The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-22
GLEANINGs.

: A farmer Ii Clay county, Mississil
!. pi. has l6o acres planted in peppe
: mint
!, 1t costs the United States SIS, ,456
i S89 81 to take care of the Indians tn
E year.
Thirty thousand two-horse truck
: are employed in the business Of Ne
York City. Upwards of $50, 000. 90
are invested in this industry.
! A shambling gait according to Dl
Maclean Hamilton. the medical expeT
examiner in the Rhinelander case, is
marked symptom of insanity.
Il is reported that the governmen
is about to sell the old arsenal pror
erty at Harper's Ferry. The ruin
there are just as they were left by tn
John Brown raid.
Twenty states and territories hav
adopted compulsory education. bu
only Massachusetts and Connection
have effective means for the carryin!
out of its enforcement.
A girl four years old, who has beer
treated in Washington City for thre
years for q supposed catarrh in tn
head, has been cured by the extraction
of two buttons from her nostrils.
the largest public hall in Victoria, B
c., was let for prize-fight on a recen
night The next night they refused &c
allow Bob Ingersoll to lecture in it,
saying that the public would resent.
1t is only three years since the cattle
industry was introduced into Montana,
and already the stock interest forms
one-third of the total property valua-
alton. Next year it will form fully one
half.
Keely, the Philadelphia motor man,
has now guarded his secret nine years,
and his friends still have faith that he
will yet astonish the world with new
motive power that will supersede
steam.
An antitrust rail will become a ne
ceSsity if electric railways ever come
into general use. 1t was demonstrated
at the recent forestry exhibition in Ed
inburgh that the electric railway there
would not work on rusty rails.
The work of constructing six-inch
wire-bound gun has just been COM
meuced in the navy yard at Washing
ton. d. G. 1t will be the FIRST gun of
its kind in the country, and the first to
be fabricated entirely of American
STEEL
Experiments by De Champ, of Paris,
show that man is more sensitive to
morphine than is any other animal
A dog can take five, and a monkey fif-
ty times as much, in proportion TO
their respective weights, as human be-
ings.
Forty years ago there was not a tel
egraph office in existence. and the tcle-
phone as a medium of communication,
was undreamed Of To-day there are
81, $40 telegraph offices in various por-
tions of the world, and they are con-
stantly increasing.
-Four hundred and forty of the Eng
lish Peers are landlords deriving the
whole or the greater part of their reYe-
nues from land. Fifteen million acres
of land, with an aggregate rent roll
of nearly $75. 600, 900. represent their
property and income.
Another industry is now open to
women. In an establishment on Gen.
tire street, New York, they are employ
ed as gold-beaters. The proprietor as
serts that while not equal to men in
physical strength they are superior in
carefulness and delicacy of workman
ship.
A Western man at one of our hotels,
where the bill of fare was in French.
after sorely puZzling himself with de-
scriptions which he could not compre-
hend. cotejettes la MaiHteBoH, and
GufS Ia brdiss, exclaimed: Il shall
90 back TO first principles; give me
SOME mutton chops. and boiled eggs"
1t may not be generally known that
soft-shell crabs are caught and then
Systematically fattened. As an old
crabber said, Grabs, like most folks,
can't live on nothin', and so we mashes
up some CLAIMS, some fish, or some
meat or horse feed, or almost any
thing we get right handy. If we don't
feed 'em. they'll eat one another up.
The daily consumption of oysters in
New York is about 10000 bushels. 10
see that no one has to go without
share, $50, 200, 900, it is estimated, have
been invested in the business, in which
l6, 600 persons are employed. Includ-
ing the 5000 places where oysters are
served, the investment is three times |
as great, and its employees number over
%, 600.
The order of the German governor OF |
Alsace-L Lorraine, that every resident |
must become neutralized or leave, |
shows that Bismarck means to make |
the province an integral part OF the
Empire. 1t is not proposed to permit !
the existence of any French influence |
or traditions that will in case OF an
other war with France blossom into an
L. j. Rose has sold his estate, prob |
ably the finest in California, for $780, |
600. The plantation is known as Sum
nv Slope, near Pasadena, and it con- |
tains moro than 1900 acres of we'll
watered land. The orange crop was
sold on the trees by Mr.. Rose this year |
for SIC, 900, and the vintage last year
from /, 900 acres of vines was l,oOO |
tons of grapes.
The photographic journal reports an
way to prevent forgery OF
bank-notes. This is no other than the |
of an invisible actinic ink,
of which no trace can be seen on the
paper or upon the image upon the To-
cusino screen. As soon, however, as
you come to develop your plate. the
word forgery appears in bold letters
right across the negative.
There is a curious series of trees
near Penn Pan, N. Y. The original
tree. an elm, was blown down over
thirty wears ago. The trunk, which
remains, is fifty-eight feet long, and
from It row of twenty-six young trees
have sprung. many of them fully hfty
feet high. The young treesEseem like
branches from the old trunk, but they
are we1l-grown and perfect.
The primeval woods of Maine con-
tain 19, 600 square miles and still cover
an extent seven times that OF the fam
ous Black Forest Of Germany. The
states Of Rhode Island. Connecticut
and Delaware could be lost together in
: Maine forest and still have q margin
Of wilderness wide enough to make its
exploration without the aid OF COM
pass a work of desperate adventure.
Have you the melon-seed bag OF
your grandmother? This is not ques-
tion from Oilendorf. but genuine,
honest inquiry. If you have the mel
on-seed bag of your grandmother, bring
it out promptly, polish up its gold
beads and walk out with it. the very
latest, newest thing. And If you have
not the melon-seed bag, go and ask
your grandmother how to make one,
and take advantage of the season to
provide yourself with tho material -
Boston 7ruBscript
A good deal Of nonsense Is written
about the sagacity Of the spider. The
spider is not sagacious. At night i
viii crawl into the tea-kettle, make its
web lust above the spout-hole and wait
for flies. In the morning, when the
kettle begins to get hot i loses its
presence of mind. runs to the outside
of fhe kettle. then to the stove, and is
astonished to find that the stove Is still
bnffer than the kettle. Unless friend