The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-23
GLEANINGs.
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. remedy for sore throat.
Il In Southern and Middle England 50.
900 women steer canal boats.
IA Delaware fermer has ploWed unde
10000 herrings as fertilizer a
II Senator Fair has sent his chfldre
with his divorced wife to Europe
Lady Wilde, the mother of Oscar
has book of poems ready for th
|. fpress.
Over 400, 900, 600 gallons of petroleum
|. valued at $50. 900, 600. were exporte,
last year. #qsA q
The square, parasol is called tn
H'ngly girls parasol. " 1t has a grea
sale in Boston.
There are in London 10000 Polisl
Russian Jews who have sought refug'
from persecution. @
Millions of caterpillars are stripping
the leaves from the live oak trees .
CloYerdale, Cal.
An Englishman succeeded in reduc
ling his weight five and half pounds
in one week by dieting. s -
1t has been said of Mnlet's IAN
gelusn that it is the only picture il
which sound has been painted.
DIR. Dio Lewis says the coming mar
and woman will not be smaller at tht
waist than at other parts Of the body
James McCabe. q pauper in Mars
Hill, Me-, died short time ago. HI
was over one hundred and ten years
of age.
A new publication of recipes gives
prominence to an ''anti-spree mixture, y
and tells people how to relieve drunk
enness.o
/ DR.. Alfred Carpenter, an English
physician, thinks that drunkenness is a
disease which can be- cured only by
| heightened abstention.
/ The disease from which the King OF
Spain suffers is the wasting away OF
the arterial tissues, which produces a
tendency in the blood vessels to start
out and rupture.
A Boston woman warns train boys
/ through the Globe that '-if they throw
any of Colonel Ingersolps lectures in
my lap I shall certainly throw them
out of the window. y
The gambling hells of Europe are
full of monomaniacs. They think they
have discovered some system by which
i to break the bank. But the bank al
ways breaks them at last.
Rubinstein, the musician, always
closes his eyes when he plays. He
| says he doesn't wish to see how many
rude people there are who are not pay
| ing attention to his music.
/ Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coke says
i 81 kof 1n V,lazy - Wn1fa1sx,
York are worthy of Sodem and
/ Gomorrah, and that the grand juries
ought to indict them as nuisances.
Ella Wheeler's husband, it is re-
ported, tips the scales at 180 pounds
and has fist like asledge hammer.
He has list of newspaper idiots on
whom he will call before snow flies.
I A fine seal, weighing something over
100 pounds, was caught in net by
fishermen in Lake Ontario last week.
| Seals in Lake Ontario are a rarity,
though they have been caught in the
waters before. ~
Mount Moriah. happy hamlet in
Somerset county, Pennsylvania, has
does very well without them. It has a
uOIGA pOk6Ou0 1dd21u2 4lOLu 6CNSuB1~
five to eighty-six years old.
George Williams. of New York,
while cunning on Peconic Bay, placed
the muzz1e of his gun in the water and
discharged it to see what the result
would be. He will never see again.
The gun burst, and both his eyes were
| destroyed.
P. C. Plant, Macon banker, has
solved the problem of utilizing the
swamp lands of his section of Georgia,
by setting out $4,000 willow cuttings
on twenty weight acres, the produce of
which for ten years to come has been
contracted for by manufacturer of
New York City.
A remarkable case of change of col
or is exciting the medical men of Santa
Barbara, Cal. Four years ago man
named Pima was of very dark COM
plexion. White blotches began to ap-
pear on his skin, and now he is as
white as any man, save on parts OF his
face and hands.
Texas forty years ago was practically
q desert, and the handful of settlers
lived pretty much on game. To day
there are more than 10000, 600 cattle,
sheep, horses, mules and swine in the
state, and the cotton crop last year
was worth more than the cottoncrop of
the entire United States in 1S43.
The Too Repu6Efces, . paper pub
Iished in the City of Mexico. recently
contained the following item: ''The
Mexican papers in this city have found
fruitful source for the display Of
photographic wit in treating Of the
American visitors, who first pity, then
embrace, the pulque jug.
Since the establishment of the system
more than twenty years ago only
ninety national banks have failed. and
the loss to creditors has not exceeded ]
SO. O0O, 600, the average loss being about
10 per cent in each case. The average
annual loss to depositors by the failure
Of national banks has been only one
twentieth Of 4 per cent.
The people Of Albany, have the repu-
tation Of consuming more opium than
IS consumed in any other city OF its
size in this country. The 90. 600 inhabit-
ants Of New York 5 capital city needed
nearly i, coo pounds Of the insidious
drug last year, beside nearly 5000
ounces Of morphia and between 500s- ]
900 and 6o0, 600 morphia pills. m
Acontrihutor to London scientific
pauer SAYS that q very simple and
efectivs way of eoloring a meerschaum
bowl is By painting il while you are
smoking, and after It becomes warm.
with the creamy surface Of good milk
for CREAMY. BY means OF Q common
hair pencil. which brings cut the brown
and yellow colors beautifully, and IS
by magic.
Dr. bio Lewis, the fresh-air fiend,
has been compelled to stop all manual
work and retire to . farm - New
Jersey % rest His health IS cons
pleteiy broken down. To read this
mans tarse and epigrammatic screeds
On health and how to keep it. one
would suppose that he possessed the
secret 81 living hundred years at the
verv least calculation.
All people have not learned the art
al leaving room IN an appropriate
fnanneF. When you are ready 90 de-
paff Do b d once gracefully and poe
fitelv. and VITA no dallying. Don't
gav asItl about time was going. 81
and settle back and talk on ain1cssIy
for smother ten minutes. There is no
need of being offensiTely abrupt but
when you are ready to go-zg ~ lsreg,y
Oder S1lsltsI..ss Z e
halaclaYa, although its name win Be
ever famous IN history as associated
with the famous Light cavalry charge.
/ has hitherto fena4ined "a unimp Qrtant
town. It's, however now beginning
f6 develop resources. and bids fair to
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