The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-29
MISSING LINKS.
Omaha population Is 50. ooo-

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Southern Oregon.
The Church of Rome has declared it.
self positively against cremation.
In hats the novelty consists in having
the crown different from the brim.
One forty-aere field in Dawson County
Nebraska, yielded 1900 bushels Of
wheat
A San Jose, Cal, wife recently gave
her husband $500 on condition that he
should leave the state.
! II IS estimated that the proposed
bridge across the Hudson river at
Poughkeepsie win cost SI0o00.OOO.
An Indian runner recently travelled
from the Clip mine to Yuma. Cal, q
distance OF seventy-five miles in seven
hours
Seven green ibis We're brought to
San Diego, Cal, lately The birds are
seldom seen in the vicinity. except in
winter.
Cleveland, Tenn, Is becoming quite a
muie-shipping center. Nearly 5000
worth OF animals a week are shipped
from there.
The political straw" nuisance has
once more made its appearance. and
travellers are warned to provide them
selves with chestnut bells =
George Saintburv. the English critic.
declares that he IS almost tired of look
ing for the American novel in which
/ the hero shall not be a coxcomb.
Partisan bellies. ancient and modern,
eschew false hair and bustleS. The
| tendency of the time among Paris fash.
| lonables Is toward nature and away
| from art.
A ranch company recently incorpor-
ated at Las Vegas. New Mexico. starts
in with 100000 capital 1t owns 10000
head of cattle and $780, worth of fine
| bulls, horses. lands, etc
Rev. Miss Louise Baker is a preacher
at Nantucket. A correspondent saws of
her: ''She has a serenelY beautiful face
and sweet voice Young men get
converted by look.
A Carson, New, newspaper, says that
In the Carson river above Empire the
fishing is good, but below the town the
fish will not bite, having lost their
teeth from salvation by the mill chem
icals
The Gil Bias, of Paris. informs its
readers that Nine. PATHS husband. MIR.
Nicolini, is a relative of the late Car
Nicholas; that he sings with Russian
accent and that Craig-y-Nos is in Scot
land.
When Prince Bismarck recently saw
new repeating rifle put TO use he
smiled and said: 1T is getting worse for
the cavalry every year. Still" he add
ed, lit takes a good deal of lead to kill
a man. p"
A Warkworth, Ontario. minister pray
ed one Sunday morning as follows:
Lord bless our servant girls who are
detained from joining in the worship of
Thee by the sleeping of their masters
and mistresses. "
Bishop Spalding of Peoria is talked OF
as the probable president of the new
Roman Catholic university at Washing
ton. He is young man of great social
gifts and has reputation as fine af-
ter-dinner talker.
Mrs. Holmes, the novelist. owns fouz
Angolian cats that form in a hollow
square about her footstool while she
throws off her most demonstrating
passages the four cats cost when kit
tens round $500.
Nine. de Lesseps takes her MORNING
ablution in bathroom which cost 4O,-
900 francs. The exposed faucets and
pipes are all gold-plated, and the deco
rations of the room are the work of the
best artist in France.
The ''professional-beauty' craze is
now well over in England, according to
a London 8 Al
York World. 1t first manifested itself
ten years ago. and decade is quite
long enough for such a folly.
Editor Childs of Philadelphia has a
mania for clocks and buys every clock
of historic note or that IS peculiar in
construction. 1t may be added that he
never buys on tick, and generally man
ages TO have pretty good time.
The wealthiest colored man in the
United States is said to be Tonic Luz
ron, French quadroon of New Orleans
whose fortune is estimated at 81, 100,-
000 An organ of the colored people in
the South says that the colored people
of the South pay taxes on $50,
900.
Mrs. Mary Ewing of Omaha has had
six husbands, but has never yet found
one with whom she could live peaceabiy.
She now wants her present husband to
give bonds to stay away from her, while
he thinks the safety of the male popula-
ton requires that Mrs. Ewing should
be placed under bonds, if not under lock
and key.
The late Professor Stowe was of the
old school of gentlemen. When Mod
jeska called TO pay her respects to the
professor and his talented wife, whom
she had never before met, he arose,
gave the actress his hand, and SAID:
MADAM, l am glad you called, / should
not like to have gone to heaven without
seeing you. ;"
Mr.. Gladstone takes every day two
glasses of claret at lunch and two at
dinner, with a glass of port wine. His
alcoholic consumption is estimated by
his son at seven gallons a year, which
would be three and half times the av-
erage consumption per head in En-
gland and four and half times the av-
erage in Europe.
The largest yield of faxseed ever
known was tbrashed from twelve acres
of ground on the farm of Peter Holt
house, five miles west of Decatur, Ill.
The total yield was 800 bushels. or
twenty-five bushels to the acre. The
remarkable YIELD astonishes the farm
ers in that part of the state. 1t was
raised on thoroughly-ditehed and TILED
prairie.
The arrival of a genuine dude in Bir-
mlngham. Ala. seems to be no ordinary
event. One arrived there the other day.
according to the Age, and down First
avenue went the dude, followed by a
negro carrying his grip-saek. while the
vulgar crowd yelled Rats Catch
him. What is it?n How did 1t es-
cape?n What will you give for him?''
Git on to the hatl' Cit on to the
hat!''
A remarkable result OF parental in
huence at birth is reported Ut Beemer-
/ vile. Sussex County. \. Y. IN the case
of Mary j. Ayers, u young girl who is
said to possess the pecularities of a tur-
| tie, owing to her mother having been
bitten by turtle shortly before the birth
of the child The girl. it is said has
under each ear protuberanee like a
turtle shell and similar mark on her
| back. She is unusually honelv, and in
walking the motions of her arms in
| voluntarily correspond to those of her
lower limbs. The physicians say that
j her peculiarities are incurable. The
Blairstown press is responsible for the
story