The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-22

ihe value Of the ship building indus
sry OF New England for 1884 rexched

slightest draft.
Mrs Barrios, the widow of the late
ba;s b;uen,, mas black eyes and glossy
nalr' ana Is only twenty-six.
Inc widow of Max Hoffman,. for
merry Secretary of State of Indiana.
gains livelihood for her family bv
selling newspapers. y
The late widow of Commoso-a W,
deroalt was very fond of literary neonIe
She was a schoclmate of Auonst.
Evans, the author of ..Beulah.n -
A Russian traveller predicts th.,
Ihloet viii prove to be n second Cali
lorna, as, during a recent visit thera
ne found the natives gold-washinr in
the erudest way, but the richest res1lts-
A clock company at Thomaston.
Conn, after making up $780, worth
OF stock, began putting the move
ments together, only to discover that
all Of them turned their hands or point
ers backward, and were, therefore,
worthless.
We are accustomed to pity the trials
OF the schoolmarm who has to labor
SIX hours a day with forty children.
Don't say we told you, but the nurse
who tends one baby ten hours 8 dav is
entitled TO so per cent of the sympathy
and all the gate money. y.-Nacoa (Ga.
Telegraph.
A lady living in Naugatuck, while
looking over the old family Bible re-
Gently, found an old Colonial f6 note,
dated ld5S. The note was good for IL
ounces 10 penny-weights of silver
in New Jersey. On one side was
printed: 10 counterfeit this is death. ;"
How it came in the Bible no one knows.
Hartford Times.
New Orleans is satisfied with the re-
suits of the exposition. The retail
stores have done q more active business
than IN what Is known as splendid
years: the hotels and boarding-houses
have been crowded; the railroad lines
have had every car employed; the rents
have been higher. and many families
have paid their rent through casual
boarders.
The original autograph copy of Lord
Byron's Fare thee welli and If for
ever" at recent sale brought $50;
the original of Burns Tam O'Shan-
ter and Lament of Mary. Queen of
Scots, together brought 500; one of
Lord Chesterield's letters to his son.
Sl5; thirteen letters of Dean Swift,
from SIS TO Sss each, and one of Char
les Lamb, from Paris, sos.
A correspondent says that George
William Curtis has quite lost the sleek
and snug look of thirty years ago,
when his hair was dark and long, his
mutton-chop wkiskers close trimmed.
his face CHEEKY, his figure slight, and
he the most dandyish of all litterateurs
except n. r. Willis. His hair and
whiskers are now gray and left to run
riot. like wild vine in autumn; his
eye Is faded and the lines of care and
years have plowed up his sallow face
and buried his brilliant smile.
When Queen Victoria's guests are
hidden to sleep at Windsor Castle they
do not see much of her Majesty, who
seldom makes her appearance before
dinner. After that meal few words
of conversation may be had with the
sovereign. but she presently retires to
her private apartments and is no more
seen. She Is great stickler for eti-
quette and insists upon ladies wearing
much lower dresses than would other
wise be customary among the fair sex
who are not the possessors of plump
shoulders.
The Boston Herald has this to re-
mark concerning the pride of the Com
monwealth: Now that the State seal
is being tinkered, why would il not be
wise and well to abolish the Latin
words and have whatever Inscriptions
it may bear put in plain, everyday En-
glish? Not one voter in twenty knows
what 'Ense petit placidam sublibertate
quietem' means, and not one in 10000
cares. Why not have a seal for Yam
kee Commonwealth which Yankee
citizen can understand without borrow
ing dictionary"
Mother-of-pearl, the material of
which ornamental buttons. buckles.
fan sticks, card cases. and other fancy
articles are made. is the principal pro-
duction of Tahiti, and makes COM
merce. variously estimated between
$4,000 and Sl00 eco year. gsut G..
B. Brandy, in La Nature. states that
the lagoons in which the oysters pro-
ducing this material are found are
growing poorer every day. and that
unless protective measures are adopted
they will be impoverished, if not
ruined. in few years.
An oil inspector offers this explana-
ton of why kerosene oil lamps do not
give as good light in cold weather as
at other times: wisconsin test prime
light oils will thicken with the cold at
varying from zero to 20
degrees above Freezing separates the
particles of parafine from the remain
der of the oil. They are attracted by
the wick and fill the pores, destroying
its capillary power and increasing its
tendency to incrust and char in burn
ing. The best kerosene oils for burn
ing in cold weather are water white
colorless-oils of light gravity"
At its last session the New Jersey
Legislature passed law against the
slaughter of song birds and other birds
not classified as game" birds. Hunt
ers have been of late years killing
them in large quantities to furnish
ornaments for ladies' headwear. The
birds will be trapped and shot, how
ever, so long as women want them.
They are responsible for this slaughter
of innocents. 1t would be an admira-
BILE idea to establish some woman's
society or league pledged to abstain
from feathers whose price is the
threatened determination of our most
beautiful and useful birds.
The white color of arctic mammals
and birds has hitherto been ascribed to
protective resemblance, the adaptation
to a snow-coyered eoultry being attri-
buted to the preservation of individuals,
which, by assimilatiug hsir surround
ings in color, either escaped detection
by their foes or were enabled to secure
their prey more adyantageously. A
writer in Nature, however, SCOTS at
this explanation, and points out that
white, the worst absorber, is also the
worst radiator of all forms of radiant
energy, so that -blooded Great
ures thus clad are better able to with
stand the severity of an arctic climate.
1t is very curious circumstance
that some Roman statues were fitted
with movable marble wigs, but for
what reason is not clear, unless the
fastidious matrons of antiquity desired
to have the hair on scu1ptured por-
traits always arranged in the latest
fashion. The statue of Lucilla, wife of
the Emperor Luei~s Verus, in the
museum Of the Capitol of Rome. has a
wig of black marble that can be taken
OFF; and in the Vatican Venus is be-
lieved to represent Julia So9mias. the
mother of the Emperor Elagabalus,
with hair that may be removed There
was also bald bust of woman, with
marble wig attached, in the palace of
Sans-Souci at Pottsdam.
The Emperor William of Germany
attended ball given by the Italian
Ambassador, and seemed to enjoy him.
self greatly. He accepts neither help