The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-11-28
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Bonanza gold and and silver
mines of Nevada have thus far produced
100000, 900, seven-tenths of which
enormous amount have been divided
among the stockholders as profit.
Lydia Squinn, the last lineal de-
scendait OF the famous Indian King
Philip is still living at New Bedford.
Mass, and, although eighty. three years
OF age, is still bright and vigorous.
MIR. Richard Rogerson, of Liver
pool, is spoken of MS model English
working man. He is seventy-seyen
years old, and has worked in a foundry
for one firm for the last siXty-six years.
The Importance of knowing how to
swim is exemplitied by the fact that all
the members of the Thorpe family, who
were on board the Princess Alice, which
was sunk I'm the Thames, were saved,
because the girls as well rs the boys
were able to swim.
There are 81 saving banks, savings
institutions and trust companies In the
State of Vermont, with an aggregate of
80, III depositors and IS, ,32l ,726 in de-
pOsits, decrease of $25J, 900 during the
NNdig NullC lllC dkSlNEdNO bul Dlub 10
$27 240 greater than last year.
"A recent circulation says that the
demand for lumber increases In the
United States at the rate of 25 per cent.
per annum. The forests decrease at the
rate of 100000 acres year. The
fences alone are valued at 81 800, 000, 900.
and they cost each year sos, 900. 900. .
"A physician of Springfield, Mass,
was for two years entered into an ar
rangement with some fifty patients, by
which he is paid a small yearly fee for
giving advice and for suggesting pre-
ventives of disease. If one of these pa
tients becomes i'll, the doctor visits him
at half rates.
The Grand Duke Alexis is to be
godfather of his little niece, daughter
of his sister, Marie, Duchess of Edin-
burgh. Queen Victoria and her eldest
daughter, the future Empress of Ger
many, are TO visit, 1t is rumored, the
Duke of Edinburgh and his wife ut
Coburg, this autumn.
DIR. Lynch, of South Carolina, has
presented to the Smithsonian Institute,
at Washington, fossil tooth, brought
up from depth of one thousand feet
below the surface through an artesian
well in Charleston 1t has the appear
ance of a human tooth, but has not yet
been examined by the naturallsts of the
institution.
Up to the year 1866 Russia possessed
5000 elementary public schools, with
2S0 900 pupils. That number has now
increased to $4,000 Inclusive of the
municipal schOOls), with nearly l,000,-
900 pupils; but the number of children
between the ages of seven and thirteen
is about Il, ,000,0 900, so that upward of
90 per cent, of Russian children remain
uneducated.
MIR. X. NJ. II. Hunter, treasurer of
the Lee Monument Association, which
proposes to erect an equestrian statue
of General Robert E. Lee, in Capitol
Square, Richmond, Va, publishes
statement showing that the assets OF the
association consist of $5400 cash, bearing
per centum interest, and $l2, 900 In
Virginia consols, purchased in April,
1877, by order of the board, at ~ cents
OIL the dollar.
In France, as in England, importa-
tions of live stock and dead meat are
continually increasing. The value of
imports in live cattle has risen from
l05, ,129, 900 francs in 1877 to 100, ,54l 900
in 1873, and that of imports of fresh
and salted meats from 27 10000 francs
in 1877 to 50,000,0J0 in 1873. A new
company has Just been formed, with
capital of 500 600 francs, for importing
meat from La Plata.
1t is announced that the second son
of the Crown Prince of Germany Is
about to start on voyage around the
world on board German corvette.
Prince Henry holds the rank of Lieu
tenant in the Navy, but his father has
especially commanded that he shall be
treated as an ordinary cadet. His only
privilege is that of having his own
apartments, which have been newly
but simply furnished.
"A railroad up Mount Vesuvius is to
be built by Naples banker of the
name of Obleight. A double line sup
ported Oh pillars, and nine hundred
and nineteen yards long, will carry the
trains, which will be hauled up to the
mouth of the crater by wire ropes con-
nected with stationary engines. Each
train will consist of four carriages
holding four passengers apiece, and as
one such train ascends the mountain
another will be coming down.
The cost of the twelve new bells
which have been placed in the north
western tower of st. Paul's Cathedral,
London, together with the work of
mounting them, has been about $780,
600. The largest bell weighs $500
pounds and the smallest 800, while the
weight of all is nearly 10000 pounds.
No. IL the largest, was given by the
corporation. London has waited more
than two hundred yeers to hear a chime
OF bells from its Cathedral belfry.
Japan has contributed new
fruit to this country which In Califor-
mia Is called the persimmon, though
very different from the wild persimmon
of the Western and Southern States. 1t
ripens without frost and obtains large
size, sometimes weighing as much Ms u
pound. OF a bright orange or reddish
color, its flavor resembles that of a plum
and fig combined. The tree has dark,
glossy foliage, and when the fruit is
ripe looks beautiful. The fruit is
great favorite in Japan, and can be sue
cessfully grown in the greater part Of
this country.
"A scheme has just been proposed
by M. Emile Pagan, Belgian, for
reaching the North Pole In balloon.
The aerial machine which is of special
form, will be used as a sailing veesel as
far as the eighty-fourth parallel. There
he will fill his balloon, Of a capacity of
2500 cubic metres, with pure hydrogen,
which he will make In the Arctic re-
gions with $4,000 cubic metres of sui
phuric acid and 5000 of iron filings.
He will be supplied with boxes OF pre-
served maats biscuitg bottles of brandy