The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-05
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has a population Of 1.5oo. 600, there
- not newspaper OF sny kind.
Only seven Jews have been take
with the cholera in France. The Jew
ish diet is the healthiest In the worlC
Since 1880 the increase Of deposits
= the state and savings banks OF th
b. country has been nearly $500. 900 00(
Mr.. Beecher SAYS it is the duty q
II parents to have their ohildren's pictur
lie taken every year uuiil they are twsr
70 ty-one.
c Al1i9ator's teeth are now used 70
d buttons. bracelets. earrings. and ban
2. gleS They take high polish aud a.
t very durable.
An envious Englishman named Mark
ham insists that Lockwood and Brain
! erd. of the Greedy expedition. did no
!, get 30 far north as they said they did
: An Englishman lately died in Lon
/ don leaving an estate valued at IS, O0O
900. He left no will, aud his neares
heir was a farmer Ssventy-six yesri
old.
A remarkable telegraphic feat was
the recent delivery Of 3 message from
Melbourne. Australia, to London in q
minutes. 1t went by land aud sea over
13,So9 miles.
There are now In the United States
$40 Young Mons Christian Associa-
tons, with membership OF 1S0. 1877.
They own eighty buildings and 81, $50.
675 worth Of real estate,
Mrs. Van Cots the rcvivalist, has
been engaged In her special work for
nineteen years. Sh0 is now In her fifty
fourth year, and she says sho Is tho
spiritual mother Of 80, 600 souls
Boston. according to tho NeiO Eng.
land Farmer, consumes from 100 900 to
$50. 600 pounds Of oleomargarins and
other limitations of butter per week
Very little spurious butter Is now sold
in the markets Of New York.
A son of Henry Ward Bcocher, cap
tain Of steamboat plying along the
Pacific coast, resides at Olympia, Ore
gen, and Is described as weather.
beaten man, with sun-browned straw
hat, looking like q mechanic"
a Chinese merchant in Mott street.
New York, seems to have clear idea
of the trouble between France and
China. Ho said to reporter: ''It likee
this: come TO your door and lickee
you and | wantee you to pay money to
\ me for lickee you. You think that
| fghtP What kind a ligion thatP"
Hitherto the manufacturers of safes
have cndeayored TO make a safe that
burglars could not break into. Would
1t not be better now for them to let
| the law take care of the burglars. and
give their attention to the construction
of safe that dishonest bank officials
couldn't get into? The problem is
hard one but there is money in il for
the lucky inventor.
France is literally one garden. Ev-
cry inch of soil Is cultivated. In riding
from Paris TO Dion, $50 miles, We |
counted only thirty cattle. We saw no |
sheep or hogs. The farms have usually |
from one to ten acres. Some farms |
half an acre and some as many as |
twenty acres. They are usually from |
80 to 800 feet wide and from 1900 to
1000 feet long. There are no fences
between them.
a correspondent who writes TO the |
Providence Journal OF stroll in an old |
fashioned flower garden, says: ''The |
sunfower, so prolific and hardy, has
once unwittingly served tho pur-
pose OF guido across the continent.
1t is said that the Mormons on their
journey from Eauvoo to Utah, marked /
their trail for those who were to follow
By planting sunHowers along the
route.
In China mercury is said to be the
philosopher stone. Chinese medical
works say it takes two hundred years
to produce cinnibar from mercury; in
500 years it becomes lead, in 200 years
moro it becomes silver. and then, by
obtaining a transforming substance
called "vapor of harmony" it becomes
gold. This doctrine of the transforma-
ton of mercury into other metals is
1000 years old in China
A Madrid correspondent writes that
on a recent occasion the Mayor of Mad
rid had to resort to an unheaTd-of pro-
ceeding in the annals of bull fights in
order to keep the king and royal fami-
ly from hearing disagreeable remarks.
He ordered the music TO play during
the whole fight, or rather the six fights,
as generally six bulls are killed during
an afternoon, one being dispatched be-
fore another enters the arena.
No one can fail to observe that the
drunkard has harder time these days
than he had fifteen years ago. Thenit
was almost n sign of genius for a man
to be found missing from his post once
q week on account of liquor. Now it is
q sign that his employer is not attend
ing TO business. The drunkard will be
discharged as soon as the facts be-
come known. This is healthful and
remarkable change of general opinion.
In the northwestern island OF Terra
del Fuego. the Ia people, who inter-
marry frequently with the more south
ern Yahgans (as they are called by the
English missonaries). are the tallest
race on the globe, according to the re-
port Of the French Mission to Cape
Horn, presented TO the Academy Of
Science, Paris, by ID. Hahn. In stock
and speech these tall people appear :
closely related to the Patagonians OF
the continent. London Echo. 1
Shaw, a Colorado surveyor reports
that he and his party of surveyors have
found almost a solid mountain Of alum |
over mile square, some Of the cliffs Of
which rise to an elevation of 100 feet
above the bed of the Gila river. Most
of the alum is in an impure state, and
tasting very strongly of sulphuric acid.
but of which there seems to be an mex
haustible quantity. Some Of the cliffs, 1
however, show immense quantities OF
almost pure marketable alum.
A White Mountain letter says Of the
girl walters Of that region, many Of
whom are school teachers: "As q rule
they are very demure and dignifed,
but equally prompt and attentive.
They do not carry on, as / heard n
Philadelphia lady remark. One might
as well attempt to firt with one of the
Sisters Of Mercy he meets in the New
York streets. I saw one young woman
politely return half dollar left for her
on the dinner table.
Considerable uneasiness is felt in re-
gard to tho eruption of the crater few
miles northeast Of Saliodo. Col. Visit
ors to the spot report largo cracks in
the earth and distinct rumbling sounds.
This crater is in full view Of the town,
on the top of high peak. The open
ing, at the mouth. is about one hum
dred Yards across. and about three |
hundred feet deep. The gulch and the
side of the mountain are still covered
with white lava from its last eruption.
The complaint that there was gam
blong on an ocean steamer recently ar
rived in New York does not reveal any
thing new. Probably there is not a
steamer crossing the ocean that does
not have more or less gambling on
board. Passengers who never think Of
stalking money while they are ashore
indulge In il in mid ocean to kill time.
It seems as if they might invent some
more rational kind Of amusement, but
it is probable that they do not care TO
tax their indolent intellects 10 this ex-
tent. II