The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-02
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Please pass the butter" as O man re-
marked when he sent his goat by rail.
II think I'll take this in," remarked
the whale as he espied Jonah.-BoStoi
Transcript.
An exchange has an article on "Bread
stuff" Well, it may be. Now give III
an article on meats tuf.-Meriden Re
c0rder.
A Dakota man has an old Indiar
relic in the shape of perfectly-formet
skull, with an arrowhead shot into the
eye and piercing the brain.
There are two kinds OF oranges grown
in this country, one is the kind that is
good TO eat, and the other is the kind
that is sold on the railway trains
HdUkeve.
Philadelphia mas 472 public schools,
instructing lO3, 567 pupils by means Of
800 teachers, only seventy-seven Of
whom are men. The value of the school
property owned and in use by the city
is nearly $4,000, 900.
An unfortunate Indianapolis man, who
lost several toes by car'wheel, was
consoled by an Irishman near by with:
"Whist, there. you're making more
noise than mony a man I've seen with
his head off,"
1t is said that more than three mil.
lions of women in England and Wales
are earning living-or trying to earn
onc-in the various trades and indus
tries. But their wages are 80 low that
six years ago society-the Women's
Protection and Provident League-was
organized to raise them.
The new catch blankets" to be used
for the purpose OF rescuing people from
burning buildings have been tested by
the members of Engine Company No.
la, in Boston. and apparently are likely
to prove very efficient. One manjumped
from the second-story of the engine
house and was caught in the blanket
without touching the ground.
The emigration received at the port
of New York during tho first six months
of 1880 shows a larger total, by $4,000,
than the same period in 1872, which,
until now, had stood as the highest
figure of the past twentg five years.
The total for the past six months is
77,000, or more than three times the
number of those who came during the
same period of last year.
The profession of arms is held in very
low esteem in China, and as conse.
quence the officers are ignorant of the
military art and the soldiers unin.
structed, though brave. A Chinese say.
ing runs: "You would not take good
iron to make into nails, and you would
not take man worth anything at all
to make into q soldier"
A letter from Bordeaux gives fright
full account of the leech ponds ten miles
from that city. The leeches are regu-
larly fed with the blood of old horses,
which are driven into the ponds, where
the leeches suck them until they grow
faint. Then they are taken out and
allowed to Craze in the fields till they
regain little strength, when they are
again driven into the pond, and the
process is repeated till at last they are
dragged out, bloodless and dead. A
well-known English We terinary surgeon,
who has done much to mitigate the
horrors of some of the Continental
veterinary schools, has taken this mat
ter of the Bordeaux leech ponds in hand.
An interesting history of the develop
ment of the Russian army during the
last quarter of century has lately been
published in st. Petersburg. On the
first of January, 1853, the Russian army
comprised 27,7l6 officers and 96S, ,3S9
men, beside 7s,l44 Cossacks. During
the Crimean war the strength Of the
armed forces of the empire was, OF
course, largely increased, and, accord
ing to the official returns, included on
the first of January, 1856, no fewer than
4l,el7 officers and 2,275,454 men. The
active army numbered, it is stated, 24,-
654 officers and LILO, ,l84 men; the re-
serve troops, 1876 officers and 572, 1853
men; the irregular forces. 3,640 officers
and l6S, ,69l men; the militiP, 5,647 Off
GERS and 1858 ,42l men; and the Cossack
troops, 3,44l officers and 1856, ,726 men.
In 1863, when, according to the returns
OF the minister of war, the Russian army
numbered 1858, 907 regular troops, 1t was
calculated, after careful examination
of the strength Of the several units OF
the army, that the probable real strength
of the regular troops did not exceed
1886 600 men. On the twenty-hfth OF
November, 1879, the Russian army
comprised 9Os generals, PLAZA officers,
and Ss6, ,465 men, while On the same
date the reserve numbered 742, l44 men,
and the Cossack troops, 1912 officers