The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An unpalatable dlsh-~Cold shoulder.
The State debt of Iowa is only
$500, 900.
There are 224 distinct railroad COM
panies in Great Britain.
Virginia has now 2,49l schools, in
structing l0s,074 pupils.
jug Corners is the name of hamlet
in Allegan county, Mich.
Guiltord county, N. c., kills and sells
100000 rabbits annually.
Leap-year is always popular with the
ladies.-YonkerS Gazette.
A maiden effort Attempt to catch
beau.-MdrGtb0n Independent.
Railroad projects are now heard OF
everywhere from Maine to California.
1t has heen estimated that it costs
10000, 900 day to carry on the world.
The debts of English towns and cities
for sanitary improvements amount to
1890, 100000.
Five years have increased the acreage
of cereals in the United States from a.
0O0,0 900 to 95,OO0,000.
During the past year there were built
in the shops of Altoona, Pa, fifty con-
solidated locomotives.
The work Of building steel bridges in
Pittsburg for the West is rapidly be-
coming great feature.
Hou can't make horse drink; but if
lie will not eat you can put bit in his
mouth. Boston Transcript.
Statistics show that every thirty
eighth person in the United States has
carriage in which to ride.
The men who advertise all the year
around walk off with the lions share
of trade. .-SttlUdter Lumberman.
The president of the French republic
receives $780, year, with ike sum
Tor household and other expenses.
What's the use of sea captain telling
the truth on shore, when his vessel is
lying in the stream P-NeW York News.
China is an empire containing 40O, O,0OO,-
600 food consumers. Nothing that it is
possible to eat is permitted to be wasted.
The total number of deaths by acci-
dents on the great American lakes dur
ing the year was 1877, against 124 in 1873.
ExGov. Bagley, of Michigan, gave
800 in silver coin to each of five chari.
ties, in honor of his recent silver we'd
ding.
The fifteen car manufacturing estab-
lishments of the United States turned
out last year 37,35O pieces of rolling
stock.
1t cost nearly $5OO,OOO to light the
city of New York last year. There are
93,I36 public lamps and s6l miles of gas
mains in the city.
1t is estimated that nearly S30,00O,-
0O0, 900 were paid during the year 1879
through the twenty-five clearing houses
Of the United States.
The average life of paper wheel un"
der-trucks of locomotive engines ranges
from 500, 900 miles to l,6ll, $3.50 miles, and
undor dining and palace cars from 79i,-
OOO to s68, 1886 miles.
Blue eyes are said to be true. We
don't know how this is, but certainly
there are many lies told about black
eyes.-NesD York NewS.
The difference between a man who
digs in the ground and one who digs in
books is that the former digs for hire
and the latter for lore.
1t is very much the same with popping
corn as with popping the question. 1t
is usually accompanied by some agita-
tion and good deal of warmth.
Mr.. William Morris, of Greenock,
Scotland, has made discovery by
which he can photograph underneath
the water at a depth of ten fathoms.
The United States annually pays to
foreign countries no less than $23, 3,0OO.-
600 for silk, all of which, it is claimed,
may in due time be saved to our people
byproper encouragement of silk-culture.
The Evangelist says that as 10000 of
our $4,000 Indians can write, and
10000 are members Of churches, the fact
proved beyond doubt that the Indian
is capable Of being civilized.
Sandalwood is found chiefly in the
Pacific islands. The Chinese burn it as
an incense in the temples Of their gods.
They use enormous quantities of it, and
it is n valued article Of trade.
A widow, who lives in a secluded
part Of Michigan, talks very imperfectly
by reason Of having lost her palate, and
her two daughters, aged eight and
twelve years, can only speak the strange
language they have learned of her,
though their vocal organs are perfect.
A Frenchman named Pierre Valcour,
who lives on an ample income in a
modest country dwelling near Lockport,
N. Y, has unbosomed himself to the
editor Of the Lockport Union, regarding
nm invention which he is perlecting.
This, the enthusiastic Gaul claims,
will revolutlonze the world. Accord
ing to his account, IL is portable cable
which each vessel will reel out Ms she
deports, and take up MS she returns, thus
keeping up constant telcgraphic COM
municntiOn with mort durin1 onch d.,,