The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-08-06
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lie preacher. who is not yet so, is COM
M pletely broken in health.
, The daughter of Rev. DIR. Edward
e -gleston, the well-known author, is a
Il marvel at wood-carVing.
? A German citizen near Newburg. N.
% T., has invented 4 machine that manu-
o facturcs Seventy-two pretzcls minute.
i 1t would take strip of arabic land
4 over four hundred feet wide alongside
e of every railroad in the country, Gov
r cred with trees. to furnish the ties nee
: essary to keep the roads in operation.
The Indianapolis Sentinel mentions
as among the ''reiics" of resident of
: that city piece of leather made from
) the skin of Southern desperate VINO
1 was killed in fight twenty-three years
! ago.
: Canon Farrar is n total abstainer.
: He heard, in early life. horrible story
/ of man afflicted with delirium trem-
5 ems, and was thereby inspired with an
utter loathing for all intoxicating
] drinks.
: Bertha Clear, tho Philadelphia Girl
who was divorced from the Giving
skeleton" soon after marrying him.
> didn't know when she was we'll Off He
died the other day and left fortune
of $50, OOo
) The National Library of France can
boast about q million more books than
that of England, but then it had
start of about century As early rs
1917 decree was made compelling
publishers TO forward to it every book
they published.
Humility and children go together in
Germany. The usual formula for ad-
| vertising births in the papers is as fol-
lows: 1--WE most humbly announce
the birth OF a hardy boy" 1--WE most
humbly announce the birth of fine
boy and lively girl"
To clear and strengthen the voice,
the best method is in vogue among all |
distinguished vocalists, viz: swallow
the yolk of q raw egg, whole, every
morning on rising; also avoid pastry, |
and sponge the throat and chest well |
with cold water daily.
Signor Celso Caesar Moreno, who |
undertook to run" King Kalakaua
and got into hot water in the Sand !
wich Islands thereby, has turned up in |
this country again with scheme for
| trans-Pacilic cable from California to |
the Sandwich Islands and China.
Good authorities say Colorado
stockmen will purchase and drive from
Texas 200, 900 head of cattle during the
season, besides 80, 900 head from other
Western States, and 25O,0 calves.
Western Texas alone will ship SOC, 900
head of cattle this spring, valued at
s., 900, 600.
A correspondent of the Tucson CA.
To Star, writing from the San Carlos
Reservation, says the Apaches, who a
year ago were on the warpath, "ready
to sweep down upon our herds and
ranchmen, rifle in hand" have now
clustered hands holding the plow and
using the hoe"
William King. very rich London
merchant, who loved life, adopted a
curious scheme to lengthen the period |
of his declining days. He willed 81
900 to his physician, with the proViso
that the sum should be doubled every
year that tho testator should be kept
alive. He lived ten years.
The Medical Times, referring to the
5000 incandescent lamps in use at tho
English hygienic exhibition, says that
they are the domestic light of the fut-
ure, adding that the well-founded OBJ
lection formerly raised by oculists that
the light was a series of flashes, is not
now true except in theory.
The cariole is the Norwegian farm
er's gig, consisting of n narrow seat
supported on wooden frame by two .
cross-bars of wood, which are fixed in
I,n rFtn &c md 10 CfaV I'M
with behind it a horizontal board, on
which the travellers small box or port
manteau is deposited, and where the
postboy (skyisg"O perches as best he
can.
Tho author of new Boston novel
seems fond of red. One of the young
men in the book has "a red-tanned
face and amber hair;" another char
acter is a college professor who 'had
his celebrity under reddish beard"
third has complexion naturally Grim
son, and fourth in riding by leaves
an impression of long scarlet mus
tache."
''The trustees had the utmost conf :
dence in their treasurer's integrity, is
the stereotyped phrase telegraphed in I
connection with another defalcation in G
Philadelphia No matter how trusted ,
an employe is who handles your cash, =
it is common sense to continually over .
look his accounts, and then his oppor- Il
tunities for theft will be lessened.-
Boston Globe.
One OF Mexico's crudities is its Post
office. Having entered the Postal
Union, letters pass between it and v
other countries in the union for cents v
a half-ounce; but between towns with S
in its own border the rates are q great II
deal higher. 1t is the custom along v
the Rio Grande, therefore, for Mexi- f
cans to cross the river and use the v
American post, thus saving money in c
with their own country
men. )
Emma Abbott, speaking presumably 0
from experience, tells how to powder a
your face without running your skin. !,
First, never use powder with any lead y
in it. Before you apply the powder 7
anoint your face with glycerine. Wipe .
the Clycerine all of, then put the Q
After you are done with your complex
ion take it off by rubbing vaseline on =
it, then wash thoroughly in soap and 2
water.
Ask your mother or your sister to :
give you one of her long hairs; then to '
one end of it fasten piece of wax;
attach the other to a pin; stick this in .
the bottom of your waistcoat, letting =
the piece of wax dangle at the full y y
length of the hair. Thus provided, il :
you wish to produce astonishment, ask :,
some one to lend you n shilling, and, :.
Al. al . - / ,
some pocket or purse, endeavor to put ?
the wax between the finger and thumb. :
AS you look at the shilling, of course
only to see if it is good one, stick the : :
wax to it, but mind that it is placed on
the under side of the shilling, so that :
it may not be visible; then throw it :
carelessly on tho table, and, as you =
move, it will follow you at your pleas 4
ure. At the close of your perform
auce. if you wish to conceal the mode
you have adopted, it will be necessary
carefully to remove the wax before the .,
shilling is returned. ii
''The movement led by Mohammed q
Ahmed, the Mahdi," says Mr.. Kelly, v
the Soudan correspondent of the Lon n
don NelcS, sis curious admixture of S
political and social fanati- Il
cism 1t is at once war against the 81
Turk, the infidel, and that common a
enemy of disinherited humanity-the o
man Of property. Under the new dis h
pensation there are to be no poor and O
no rich. Every one is to have little n
and no one too much. The central G.
idea of the movement may be described o
with sufficient accuracy as an effort to Il
redistribute surplus property. The k
- Il
plus property is robbery; and with this 3
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