The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-09-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
,fosouitoes lead a hum-drum life.

Mosquitoes leau nuu-eruin Illc'
Common politeness is decidedly un-
common.
Diamonds in the rough-Those swa!-
lowed by thief when arrested.
Greece spends more than five per cent.
of her whole revenue in education.
Poultry is rapidly fattened for market
in France on barley and steamed yellow
carrots.
There has been a general increase in
farm wages all over the country during
the past year.
The day wore on. Well, what did it
wearP-E1chdnge. Wore the close OF
the day, of course.
For twenty-five years Mrs. Elvira
Crabb has taught little private school
at Troy, and is still at it, aged eighty.
Around Carthagena, Colombia, 4,000,-
600 cocoanuts are raised annually, OF
which 1000, 900 come to this country.
There are now in the United States
900 miles of bridges. One-third of them
are of stone and iron and two.thirds of
wood.
A gypsy fortune-teller has been SEN
fenced to three months hard labor in
England for extorting money from a
servant.
1t is estimated that one-sixth of the
earth's surface is covered with the
tracks of lightning-rod men and book
canvassers.
Massachusetts, people have been pay
ing $25 for a certain cure for consump-
ton, and the certain cure is nothing but
'lasses and water.
1t costs about $5,OOO,OOO to sustain
the 4S9 churches and chapels in New
York city; and $50, 900, 900 to sustain the
10000 liquor shops.
The Philadelphia Times says that
everybody who bathes in Philadelphia
water is obliged to take another bath
to wash the mud off.
A Brooklyn mother fed her year-old
baby on sliced cucum 5ers and milk and
then wanted the prayers of the church
because the Lord took it away.
al didn't know" said an old lady, as
she put down her newspaper, "that
thieves we're so scarce that they had to
advertise for 'em and offer a reward for
their discovery"
Prince Ronald Bonaparte will soon
marry Mile. Marie Blanc, the daughter
of Monaco Blanc. Her income annually
is 100000 His property consists of
his name and an old sword.
OF the GIL artists models in Paris, 300
are Italian, l2O French, eighty German,
sixty Swiss, forty-nine Belgian, forty
five English, thirty American, three
Austrian, two Portuguese and one Irish.
The forty-two designs sent in for an
equestrian statue of Victor Emmanuel,
in Venice, have provoked "more laugh
ter than anything else" The Venetians
call them "a horse SHOW"
There are now three Hebrews In the
United States Congress Messrs. Jonas,
MORSE and Einstein. In the House
there are six German Representatives,
among whom are Heilman, of Indiana;
Poehler, of Minnesota; Muller, of New
York, and Deuster. of Wisconsin.
4 farmer who lately died near
Springfield, ILL.,, bequeathed 81, 900 each
to four churches in that city, the inter-
est only to be used to pay for an annual
sermon in each church, on the goodness,
greatness, mercy aud unbounded love
of Jesus as the redeemer of the world.
The steamer Gulnare, which is to con-
vcy the Howgate expedition party to the
Polar regions, will proceed to Greenland
After landing the permanent colony on
Lady Franklin bay the steamer will re-
turn to the United States and be loaded
with supplies and such other articles as
may be needed, and will then sail again
for the bay with another land party TO
take the place of the one now sent out
which will explore the interior OF the
Arctic country. An abundance OF dogs
and sleighs have been provided, together
with experienced guides, who will be
e,upioyed in the advance toward the