The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-01-29
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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A government bureau, like any com.
mon bureau, is noted for its drawers
Drawers OF salaries, you understand, in
this case.
Yes, tho hon On opathists are right -
Like docs cure like. Look at the fish.
After being in salt water all his life, salt
is given TO cure him.
It is estimated that the real estate
now owned by the colored people Of
North Carolina aggregates between s2,-
900, 900 and SO, ,0C0, 600 in value.
Miss Payne, of st. Paul, Minnesota,
put her cigarette into her pocket to
prevent some sudden callers from seeing
it, and was set on fire and nearly burned
TO death.
OF 6,C00 camels which started with
the Russian expedition against the
Turcomsns only 300 survived, at last
accounts, and these we're so reduced that
they we're regarded as sure. to perish.
0ne.third of the gold that is mined
goes to wear and tear, one-third goes
into circulation and ore third into the
arts and manufactures. All the gold in
the world would make a pile only
twenty-five feet wide, forty-fve long
and twenty five feet high.
The Samoan islands have been entirely
christianized. Out OF a population of
about 10000 some $4,000, or seven
eighths, are connectel with Christian
churches. The London Missionary So.
ciety reports 26, 49S, the Wesleyans A.
794, the Catholics 1852, and the Nor
mons 1876.
Kossuth has issued On appeal for
subscriptions to his forthcoming me-
moirs. The veteran orator, now in his
seventy. eighth year. has been forced to
undertake this task in order to earn
money, since he lives entirely by his
pen. Otherwise, as be states, he should
have left to his sons the task OF publish
ing his recollections.
One reason that DR.. J. G. Holland
gives why country boy should not
seek the city is THAT city mans
dream of the future, particularly if he
ever lived in the country, is always OF
the country and the SOIL he longs to
leave the noise and fight all behind him
and go back to his country home to
enjoy the money he has won.
The closing Of the Philadelphia post
Office at the time of General Grants
reception was done by the official order
of Postmaster. General Key. The banks
and brokers did not receive their regu-
lar mails, and it is expected that litiga-
tion will grow out Of the neglect to
protect sight drafts, etc., as the day was
not legal holiday under any interpre-
tation OF the existing laws.
Adelina Patti is now free to sing in
Paris or anywhere she likes. She paid
the Marquis de Caux 100000 francs,
(94O, ,0OO,) and is now advertised to
appear at the Gaiety, in Paris, on the
14th OF February next. The perform
ances begin with La Traviata.' The
subscription amounts already to El6. 600.
The Emperor Of Germany conferred the
gold medal for art and science on Nine.
Adelina Patti.
General Lo Due, commissioner OF
agriculture, has finished his report, and
it is understood that he estimates the
increase in the value of the crops this
year over last at five hundred million
dollars. The total corn crop is about
1,7O0, ,000,000 bushels, against 1,A5O,-
600, 900 for last year. The wheat yield
this year, while larger in bushels than
last year, receives its increased valuation
principally because of higher prices.
Lebanon, Me-, is proud of possess
ing the stupidest man in the United
States. He is a farm hand, and was
engaged to plow ten acre lot.
Wishing him to draw straight furrow,
his employer directed his attention to
a COW grazing right opposite, telling
him to drive directly toward that COW.
He started his horses, and his employers
attention was drawn to something else;
but in short time looking around, he
found that the COW had left her place,
while the ! sagacious plowman was
following her, drawing a zigzag furrow
all over the field.
A German paper, which must be ed
tied by nimble man, declares that it is
wrong to write in novels that the sea
ran mountains high because, in fact,
the sea runs very little more than TWEEN.
ty feet high. The German is right; and
it is equally wrong to speak OF gor-
geous sunset, for the sun does not sot;
or the moonlight sleeping on bank,
for moonlight never sleeps, or Father
Rhine, for the Rhine is a river, and no
body's father at all. Iu point Of fac, it
is wrong to use words az any time, for
words always mean something else.--
The correct thing is to open your mouth
only when you are hungry, and hold
your tongue under all circumstances.
Our ChIefC Eighty.ilVe Years Ago.