Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-05-09

1Ue uTlll-TOOul OI IHO OlALy y-i1bu ItS-
iment at Buffalo, N. T., is 278 feet
wide.
Walnut groves are being planted for
practical results in many parts of the
West
In Helena, NJ. T., there is a calf only
ten months old that weighs $50
pounds.
The finest wines are made from ttle
grapes that are grown at the highest
elevation.
A half million dollars is estimated as
the sum that Americans annually spend
for valentines.
A linseed oil factory at Amsterdam,
N. Y, consumes annually about l,000,
600 bushels of tlaxseed.
Beef gall is remedy for snake bite.
Does this account for the popularity of
beef tea among old topers?
Many husbands and wives are said
to be far less happy during the first
year of married life than afterward.
The town clock of Middletown,
Conn, stopped precisely at midnight
at tIfe end of the old year. 1t had been
wound as usual.
More suicides occur in San Francisco
in proportion to its population, says
the alta California. than in any other
city on the continent.
1t is said, by some curious statisti-
clan, that 180 men were lynched in the
United States in 1884, as against 175 in
1888, and 81 in 1882.
An Ohio woman is credited with
having bought pound of coffee on
trust and then selling it for ID cents,
which she spent at a skating rink.
There is now a growing tendency
among juveniles for Shetland ponies,
so much so that several breeders have
gone into the business of raising them.
The area of Lake Erie is 5000 square
miles. Its greatest length is 250 miles;
greatest breadth, so miles, mean depth,
81 feet; elevation, 555 feet.
Princess Louise's illustrations and
sketches Of Canadian life and scenery
are used exclusively in illustrating the
new guide-book to Canada, compiled
and Just issued by the Dominion gov
ernment.
Most of the fur garments worn by
the Greely expedition were sold in New
York by the United States government
for 81 or 50 apiece. They were bought
in by a speculator, who has already
made great profits by selling them as
mementoes, rugs. etc, at from $40 to
$50 each.
If you can manage it at all, pay
your little debts promptly 1t may be
a benefit along an extensive circle. An
old resident remembers an incident in
his own business experience, wherein a
certain marked coin came into his till
three times in one day.-I0r0nt0 (Cdn-
dda) GiOJe.
"A shocking barbarism of which
many people are guilty III these days,
saws an eminent instructor in lam
guages, ''is the use of English plurals
with Latin nouns" The worst example
is the practice of saying ''hoodlums"
-hoodJt being manifestly the proper
form. Tile Current.
1t is common 10 suppose that a ship
loaded with wood can not sink. Yet
according to tine latest returns of the
British Board of Trade ii appears that
during tie past three wears no fewer
than one hundred and forty ships laden
with timber were totally lost, with four
hundred and iifty-SeYen lives.
1t is the belief Of DR.. Pettenkofer,
as set forth in a new book, that the
cholera cannot make sea voyage OF
twenty days-that IS, if our steamers
could not cross the ocean III less time
we should never get cholera. From
this standpoint seven-day trips appear
in the light OF doubtful blessing.
A Port Byron, n. y, husband, who Sc
wife had eloped, showed his good sense
when telegram came announcing the
capture of the guilty pair and asking
| if they should be arrested, by replying:
"No, they will have the worst OF 1t.
| His words proved true. The false
friend who ran off With his spouse has
committed suicide.
If left to itself Sierra Leone will not
produce sufficient food to keep its peo-
ple for six months time. Nearly
everybody desires to trade; 10 one de-
sires to till the soil There are shops
in every conceivable locality, but II an
American vessel chances to be delayed
a week in arriving there is great
dearth of flour, and even OF rice.
The secretary Of Mr.. Spurgeon
Sunday-school recently made the tol-
lowing suggestion: 1T would be q
very good thing if the Scripture texts
given to the infants were 10 be printed
on lozenges instead OF upon the little
bits of pasteboard. as at present; 1ol
not only would the gifts be more mighty
valued, but it might be truly said
How sweet are thy words unto my
taste.
w. c.. DePauw, the glass manufac
turer of New Albany, was so deter
mined upon furnishing the glass Tor the
new Indiana State House that he pro-
posed to the Commissioners to set then
own price upon it, so that the honor Q
making the glass in the state might b'
asserted. His proposition was declined
but he secured the contract by bidding
away down.
The Philadelphia Call reconciles the
different pronunciations in Webster
dictionary of the word dynamite in th'
following manner: "Webster tells us il
the dictionary proper that 'dyn' -a-mite
is the way to pronounce 1t, but the sup
Elementary list says 'dy'-na-mite.
Perhaps the better way will be to cal
it din-a-mite when it merely makes
noise, and dienamte when it kill
somebody"
A Hot Springs (Ark. correspondent
saws: There is a constant stream G
people coming and going every day
MANY come here as 4 last resort, an
find the long-sought cure; many ge
no relief and die; but it 5 stated tina
during the past ten years upward {
25, 600 people have been cured OF dis