship line which is to EN-
plOy none but Chinese sailors.
San Francisco has baby farm
where prices are down to hard pan, and
an average article of baby can be
starved to death at ten cents q day.
Last year there were granted in
Switzerland 1902 divorces and 700 sep
arations. 1t is estimated that five per
cent. of those married are divorced.
There are nearly 1000 medical stu
dents in London, which is great in
crease upon fifteen years ago, when the
number varied from 1000 to 1900.
An old shoe was found in the East
Haven river recently, which contained
about five hundred little oysters, being
completely covered with the bivalves.
AT a recent fashionable wedding in
New York city, the bride was presented
with a bouquet of three hundred
flowers, each flower of different va.
riety.
We die every day; every moment
deprives us of portion Of our life and
advances us step toward the grave;
our whole life is long and painful
sickness.
Captain Bogardus is to attempt the
feat Of breaking 5000 glass balls in
eight hours and thirty minutes on
wager of 81 800 at the new York Hip
podrOme.
President Hayes and Mr.. Evarts
have, 1t Is said, accepted the invitation
of the New England Society of New
York city, to its annual dinner on the
22d of December.
In new work on Keramics, it is
stated that within period of ten years
the collectors of pottery and porcelain
in the United States have increased from
1000 to 10000.
According to the New York cigar
manufacturers, the American girl as Il
cigar maker Is great success. Three
thousand are now working at the
benches of the strikers.
Fifteen banks and eighteen insu-
rance companies in Chicago have gone
to ruin within few years. Nearly all
of these were swindles, yet not one of
the officers has been punished.
There are six families in West Mid
dletown, Allegheny county, Pa, who
can muster out 6S children in dress
parade. The smallest family contains
ten, and the largest fifteen children.
England has become 80 fend of
American apples that 1t is estimated she
can certainly take All average Of from
1900 to 10, 900 barrels week for the
whole market year of nine months.
From the annual returns of the
savings banks Of Connecticut, itappears
that the number of depositors, notwith-
the popular feeling against
savings banks, has increased from 203,-
5l4 in 1876, to 2O4, ,575 in 1877.
-Vassar College has commenced the
season with the consumption of 1000
pancakes daily. No syrup is used, the
fair lips supplying the sweetness, as
the delicious morsel passes on its way
TO that bourne from which no properly
constituted pancake ever returns.
More than twenty years ago the
splendid steamboat Arabia sank near
Parkville, Missouri. She went down,
carrying several hundred barrels OF
whisky in her hold. The wreck has
recently been discovered and efforts are
being made to recover the whisky.
Church organists in New York get
from $500 to 81 900 year, though few
performers receive
much larger salary. Sopranos receive
generally from $400 to $500, some 81 200
Or even 81 500; tenors from $500 down,
ave in exceptional cases; contraltos
rom 500 down with some exceptions.
MILAN is preparing for an Inter-
national Exhibition In 1879. The out
ay for the building, which is to be on
he London Crystal Palace style, is set
It the modest figure Of $150,000, two
birds Of which sun have already been
In England, and the rest In
italy.
The North German States expend
annually on the twenty universities be-
onging to them more than 81, 100000.
The Imperial government in one year
expended $780, 900 on the University Of
Strasburg. The University of Leipzig
.Saxony) receives over $25oOOO a year