Blount County democrat. [volume] (Maryville, Tenn.) 1879-1883, 1880-05-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

before Massachusetts, was.
The Egyptians made glass and colorcd
it beautifully 1000 Years before Christ.
A good carding of animals ut this sea-
son stimulates the skin and thus assists
the changing OF theircoats.
A Winchester Va. manufacturer is
building two carriages to fill an order
from London, England.
A horse will not bite crib made of
hemlOck lumber, nor will rats, mice or
other vermin gnaw through it.
$50 ends my tail" as the bee said TO
the boy, at the same time giving him
a practical illustration of how lie coll
Quoted business.
The friction-matches were six inch
es long and cents apiece. Considera-
BILE prejudice was raised against their
use by their occasional explosion.
Less money in bridal tours and more
in wheat and potatoes, the Free Press
thinks, would be great help towards
making this country solid on her
pins.
A wiser man is like the back or
stock of the chimney, and his wealth
fire he receives It, not for his own
need, but to reflect the heat to others
good.-Seneca.
Two negro printers were engaged TO
work in the new York Witness office last
week, but Upon taking their cases all
the other compOsitOrs left the establish
ment. The Northern States remain the
seat of race prejudice.
r. Nadeau of California has planted
700 acres in sugar bects, and the pros
poets are good for an Immense yield.
1t is thought he will make clear gain
of $4,000 by the operation.
A little boy came to his mother re-
Gently and said mamma, / should
think that " I was made Of dust /
would get muddy inside when l
drink"
TO do an evil action is base; to do q
good one without incurring danger, is
common enough; ; but it is the part of
q good man TO do great and noble
deeds, though he risks everything.
Astronomy was first studied by the
Moors, and was introduced by them into
Europe in ll0l. The rapid progress of
modern astronomy dates from the time
of COpernicus. II was known to the
Chinese about 100 B. c.
The tiller of the soil is brought nearer
to nature and to God than the dwellers
in cities. Nature is the farmers silent
partner, and exercises a controlling in
fluence in the business; If he goes wrong
she checks him, if right, she crowns his
efforts with liberal success.
Professor Silliman of Yale College,
has been on an exploring trip to New
Mexico. He says that there is no
reason in the world why those great
plains, heretofore considered uninhab-
liable, should not be converted into
fertile farms.
Mrs. Abe Chase of Weathersfeld,
VT, has made from grade Jersey
cow,in sixty days time, 1873 pounds of
butter. The feed consisted of ono
quart of corn meal and one quart of
cob meal per day, with all the good
English hay she would eat.
The pay of private soldier in the
British army is one shilling day in the
infantry, and one and threepence in the
cavalry, exclusive, in each case, of one
penny day for beer money. The Gov
ernment supplies the uniforms, weapons
and rations.
Mrs. Livermore contends that if
mothers would train their girls as
at the youthful period
when girls would be delighted to learn,
they would then take to housekeeping
as naturally as ducks take to water.
The largest orchard in the world is
probably that of Robert McKinstry Of
Hudson n, Y. 1t contains more than 24,-
600 apple trees, 100 pears, 1000 cherry,
5000 peech, 200 plum, 200 crab-apple
trees, $1,000 vines, 6000 currant bushes
and 800 chestnut trees. The apple crop
of 1873 on the farm was 10000 barrels.
Tolls were first paid by vessels passing
the Stadc on the River Elbc 1l00. In
England toll-bars originated in 1867,
penny being asked for every wagon that
passed through certain manor, and the
first regular toll was collected few
years later for mcnding the road in Lon
don, between st, Giles, and Temple Bar.
Few realize the necessity of manur-
ing orchards. When once planted,
the trees are to remain on tlle same
soil thirty or forty years at least. They
in few years exhaust the food in the
soil that they arc most fond of and
then they will cease to be productive
and thrifty unless properly fed.
General Grant made speech at
Cairo, ILL.,, recently, saying that he
was impressed with the apparent 10y
atty of themcn of the Southern States.
Said he; Let us hope there may be
genuine union of sentiment, a gencr-