The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-07-15
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

A street-car motor, to be run by
quicksilver, is being made at Aurora,
ILL.,; 800 pounds of quicksilver are re =
quired.
The newspaper owes its origin to
the custom which prevailed in Venice
in the sixteeth century of reading aloud
in the public places manuscript of
the news of the day, prepared by au-
thority.
A merchant OF Portsmouth, England,
purposely began a ship on Friday,
launched her on Friday, named her the
Friday" ana got commanuer for her
named Friday. She sailed from port
on Friday, and was never heard of
again. Yet this proves nothing.
A French physician who has studied
the effects of turpentine on some 300
painters, arrives at the conclusion that
the injurious effects produced by turpen-
tine fumes can never be sufficiently Sc
we're to cause death unless they are con-
tanned in very confined space. With
good ventilation no fear need be enter
tanned of fatal effects from this cause.
In the Methodist Protestant Confer
ence, DR.. L. W. Bates offered an
amendment to the report on ministerial
education, that the question, "Will you
abstain from tobacco ?" be stricken out.
The Conference refused to accept the
amendment, and the report was adopted
as read.
The Reformed Presbyterian Synod OF
America, In session in Philadelphia,
makes The following utterance officially:
"Never was infdelity more bold or
blatant. Newspapers are published pro-
fessedly in the cause Of in6delity. New
books are written and old books reprint
ed, and lecturers go from city to city
and town to town in the interests of the
same unholy cause."
A ton Of wheat when carefully burned
leaves 28 "a pounds Of ash, while ton
OF straw will leave 60 13 pounds, and q
ton Of chsff 1907 pounds. To know
this is Of interest to the wheat grower,
as it teaches the importance OF return
ing the straw to the soil; and great care
ought to be taken of the chaff, for one
pound as Q fertilizer is as much as three
pounds OF straw, containing six times as
much mineral manure as the grain itself.
The college book of Harvard gives
statistics showing that out of 943 Har-
ward students who graduated between
1869 and 1875 (inclusive), 800 were Uni
tarians or Liberals, 2l7 Episcopalians,
1875 Orthodox Congregationalists, 4o
Baptists, 25 Presbyterians, l6 Meth
odists, - Swe1enborgians, other
2 Quakers, Is Catholics, 2
Jews, Mormon and Il3 undecided.
Seats are furnished to students, at the
expense of the college, in any church Of
their own election.
Leprosy is not uncommon in San
Francisco among Cinnamon. But it is
not paraded. Some white men have it,
reputed to come from the Sandwich
isles. 1t is not contagious. The Ha-
waiian government has for sixteen
years spent $4,000 a year in vain
efforts to stamp tout. An island is set
apart for lepers. There are 700 at
present insulated and guarded. About
400 year die, but new ones replace
them. Many are hid by families and
friends. Those in San Francisco es
capped scrutiny in emigrant ships from
China. They are employed in cigar
making.
The earth turns upon its axis with a
surface velocity of over 1000 miles at
The equator, while at the pole the rate is
reduced to zero. A scientific gunner
says that, under special circumstances,
heavy guns with long ranges have to be
corrected for the different rate of rota-
lion of the earth at the place from which
one is fired and the point where the shot
Ialls, which difference may cause as
much as two yards detection to one
side or the other in firing north or
south. The earth's rotation is thus
actually made visible.
DR.. Manson has been communicating
important information in regard to
ilari@, which are now proved TO be
Introduced into the human system by
he bite Of mosquitoes. These flari@
IRE small microscopic worms, and DR..
Manson spoke of their singular habit
'f periodically passing in and out ofth
blood circulation, and gave a table show
ne the hour Of the day and night at
which they were either present or absent
n the blood. These worms were re-
punctual in keeping TO their q
appointed times. The evening thrush to :
he circulation commences at abou 9
lalf'past seven, the overcrowding TAX.
ng place about midnight. DR.. Manson
Exhibited drawings and specimens Of q
he filarie in all It's stages OF growth,