The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-07

one poor bruised rose.
Let fall upan the floor from some fair breast.
Is ali that tells il Was no cunning jest
Wrought by the deft roIpsncer Of repose;
The music. laugbteF.-sfii 1ffil Eieam.
Press'd from the pillow of u broken dream
Charles W. Coleman, Jr.. IA Harper's NsgN-
zine for February.
The largest American cannon throws
a l,0s0-pound ball.
An extensive deposit of iron ore has
been discovered near Irondale. W. L.
President Richards of the MetropoIi-
tan Horse Railroad of Boston is quoted
as saying. after study of electric mo-
tors. that the day of horses is past.
John /. Blair, of New jersey. is one
OF the most powerful railroad magnates
IN the land. He is the sole owner of
l,5oo miles of road. and an officer in
companies controlling I0,000 miles.
The biggest ruby of the crownless
King Theebaw is missing. 1t was
called the -Budda-mya. Once
damsel stole the gem. but at that time
1t was restored to the royal lock-box and
the hapless maid was put 10 death,
''Stepniak,' the literary leader of the
Russian revolutiouists, is residing in
London, writing Tor the press and en-
gagged on two new books He proposes
within year 10 visit this country. He
Is young man Of le>s than "a years.
DR. Hammond was found by cor
respondent writing ON his fifth novel.
'An Honorable Villain. He usually
writes in the evening, in the midst OF
his books in quiet and secluded room,
comfortable and Injurious like the rest
of the house.
Several million pounds of the dark.
hard, flawless wood called cocobola are
imported from South America annually
into New York. Il comes not in logs or
planks, but i'm great chunks. and - used
for knife handles. iipies. and similar
purposes Formerly il was worth )
cents a pound. hui now only half as
much
At recent meeting in Cleveland.
Francis Murphy. The temperance apostle.
read Il selection from Paul with refer
ence to charity. in which Paul SAYS: Il
spake - a child. Then Mr. Murphy
added: Il have alwas~ thought Paul
was couniryman OF mine, but that We
got created out Of him somehow Who
but an Irishman ever said spake?'
Last summer the report was circu-
lated that Hugh Conway. author of
Called Back, had died. but since then
there has been sn incCsSant stream Of
novels from his pen. The last one is
appropriately entitled Living or Dead?"
and if the work goes on at its present
rate the opinion will prey all that he has
called back on his publishers Chiouqo
NeicS.
Queen Victoria did kindly act re-
Gently. when, as she was driving through
Windsor. she observed cab-horso fall
down. An outrjder was sent to make
inquiries. and. on learning the nature of
the accident. her majesty caused an in
timation 10 be conveyed TO the lament
ing owner that he should be presented
with another horse from the royal
stables,
\ very noticeable change has taken
place in the grass growth of the open
sheep plains of Australia since it's civili-
cation. The grass originally grew in
large tuSsockS some distance apart. but
now has assumed the appearance of n
sward, owing to its having stooled out
when fed upon by sheep and cattle, and
from the seed having becn lrampled in
to the ground, where, in the absence of
bush fires. it germinated-
Minister ;, 5 Cox announces in a
letter to a friend in New York that he
has begun an historical work on the OF
toman invasion of Europe He expects
to obtain full access Ia all the Turkish
archives aud libraries Ii Mr. Cox is
successful in this he Will be able to do a
great service 10 historical literature, as
the Greek aud Armenian manuscripts
in Constantnoplc haze tor many centur-
les been inacr,.>~ l'le - stholar>.
Mr. Bergh has his eyes ON no less
place than Paris, where cruelty to horses
is said to be distresSinely common. A
cruel thing that is ccaselessly happening
all over Paris is the cracking of the
whip just over the horses head. so as To
cause il to make IA detonaton like II
pistol shot. In a satirical writing of
1919, and then its not given as new.
occurs the saying: Paris is the para
disc of women, the purgatory Of men
and the hell of horses.
The United States consumes tin in
vast quantities, one great use for tin
plates being the manufacture of pre-
serving cans. 1t is said that upward of
Sl2,000.000 per annum are expended
for wages alone in our various tin-plate
factories, while the sum paid for similar
work in Great Britain does not amount
to much more than $1,000, 900. Ameri-
can tin work is very much lighter, and
more graceful than that of England, and
in England the art of pressing tin has
not vet been acquired.
The following anecdote is told about
the composer of the Queen of Sheba:'
At fashionable dinner party Goldmark
is introduced to pretty young lady
from the country Ii appears to him
that she does not seem sufficiently inn
pressed with the honor she has just re-
ceived, and so he adds Il gentle re-
minder: Carl Goldmark. the composer
of the Queen of Shebar Whereupon
the rural belle, with charming naivete,
replies: ''Remunerative position; isn't
it?" Goldmark withdraws in disgust
Professor Arnold quotes in half APP
proving way the opinion of German
chemist that beer Is better food for
nursing mothers than milk made from
brewers grains. The mineral constit-
uents are largely leached out of barley
in mailing. and consequently the ma
terial for bone growth j lacking. But
very reason the best for adults. What
is needed for adults Is heat producing
food. to supply waste. not bone and
muscle producing food 70 assist growth.
Senator Evarts' library in his house in
New York is full of costly books, en-
cravings. pictures, and works of art.
He had visit there some time ago from
one of his law-clients, who had always
supposed the Senator TO be not any too
Iuxuriouslv supplied with this world
goods. He looked the room over with a
critical eye and remarked that he did
not see how the Senator could afford so
many fine and costly things. The Sen
ator mentioned the remark to a lawyer
friend day or two afterward, with the
dry comment: ''Iie viii know when
send him my bill"
An urn of clay lately found while a
ditch was being dug on the east side of
the Isle of Gothland has been sent To
the Stockholm Museum. 1t contains
1886 unbroken and 191 broken silver
coins, part with old German and part
with Anglo-Saxon stamps. There are
| besides silver bracelets, some with tigur-
| ings appended 10 them, and also some
| rods of the finest silver, such as in early
times We're cut and used instead of
money. The total weight of the treas
ure is about nine pounds. The chief in
terest for antiquarians lies in the tact
that old German and Anglo-Saxon coins
have been found together
A writer in the English Illustrated
Magazine says that there is no such
thing as debate IN the House of Lords
in the sense that if exists in the Com
mons. The number of peers who are
successful in making themselves heard
might be counted on the fingers of both
hands, but these, happily, are the men,
/ harS xs-boSa onipiof4S .4ra looked for