Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-29
ODDS AND ENDS.

Japanese chickens with tails from IL to IS
feet long, are being imported into this country.
The appearance of the guards sentries in
London, armed with the new magazine rifle
and short sword bayonet, excites much CON
versation among military men.
The ancient Greeks used olive leaves for
ballots, and the Australian voting system is q
revival of the practice in Rome 1000 years
ago.
Paris cab fares will no longer be franc
and half for all distances, but the distance
is to be accurately measured by an apparatus
In the cab, and the charge is to be seventy
| five cents for the first kilometer and twenty.
five cents per kilometer for any further dis
tance.
The commencement of complete history
of all the wars in which Russia has engaged
since the time Of Peter the Great is announced
from st. Petersburg. 1t will be edited by
Gen. Leer, who will be assisted by some of the
best known Russian authorities on military
matters.
A new mineral has been discovered in the
vicinity of the little town of Homer, KY, and
the inhabitants Of that place expect to realize
millions. The substance discovered is black,
Auu Is Vi tOduly appear
ance When placed in the fire it burns with
clear, steady flame, and makes a brilliant
white light. 1t is entirely consumed by burn
ing, leaving no ashes or clinkers.
The annual catch of fish in the European
and North American coasts is computed by
German statistician to amount to 10000
tons. A ton of fish corresponds with twenty
five sheep in weight and with twenty sheep In
nourishing power. Therefore the total Euro
pean and North American catch equals in
number 100000 sheep and In nourisbing
power 80 100000
For about a thousand years northern ST.
IBERIA has exported a large amount Of ivory
to Russia. And at present it is estimated
that hundred pairs of tusks are found every
twelve months and shipped to the czar's COM
mercial centers
The English postal department is adver
Using for bids for the carrying of mails by
coaches between London and several near by
places. The coaches are to run only at night
and to take the mails which now go by train
There are now several mail routes in the
United Kingdom where the mails are carried
| by coaches, although the routes are parallel by
railroads, and it looks as if the department was
seeking to enlarge this branch Of the service
The grounds ON which the White House now
stands were once the orchard of David Burns
an old Scotch farmer, whose cabin still stands
in lonely obscurity few squares back from
the executive mansion 1t is said that Wash
ington, when engaged in laying out the city
had many long and bitter quarrel with
Burns before he could persuade the old man
to sell his land, even though it would be used
in future for the home of the presidents.
The original flag of England was the ban
ner of st. George, iae., white with red cross
which, on April II, 1908, three years after
James | assembled the throne, was incorpor.
ated with the bannerof Scotland--a blue flag
with diagonal white cross. This combina-
ton was named the 'Union Jack, "in allusion
to the union with Scotland, and the word
Jack is probably corruption of Jacobus,
Jacques or James.
The gorgeous railway train which the queen
and king of Italy had built for their journey
to Berlin was burned in the Florence railway
station The cost Of the train was more than
10000 lire 1t was furnished with wealth OF
gold and silver ornaments, and was filled
with the most costly upholstery. Most of the
presents intended for the Berlin court had al
ready been placed on it. Onlya few of the
most valuable bits Of tableware and about
third of the presents we're saved