The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-27
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| 10 De no WOIu slgullylng BIhlltuue'
These are my palmy days." as the
irchin remarked when his mother
boxed his ears. boston Courier.
There are at present in Europe 7l9
princes and princesses, each having o
claim more or less remote TO q crown.
A rich manufacturer at CLANS, Switz-
prland, solemnizes the anniversary OF
his wife's death by distributing $4,000
among his workmen.
An animated controversy has of late
necn carried on in the French military
papers respecting the relative value oi
he drum and bugle, some writers main
aiming that the former. Others that the
atler, instrument should be abolished.
How noble TO the innocent young girl
seems the smart young mau who has
won her heart. how good. how kind,
how gentle, how ever so much nicer
than mother. 1t is dif1erent, however,
when she gets him; she does so ever
lastingly awfully want mother them
NeSO York Commercial.
A correspondent shows that the Nor
mons in Ut h, By an ingenious and de-
ceptive system OF township entries,
have managed to grlb every acre of
arabic land. Thus, one township is in
corr GRATED with municipal control of
over forty square miles of land. The
population holding this large tract is
less than 1000 in number. Other town
ships, with smaller population, hold
thirty.six, thirty eight and even forty
square miles. The policy ofthe Nor
mons is to keep control of this vast ter
ritory, to the exclusion of Gentle en-
iRrants.
Professor Nordenskiold, the success
full Arctic explorer, has pro6ted by his
Journey to Japan to buy collection Of
valuable japanese books. These works
number I,O36, but as every volume does
not contain more than 100 pages, ac-
cording to the Japanese style, each
work comprises many volumes, and the
whole collection embraces over l00,0 900
separate volumes. Of these works l76
are OF historical character; l6l relate
to Buddhism and education one, printed
in IT'S, to the Christian religion; thirty
three are devoted to manners and Gus
toms, and so on,
1t seems kind of satire to give the
name Of Green and to country covered
with snow and ice; which is indeed one
huge glacier. But geological investiga-
Il, ms prove tha the elm te of Green and
was once milder than that of New Eng.
land at the present time. Rema ms were
found in abundance ofpnes, oaks, grape
vines, larches, pop ais, and even the
beautiful magnolia, now nat We only in
the South. Traces were seen also CT
former lakes and river4. Possibly at
som future day a new change may take
place, and Gre inland become the home
OF a great and popular nation.
The directors of the Brighton eng
land) aql arium have received advice
that lar Of young sca-elephants are
on their way from Port Chalmers to the
aquarium. This remarkable member Of
the phocyd@ has never yet been seen in
Europe, nor are there any skeletons or
stuffed examples of it in Eng and. It
grows TO an enormous size in three
years, attaninga ler 9Th of from eighteen
II TWENTY-FIVE ieet, and its bulk aud fat
ness are prodigious. The males Lave an
nolgated probiscus which extends to
II foot in length, and is flexible Suitable
quarters for the reception of the strangers
are being prepared.
A very worthy enterprise is The
Kitchen Garden association, of New
York, which aims to solve the two diff
cult problems of teaching housework to
young girls and providing trained SER
wants. Tie association, which under
another name has been pursuing this
work since 1879, has now six hundred
girls studying housework under seventy
teachers. Those who have been underit
care are eagerly sought by housekcepers,
and applications for admission from poor
families are numerous. The same work
is in progress in Boston and Philadel-
phia, and, with a praiseworthy desire
to fit the raw material for emigration.
at Belfast, ireland.
The growth OF the nails is more rapid
in children than in adults, and slowes
in the aged; goes on faster in summer
than in winter, so that the same nail
which is renewed in 1879 days in winter
requires only lie in summer. The in
crease of the nails of the right hand is
more rapid than those of the left; more
over, it differs for the different fingers,
and in order corresponds with the length
of the finger, consequently IL is the fast
est in the middle finger, nearly equal in
the two on either side of this, slower In
the little finger, and slowest in the
thumb. The growth of all the nails on
the left hand requires eighty-twJ days
more than those OF the right.
The death is announced at Giion, in
Northern Spain, of very old gentle
nan indeed, who had completed his
lI9th year only few days before he
uite UNEXPECTEDLY paid the debt of ma
ure. Unlike Mr.. Weller, senior, this
reverend Iberian was no means the
victim of connubiality, )" for he success
fully withytood the wear and tear Of
i've successive marriages during his
ong life. His last wedding day was
,lso the eighty-ninth anniversary Of his