The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-01
GLEANINGS.
It costs annually 81, 200. 600 for links
and pins for the freight trains in this
country.

II costs annually 81, 200. 600 for link
land pins for the freight trains in thi
country.
The latest nonsense in decorative
way Is fitting down windows with satil
patchwork in place of stained glass.
In an old tenement that was recent,
torn down in London thirteen car
= loads of coekroaches were carried
away.
A horse which trots q mile in 2:lt
goes at the rate of q 9-IS milo al
- hour-nearly the speed Of railroad
= train.
20 The annual consumption Of imported
p and domestic cigars is about sixty fol
g every man, woman and child in the
y United States.
:. Wooden pavements are now put
- down in Paris on concrete foundation.
d and the contractor guarantees them for
: eighteen years.
e A Franconiaville. Pa, man has a
% roeking-chair $50 years old, and pair
l. OF scissors bearing the date 1880 Both
came from Germany.
v John Lowery, of Luzerne County
h Pennsylvania, celebrated his hundredth
v birthday July 20. He has used to-
e bacco for seventy years.
d A bill is now before the Imperial
Parliament prohibiting women in Scot
/ land from standing on tho outside of
e any window while cleaning it.
i In mill in Connecticut alcohol Is
T used to wipe off certain portions of the
machinery, Some of the employees get
:, stupidity drunk by sucking the sponges.
The Charleston News and Coarier
= says that Sullivan's Island, S. C., is
! destined to become the leading sum-
mer and winter resort Of the North and
South.
i Eight hours labor, eight hours
/ sleep, eight hours play, and three dol
lars day, is the motto of the Miners
) Amalgamated Association of Pennsyl-
vania.
In recent document put forth BY the
Associated charities of Boston. It is
stated that the four cases of poverty
are drunkenness, ignorance. laziness
and pride.
1t is difficult to drown an insect as
the water cannot enter the pores of the
skin, but if drop Of oil be applied to
ing sufocated.
The young woman of the period has
a deal of responsibility. DIR. Howard
Crosby says: 'If all young ladies |
were what they should be, we'd never |
see dude or dog cart"
A tablespoonful of chloroform in
about four times as much water Is an |
infallible cure for cholera, says Gener-
al Gordon of the New York Mining
Record. an old Cuban campaigner.
A San Francisco paper says that
there are about 250 lepers in that city,
and the number is increasing. 1t also
declares that San Francisco has become
the dumping ground for Asiatic cities.
A Pennsylvania Judge has decided
that pictures are not household furni-
ture because they ''lack the idea of
household utility that makes the basis
of the definition for household furni-
ture. "
The women of San Francisco will
found a cemetery for sailors. Two
thousand sailors are known to have
been buried within the city limits since
its foundation, and the graves of but
$50 are known.
Major Andre. the spy, drew q por-
trait of himself the morning of the day
on which he was hanged. He stood
before looking-glass and sketched
the likeness. 1t is preserved in the
Capitol at Albany.
DIR. Seltzer, in the Boston Medical
and Surgical Journal, recommends
beef tea, made very hot with red pep
per, for delirium tremens. A London
surgeon is stated to have treated $50
cases successfully with this remedy
alone.
The mortality of the Globe, as given
by continental journal which has made
the computation, is as follows: Per
minute, 67; per diem, 81, ,790, and per
annum, 35, $50, 835; whereas the births
are Sc, 1872, 900 per annum, 10O,O per
diem, and 20 per minute.
OF the $4,000 Postmasters in the
United States there are 1000 whose
salaries are below SO, 81 whose salar.
les did not amount to the sum of 81
each, Is whose salaries were less than
so cents, and one-H. H. Forest, OF
Redallia, Pitt County, N. C.-whose
earnings for the year were 8 cents.
Rumor has it that well-known Al.
banian, says the Albany Argts, recent
ly deceased, has added another strange
paragraph to those already gathered in
the literature of Wills" He be |
queathed each of his three children
the sum of 81 with which to hang
himself or herself as the case might be.
A story comes from India that
monster snake was recently shot with
wa ", TtY.0xy
feet in length and feet in circumfer
ence. A native physician cut open GER.
tain parts to take fat from them, but
found that the huge reptile was TOO
young to have fat. 1t was the largest
serpent ever seen in Travancore.
California race horses have made
their best time at home, and have not
equaled it when taken to the Eastern
turf. The San Francisco Chronicle,
therefore, concludes that the climate is
as well adapted to the best develop
ment of the thoroughbred horse as
Arabia or Barbary, and much better
than that of England, Ireland, or any
of the Atlantic States.
The nutmeg trees grow on the is
lands of Asia and tropical America,
and look like small pear trees. They
bear fruit seventy or eighty years. In
Jamaica there is one tree that every
year has on it over 4, 900 nutmegs. The
fruit is about the size of a peach, and
when ripe it breaks open and shows
the seed, which is the article known to
commerce as the nutmeg.
One of the great curiosites in Japan
to the stranger is the wonderful variety
of coins that are used daily. In some
instances it takes 1000 pieces to make
81. These are called ''cash, and are
seldom received by foreigners, who, as
a general rule, refuse to take them in
change. Imagine trade of cents
and giving man 50-cent piece, then
receiving in change $50 of these cop
pers.
The air brush was one of the useful
and interesting inventions exhibited at
the Photographers Convention in Phil
delphia. a little holder is charged
with India ink, and by bellows oper-
ated with foot pedal, after the man
ner of sewing machine, the fluid is
blown upon family outlined portrait,
the result giving a picture superior in
many respects to the best crayon draw
ing. A life-size portrait may thus be
made in few hours, where as former