The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1879-03-06
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"A colossal flower called theTitanum
thirty-three inches in diameter, has
been discovered in Sumatra.
The Cincinnati gas companies offer
TO supply the city with gas at 81 80, IL
1t Will agree to use the gas for ten years.
"A San Francisco paper estimates
that from $1,000 to 100000 boxes OF
raisins were put up in California last
year.
Switzerland, whicn formerly sent
$4 900, 900 worth of silk ribbon to this
country, now sends but 81 1000, 900
worth.
The sum of So, 1868 has been sub.
scribed for the family OF j. w. Barron,
the murdered Dexter lMaine) bank
cashier.
From the debris of their coal mines
France makes annually 700.0 900 tons of
excellent fuel, and Belgium 100000
tons.
Railroad building is on the decrease
in the New England States. Last year
Al miles were built, against ll9 in 1877,
and 80 in 1876.
Calvin T. Fillmore, a brother of the
late President of the United States,
died a few days ago at AM Arbor,
Mich, at the age of sixty-nlne.
The population of London has
doubled in the last forty-seven years,
but the number Of arrests by the police
is only increased seven per centum.
The Memphis Appeal notes that
while there are 10000 900 acres of land
in Tennessee unOccupied and untitled,
strong men are begging from house to
house in that city for employment.
The Australian International Ex-
hibition will open at Sidney, August lst.
One acre of space has been assigned to
the United States and Canada, and more
will be allotted if required.
M. Friedrich Luther, a theological
student at Strasburg University, is q
distant kinsman of the great Reformer.
He comes in direct line from Heinz
Luther, uncle of Martin Luther.
The people of Erie county, Pa, 1t Is
said, intend to apply to the Legislature
for an appropriation with which to erect
a suitable shaft to mark the burial place
of General Anthony Wayne.
The latest statistics of the Registrar
General in England prove that there
are in that country nearly a million
more females than males. Up to the
age of tess years the difference in the
number Of the two sexes ls not marked.
The. Pope has sent ten Jesults to
Central AfNca to evangelize the coun-
tries traversed by Stanley and Living
stone. The mission will cost $4,000,
and the missionaries will take withthem
500 porters, servants, &c., who will be
unarmed.
Mrs. John Murray, ,awidow residing
at COusett, near Glasgow, entertained
at dinner on Christmas Day her fifteen
children, forty grandchildren and two
great-grand children. All fifty seven
reside within radius of mile of her
dwelling.
The annual. report of the Boston
Fish Bureau shows that during the year
1878 there were received in Boston 49,
05S barrels of mackerel, 60, ITO barrels
of herring, 3S6,223 barrels of smoked
herring, ia ,2S5 quintals of cod and
52,O34 quintals of hake.
The Federal Assembly of Switzer-
land has decided to postpone the further
discussion OF the proposed re-enactmeut
of capital punishmentuntil March next.
Meanwhile, the Federal Council will
prepare an exhaustive report on the
subject.
"A young lady at hotel in st.
Louis went in search of the bathroom,
and cropping along a dark passage open.
ed the door of the elevator aperture and
fell down the space, seriously injuring
himself. Judge Boyle, of the Circuit
Court, dismissed her suit for damages,
holding that guest in hotel is not
expected to wander around dark passa-
ges and go into the first open door she
sees without having any knowledge OF
what the place may be.
Since its foundation the British
National Lifeboat institution has con
tributed to the saving of 26. 04 ship
wrecked persons, for which service it
has granted $50 gold and silver medals
and pecuniary awards to the amount of
1924 250. Last year its lifeboats saved
AL lives, and put seventeen vessels out
of danger, and rewards were paid for
the saving of l45 persons by fishers and
watermen. Though $4,000 men put out
in the society's 2G0 life-boats last year,
not life was lost.
What is claimed to be the largest
and Oldest apple tree in New Hampshire
has just been cut down. Its age is
stated at 200 years. 1t measured at the
ground IL feet s inches in circumference.
Four feet from the ground 1t measured
| IL feet s inches In circumference. 1t
was 80 feet high. 1t had seven large
branches, the largest being over feet
in circumference, and smaller one
over feet. About forty years ago 1t
bore fifty bushels Of apples In one season
and until the pres ent year 1t has borne
fruit annually.
The British naval authorities have
been making experiments for some time,
with the view Of testing the power OF
resistance to heavy shells of Goals In the
bunkers of men-of-war. The latest
tests at Portsmouth seem to indicate
that loose coal is the most effective
means of protection yet discovered,
and in the case of light, unarmored or
only partly armored vessels, the bunk
ers are built around the machinery.
In the case of the Oberon 1t was proved
by actual experiment that a she'll from
G4.pounder, at two hundred yards,
could neither penetrate the coal nor set
1t on fire.
"A statistical review Of the battles
fought by Austrian troops since 1895 has
recently been issued by the military
authorities, which shows that In that
period the aggregate losses in killed
and wounded have amounted to 032,-
93l, including 26l generals and 17,000
officers, while the prisoners taken by
the enemy were SO generals, 4l74 other
officers, and 2S0, ,04l non-commlssioned
officers and men. AS to trophies and
captures the account stands: Guns