The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-05-22
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in 1t and bearded fringe of fine silver
beads hanging from the shell.
Extensive preparations are being
made for celebrating the siXtieth ami
yersary of American Odd Fellowship,
at Pittston, Pa, on the 25th of April,
aud at Reading on the 2Gth.
The new post-Ofiice, now in course
Of erected at Hartford, Connecticut,
has thus far cost $3.50, 900, and it is estl-
mated that IL will use 100000 before it
is completed.
The Bureau Veritas, of Paris in
giving the number of steamers register
ed in 1873, makes Great Britain head
the list, with 32l6; the United States Is
placed next, with 5lG, and France
ranks third, with 275 steamers.
Professor Dana, the geologist, Of
Yale, although sixty years old, is tre-
mendous pedestrian, and can run like
a deer. In his excursions with his
students they find that few can keep
pace with him if he undertakes to walk
rapidly.
Gas manufacture in Paris contin-
ues TO be an increasingly prosperous
industry. The collected revenue of
the Partisan Company for lighting and
heating by gas, in January of this year,
was 81 ,3l7, ,l45, or 1928 per cent. more
than the collections of the same month
last year.
1t has been decided to erect new
tower for the Eddystone Lighthouse
about l27 feet from the present site.
The focal plane will be raised to an ele-
vation of 100 feet, and the range of
light extended to 1719 nautical miles.
The new tower will be constructed en-
tirely of granite.
The Sixth Annual Convention of
the Millers' National Association will
be held in the city of Chicago, May l3,
1879. AS recommended by the EXecu-
tive Committee, reorganization of the
association will probably take place,
and it is hoped as many members as
possible will attend.
Throughout France gardening is
practically taught in the primary and
elementerY schools. There are az pre-
sent $4,000 of the schools, each of which
has garden attached to it, and is under
the care of a master capable of impart-
ing knowledge of the principles of
horticulture.
The memorial tablet beneath the
window of the room in which Keats died
| in Rome has just been unveiled with
appropriate ceremonies in the presence
of number of English, Americans and
Germans. Sir Vincent Eyre delivered
an address and entrusted the tablet to
the care of the British Ambassador.
Guit hoe bann anea,oI h,, UV,clg--
ton county (Pa.) coal operators against
six miners to recover $1,000 damages,
resulting from strikes. 1t is alleged
the defendants conspired together to
prevent men from working, thus caus-
ing the loss named. The defendants
were arrested on capiGS and committed
in default of $4,000 bail each.
"A Maine paper relates that an ELS
worth man visited one of the logging
camps. and, on leaving forgot his init
tens. He did not miss them until
mile away. He wrote note and gave
it to his dog, with instructions to go
back to the camp and give it to the cook,
which he did, and returned in very
short time with the mittens in his
mouth.
Fisk University, at Nashville,
Tenn, has just received the sum of
$4,000 in aid of the work the institution
Is doing for the education of the color
ed people of the South. The gift comes
through Rev. w. Ii. Wilcox, of Massa-
chusetts, who is privileged to distribute
nearly 81 0OO,000-the contrihaton Of
| his aunt. Mrs. Daniel y Stode, Of NAL
| den, Mass. in the cause of Christian
education in this country.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has de-
cided that where drunken and unru-
| ly passenger is put off railroad train,
and is then run over by another
train, the railroad company is not liza
Bile. 1t was the duty of the conductor
is protect other passengers against him
| by ejecting him, and if he was too
drunk to take care CT himself after that
it was only his own fault. Similar de-
cisions have been made in other States.
Persons tOnd OF statistics may be
delighted to know that one day recent
ly, a man on the top of the custom.
house IN Newburyport, Mass, counted
sixty-fve fishing vessels. Each vessel,
he estimated, carried eight men; each
man attended to about eight hundred
hooks; so (if his figures were correct),
about 4l6, 900 hooks were hanging ag-
gravatingly on that day before the
noses of the hungry Goldfish on the little
strip of New England coast within the
line of his vision.
Cornell University has just estab-
lisbed an experimental station which is
prepared to analyze different kinds of
commercial fertilizers in the laboratory
and to test them in the field; to exam
inc seeds that are suspected to be adul-
terated; and 10 identify and name
grasses, weeds or other plants. The
board of control is formed of several
professors OF the university and of the
chief officers of several agricultural
societies Of this State.
Leo XIII has made valuable addi-
tion to the Vatican Library in the
shape of one hundred and thirty-fve
volumes of the MOniteur UniUerSeL of
Paris. containing the continuous issue
of that newspaper, without a break,
from the day of the publication of its
first number, on the 10Th of November,
! 1888, to the end of the year 1861. The
volumes were offered for sale at auction
at the startling price Of $1,000. The
Pope gave an unlimited commission,
and they were knocked down to him at
$4,000.
Mr.. Williams, United States Con-
sui at Sydney, Australia, informs the
Department of State that the scope and
plan of the international exhibition
to be held there has been greatly en-
larged. The opening has been post
poned to the first week in September,
1879. The United States has been allot-
ted 10000 square feet of space. Mr..
Augustus Morris, who was the execu-
tive commissioner for Australia at Phil