The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-01-15
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Kansas claims S49, 978 Inhabitants, or
an increase of IA, ,097 in a single year.
Col. Clayton, of Ashevillo, n. c., has
a suit OF President johnson once made
him.
Eugene is really going to Zululand
to visit the place where her son was
slain.
VIM. II. Vanderbilt and his sons have
begun the erection of four residences in
Fifth avenue, New York, which are to
cost 81, $50, 600 in the aggregate.
In Chicago, during the present year,
one thousand and six!y-6ve new build
ings, mostly brick, have been erected,
at an aggregate expense Of S6, 454, 900.
The biggest salmon in the world was
brought into Victoria, Vancouver Is
land, British America. 1t weighed
ninety eight pounds, and was five. and.
a-half feet long,
Jackson, Miss, is building new
opera house, capable of senting nine
hundred people, ar3 it is saf>. that when
completed it will be one of the prettiest
theaters il the South.
On the day that Senator Blyard was
first elected to the United States Senate,
his father, James A. Bayard, was re-
elected to the same body, the only in
stance Of the kind in the history of the
country.
The bell-punch register has come to
be regarded in Texas as mere farce.
In Houston one leading saloon which
registered over 300 on the malt register
for October shows only 10 glasses of beer
sold during November.
The New Orleans Picay1ne thinks it
would be wise investment for the peo-
pie of louisiana to establish in that city
a free hotel for the reception and enter
tainment of emigrants for time suf-
fcient to enable them to find homes and
employers.
The depression of business in Berlin
continues general, and is daily becom-
ing more severe. At the banks there is
little doing, and in mercantile circles
there is almost hopeless stagnation. or
700 houses belonging to building asso.
Citations, not more than one.third are
occupied.
In Chicago, the first week in Decem-
Der, the sales of provisions were unpre.
cedented-806, 900 barrels Of mess pork,
425, 900 tierces of lard and 35, ZOO, 900
pounds of meat having been disposed
of. These sales are equivalent to 1885,
100000 pounds OF produce, valued at
$23, 100000.
BY a fire which threatened the total
destruction of the Wesleyan chapel, in
the City road, London, the main chapel
was greatly injured, and the historic
building, Wesley's morning chapel, wae
Quilted. Wesley's pulpit was saved
The beautiful frescoed ceiling is irrep-
arably injured, and great doubts are
entertained whether the roof of the
structure can be restored.
Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm has ascer-
tanned from Buckle, good authority,
that for every twenty girls there are
twenty-one boys born; and, consequent
ly, she infers that every woman ought
to have a husband, and every twenty
families a good commonstock old bach
elor uncle who will buy drums for the
boys, dolls for the girlu and take the
young ladies to the opera.
1t is fact that the Baltimore paves
of streets use sand from England and
France cheaper than they can get Mary
land sand. Our exports 30 largely ex-
ceed our imports that vessels from
Europe which used to bring merchan-
disc and take back ballast, now como
laden with sand, as ballast, and return
with our products. On reaching this
port they give the sand to any one who
will haul it away.
Among several curious habits of the
woodcook, its practice of carrying its
young is perhaps the most interesting.
The testimony Of many competent wit
nesses is cited to corroborate the state
ment. The late L. Lloyd, wrote: IF,
in shooting, you meet with a brood OF
woodcocks, and the young can not fly,
the old bird takes them separately be-
tween her feet, and flies from the dogs
with moaning cry
For some time past Chinese aromatic
smoke rods have been used for perfum.
ing rooms. They are grayish brown
sticks, which are easily kindled and
burn slowly with bright glow, leaving
rnddy ash behind and diffusing
pleasant aroma on the air. They are
formed of powdered cascarilla bark,
from which the bitter principle has been
boiled ont, leaving the aromatic resin.
These grounds are kneaded into soft
mass with tragacanth gum and then
nodded into rods.
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