Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-09-16

SSAANNA OANNes
To make nails was one Of the sen
tences imposed in Massachusetts, hun
dred years ago as punishment fol
crime, and twelve nails day was ac
cepted as days work.
There have been fought in France
since 1870, 847 duels, besides many be-
tween officers and private soldiers
which are scarcely ever mentioned in
the newspapers. Out Of these 847
duels only nine resulted in one of the
parties being disabled.
Adiscussion upon smoking in pres
ence of children is agitating society in
England. Instances of tobacco smoke
acting like slow poison upon children
are cited, and smoking fathers" are
asked to have the goodness and consid.
Grafton not to smoke in the presence Of
their children.
The sacred figures in early Greece
were frequently covered with real doll
like clothing. The difficulty of repre-.
senting the hair of these puppets ap-
pears, from the later treatment of the
heads In mafble, as'seen in the Apollo
of Tenea, to have been evaded by the
use of woolly covering like wig.
The Minerva was the name of q daily
paper which Noah Webster edited and
published in New York in 1893. 1t
supported Washington's administra-
tion, and so did a semi-weelSly called
the Herald, edited by the same person.
These were afterwards known as the
Commercial Advertiser and the New
York Spectator.
A thousand years ago nearly all the
working people Of England, plowmen,
carpenters shepherds, cooks and dairy
maids, were slaves. There was regu-
lar slave marketin in Bristol, which went
on for hundreds of years. The slaves
were sometimes sold into foreign parts,
but in general they were kept on the
land on which they were born.
) A singular custom obtains to this
= day in some of the towns on the Lower
Rhine, namely, that of selling maiden
at public auction. For nearly fotn
centuries, on Easter Monday-auctioi
) day-the towncrier or clerk of st. Goa
called all the young people together
and to the highest bidder sold the priv
lege of dancing with the chosen girl
!, and her only, during the entire year
0 The fees flowed into the public pool
4 box. 1Era-
l One Of the most prevalent Of medical
| superstitions in olden times was that
7 which attributed healing virtues to
| rings made of certain metals and fab.
/. ricated after certain fashion. 1t was a
+ custom in England, as early as the time
: of the Plantagenets, for the King, on a
Q particular holiday every year, to bless
8 cramp rings at the church at Westmin.
J, ster, which rings were preserved by the
1 people with the greatest care, as spec
itics against the disorder from which
@ they take their name.
: The expression "adding insult to in.
! jury" is said to have originated in Q
/ fable by Phedrus, q Roman autho,
Z who lived in the reign Of Augustus
: The fable is called "The Bald Man ant
. the Fly" and reads thus: A fly bit tn,
u bare pate of a bald man, who, endeav
~ oring to crush it, gave himself heav.
J. blow. Then said the fly, jeeringly
Il you wanted to avenge the sting of
. tiny insect with death. What will yo,
} do to yourself, who have added insul
y to injury?"
!. The extreme richness of the milk O
# the reindeer, that fed on the will
a. MOSES of Sweden, has led to an exam
,f nation of the moss as an article of foot
: These researches have resulted in til
. establishment of a number Of mos
=. dealers in Russia and Sweden, and
:, prosperous and growing interest hi
~ been developed. The moss employe
!, yields on an average as much alcoh,
4, as good grain, and three times as niue
= as potatoes. The supply is practicall
! inexhaustible, as 1t is spread over val
y tracts, extending from the Baltic
I, Behring Straits.
IN In lecture at the Royal Institution
v London, Prof. Oliver Lodge has el
~ deavored to show that electricity migl
70 be employed to clear the atmosphere
us great cities of the overhanging clout
Of dust and smoke. He exhibited bt
jars filled with dense smoke, and re-
dered them clear in an instant by q
w. electric discharge from q friction m
a.. chine. A similar discharge of ele
,st I tricity on large scale into the du
nd and smoke-laden air over Lond,
ia. would, he thinks, produce a like effe,
od rand he is desirous of making expe
.be ment of sufficient magnitude to te
ess the correctness of this view.
TIL Girls Of marriageable age do n
ese like to tell how old they are, but y
ue can find out by following the subjoin
hat instructions, the lady doing the tigr
mi. ing. Tell her to put down the numb
tte of the month in which she was boz
my then to multiply 1t by two; then to a
In five; then to multiply by fifty; th
rse- to add her age; then to substr'
8 y 1856; then to add 1lb; then tell l
the TO tell you the amount she has le
ere' The two figures to right VIII dent
" her age, and the remainder the mon
other birth. For example the amou