The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-11-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

the llnd legs Oh IFog mole tLAn hoS'
do.
That Spanish baby was baptized
with water from the river Jordan, sen
in bottle for that purpose by the Span,
ish Minister in Constantinople.
The Boston Globe says that prom
Using young horse in South Boston ha
been named DR.. Tanner, in hopes tina
it will make him fast.
1t has been fortunate that most OF oul
greatest men have left no descendants
to shine in the borrowed lustre OF {
great name.
The Salt Lake Tribune says; "a Cali
fornia preacher boasts that California
has the biggest trees, biggest fruit and
biggest liars Of any State in the Union.
A Massachusetts traveller explains his
impressions by saying of scenery, pos
sibly not meaning anything about Gus.
toms, "It is all ups and downs in the
East and dead level in the West"
"There are seventeen sculptors and
painters from the United States now re-
siding in Rome" said Mrs. Bemis from
the newspaper. "H'm!" grunted Mr..
Bemis, "no wonder l couldn't get a
painter TO WhiteWash that shed -
american Queen.
Southern newspapers report the pea
nut crop this year to be larger than in
any previous year. 1t has proved so
valuable crop that many planters have
curtailed their cotton and tobacco acre.
age to invest in peanuts. North Caro-
lima is the garden spot for peanuts, with
Texas coming on.
1he California magnates are credited
with an amount Of wealth which would
comfortably support small country.
Mr. Char es Crocker is stated to be worth
S34 495, ,45S; Mr.. Leland Stanford, 1884,
643 3Os and Mrs. Mary F. S. Hopkins,
$25, ,2s0,97
The tremendous rush to Colorado in
search of silver during the past twelve
or fifteen months is shown in the CEN
sus returns of that State. Eighteen
months ago Colorado did not probably
contain over 10000 inhabitants. In
June past there were found more than
1876, 900 persons in that State, and to-day
the number exceeds 300, 600.
Even more pointedly than last year
the English papers are discussing the
snbject of some substitute for beer to
be drunk in the harvest field. Some
farmers give their laborers cold tea with
good results. In Scotland buttermilk is
becoming great drink. Oatmeal and
water kept cool is considered one of the
best harvest drinks.
Louisiana planters have great hopes
of recent invention by which bagasse,
the refuse canestalks left over from the
process of manufacturing crude sugar,
can be made into paper fiber of good
quality and that bleaches well. These
stalks have been used to heat the evapo-
rating pans in which the sugar is boiled,
but they will yield ton of fiber to every
hogshead of sugar.
A census enumerator of San Diego
found an old blind man who claims 10
be one of the men who helped build the
"Oid Mission" los years ago. He
believes he is 100 years of age. At the
rancheria below the court house was
found an Indian woman who claims 70
be also 100 years of age. Her flesh and
skin are so withered that she resembles
rather ian animated Egyptian mummy
than human being.
The railroad monopoies do not have
1t all their own way after all. A lady
in Chicago sued the Central Pacific for
seventy-fve dollars damages for allow
ing a locomotive to scald all the hair of
q valuable dog expressed her from this
city. She obtained judgment and col
lected the money before the company
found out that it was j lpanese dog,
dan never had any hair. San Francisco
Post.
The Rev S. F. Smith, who wrote
"My Country 'Tis of Thee" is still
living in Newton, MSS. He says he
wrote the verses on waste scrap OF
paper one dismal day in February, 1882,
while at Andovcr seminary, AID had
no intention nor ambition to create
anything that should have q national
reputation.
Most young people-and perhaps
many "children OF a larger growth ~
have often wondered what it is that
enables Fly to walk on the ceiling An
examination of the insects mechanism
quickly reveals the secret. Each of the
Hy's six legs termi ates in two or three
eshy pads, which act as suckers"
The sustaining effect of these suckers is
increased by n sticby fluid exuded by
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