The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-01-09
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ploved in the Uaiied States signas
service.
Ii is estimated that 6S churches in
Paris po>srss works Of art valued at
Si6l5.740.
Fashionable people on Murray II u.
New York. employ a man hv The yoaT
10 feed and take care OF their cuts.
Two hundred and fifty million per-
sons quench their thirst every wear ut
the London puDic dr.nSiug fountains
4 United States produces nearly
3 600 lawn mowers annually. ami eN-
ports 10 every civilized country on the
globe.
There are AIS. 100000 acres OF forest
in the United States, and this area Is
reduced ut the rate OF 25,0OO,OOO acres
annually.
Durham, n. c.. now famous to-
bacco town OF SIX thousand inhabitants,
was hamlet of less than one hundred
souls 20 years ago.
Mrs. Lew Wallace uses for paper
weight turquoise. from the Santa Fn
mines. which is said to be one of the
finest in the world.
In San Francisco there are 800
Chinese launtries. employing 500
men, the value oil winch is roughly
estimated at $25O,00O.
Many of the spring chickens sold in
New York city are fattencd on sun
flower seeds, which are said 10 impart
to the Il 'sh very fine flavor.
In the region of the Catskills there
are moro than 1000 hotels aud board
ing houses, in which some 800 00O
visitors are yearly accommodated.
A Venetian condoier makes on an
average four francs. about eighty cents
Il dav, the year round. On this he will
marry, rear family, and put some
money away.
Hercules Wilson, colored, has re-
signed his seat in the Georgia L"gisla-
ture. giving rs reason that he can
make more money by laying brick ut
81 10 So II day.
In Germany women do the main part
of the mental outdoor work. Not in
frequently n woman and n COW are
seen pulling coal cart through the
streets, man behind gently touching
them up with n whip.
A new system of drying lumber by
surrounding it with common salt is
! Just now attracting attention. Tho
peculiar power OF salt for absorbing
| moisture il we'll known
Texas is progressing wonderfully
fast. In 1870 the grand total vAfue ol
farm products of the stste was $40.
600 900. Now it has swellcd to the
enormous sum of ISL. 006. 600.
Over 5000 women are employed in
the railroad offices in Austria. They
Get from SIS 10 $50 Il month. Nearly
all of them are widows OF men who
have died in the railroad service.
| From 1871 to May 1874, inclusive
the French government has expended
on the purchase of pictures and scuIpl.
ures by living artists II. 7O04l francs,
averaging moro than 100000 francs
per annum.
As many rs 200 needle pointed light
nng-rod tips (nade in Philadelphia,
by The by have been fixed upon III,
rods ut the top OF the Washington
Monument to catch any thundcrbolt'
! that may come flashing down.
The present production of the Rus
sian petroleum field is between $4,000
: and So, 900 barrels per day. 1t cou!,
probably bc increased to $4,000 bar
rels from the same wells, PrnvidcC
] they were allowed to produces all thu
time.
Albert Ulysses Simpson Grant Baal
has become known TO fame not 81
much on account OF his Odd-name ~
because he collected purse Tor tn,
Grant monument in New YORK. A. U
. ). G. b. is i COY OF eleven, and he ha
rs many pockets rs names.
A number Of Yankee schoolma'ams
who some lime ago went to the Argcr
e tine Republic, South Amer CT. TO 70
!, low their vocation, have made exec
: lent matches with eligible Argcntinr'
: and the demand is grenter than th
y supply Blondes are preferred.
;. New York saw new feature in al
!. ycrlising n few days ago. when Il NIGEL
!. attired, good-looking girl distribute
business cards from light wagon q
Broadway. This is refreshing vari;
ton from the peripatctic advertiser
sandwiches of men and bill-boards tn
, impede travel ON crowded thorough
i fires.
% Massachusetts will be interested
learn that on an original map of Il
world bv which Alcxan Ter Vi. divide
the discoveries between Spain and Pc
Of iugal, and which is now in the posse
sion of the Vatican, all the presrl
United States form Il bank sra'
marked Terra dc Bacalaos," or, III
l. Land Of Goldfish.
MIR. Parncl's estate in Wicklow. a
ready rcn in valuable stone. almost e
cusivey used now in Dublin bnlldin
lr has developed new source Of veal
Is in mushrooms in great pr0fusion N
- OF extrao ri nary size. One spcclm
sent TO the DuDiin market wcic he'd 10
o pounds and measured more than y 10
within the cup.
The United States navy compris
thiIty-niue vessels, and To- officer IL
fleet we have, on the active list, z re-;
- admiralS, Is cOmmod0rcs. As captain
~ s5 commanders. "a lieutenant COT
manderS, 2J1 iicutcuanls. ~ innit
IT. lirutenants. 1873 cnsigns, AMI 76 max
he ,,,t,.tS. mud la thn staff 16D i,u.tpl