Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-09-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
NEWS AND NOTES

at Long Branch an eighth of a mile.
South Bend, Indiana, is supplied with
water from sixteen artesian wells, with
a capacity of l6,OOo,OOO gallons daily.
We are to have Charles Dickens the
less, here next Fall. He will accept as
many American dollars as we like to
give for readings from Boz"
In clearing out a public well in an
Illinois town an old hat, grab hook,
a bottle of whiskey several barrels of
dirt and eighteen old well buckets were
found.
Southern countries = Italy, Spain,
Greece-have the largest number of
revolutions; northern countries -
Russia, Sweden, Norway = have the
least.
In Springfield, Mass, there are forty
nine liquor clubs, having a member
ship of 1890, organized for the sole
purpose of evading the license law.
There are sixty licensed places in the
city.
Nine. Catalani, the most famous
singer of her time, gave concerts in
Madrid in 1905 and 1906, at which four
ounces of gold of the value of S1O5, was
harged as the price of admission.
'ome of the modern warblers are not so
lar ahead Of the times after all.
Onegets striking idea of the magni-
tude of this country from the state
ment OF Rev. DR.. Bawows, that if the
entire population of the globe, esti-
mated at l,400,OOOOOO, were divided
into families of five, the state of Texas
alone could give each family half an
acre of land to live upon.
In 1743 Miss Lucas brought to
Charleston, s. c., some Indigo seeds
from the West Indies, which were
used as an experiment. This proved
so satisfactory that several Carolina
planters turned their attention to the
cultivation of Indigo, and studied the
art of extracting the dye.
In the reign of Dunstan of England
q great deal was made of lucky and un-
lucky days. There were certain DAYS
when it would be dangerous to bleed
people; ;Nothers when it would be bad
to SOW seeds or to tame animals or to
begin any basiaess and otlrvr days
when it was fortunate to do any of
these things: 1t may be fairly said
that these superstitions have not en-
tirely died ont in our day.
Mosaics of broken glass, with putty
surrounding each piece and initiating
lead lines, is the newest device for
windows. 1t requires time, and if we
attempt to produce any design it also
requires taste and skill, but the indo-
lent content themselves with blending
colors, crazy-quilt fashion. The result
is prettier than the paper limitations of
stained glass, and the work is rather
amusing.
The Prince of Wales has declined to
accept testimonial of plate valued at
$l2,5OO from the Commission of the
Colonial Exhibition. Artemus Ward
reported that when he was in London
they offered him ducal coronet. "I
declined to accept it," added Artemus
81 told them to give it to the poor"
Whether or not the Prince of Wales
requested that a similar disposition
might be made Of the testimonial of
plate is not stated.
Spontaneous combustion Is alleged
in connection with new and plausible
explanation of the destructive fires
occurring in pine forests. The pine
resin exuding from the trees is often
of lens shape, and before it thoroughly
hardens frequently of crystallized clear
ness. 1t is surmised that while in that
condition resin lens may focus the
suns rays upon some light twig or
resinous point, and so start q blaze
that quickly eats up forest.
DIR. William G. Winslow, e-Presi-
dent of the Egypt Exploration Fund,
writes that DIR. Reginald s. Poole, of
the British Museum, has succeeded in
obtaining for the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts very valuable colossus of
Rameses ii. The colossus is of granite
thirteen feet high, is in excellent pre-
servation and richly inscribed. Its
transportation awaits the rising of the
Nile, and 1t cannot be shipped before
February.
A strange chain of causes recently
brought about the death of little boy.
The poor child ate during the day a
quantity Of sorrel which he found near
his fathers house, In the night feel
ing thirsty, he drank freely of some
soapy water which stood near his bed
side. Next day he died, and an inquest
being held, the medical evidence was
to the effect that the alkali of the soar
acting upon the sorrel had formed
oxalic acid, a poisonous compound, by
which the boy had been killed.
There Isn't such thing as a stov,
or fireplace in all Mexico. The tenn
J perature remains ut about sixty degree.
the year round, and, while the stranger
will complain of being chilly at first, ht
will soon become accustomed to the
atmosphere and not suffer, provided
hewears flannel underclothing and puts
on q light overcoat If he goes out after
sundown. The cooking is all done In
Dutch ovens with charcoal, and ranges
were never heard Of there. Coal Is
imported from England, and costs
| ttyantv.6va dolloro a ton. .vona 4.