Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-12-10
NEWS

The Sultan of Turkey has $50 wives,
and his personal expenses are S12, 600, 900
per year.
A 800, 900 company is forming in Pitts
burg to build mills and saw lumber in
Tennessee.
A man in Nicholas county, w. Va,
has seven wild bears in a pen, and is fat
tening them for market. One of them
already weighs 700 pounds.
A white opossum is the latest product
Of the Kansas prairie. 1t has pink eyes,
and is believed by the darkies to be a
spirit. Times.
DR.. W. D. Thomson, who attended
Vice President Hendricks during his last
illness, is Of the belief that Mr.. Hendricks
died from instantaneous paralysis of the
brain and heart.
A Chicago doctor finds himself in troub-
lie. In filling up a death certificate he in
advertantly wrote his own name in the
space where the cause of death is speci
fed.
The Genesta is in hard luck. Having
arrived home without the Queens cup, a
duty Of 5000 has been levied on the cups
Sir Richard Sutton did succeed In carry
ing away with him. The next time he
comes over he will probably refuse to win
any race If he misses the main one.
Thomas Stevens. who started from
San Francisco to ride upon a bicycle
round the world, has arrived at Teheran
the capital of Persia. His is the most
noteworthy cycling tour of this first cen
fury Of cycles.
1t would seem that Nutield, near Red
hill. Eng, is the most healthy spot in the
world, as the rector has announced that,
with a population of 1900, only one male
died last year, and he was Lightweight
years old.
A man in Syracuse collected accounts
of the lives of ten thousand centenarians.
He found that six thousand of them came
from Connecticut, and that the majority
of them were women. Fifty single wo-
men came up to the century mark, but
only twelve bachelors. One hundred
ministers lived to be 100, and only thirty
doctors, ten lawyers and ten actors. A
c%entenarian newspaper man could not be
discovered.
In round numbers the weight of 1,OOO,-
600 dollars in standard gold coin is Il
tons; standard silver coin, 28a tons; sub
sidiary silver coin, 25 tons; minor coin.
Scent nickel, 100 tons.
In New Haven, CT, there are said to be
five persons who at various times were
pronounced dead and were placed in their
collins for burial, but luckily revived in
time to escape the horrible fate menacing
them. Rev. Mr.. Emmerson and Mrs.
Pardee are two of the five.
Incidentally it may be mentioned that
the recent death Of Vice President Hen
bricks settles, so far as this Aminis.ra-
tion is concerned, the-to women-im-
portant question of who is the first lady
Of the land. No one will nov dispute
Miss Cleveland's position, not even the
wife Of the future President pro tempore
Of the Senate.
A tract Of land not included in any
State or Territory, lying north Of Texas
and In area larger than Massachusetts
contains SO, 000, 900 worth Of stock be
longing to cattle ~raisers, who have occu
pied that country without any right. l
Is known ms NO-Man's.L Land,
The following are some anatomical 10
calities newly mentioned in current liter
ture: "He kissed her upon her appear
%ance." "She whipped him upon his re
turn" "They seated themselves upor
his entering" "He kissed her back
"She sat down on his invitation"
'In the mountains above Chicago
says the Tombstone "a. IT, Tombstone
the residents along q lumber flumc hav,
a novel way of getting their mail. 1t /
started on O raft from the head of TIL
fiume at regular dates, and the people be
low watch for it, take out what belong
to them, and then send the raft with il
precious cargo on the way"
Thomas Stevens, the bicycler, in tn
story of his ride through the Balkan
Mountains, gives a description of a grin
monument to Turkish valor in the shap
of a square stone structure erected som
forty years ago near Nisch. The Who'll
exterior was faced with grinning rows o
Servian skulls partially embedded i
mortar. The Servians have since move,
the skulls of their dead comrades an
buried them, but the lows OF indentation
in the mortared surface yet remain to te'
the story.
The good Queen Victoria seems t
have been pretty well paid for her pos
:, ton. Since her accession in 1887 sh
has, in addition to casual allowances an
the profits of royal domains, received tn
sum of els, 865, 900 from the civil lis
q Then she succeeded to all the Primo
Consort left, and for twenty one years h
. received ESQ, 900 annually, making alon
$3.50, 900, and still she asks parliament I
: pay all her bills and family expenses
r The monarch business is a very pr0ftabI
one.
2 Most of these hair preparations don
| work." writes. Mr.. j. s. Burdick, of S
Louis, "but Parker's Hair Balsam is a
honorable exception. My hair was thi
: and prematurely gray. The Balsal
Q made it brown again and soft as in m
q boyhood