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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01

The European nations demonstrate
their capacity for saving and show that
they would be comparatively rich butfor
the consuming cost of military establish
ments which they are taxed to sustain
From 1874 to 1873 the deposits through
out Europe rose from $l,4O0, 00O, 900 to
| 900, OOO, 900, an increase Of thirty-fve
per cent. The French raised their de-
posits in the above years from Sll5, OOO,-
600 to $2OO,OOO 900, or ninety-three per
cent, and that after the vast sacrifices
made by the war with Germany.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01
A Gentleman.

An American strolled into an English
commercial inn, such as is reserved for
commercial travellers or "drummers "
only. The parlors of such inns are
patented to this nomadic class. The
American found the parlor empty and
sat down in it and ordered refreshments.
In a few minutes a man entered, tipped
his head, and said, CURLY:
'What linep"
"LineP" inquired the American, 81
don't understand you"
The man stared ut our friend an in
slant and exclaimed with countenance
between resentment and awe:
81 beg your pardon! But you are a
g%entlemanP"
81 hope l am" replied the American.
Here, here! landlord-landlord, /
say, turn this person out! He's a gen.
tlemanl"
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01
Oldest Paper in the World.

A Hong Kong journal furnish es some
particulars concerning the Picking
Gazette, the Oldest periodical in the
world. Its circulation is estimated at
over 100, 900. There are ten publishers
in Canton, each of whom employs
about ten distributors, so that there are
100 distributors in the city and suburbs
alone. The Gazette is printed from
movable types, and each publisher takes
a certain number of copies. 1t is de-
livered every two days to subscribers,
who are of two classes. The first retain
the pamphlet and pay about twenty
cents a month; the second pay about
half that sun and return the Gazette to
the distributor the next time he comes
round. Together with it is delivered
the local "oficial Sheet" the matter of
which is collected from the yamens
daily. This is printed from wax blocks,
which are then remelted and available
Tor another days issue.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01

People are remarkably careless about
mailing letters, and letters containing
large sums Of money Or its equivalent,
too. The New York postoffice alone re-
ceived during the past six months l. 1853
unsealed registered letters, which con-
tanned in cash $6,s49,2l, and in checks,
drafts, etc, S2Oi, 6l5. SO. OF unregis-
tered and easily negotiable United
States bonds, 81 500, 900 worth were re-
Gently posted by awell. known New York
bank in m envelope SO weak that il
came to pieces before leaving the
stamper's table.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01
The Abuse Of Charity.

The New York Observer says: Our
city has had a sensation in the seizure
of an entire asylum of children, who
were brought into court that their treat
ment might appear in the faces and
forms of the victims. The abuse of
charity by professional swindlers and
sharpers is something fearful. The city
is infested with them. We have lust
now received acircular and appeal bear
ing the name of a c%lerica, scoundrcl
whom we exposed thirty years ago.
But he has hourished ever since like a
green bay tree, rs the psalmist said the
wicked did in his day. Going from one
swindle to another, and always finding
a number of respectable but soft hearted
people to give their names as dummies
and indorsers of his charity, he has
subsisted en- the ~gullibility of the New
York Christian public through a whole
generation Boarding at the most ex-
pensive hotels in the city, lourishing
at fashionable watering places in the
summer, he has had jolly life of it on
the dollars and cents he has managed to
draw from the pockets of the easy-going
religious people who never look into
the applications made to them, but
give thinking it is all right. There is
no way to arrest the career of such a
rascal. Long experience in the ways of
the wicked has made him an expert in
his business, and the law cannot reach
him.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01
Baron Kurd Won schloser, the German

Baron Kurd o Schloser, the German
minister at Washington, Is mentioned
by a correspondent as n plain, simply
dressed bachelor, who does more work
than any other foreign minister. He is
as simple in his habits as in his dress.
When all the other diplomats went in
elegant carriages to make their New
Years call upon the President, Baron
Won Schloser walked. He takes n long
walk every morning, gets his own mail
from the postofice, and does thereafter
a hard days work. lie used TO be the
private secretary of Prince Bismarck.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01

Here is an amusing bit of ecclesias-
teal tit.for. tat. Two young men were
chums and intimate friends in college,
n became a Baptist minister, the other
an Episcopalian. They did not meet
again for years. When they did, it was
in the pulpit OF the Baptist, for whom
the Episcopalian preached to the great
satisfaction Of the congregation. Sermon
over, the two divines ducked their heads
behind the bresstwork of the preaching
desk and held the following soliloquy:
Fine sermon, Tom; much obliged
Sorry l can't repay your kindness for
preaching by asking you to stay to our
communion. CANT though, you know,
because you have never been baptized.
'Oh, don't concern yourself about that,
Jim. / couldn't receive the communion
at your hands, as you have never been
ordained
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01

A Pittsburg minister has q very stu b.
born little 5 year old boy. The boys
mother determined to conquer him, and,
having administered a severe ehatise-
ment, she said: will you mind me now,
johnny With sobs and cries he re-
piled: Yes, mamma, I will, but l hate
to awfully.'
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01

TIE people of Detroit, Mich, deligh
in intellectual recreation, and we hail
the following from the Detroit Free
Press as an encouraging sign Of the
spread of culture in the West: "A
pleasant evening game in Detroit is for
each player to oil his hands and then
try to turn a door-knob. The one who
succeeds first gets a hunk of taffy on a
string.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01
How GreeIey's Cousin Fixed Tho Stairs

In an out-of-the-way town in New
Hampshire lives IN eccentric old farmer
named G~reeley-an own cousin OF the
lamented Horace, by the way-who
found his cellar stairs hard to climb on
account of the height Of the steps. At
ter careful consideration, he hit upon
the device of mailing a piece of two.inch
plank on each, in order, he said, to
"bring EN- nearer together" and con.
tended that he noticed n %"leetle fetch Of
Representation Transcript.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01

After an enthusiastic lover spends two
hours hard labor wei a letter to his
girl, and then mars it's beauty by spill
ing a drop OF ink on it, he first wear
in a scientific manner for a few minutes,
and then draws a circle around the blot
and tells her it is a kiss, and she, poor
thing, believes it.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01
A Characteristic Frontier Episode.

Lieut.. Fred F. Kislingbury, Eleventh
Infantry, commanding the Indian scouts
who left Fort Custer n month ago on a
scout to the Judith Basin, and about
whom the people of the post had been
quite anxious, fearing that himself and
party had been lost, returned last week.
Thelieutenant and his men had a rough,
cold trip, and the majority of the party
are more or less frozen. At the Mus
cleshell, a noted desperate named Tom
Herald, more widely known as BLACK
Hawk" who was at the time engaged
in selling whisky to the Indians, I'M
dertook to intimidate the lieutenant and
one Of his men, and finally attempted
to take their lives. After emptying his
Winchester, happily without fatal re-
suits, into the shack where Kisling-
bury and his men were stopping, he
broke open the door, firing, and swear
ing he would kill every one of them.
He was shot dead instantly by a we'll
directed bullet, which penetrated his
heart. Lieutenant Kislingbury had a
narrow escape, having had his blouse
and vest perforated by one or two balls,
which missed his body only by a hairs
observation-disclosures Independent.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01

The New York Herald has started a
subscription list in behalf of Ireland,
and heads the list with 800, 900. The
Enterprise is ready and able, sir, tocome
down with another cypher. Yes, sir,
wei make IL six! Keep the o (balD
rolling Gouanda Enterprise.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01

The monthly wash list of n Pullman
s~leeping-car is about 5000 pieces, and
the bill is upward of SO. Each car has
"A total equipment of 100 sheets, 100 pill
low-slips, thirty hand-towels and ten
roller4towels.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01
How 90 Keep Apples.

A correspondent writes that he has
tested the methods suggested in agricul-
tural papers Of keeping apples the year
round by wrapping them in paper for
two successive years and finds it to be
perfect success. The plan pursued was
to take old newspapers, cut them into
pieces Of sufficient size and wrap each
apple by itself and pack them away
carefully in barrels or boxes so as to ex-
clude the air. The variety selected was
the Northern Spy, and last year, as late
ms the 18th Of August, they were still
fresh and crisp, and he had no doubt
that they hight have been kept much
longer had not the temptation to eat
them been 50 strong.
Diseased Fowls.
Procure n pound of wood charcoal,
pulverize it coarsely and mix with il
half a pound Of common table salt. To
half a pint Of this mixture add one
quart of corn meal and bran, half and
half. Mix well and feed to about six or
seven fowls. Procure some hard coal
screenings and place within reach.
Feed occa sionally a few oats. Always
keep some old iron in the drinking
water; give all the outdoor exercise
you possibly can, even chase them round
a little. Place plenty OF straw for them
to scratch among for exercise. Throw
some small grain among this to encour-
age scratching. Above all give pure
air and keep perfectly clean. A little
k~erosene-the commoner the better-is
a fine preventive of disease and lice OF
all kinds. Smear this all along the
perches also under the straw in the
laying boxes. This is disinfectant and
deodorizer also. On cold days be care
full; on warm ones give them air.
Shorts as a Fertilizer.
Sidney G. Brooks, president of the
Natick Farmers and Mechanics Asso-
citation, gives his experience in raising
potatoes with shorts as a fertilizer. He
says: Several farmers in the spring of
1878 used shorts as a fertilizer for corn,
putting one pint in a hill, and met with
good success. / thought l would try it
for potatoes. l planted one-third of an
acre upon which potatoes had been
raised the previous year. The soil was
good. l planted potatoes in a drill, APP
plying as many shorts as | could hold
in my hand, dropping about fifteen
inches apart, covering it with soil with
my foot. Upon it l dropped one piece
of potato with two eyes. This fall l
dug sixty-three bushels of good-sized,
smooth potatoes, with very few small
ones. l used six bags of shorts, costing
$3.50. l used no other fertilizer. /
used the shorts dry, but think it would
be better to wet them, since they are
apt to blow away. Have had better
success with shorts than with any other
fertilizer the past season. How they
will work another year remains to be
seen, rs this has been a remarkable
season for the potato. The potatoes
thus raised were very smooth, and were
of a size much above the average in this
vicinity.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01

Domestic bliss-Kissing the maid of
all work. Domestic blister-When your
wife surprises you in the act.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01

Flattery is like cologne water, 10 be
shifted at, not swallowed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-04-30
Registering Women Voters in Boston
iarper's Magazine.

We are indebted to "statf CORE.
spondent" for the following anecdote
concerning the recent registration Of
female voters in BOSTON. Its accuracy
is vouched for by an eminent artist
one of the most distinguished stone.
cutters of the Hub:
Enter old lady of certain agA.
Il wish to register, sir"
Your name, please? p
"Almira Jane simpson !
"Iour age ~
BEG pardon
"Your age"
"Do understand that ! must give
my age?'
Yes, miss; the law requires it,
Worlds, sir, would not tempt ME to
give i'll Not that | care. No; l had
as lief wear it on my bonnet, as a hack
man does his number; but I'm a twin,
and if my sister has weakness, il Il
that she disliKes any reference made TO
Der age; and / could not give my own
because | don't wish to offend her.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-04-30
Tho British, Foreign Office.

A book has lately been published in
London called "Our Public Offices"
The author, Mr.. Charles Marvin, has
been employed from time to time AS an
assistant in various departments, and
got into scrape two years ago in CON
nection with the Anglo. Russian agree
ment, which prematurely found its way
into the columns of II newspaper
Among other details, ne tells us that
the letters which reach the Foreign
Office from Switzerland are the best
written in point Of penmanship, and
those from the United States the worst.
The latter are also written on the worst
paper. The Queen likes to sign herself
"Victoria, II and l." He further tells
us that Lords Derby and Salisbury will
pass anything, whereas with Lord Pal
merston every one had to be on their
P's and o.. Mr.. Marvin further tells
how, when the Grand Duke Sergius was
struck dead by - spent bullet, at the
rear Of the Russian army, on battle
field in the Balkans, the Car informed
the Queen Of the occurrence in letter
OF unusual sadness. The duty fell to
Mr.. Marvin to prepare letter of con.
dolence, and he wrote a letter in the
customary form, but in stronger than
ordinary strain of sympathy. Apparent.
ly, he "lad il on too thick" for, when
the letter came back, the Queen had
with her own hand toned down the
sympathy quite thirty degrees below the
standard, and made the coincidence sig
nifcantlv frigid. Mr.. Marvin's work
will probably produce some sensation
in the Foreign Office, if not outside it.
1t will be likely to confirm the preva-
lent notion existing in England, that
the Foreign Office is run by a set of idle
arislocratic gentlemen, who put the
work ON copying clerks paid Mt 20 cents
an hour. 1t excited general amaze
ment in the public mind to find that
such an important State paper M the
Anglo. Russian agreement should have
been intrusted to a mere copying-clerk,
who, very naturally, eked out his
wretched pay by putting 1t up to the
highest bidder on the press, while the
swell secretaries and clerks were smok-
ing their cigarets discussing the latest
fashionable scandal
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-04-30
Cunning Vanderbilt 4 TO.

There is more polished and plausible
deviltry in the minds of those arch
conspirators against the nterets of the
people, Messrs. Gould, Vanderbilt and
Scott, than can be found in all the
balance of the universe, and they are
always unblushing in their exhibition
of it. 1t is sometimes both amusing
and startling, and smiles and frowns
disturb the brow in quick succession
~ one beholds some new phase OF this
trait in the character of these men,
II Q last cunning move made Ivy Van
derbilt was proposition III congress
last week to prevent the transportation
of merchandise from one point If the
United States to another, through foreign
territory. For instance, if u farmer
wished 10 send car load of grain
from Chicago or Detroit to Portland
or Boston, he must not shin il through
Canada 1t will strike the average
reader that the serious contemplation
OF the passage ot such II law by an
American congressman argues that he
il knaye ornn idiot; and so II does.
White paper il too costly to spoil any
vi IL VI abttIIiHlluR w dSOiuo MHlNh tic
man who offered the bill was, for he
was nothing but figure in the Punch
and Judy show. in the box of which,
manipulating the figures, was King
Vanderbilt" So Mr.. Congressman had
to bob wherever the "diroctor" Of the
show willed that he should.
But we cannot see the object OF such
foolishness," says the reader. Well,
we will show il to you. Toe Grand
Trunk, has always been goas-you-
please road. 1t has told Mr.. Wander
bilt to attend to his own business and
the Grand Trunk would attend it it's. 1t
has paid no sort OF attention to Mr.
Vanderbilt's wishes or threats, or style
Of conducting mis- roads. II has fixed
its own rates regardless OF what the
other uunk lines charged, and while its
own charges have been too high, the
Grand Trunk has been considerable
Of Il blessing 10 the west, Indeed il is
impossible 10 determine how much the
west does owe to II, for had II beer out
OF the way there is no telling what Van.
derhilt would have done. Very natur.
ally Vanderbilt would like to circum-
vent tile Grand Trunk, and finding no
other Way 10 do he appealed to con-
gfe>s il the foolish proposition referred
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-04-30
Bret Harte at Glasgow.
London Telegraph.

The new American consul at Glasgow,
who has already gained 50 high name
in literature, is still young man. Born
in 1889 at Albany, N. T., Mr.. Bret
Halte, in common with thousands of
others, was drawn to California in 1854,
when the gold discoveries had not long
been made. In the golden State to
which his steps were turned, he display
ed an Americans versatility by becom.
ing successfully miner, school teach
er, an express agent, printer, and the
editor of newspaper, while from 1864
to 1870 he held the position OF secretary
TO the United States mint at San Fran
cisco. The leisure afforded to him by
the comfortable salary which he thus
enjoyed was devoted to the production
of those many poems and prose sketch
es which he contributed TO the Over
land Monthly, and which, like his
Heather Chinee" and his Society up
on the Stanislaus," have since gone the
round of the world. For the last ten
years the life of Mr.. Bret Harte has
been passed either in New York or in
Boston, and since 1878 he has filled the
DOSI Oh OIlbtu lOltlt5 COIlslll dl SlOitlN.
1t is Of happy augury for his future pro-
auctions that some OF his best sketches,
such as the Luck of Roaring Camp,
we're written when he had left the west
and his uncouth life far behind him;
and for such fancy as his We doubt
not that the commercial capital of Scot
land will be full of pregnant suggest.
ions. II is plain that to mind attuned
for its comprehensions, Glasgow will be
rs full of suggestions as the wild scenes
in which red-shirted, poker-playing, re-
volver. carrying miners constituted the
chief dramatis persora. Will Mr.. Bret
Harte be able to rise to the level OF his
new opportunity? The answer to this
crucial question is hidden from our
eyes, but at any rate the American con.
sui at Glasgow may count with certain
ty upon the same cordial welcome from
the British people rs has just been ex.
tended to James Russell Lowell, and
whichever withheld from American
officers accredited to this country-is
paid with greater etfusion when they
come to us with literary genius to
recommend them.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1880-04-30
BURMAH.
Peenliariiies OF the County Ruled nv the
Brutal Theebau.

Barmah, kingdom of Hindo.ch;nese
peninsula, has, as il now exists. three
well-marked divisions, northern Rnr.
nah, Burmah proper and eastern sham
TRIBUTARY states The inhabitants
Mongolida distinguished by a mono.
syllable. language; they are short head.
ed, broad-skulled, fat-faced, have biacL
hair and dark brown skin, and resem.
BILE the Mongols ore than the Hindus
Both sexes wear white linen Jacket
called in-9ie; the men wrap around the
lower part of the body the put 50. sey.
eral yards long, and the women wear.
| ing the te-naine scant silk or cotton
garment, to which are added on occa.
sion silks, muslins and gold ornaments.
The men and women alike smoke
cigars and chew betel nuts to excess.
The former are for the most part, 70
bust and well made, and excel in box.
ing, rowing wrestling and other athletic
exercises, and have considerable
mechanical skill the houses are a frame
work of bamboo, matched with the
water palm, and are built on posts
several feet from the ground. The wo-
men are more industrious than the
men, buy, sell, weave and attend to
domestic duties. Both sexes are very
fond Of feasting, sightseeing. theatricals
and buffalo fighting. The natives are
attached to their home, though they
are far from patriotic. Without in
dividual cruelty, they are Indifferent to
the shedding of blood by their rulers,
and while temperate and hardy, are
hostile to discipline and continued
labor of any Sort When in authority.
they are often arrogant, tyrannical and
corrupt. Besides the genuine Burmahs
variety of races inhabit the kingdom.
The Means, or Telaings, descended
from the ancient Peguans, are largely
amalgamated with the regular natives,
and the Shams or Tai, the most numer-
Gus, perhaps of the Hindo. Chinese PEG
Piles, are distributed over the peninsula
from Munnipore to Bangkok. Some
of the eastern Shan states are tributary
to Burmah others to Siam, those west
of the Irawaddy being entirely under
Burmah rule. Buddhism, the prevail
ing religion, has been preserved in
great purity; its shrines, temples and
monuments are numberless, and its
festivals rigidly observed. The govern
ment is hereditary and despotic, the
sovereign being assisted by council of
the nobility, over whose members he
exercises u kind of feudal jurisdiction.