Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-10-14
Items Of interest.


Greeks, and carved idols soon took the
place of stones and trunks Of trees,
which were at first worshipped as
divine symbols.
Now we are told that graham bread
has had its day. at Is mistake to
suppose that the bran itself is of any
value as nourishment. The fibres of
wood which compose it are Of no more
use than chips or shavings."
The biggest cannon that England
has or has ever had has arrived at
Woolwich from Sir William Arm
strong's factory. The new weapon is
a 110ton gun, is forty-four feet in
length and 16A inches in diameter, the
actual weight being 247,l95 pounds.
An English ethnologist has made an
interesting discovery, Sir Samuel |
Baker notes as a curious fact that the
negroes never tame elephants or wild
animals. The elephants used by the
.Carthaginians were trained by Arabs
and Carthaginians, but never by
negroes. ra
Numerous as are bicycles on our
streets, they are much more so every
where in England. The streets Of /
London, and even the avenues and
paths in Hyde Park, swarm with them.
tits quite common to see a little store
on bicycle or tricycle.. The man sits
behind, and propels his store with his
feet.
John Spaulding of Louisville, KY,
owns a big mastiff bitch. Not long
since she captured and killed a cat, the
mother of three kittens, and then, as if
conscious of having done an evil deed.
gathered the little orphans to her side
and has since tenderly cared for them
and fed them with the faithfulness of a
mother.
California claims a little Venice of
her own. Lake Elsinore-a body of
water seven miles long three wide and
eighty feet deep-is between Los An
geles and San Diego. A city is growing
up all around it, and steamboats,
make regular trips along the shore,
and people can go from street to street
by water in charmingly Venetian
manner.
/ A New York oyster dealer figures up
shat In the season. thirty thousand
bushels of the delicious bivalve are
eaten by New Workers daily, and as
each bushel averages two hundred
oysters, 1t follows that six millions
are devoured. There being 244 days to
the season, the aggreg lte consumption
is placed at !, 64,0o0,0oo oysters.
An interesting experiment was re.
Gently made to test the speed of the
swallows ilight. Two hen birds wery
taken from their broo,ls in Pavia ana
conveyed to Milan, where they were
released alta given moment. Both of
them made their way back to their
n9sts,in thirteen minutes, which gives
the speed as S71s miles an hour.
Persons who have a superstition.
dread Of Friday will be interested tt
learn that this is a thoroughly Friday
year. 1t came in on Friday, and will
have fifty-three Fridays. Four month,
, of the year have five Fridays each
changes of the moon occur five time
on Friday, and the longest and shortes
days are Fridays.
Huber, the great authority on bees
: was blind from his seventeenth yeai
J and conducted the observations whicI
gave him the facts through the eyes o
his wife. He declared that he shoul
be miserable were he to regain his eye
sight, adding: "I should not know t
I what extent person in my situatio
: could be beloved; beside, my wife
b always young, fresh and pretty, whic
q is no light matter"
The lucifer match was invented /
John Walker, of Stockton-upon-Te
: lllngland), in 1899. Mr.. Walker mani
! factured but few of these matches All
!. those were for the use of the people {
!, his neighborhood. Professor Farda
-, learning Of them, procured some an
!, brought them into public notice. The
useful properties were soon general
!, acknowledged, and their manufactul
rapidly increased, till it became an in
!, portant branch of industry in Eurol
and the United States.
e. Iced Water in Japan.
= Although the japanese never stor
u, or used ice until the advent of foreig
u ers they have taken to the use of
10 since then with alacrity, and are as b,
. as Americans for drinking ice wat,
:. Men with portable stands slung oy
Y their shoulders perambulate the stree
y night and day, crying: Koril ko
III koril" Gcel ice! ice)l Their chief p'
80 rons are the jinrickisha men, W
~ have most ready money and are sper
thrifts by nature. The kori mi
when called, sets down his star
produces lump of ice, shayes it