Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-06-27
GLEANINGS.

YCO,OOU.
Nine thousand houses are erected an
nually in London.
In some States the girls can chew
gum and dance at the same time.
Many white people patronize the
Chinese theaters in California cities.
A Philadelphia drug clerk accidental
ly broke quinine pill the other day and
found it consisted of two split peas.
Great Britain has in her navy fifty
vessels capable of steaming around the
world at speed of twelve knots per
hour without recoaling.
In parts of North Carolina the peo-
pie won't subscribe for newspaper
unless specially invited to do SO by the
publisher, and then they want to get it
on credit
A resident of Bridgeton, N. j., has
planted over 200, 900 cocoanuts at Bis
cayne Bay, Florida, and he will make
the number 100000 before he stops
operations.
A salt lake reported in Hidalgo coun-
ty, Texas, is one mile in length, five
miles in circumference, and from three
to four feet deep. Its bed consists Of
crystals of pure salt.
Two fishermen of Tampa, Fla. lately
captured a sawfish, said to be the larg-
est ever caught in Tampa Bay. 1t was
16 feet 8 inches long, 6 feet wide, and
weighed 500 pounds. The saw was
over four feet long
Daniel O'Connor, the youngest son
of the Irish orator of the same name,
is enjoying a comfortable old age in
London. He lately emerged from his
retirement to defend the memory of
his brother from some aspersions incl
dentally cast.
One of the most remarkable facts
brought out by the oceanic researches
made by the British ship Challenger is
the probability that all oceanic islands
are of volcanic origin; in all the re-
searches made no indications were
found of submerged land over these
areas.
r. H. Newell, better known rs Or
pheus G. Kerr, who as a writer was
once very popular, is now broken down,
old and Respondent. His family have
cast him of, and he is obliged to see
his manuscript, once so eagerly sought
for, either coldly rejected or mutilated
beyond recognition.
A check was presented recently at
one of the banks in Hartford, Conn,
that was drawn in 1882 The holder
had laid it aside and in time forgotten
it, until now it is fifty-thres years old.
The check, of course was no good, for
the estate of the person who drew it
was closed long ago.
The yan-yan of the Southern States
has been known to drop from the apex
of its leaf, between sunset and sunrise,
enough water to fill tea-saucer. The
''rain tree" though growing in COM
paratively dry places, drops enough
moisture in a night to make the surface
of the ground actually wet.
Two hundred and forty three Ian
guages and 296 dialects are enumera-
ted, making total of 539 varieties of
human speech which are employed by
the natives of the Indies. TranslationS
of the Bible, in part or entirety, have
been made in sixty-eight of these
tongues, only three of which were pub
lished before 1904.
While dea olishing an old chimney
in Otsego county. n. T., recently,
wOrkmcn found $97 in Continental
money dated 1776 and l777. ! he print
ing on the notes was perfectly legible,
and in general they were in good con-
dition. The package consisted of one
$40 bill, two $50 bills, one SS. one 81,
two 50 cents, one s. and one s..
Col. Iyanof, whom the Russians
threaten to turn loose in Afghanistan,
is still young man, very tall and
handsome. with a fair complexion and
full thick beard. This beard has
won him the appellation of Sara-Sakal-
Tura, The Yellow Bearded Chief,"
and the natives OF 1urkestan never
speak of him nor address him by any
other name.
When Bernadotte, who was made
King of Sweden by the first Napoleon,
was stricken down with apoplexy the
attendant physicians ordered blood-let-
ting, and began to make their prepara-
tions. But the King would not permit
it. He withdrew his arm by quick
movement, and died a few minutes at
terward. The autopsy furnished the
solution for the strange action OF the
King. On Bernadotte' arm the words
"Vive Ia Republique'' were tattooed.
According to Pere Hue, the Chinese
nSad the raf ay a clock tsTheV Doint-
ed out to u.s." says the missionary,
''that the pupil of its eye contracted
gradually as noon drew near; that at
noon it'was like hair. or an extreme
" thin line, traced perpendicularly on
the eye: after midday the pupil began
again to dilate. When we had atten7
lively examined the cats in the place,
we concluded that it was past noon;
the eyes of all presented an exactly
similar appearance. :"
Paris has a market for cigar stumpS.
1t is open for business daily from to
10 o'clock. The stumps are worth
from Is to 25 cents per pound. accord
ing to length. The sellers are mostly
poor old men and women and ragged
gamins. Much of the tobacco thus
scraped together is sold to workmen,
and much is also said to be exported
under the title of Tabac de Paris.
There was an old man in the Maubert
quarter formerly who became SO rich at
| this humble business of selling cigar
stumps that he had an annual income
of $1,000. ~ ..