Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-12-16
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Called For Our Readers From the
Brightest Exchanges.

Canned turtle meat has come into !
general use now for green turtle soup. 1
Will Carleton should not forget that
nearly every man who has lectured in
rhyme has gone over the hill to the
poor-house.
A Boston man is now demonstrating
the superiority of man to the lower
animals by eating live frogs. He will |
croak in time.
Minnie lIauk is particular about her
opera houses. She declined to sing at
Nebraska City, Neb, lately because
the old barn leaked. ts 59ia
Two Iowa girls are successful paper.
hangers, and earn as high as SIP a day.
Woman can accomplish anything ex-
cept voting, il she tries.
Mrs, Langtry can hit a dudes eye at
thousand yards, and she knows how
to twirl a broad-sword. The critics
have been lenient lately.
Mrs. Park, of Liberty, Mo-, lost a gold
ring in her garden last spring. 1t was
found the other day by her son encir-
cling the root of a big sunhower.
Alexander of Bulgaria has the true
Aldermanic instinct. When he took
his crown he had an income of $1,000 a
year. He is now worth S350OOO.
Miss Lamar, daughter of the Secre.
tary, is an artist of much merit. She
beats the Princess Beatrice on free.
hand sketching. So her admirers say.
Mrs. Folsom is understood to be
pleased with the presidents new place,
Red Top, as a residence, but she would
have preferred to be near her daugh-
ter.
A citizen of Minneapolis is building
a log house in the heart of the city.
When he gets through he will find that
there are more draughts than COM
| forts.
Carter Harrison, of Chicago, has
proved himself wise man. He has
declined to accept a nomination for
Congress without first consulting his
wife.
Mrs. Clarissa Cox, of Wakefield,
Mass, has reached her ninety-ninth
milestone. She was babe when
Washington took the oath as President
of the United States.
Harvey Morgan, once one of the
most famous harpists in Europe, re-
Gently died at the Pittsburgh poor
theuse. Europe is not so kind to its
\ harpists as 1t was in the middle ages,
i The oldest Philadelphia fireman died
at Norristown lately at the age of
ninety three. He was running with
the machine when General Braddock
was doing his best to cover his retreat.
| An Independence Qa.) groceryman.
boasts of delivery horse which knows
all the regular customers that trade at
his masters store, and always bows
to them when he meets them on the
street.
| The new edition of "Pickwick," !"
edited by the younger Charles Dickens,
has been designed to mark the change
in the manners, customs and places
described in the book which the pas
sage of fifty years has brought about.
One dollar at twenty-one is worth
S12O at ninety, and 800 spent in fool
cry and lnery before five-and-twenty
is simply $1,000 thrown away from that
provision which should be made for
the time when work must be burden.
A Boston bootblack, whose custom
ers include large number Of lawyers,
has the following dignilied quotation
on his chair: Intaminatis fulget
honoribus," which being interpreted,
means, abe shines with untarnished
honors."
In the schools Of Brunswick, Eng.
land all children who are found to
stammer are placed in charge of 0
physician and taught by instructors
from the deaf and dumb asylums with
the result that in year most Of tht
cases are completely cured.
"A gentleman in Davenport, Ia.
whose garden is near an electric light
tower, says his day lilies, which ordin
arily bloom only in the day time, oper
in the night, and that the morning
glories will unclose in the night in |
few minutes after the tower light
brighten the garden beds.
An attempt is about to be made t,
raise Russian war ship, the Johl
Baptist, which was sunk by the order
: OF Peter the Great in ITO, at Revel, t
8 escape capture by the Swedes. Pre-
: liminary soundings tend to strengthe
Q the belief that it will be found in
4 state Of perfect preservation in tn
/; sand.
The average annual wages Of en-
9 ployees Of rolling mills in Dauphi
9 county-says the Harrisburg Patriot
; are S479 and those Of employees {
) Bessemer steel works s472; while Il
employees Of printing and book pul
J. fishing houses average S4S7 per annur
!. and those Of daily and weekly new
papers in Dauphin county average 81
. per annum.
AT q meeting OF retail clerks
! Chicago 1t was reported that many
: the dealers who had joined the ear
closing movement were declaring the
!, intention to return to the old s,ste