The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-10-08
Gr.EANTNGs.
.Ffery Gizzardi' Is the picturesque
name al = uost-ofice IN Tennessee


The total number of patents granted
for agricultural inventions Is s., $50
The Mormons mean to be up with
the times. They are having the Bible
revised
Superior blankets are now being
woven Of COW hair. Only the Longer
hair Is used.
Nearly twenty-five thousand women
are engaged in gloTe-making in Eng
land alone.
There is said to be nearly SO. 900, ooc
barrels Of petroleum stored in tanks Ia
Pennsylvania.
The women in the Isle Of Man are
allowed to vote upon proving the
ownership Of $50.
It is reported that King Thebau has
murdered 475 of his relatives since he
assembled the throne.
Newfoundland, which is one-sixth
| larger than Ireland, has a scanty popu-
lation of only 200.0 900 souls.
Louisiana has school accommoda-
tons for only 1900 children, though
there are 250, 600 in that State.
Phytochromotypy is the gentle term
applied to q process of producing inn
pressions of leaves and plants.
Mr.. Bradlaugh. the noted English
politician. has about agreed to come
over to America to lecture next winter.
Detectives are trying to locate the
underground railway BY which China
men are being brought into the eeun-
try.
The South sticks to Webster's spell
ing book, especially in the country
districts, and buys 100000 year OF
them.
The fifty-four savings banks of
Maine now have $50, 275. 745 on deposit
which is q larger sum than in any
previous year. The number of depos-
itors is 101, 822.
DR.. Vigouroux recommends glass
of lemonade, taken as hot as possible
every hour or half hour, as not only an
easy and agreeable but most efficient
cure foridiarrhea.
Minneapolis and st. Paul are still
keeping mp their intense rivalry, but
they are both growing SO fast that they
viii probably melt into each other
before many years.
The farmers of a certain region in
Scotland drove away the rocks few
years ago. Since the rocks departed
all sorts of destructive grubs have APP
peared, and the farmers are now trying
to get the rocks back again.
The people of Minneapolis have APP
piled for permanent injunction
against base ball idiocy in that city on
the ground that the bowling of the
players and the yells of the imbecile
spectators make the game public
nuisance.
The pine lumbermen of the Pacific
coast have q combination by means of
which they prevent overproduction,
paying the owner of q mill subsidy to
stop, If necessary, rather than have
more material on the market than it
will bear.
Bangor tells of a dog that calls and
feeds the poultry regularly; and
Williamsport, Pa, claims to have
another which, having been bitten by a
dozen rattlesnakes, Embedded itself in
miro up to its neck. and thus counter
acted the poison.
A sound elm tree was recently cut
near Reed City, Mich. that for fifty
feet from the butt averaged forty-three
inches in diameter; and from it was
secured stick fifty-eight feet long,
twenty-three inches square, which con-
tanned 213 cubic feet.
An Indian legend declares that the
time was when Tulare Lake, Califor-
MIA, did not exist. As the lake is now
rapidly drying up and exposing adobe
walls, stone instruments and other rel
les of men who certainly did not live
under water, it may turn out that the
Indian legend is a true one.
The wonderful little electric lamp
devised by NM Helot and Trouve for
the purpose of projecting a powerful
beam upon the interior of the throat
and fauces, has become very popular in
Paris as an assistant in the diagnosis
of diphtheria, tonsilitis, Group, etc.
A man during q lifetime of fifty
years sleeps and works 5000 days
each, eats 1000, walks 300, is Ill 800,
and the remainder of the time is devot-
ed to recreation. The first two items
express an average, for there are many
men who seem not to work at all, and
who never are thoroughly awake.
What is claimed to be a valuable rust
protector is among the recent German
inventions. 1t consists of ordinary oil
paint mixed with 10 per cent of burned
magnesia, baryta. or strontia, as well
as mineral oil This neutralizes the
free acid of the paint and the alkaline
reaction protects the iron from rust.
A story is on the rounds to the effect
that the Mayor of Boston sent two
packages exactly alike in weight and
contents by mail few days ago. One
of them was bound to Paris, France,
1000 miles or so away, and the postage
on it was 20 cents. The other was des-
tined for Worcester, forty miles
distant, and the postage was twenty
eight cents.
There are two sausage-dealers in
Paris who have shops adjoining each
other. One of them has painted on his
glass window over pyramid of saus-
ages: eat 80 centimes 5 pound-to
pay more is to be robbed" while the
other puts his sausages into an obelisk,
and paints above it: eat 40 centimes
q pound-to pay less is to be poi
soned.n
A railway bridge near Cynthiana.
KY, is trussed so low that it has
killed no fewer than IA brakeman by
sweeping them off the roofs of the cars.
upon this fact the Indiana |
polls Journal says that any railroad |
company that permits its employees to |
be slaughtered so remorselessly should |
be compelled to pay heavy damages
for every murder thus caused. This is |
. very sound opinion.
DR.. Proust in Paris recommends peo-
pie during the prevalence of cholera to
avoid chills at night. long cold baths.
Ill excuses of labor or pleasure, and |
ICED drinks short, everything that
IAN cause physical depression. He
idTises care In the selection of drink
pg water, which should be boiled. He
,ecommenas ahstenfion from raw vege-
;ables, and remarks that both drunken
less and Indigestion are predisposing
sauses.
A traveller IN Java tells that after
Zilling most venomous snake q yard