Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-09-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
NEWS AND NOTES

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In the last 80 years the OHIO forests \
have dwindled from 1891 ,426 acres to
less than 100000 acres.
Sweet lemons are a favorite Mexican
dainty. They are the shape, color and
size of the lemons Of commerce, but are
sweeter than bananas.
The Boston Transcript shows great
sagacity as prophet when it predicts
that the Saturday afternoon holiday
movement will never strike o daily
newspaper Office"
The extent of the gambling in "grain
futures" is shown in the fact that
while in Chicago but 100000 bushels
are actually handled during the season,
1884, 100000 bushels are bought and sold.
The most notable effect Of the pro-
hibition law in Atlanta, Ca, is q rise
in the price of old bottles. The dealers
are allowed to sell liquors at whole
sale.
Arabia Is the country Of easy di-
vorces. An English writer says that
he has known Arabs not yet 40 years
old who have married and divorced 40
wives.
A New York broker buys postage
stamps from clerks and shop-boys at a
discount Of fifty per cent. IT encour-
ages petty thieving and debauchery at'
Coney Island.
Letters mailed in hotel envelopes are
sent to the dead-letter Office, notwith-
standing the ten days return notice on
the corner when they fail to reach the
person addressed.
Adamascobite, says the Industrial
World, is newly-discovered mineral,
only found in Missouri, which cuts
steel with great rapidity and yet retains
very fine, keen edge.
A deed covering thirty-three pages
of legal cap paper, averaging II words
to the. line and thirty-two lines to the,
page, thus containing 1865 words, was
recorded in Mcintosh county, Georgia.
The bee builds hexagonal cells and
has been greatly praised for his mathe-
matical knowledge. Now scientist
says that the bee simply makes globes
and the globes assume o hexagonal
simply because they are packed closely
together.
The office Of the Seer etary of the
Navy has recently been decorated with
a beautiful model of the japanese twin
screw cruiser Naniwa-Kan, which is
to be duplicated for the American
navy. 1t is in perfect working order,
and everything about it is according to
scale. 1t is a perfect ship in minia-
ture.
At the Mechernich Lead Works in
Germany the tallest chimney in the
world has recently been completed. 1t
Is 440 feet high, six feet more than the
famous chimney of the st. Rollox
Chemical Works, near Glasgow, Scot.
land, which, until the German one was
built, was without rival. The flue OF
the Mechernich chimney is 111s feet in
diameter at the bottom and 10 feet al
the top.
/, 1t will be news to many that the
Pope aspires to be printer and pub
Usher. For long time His Holiness
who is weakening himself by over-work
has been engaged in bringing ou
religious works, and the business ha
grown to such dimensions that large
premises had become necessity. Hi
Holiness therefore bought the Palac
Mignanelli for something like $4,000
and Is fitting it up as a printing an
publishing Office.
Some people think that 1t was froI
the brave blind king of Bohemia tha
. the Black Prince took the famou
badge of the three ostrich feathers, an
j the motto, "Ich dien," which are sti
the motto and crest of the Prince {
, Wales. This is not very clear, nor
1t known how he came by them. III
0 Welsh say the words are Welsh word
8 but mostpeople think they are German
! and that the King of Bohemia real
D used them. In German the two wort
8 mean, "I serve"
James Lyon, Of Elmira, has q do
) who has obviously been scared by I'll
' pictures in the illustrated daily new
papers, and does not desire to be thu
4 humiliated himself. Mr.. Lyon desir,
l photograph Of the animal, fine $
s Bernard. When the dog saw the camel
7 pointed at him he suspected that som
Q thing was wrong and bolted out Of d
: door. He was coaxed back and pose
$ again. Again he took alarm, and, II
door being shut, jumped out Of a vii
: dow, fell on an awning, broke throug
q fell on two young men, smashed HI
Q fiat and terribly scrached small &C
!, ored bootblack. The dog weighs Il
h pounds. $500 "a a7ssl
: If the Panama Canal Is ever finish,
|. at all, 1t will cost in human life alon
: : as well as in money, the price Of MAJ
: a war. In addition to the slaughter
= the laborers by "the sword Of the G
= mate" they kill each other as o dai
- recreation. They are principal
- Jamaica negroes, and according TO
2 recent arrival thence, the most lawle
III collection of men on the face Of u
ss globe. The snperintendents 90 heavi
ID, armed, and control the laborers at 3
he mouth of pistol or rifle barrel. The
,ct Is no capital punishment there, and
"A faxu hundrad dollaru xyil, cat an 4,