The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1885-05-07

LIE rooms IN Danish hotels have no
locks.
/ A cHcn1NAn girl drowned herseli
rather than marry.
Mr. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL was
born February %, 1919.
TEE water supply Of London Is about
las, 900. 600 gallons daily.
A PHILADELPHIA paper calls John l.
Sullivan ''that eminent brute"
CIGARS were never known until 1915.
Before that time pipes were used only.
THERE are probably 10000 arc lights
alight every night in the United States.
The best toboggans are made OF birch,
and velvet cushioned, cost nom $50 to
$50
A GENTLEMAN of Rockingham, N. O.,
has pair Of elks that he drives to a
buggy.
A CHARLTON COUNTY, Mo-, farmer
pays S1.29 In taxes on his horses and SO
on his dogs.
TIE severity Of the winter has caused
great loss Of cattle in Western Kansas
and beyond.
A NEW HAMPsHRE woman hasn't
broken lamp or lamp chimney IN
thirty years.
THE avalanche in Utah, which over
whelmed the village of Alta, killed
thirty persons.
HENRY GEORGE, reformer, thinks Of
standing for Parliament for Caithness-
shire, Scotland.
SoUDAN means literally the Land Of
the Blacks in the Arabian tongue-"Be-
led-es-Soudan.
PHYSICIANS say that about fourteen
per cent. of all school children suffer
from headaches.
TIE most extensive linseed oil mill
in this country is said to be located at
Amsterdam, N. Y.
THE Board of Health in Nashville,
Tenn, have determined to cut down all
the mulberry trees.
Mrs. APPHIA FISHER, of Salem, New
Hampshire, reads without glasses in her
ninety-seventh year.
IT is a remarkable fact that not a
SINCE Chinese beggar has ever been seen
in the United States.
TINS year Lent contains forty seven
days. II takes more time to repent as
the world grows older.
TIN University Press at Oxford has
appliances for printing works in $50
languages and dialects.
SARAH BERNHARDT gets $500 day
for acting. OF this her creditors take
$3.50, leaving her $500.
A WATER tank in passenger car at
A1ko1no Do ruoo fnyr,I - nr,4knsv,
trout eight inches long.
THE first steam vessel to make voy-
age up the Thames was brought to Glas-
gov by Mr.. Dodd in 1876
No MAN can smoke as strong cigars or
as black pipes as woman can when she
has once acquired the habit.
THE late Mrs. James Russell Lowell
was relative of the distinguished Sem
ator, William Pitt Fessenden.
The greater part of the wealth Of ex-
Governor Coburn, Of Maine, goes to the
cause Of education in the South.
The White House has been so often
painted that the white lead upon it is
nearly quarter Of an inch thick.
THE English sparrows have entirely
disappeared from Concord, Mass, where
they had existed in great numbers.
No SAN FRANcIsco resident ever
thinks of using the word Frisco"
Only strangers use that Authorization.
TOBACCO was first smoked, then
snuffed, and lastly chewed. Pipes came
first, then cigars, and finally cigarettes.
A CnEARFIELD county (Pa.) man
boards.at a hotel in order that his wife
can have time to attend a skating rink.
DURING the Exposition in New Orleans
forty gambling houses, where banking
games are run, keep open night and day.
Texas is paying 800, 900 y year to 600
survivors Of the war of 1857 New
applications are coming in all the time.
ABOUT forty-five per cent. of the mem
bers OF the present Congress Of the
United States have been college edu.
Gated.
SINCE Mr. Robert Lincoln entered the
Cabinet there has been no time when
there has not been serious Illness in his
family.
THE latest service of burglar alarm
in Chicago was to call its pcssessor into
the hallway, where he was shot by the
burglar.
A POPULARITY Of most of the Paris
papers is that they rent out the fnan-
cial column by the year to anybody who
wants it.
IT has been estimated that the cost Of
each saloon to the city of indianapolis
last year was S153. The license was
only $50.