The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
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There are Sos colleges in the United
States.
\ pocket sewing-machine is the latest
novelty.
A law school will be added ,o Cornell
college next year.
4 Philadelphia watch strikes the
minutes if desired
At point or southeastern Florids
the water IS 1916 feet deep.
The order of Foresters has a member
ship of 647,017 in this country.
Catholics have invaded Mornondom.
and viii erect college at Salt Lake
City.
Cake after the soup is new and
queer feature of some Newport din
hers.
The production Of quicksilver in Cali
fornia has dropped to The loves, point
for many years.
A Kentucky court has decided that
when a girl jilts her lover she must re-
turn ali his presents.
The raisin crop tributary to River
side. California, viii aggregate POO, 900
boxes, valued at S4000 600. or 800 an
acre.
The lumbermen at Fairfield. Me, ex.
pect to cut upward of twenty-five mil.
lion feet of lumber during the coming
winter.
Sheridan's famous horse that carried
him to Winchester IS now in the Gov
ernmenr Museum at Governors Island.
New York Harbor.
The popularity of the old plantation
| songs is rapidly dying out among the
negroes in the south, being superseded
by gospel hymns.
The largest flat in the world is situ-
ated on the corner of Mott and Eliza
beth streets. New York, and affords a
home for 1,500 people.
An examination of the funds of the
Baltimore sub-treasury reveals an excess
of four cents in funds and securities,
amounting to over 1l,S0o,000
They have rug at Cottage City. n.
| j., made in the year 691. or 1885 years
ago. 1t is pretty old relic, and was
obtained from the mosque of Mecca.
Buffalo is to have the largest clock in
| the world. The dial will be twenty
| five feet in diameter, and the center
of the dial 36l feet above the street
The longest drought that ever occur
red in this country is said to have
| taken place in 1862, when no rain fell
from the 1st of May to the lst of Sep
| tember.
Every morning the aged president of
William and Mary college rings the coll
| lege bell, and, though no one responds,
the college is still open and retains its
charter.
The San Francisco mint EMPLOYS at
| present three hundred hands. 1t $ tie
largest in the world, having coinage
| capacity twice that of Philadelphia and
thrice that OF the English mint.
4 Boston colored man is stated to
have second set of ribs below tho
regular set extending to the pelvis. lie
also apparently has two hearts aud can
regulate their pulsations at pleasure.
A citizen of Norwich has beautiful
pet rattlesnake with sage green head
and finely marked body. He handles
her fearlessly, but rat that she struck
the other day died in twelve minutes.
A party cf explorers claim to have
discovered near 8iagdalena, Sonora.
Mexico. a pyramid with a base Of 1850
square feet and height OF $50 fAet.
The celebrated Cheops is but half as
large.
In the stomach of a shark lately cut
open at Long Island were found two
undigested skulls OF sheepshead. four
blue-iish, and 325 menhadon that had
been swallowed by the animal without
a scratch.
There is a movement among the
business men of Chattanooga, Tenn, to
form stock company of two thousand
members, each to take 800 worth of
stock, for the purpose of erecting a
large cotton factory.
Max and Paul are the favorite boys
names in Germany, and Anna and
Martha the favorite girls names. One
boy out of every eight or nine is called
Max. OF 4, 800 school girls, 538 are cali
ed Anna and 455 Martha.
Nineteen years ago a man in Du Bois.
Pa, lost his voice so that ne could
speak only IN a whisper. A year ago
he hurt his arm, and since then has oc-
casionally found relief from the pain by
placing it on a large driving belt that
generated considerable electricity. Re
Gently while doing so his voice suddenly
and completely returned and has since
been good.
German photographers have succeed
ed IN photographing a projoctile in the
course of its flight. and some of these
, photographs show tie head of condensed
| air which precedes everv shot 1t is
| said to be this head" which prevents
| even skilled rifemen from hitting an
l empty egg-shell when hung on a long
thread. The air blows the shell out OF
the way of the bullet.
At the recent convention of homeo
pathic physicians at Saratoga, doctor
g from Springfield Mass, telling of his
success with diptheria, is reported to
have said: Il have cured hundreds oi
2 cases with ulpho-carbonate of soda,
and never lost one, while my neighbor,
D a high dilutionist, has lost every case
t he had" Mar himl Name him!'
a cried the delegates. and the doctor did
name him, and now there are two
Springfield physicians that are bitter
: enemies.
From the site of the ancient citv Of
Susa Frenchmen have iust carried away
. forty tons of relics fragments Of frieze,
bronze coins, and statuettes in bronze
q ivory. terra Gotta. and marble. ID i.
:. the biggest archaeological haul Insdc
!. for a long time. At first the expedition
encountered much opposition from the
4 natives. owing to ii report that th,
Frenchmen wanted to carry away I'll,
> body of the prophet Daniel. which j.
: supposed to be buried IN cave in ia,
: neighborhood. a great object Of pilgrim
ages.
e j. .B. Ward, aged 73 years, who dieC
y recently at Lumpkin, Ga, was the mos
? remarkable eolored man of the ace
During his long existence nc was ncvo
heard TO utter an oath, never accused o
lying or theft, never had dispt.s o
quarrel with his wife, never had a whir
le ping during slavery, nor was he eve
Il known to take drink of whisky. II
ie was always faithful and obedient. peace
n able and reliable. He and his wife hai
n sixteen children, and thev lived 10 Sc
t one hundred and twenty descendants
who are now living.
There are people in Exeter. Y. II.
= who are incapable OF imagining the e1
y istence of anything outside of that city
= An example OF their overpowering ig
: norance is shown IN a story Ok an oil
o man who had never left the borders @
" the town and believed that Exeter CON
!e prised the better part of creation. On
II day he was induced to 90 to Hampton
W beach, and there, going out boating
ia lost his oars, and fioated over TO the Isl
10 of Shoals. When the hotel proprieto
sc kindly assisted him to land and inquiries
rd where he hailed from, he innocently re
piled, Il came from America, sir,
supposIng. of course, that was sufflclen'
IS to indicate Exeter.
h. A. ;ntaraSfinor discoverv was made 8