The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-09-14
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

working woman OF boston is FZOU.Ufs
and her average expenses are reck-
oned at $261.3O.
La COST Island, on the Florida
coast, will soon be one immense CO.
coanut grove, it is said, so rapidly Ia
it being set out with cocoanut trees.
"A young man who was asked by
an elderly friend the other day why
he carried cane was able to give an
answer. Said he: II carry a cane be-
cause, getting in the habit Of it,
never lose an umbrella"
"A blacksmith at Oviedo, Fla, aps
pears to be a second Elihu Burritt.
His sign reads: ''Thurston Holling-
worth, general repairing and iobbing
in all materials neatly and promptly
done. Specialists-Surveying and pho
Biography. Information given on sci.
entAtic and mechanical subjects.
-APricOts are slow of bearing,
usually. Sometimes they fail to pol.
lenize we'll, but when then they dc
they are often destroyed by the cur
culio. Examine the flowers and see i
they are perfect; if not graft over tc
some other kind. Should they sci
well, prevent attacks of the curculio
by spraying with some offensive mix
ture at frequent intervals. Apricots are
not usually raised at profit this side
of the Rocky Mountains, at least in
Northern latitudes.
Kentucky has a man who is
probably the heaviest man in the
world. His weight is given at 792
4 r.a1,afy.oe
yards of cloth to make him a suit. He
is six foot four and One-half inches in
hight, is thirty-One years old, and
weighed eleven pounds at birth.
When two years old he took a M,O0C
prize at the baby show in New York
tipping the beam at 200 pounds at that
time. His father weighed 115 pounds
and his mother 122.
"A Bristol cat had a struggle with
a young rat one day which came near
ending fatally to both animals. Pussy
pounced on the rodent as he came from
behind cracker barrel, and soon was
getting the best of the fight. Suddenly
the rat made n dive at the cats open
mouth, and half of its body disap-
peared. There was terrible scratch
ing and coughing, and when the store
keeper came to the rescue of his mouser
he was just able to grab the rat by the
hind legs and pull it from the cats
throat, which was fast choking TO
death.
The assistant examiner of Chinese
customs service has sent to the
Treasury Department here printed
! list of Chinese medicines exported
| from Yangtse ports. Among tho
remedies are tigers bones, ground
blood, bears gall, asses glue, tree
bugs, elephants gall, fossil crabs,
fossil teeth, fowls gizzards, ''insects
of nine SMELLS" Jobs tears, cow-hair.
glass, rhinoceros horns, cows knee,
puff balls, dragons teeth, straw,
hedgehog skins, dried silkworms,
snake skins, crabs eyes, horse tails,
and centipedes.
The naval cadets of Annapolis
| have invented what is called the
''smile drill'' for the benefit of their
| lower class men. The upper class mar
holds up one finger and the poor lower
class man must smile-just a little. Up
| goes another finger and the smile must
| broaden; still another, and it is wider
than before. At last all the fingers are
up and the grin Is stretched as far as q
| grin can be. This rather painful situ-
&tion can be prolonged until the cruel
upper GLASS man is tired OF seeing the
other fellow smile. Then he closes his
hand and the smile must instantly
cease. Prompt obedience is the es.
sence OF the smile drill, as OF every
other.
One of the finest collections OF al
tographs in this country was made by
the late DIR. Leffingwell, of New Haven
II is valued at $75, 900. Among the
famous names whose possessors wrote
them are Adelaide, Queen OF William
"; Queen Anne, Caroline, Queen OF
George IL; Charlotte, Queen OF George
ILL.,; Charlotte, daughter OF George
| "; Charles l., Charles H., Edward
! ", Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth Wood
Vile, Queen Of Edward ~; Elizabeth.
daughter OF Charles l.; Henry w.,
Henry ", Henry vi, Henry VII,
Henry Will, James l., James H., Rich.
ard H., Richard Ill, Lord Francis
Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, Lady Jane
Grey, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Walter
Raleigh, Robert Burns, Lord Byron,
William Cowper, John Dryden, Oliver
Goldsmith, William Shakespeare.
George Washington, James Madison,
John Adams, John Quincy Adams
Martin Van Buren and Roger Williams.