The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-11-13
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

A pennyroyal factory at Walnut Hill,
ILL.,, has utilized 1G7 tons Of the herb
this year.
No matter how much a candidate
itches for oflice, he never likes TO be
scratched.
A corn plant can produce four thou
sand fold; but lilty-iold is not far from
the average.
The New Orleans Citizens saving
bank went into voluntary liquidation,
there being no loss to depositors.
In the Boston supreme court, the
jury awarded sl5, 633 to John L. Green,
who lost leg at the Wollaston disaster
on the Old Colony railroad on 0cohcr
s, 1878. Green sued for $4,000.
A jersey canaller suffering from a
tooth had a dentist to pull it, whereupou
blood began flowing from the wound,
and in spite Of the efforts of the physi-
clans could not be stopI ed, end the man
died of exhaustion.
ANY observer will notice that the horses
and mules employed for heavy team
ing are OF much larger size than those
used few years ago. Farmers who are
breeding horses for sale will do well to
make note Of This.
On four contiguous estates in York
shire, England, hundred and eighty
farms are deserted; over twenty estates
in another shire are being or will be
farmcd by landlords for want OF the ten
ants who are going to America.
DIR. Alcot says that man who uses
tea cuts of one-third of his life, The
doctor may be right, but you can't con-
vince the dying man of eighty years.
who has used tea all his life, thGt ii he
had never tasted the beverage he would
now be over one hundred.
A train loaded with coal and marble
was thrown from the track near Poult-
ney, Vermont, bya misplaced switch.
The track was so blockaded that track
had to he constructed around the wreck.
Some of the marble blocks weighed fifty
tons, and will have tobe blasted to bere-
moved.
A memorial shaft of granite appropri-
ately inscribed, has been raised to the
memory of Major Andre, who was the
medium through which Benedict Arnold
proposed to surrender West Point to the
British. The shaft was erected on the
spot where Andre was buried in New
York State.
A New Jersey man who had been
lame for many years in consequence
OF the shortening Of the sinews OF
one of his legs, recently fell in such
position as to styaighten the limb, and
although the pain was excruciatins, the
sinews were stretched to their former
length, and he can now walk without
bis crutch.
The enormous work already per
formed by the national board Of health
in disinfecting Memphis is not gener-
ally known, and can scarcely be realized
by any citizen. There have been used
in this disinfecting business ITO, los
pounds Of copperas, 5000 barrels OF lime,
4Obarrels sulphur, /, 215 poundssulphate
of zinc, Is barrels oarboIic acid, and
1900 gallons of ziuc iron.
1t will scarcely seem credible that an
instrument so fragile in appearance as
tue violin should be able to resist the
tension to which it is subjected, At
the present concert tho constant pres
sure on the bridge of violin is no less
than from seventy five to eighty pounds.
The skillful strengthening OF every part
by various internal appliances, mainly
invisible to the eye, effects this.
It has been decided at the postoface do
partment that the stamps On misdIrected
letters stopped in the office OF deposit and
returned to the gender for better di-
rections, shall, provided the letter has
not been transmitted through the mails,
though cancelled, bo accepted rs good
for forwarding. Also, that stamps on
letters for foreign countries requiring
prepayment, that are stopped on account
OF deficient postage, shall be regarded
as an installment of the proper prepay
ment.
A Berlin genius has invented an
instrument for turning over the leaves
of music. The Berlin man is pre-
sumptious meddler. IL his machien
should come into general use what dis
position could be made of the average
young man in high ehirt collar and hair
parted in the middle who at evening So
cial gatherings stands up at the end of
the piano and turns over the music for
the lady performerP He appears fit for
no other purpose under the sun-or
moon either.
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An Intelligent Mule.