Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-02-21
THAT LITTLE WORD q,
" The ,pid in its issue befor,

A MOVEMENT is on foot in Virginia to- I
organize II society of the descendants q I
the Cavaliers. IN
A FRENCH chemist asserts that if tea
be ground like coffee, Immediately be-
fore hot water is poured upon 1t, lts
eXhilarating qualities will be doubleetd.
AT the meetings of the AMERICAN
clergy in colonial times, the room was
often dark with the smoke of tobacco
and the steam of hot rum, says Mr..
James Parton.
The latest things out in the way of
combinations to regulate prices of man
ufactured articles are the organizations
perfected in Chicago by the tombstone
makers and in Toledo by the wheelbar-
rOW-mcn.
The origin of electing members by
balls may be traced to the Grecians
When member was to be elected
every one threw little pellet of bran or
crumb into 1t basket carried by n servant
--On his head around the table, and who
ever dissented flattened their. pellet at
one side. ~,
ANpAMAN ISLAND widows wear the
HhiIo vi llitlI utCtuStu uucDuHuS |
on their shoulders. At Il re.
cent lecture on ethnology at the
Royal College of Surgeons in Lon
don, Prof Flower showed that the skull
of an Andamanese, to which was attach
cd an elegant webbed sling by which it
had been suspended to the widows |.
neck.
At GILLINGHAI, near Chatham, Eng |
land, II singular ball was recently held. |
The party was made up of fifty. nine Ia
dies and gentlemen whose united ages
amounted to 1859 years. A gentleman
born in 1890 opened the dance with a
lady only four years his junior, and it
is said that their waltzing was as brisk
us that of any young couple of 20.
TIE Shanghai Courier says that mar
riage in China between persons of the
same surname are not only null and
void, hut render the contracting parties,
rs we'll as the o-between who arranged
the match, liab6to punishment of sixty
blows, The marriage presents are,
moreover, forfeited to the State. Mr..
Brown, in fact, may not marry Miss
Brown, nor Miss Jones be led to the
altar by Mr.. Jones,
THE dairy business in California is
largely in the hands of the Swiss. They
generally settle together and form small
colonies, helping one another, so that
i'll few years each has small piece of
land and several cows. They reverse
the usual order-instead of requiring
from four to seven acres TO keep Il COW,
keep from four TO seven cows on an
acre. They practice soiing almost eX-
cluSively.
SETH GREEN thinks that fish converse
with one another. "HOw'd those trout
of mine out there at the pond" he
lately said, "know the difference be.
IS, tween a plain, long stick and regular
fishing-rod, rs they do, if they didn't
talk it over and compare notes? Why,
they'll most break their heads humping
them together to get out of the way of
u tish-pole, and you see | couldn't scare
them at all with that stick today. They
know the difference, too, between the
man who carries Il pail about dinner
time and the man who don't, can tell
YOU
The pretty daughter of ex-Secretary
NlcCulloch, now in New York, rides out
in pony phaeton with queer-looking
wooden case beside her which contains
a fancy inlaid banjo. Miss McCulloch
is called the best banjo-player outside of
the profession, and it is she who has set
the fashion which now keeps half the
swcct-siXtcens in New York City n
drumming and stunning out of their
school hours. Miss Doremus, daughter
of Prof. Doremvs, the analytical chem
list, is the next best ban oist in that city.
Two Quebec children, while coastng
in Waller Street, the other day, were
suddenly overwhelmed by an avalanche
of snow, and in a twinkling of an eye
they were covered by 12s feet of snow.
BY good fortune they had been seen,
and the moss desperate efforts We're
made TO get them out alive. fttook ten
minutes digging by as many strong
men rs could work at the task to get tC
where the little ones lay; and they were
insensible and their faces were quite
black when the air was opened to them
but they were living.
MYSTERIOUS burglaries were com
mitted night after night at Hartford
Conn. The strangest thing about then
was that the thief never carried off any
thing of much value, leaving solid silver
articles and very valuable jewelry un
touched; but he did serious damage by
slashing fine upholstery, pouring molas
SEES and oil on expensive clothing, and il
other malicious ways. A large number
of special policemen were put on duty
TO catch him, and he was at length
taken. He proved to be a negro who
had just been discharged from prison
where he had served three years on {
charge of stealing coat. He said thai
he was innocent Of that crime, and haC
made up his mind to get even with Hart
ford in the manner described.
In street in Canton rats are hung W
for sale with poultry. They are dried
and sailed and are very much affected
by ladies whose hair is falling off, as the
flesh of rats is known to be an excellent
preventive of badness Pork is one Of
the staples of Chinese cookery, the best
bacon and hams coming from the prov.
inces of Fokien and Quang Tung, the
flavor of the hams being much i'm.
proved by keeping them for year OF
two in sawdust after they have beer
cured. As in Europe and here certain
places in China are renowned for then
products, such as Pekin for its sweet
ducks. Tou-lion, a small village neal
that city, for its vinegar Qsou). Tchip
Nang, in the kiangsu, for sauce made