The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-11-18
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stone rug.
Lady Burdett-Coutts owns the small
est pony in the world. He is five years
old and thirteen inches high.
A novel Kentucky insurance scheme
is one that guarantees married men in
demnity in case their wives elope.
The egg crop of Maine is said to be
more valuable than her apple crop.
There are 10, 600, 600 hens in the State, Z
The remains of Napoleon Ill and of
the Prince Imperial are, it isssaid. to
be removed from Chiselhurst to Alder
shot,
Tho new President of Vassar Col
lege, Samuel w. Duncan. is good-look-
ing, only AZ, and has large private
fortune.
Lieut.. Sehwatka and Engineer Mel
vile are still enthusiastic in their de-
sire TO attempt another North Pole ex-
pedition.
The custom of COMPRISING tho
foreheadsaof infants is fast dying out"
writes correspondent among the Flat
heads. grimly.
Professor Turner, anatomist. of
Edinburgh. is said to receive the largest
salary attached to any professorship,
$50. 600 per annum.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor and Gen
eral Robert E. Withers, of Virginia, is
six feet, and stout and gray, and is an
active lawyer with large practice.
A lady of Boston wishes to know why
some enterprising bootblack does rot
establish a fitting place where ladies
can have their boots BACKED on rainy
days.
A lady of Brunswick, Ga. has bed.
the feathers of which were picked from
flock of geese during the revolution
airy war. The feathers are just as soft
and downy as ever.
A New York politician, mistaking
Secretary Endicott for Mr.. Manning
the other day, referred in the course of
conversation with him to that Bos-
ton ossitieation Endicott."
A New York firm has split 1000
trade dollars and turned each dollar
into pocket match-box-a holiday
article to catch the eye of persons in
search of cheap things to give.
THE smallest book in the world
as the Boston Journal learns, lis half
the size of postage stamp, and is an
edition of the sacred book of the Sikhs,
belonging to the Earl of Dufferin. -
Mr.. Yates says that the American
book most likely to be in request in
London this autumn is the life of Mr..
Longfellow, by his brother. the clergy
man, so well known in Philadelphia.
There are 2,400 stables of cows in
New York, the milk of which is sold
in the city; and these cows from the
time they enter the stable, until no
longer able to give milk, never see
grass.
A Huntingdon Spiritualist states that
his twelve-year-old daughter. though
ignorant of the German language. re-
Gently spoke fluently in that tongue
while being possessed with the spirit
of German.
According to decision of the Iowa
Supreme Court, hotelkeeper who re-
ceives guests while knowing that there
is a contagious disease in his house is
liable for damages to any guest who
may contract the disease.
The Norwich men who arrived in
New York recently from foreign port
with two Thoroughbred dogs were sur
prised to find that the duty on the
animals represented seven times their
value. They left the dogs on the boat.
Melbourne is cited as proof that the
star of empire has taken a trip to the
southwark. The first house there was
put up in 1885, and now there is a
handsome city with fine parks, and
public institutions, and 800, 600 in
habitants.
The coyote has changed his habits il
not his skin, according to a Western
correspondent, one of them having
treed a man and hept him there until
rescued by party of hunters. Hither-
to the coyote has been regarded as per-
fectly harmless.
A pickle famine is threatened this
winter. The present supply at the
East is set down at $4,000. 0O0-one-
half only of what is needed for the
Eastern trade. The Western crops
have suffered, and heavy advances in
prices are looked for.
The body of the first Napoleon,
buried at the Invalides in Paris, is in
closed in five cefiins-the first in tin,
and the others in mahogany, lead,
ebony, and oak. All is placed in a
sarcophagus of Finland granite-a pres
ent from Russia. The tomb was COM
pleted in 1861, and cost 6,750,000
francs.
American-African citizen Hercules
Wilson, of Mcintosh, Ga, could give
points to college graduates who want
places in the along-coast custom
houses. Mr.. Wilson is a representa-
two in the Georgia legislature, but
says he could do better at home, as he
can make from 50 to $5 aday by lay
ing brick.
The man who succeeded so well in
wooing the Puritan maiden Priscilla
had vigorous blood. William Dean
Howells says that when he went to an
old house in Duxbury, Mass, the other
day. he found therein four generations
OF John Aldens-ranging from the tot
tering great-grandfather to a chubby,
rosy little lad of 4.
Artemas Martin, the newly-ap-
pointed head of the computing bureau
of the coast survey, has received hon
orary degrees from several leading ed
ucational institutions in this country
and England in recognition of his
achievements in mathematics, and is
well versed in other departments of
science and general literature. He
also edits and publishes-setting the
type with his own hands-a valuable
mathematical periodical.
A Paris newspaper says of the Mar
quis de Leuville-who didn't marry
Frank Leslie's widow that he has
arrived in Paris and is staying at the
Hotel Continental. The Marquis is
about to repeat his four-in-hand driving
tour recently executed in England, the
itinerary chosen being from Paris to
Marseilles by the Bourbonnais. On
his return the Marquis will give a
lecture and reading at the Sale des
Conferences, in tho Boulevard des
Capucines.
A new feature of the German public
school system, which meets with great
favor, is that of bathing. The Burgo-
master of Gottingen says that when
bathing was first introduced in the
schools of that town only a few of the
pupils availed themselves of the privi-
lege, whereas now 500 out of 700 gladly
take part in it several times week :.
The children are bathed in sections ~
six to nine, and as they Immediately
return to the school-room and resume
their lessons no risk of catching cold is
ever incurred; while the refreshing
influence of-the bath shows itself in a
greater energy and eagerness to study.
The health of the children is greatly
promoted. especially those from the
homes of the poor.
The shamrock, which is the emblem
of Ireland, is not known by its flower.
but by its leaves; it is little trefoii'
as is clover, but is very rare IN Eng
land and not common In Ireland
Bentham, in his british Fiora' says