The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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Sentinel.
The world owes us all living, bu
she is just as hard to collect from as an
other debtor.-PhiIadelphiG Item.
Tiberius, the Roman emperor, lef
$Ils, 10000, but Caligula spent it in les
than year in Sl5O,OOO suppers and tn,
ike
The Union stock yards at Chicago
occupy $50 acres of land, and will ac-
comodate 10000 head OF live stock at
one time.
Tobacconists say it is injurious to
smoke a cigar more than half its length.
It is, very injurious-to the cigar trade
| -HmUkeye.
A man living at Rimmersburg, Pa,
is the father of thirty-tour children,
twenty CT whom are living; nine were
burned to death at one time.
1t costs from 81 to 81 25 to produce a
hushel of wheat in England. In Min
nesota wheat has been produced at a
cost of forty cents per bushel.
N. Gaillard, a Partisan, travels the
streets in all weathers and seasons, hat.
less, having vowed never to put a hat on
until the commune was the recognized
government of the city.
A down-East circus has a cannibal
among its attractions, but the foolish
reluctance of women to give up their
babies, deprives him OF many opportuni-
ties 10 show Off -ChtcGgo Times.
The skull of Confucius, captured with
the loot at Pekin in 1860, stripped of the
$4,000 worth Of jewels with which it
was decorated, seeks unsuccessfully for
purchaser at London curiosity shop.
A scientist says; The skulls of the
African negroes are dolichocephalic,
unacceptable, prognathous, plathrine
and mesoseme, while the Adamese ar
brachycephalic, microcephalic, mesog-
nathous, mesorine and megaseme.
I''-n hundred and seventy-two rail-
road trains arrive and depart at Cur
cago every twenty-four hours. Forty
four railroads have offices located in the
city.
Hailstones as large as partride eggs
were piled into drifts four feet deep at
Hillsboro, Ohio. The fiat roof of one
of the dwelling houses was perforated
and riddled like sieve.
"Mr, Smith, father wants to borrow
your paper. He only wants to read il"
"Well, go back and tell your father to
send me his supper. Tell him only
want to eat itP"-Andre1CS' BGzGr.
During p thunder storm near Buena
Vista lightning struck tree and killed
a rattlesnake that was crawling out at
knot hole. The likeness of the snake
was pictured in clear outline en- the
trees trunk.
"Oh, I've seen George" cried little
girl at Cleveland; "he came and leaned |
over me- at the piano." George was n
boy who had recently died. The |
mother, hearing the words, fell dead
from heart disease.
The Moderation society Of New York |
city report that they have distributed
52,6l6 pledges the past year, 4,lOO OF
which are not to drink in business hours,
5,6Il not to drink at all, and 1885 not |
to treat or be treated.
An Oshkosh wis match factory cut
up 1900, 600 feet of logs into matches,
and used 100000 worth of revenue
stamps during 1879. Besides it manu-
factured one-fourth of all the merchant
work sash, blinds and doors made in the
United States.
An examination has been made of the
original Declaration of Independence,
1ow among the archives of the state de-
oartment at Washington, and it is found
n such shape rs to suggest that, unless
something is done to restore it, it will
loon be unintelligible.
It is well-established fact that
lealthy man requires about pint of ai'
Vt breath; that he breathes about 1000
lines an hour, and that, as n matter
beyond dispute, he requires about fifty
even hogsheads of air in twenty -four
lours.
1he Dukes of Bedford have converted
what was an inland sea in winter and q
loxious swamp in summer, the waters
into meres swarming with
ish and screaming with wild fowl, BY
he labors of successive generations Of
engineers, into $50, 900 acres of the rich
,st land in England, as much the pro
Iuct of art as the kingdom of Holland,