Sword and shield. (Clinton, Miss.) 1885-1888, 1885-07-04
GLEANINGS.


removed.
There are in this country at present,
according to estimates, very nearly, if
not fully, $4,000 skating Kinks.
The English Coffee ouses which
were started to counteract the liquor
saloons have proved to be very sue
cesSful rs business ventures.
The latest official census of Japan
reports total population of 81, 442, 1896,
Of whom Is, 492. .807 are females. The
number of houses in the country is
7,674,224.
Washington is q remarkably relig-
ious city. Statistics show 180 church.
es, with 40. SOL members OF this total
membership, however. about 21,000
are in the colored churches.
A little Indian girl named Lucy
Afraid-of-thc-Soldiers is attending the
Government Indian school at Hamp-
ton. Va. When Lucy grows up she
will probably not be SO ''afraid of the
soldiers rs her name would imply.
A farmer near Macon, Ca, has 4 o.
600 willows growing on his place. He
has set out 80, 600 this season. and will
set his entire levee with them. A ton
to the acre is the average yield, and
when dried they are worth 5000 per ton.
London Life is responsible for the
statement that Lily Langtry's personal
charms are dwindling and fading, and
declares that their loss is due to her de-
votion to her acting; but her acting
doesn't seem to have gained any of the
charms.
There is boom in the manufacture
of fine paper. Prices are down but
remain firm. One leading manufactu-
rer says that never in the history of
stationery has there been such de-
mand for elegant and fine papers as at
present. Cheap papers are drug.
Young ladies in Vienna wear their
initials worked in silk and gold on the
front of their jackets. Young ladies
who are engaged " it is pointed out by
the correspondent who sends this news,
"may wear other initials than their
own" Presumably it is meant that
they may wear the initials of the ia
vored Suitor.
For the extension and completion of
the network of German railroads
grants to the extent of 60,000,000
marks have been asked for. OF this
sum 49, 4S4, 600 marks are required for
the construction of fourteen new lines
of a total length of 800 miles, and the
balance is needed for the completion of
existing railroads.
German statistics show that there
has been an almost unprecedented in
crease of students during the last de-
cade, and at the present moment Ger
many, with a population of 4j. 260, 900,
has $4,000 students attending her uni
vcrsities, while England, with popu-
lation of 100000 has only $500 stu
dents at Oxford and Cambridge.
An oddity in the shape of religious
publication comes from Los Angeles,
Cal, and it calls to the unconverted
under the sonorous appellation of the
Lost angels Trumpet Call. 1t pros
pectus sets forth that it is Published
by the Holy Family, for the Heavenly
Host of Angels. 1t is also the Horn of
Salvation. One loot, One Cent"
At Biddeford, Me-, one recent morn
ing, a newly appointed Deputy Sheriff
went into Il liquor saloon to make
seizure, but waited while the preoccu-
pied proprietor finished sprinkling the
floor, when he made known his busi-
ness. I'm sorry for you," said the
owner, ''but Eve just sprinklcd the
floor with all the liquor | had in the
shop
A Westmoreland County, Pennsylva-
MIA, school-teacher was recently upon
trial before the directors upon charge
of using improper language. He was
acquitted. and the following is SEN
tence taken from the entry concerning
the affair made on the official records:
Witness were not very strong and
the bord voted unanermus in Mr.. Fer
ghosons favor.
An English lockmaker has construct
ed key which he claims is capable OF
opening 22600 patent lever locks, all
Of which differ in their wards or com
binationS. As described the key weighs
three ounces, is nickcl-platcd, and is
said to be the result of three years
labor on the part of the inventor in
making drawings of the different wards
and combinations.
The son of Charles Dickens. who was
at first reported kiilel at Fort Pitt. but
who has happily nScannd ---~-- - -
itOba some ten years since, ana was
mado Inspector of the mounted police
He was afterward promoted to be Chief
Inspector. He is described rs plucky,
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fathers literary tastes. but fonder OF
adventure and open air life.
Eleven wears ago General Dargan,. of
Wadesboro, N. c., bought fiye-year-
old hen from a countryman and put
her in pen to fatten, but she began to
shell out eggs so fast that the General
concluded to keep her for while, as
he considered it too valuable fowl to
kill. She continued to live-is now
sixteen, hale. hearty, old hen-and
lays an egg every other day.
George Lewis, colored man living
in Dooiy County, Georgia, has tame
gopher or grounding, which has made
its home in hole in his yard for four
years. He has named it Tobe, and IN
warm weather. when the children 60
to the hole and call him by MS name,
he will crawl out and follow them all
over the yard, eating from their hands
and doing other funny tricks.
A number of able descriptive writers
appear to have been let loose in the
Territory of Wyoming, recently;
Among other wonderful things found
by them are: A mountain OF solid
hematite iron, mile wide, two miles
long and 600 feet high: bed OF Ignite
coal big enough to warm the world Tor 10:
several centuries; eight lakes OF solid
soda, and great petroleum oasln'
J from which oil is Oozing all the time.