The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The beaver increases in numbers in
America and Norway.
Gallcnga saws that the Spanish Indian
races will neither work nor think.
Eggs are SO dear that Jersey people
will not buy them unless they have
double yolks.
The Christian world is taking an in
crcasing interest in the religious and
civil affairs of India.
The Pullman Company is said to earn
on each of its IA cars about one hun
drcd and eighty dollars a month.
The first week of the New Year proved
a week of great disasters and distresses
in Europe and America, by land and sea.
Thirty million dollars is the sum tha!
Great Britain laid out for scientific
frontier in Afghanistan, without getting
the frontier, after all.
In the Portuguese bull fight the ami
mails horns are cncased in leather and
the battle is bloodless. II is not prize
fight, but boxing match.
Jennie Robertson, who died lately at
Nashville, was known as Soldier Char
ley, because she had served several years
in male attire in the army.
London Examiner says that intensity
may make a Cromwell or Richelieu,
but that modern statesman should be
not intense but comprehensive.
One gentleman was trying to describe
to another what is meant by "old gold"
color. He said, "Well, to tell the truth,
it is black eye about four days paled"
Is A writer ON dogs says that every one
given to sedentary pursuits ought to
keep dog, as the necessity of giving
exercise to the dog will exercise the man.
A new summer city is to be created by
number of gentlemen of Camden and
Philadelphia at Barnegat Beach. The
Pennsylvania Railroad will furnish
transport.
The following is an opitaph from
tomb near Versailles Except in 1859,
during which for several days she took
lessons ON the piano, her life was with
out a stain.
The richest mine in New Mexic, now
worth three million dollars, was orig
inally sold for three dollars in silver
little gold dust, and an old revolver
But they don't all turn out so we'll.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works, of
Philadelphia, are employing more men
at the present time than at any previous
period in the history of the concern, the
weekly payroll containing 2,7OO names.
The man for whom Carrie Stewart,
aged If, killed herself at Elgin, ILL.,,
was Just three times her own age, but
her heart was so set upon marrying him
that, when her parents locked her up,
she took poison,
One of those omnisciont fellows, q
Washington correspondent, alleges that
the present Congress can show more
portly men and more men of ability than
any other body of similar size Hereaf-
ter constituents are expected to "take
the measure" of their candidates with
A matchmaker of Copenhagen has
constructed clock that needs no wind
ing up. 1t is kept going constantly by
means of an electric current, that ope-
rates on the spring and maintains an un-
varying and permanent state of tension.
Attention to the electric battery once or
twice year is all that is necessary to
keep the clock in motion for an indef-
mite time
A few days ago the only chold of Mrs.
Keen of Philadelphia fell ill of small
poq and his mother, lcaring that the
doctor had small hope of the boys recov-
cry, attempted suicide, but was restrain
,d by her husband. The latter sat up
Ill night with the child, but at length
was overcome by sleep. Awakening he
missed his wife. She was found hang
ng dead in the cellar
Dr. j. f. Banton, of Cleveland, Ohio,
ias undertaken u curious surgical cxper-
ment. He induced two brothers to con
cent to the amputation of ono of their
ingers, and then he transplanted the j
niger of the one TO the stump of the {
Dthor, 80 rs TO ascertain whether the en-
grating could he made successfully. SO
'ar the experiment promises to succeed, J
Yhe union of the parts being shown 10y n J
partial circulation to the finger ends. {
Tho brothers made twenty dollars each t
oy submitting to the experiment l(