The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-08-12
GLEANTNGS.

Ihe slaNe population OF the Empire
of Brazil is estimated at 1,177.022 of
whom 623, 274 are males and 553, 74S
females.
1t is computed that it cost the gov
eminent S1.S48, 600 to support 1900
Dakota Indians during seven years of
their savage life.
Eleven thousand dollars a foot front
was the price paid recently for the old
Brandreth House property on Broad
way, New York
There is bird roost at Lake Gentry,
in Brevard county, Fla, covering a
tract of eighty acres, in which, it is es-
timated, over 1000, 900 birds gather
every season.
The Tycoon who was deposed in ia
yor of the present Mikado of Japan by
a revolution which cost 100. 900 lives is
living quietly in Sidsuoka, a small Jap
anese country town. He is 55 years of
age and comparatively poor.
1t is now definitely settled that the
oldest old Mason in the world is John
Tressider, of Falmouth, England, in
itiated August 6. 1905, while the oldest
in America is Captain Sylvanus Hatch,
OF Port Levacca, Tex, who Joined the
order in 1909.
Japanese industries are mostly con-
Quoted in small workshops, with pos
slbly the aid of a primitive water wheel,
fan making and the manufacture of
porcelain, paper, pigments, and lac
quers constituting large portion of
the whole.
Leather wheels are made in France
Tor railroad and other cars. Untanned
buffalo hides are cut into strips, and
these are built up into solid discs,
which are strongly held together by
two iron rings after they have been
subjected to hydraulic pressure.
The population of London. by the
census of 1851 was 1852, 236; 1861,
2,803. 9S9; 1871, 3,254, 260; 1881, 3.Ss4,-
54l. 1t is customary now to refer to
London as a city of 1000. 900 people.
The average annual increase from 1871
to 1881 was between SO, 900 and ST.
600.
The poet Whittier once lent a vol
ume of Plato to one of the neighboring
farmers, and when the book was re-
turned, asked: well, friend, how did
rate" said the farmer; I see he's got
some of my ideas. Helps to Phtlos-
opherS.
Judge Charles Allen of Boston says
that he is disgusted with the insolent
way in which witnesses are questioned.
1t is, he thinks, neither funny nor
profitable. and aVails nothing with the
court. He would stop it if he could
but he cannot tell what counsel are
driving at until it is too late.
OF the twenty volcanoes surrounding
the ancient city of Quito the lowest is
over $4,000 feet and the highest (Chim-
borazo) is nearly $4,000. Three are
now active (Cotopaxi, Sangai, and
Ciobincha), twelve are dormant, and
the rest are extinct. Twenty-Five sum-
mits are covered with perpetual snow.
The average strength of the European
troops in India in 1888 was 55,525,
among whom the death rate was but
1088 per 1000. The native army
showed an average strength of ia, $50,
with death rate of 1431. The most
fatal diseases for the Indian troops
were those of the respiratory organs.
The time of day is announced every
day at Woolwich, England, at l p. m.
and $50 p. M. by firing off a blank
charge of powder from a nine FOUNDER
bronze gun. Notwithstanding this
fact, a courageous little sparrow made
her nest in one of the boxes of the car
riage on which the gun rests. and
hatched oat five little sparrows.
Mark Twain's wealth is stated thus:
ha Of he
5000, 600, the amount of the sum being
due to the fact that he has always been
practically his own publisher, and
thereby made all the profit for himself;
lecturing, 100000; scrap book, $780,
900; wife's fortune, S75, 600; total, $425,-
600. That is about the sum he now
possesses.
Judging from the experience of the
Odd Fellows it is reasonable conclu-
sion that the average sickness of the
better class of the adult male popula-
ton of the United States and Canada
is one week and ahalf each year This
is equivalent to an income tax of 6 per
cent, and the greater share of it could
be avoided by the use of simple pre-
cautions.
clones always originate in equatorial
regions, but never occur within eight
or ten degrees of that line. Another
thing that is peculiar is. the whirl is
from right to left in the northern and
from left to right in the southern hemi-
sphere. Masters of sailing vessels
caught in one of these cyclones by
knowing its laws of direction can easily
sail out of its course.
The Commissioners of the Auburn
Theological Seminary found fault with
many members of the junior and mid
de classes for going out to. preach SO
frequently as to neglect their seminary
studies. 1t was ordered that when
students did such preaching they must
obtain the unanimous consent of the
faculty every time; and if they persist
ed in the habit. whatever compensation
they received for preaching must be
deducted from the amount of charitable
funds which they would otherwise re-
ceive.
Sir Henry Thomson, the eminent
physician, SAYS, concerning the middle
classes of people; that three-fourths OF
the nutrient matters they eat are from
versal of these proportions e., one
fourth only from this source and three
fourths from vegetable sources-would
..tend to maintain cleaner palate.
lighter and more active brain and
better state of health for most people
not engaged on the most laborious am-
ployments of active life
A Salt River jeweler has invented a
novel time-piece in the shape of a steel
wire stretched across his show window
on which stuffed canary hops from
left to right, indicating as it goes the
hours of the day by pointing with its
beak at a dial stretched beneath the
wire and having the figures from l to
"a. When it reaches the latter figure
it gIides across the window to again
There is no mechanism whatever that
can be seen. it all being inside the
bird. The inventor says he was three
years in studying it out.
Prof. Paine's assertion about the in
considerable part played by women as
musical composers has resulted IN the
collation. of the titles of small list of
well-known songs. the airs OF which
were written by women, and few
cantatas and operettas- by cores
pondent who aids in bringing to light
the not very numerous examples. adds.
in communication to the Boston
Evening Irunscrlpt There Is moth
ing which can be brought forward in
contravention Of Prof. Paine's asser-
ton. and think / am safe in saying
that no woman il entitled 70 rank even
as fourth-rate composer.