Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-05-06
THE WEEKS HARVEST.
NEWS AND NOTES.
Gathered From Various Sources, and
Photographed to Save Space.

WY was Lfc lihc Suluuy! one was
the first Of the weak.
Queen Victorias househ old costs
$4,000, 900 annually
AT the Mint is where you see silver
heads among the gold
Strange as it may seem, a mans
debts are very much TO his credit.
Why was Adam the firsi in the mark.
ct business? He had the first spare rib.
The last slave was sold in Virginia
in the spring of 1866 for 100 cabbage
plants.
The word lady means "bread server" "
What a shock this definition will give
the butterflies of fashion.
Cholera has appeared in Brittany,
France, the nearest point to America vet
reached in its westward march.
1t is curious fact that birds, even
when inoculated with the poison of ra.
bies, do not suffer from the disease.
The united armies of Europe number
5000, 900 men, and il drawn up in line
that line would be 5000 miles long.
Society is just like pie. There is an
upper crust and lower crust, but the real
strength and substance lies between them.
Eighty cents were found in the stom.
ach of a fish recently caught in Idaho.
They were in the form Of silver dollar
The students of the Grant Memorial
University at Athens struck for holiday
to celebrate General Grants birthday, on
the 9th ult.
Washington society is still discussing
the dress question. The ladies have dis
played great deal of back bone in this
controversy.
The town of Montrose, Neb., boasts
three newspapers, two variety shows
twenty saloons, two hotels, one Jail and
plans for church.
Several persons were bitten last week
by a mad dog at Pullman, ILL.,, and n
subscription has been started to send them
to Pastcur, in Paris.
1t is reported that Henry Bcrgh i,
carrying his sympathy for animals so far
that he is cutivatlng bald spot on his
head as pasture for flies.
Senator Spooner, the shortest man in
the Senate, is disposed to resent all invd-
lous illusions to his stature. He says
it's heads that count, not legs
Eighty three trotting horses were
sold at Lexington, Ky, last week for
! $40, 40, the highest price being 81 ,025
for the bay filly Carrie Wilkes.
The grand jury of the United States
District Court of Oregon has indicted
nine of the leaders in the anti Chinese
riot in East Portland, in that State.
The discovery of new comet is an.
nounced, but it is large, dim, nebulous
object, without head or tail, and can only
be seen through powerful telescope.
The House Committee on Territories
has ordered an adverse report on the
Senate bill to admit the southern half of
the Territory Of Dakota into the Union
Of States.
The Emperor of Germany does not
consider himself very old man, but he
was within week of forty years old
when the President of the United State.
Grover Cleveland, was born.
The sixty fourth birthday of General
Grant was celebrated Tuesday evening in
the Metropolitan Church, Washington
City. Speeches were made by Senators
Brown (Ga.) and Sherman.
The London Times recently said that
the Smithsonian Institution afforded
better course of chronological teaching,
based on primitive relics, than can be
had anywhere else in the world.
"A Baptist missionary in China writes
home that what an American family
throws away in year would keep doz-
en- Chinese families; and what Chinese
family throws away in the same time
would not feed a mouse.
Herr Most, the anarchist leader has
been indicted by the New York city
grand jury. The revolutionary senti-
ments expressed by Most at the meeting
of April 23 are the foundations for the
indictment.
MIR. Phipps, of the Canadian De-
partmcnt of Agriculture, is said to strong.
ly favor the planting of the silver. leaf
poplar for producing fuel He states that
he has known tree of that kind to afford
four cords of wood when only twenty
years old
"A dense fog, only few yards in
breadth, settled down upon one of the
wharves of New Haven at noon one day
lately, and remained in that isolated posi-.
tion for two hours or more, while the sun
shone brilliantly elsewhere in the vicin.
ity.
Isaac Downs Of Southampton, Conn,
got tired of living and decided to die. So
he put Grape on the door, and going to
his room, cut his throat. His son happen.
ed along just then, saw the Grape, rushed
in, and, with the aid of physician, saw
ed his fathers life.
San Francisco has Girls Union,
where young women receive board and
lodging if unable to pay for it; are put
in the way Of finding work, and gener.
ally watched over. Glasses in house.
keeping sewing, dress aking. and the
like are about to be started. There are
400 members Of the union.
The Natural History Society of Tor
onto uppeals to the clergyman of Canada
to preach against the fashion of wearing
birds on bonnets. The Toronto Globe
warmly supports the appeal. "A turnip
on the crown" II says, "and respectable
carrot on each side Of the head would lie
healthier, quite as tasteful, and in no dc.
gree either so cruel or so injurious. l."
While female base ball club clad in
.a,on,,a 1,aao h.aaoI,oa oo1n.oJ a.