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The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-05-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Opium kills 100000 Chinese every
year; so the missionaries say.
An Illinois butter factory uses up two
hundred thousand pounds of milk
day.
1t is easy to pick holes in other peo-
ple's work, but far more profitable to do
better work yourself.
Cicero has said of men: "They are
like wines age sours the bad and bet
ters the good" We can say that mis-
fortune has the same effect upon them.
D. o. Mills, the California millionaire,
has paid 81, 100000 for a lot on Wall
street, and will put up building on it
to cost as much more.
The oldest church in the State Of New
York is in Tauytown. 1t is built of
stone and brick, the latter having been
imported from Holland for the express
purpose. 1t has an antique belfry,
high windows placed above the range Of
Indian arrows, and hipped roof,
A quantity of flour was exposed by
French experimenter to q pressure of
800 tons, reducing it to one-fourth its
original bulk. A portion of it was
then put in cans and sealed, the same
being done with some impressed flour.
A year afterward the cans were opened,
when the impressed flour was found to
be spoiled, while the pressed was in ex-
cellent preservation.
Speaking of smallpox, the surgeon in
charge of the smallpox hospital in Chi
cago says: In Cincinnati there died in
1872, 1,179; in 1873, 65S in 1876, 722;
in 1876, 929. For 1879 the death rate
in the State of Wisconsin, where there
was no hospital was 1925 per cent; in
the city Of Montreal it was 2S.43 per
cent, and in Chicago it was nearly II
per cent. In Chicago the cases treated
at the hospital within three years mum.
bered $40, and the deaths during that
period were 40. This was record which
had never been equaled in London,
England, during period of one hundred
and nineteen years.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-05-20
Telegraph Statistics.

In lS4 there were forty miles of line
and no wires.
In 1913 there were 1000 miles of line
and 5000 miles of wire.
In 1853 there We're 1l,G75 miles OF
line and 22,013 miles of wue,
In 1860 there were II, j,Z miles of lire
and 26, ,375 miles of wire.
In 1866 there were 29,412 miles Of
line and 50,294 miles Of wire.
In 1870 there were 80, 1O3 miles OF
line and 107, 245 miles of wire.
In 1877 there were III, ,6j2 miles Of
Line and 257974 miles of wire.
In 1880 there were 142,3Gl miles Of
line and 350,01S miles of w.re.
The first line of telegraph in the Uni.
ted States was established between Bal
timore and Washington in 1874. This
was the Morse plan, which has since be-
come the almost universal system of the
world. Fifty million messages were
sent during the year 1850 The compa.
nies employ $4,000 persons,' and have
14,000 offices.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-05-20
The Sin ;ins Bid.

'Oh, sweet sweet, sweet the swallow sung,
From the nest he builded high;
And the rpbin's raptured echo rung
From his lcaiy perch clos6by
oh, sweet, sweet, sweet, rang the joyful tun
Oh, sweet sweet, sweet is the world in Jun c
Oh, sweet, sweet, sweet" the maiden said,
As she twinel her ..air with flowers;
from bird and blossom the echo sped
Through the long AMI bissful hours
=" "Oh,sweet sweet, sweet, rang the joyful tune
Oh,sweer, sweet sweet is the world in June. ,
"Oh sweet sweet, sweet, the swallow sung
On the summers dying night;
And "sweet, sweet sweet" the echo rung,
As the robin plumed for flight;
Oh, sweet is the summer when Just begun,
And sweet, sweet, sweet, when her life is done. ),
But the maiden, never word she said,
Az she donned her weeds of woe;
The bird that sung in her heart was dead,
With the summer of long ago;
The sweet sweet sweet, of the bloom and bird
AS idle mocling her dull eur heard.
Oh, sweet sweet, sweet is the whole glad earth
When the summer days are here
And sweet, sweet, sweet is the time of dearth,
Though the autumn days are drear;
If only deep in the heart is heard
The gladsome song of the singing bird.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-05-20
CURIOUS FACTS.

There is a stalactite cave at IIerchberg,
Austria, in which the iaw-bone of Il
man, with tile teeth well preserved, has
been found among plentiful deposit OF
the remains Of the Ursus sple@us.
From statistics of deaths from acc
dent, negligence, violence and misad-
venture compiled in Great Britain, Mr..
Cornelius Walford infers that the risk
TO life and limb increases in a certain
ratio with the progress of civilization
a conclution which will evidently bear
very considerable qualification.
Some shells lately received from Lakes
Tanganyika, Nyassa, and other like
waters of Africa, at the British Museum,
are of great value to natlIralists, because
they bear several marks of having been
the decendants of certain marine ances-
tors. Mr.. Edgar A Smith read a COM
munication on the nature and structure
of these shells at meeting of the
Geological society, London, February
l5.
In a paper on dew and fogs Herr
Dimes says that morning fog along a
river course arises when the water is
warmer than the air over it, the evap-
Grafton going on more quickly than the
vapor can be carried away, and is,
therefore, condensed and spread as fog
The evening fog on moist, Iow-lying
meadow land he attributes to a lower
ing temperature of the grass surface by
radiation, and consequent condensa-
tion of the aqueous vapor in the lowest
layers of the atmosphere.
Statistics show that since 1851 there
has been an increase of risk from light
ming in various parts of Germany Aus
ria and Switzerland, while there is no
corresponding increase in the number
of thunder-storms. Herr Holtz, who
has been investigating the matter, in
ciines to the belief that the causes for
the greater liability of danger from
Lightning are to be sought in the changes
produced Of late by man on the surface
of the earth; such as the clearing OF
orests, the increase of railroads, and OF
the great use made Ct iron in tie con.
siIuction of houses.
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-05-20
RATES OF ADVERTISING.

II guar rates Of advertising, t1 per square
hrst insertion, ald 81 cents each subsequent
iutUIiicu.
Special conlrS L. will be made for all Adyer-
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TrAnsien. advertisements Always payable
quarterly in advance.
Marriages and obituary notices, over one
,quAre, chs ged for at half regular rAteA
All locSi news 10 cents a Ihs41 for each in.
Iertion.
No notices inserted for Isss than fifty cents
The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-05-20
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It is said that when Mrs. Platt concen. frates her mind on that $50, 900 residence in Washington and thinks of various society events to occur at the capital in the next six years, she can hardly resist taking Thomas by the slack of his shirt collar and leading him to a mirror to see himself as others see him. E ss M eKEE.E f N
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Danbury News Items.

J"seph Barton, aged ninety, sets type in Bridgeport
 Vessels in the sound are sprinkled with Paris green on account of the pototoe bugs.
 An East Haven milk man hid $500 under his carpet. Some one made clean sweep of lts W E s@ &A : r Shelton people embalme1 the memory of the dead soldiers In a game of base ball, De- coration day.
 The spiritnalists of this State picnic at Man. | tic, tomorrow. There will be considerable table rapping
 Four prisoners in the New Haven jail an ticipated the small pox last week. They are not yet caught. 5 f#t ,E E
 Bridgeport is to have "Pinafore, "s this month. It,is lively. piece, and we are sure Bridgeport will like it. "@ ~ s
 Stimulated by the failure of the Cuban to. bacco crop, West Stratford firm have get out 30, 900 heads of cabbage.
 Bridgeport woman slipped down on a banana skin, the only case on record, we be- lieve. In the fall she dragged man down 1 with her, which has occurred before. The Farmer says confiding young widow of Bridgeport gave her affianced the money for l a wedding suit. He skipped the town with the amount. She got off cheap. The lifting of parasol in Naugatuck caused horse to runaway and kill himself, and broke the arm of the driver. This is. on the altar of the female complexion. .s vr
 The valve of the whistle of Norw ich loco. motive refused to close, Tuesday night, until it had footed for eleven and half minutes. The frightened populace sprang from their
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-06-16
PATIENTS.
R. H. EDDY,

No. 76 STATE ST.. opposite Kilby, BOSTON, Secures Patents in the United States also in Great Britain, France, and other foreign countries Copies of the claims of any Patent furnished by remittnR one dollar. Assignments recorded at Washington. Nc Agency in the United States possesses superior aeiitiss obtainig Patents Gscertaini,g tke patsntabitv of fnventions. R. H. EDDY, Solicitor of Patents.
 TESTIMONIALS.
 "I regard Mir. Eddy one of the most capable znd succesattt practitioners with whom have had ofieia intercourse.
 CHAs. MASON, Commissioner of Patents" "Inventors cannot employ person more ustwor. thy or more capable of securing for them an early and favorable consideration at the Patent Ofhce. EDMUND BURKE, late Commissioner of Patents.
 BOSTON, October 1s, 1STo R. H. EDDY, Esq-Dear Sir you procured for me, in lS40, my first patent. Since then you have acted for and advised in hundreds of casss and procur ed many patents, reissues and extensions have oe- casionaly employed the best agencies in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, but still give you al most the whole of my business in your line and ad- wise others to employ you.
 Yours truly, GEORGE DRAPER. BOSTON. January l. 1881. A1-1V
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-06-16
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The valve of the whistle. of Norw ich loco. motive refused to close, Tuesday night, until it had footed for eleven and half minutes, The frightened populace sprang from their beds and made rush for the revised edi- ton.
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-06-16

Ant the woman laid her forgiving bands on the head of the kneeling Bishop The C0rnltiH.
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-06-16
F NA
CuLr1var1os~ OF MEMoRY-After intini,

OUETIVAIIUN VF 1WEMURI.-AtI6r 1nun1te research, the Detroit Free Frees announces the following psychological discovery, In. New York, when a lady is trying hard to
 remember something she clasps the loEe of the left ear between her fore6ager andethumb- aud pulls down, In Boston it is the right ear.- In Toronto she folds her arms. In Syracuse sl.e stands ]. on one foot: In Baltimore she. tongue in the left side of her cheek. Tn De- troit she simply closes the left eye into a sort of a wink, puckers her mouth to the right. and in ten seconds can remember clear back to Daniel in the lions den. e ..e @ |
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-06-16

Fon du Lac banker absconded with $200. 900, but his tender conscience compelled him to send back $150 belonging to ceme- tery fund.
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-06-16

The GREATEST LIVING AUTHORS, surh as Prof. Max lssuller, ht. Hon. w. K. Glad stone, James A. FrOude. Prof. Huxley, R. A. Proctor, Edw. A. Freeman, Prof. Tyndall, Dr. W. B, Carpenter, Frances Power Cobbe, Prof. Goodwin smith, The Duke of Argyll, Wm, Black, Miss Thackeray, Mrs. MulOch. Craik, Geo. Macdonald, Mrs Oilphant, Jean. Henry Kingsley, W. w, Story, Turguenief, Carlyle, Ruskin, TennysOn. Browning, and
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-06-16

A Bridgeport ruffian named McGlinchy struck peaceable citizen named Laws lon &C., count of the name, perhaps). and was let off with fine and costs of SAT by pin fea,hered judge. The Standard administers deserved rebuke for the lenieacy he showed the bully,
 and another on the Superior Court for It's ten- dency to ease down such cases when transfer
 red to it. The Standard promises to do it's share toward making the officers of the law do their plain duty in such matters, and we can assure the offices in advance that there is con- siderable of a thaw awaiting them. .3 s@ ~F
Litchfield enquirer., 1881-06-16
LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.

In 1880 THE LIVING AGE enters upon it's th1ty-sistA year admittedly unrivaled and continuously successful During the year it will furnish it's readers the pre- ductions of the most eminent authers ab0ve-nam- ed. and many others embracing the choicest Serial and Short Stories by the Leading Foreign Novel; iSts, and an amount
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-30
A Bold Theft BY . woman.

About 10 o'clock last night, q middle aged
man named L. D. Harmon, living in South
washington, walked up to Pennsylvania avenue
to learn the condition Of the President and read
the latest bulletin. Having satisfied himself he
started homeward by way OF 18th street
through the Agricultural grounds. and
when he reached the vicinity OF the
chapel, near Ohio avenue. he was accosted
Dy colored girl who begged for five cents to
purchase loaf of bread The old gentleman
said he would see if he had that amount in
small cnange. and pulling out his pocketbook
searched among the several apartments. and re-
marked that he had nothing less than IS.
whereupOn the girl snatched the pocketbook
and ran like deer, ripping it as
she ran, and scattering the torn leather along
behind her. Mr.. Harmon kept on, but did not
succeed in getting his money back. He re-
ported the outrage to the police. who went to
the vile den of one Americas Murray, in Nailor 8
alley, and arrested Ella Randolph. with several
aliases, whom Mr.. Harmon recognized as the
thief She was taken to the fifth precinct sta
tOn where she was searched, but no money
found upon her. Her language and manner at
the statiOn-hOuse was of the vilest character.
She. of course. denied the robbery, and called
Mr. Harmon all the worst names she could COM
maud: but her record was too well known to the
police as prostitute and thief. She was pos
itvely identified by Mr.. Harmon as the woman
who robbed him. She was charged in the Police
Court with the larceny of the pOcketbook and
S25, and unhesitatingly pleaded guilty. Mr..
Harmon. who is an elderly man. testified that
she stopped him at the corner of 49, and ID
streets about 8 O'Clock last night and asked him
for some change. and when he took his pocket
book out she grabbed it and ran. and he ran
after her through lumber yard and fell down.
and she got out of sight, and he has not yet
recovered his money. She was sentenced to six
months in Jail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-30
CITY AND DISTRICT.
Condensed Locals,

Street lamps will he lighted at 40 pm and
eXtinguished at $40 am.
At the meeting of the board of directors of the
National Fair Association last night several en-
irieS of dogs We're made by owners in Frederick
county, Md. and several communications were
read from agrculturists and manufacturers OF
agricultural implements. Offering to put speci-
mems on exhibition. letter also read
rom a glass blowing combination offering to
lhoW during the fair.
The Washington Market company has filed a
Dill in equity against George koOb. to subject
.he defendants real eState-lOt II. block 10.
Todd < Browns subdivision of Pleasant Plains
20 satisfy the balance due plaintiff on a judg-
nent
Officers Williams and Ryan. of the first pre-
einct. recaptured the notorious John Norris in
south Washington yesterday, and he was sent
ack to the wOrkhouse.
Before Washington division. No. 1. Uniform
Rank X. p. left on their excursion YESTERDAY
morning. Past Grand Chancellor Hardin was
presented with beautiful jewel as a token of
ihe esteem in which he is held by his brother
5Gnights.
Yesterday at the Academy of the Visitation.
B. '. NJ, in Baltimore, Miss Isabel Callahan of
This District. was received into the Visitation
order. and took the white veil at the hands of
Rev. Father Tisdale. Sd. The ceremony was
gerry impressive.
Officer Miller found dead infant in Cox's
Alley. between ID and E and 9th and 9TH streets
northwest. last night.
Nearly every night police officers find the
easement windows in dwelling houses left open
ay the occupants, thus inviting burglars to
smter.
Yesterday afternoon Charles Thomas a
eolored boy. was run over by a sand cart driven
~ two white boys. on ID. near 1st street north
vest Dr. Merriam rendered medical aid and
iOrnd that the patients coar-bOne was broken
nd that he was suffering from internal in
iuries. He was removed to his home in Jackson
Alley
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-08-30
A Really and Truly Wonderful ,Spire!

To the Editor of THE EVENING STAR:
The spire of the Metropolitan ME-. church is a
source of dismay to our city authorities. The
great gale of July was thought to have wrenched
it badly. Some said it leaned fearfully to the
north. others to the south, the east had many
advocates. and the west was loudly champiOned.
so a commission was appointed 10y our District
authorities to settle the question. The board
formally report that the spire = leans to the
south 50 inches, to the east 121l inches. and to
the southeast IA 10 nches." This has reused
the anger of the advocates of the west .lean:''
the north folks say the report is only misera-
bic compromise: and soothing outsiders hint that
all the fault is in the name of the spire. Kelso
(keel-sO) But its wonderful nclnations are
acknowledged on all hands and there is "a gem
eral wish it may be disenchanted of the twist or
tangle, so that, with the naked eye or through
glasses, its integrity shall be evident, and no
scoffer can dream that it or its observers have
snakes in theirs" LYN EADEN.