The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-08-07
FACTS n FANCIES.
There are over $4,000 known crimi-
nala In Nnz York.

There are over $4,000 known crimi-
nails in New York.
Woman's way-irom eighty to two
hundred and eighty pounds.
Atlanta, Ga, had quite a celebration
over the starting OF the machinery OF its
first cotton mill.
Jones said TO his collar: wilt thou
last me through the day?' 1t replied,
i wilt and it wilted.
Mr.. Fred Harden, Of Robson, n. C.,
who will be 103 years old on his next
birthday, has just professed religion.
Tinmen always choose the middle OF
the hottest sunshiny day as a time for
carrying a load OF bright new tin buck
cts through the streets.
This bread is sour,' said Jones at the
table, recently. Yes rejoined Smith;
its sour bread, If We pay for it;'and the
landlady looked relieved.
Charles Dickens, Jr., has found him
self obliged to advertise for sale the "a
nous house at Gadshill, which was the
chief trophy of his fathers literary sue
cess.
The pen may be mightier than the
sword, but it does not rattle around the
heels OF a militia colonel so vigorously
or trip him up so gracefully as the sword
does.
A Georgia child was born with q trans.
parent b~ladder-like covering to its stom'
ach, through which the workings of the
different organs are plainly perceptible,
1t is a novelty in medical science.
The cost OF the late Durham strike in
England is estimated at SO, 200, 900; near,
ly half is borne by the men. Without
reckoning interest, it is computed that
it will take nine and half years to make
up the sum lost.
The industrious bee does not stop Il
complain that there are SO many poison
Gus flowers and thorny branches in the
road, but buzzes on, selecting the honey
where she can find il and passing by the
place where it is not.
There was much sound, palpable ar,
gument in the speech OF a country ladt
an idler who boosted his ancient family
so much the worse for you,' said the
peasant; 'as we plowmen say, the Older
the seed, the worse the CROP
Arizona sporting men amused them
selves by putting a three-inch scorpion
and a four-inch tarantula in O glazei
washbowl to prevent their escaping, an(
then excited them to fight adeadly duel
in which the scorpion came out victor
The Pope has issued an order forbid
ding the sale of sacred relics. He cay
the traffic has become an abuse, ant
that men who are enemies of the Catho
lie faith and DESTROYS Of filthy lucre
hunt up and steal authentic relics anC
sell them, especially in Rome, to tn
great scandal of the faithful, and espe
cially Of the foreigners.
During the last twenty years 100, 900,
600 barrels Of petroleum have been pro
duced in Pennsylvania-57,0O0,0 COO dur
ing the past five years. In 1850 it wa
worth $40 a barrel; the average price il
1873 was only $1.4O. Philadelphia ex
ported last year nearly so, 600, 900 gal
Ions. Quite a number Of vessels wer.
cleared with it for Japan.
Last year 16O, 900 tons of coal, 210,
0OO, 600 feet of lumber, 50, 000, coo wortl
Of canned and salt salmon we're exported
from Washington Territory. Railroad
lines are being rapidly extended,
and there is abundant inland navigation,
The population amounts to nearl!
1870, 900. The Territory is asking fol
admission into the Union as a State.
FINLAND LOVE SONG.
saw the moon rise clear
Der hills and wales Of snow,
Nor told my fleet reindeer
The track / wished to go.
Val o,1icl,1v ba boundad forth,