The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-24
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According to the latest official Stats
ties the NUMBER of working women in
England and Wales Is 4,706.545-
At swell dinners in Iowa they serve
four kinds of water. Congress, Bethesda.
Apollinaris. and Bitter water, and top
off with mug of good cider
The word environment, now so
popular. was introduced into our lam
ouage BIZ Thomas Carlyle. who bor-
rowed it from the French. they having
used it for two centuries.
John Russell Young is Il good listener.
Nature made him reticent; bat when
nressed. and he finds it Is his turn TO
talk. he becomes a most pleasing and
entertaining conversationalist Like an
GOOD takers. he has q wonderful
memory.
The Chinese and japanese govern
ments are translating and publishing at
\ cheap rate many OF the best English
text hooks. Most of Professor Iulaus
works. for instance. have been trans
lated and printed in Chinese. and are
issued al a merely nominal sum.
In Norway it is believed that wolves
are frightened away by telegraph lines.
II is said that however hungry vol
| NAV be he viii never 90 into q spot that
| i Enclosed by ropes stretched on posts
| Since the first Geographic line WAS gstab-
! lished, twenty years ago, wolves have
| never appeared in its neighooraood
There is good deal of religion IN
nature solemnly remarked q Young
Aberdeen clergyman calling uHon a
| LADY of his congregation recently
..TLere jsn was the quiet reply. We
sbould never forget that there is % ser
mon in every blade of grass. Quite
trne We should also remember that
GRASS is cut very short sometimes.
Oscar Wiley, OF Davenport, Iowa, is
The possessor of horse Of excellent
3 bnild and good gait. with five legs and
every time it is shod five shoes are TIE
{ oujred. The horse Is six years old, and
r was raised on farm near Moline, H.
IT rms as we'll as a four-ieggg8 animal
and to all appearances finds no neon
venience in using the fifth member
The latest newspaper advices from
south Africa appear TO indicate ihe ex-
.. isfence of a boom" really honest and
a trustworthy this time, in Transvaal cold
mining enterprise. The kaap cold
fields. it is reported, are now thriving.
and the Weld of the old and new fields
ID together for the last year amounts to ut
least 600, 000-oue journal. indeed.
at estimates it at between &ll0,011 and
f150,000.
e II see it stated, " says Mr.. Labouchere
..that. whilst EnglIshmeu drink i've
id times rs much tea as coffee, Americans
drink eight times as much coffee as tea
av This. in Il great measure, IS due to die
coffee sold in the United States being
n. less adnlterated than ours To GER
tain extent it may also be accounted f0r
by the fact that Americans are richer
''i than we are, for there are "a good many
more cups in a shilling worth OF tea
'ai than in a shillngs worth OF coffee
~ A remarkable story about Mr. Glad
= stone was told by DR.. Theodore l. Guy
.HT Ter in n recent address TO l8lc students
u He said: with my own eyes | have
:, seen MIR. Gladstone kneel 10y the side Of
lhe n common street sweeper and pray for
ek' the salvation of his soul. ] know OF no
orander sight than the premier Of Eng
mo land and the leading statesman of tue
TO world kneeling by the side of common
street sweeper and pouring forth his
liz. eloquent appeal to God ln behalf OF his
m humble brother
, tated limb comes from Byron, y. y.
5es, -Four weeks ago DR.. Townsend ampu
tated Mrs. William GoodliH leg iu,
it'll below the knee. The leg was buried
by and the patient was getting well al
RIGHT, except that she constantly com
nj ul9ined that a corn on her departed loo
wu named her excessively. After thre
weeks of this kind of suffering, her has
"a hand duo up the buried member, anl
iiy found that Il bandage remained boun
tightly about the toes. on one of wbic
oil was the corn. He removed the band
IDS age, buried the member in an easy an
err comfortable position, and since the
Mrs. Goodliff has had no trouble wit
,us- that foot or corn.
ice, Dir. Wyman. OF Sitka Alaska, has sen
ate. to his brother in Detroit pack Of pla'
ing cards such rs are made and used D
ect- the Tinklet Indians in ALASKA. Tb
the cards are bits of bamboo triie ou
lab four inches in length, the surface
each cylinder IS very smooth aud ever
ris- and on the surface are carved 20 variei
ave of odd designs-faces, figures. auima.
ing, birds and other hieroglyphics in tbe
general character the signs have iea
by ures strongly resembling both Japaue-
? in and Egyptian designs. The method
sual playing with these carved sticks
known only to the Indians, but it
dies known that private seals. made in ID
4 of same way and of the same material "a
5 a also used by the Indians. The imprs
sion Of the characters on the cylinders
,een made by rolling the cylinders oy'
been melted wax or by filling the carve
line lines of The designs with iuk and the
rolling IT over paper OF parchment
eral Count Munster, lately German Au
nely bassador in London. once at a Ble.D.
the ham Palace reception engaged So q
undCrtone conversation with an0tI
Inns diplomatic officer, when up came
; 81, superserviceabIe court fmc,.0na-
vino slapped him smartlv On lhs sloa.d
and informed him that 'p1Op,e vC
not supposed to come TO the palace
~ talk The Ambassador pI.vegzed @
niIv official with a naughty B.sm7rcaa
7ary stare and replied; Il did NOT con
here, sir, to receive lessons In manners
rer,, and he at once summoned his a,iac1
leri, quilted the throne-room in high audgl
cks and drove direct TO the Fore Eu Ofa
er a where he lodged "a formal complain
against the court iUnc-io1ary tar insl
-; ing ImperGuence announced tlu u
-. less he received a fu}i and HWu. aH9.1z
etv. he would lay the matter before is go
Io5 eminent. The case was laI ..-ore @
Queen. who ordered tlat 90 proper .g1
should be written TO tine Conn ly o
u u fussy court official, which was done
'shs once
an. 1t has been generally imagined tl
there WAS only one picture iu eEste'
co, which was painted by Gen. Grant, zig
/ - that one was IN possession OF 'ae 1901
,een family. Another production has be.
inn brought 10 light belonging t3 w.
Rotheray of Camden. ~ d.. who l
: been offered. and who has refused
- take, 5000 for it. The picture is g
tio ordinary-looking water-cG.0r IauG7eap
Will Close inspection shows I'm tine .tit-lf
. m corner the name u. H. Grant III
initials stand for Ulysses Hiram Gran
-; baptismal name. MIR. Bothelay got T.
-, picture from his mother. resident
oo,t New York State. who, In her girhoo
asa was native OF Galena. Sine recau
iii 1t from the dead General herself !
painted 1t III 1913, while he was q cad
- at West Point, and presented if 20 b.
- rs memento OF having Is .GTted AE
80, Rotheray on a trip East when be wei
~. TO West Point. George v. Cild- BIS
~ been shown the picture. and. havl
been told lis history. asserted there vi
~, no doubt that Gen. Grant painted it
lev The conduct of James d. Fish 81
his Ferdinand Ward 10 prison is said By
and prison official, whose duties have tak,
,een him to Auburn and to Sing-Sing.
Mr. show marked difference. w hen rs
entered the Auburn State Prison, sa
on this official che looked the SUuatlC