The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-06
GLEANNGs.

GLEANSGs.
Mere poetry is said to come from
Wisconsin than from any other State
in the union.
The potato, introduced into England
IN 1000. was first eaten as q sweet
meat, stewed in sack-wiae and sugar.
IT IS said that the average yield of
petroleum wells IN Caucasia is sixteen
times as great IS that Of American
wells.
A physician Of Monroe county, Ga.
has among his collections a potato
through which blade Of grass has
grown.
Boss Tweed's former dwelling
house at Greenwich, Connecticut, IS to
be torn down tomake room for q larger
mansion.
In q glass works near Paris air stored
under pressure bas been made 70 sue
cessfully supersede glass blowing by
the mouth, except in afew cases.
It is not generally known that Great
Britain buys her postal card supply
from Germany; the last order given the
successful bidder being 10000 900
cards.
After serving ten years IN the peni-
tentlary Tor murder, Memphis negro.
after his release, called at tine police
station and demanded the gun used by
him in committing the crime.
West Virginia has two tin mines in
successful operation. One Is near the
city Of Huntington. Cabeu county, and
the other about five miles from Grants
vile, IN Calhoun coCnty, on Laurel
river.
sizty thousand New Yoraers use
roller skates. and there are over five
hundred ri the manufactures in the
United States. who sell 10000 pairs a
week. The business gives employment
TO 200. 900 men.
Before I left Vienna they told lue
that the Americans were nation oi
liars, that | would find them all brag
and buster Now, when ! shall 20
back and tell them all ] have seen they
VIII say / am q liar, too. Her Son
HeHtb0L
Fig trees flourish c7ervwhcra IN Cal
iforuia except high uD on the noun
taius, and the cultivation Of them is On
exceedingly profitable industry. A
man iu Los Angeles co., nty last season
sold S56Z. u worth Of Ggs from only
one acre.
An experienced theatrical trainer. an
EngiI5hman, says that American girIs
learn the clements of the profession
mach more rapidly than do their En-
gilsh sisters and manifest, what Is rare
abroad, desire TO master every branch
Of the art. including stage manage
mcut.
The gold ring which a Ho0lck. ".
J., man lost iu his stable several weeks
since, was found few days ago press
ed over the calk in the shoe of q horse
that was being shOd. The horse had
been driven all over the neighboring
country every day i'm the meantime,
but singular TO relate, the ring was
not injured.
a little Schenectady girl plays a nice
game this way: She rings a house bell
about dusk. When the door is opened
she sobs violently saying that she has
lost cents near by, and wants a Lam
tern TO look for it. Instead Of n lam
tern, which she does not want. She is
given the cents which she does want
Then she goes on to the next house. -
ACrbllry Hcyisier
Sardou is thus described by the Paris
correspondent of the Philadelphia Iele-
qrayh: "He is very peculiar looking.
is the author OF Theodore, small and
spare in figure. and alert and bright
eyed as a lizard. The lower part of his
face has something of the fine antique
mold OF the same portion of the coun-
teuance of Edwin Booth. He spoke
with enthusiastic delight Of two of the
Interpreters OF his work-namelv: Sar-
ali Bernhardt and the elder Coquclin. -"
Nottoway county. Virginia, the re-
gion inhabited by the first settlers, and
made interesting by "reminiscences OF
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, is
fast returning to its primeyal condition.
'In twenty years 1t win be a wilder
ness. prophesies visitor. The resi-
dents are old and sad The young
have gone to more promising regions.
Deer browse where cattle fed. and the
oak and pine cover great plantations
where the negro once cultivated corn
and tobacco.
The Duchess of Norfolk claims the
possession Of the finest rubies in the
United Kingdom. Any woman of
reasonable means may wear diamonds,
but only an imperial wealth ever per-
mits her to number rubics among her
I jewels. The Duchess of Norfolk would
undoubtedly give all these priceless gems
/ to obtain sight for her little son, whose
future is shroudcd in mental as well as
/ in physical darkness; but the oldest
/ and richest Dukedom in England can
not buy health for its sole heir.
1t is said by some one curious in
4 these matters that there is not a chin
4 ncy nor a cooking-stove in Havana;
/ not 4 carpeted room nor a feather pill
/ low. This is but another way of saying
/ that there, with good sense, the people
/ know how to adapt their domestic
/ economy to the torrid character of the
4 climate; but here in our Northern cities
/ the cooking-stoye. the chimney tho
/ carpet and other heat-engendering par
/ aphernalia are in full blast just the
+ same when the mercury is 90 in the
/ shade as when it is below zero. Which
1 is the barbarian?'
A new method of dressing
wounds, by which their healing is sale
/ to be hastencd, and the pain made Il
( disappear at once, has been brought
/ into public notice by French surgeon
/ though it has for ages been practicec
i by skillful old women, who used Il
! dampen the soft linen cloths for cover
! ing the dressings Of superficial wounds
with a weak infusion of valeran root
The French surgeon applies the com
! presses wet with a deeoction OF thirty
/ parts of the same root in LOCO parts o
water. He states expressly that thii
treatment is of no avail in the case o
deep wounds.
There is no nickel in a cent-piece
The alloy used in making that coin i
/ composed of % per cent of copper anC
/ ) per cent of tin and zinc. Its intrin
sic value is about one-tenth of cent
The report that counterfeits are il
/ circulation is doubted, as the profit
would be small. The old penny wa
made of pure copper and was intrin
| sically worth one-third of cent. Al
attempt at counterfeiting them wa
once made. The frauds were manu-
featured at Birmingham, England. Blu
the same cause made that enterprise
failure. 1t needed too many to make
profit of any amount.
1t looks as though the ladies of tn
White House in their turn are about a