Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-09-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
NEWS AND NOTES.

In matcn against another Juvenile,
Meadville boy ate six bananas in two
minutes.
There were no Jews in England from
the rise of Edward l. to the days of
Oliver Cromwell. 1t is curious to con-
slider that when Shakespeare drew the
character of Shylock he had probably
never seen Jew.
A California tailor tried to run away
from his wife and boarded a sailing
vessel for Honolulu. His wife went by
steamer. got there first, met him when
he landed and escorted the unhappy
man back home.
Alas for the vagaries of Christian
charity under the sun. A deacon of
Greenville Pennsylvania) church has
string OF buttons half yard long.
They have been taken out of the collec-
tions of the church during the past
few years.
The squeaking noise of shoes can be
stopped, according to the Boot and
Shoe Recorder, by sprinkling powdered
pumice stone between the soles during
the process of manufacture, or by driv-
ing dozen pegs into the soles when
the shoes are first to be used.
A young woman of Ashton, Dak, has
farm which she works all alone. She
has three horses, and last year she
raised 1,200 bushels of grain, and now
has seventy-five acres of grain, and is
breaking up more land. She averages
about one offer of marriage month.
In Turkey man cannot have more
than four wives, and If the first objects
he cannot bring the second under the
same roof. AS result man cannot
usually have more than one wife unless
he is wealthy enough to keep up sep
arate establishments for each. In Con-
stantinople one wife is the general rule.
There are kind hearted people in
Florida. A little newsboy, of Orlando,
being suddenly told of his fathers
death, dropped his papers and hurried
A home, A citizen. picking them up, sold
| them through the town, telling the cir
cumstances, and realized $40, some of
them fetching 50 apiece.
1 The Prince of Monaco and the French
Admiralty are perfccting scheme fol
! determining the direction and force O.
the Gulf Stream by means of mum
bered floata which viii be launched a
intervals with request that finder
report the time and position of pickin,
them up.
\ There is tree in Mexico called tn,
oily cocoa. Its seed is almost who'll,
composed of fatty substance which
has sometimes been used in making
soap. A quantity of this seed wa.
recently shipped to Europe, and 6
Stuttgart baker has successfully USED
the oil as q substitute for lard in max
ing bread and cake.
A Philadelphia physician says that q
great deal of what passes for heart
disease is only mild dyspepsia, that
nervousness is commonly bad temper
and that two-thirds of the so-caled
malaria is nothing but laziness. Prob
bly, he doesn't tell his patients so, but
there is no doubt good deal Of trutf
} in what he says.
) Colored people are more successfully
photographed, as a rule, than whit,
people are, says an experienced photo
grapher, the medium mulatto making
the finest photograph in the world
Light compilations are hardest to take
1t is impossible to photograph a
diamond, as it looks like pebbel on
fish-scale. In taking pictures the in
Simultaneous process is the best. Cat
: are the best sitters.
In 1915 Gov. Dale procured the i'm
portant privilege for the people o
Virginia of holding landed property b
q stable tenure. The farmers then di
not possess the land they cultivated b
a tenure of common socage, bu
enjoyed it as tenants at will of til
= crown. Now to every adventurer int
: the colony, and to his heirs, wer
= granted fifty acres of land, and I'll
y same quantity for every person in
n ported by Others.
10 Tattooing is, or has been, practice
i in nearly all parts of the world, /
II the South Sea Islands elaborate pa
,r perns were wrought in youth over mo
% of the body. An instrument of bon
re toothed on the edges, is struck into Il
h. skin with piece Of wood, having fir
been dipped into thick mixture mat
by rubbing down charcoal with lit
water. The marks are permanent.
There is said to be spring ne
~ Northaeld, w. Va, which flows fro
al July to August 81, and at no otl
u time, every year. The flow Of wal
y only lasts fifteen minutes at a tin
" when 1t recedes with n rushing no
10 back into the hill and remains {
w. fifteen minutes, when the water "
TX again rush out In q stream suHicien
70 large enough to turn an ordinary n
,r wheel. s1.
In The United States has been the ri
,at est gold and silver producing count
n in the world, though but very little
ho the precious metals were found th'
90 90 before the discovery of gold in Calf
so 10 mia in 1S4S. The chief produced was
- w. the Southern States, The total amor
,, sd of gold mined in these States from
~, discovery of the metal until 1873 v