The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-10-07
MISSING LINKS.
In the eye of the California law,
staring at a lady is an ohense.

| girls mouth for hole, and jumped
down her throat
A prominent criminal lawyer of San
francisco refuses to longer defend any
OF the criminal class.
The first Napoleon slept in hollands
| for sheets, the BoErbons in cambric,
and Napoleon III. in ordinary linen.
Edward Ball is the name of the
young man known as 1.-THE cowboy
preacher" He adopts something OF
the Sam Jones style.
An eminent physician on oath the
other day said that he had known men
who took their sixty tumblers of punch
per day and seemed no whit the worse
for the indulgence.
At recent Socialistic meeting in
Berlin the fact was mentioned that
| two prominent merchant tailors paid
girls from II to Is cents for making a
complete suit of boys clothing.
The largest dock in the world is at
st. John, N. F. 1t is 600 feet long at
the top, 55S feet long upon the line OF
keel blocking and 1872 feet wide, and
the drift over gate still 25 feet at high
tide.
Three hundred and fifty eight crimi-
mails who have escaped from Georgia
in the course of the last thirteen years
are wanted in that State The re-
wards offered for them aggregate
800, 600.
1t costs 81, 900 to raise man from
infancy to the age of twenty-one years.
loo hot hot - 70
slave on cornmeal and bacon, regard
less OF such services as he could rem
der before his majority.
This astute proverb comes from In
dia: sit must always be the women
who are in the wrong, and not the
men, because men have reserved to
themselves the right to decide what is
right and what wrong"
Oscar Wilde wanted to leave his son
and heir unnamed until the child
should be old enough to choose a
name for himself. but learned that in
order to have the babe christened a
name was imperatively required.
The production of lead in Germany
has doubled since 1868 in spite of a
simultaneous increase in the production
of Spain and in the growth of the lead
yield of North America from almost
nothing to 140,0 tons annually.
Tons of arsenic are being fed to the
grasshoppers in California. One drug
house at San Francisco sends a ton a
week into the infected districts, while
firm at Fresno sold 700 pounds in five
days, and had orders for 400 pounds
more.
In a recent review of the once de-
spised Persian army 10000 finely uni
formed and equipped soldiers were in
line. Russian instructors for the cav
airy and Austrian for the infantry and
artillery have brought the troops up to
good standard of efficiency.
The amount expended by the gov
ernment in removing He'll Gate, Dia-
mond, and Coenties, reef, in New York
harbor has been So, 126, 0433l. The
last reef is about to be blown up,
leaving an unobstructed channel and
handsome sum of money at the dispos-
al of the engineers for further improve
ments, as the amount SO far appropri-
ated is So, 139, 120.
Professor Douglas, after many years
of research. says China has no such
teeming millions as are usually credit
ed to her. Two hundred and fifty
millions he thinks about the right es-
innate. Many of the hill peoples of
China at the present day are not Chi
nese at all. The Chinese civilization
and culture are not purely of native
growth; their elements were brought
from Western Asia-perhaps from the
neighborhood of the Aral-by the Chi
nese ere they set out for China.
A three-year old boy at Louisville
promises to be gray-headed before he
reaches his teens. The child has at
tracted much attention from the neigh
bors. who say they never saw anything
of the kind before. Physicians say
that, even in families where turning
gray during youth is hereditary. they
have not known of case where the
popularity was exhibited in one SO
young. The boy is healthy and live
ly little fellow. and his patriarchal con-
dition does not seem to annoy him in
the least.
The mortal remains of the faithful
Esther and her kinsman, Mordecai,
rest in little shrine at Hamadan, Per-
sia. They are covered each by wood
en- ark, on which are small pieces of
paper like labels, covered with Hebrew
characters. They are placed there by
the Hebrew pilgrims. All are under a
small dome some fifty feet high. The
building is of red bricks, the walls
much patched by mud; the blue dome
is of tiles. These tombs are held
sacred by the Hebrews in Persia, and
thousands make pilgrimages annually.
Though the laws of propriety are so
vigorously strict in Mexico that gem
tleman may not ride in the same car
riage with his lady to whom he is be-
trothed, yet most desperate flirtations
are openly indulged in to an extreme
which would put to blush. New York,
Chicago, or San Francisco. Following
a senorita up and down the promenade
and staring intently in her face is an
accepted mode of compliment, rati-
| flying to the recipient, but fraught with
| danger to the adorer if she happens TO
have other devoted swains, and it not
unfrequently happens that duels are
the result. she being pre-eminently the
belle who can boast the greatest num-
Der of such encounters.
Somebody wants TO know why all
the biographies contain the statement
that .'the earth is a sphere slightly
flattened at the poles. He says thai
| nobody knows from actual observation
what the condition of the earth at the
| poles really is. He considers the state
/ ment that 1.-THE earth is a sphere slight
| ly fiattened,' etc, remnant of the
same bigoted ignorance which befors
the time of Columbus had it that the
| entire earth was fiat. Those who have
tried to get to the poles, he says (anl
he means thereby pleasantly which
we do not think altogether worthy o
| one who has so strong an argument)
have certainly found the way some
what of an up grade. -Harper's Week
| ty.
Belgium affords the worst example
in Europe of the harm from over-in
diligence in alcoholic stimulants. Th,
sale of liquor has been more than tire
bled in the last fifty years. While tn
population has advanced only from
$500, 900 to $500, 600, the consump
ton of spirits, wine and beer for 1888
amounted in value to 475, 900. .000f
Il Although the country is SO small
contained in 1880 no fewer than 125, 90
places devoted to the sale of intoxi
/ eating liquors. There was a publ
house on the average for every twelv
or thirteen grown-up males The sui
cides rose from fifty-four per milliol
inhabitants in 1848 to eighty in 1880
The lunatics advanced from z50 pc
million inhabitants in 1876 to I, 47O i
4 1881.