Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-02

On an average there are thirty-five more
boys than girls born In New York city
every week. On the average llfty-flve more
males than females die. So the female pop
ulation grows more rapidly than the male.
The perfection of ventilation is now at
tanned by electricity. The new United
States man-of-war Baltimore is supplied
with au electrical ventilator which will
change the atmosphere Of the engine room
completely in two minutes
A postage stamp was recently found by a
Connecticut physician In the ear Of little
patient, and on its removal severe pain,
from which the child had suffered and
which caused the visit to the doctor, disap-
peared.
While English bank directors are forbid
ding their clerks to marry on less salary
than $3.50 the flnanciers Of Vienna are pur-
suing course which is the very reverse.
They are Diminishing all their single en-
ployes and retaining only those who are
married, their idea being that clerk who
has family dependent upon him is less
likely to go wrong than one who has not.
A gentleman remarked in one of the no
tells the other evening that he noticed dur
ing several years experience in position
requiring the use of large amount of
small change that for about six months of
every year there are more pennies than he
knows what to do with, and during the re-
mainder of the year it is almost impossible
to get enough pennies to transact business,
There are fewer blondes, more brunettes
and just as many auburn haired girls and
woIaen rs there were ten years ago. AS
the climate gets milder the number Of dark
haired persons increases, and the change
has been more marked by tho fact that
most Of tho immigration has of late years
been from the southern countries of Eu-
rope.
On drawing a net Florida fisherman
succeeded in landing an alligator and a
turtle. The alligator was nine feet IN
length, while the turtle was of the logger
head variety, and subsequent weighing
showed It to be eighty-flve pounds in
weight. The back Of the alligator was
broken in two places, while one of the feet
was almost severed from the body.
Surprising that you wished to walk
through all the streets and lanes aud al
leys OF London, and were able to arrange
your trip 80 that you never tFaversed chs
same one twice, you would have to walk
ten miles every day for nine years before
your journey would be completed.
While grading for a site for new build
ing in Nevada large stump was uprooted
The wood was partially decayed and borC
no signs Of anything unusual, but MS soor
as darkness had settled down upon The
earth the stump became thing of beauty
Every particle Of the fractured WOOD
giowed with phosphorescent light, and al
distance Of three feet fine print could bt
read by this light. Phosphorescent WOOD
Is not uncommon, but it is-not often that
1t is found to throw light any distance.
The authorities of Thaurila have init
ated hard fight against the German name:
which German colonists have bestowed or
their settlements since 1862. Six Villages
bearing respectively the names Of Gnaden
field, HerrndAnk, Msrienfeld, Tiefenburg
Philipstal and Llebenstal were ordered e
be called by the more euphonious Ito the
Russian earl appellations Of Karmyshik
Telesh, Spat, Sargbash, Temiblat and
Marty. These names, all but the last, arr
OF Tartar origin.