The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-20
GLEANINGs.

GLEANINGS.
There are 800 vacant dwelling hous
es in Minneapolis.
The British Museum has an aerolite
weighing five tons.
There are 80, 900 varieties of beetles
waiting TO be named.
Mrs. Southworth is now at work on
her sixty-sixth novel.
Mobile has tax on travelling mea Of
So day or 1925 per week.
Two white children are in possession
of Indian squaws at San Diego, Cal.
1t is said that over 3. 900, 900 trees
were planted in Great Britain in 1888.
Carolina exports 10000 boxes OF
oranges, and grapes without end this
year.
Montana's drummer tax is 800 per
year for each county, with $25 local
extra in Butler City.
Clarence Three-Stars. the son of a
Sioux chief. is employed packing goods
in Philadelphia store.
The crop of wheat this year bids fair
to reach $40, 000, 900 bushels, 100, 900, :
600 in excess Of last year.
The Medical Summary recommends
the external use of buttermilk to ladies
who are exposed to tan OF freckles.
A Houston county. Ca, man made
$3.50 clear profit off II acres of peanuts
last year, besides fattening drove of
300 hogs
A rosebud at Chambersburg, Pa,
has yielded over 16, 900 buds in the
past three years, which have been sold
at SIS per 100.
Coffee-cups become smaller and
smaller for "after-dinner service.
The newest size is a trife larger than
the fat woman's thimble.
Although Frenchmen arc spoken of
as frog eaters, it is asserted as a
fact that more frogs are now eaten in
New York alone than III all of France.
The cadets at West Point during the
summer are taught how 10 swim. how
to rescue drowning person. and the
quickest method of restoring the ap-
parently drowned.
hoPSApNAo d4C
somewhat curious fact that Mr.. Blaine
was for time teacher in deaf
mute college, and Mr.. Cleveland was
teacher in an asylum for the blind.
The Government spends about $50
600 a year for the repair of mail
pouches, says the Albany journal;
there are about ono hundred thousand
mail bags in use, and about ten thou
sand new ones are bought yearly.
Most of the expense is in repairing the
staples in the opening of the bag.
The bridegroom in an Oregon we'd
ding was 19 and the bride was 49.
Moreover, the man was handsome and
the woman plain. But he had been
for year a herder on lonely range,
without feminine face of any kind to
look at, and when she visited the place
with some tourists the courtship was
rapid and resultant.
The celebrated Alderbach echo has
at last been eclipsed by q seventeen
tongued one in Silesia. If the traveller
sounds his horn at point called
Garvcs Rub, near Charlottenbrunn, he
will hear, after the lapse of a few sec
onds, succession of sweet, clear notes
coming back to him at brief intervals
until seventeen in all have answered.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson is agitatino
for an improvement in the construction
of New England cotton mills, arguing
that outside the largest cities one
storied buildings would be healthier
and in less danger of confagration, as
well rs cheaper to construct and to
run, than the present fve-story struct-
ures.
The Boston Herald thinks that the
watermelon is a much-abused fruit.
Eaten when it is fresh and ripe. at the
proper time-which means as the first
course at breakfast--it is a wholesome
and harmless article of diet. Eaten
when under-ripe or stale, or on top of
a big dinner. late in the afternoon, it
often ''creates a disturbance. And
no wonder.
A German engineer has just obtained
letters patent on device for building
mine shafts and bridge piers upon
His method, says a cor
respondent, is to introduce pipes into
the quicksand and pump through them
a freezing mixture by which the entire
mass of quicksand is frozen solid,
when it may be worked through with
no more difficulty than q stratum Of
rock.
Some time ago man in Edmonson
County, KY, killed a rattlesnake ou
his premises, cutting the body in two,
short off behind the head. About two
weeks afterward child playing around
strayed near the head,
when thatsupposed-to-b MEM
Der made spring and buried its fangs
In the child leg, and only the prompt
application of powerful antidotes saved
It life.
Philadelphia has five establishments
where plaster of Paris casts are made.
They turn out chiefly Venuses and
Apollos and sometimes a Minerva and |
1 Bacchus. Life-size figures of these
classic creatures cost $50 A fair busi- |
ness is done in the busts of Socrates
Webster, Shakespeare and Byron, cost
inc 81 each. When man orders his
own bust, the charge is $50. which |
viii only pay small profit on the cost
IF making the cast and the mold. The I
mold once made, hundred husts can
be turned out but the person who
caters to his own vanity wants only |
me or two.
During the last year the Dead Letter
Office has handled about 4.500. 600 let
.ers. OF these about $4,000 were I
nailed without any address. and nearly |
200, 900 without stamps. Half mill |
on are from other countries, whose
owners cannot be found. Foreign dead I
etters are returned to the country /
rom which they come. Those origin T
ating in this country, and whose own
srs are not found, are opened. At the
Postoffice is q museum made up from
he articles found in these letters. It
contains everything from money down
o a pair Of dirty socks. The money /
mounts to nearly $40, 600 for the year,
While the drafts, checks, notes, etc,
mount to ST, 800, 000.
A tendency to crime manifests itself
it very early age through certain
sWell-knoWn characteristics, for Nm. I
Lombraso and Mano have studied $50
nfants, and especially 160 from houses
if refuge, and easily recognized the
type in the proportion Of z. 4
Ser cent The loss Of a moral sense
vas observable in a per cent, and q
reritable propensity to crime IN 10 per
,ent Out Of twenty mine infants they
rave noticed, however. the disappear-
NEE Of the criminal tendencies partly /
through non~inhefitanee, partly under
he beneficial influence Of their sur
soundings, and partly because the
passions existing at 3 certain
,eriod disappear ii maturity. These
IaYants should have honestly added as
mother partly that the primary
Judgment erred.
During severe epidemics. says 4he
Eaacet, It has been noticeable that
he mortality has not been bY any