The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-03
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Il have been,' says an American
gentleman, '.to Spa. Ems, Homburg
Viehy and all the most extravagani
watering-places in France, Italy an6
Germany, but for expense and diseom
fort none were like an English water
ing-place."
d.. SchWeninger, of Munich, has dis
covered new mode of reducing thf
bulk Of the human frame. It IL, never
TO eat and drink at the same time, bu1
to let two hours intervene. He has, Il
is said, cured Prince Bismarck OF
tendency to obesity in this way.
An Italian has been studying the
relation of malaria fever at Rome
to the weather, and finds that wet
| spring is followed by an excess Of
fever in July and August, while those
seasons which enjoy the longest vista
| ton of the dry sirocco winds show
minimum of fever.
Mohammedans in Morocco have dis
! played almost as much brutality to-
ward the Jews as Christian Russians.
Because an aged rabbi refused to draw
| false deeds Of debt against Jews in ia.
vor of Governor, he was whipped and
pilloried in the scorching sun. Another
rabbi was dragged through the street
by the hair and then logged.
The law about the admission Of
the Chinese is so rigidly enforced on
the Pacific coast that Chinaman resi-
| dent in San Francisco found, on going
across the line into British America,
that he could not get back without
making the journey to China and re-
turn in order to obtain certificate that
he was a merchant and not laborer'
| The Queen snubbed the Prince Of
Wales and one or two other personages
pretty severely when they proposed to
her Majesty that Baker Pasha should
be connected with Lord Wolseley s
Egyptian expedition. She informed
the Prince and the rest that her decis-
ion in regard to ex-Colonel Valentine
Baker was unalterable, and that she
wished to hear no more about it.
A Charleston, S. c., paper says some
sailors caught queer fish in the har.
Dor there. at is a foot long, has 8
head like a frog, its body being like
that of any other fish, except that in
stead of the fore fin there are two large
wings, eight inches long and five inch.
es across. The wings are speckled
like those of whip-poor-will, and are
formed of very thin, transparent tllmr
instead of feathers.
A remarkable decrease has taken
place in the exports of tea and silk
from China. In the season of 1901
the export of tea reached its maximum,
being not less than ia, 514, 900 pounds.
1t was only 90,066, 000pounds in 1861,
and last year it amounted to Isl, 140,-
900 pounds, showing a decline since
1851 of 23,374, 900 pounds. But the
falling off in the shipment of silk was
even greater still. The highest point
reached was 20, 1879 bales in 1862, and
last year the quantity had fallen off to
IL, 500 bales.
The importance of adding the county
and state to the address of letters or
other mail matter, even in the case OF
| the most important cities, is apparent
| from the fact that there are in the
| United States II st. Pauls, 20 Bridge
| ports, Is Buffalos and Newarks, II
| Brooklyns, Clevelands, and Rochesters,
! 16 Hartfords, Is Louisyilles, - Bostons
and Pittsburgs, 8 Cincinnatis, and
Philadelphia, Chicagos, Detroits,
Milwaukees and st. Louises, 80 Wash
ingtons, and 4 New Yorks and Balti-
mores. New Orleans and San Francis
co are not duplicated.
David S. Horst has shown US watch
which his brother lost in the fall of
1881 while blowing in field on his
farm. In the spring the field was har-
rowed and planted with corn, during
| the summer the corn was cultivated,
and the next spring the field was again
plowed and sown with oats. That fall
it was again plowed and wheat was
put in, and the next summer, while
harvesting, the watch, which was lost
three years before, was found in good
condition. 1t was an open-face one
and the glass not even broken. It was
wound up and was found to run sll
right, The watch is still running and
IN good condition.-Mount Jog Star.
sykes is the name of big white
bulldog which boards at the Oscar
House at Midland. He is by no means
the prettiest dog alive, and has never
given evidence of extraordinary intelli-
gence until of late. However, few
days ago he heard cries of pain and
sounds of a struggle in the hotel barn.
He entered the barn and took hand
in the affray, which was between an in
furiated stallion and man named
Thomas Scott. The stallion had the
man under foot and was biting him
terribly when Sykes seized the horse
by the nose and held his grip until he
let up on the man, who escaped, saved
by a bulldog courage.
During the siege of Paris hippophagy
was a matter of necessity. Since 1871
the consumption of horse flesh has
gone on steadily increasing. In 1874
the number of horses slaughtered for
food in Paris was 1852. Ten years
doubled. In 1888 Paris ate 8. 49, hors-
es, 307 asses and 40 mules, or not far
short of 100000 pounds weight of
horse, ass and mule meat. The ex-
PLANTATION of this increase is the high
price of beef and mutton in the French
capital, While the artisan can pur-
chase a horse steak at less than u
cents a pound, he has to pay three
times as much for cut of beef or NUT
ton. Among the hippophagists of Par
is the flesh of the ass and mule is es-
teemed even more highly than that of
the horse, those delicacies fetching a
price Is to 20 per cent higher than
simple horse flesh.
A recent visitor to Longfellow's IL
brary writes: There was the open
fireplace to the left, but no cheerful
fire burning therein, as on my last vis-
it. The two great easy chairs on either
side seemed to stand just as they did
then, when Longfellow occupied the
one to the right, and in his happy way
told of how he wrote his best verses
and the stories of his frolics with Haw-
thorne In their early days. The large
square table upon which he wrote
stands now as it stood then, but it |
lacks the delightful confusion which |
says: The master is at home and at |
work. The scraps of writing, the /
other evidences of toll, and those
positions for objects which
genius always finds are no more. The /
pen which traced so many beautiful |
thoughts lies idle, and will never again
put in enduring form the WORKS Of so
great man. The books are all ar
ranged in order about the table, and
there is prim methodical air to the
room which in itself relates the sad
story that the bard no longer lives.
The suicide tables prepared by the
insurance boards are quite complete
Or the current year. During the SIX
months ending with August 800 suicides
In the United States. The
Usual annual average is about /, 700. or
bout 50 per million of population.
rhe Youngest suicide was thirteen wears
# age and the eldest eighty-nine. Dis
ributed BY principal causes. y were
raced to insanity. 81 tofamiIy troubles,
& TO sickness, IS to business troubles,
o to love troubles and % to dissipa-
ion. Distributed By conditions, 100
we're husbands, 50 wives, 81 bachelors.
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