The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-12-18
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

In Macon, Ga, no child will be allow
ed at the public school unless its father
has paid poll tax.
The largest train ever known was re-
Gently reported on the Erie road, and
consisted Of two engines and 1913 loaded
cars.
An Iowa woman gave her husband
morphine TO cure him Of chewing to-
bscco. II cured him, but she is doing
her own plowing.
The quickest way to expel foul air
from a well is to heat bar of iron red
hot, and lower it down into the water,
the sudden formation Of steam is Cffec.
tual
The greyhound is short lived, At the
age Of two years be is full grown, and
at his fifth or sixth year he is worth lit'
tie for the sport of coursing. He may
be said to run himself out in three years.
The board OF managers Of the New
York produce exchange have refused to
grant the request OF the grain dealers
to drop the GENITAL system, and will put
the system in operation on and after
January LIST, 1880.
A Acurious cave is discovered at Mineral
King, Nevada. The door is covered
with stalacmites of iron, formed by
droppings Of ferruginous water. They
bear resemblance to branching plants.
-W1iS alred they crumble.
A house TO, hause inspection at Men,
phis, Tenn, begun under the auspices
of the national board Of health, with a
view to ascertain what improvements
are necessary for each dwelling within
the corporate limits of the city.
Father Dufresne, of Holyoke, Mass,
having commanded his congregation not
to patronize certain livery-stableman
in the town, succeeded in iDiuring the
mans business seriously, whereupon
the stableman brought suit and recov-
cred $3 433 from the priest.
The Berlin correspondent of the Paris
Globe Gays that Prince Bismarck, now
intent on getting all railroads into the
hands of the state, contemplates that as
soon as possible the state shall become
grand insurer-life, FIRE and marine.
He has directed minute inquiries into
the business.
Scissors, which are still made in Shef-
field, Eng, by tedious hand process,
are made at one stroke Of die in Con
necticut. Hence Sheffield is sending
large quantities of steel blanks to this
country to be struck of, repacked and
returned to England, where they are fin
ished and come to us again for sale as
Sheffield ware.
The Canadian authorities have notif-
ed Postmaster. General Key that the
laws Of the dominion DO not permit OF
the circulation of such papers as the
Police Gazette and others of that ilk,
which are printed in this country and
circulated in Canada. The postal au-
thorities will accordingly condemn all
such publications found in the mails for
the British provinces.
Some Of the experiences of young wo-
men who have been brought to Montana
in the capacity of servants have been
very amusing. A lady who brought a
maid from Chicago two or three years
ago told me that the young woman had
five offers of marriage while travelling
week on the stage coach between Corinne
and Helena, part of them from passen-
gers and part from stage-drivers.
Two weeks ago, Mr.. Levy, q store
keeper in the city Of Jackson, in the
State OF Michigan, felt very much like
shouting stop thief 7 He bought forty
pounds Of honey and put it in box in
his store. When he went to look at the
honey two days afterward he saw that
bees had stolen every ounce Of IL. More
than one hundred Of the thieves we're
biting the sides of The box when he
looked in.
The blind member OF parliament, Mr..
Fawcett, has been salmon fishing in
Wales; one fish he drew out weighing
twenty-five pounds. Mr.. Fawcett rides
on horseback az a gallon, skates and
climbs mountains in spite Of his blind
ness. His memory is remarkable, and
he makes speeches involving intricate
figures without trip. He recognizes
people by their voices, seldom mistak-
ing voice he has once heard.
The cigar.shaped fish torpedo gets it's
motion from compressed air stored in.
side, and this, issuing at the tail, sets in
motion O screw which revolves with con-
siderable velocity. A well constructed
fish torpedo will run many hundred
yards at a velocity of twenty miles an
hour, and on striking its head, which
contains the charge, explodes with CON
siderable violence The fsh torpedo is,
therefore, weapon OF terrible effect.
A short time ago Gen. John Gibbon,
Of St, Paul. made the assertion that 100
bushels OF wheat had been raised on an
acre Of ground in the Territory Of Mon
tans. The statement having been re-
ceived with incredulity, he wrote TO
the president Of the First National bank
in Helena for proof. In reply be re-
ceived the certificate Of the president
and secretary Of the Territorial fair as
sociation that one James L. Ray, Of