The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-07-01
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Mexico was colonized just 100 years
before Massachusetts was.
There are caumnies against which
even innocence loses courage.
Dear at any price!" yelled the
hungry traveller who ordered venison
for dinner.
Ships are frequently on speaking
terms, and they lie to.-BC Ston Tran.
script.
Sitting Bull has given his tomahawh
TO a Canadian missionary, who has prs
sented it to college museum in Ottawa,
A Kansas weekly publishes fourteen
rules to be observed during tornado"
Only one is necessary. Be somewhere
else.
In the United States 100, 900 bushels
of hemp seed are annually-consumed
lor bird food alone. Much of it is inn
ported.
Ejaqi7eering states that speeds Of over
sixty miles an hour are now common
with many of the express trains in Great
Britain.
The people of Leadville stand aghast
at the boldness of woman lot jumper,
who has been asserting her claims in
that vicinity in that manner.
America now has nearly a hundre"
varieties of American grapes under cul-
tivation, and more than eight hundred
varieties Of pears.
The annually revived and touching
story of an old gander having fallen in
love with COW, comes to US this time
from Lancing, Ky.
Agriculture is to be made an obliga-
tory study in all the elementa, ! schools
of France. This is recent action OF
the French senate, and was adopted by
majority of 254 votes.
The London Times estimates 'iias
there are 1000 blind persons in Great
Britain and Ireland. Nine-tenths OF
these, it thinks, could have been saved
from their aflliction had the highest
special skill been called to their aid in
time.
Brass pins are whitened by long boil
ing In copper vessels containing block
tin. The process of making white iron
pins is still a secret. There are eight
pin factories in the United States, with
an annual production Of about 7,OO0,-
100000 pins.
French dress designers make the sides
of some OF their skirts to represent FIVE
large box plaits. Eyelet holes, or bound
buttonholes, are then made in the front
edges of two of these plaits, and the
front of the skirt is laced across with
cords that tie and fall in a cluster of
spikes, balls, or tassels near the bottom
of the skirt.
An examination has been MADE OF tine
original Declaration of Independence,
now among the archives of the state de-
partmcnt at Washington, and it is found
in such shape rs to suggest that, unless
something is done TO restore it, 1t will
soon be unintelligible.
Ladies who wear sealskin sacks are
very liable not to wear them, for in
Belgium rabbit skins are successfully
prepared TO resemble sealskin, and thou
sands of rabbits are annually killed in
England whose pelts 60 to Belgium,
and leave that country as genuine seal
skins.
A counterfeit one hundred-dollar note
on the Pittsburg National Bank of Com.
merce was detected recently. 1t is the
most dangerous counterfeit which has
yet appeared on any national banknote.
Country editors will do well to be on
their guard for this fellow.- Waterloo
Observer.
Let the next spelling reform conven-
tion be held in Maine and adopt meas
ures to reform the spelling of the lakes
of that State. Some of the lakes there
only quarter of mile in length have
names half mile long. The reform
ers might wrestle with Lake Magogue-
hunkittchognemusquitamackinogue to
begin with. -NorriStoDn Herald. Z.
Holland boasts of a house in which
lives a family Of six persons, which in
cludes one widow, two husbands and
their wives, two sisters, two aunts, one
son, two cousins, one son-in-law, one
daughter.in-law, two daughters, two
nieces, one half-brother, one half-sister,
one stepmother, two mothers, one
father, one father-in-law and three chill
dRen.
The property of pine pollen to floa
for long time in the air, and to be car
ried by storms to very distant localities,
is well known. DIR. Engleman has
found in he streets of st. Louis, after n
rain storm from the south, when no
pines north of Louisiana were in bloom,
pine-pollen, which must havo come
from the forest of r. Australis, on Red