Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-30
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Two thousand varieties of apple trees
are now cultivated.
The cost of patents has now been re-
dueed one-half in England.
Birmingham. England, has the most
extensive button trade of any city in the
world.
1t is estimated that there are $1,000
| persons on roller skates in New York
City every night.
Stockmen compose majority of the
new Montana Legislature. There are
but eight lawyers in the body.
white shelled" eggs are becoming
the rage in New York. Some produc-
ers scour them with sapolia before
bringing them to fastidiOus customers.
A South American traveller speaks Of
localities where the natives seem to
place no value on sandal-wood trees.
that would in the United States be
worth $1,000.
Black walnut sawdust is now mixed
with linseed gum and nodded into or
namentatiOn for furniture. When var
nished it is handsome and more dura-
BILE than carved wood.
Two Memphis Republicans have
agreed not to take another drink until
the election of Republican President.
The one who breaks through first is to
give the other $75 suit of clothes.
There has recently been discovered
in the Yellowstone Park the mineral
known as ''cryolite," which is of great
value in the potash manufacture. 1t
had previously been found in Green
land.
Street cars in Venezuela are always
open ones, and are so small that they
will seat only twelve persons. The
conductors carry horns, which they
blow upon approaching street cross
ings.
''At present suffering from last sea-
sons bad guessing on the turf is the
delicate way in which New York cor
respondent expresses the financial con-
dition of Gen. Grants son-in-law, Sar-
toris.
David Dudley Field is reported as
saying: Il wouldn't take any office,
and all talk Of me in that connection is
nonsense. wouldn't go to England
as Minister for gift of the British Is
lands"
The agricultural editor of the Los An
geles (Cal.) Herald recommends figs
and grapes as the best possible food for
hogs and says that they are being thus
used extensively in California
Louis Republican.
The Agricultural Bureau reports that
Kentucky owns 81, 1873 horses, valued
at $25, 436, ,455; 1896 mules, value,
So, 867. 500; S04. 720 cows, value, $10,-
1l9, 751; SOB, ,807 oxen and other cattle,
value, $13, 3,554.2O0.
The Arabs grind their coffee as fine
as flour and boil it in a copper sauce
pan without lid. They would not on
any account boil it in covered vessel,
as any lid or cover would prevent ''the
deleterious qualities from escaping and
making the coffee bitter.
Judge David S. Terry, who killed
David {. Broderick in a duel in San
Francisco, which created such a sensa-
ton quarter of a century ago, is now
20 years OF age and still lracIicing law
in Stockton, Cal. He is almost un-
known, having killed himself political
ly when he killed Broderick.
The floor of an indianapolis skating
rink is made entirely of paper. The novel
surface for roller skates has been tested
by thousands. who united in pronounc-
ing it admirably adapted to the pur-
pose, being without joints. perfectly
smooth, and, in comparison with wood
and cement floors, noiseless.
Mrs. Mackey has given to the papal
nuncio a magnificent cross in remem-
brance of the marriage of her daughter
to Prince COlonna. 1t is studded with
diamonds and sapphires. In the inside
of the cross is place for relics which
can be inserted by pressing spring
which connects with the movable back.
A Michigan man claims to have been
miraculously cured of q rheumatism
which had made him helpless for many
months. His hired man was carrying
a hive of bees through his room ana
dropped it. The patient is now an ac-
tive member of society, and says he Is
ssthankful to an inScrutable Provl-
denco.
The ancient Egyptians held tribun-
al over their dead. Amy one was al
lowed TO ring to this tribunal accusa-
ton against the corpse, and # It was
shown he had lived an evil life, burial
was refused. Ii no accusation was
brought, the relatives ceased lamentlng
and pronounced encOmiumS on the
dead, enlarging upon his many vlr-
tues.
Any one desirous of making Sarah
Bernhardt ''boil over has, to be fully
pratified, only to hint that she has an
idea of playing in Germany. A French
paper having lately announced that she
would appear as Theodore in Berlin,
she has expressed her amazement that
a Frenchman could have so degraded
himself as to give currency to such an
infamous libel.
A method of testing the purity OF wa
ter is to fill clean pint bottle three
fourths full OF water to be tested, and
dissolve in the water half teaSpoonful
of the purest sugar-lOaf or granulated
will answer-cork the bottle, and place
it in a warm place for two days. If in
twenty-four or forty-eight hours the wa
ter becomes cloudy or milky it is unfit
for domestic use.
1t is said that, though, since the pass
ing of the education bill in 1872, in En-
gland, board schools had been started
all over the country, instead of their
taking the place of voluntary schools,
they have given an impetus to them;
for. whereas, in 1870 there were 1900
voluntary schools in the country, there
are now 14,500, with thre1 and one