The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-07-02

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Mrs. Plunkett, Of Boston. has wiz ten
q book urging women to become
plumbers
Professional courtesy IS nice thing
to see. A Pittsburg poet speaks o.
Zone Dante
The stone of which the Arc de
Trion1phe ii Paris IS composed . fasi
crumbling away.
Minnesota has no less than %
lakes, which take up over 2,700. 600
acres of territory.
More than SO per cent Of the adult
male population Of New Mexico can
neither read or write.
A Washington correspondent claims
that much Of the cold tea drank at the
Capitol is the gift of the whisky men.
Foggy London, an English maya
zine fears, will, in few years, become
ga grimy Chicago or stufy New
York"
In some parts Of Africa brides On
their wedding day have their front
teeth extracted and their finger nails
cut very close.
A Northern Texas editor complains
that the number of marriages is ridi-
culously small when compared with
the time squandered IN buggy riding.
A story is told of lawyer in Athens,
Georgia, who was employed TO defend
| in suit against narrow gauge rail-
road, and who took the road as his fee.
Pittsburg, Pa, has 1850 manufact-
uring establishments, with an aggre-
gate capital Of $106. 900. 600, employing
nearly sc, 900 persons. The annual
product is valued at SAG 600. GOO
The first church erected on American
soil is still used as a place OF divine
worship. 1t is situated just oatside of
the City of Mexico. and was built by
Cortez during his second visit to that
coast
Having lost her singing voice Aimee
will next season come TO America to
| act in dramas. when can speak, z
she lately said. -s'I'fl 60 into panto-
mime. There's nothing like adapting
ones self TO circumstances"
The stream OF German emigration is
again rising, the total number of those
| who left the Fatherland for America in
the first quarter of this year having
| been 20, 1872, as compared with %, 29l'
in the same period of 1Se 8. -
Pine trees in some portions of North
Carolina are dying in large numbers,
it is supposed from injuries inflicted BIZ
the ''bore worm" or ''sawyers, which.
PLAYED havoc with the pines IN that
state about thirty years ago. Their
ravageS are not confined to the old
trees, the young ones dying just as
rapidly and numerousiy.
Paul Morphy, of New Orleans. once
so celebrated rs a chess-player, is only
forty-live years old, but is u mental
wreck. He goes up and down the
streets of New Orleans, always neatly
and stylishly dressed. mutterings inco-
herently 10 himself HIS insanity re-
suits from the loss of q lawsuit.
Mrs. Colonel Fred Grant says she
has lived on army rations once and can
do so again and will. This is nobIy
said by very brave little one, but we
wish her cause were a better one. Col
Fred Grant might take pattern after
his wife with excellent results, and he
certainly olght not TO give up in de-
spair with such help-mate
Among tho historical treasures sold
with the personal property of the late
Mrs. Smith, tho housekeeper of
Thaddeus Stevens, was q gold snuff
box, bearing the following inscription:
ITO the Hon. Thaddcus Stevens, from
Colorado Territory When old Thad
takes snuff Colorado will sncezc.- This
box is made OF Pixies Peak gold. y
The latest Graz, among collectors is
that of saving breakfast rolls of ladies
of note, actresses, and for that matter
also of distinguished men. from which
rolls bite has previously been taken
and the remnant of which is then
ticketed by the collector in this wise:
This roll was bitten into by Miss So
and-So on june II. 1884. while taking
her coffee" .eess
The first bag of flour ever made of
California wheat aud exhibited at
public fair was the one made by John
N. Horner, of HorHer's mills. at Union
City, AlvaradO, in 1850. and shown at
fair in the Music Hall, San Francisco,
in that year, and to which was awarded |
the highest premium of $50. That bag
OF flour is now on exhibition at the |
rooms of the California Former in San |
Francisco.
DR.. Koch, who has just returned to
Berlin from India, where he has dis [
covered the cholera germ, is described /
as of medium height, very thin, with q
serious. spiritue1le Students face. His /
beard is brown. but his hair issbeconl-
ing gray, and this, together with his
glasses, makes him seem to be older I
than forty years. There are those who
declare that the discovery may make
Koch as famous rs Jenner or Harvey.
The oldest travelling man in the
world was visiting inihis city the other
day, and his name is ID. G. Smith, of
Little Rock, Arkansas. He is now 81
years of age, and has been on the road
since 1916, and has visited III that fine
every land and climate TO which civil
lied man has ever gone and got back.
His business is painting and repairing
Of tin roofs. and he was here in this
city in 1869 and took contracts IN
Council Bluffs and Omaha. He still
looks hale and hearty, and bids fair 10
complete his century on the road
Council Bli.fS NoHparett.
don't like American novels myself
Know they are the fashion, and that
hey are remarkably cleYer; but Their
realism is meagrc and cru,le! They
arc always giving provincial peoples
irst Impressions of things, like the T.
of 2 man whose diet has hith-
srto been hasty -pudding. but is all al
onee initiatcd into the fcfinements of
he comfortable dinner Well-io-do peo-
DC having been eating for centuries.
rhe writers take theto of men Of the
world, but al the Time they are ha5ass
IS school-boyS. They are afraid Of :
trong emotions. anI accept mere
ymbo,s in place of the realities Of
q Midsummer lHael,lesS.
Mrs. Grundy would he at home in :
he Grand Canyon OF the Colorado.
which Is considered the greatest wis !
'ering gallery in tho Ht0rltl For years i
his chasm has been maffcf Of sur {
rise to prospectors and miners, on nc :
cunt of its wonderful transmission OF I
ound, and it has only been since tie !,
dyent Of the railroad that any definite 81.
lea has been entertained Of the greet |, /,
istance it travels within its walls. !,
rain Of cars crossing the bridge 1t The :
Ieedles can be plainly heard on i qn;- !,
t day at Cottonwood Island, asdistaTfee 4
{ eighty-four miles. The fife and Z
rum &C Fort Mojayc isdistinctly heard :,
t Bulls Head, distance Of eighty 3 Z,
our miles. The report Of tho sninrfse | !. :.
nm st Fort Majare can b heard at IL :,
orado Canyon, distance OF nincly- !,
x miles. tits the grcatest Whisper =
e gallery iustlIe world. :.
Old Fort Washington. on the Po- :
,mac River, Is garrisoned bv one 8
,ldier. Sergeant r F. joyce, Of the e
rdnance department. The Sergeant 4
as his family with him, and lives Is =
10 old ivy-cOFered house, surrounded -
it'll broad verandas, THAT was 1t one E
me occupied BY the Commanding | =
hcer of the fort Fort Washington Il = :,
le Of the oldest defenses in the United &
iates. The work Of constructing + i,
As commenced ii 1903 from the plans 81 81
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