Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-27
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Most of travellers on the olaYat4l rail
roads haze noticed tlat danElrly from the
railing, within handy re8oh OF tne ticket
choppers seat, ism polccnaus ri gAt stick
or its use nothing need be s9il. IGJwmeny
If the 100000 that travel daily on these
lines have evcy noticed short bar Of iron
some six TO eight inches in length, which
hangs NloH"sitlo the night stick? Butthere
it is. There is one for every track Mt each
station
II may be imagined that they are placed
there to give the coup de grace when the
night stick has splintcred on some stub.
born head. Not ut al. The writer by
chance learned one use of them the other
night at an up town station. 1t was quite
late; train had just gone down town
when suddenly from thnt side of the sta
ton came five sharp raps of one metal
striking another, answered at once by the
ticket chopper on the uptown side taking
down his small iron bar and striking one
Of the supports Of the station five taps also.
Whats the meaning of thatp was
asked
"Oh, Mr.. Smith has gone down the line
and Tim over the way spotted him and we
nrt Just signalling the fact down the line. i"
"Who is Alr, Smith2"
"Why, Mr. $. S. Smith, the inspector of
the line SeeY' he said, showing the iron
bar; Give taps with this means be is on his
way down town and six taps are given
when he is going up. The operators send
il on so that he seldom catches any of us
asleep. New York Tribune
While two young men were taking an
early bicycle ride in Prospect park, Brook
Ign, Il morning or so ago they suddenly
came upon u young woman lying in the
roadway beneath her overturned wheel
She explained that her skirts had become
entangled in the machine, and that when
thrown to the ground the garments, which
were of the divided variety, had become so
tightly fastened to the spokes of the
wheels that she was compelled to wait for
assistance to enable her to rise. The young
men gave the necessary aid, and the thank
full young woman went on her way, stop
ping TO give neither name nor address.
There is n birds home and hospital in
oxford street, London, where people can
take their pets to be nursed and cared for
The proprietor says birds suffer chiefly
from consumption and asthma-diseases
brought on by the birds being placed in
draughty windows. Consumption is helped
ON by the birds being Unfortunately fed
on all sorts of things that are unsuitable
as food. Birds are very fond of luxuries,
and the more you give them the more they
will eat. When bird is going off into
consumption it is always eating. lie
pointed to one and said: Gle is in a con-
sumption, and he will be like ball of
down to-morrow-nll pulled out Physic
will sometimes arrest the disease"
Figures snow that II ls-by no means true
that agriculture has kept pace with manu-
featuring in this country. While farm
products increased in value from $50, OOO,-
900 in 1865 to Si1,0O0,000 in 1885, or about
80 per cent, manufactured products in
creased from $213, 100000 to S52s, 800 900 in
1915, or about % cent, and to S31l 100000
in 1885 or nearly $50 per cent in the TWEEN
ty years.
The libraries of the German empire are
as follows; Berlin Imperial library, i91 ,914
volumes; Berlin university, 49,, ~; Bonn
university, 2loOsG; Breslau, 253. csc. Goet-
tingen, 1851; Greifswald, l32. 5s3: Halle,
ISL, liG KEEL, l02,5O0; Koenigsberg. 2a3. 300;
Marburg, 146 300; Munster academy, o., 600;
Brnunsbcrg, l3,OOO, Dusseldorf, 40.532:
Wicsbaden, s. OLE ETfurt, q, 397. Besides
the three million and odd volumes here
enumerated the high schools and cduca-
tiunal institutions possess several hundred
thousand books and manuscripts.
Not to he outdoae by the generosity Of
Philadelphia and Baltimore in presenting
appropriate cmblems 20 the cruisers bear
ing the names of their city the people of
sun Francisco have presented 10 the new
cruiser OF that name a s.; 800 silver service
that is said 70 he the handsomest thing OF
the Kind owned IN America, The sum was
subscribed popularity in less than a day,
and 50 great was the public desire IN leave
a mark aboard their favorite ship that
subscriptions were finally stopped and
part of the money returned.