Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-12-19
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by electricity.
In New York $4,000 pupils are at
tending the night schools.
There are 5O7 miles of paved and
LOO Of unpayed streets in Philadel-
phia.
Thirty American girls are teaching
normal schools in the Argentine Re-
public.
A Boston firm has spent $4,000 in
getting out a fine edition of ''Lalla
Rookh.
A German statistican finds that there
arc 100000 blind persons in the
world.
A firm at Bartlett. N H., turns out
1000 bushels OF shoe pegs each work.
ing day.
There are G. 1872, 954 Roman Catholics
in the United States and 1O.187. 764
Protestants.
In London proper land is very dear,
having recently been sold at the rate of
$15, 600, 0O0 an acre.
The curious discovery has just been
made that vegetarians are never Affect
ed by sea sickness.
A single chandelier ia The mountain
castle of that spendthrifb the King of
Bavaria, cost "a, 300.
The mortality of chloroform is to
$500; that Of either, to 1852; that
of nitrous oxide, to 100000.
Sixty murders and only three con-
victions since the war is the criminal
record of Sumter County, Tenn.
Jay Gould's family have an income
of 81, 400, 600 a year for their invest
ment in Missouri Pacific Railroad
stock.
1t is now said that the over-draw
check rein, by reason Of muscular strain
upon the eyes, produces blindness in
horses.
Icelandic women have for ages voted
in church affairs. The custom is kept
up by the Icelanders who have come
to this country and settled in Dakota.
There are no feweB than sixty-four
volumes of the GerIaan Bible for the
blind. 1t costs $25. The letters are
in haut-relief and the paper very thick.
An old regulation IS Yale is that a
student shall lift his hat at distance
of ten rods from the president, eight
from professor and five from tutor.
Father Hyacinthe, in recent SER
mon in Paris, declared that war could
not be dispensed with, and that those
who advocated its abolition were dam
gerous people.
Cardinal Newman was received into
years ago-the 9Th Of October. 1845.
He had been vicar pf St Mary the Vir-
gin ut Oxford.
Robert Toop1bs has personally known
every presi8s4t of the Xlnited States
except Washington, Jefferson, John
Adams, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and
Cleveland. He was the first secretary
of state in the confederacy, and later
served in the field as brigadier gem
eral.
The proposed universal day meets
with no encouragement from astrono-
mers. Upon the proposition to count
the hours of the day from 0 to "a in
civil life one of them says that it will
scarcely ever be adopted, for nobody
Except, perhaps, sick people lying in
bed), will have patience to count the
strokes of the clock up to twenty-four.
Doctors say that mothers who have
pride in the weight of their newly-born
children should weigh them as soon as
possible after birth. Children lose
weight during tho three first days of
life, and the loss sometimes amounts
to twelve ounces or more. 1t takes
them nearly week to regain the
weight they had at the time OF birth.
When Rubinstein was in this country
''Josh B .liings'' was introduced to HIM.
and the pianist in conversation present.
ly endeavored 10 impress upon the
Yankee an idea; OF his nign family rank.
s'Indee,i," he said. Il have lscertained
chat my ancestors were prominent men
in the Crusades, and one of them ac-
companied the Emperor Barbarossa. !"
'On the piano, | suppose said Josh.
Mime. Annie Louise Cary Raymond,
while in Scarboro, Me-, last summer,
learned of little girl in town who had
a hip trouble that threatened to cause
permanent deformity. Mrs. Raymond |
had the child sent to the Maine Gener-
al Hospital, where she maintains free
bed, and under the excellent treatment |
there the little patient seems likely to |
be entirely cured.
A writer in the Eastern Medical Jour
nal says that the medical idea of tea
spoonful is one fluid drachm. This is, |
in fact, about the measurement of that
article as used by our grandmothers.
But this and the dessert spoon are now
made SO much larger than formerly
that they hold nearly two drachms,
and people who measure medicine by |
them overdose themselves. The table,
spoon remains as in the old days.
Justice always falls on somebody in
China. A barber in Haukow threat
ened his assistant with prosecution on
the charge of stealing 27 cents, where
upon the accused man took opium. An
official investigation was ordered, but
the barber bought up the mandarin,
who acquitted him, but, as it was
necessary to make an example Of some
body, ordered the policeman in whose
beat the barber lived to be fined and
severely whipped.
1t is said that the first restrictive
liquor law ever passed in this country
was enacted in little town in Rhode
Island and read as follows: Every
who sells more than one
gallon of liquor to a minor shall be
fined 81 and costs. !" The first temper
ance pledge remembered in circulation
in New England was thus worded: 81
solemnly swear to abstain from the
use of Intoxicating liquors on all occa-
sions except on training days, wedding
days, banquets, and other great occa-
sions.