Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-05-13
CURRENT CULLINGS.
NEWS AND NOTES.
Gathered From Various Sources and Para
graphed to Save Space.

died in New Hampshire between the ages
of so and 100 years.
There is an extraordinary demand for
Norman elders in Georgia, and $50 have
been assigned to work.
Thirty eggs were swallowed at a
sitting by young man who participated
in an Easter egg.sucking contest at Bed
ford, la.
One day last week in Chicago, mob
of six to eight thousand persons assem-.
bled and raided drug store, carrying off
everything portable.
A prominent New York Republican
says ''its in the air, and Blaine will run
for President next time as surely as the
next National Convention comes around"
Senator Fair, of Nevada, recommends
the purchase of the Island of Santa Cali
no, in the Pacific Ocean, about twenty
five miles southwest of Los Angeles, and
colonizing the Apaches on it.
Grand Master Workman Powderly Gc-
nounces the Chicago Anarchists. A mass
meeting of Knights of Labor at Albany,
N. Y, passed resolutions of denunciation
and deploring acts looking to anarchy and
socialism.
The Hygienic Commission of Paris has
prohibited the use Of vaseline as a substi-
tute for butter and fat in the making of
cakes and pastry. Pretty soon they will
be trying to make oleom argarine out of
Kerosene, or even benZine.
Ex-senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, is
quoted as saying that the greater part of
the Socialists are Bohemians and kindred
nationalities of the Sclav race, who have
lived for centuries on common land, very
much as our Indians do. The present
excitement will not last long.
Robert Bonner made his Ledger the
magnificent property it is by his splendid
audacity in the advertising line, one sin
gle insertion in the papers of the country
and that twenty-five years ago-having
cost him sixty thousand dollars.
The smallest country newspaper is of
more worth to its country subscribers in
one month than its price for year, and
does more for its ncighborhood for moth.
ing than many a high official does for his
muniiicent salary. Roscoe C0nkling.
A Nebraska man who went to Sar
Francisco wrote back to his friends: "Wt
had a splendid party. There were two
gentlemen from Nebraska, pair o
colonels from Missouri a couple of fcl
lows from New York and son of.a.g
from Boston
Sunfowers are grown in Wyoming ter
ritory for fuel The stalks when dry ar
as hard as maplewood and make ho
fire, and the seed.he with the seeds il
are said to burn better than the best har
coal. An acre of sunflowers will furnisl
fuel for one stove for a year.
A citizen Of Mettacahouts, Ulster coun
ty, N. Y, says that the sting of the hon
ey bee is sure cure for rheumatism Tn,
treatment Is to expose the part affected
and induce bees to sting it. lie says thi
this novel cure has been tried by hi
neighbors with great success.
A mysterious and fatal disease ha
broken out in .Rowlesburg, W. Va, ant
physicians are powcrless so far to say,
the lives of any attacked. The victims
are first seized with severe pain in tn
head and are corpses within twelv
hours After death the bodies become
, spotted.
The Anarchists in New York and vicir
ity number about ten thousand. But the
are divided into two contending factions
headed respectively by John Most AM
Justus Schwab Honest workingmel
frown upon them and the police keep
close watch on their movements.
what did you do the first time yo
got into battley" said young lady to a
old soldier. "Of course you didn't run?
, ooh, no, / didn't run, miss; not at al
: But If / had been going for doctor, an
you had seen me, you would have thougl
somebody was awful sick"
A lady was singing the other week at
charity concert, and the audience insis
ed upon hearing her song second tim,
Her daughter little child, was presen
( and being asked afterwards how h
G mamma had sung, replied, Very badl
I for they made her do 1t all over again.
c Magistrate-"Have you ever been q
d rested before, Uncle Rastus?"
:, Uncle Rastus-"Yes, yo' honah; jc
y wuncc."
Magistrate-"What was the char
= against your"
Uncle Rastus-"Ten dollahs an cost
= sab. "
"Shine 'em uppaG' said an Italii
bootblack TO Pat, just landed. "Phai
c the charger" asked Pat "Five'centa.
h "Begorra, said Pat, as he seated himse
J. in chair, "it's foine country. Amer
e ky, where poor Oirishman can get Ii
boots blacked by a gintleman wild goo
II rings in his ears
. % "A farmers garden, planted in roy
Q clear across the patch, and cultivated
is far as possibl. By horse power and giv'
u as good cultivation as the best farme
+ give their corn fields, will require on
T. half an acre to supply half Of the livii
J, of the average family and add largely
Ie the health of the members.
Why in the name of art does not eve
self.respecting publisher set his fa
"a | oooinst thn hideous lttpmDts to ma