The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1886-01-21
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during the late war was 2.S59,lS2.
General Strachey, the greatest author
ity on Indian railroads, estimates that
the benefits accruing from her railways
to India amounts to over $50, 000,0
per annum.
At Oakland, Cal. lives Mrs C. A.
Bryant now aged. once belle, whom
George ". once kissed. and to whom
Napoleon Ill is said to have offered his
heart, hand and empire
In speaking of the Bible, John Milton
said; There are no songs to be COM
pared with the songs of Zion; no ora
tons equal to those of the prophets, and
no politics like those the Scriptures
teach"
John c. Calhoun. grandson of the
great nullifier, is an Arkansas planter.
He is large and heavy man, but well
proportional. He has an oval face,
somewhat massive in its outlines, with
mild blue eyes and small brown mus
tache.
At Chico, Cal, colt belonging to a
citizen was hanged by getting halter
about its throat, whereupon the man S
hunting dog went to his door and
scratched and howled till he reused his
master. and then conducted him to the
stable.
The London Spectator says: I'VE
suspect that wealthy Americans get the
people crammed down their threats till
they grow as weary as the late Horace
Greeley, a most liberal giver, who once
answered request for money ito save
few souls with the snarl: Get out!
There amt half the souls damned that
ought be.
The huge Cyclopean walls of Tiryus,
which form the principal defenses. are
composed of irregular limestone blocks,
many of them from six to nine feet long,
three wide and three feet high, and DIR.
Schlieman declares that they were laid
without mortar, their weight keeping
them in position, and the interstices be-
ing filled with small stones.
An English nobleman, Lord Russell,
the inheritor of an illustrious name, who
has been travelling in this country, is a
young man of retiring disposition and
no particular talents that have yet been
discovered. He seems overshadowed by
the weight of his name, just as his
grandfather, who made it, appeared
overshadowed by the stupendous hat he
was in the habit of wearing.
at is noticeable" remarks life QLon-
don), ''that the queen, after returning
to Windsor from Scotland or elsewhere,
always pays an early visit to the En-
press Eugene. The difference in their
fortunes, if it has any influence with
the queen, only makes her more sympa-
thetic and affectionate. But while the
empress is the survivor of a fallen
dynasty and the queen is an empress
whose throne is the firmest in the world,
/ they are women who have peculiar griefs
in common, in presence of which the
difference in their external fortune is as
nothing"
Labouchere thinks the following pass
age from Ruskin's ''Preterite" is about
as good specimen of egregious vanity
as an eminent man has ever favored the
world with. Little Johnny had found
his first piece of copper pyrites, and thus
moralizes on the event: ''If only then
my father and mother had seen the real
strength and weakness of their little
John, if they had given me but shay
gy Welsh pony, and LETT me in charge Of
good Welsh guide, they would
have made a man of me there and then,
and afterward the comfort of their own
hearts, and probably the first geologist of
my time in Europe
South America is more than doubie
the size of the United States The En-
pire of Brazil seems on the map quite as
large as Australia. 1t is twenty-four
times the size of England. The Argen-
tine Republic is nearly as large as
Europe, taking Russia out. Bolivia and
Venezuela are each twice the size of
England, New Grenada and Peru each
as large as England and Scotland, Ecua-
! dor something less, Paraguay equal to
Great Britain, Urugay and Chill about
the same, and the little known regions
of Patagonia and Terra del Fuego at
least double the dimensions of Great
Britain, British, French, and Dutch
Guiana are nearly as large as Great
Britain.
A leading publishing house states that
when a manuscript is received 1t is
turned over to a reader, who, after
examining it carefully, returns it with
his opinion as to its merit or lack of
merit If a reader returns a manu-
script with strong Endorsement the
merits of the work are considered from
a commercial point of view-whether ii
is likely to sell, how much it will cost
for publication, etc. Frequently the
manuscript is turned over to a second
reader, sometimes to third. If all
say: This is a strong work; think il
will pay you to publish it, or words to
that effect, of course their recommends
ton goes long way in the question OF
publication.
A traveller in New Mexico gives a
glowing description of the country
through which new road passes. and
tells of the Seven Cities of the Chico
Valley what almost reads like the 70
mantle explorations of the members o.
the Smithsonian Institute. He says thai
there are to-day in that valley ruins Of
large buildings five stories high, and
some of them in such an excellent state
of preservation that the masonry anC
plastering are looking as new and frest
as though, done but a few wears instead
of centuries ago. These buildings ar,
popularity supposed 10 be Of AZtet
origin, but strange to say. there is a
I I Il Il.