The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-04-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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ful, that this method of illumination /,
likely TO be adopted.
The StdtiStique de France shows thai
there are in France 50, S73 lunatlcs. OF
whom 3a,SS7 are at the charge of their
families and 1885 supported by the
State. The proportion is about 2 pei
1000 of the population.
Employees of the Baltimore aud
ONO Railroad Company have been no
tined that drunkenness aud frequent
Ing liquor saloons will be considered
sufficient cause for immediate pis-
charge.
The revival i'm the locomotive build.
ing trade in Patterson, n. j., is very
marked, and twenty eight new engines
nave been shipped from the two shops
In that city since January LIST.
The Newark, On. j. papers pub
lish a list toftax delinquents comprising
1924 names. This list is to be publish
ed once week for six weeks, each pa
per receiving $4,000 for the publication
Boston exported last year $3,4O2,-
564 worth of live animals, not includ-
ing $l2, 900 worth OF horses of raw cot
ton, $6,63O,67S, and of manufactured
cotton, 81 ,257 1853; of tanned leather,
81 ,l6l ,493; of bacon, IS, 343, ,7l9; of lard
S3,O5S, ,797; of tobacco, 81, 1856, 1888.
New York produces more than one
iitth of the hay crop, or nearly twice
as much as Pennsylvania, which fur
nishes the next largest figure In the
line. New York furnishes, also, more
than two-thirds of the hop crop of the
county.
Mrs. Clarissa Cook, of Davenport.
Iowa, has bequeathed 100000 to the
Protestant Episcopal Diocise of that
State, SOC, 900 to found home for the
triendless, and other large sums to
church societies.
The Austrian Government has
promised to provide, in case of his
death, for the two sons of DR.. Besiad-
eVski, the specialist on epidemic disess-
es at Cracow, who has gone to As
trakhan to study the plague.
About dozen mechanics in Lew
lston, Me-, whose funds are limited.
are trying to charter a boX-car to take
them to California. Their plan is to
board themselves on the way, doing
their cooking in the car.
Prof. Marsh, of Yale, has been
finding more toothed birds among the
Wyoming and Colorado fossils, besides
the petritied remains of 300 or 400. di-
nosaurs, a mammoth animal of the
crocodile order, 100 feet long, and
about 100 pterodactiles, sort of flying
dragon, with spread Of wings from 80
to 40 feet.
"A few days ago a fisherman, near
SollX City, Iowa, saw box floating
on the surface of the water. He secur-
ed it, and it proved to be water-tight
and contained an infant several weeks
old, provided with bottle of milk and
sufficient clothing to keep it warm.
There is no clue as to how far the lit
tie waif had sailed or to whom it be-
longed.
Thomas NJ. Merchant was recently
discharged from the military service
of the United States on the petition of
ms mother, who wanted a prop and
support of her declining years. Her
petition stated that she was the mother
of eleven boys, ten of whom have been
honorably discharged or killed ia qc-
tion. Her sons were all soldiers.
From statistical sources it is esti-
mated that the manufacture of sewing
machines employs 100000 workmen in
England, 100, 900 in America, and So
900 in the remaining countries. The
number of ma hines in use throughout
the civilized world is estimated at
4 ,O0O, 200, employing a working force
of 20, ,0OO,O 900 to $4,000, 900 persons.
The Lewistown (Me.) Journal saws
that the new water works at that place.
when are now about completed, have
cost 1929. 200, and it is thought that
when expenses yet to be sustained are
met the cost will still fall some $25. 900
below the original estimate of $500. 900.
The expense has been met by the sale
of the water loan, which was easily
disposed of at par,
-Natchez, Miss, is threatened with
the fate Of Vicksburg, namely, deser-
ton by the river. The recent rise of
the Mississippi river has thrown the
towhead near the Louisiana shore, and
there is now current running on the
Louisiana side which threatens to cut
away the bar there, and throw it upon
the Mississippi side directly in front of
Natchez.
Miss Catharine A. Delattre, the
youngest daughter of M. Delattre, the
eminent engraver, has lately died, I'm
her Goth year. She well remem bered
sitting in the lap Of Angelica Kauf-
mann, the painter, and being petted
by the fair and clever "Miss Angel"
1t was Miss Dellattre's eldest sister who
first put pencil in the hand of Edwin
Landseer.
TT Austrian Parliament House Is
to be provided with a new machine for
voting, invented by the well known
engineer, Mayrhafer. A member by
pressing a handle, Eyes" or "no," on
his desk liberates ball which falls in
to an urn behind the President, and at
the same time reveals the number of
.he vo' lin board on the wall. Fraud
in voting is impossible, and the time
is two minutes.
The new steel despatch vessel Iris,
Of 1000 tons and 1000 horse power
,nominaD, that has just been added to
The British navy, has been tried and
proved to have speed Of twenty-one
miles an hour. She is lightly armed
with 24-pounders, and, having the great
est speed of anything afloat, is xpected,
IN the event Of a war, to run away from
too heavy for her, outma-
1Guvre any ordinary armed vessel, and
levastate the enemy's mercantile ma
'ine.
According to the last report to the
of Public Instruction, there
ire twenty-one public libraries in
Paris, open to all. Many, however, are
devoted to specialties, and not of great
jize. The largest is the National, with
,ver 800. 900 volumes; the Louvre has
100. 900; Mazarine, 0.000; Saint Gem
,vieve, 10000, and Sorbonne l25,00O.
IIOspitals and similar institutions have