The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-04-08
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Thenext February with five Sundays
in it will be in 1920.
One Boston firm has cleared 800, 900
in leather since September.
A Baltimore couple have had nineteen
children in eighteen years.
The game of cricket has been diver
ton for more than 500 years.
In the north OF England habit of
ether imbibing is said to prevail.
OF English farmers, AT were bank
rupt in 1877, SIG in rs and l,43l in 70.
There are, in round numbers, S32O,-
600 GOO on deposit in the New York
State savings banks.
France Is strengthening her army.
Five new generals of division have been
appointed and eleven generals of brig
ade
A telegraph operator, named Jackson,
of Ottumwa, Iowa, has put forty-one
hundred words on one side of postal
card
Chicago has 5000 liquor saloons, at
which $ll, 100000 is spent, and Illinois
1854, the annual expenditure at which
is $50 OOOOoa
Cholera swept away over 100000
Japancse last year, yet in 1878 the
United States were Mortified at II yellow
fever mortality of only $4,000.
Trying to get bashful young lady at
a purity to give you a song, is, in one re-
spect, please-sing matter.-Otta'Od Re
publican.
The pen with which Governor Cor
nell, of New York, signed his first mes
sage was made from Egyptian coins 1000
years old.
Ohioans achieve rlme In various ways.
1t is the proud boast of one family OF
seven that they ate l,l65 pies in 1879
and survive.
Chicago has the largest grain eleva-
tors in the world, and twenty-one OF
them. The total capacity of these Gle
vators is II. 10000 bushels.
Not less than Sl2,OOO.O00 is spent
every year to maintain the ministers.
The saloons and their accessories re-
auire $500 ZOO, 900 for their support.
Alex. H, Stephens latest notion is
gold four-dollar piece, to be called 'stel-
la Imagine man saying III bet you
stella
DR.. Cartwright, in his report upon
yellow fever in New Orleans, says: Five
thousand intemperate persons died be-
fore the epidemic touched single sober
man, 80 faS as l can get at the facts.
A man cot angry in a discussion at
Cooperstown, H., and shot at his oppo.
nent, but missed him and killed a by
stander. Taking more deliberate aim,
he fred a second time, and another
spectator fell dead.
Terrible distress and mortality pre-
vail at Adrianople, especially among
the refugees. Fifteen of these were
found dead of hunger in one day. In
the mouths of the corpses were pieces
of wood, with which the unfortunate
persons had endeavored to satisfy their
hunSer-
Andaman island widows wear TIE
skulls Of their deceased husbands on
their shoulders. Al recent lecture on
ethnology at the royal college of sur
geons in London, Prof. F.ower showed
the skull of an Andamanese, to which
was attached an elegant weDbed sling
by which it had been suspended to the
widows neck.
The Bishops of the Methodist Episco
pal Church are all moro than fifty years
old. Bishop Scott is seventy-eight,
Bishop Peck sixty nine, Bishop Simp-
son sixty-nine, Bishop Bowman sixty
three, Bishop Harris sixty three, Bishop
Foster sixty, and Bishop Wiley, Bishop
Merrill and Bishop Andrews each fifty
five gears Of age.
Students of national history will be
interested in the information given re-
porter the other night by man named
Wo'f, keeper OF the A5secum IN. J)
light. The keeper said: "I have act
ually caught 300 birds between the net
ting and windows ofthe light. Ducks,
brant, geese and other smaller birds are
often attracted by the light into my
wife's kitchen. The pair of geese which
YOU saw in my aviary caught by the
hind legs as they flew about the light
one stormy night"
c. E. Blydenburgh, the phenomenal
young marksman OF the American rifle
team that carried of the prize at Creed
moor, in the centennial match, met
with an unpleasant adventure in Wyo-
ming Territory one day recently. lie
started to ride from Rawlins mines to
Cheyenne, when snow storm swept
over the plain and the thermometer fell
to thirty-live degrees below zero. lie
was badly frost bitten, but, after in
tense suffering, was fortunate enough
to reach Laramie.
1t was officially announced in Louis
vile, KY, that a combination had been
formed between the Louisville and Nash
vile and Georgia Central railroads, to
last for five years, which gives the Louis
vile and Nashville Company the control
OF every port on the South Atlantic