The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1880-01-22
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The faTrier may be slow, but he is
shoer.
The druggists song-A light in the
window for thee
A dollar is always in good quarters,
summer or winter.
Chinese literature is 80 old that the
Chinaman learns to read backward.
There are wide margins between
stock speculations and stocks pecula-
tion.
Shopkeepers' accounts sent in during
a honeymoon show that billing comes
after the cooling.
An importing druggist makes the
startling statement that this country eats
one-third of the Turkish opium crop.
Tennessee has twenty-five tobacco
manufactures, one snuff factory, twenty
eight cigar factories, and $50 leaf tobacco
dealers.
Beer enough to make 10000 drinks
was received in Galveston during Octo-
Der; the bell punches registered only
5000.
There are rumors that Kelley, the mo-
tor man, has turned bis attention to a
machine for sticking pins through a
starched collar.
All doctors recommend people TO 60
to sleep lying on the right side. This
is all the better il you are little deaf
in the LETT ear and don't get home till
late.
A man may be brave enough to walk
right up to the cannon's mouth, and yet
not have the courage to hand his wife q
letter he has carried in his jacket for II
weeR.
Platina works are about being erected
at Oreville, above Marysville, California,
by an agent of Prof. Edison, to extract
that metal from the auriferous black
sands.
Leadville, COL, is but two years old,
and yet has gas works, water works, the
finest opera house in the state, and next
year will have a complete system of
sewerage.
Asubstantial farmer Of Shelby county,
NO., cut his fall wheat in the early part
of the season, realizing sixteen bushels
per acre. he then put in a crop OF
tobacco, and raised on the came ground
one thousand six hundred pounds.
Even though an old lady is well
aware that her daughters name is So
phia, yet when neighbor passing looks
in at the window and says, 'How's So
phia p the chances are ten TO one she'll
scream and faint.
why did General Washington CROSS
the Delaware on the ice during the
storm of an awful night /? asked teacher
of her young class in history. Il reckon
piped small voice in answer, it was
because he wanted to get on the other
side
Maria, observed Mr.. Holcomb, as
he was putting on his clothes, 'Shere
amt no patch on them breeches yet.'-
Il can't fix it now, no way, I'm too
busy. well, give me the patch then,
an I'll carry it around with me. don't
want people to think can't afford the
cloth.
The sponge divers along the Florida
coast have begun to adopt an innovation
that may work great change in their
business. 1t is found that this can be
done by cutting the live sponges into
small pieces, attaching them to pieces
of rock and sinking them to proper
depths in suitable locations. In three
years each piece will attain marketable
size.
Two ladies belonging to different cir
cles of American society in Paris met
lately at reception. Have you been
long in Paris p asked the first, who con-
sidered she belonged TO 'the set. 'Sev.
eral years, responded the second, who
is sure her set is the first. Strange,
SAYS the first, that / have never met
you in society You hatter me, says
the second.
James L. Moody, once an eminent
lawyer of st. Lo lis and then circuit
Judge, was taken to the hospital in that
city recently as charity patient. After
the war, when General Grant visited st.
Louis, Moody was his host, and it was
intimated that when Grant became
President Moody would become an asso-
ciate justice Of the supreme court. But
he took to drink and lost everything,
being driven from the bench by impeaoh-
ment.
Dead.Letter Office CuriOsities.