Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-25

1t was threatening and cloudy during the
stay of the young Prince Albert Victor of
Wales at Mandalay, and as soon as he had
gone it rained torrents, whereupon the Bur-
mese seers announced that it had been cloudy
above because the glory of the prince out
shone the sun, and at his departure the
heavens wept,"
Seattle was founded thirty-eight years ago
by some thirty or forty men, who went there
in the schooner Extract, which had been
chartered by party of California miners to
go to Alaska. These young men were landed
at Alki Point, and went to the site of Seattle,
which was then an Indian settlement and
mainly dense forest
The oldest lawsuit on record perhaps is one
now being tried in the highest Russian court
at st. Petersburg. 1t was brought 800 years
ago against the city of Kamanez-Podolsk by
the heirs of dead nobleman to recover many
thousand acres of his estate, which had been
confiscated by the municipality. The written
testimony is said to weigh forty-hve tons
The Battle of Flowers, a sort of carnival
celebration, took place at Nice, just before
Lent, The occupants of more than 200 car
riages pelted each other and the bystanders
with flowers. Minnie Hauk had 1000 bouquets
in and upon her carriage. Col North, the
Nitrate King" was also conspicuous in the
parade,
The medicinal virtues of the apple are
being sounded on all sides in Europe. 1t is
said to neutralize the evil effects of eating too
much meat, and German chemists state that
it is richer than any other fruit or vegetable
in phosphorus, an element which is of use in
the renewal of the essential nervous matter
of the brain and the spinal cord.
Gen. Sherman says that Russians were the
first settlers Of California. His authority is a
Russian officer, who gave him facts to sub
stantiate the statement. The Russian said
his countrymen had settled on the present
site of San Francisco twenty years before the
gold fever. AT that time they were engaged
in hunting furs in Alaska, and the San Fran
cisco viDage was supply depot for the Arc
tic hunters.
At dinner party given in New York n
night or two ago set of wonderful doiles
that attracted much admiring notice were
used. "They are the work of Thomas Nast's
daughter, who has inherited much of her
fathers wonderful ability" said the hostess.
The foundation of the dolly was of sheer
boiling cloth mounted on silk and decorated
with exquisite figures in water colors, the de-
sign on each square being wholly unlike that
on any other.
At the recent snow blockade on the Union
Pacific an engineer was hurrying several
physicians to the scene of an accident. A
trestle at one point appeared shaky. He
made his passengers get off and walk around
it. He backed his engine half a mile, opened
his throttle and "let her drive" She went
like lightning over the spot of danger, cleared
1t and brought the physicians to the bedside
of the dying and wounded in time to render
valuable service.
Outside of the Porta Stabiana at Pompeii,
in a stratum Of cinders, have just been found
the impression of three bodies and tree.
Casts taken Of them show the bodies to have
been those of two men and woman. One of
the men was in a kneeling position, and the
other stretched flat on his back. The woman
lay face downward, with her arms stretched
out. The tree, of which casts of foliage and
fruit, as well as of the trunk, were obtained,
was of the species Taurus Nobilis known to
have produced round shaped fruit that
ripened toward the end of autumn, and,
from the form and size of the fruit, it was
evidently ripe when the tree was buried,
which goes TO confirm the theory that the
great catastrophe took place in November of
the year 70 A. D., and not in August, as has
been supposed