The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-03-04
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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tie thermometer registered eighty-fivs
degrees in the shade. How is that for
high?
Tic new freight steamer Hansa, run
ming from New York to Bremen, went
ashore on an island in the South Sea,
and it is expected will be total wreck.
In Mexico they eat salt with their
oranges, both because they prefer the
last so seasoned and because they are
considered 10 be more wholesome with
salt.
The late A. X, Shurtleff, Of Portland,
Maine, left So, 900 to the Maine General
Hospital, $4,000 to the Aged Women's
Home, and S5, 900 to the Female Orphan
Asylum OF Portland.
A colored woman known as "Old Aunt
Hager" died at North Adams, Mass, at
the age of one hundred and fifteen years.
She had been supported by the town for
the last twenty years.
The late William Ripley, Of Colum-
bus, Ohio, has bequeathed to the Yves.
leyan University, Middletown, Con-
necticut. $75, 900, to endow chair to be
called the Ripley Professorship.
Commissioner LIE Due proposes to ask
Congress to establish a tea farm, where
the plant can be raised without Chinese
cheap labor and under the affectionste
eye of maternal government.
proposition has been made for estab-
lishjng an experimental governmental
tea farm at the South. The cultivation
Of tea in British India commenced with
farms established by tie British gov
eminent.
A gentleman and sister named Munoz,
we're arrested at three different points in
Cuba, for alleged spies. At Havana, the
last point where arrested, they were re-
leased with orders to leave the island.
The matter has been brought before our
government.
The Japanese make a very curious
and handsome kind Of copper by casting
it under water, the metal being highly
heated and the water also being hot.
The result is a beautiful rose. colored
tint, which is not affected by exposure
to the atmosphere.
Mr.. J. G. Flood has just bestowed a
pleasant little amount of pin.money
upon his daughter, Miss Jennie Flood;
he has registered So, 800, 900 in United
States bonds in her name. This gift
provides for her an income of 100000
year.
The friends of Mr.. Bancroft, the his
torian, will be glad to know that he has
not, as has been reported, been COM
PEELED by failing health to forego his
usual exercise on horseback. On the
contrary, he has just bought Kentucky
thoroughbred horse, and takes daily
rides upon the Animal.
The executive committee reported that
of the entire estimated cost of the bridge
connecting New York and Brooklyn,
$13, 7O8, ,026.60; $11, FOG, 457. so had been
expended, leaving the estimated amount
to complete the work 81, ,OOl, ,594.9 9S. To
this is to be added the estimate for
advance in cost of materials, making the
requisite amount 81, $50, 900.
Malignant diphtheria is invading some
OF the most elegant residences Of the city
of Boston, and proving fatal to its in
mates. According to local newspapers,
some of the most aristocratic streets of
Boston are upon made land, which has
been reclaimed from the ocean by filling
in the bay. In consequence OF bad
drainage pestilential miasma arises
when the tide is low, bearing disease
and death to those who dwell in costly
homes.
W. W. Nottingham appeared at the
Central police station, Milwaukee, and
asked to be taken into custody for mur-
der. He stated that six years ago he
shot and killed one John Gaylor in
street fight i'll Norfolk, Va, though the
the shot was intended for another man.
Ever since, the face Of the victim has
been constantly before him, and he now
wants to be taken back to Norfolk and
punished for the murder. He will
probably be sent to Norfolk.
The cotton mills at Augusta, Ga,
make handsome exhibit in the way OF
dividends in closing up the year. The
Graniteville Manufacturing Company
declared quarterly dividend Of three
per cent. on its capital stock OF $500, 900;
the Augusta Manufacturing Company
declared quarterly dividend Of two per
cent. on its capital stock of 100000,
and the Langley Manufacturing Com
pany has declared semi-annual divi-
dend of four per cent. on its capital
stock Of 100000.
Gun cotton is prepared by dipping
cellular tissue, viz. cotton, sawdust or
printing paper, in strong nitric acid
(aquafortis). 1t is then to be carefully
washed and dried. IL is not materially
changed in appearance. 1t explodes
at the heat Of boiling water (2l2) de-
grees. 1t explodes with much greater
violence and suddenness than gun pow
der, and for that reason is more liable
to burst gun. See what power sleeps
in our ignorance. Take saw and cut
up bit OF deal board, bit Of dried