The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-02-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Fisk University, at Nashville.
Tenn, had 33S students last year, and
1t has been ascertained that Alumni OF
the institution in 1877 taught 1888
students.
The College of New Jersey, at
Princeton, has been connected with the
Washington Observatory by telegraph
wires, and electric dials are to be placed
in the buildings.
Earl Dufferin assumed tie seat of
the President OF the Royal Geographi-
cal Society in London a few nights ago.
A distinguished company greeted him
with great enthusiasm.
The mean height OF an American
Indian is G7 S34 inches OF the American
white man, 6S G72; Scotch, 67.066;
English So 613; Russian &C 1893; French,
&C. 277; Mexican 66 ll0
In less than thirty years, $4,000
miles of railroad have been constructed
in the United States. The value of pro-
perty in this country has In the same
period increased from $1,000 ,000, 900 TO
$4,000, 10000
The tower of the parish church of
Week st, Mary, North Cornwall, Eng
land, has just been destroyed by light
ming for the third time in thirty years.
1t will cost $4,000 to repair it.
"A new Synagogue, said to be one
Of the finest In the world, has been
opened in Warsaw. 1t has cost, the
Jeu0tSh World says, S240000, exclusive
of the cost Of site, which was about
$4,000.
Col. MACPHERSON is enrolling a com.
pany OF Highlanders In Ottawa, the re-
quirements being that each recruit
shall be at least feet 81 inches tall,
and measure not less than 10 inches
around the calf of the leg.
-Asea lion weighing125 pounds, three
feet eleven inches long and thirty. three
inches in circumference, was captured
on the west bank of the Hackensack
river, In New Jersey, about two miles
below the town, last week.
The RdttrCdd Gazette contains in
formation of the laying of track on 2,207
miles of new railroad in the United
States in 1873, against 1877 miles re-
ported for the corresponding period In
1877, 2,l77 in 1876, l,27 in 1875, l,7G7
in 1874, 3,507 in 1873 and 6, ,SS5 in 1872.
M. Paul Broca. the famous anthro-
pologist, is authority for the statement
that the tallest man ever actually meas
ured was Finlander, nine feet three
aad seven-tenths inches high, and that
the shortest man known reached decl-
NAL under seventeen inches in his stock
ing feet.
Mr.. E. Atkinson saw gray crow
flying across field near Woodstown,
the other day, and says the other crows
were giving chase. 1t is said that
flock of these birds will kill one OF
their number happening to have light
er feathers than themselves, or any
marked peculiarity.
On New Years Day the British
railway companies inaugurated a new
express system, issuing stamps to the
denomination of four pence and six
pence, to prepay to any point On their
lines packages of two and four pounds.
Such packages will also be insured to
the amount of FL each.
The aggregate valuation of the
prison property In Massachusetts,, as sci
down by the Prison Commissioners of
that State, is So, 500 ,421 so, divided as
follows: Valuation otbulldings, So, ,0Se,-
2l4.76; of land, $522 ,299 ,43; and per-
soDal property used In the prison aud
belonging to the county, $780, ,9)7 Al.
In an English county court, where
a cook sued her mistress for a months
wages in lieu of notice, she having been
dismissed because she refused to join in
the family prayers, the Judge ordered
the money to be paid, as there had been
no stipulation that the plaintiff was 10
attend prayers; and she was engaged
to cook, not to pray.
The new catalogue of Bowdoin
College, Maine, shows 140 students, in.
Guiding % seniors, 80 juniors, 45 sopho-
mores and 81 freshmen. There were
also SO students in the medical depart
ment during the past year. The number
of books in the college library is l9,500;
medical library, 1000; pencinian, 7l50;
athen@an, $3.50; total, 3G. 600 volumes.
The annual report of the City
Treasurer of Springfield, Mass, shows
the total receipts of the year to have
been 81 ,0S9,0 the disbursements
81, 00S ,201, the cash in the Treasury to
be $50 ,S54, the amount due to the city
$72, ,779, and the amount due from the
city 1893, leaving a surplus of cash
assets Of $l27'651' The surplus year
ago was $277, 379. The total interest
bearing debt is 81, ,927 ,734, an increase
during the year of $7734, the total in
debtedness 81, ,953,717, and the net in
debtedness, after deducting the cash
assets, 81 800, ,0S3, an increase Of the
net Indebtedness of $l57, ,461.
For thirty years or more the family
of Mr.. A. Sawtelle, Of Augusta, Maine,
have drawn water from well In their
cellar. The well was forty feet deep,
and the water therein never failed. The
other night, during severe storm and
gale, the bottom of the well dropped
out. During the night they heard
tremendous noise In the cellar, resem-
bling a miniature earthquake. The
next morning the cellar was visited,
and 1t was discovered that the well had
vanished; 1t must have sunk to con-
siderable depth, as the pump was nearly
buried out of sight. A portion of the
underpinning of the house was under.
mined and will have to be rebuilt.
The Buffalo Commercial prints It's
annual statement of the lake trade OF
that city, showing that the receipts of
flour have been heavy, reaching nearly
/ 1000, barrels, but that they were
not so large as in several preceding
seasons. The arrivals of grain, how
ever, were far ahead Of anything on re-
cord. This years totals reach 83,b7,-
233 bushels, or nearly j, ,00O, 900 bushels
in excess of the best previous year. The
lumber trade also shows marked I'm