The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-05-06
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.


tato in five seconds is rs useful rs the
young woman who speaks i've languages
is ornamental.
The International conference on Are
tic exploration, in session ut Hamburg,
advocated tho gradual cslab ishment of
n chain OF stations toward the polar
regions.
Either the boys have got TO quit fly.
ing lantern kites at night or the gov
ernment must provide asylum accom-
modations for distracted astronomers.
- Boston Post.
A spiders net suspended across the
path of Sir Samuel Brown, as he walked
one dewy morning in his garden, was
the promptcr that gave to him the idea
of his suspension bridge across the
Tweed.
There are $1,000 locomotives in the
United States, and each contains $500
different pieces, requiring renewal
every ten or twelve years. This conveys
a notion of the industries which rail
roads foster.
A Missouri newspaper having nomi-
mated "the Honorable Adolph Pantz"
for the Presidency, the Washington
Capital suggests Schurz for Vice Presi-
dent. "Pantz and Schurz would work
well together" says the Capttal.
The digest of cases of the California
reports has one head that reads:
People VS.. All Chung, People VS.. Ah
Cow, People VS.. All Fong, People VS..
All Fung, People VS.. All How, People
VS.. All Ling, People VS.. All Woo, Peo-
pie VS.. All Yek."
The indianapolis Sentinel prints some
figures, purporting TO come from we'll
informed source, which show that the
first cost of nine collins, of various
kinds, from plain to imitation rosewood
and extra fine ciotn csskets. was $l60,
and the retail price was S7l7 so.
An inscription in an old cemetery at
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, is neatly and
plainly cut in the marble slab, rs fol-
lows: Christiana, wife of John Haag.
Died. February 81, ls69n How such a
bluEder ever got into the copy, or how
even the stone-cutter could let it 90 on
is mystery.
Wasps' nests are frequently ignited by
some chemical action. supposed to be
that ofthe wax upon the paper like SUBJ
stances of which the nests are formed.
Spontaneous combustion Of this nature
is believed TO have been the cause of
many mysterious fires in haystacks and
farmers buildings.
The latest Partisan coif'ure for Young
girls under fifteen is to crimp the whole
of the hair, brush it out smoothly
and then braid it in one long plait or
braid fastened mt the nape Of the neck
with soft ribbon bow. Another bow
is placed some distance below, around
the braid, and the hair below the final
bow is arranged in light curls.
The newspaper advertisement, an ex.
change truthfully says, is u never-tiring
worker in the interests Of its employer.
When the bill distributor has disap.
peared from the streets and his bills
trampled into pulp, the advertisement
is performing its silent mission in the
family circle. 1t appeals to constit.
uency three or four times larger than
the actual sale of the paper for thereare
few newspapers which do not pass from
hand to hand through three or four per
sons with every issue.
The Gate City guard, military COM
any of Atlanta, Ca, has decided to
erect memorial armory, which shall
commemorate the reunion of the States
and the return of peace. The decision
grew out of the warmth and cordially
of the reception given the organization
on its late tour through the North. The
stars and stripes will float from the tur-
rets. Many subscriptions have Oeen
made, and it is proposed to open SUBJ
scription lists in every principal city.
that all the States may be represented.
Boston and Portland merchants ship
large quantities of lumber to Brazil, be-
cause she has very few mills. The
streams wash away many trees, which
mill owners Mt their mouths would
simply have to capture and land. A
Portuguese who built mill few years
ago at the mouth of the Madeira river,
has recently retired with large for
tune, although he had employed only
the rudest machinery and unskilled
workmen. The cedar logs floating down
supplied him in five months in every
year with sufficient timber for the enc
tire years work.
The New York Journal of Comnlerc,
prints an interesting tabular review O
last years export movement. 1t ap.
pears from the figures that in 1879 th,
people of the United States shipped
through New York to foreign con.
sumers S72,97l,l79 worth of wheat
$ls,294,639 worth Of corn, S2,572. .3T
worth Of rye, Sl92 GEO worth Of oats
S65, $40 worth Of barley, S2l ,0l0 .72t
worth Of wheat -four, S127, 492 worth O.
corn meal, Sl76l5 worth frye flour
1886, 59i,s73 worth of bacon and hams,
50, 0s6, III worth OF salt pork. 81 ,002, ,9le
worth of salt beef, "a, sos, ,s2l worth O,
I. esh beef, SlO3 CS5 worth Of fresh NUT
ton, S5, l02, 1850 worth Of butter, $40, 537,.
53S worth of cheese, $l7, ,72O,235 worth
of lard, and S4,7l4,67l worth Of talow.
The expectation Of cotton from New
York during the year footed up S23,.
90,703; that of petroleum and its pro.
ducts, S2O,567 lO6. Germany took th,
lions share of the ralined petroleum