Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-04-04

The Congregational Year Book of
! England, just published. shows that
there are now 4.347 Congregational
j churches in England and Wales. with
total seating capacity of 1,568, 1857.
A Georgia editor concentrates some
] ideas thus: ..Gold is found in thirty
/ six counties in this state, silver in three,
i diamonds in twenty-six, and whisky in
all of them, and the last gets away
with all the rest.
White and gold china. the pretty, old
! pattern, with the wedding ring in the
i center of every piece, has suddenly
/ come into favor; and this is reasonable,
as nothing can be in better taste than
that old French china.
1t is claimed that the best apples to
be had on this coast and as good as
there are in the world, are raised on
the western slope of the Sierra Nevada
1 Mountains, at an altitude of from 1000
to 5000 feet. San francisco -4itd.
DR.. Evans. the celebrated American
/ dentist, of Paris, says that crammed
/ children are always destined TO early
/ toothlessness, and that the best thing
| to do with a bantling is to treat it like
a young colt, and turn it out to grass
Among the people who inhabit New
Britain, which has just been annexed
by Germany, is said to be a race OF
men with tails. They live in the inter-
ior and arc shy Of visiting the coast
This being travellers story shouldn't
prejudice one against it.
The Bostonian bruiser is not fool.
He fully appreciates the expensive ma
ture of the law When mulcted in
800 and costs for abusing his horse he
said to his counsel, I'D a blanked
sight rather pay than appeal. There
are sermons in other dense matter as
well as in stones.
Crime is increasing at a fearful rate
in Italy. In 1874 there were 3,210 serv-
ing life sentences in their penal estab-
lishments: now there are ). 363, of whom
204 are female prisoners. Italy pays
S6.0g0,000 for the maintenance of its
penal system, while for education only
S., 400, 600 is set aside.
The sum of 81, 938, 650 was spent by
Americans for pictures by French art
lists in 1888, and only S694. so in 1884.
The artists, if they will recall the casu-
alties in Wall street last year, will at
once perceive that they cannot infer the
Americans no longer want French
pictures: The Current.
Harrison Hahn. of Wind Gap, North
ampton County, Pa, is the father of
two-year-old girl whose ears are bent
forward and grown to the face. Both
ears are without the orifice, but deaf
ness is prevented by the girl hearing
every sound, no matter how light,
through her nose and mouth.
The Eastman (Ga) Times says:
Take blade of bear grass and boil it
forty minutes. Then beat it with
hammer and scrape it until the threads
are smooth. Suspend it to a whip for
cracker, and after it has worn little
and becomes dry it will strike fire like
flint and steel when struck against dry
sands
George Dolby. the historian Of Dick
ems American tour has incurred the
wrath of Bufialonians by recording
that the novelist was struck by the alb
sence of female beauty among his Buf-
falo audiences, and that the faces of
the girls Of that city were of "a sort of
Irish Scotch mixed with In
dian type"
We have been favored with another
piece of shcet-fnusic, says the New
York World. This is "A Cry of Love,
an Idylle by lie Marquis de Leuville. :
1t is not dedicated to anybody in par
ticular, and we accept it as peace-of-
fering to the H0rld. The refrain is,
20, kiss me once and let me die I'm
der the circumstances we give our re-
luctant consent.
A New England man who inherited
the estate Of an uncle, which included
some papers he did not know much
about, presented Ito ,,e"e". :. !.
Treasury at Washington and was in
formed that they were part Of the ''old
debt. = which ceased to bear interest in
1886. The amount was $4,000, and
the interest up to 1886 $4,000. The
New Englander left the treasury with
SO, 900 check in his pocket, in pay
ment of something he had attached no
value to.
Science DESTROYS some of the most
cherished popular delusionS. Catgut
is derived from sheep; German silver
was not invented in Germany, and it
contains no silver; Cleopatra needle
was not erected by her, nor in her hon
or; Pompey's pillar has no historical
connection with that parsonage; seal
inc wax does not contain aparticle of
wax; the tuberose is not rose. but
polyanth; the strawberry is not ber-
nv; Turkish baths did not originate in
Turkey, and are not baths at all;
whalebone is not bone, and contains
not any Of its properties.
In his last word about America, in
the Nineteenth Century, Mathew Arnold
ridicules Sir Lepel Gritfin's account of
us: saws he never before saw q people
thoroughly suited to their institutions.
He thinks we have solved both the po-
litical and the social problem. He be-
lieves that English society can only be
reformed bv abolishing the aristocracy,
and describes himself in conclusion, as
bound to America by the memory of
great, untiring, and most attaching
kindness. So the smartest man in En-
gland has good word for the people
he expects to lecture to next year.
A fashionable Chinese lunch consists
Of little bits of cold chicken with sauce,
little bits of hot chicken boiled to rags.
morsels Of pork with mushrooms, frag
ments Of cold duck with some sort of
fungus. watery soup, scraps Of pigs
kidneys with boiled ehestnuts, very
cold rice, pickled cucumbers, garlic
and cabbage, patty of preserved
shrimps, all in iniinitesimal portions,so
that, but for the plentiful supply OF
rice, hungry folks would find it hard to
appcase the inner wolf. All these are
eaten with the deceptive chopsticks,