Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-26
GLEANINGs.


in the United States now includes more
than $500 names.
A prominent dentist says that tooth
brushes and tooth powders do the teeth
more harm than good.
Mexico has now well organized
merchandise and money express SER
vice. 1t is controlled by Americans.
The average cnameled watch hang
ing at the waist belt of the average
girl contains powder puff-nothing
else.
Mrs. Mackay, the millionaire's wife,
has taken up her residence in London,
not for fashionable purposes, but to be
near her sons, who are at school there.
In Arkansas the law forbids the
building of a saloon within two miles
of church; hence the natives build
the saloon first and then erect the
church just across the road.
The anthem Of God Save the
Queen was first publicly sung by
Henry Carey as his composition at a
dinner given in honor of the victory of
Admiral Vernon at Portobello in 1889.
In some sections of New Hampshire
children of school age are remarkably
scarce. In Warren there is one school
district which contains but one pupil;
four districts have but two pupils each,
and two have only six between them.
A thrifty resident of Milford, Conn,
who is worth $4,000, walked ten miles
to Birmingham to receive his July divi-
dend on Sc, 900 investment, amounting
to about $500. He said he could not
afford to hire team or pay his fare on
the cars.
The income of Austrian tobacco mo-
nopoly amounted in 1884 to about 720,
600, 900 fiorins. The number of home
manufactured cigars sold in that year
reached the enormous total of 1,245,-
600, 900, and that of cigarettes was up
ward of 2S0,000,000.
L. O. c. Lamar Jr.. the son of the
greatest of all Southerners. is a drum
mer, strictly shoe drummer. He says
he is satisfied to let his father 90 into
politics, but as for him, he is more than
satisfied to sell solid and fine shoes to
the people of his native South.
Geologists are interested in the dis
cOyery of q large deposit of volcanic
dust and water-worn grains Of volcanic
sand containing glass and every sort of
mineral almost, save quartz, near
Plattsmouth. Neb., the only deposit of
the sort east Of the Rocky Mountains.
The actual cost of what are usually
sold as 5-cent cigars at retail is thus
stated by one who claims to be posted:
Actual cost of tobacco (namely, what
the tobacco raiser gets for it) for 1000
cigars, =; cigar boxes. 81; wages for
1000, IS; packing, ST. stripping, so
cents; total cost of production, $3.50,
or Ii cents cigar.
At present copper is sold as low as
f43 and f44 pounds ton. Forty
eight pennies weigh, as nearly as pos
slble, one pound, and 107, ,520 90 to the
ton, which, being circulated as pence
and half-pence is Of the value of E440.
The cost of coming a ton is computed
at II, SO that there is net profit of
9400 on every ton Of copper dealt with.
OF William Nj. Evarts' alleged ro-
mantle marriage Il gossiper says: 'The
story is all right, except, as he remark
ed to me the other day, that his wife S
name is not Mary, that her father was
not State Treasurer and Governor of
Vermont, that the match was not op-
posed by her father, and that there was
no greater amount of romance i'll the
engagement than is ordinarily the case
with young people.
Everything will conspire hereafter to
invoke period of steady-paced indus
try and low rates of interest on money,
instead of the era of the Goulds and
Vanderbilts, who with their evil exam
pie have made so many of us slaves to
mere money and raScals in intent, even
| though we have not been overtaken
and crushed and humiliated to a point
of; self-deStruction.- Columbia, S. C.,
Register
The Panama Canal, which was to
have been completed in 1883 at cost
| of $120. 600, 600, would not be finished
in ten years, even if the present rate of
excavation were maintained. More
| than $100.000,G00 have been already
expended, and the probabilities are that
| if the canal is ever finished it will De
after an outlay of $450. 600, 900. The
prediction is freely made abroad that
when Nj. de Lcsseps dies the whole
scheme will collapse.
In the number of hands employed in
manufacturing establishments, amount
OF wages paid and total value Of pro-
ducts, New York stands l, Philadel-
phia ,. and Chicago3. The remainder
of the twenty great manufacturing
cities, according 10 the 1880 census, are
in the order named: Brooklyn, Boston,
ST. Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Pitts
burg, San Francisco. Newark, Jersey
City, Cleveland, Buffalo. Providence,
Milwaukee, Louisville, Detroit, New
/ Orleans and washington.