The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-15
GLEANINGS.

AH1DSF i the reported discovery OF
man IN Parkersburg, W. Va.
The overhead wires in New Yors
City. If in straight lines. would eNten,
from San Francisco to London.
Port Said. at the northern terminut
OF the Suez Canal, l. generally believed
to be the wickedest place on earth.
In London a new form Of gas laniI
has been invented which gives The
light of goo candles at a penny al
hour.
An eagle that died in Vienna no
long ago is said to have been in captiv
ity for a eriod OF not less than /;
years.
There are 1900. 900 school children
in the United States, 10000, 600 o.
whom are enrolled in the public
/ schools
The Superior Court Of San Francisco
holds that a Chinese child born in thi,
country is entitled to admission to the
/ public schools
There are >, $50 cooperative societies
/ in Germany, with membership OF over
! 100000, and last year they purchased
over S375, 600. GEO worth of goods.
The relationships of the royal family
/ Of Madagascar are decidedly mixed.
The Queen, beautiful girl of nineteen,
( is married to her Prime Minister. who
! Is also her mother's husband
| Gentleman of fashion now sport from
/ three to seven finger rings in addition
to the gold or silver bangles now 50
frequently worn by them. This Is very
! clearly y1zs11.7,ir,fr woman VII
The New England Divorce Reform
! League proposes to take measures TO
make Itself national organization.
Chicago and Philadelphia should GER
tainly be included in some way.
The fibre of the hop-vine is said by
some French per-manufacturers to
be the best substitute for rags yet dis
covered. It's advantages are great
length, strength, flexibility, and deli
cacy
Colonizing is becoming a mania with
the nations of Europe, but Americans
keep their heads level, don't 90 until
they are ready, and then quietly step
aboard the lightning express for
Canada.
A distinguished professor asks if
twenty-siX letters through the opera
ton Of the law of Formulation can give
1000 words in Webster's unabridged
how many expressions can the fiftv-fiYe
animate muscles of the human face
give?
Mrs. L. b. Crocker has completed a
new conservatory at San Francisco and
the structure ranks as second in size of
its sort in the United States The
green house covers IA, 600 square feet of
ground and is inclosed with 25,0JO
square feet of sash.
An analysis of railroad accidents
compared with the amount of travel
tends to show that if a person were to
travel ten hours a day at a speed of ten
miles an hour during every day in the
year he would probably be killed at the
end of $50 years.
Clara Belle is authority for the state
ment that the swell damsel of the pc
riod takes snuff. The saving explana-
tion is appended, however that it is
not ground tobacco, but daintily per
fumed white powder. The effect upon
noses can only be guessed at.
A sportsman in Cumberland, Va,
sighted a flock of turkeys the other day
and told his dog to lie down. The
dog obeyed, and he went after the
fowls. Five hours afterward the man
came back to look for the dog. and
found him lying where he had left him.
1t is related of an itinerant wild
Western clergyman who, having be-
come enamOred of beautiful daughter
of Zion, and there being no Justice of
hA. har- s Lx
pei near by, married himself to the
lady according to the ritual of the
church.
Mr.. Lawrence Barrett speaks enthus-
iaetically of Robert Browning. "A
grand type of manhood!' he says, "a
magnificent writer; broad, ruddy, not
too tall; with snowy hair and mus
tache and goatee beard; courtly, gra-
cious, a perfect talker, and always po
etical in his thoughts.
The natural tendency of things in the
Western Hemisphere is very probably
toward centralization, the United States
being the central magnet. And there
is little room for doubt that this tend.
ency viii receive decided impetus by
the construction of canal across
Nicaragua. Nashville (1enn.) Ameri-
can.
A new and important discovery OF
borax has Just been made near San
Bernardino, Cal 1t is a very large
ledge, and assays "a per cent. of pure
borate Of lime The discovery is likely
to interfere with the monopoly hitherto
maintained by a San Francisco firm,
which has succeeded in controlling the
supply of borax-
English publishers complain because
Froude's Life OF Carlyle and Yates 5
"Reminiscences, which are published
in England at sums over twenty dollars
are sold in the United States for twenty
five cents each. This seems to be .
good country for the poor book-reader.
Waving the charge of piracy, the book
publishers in the United States have al
least demonstrated that it pays to cater
to the wants of the people of small
purses s-The Current.
In Great Britain and Ireland the
number of envelopes manufactured in a
year is said to be 200, 900, COO; in the
United States they amount TO about
$500, 900. coo. If hand labor were COM
PEELED to do the work now done by ma
chimes in simply making envelopes,
taking no account of the printing done
by some of them, it would take 275, 600
workmen. According to the census OF
1880 there were l, 204 persons engaged
in the manufacture of envelopes at that
time.
Mr.. Stevenson, the Glasgow million
aire who has spent a small fortune put
ting steamboats, on the Central African
| lakes and building the wagon road that
| is to connect Nyassa and Tanganyika,
offers to guarantee the building of a
| narrowguage railroad past the sixty
miles of cataracts in the River Shire.
| He will furnish the entire funds him.
| self, if necessary. A steamboat now
runs up the Zambesi and Shire rivers
| to these cataracts, and the steamer lala
/ plies from the north end of the catar-
acts TO the north end of Nyassa-
A wedding coat made by Andrew
| johnson is shown in the Tennessee ex-
hibit at the New Orleans Exhibition.
| The coat was made in Johnson's little
tailor shop in Greenville. Tenn, in
1888 or 1889, for Mr.. III. L. Price of that
town. The garment is made of the
| best navy blue cloth, cut in the old
/ fashioned ''claw-hammera style. The
| collar and lapels are very broad. and
there are five buttonholes on each side.
When the coat was made there were
| twelve large brass buttons. five on each
| side and two behind, besides the small
ones on the cuffs of the sleeves. AL
the buttons are now missing except two
on the right breast. With the excep-
ton of the loss of the buttons the coat il
in good state of preservation. None
of the seams are ripped, and there il
not hole worn in the CLOTH
Sarah Bernhardt told an interviewer
| who incurred what progress she was