The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-08-24
OF oENERAL INTEREsr.


more widows to the square yard than
any other city in these United States.
Bridal parties and titled foreigners
appear to have adopted Niagara Falls
as their own, as they are said to form
the majority Of the visitors.
"A vulture measuring nine feet
from tip to tip was lately shot near
Julien, San Diego County, Cal, as it
was sailing away with a full-grown
sheep in its claws.
Collars and cuffs for women are
now made of steel lace, as fine as cob
web, and in any color. They with
stand the warmest weather and are
winning favor rapidly.
a pipe smoked by General jackson
while he was President, was recently
presented to the New England His
torical Society. It is still strong. Vir-
ginia plug was Old Hickory's favorite
brand.
"A citizen of Burlington, N. j., was
bitten on the leg by dog eight years
! ago, and every year since, on the an
niversary of the bite, it Is said, the in
tured member has swelled to twice its
natural size.
There is a catawba tree In the
front yard of a house in Camilla, Ga.
which bears three crops of leaves
every year, and, strange to say, each
crop is destroyed by what is called the
catawba worm.
Soft shell crabs are always cheaper
after a day or two of thunder showers.
/ They can not be kept alive in such
weather. Electricity in the air is
/ fatal to them. Dealers can not explain
it, they only know it is so.
in Webster County, Ca, recently,
twenty hogs belonging to a farmer
| took refuge from storm under a clump
of bushes that grew near tall pine
tree. The tree was struck by light
ming and every hog instantly killed.
The American Geographical So
/ ciety has issued a bulletin showing
that If five acres of ground be allowed
to each person the three Americas can
accommodate at least two billion peo-
pie. So that there is no Immediate
danger of oyercrowding.
An Oregon City, Ore, clergyman
| you 4OSb III b1lC WOO0S W441lO Oh 1O0bC w
Arthur's Prairie, ten miles distant, to
marry couple, and not until after the
lapse of forty-eight hours did he reach
his destination. The bride and groom,
together with the invited guests,
waited all the while.
The defense scare in England has
brought out the facts that the nation
has 294 admirals and only fifty armOred
sea-going ships. Only thirteen adj
mirals are employed, drawing 437, 600,
while 281 unemployed receive G161, 900,
At the same time there are 140 Gener-
ais, of whom 100 are employed.
Farmers at work in the fields near
Long Fork, five miles from Mount
Pulaski, Logan County, Ill, had theil
attention attracted by the tinkling Of
a bell attached to the neck of al
American eagle flying overhead. By
means of glass the bell could be seen
No attempt was made to kill the bird
which disappeared to the northward
The following are said to be the
sixteen American inventions of world
wide adoption: The cotton gin, plan
ing machine, grass mower and reaper
rotary printing press, steam naviga
ton, h6t-air machine, sewing machine
the India-rubber industry, machine
manufacture of hOrseshoes, the sane
blast for craving, gauge lathe, grail
elevator, artificial ice-making on
large scale, the electro magnet in it
practical application, and the tele
, phone.
From early ages till now the rae
; classification of mankind has been
subject of interest. For long tim
only three types, comprising the whit
European, the brown Asiatic, and tn
, black African, were recognized. /
these, after the discovery of this cor
, tinent, the red American was added
But the number of alleged races of me
has fuctuated all the way up to sixty
three; and theory after theory of elias
sification has been from time to tim
developed and abandoned. And nov
the idea of classifying the human race
according to their languages is takin
! precedence over other modes. Thi
system of classification, 1t Is said, vii
: give our American Indians an ethnC
: logical prominence much greater tina
has hitherto been assigned to them
"A skilled Chinese woodworkel
who arrived in New York some tim
ago to take charge of the fancy wor
on a Chinese town hall being built, pU
on airs to the extent of saying tha
America cabinetmakers could not ear
their tobacco money in China, as mos
of their work, while grand to the eye
was coarse in construction. Any skill
full Chinese woodworker, he said, coul
make a bedstead that would be wort
$4,000 in China, but it wouldn't pa
!, : to make such a one here, as 1t woul
take three years time and no Amer
can would be willing to pay such
price for a bedstead except as a. cur
5 osity. In China, he said, bedsteat
are valued as ornaments, as pianos al