Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-07
ODDS AND ENDS.

There are 10 different varieties of straw
berries growing in the experimental gar
dens at the Kansas Agricultural college.
In Prussia there are 2O,00O, eco of acres of
forests, 10000, 600 of which are state forests.
OF these the income is $l4, 900, 600 and the
expense $500.
Old furniture still sells extremely well.
In Paris recently two Louis XIV cabinets,
ornamented with ancient Sevres porcelain,
brought 10000 francs, Louis XIV chest of
drawers 1900 francs and a jardiniere in old
Sevres porcelain 1000 francs
4 new style of candle has recently been
introduced which is pierced through its
length with three holes. These tiny pipes
carry off the melted wax, thus preventing
dripping on the outside.
At dinner by the ''Last Mans club in
Philadelphia two candles were unlighted,
signifying the death OF two members.
Plates, knives and glasses were laid for the
dead, and the sorbet box was a miniature
package inscribed ''The Last Mans Elixir
of Life"
English men-of-war must be not only
wonderfully but fearfully made The opin-
ion is published that no ironclad has been
built during the last ten years which did
not draw at least foot more water than
the government provided for The bow Of
one of the latest great ships, the Trafalgar,
sinks sixteen inches below its intended
line.
The sum of $55,0O0 in gold coin was sent
from San Bernardino to San Francisco by
mail a few days ago as second class matter
at one cent an ounce. An insurance com
pany took a risk on the coin, and the bank
saved $50 by using the mail.
We may not produce the greatest philos-
ophers or theologians, but we can claim
the proud distinction of using the most
soap, For every 100 pounds used in the
United States England uses So, Germany
SO, France So, Sweden 20, Italy 81, Bulgaria
IS, and Mexico %.
A chess revival is in progress in Japan
Until the time of the revolution of 1867 it
had enjoyed an official recognition in that
country never shown it in any other. An
nual tournaments were held under the
patronage Of the shotguns and the players
were ranked by official decree.
A last will and testament 5000 years old
was found recently in Egypt. The testator,
Sekiah, executed it with his own hand in
favor of his own brother, priest of Osiris.
The property disposed of in the will was to
go at the brothers. death to Sekiah s daugh-
ter, who, the internal evidence of the docu-
ment shows, had the same legal right as
man to own and administer and dispose of
property.
Peters Pence was collected last year ac
cording to the following table; Austria con
tributed $4,000; Italy and France, $4,000
each; South America, 912, 400; North Amer
lea, Ell, 800; Spain, $4,000; North Germany.
97,2OO; Portugal, $4,000; Ireland, 800,
Belgium, e4,900; Asia, $4,000; Roumania,
$4,000; Great Britain, SO, 800; Africa, R3, 600
Poland, e3,4OO; Australia, 93,4O0; Switzer
land, &2,200 and Russia, 91,600.
That mysterious disease, la mona, has ap-
peared in western France A farmer be
longing to village near Dole, in the Jura,
slept for four days and nights, and woke
in such an exhausted condition that he
died two days later, Another fatality oc
Cured near Pressburg, in Austria, boy
of 10 dying after a similar sleep of four
days.
With moderate care and good usage
horses life may be prolonged to twenty
five, thirty-five or forty years. An Eng
lishman had three horses which severally
died in his possession at the age of 35, 81
and 80 years. The oldest was in a carriage
the very day he died, strong and vigorous,
but was carried off by spasmodic collie, to
which he was subject. A horse in use in a
riding school at Woolwich lived to be 40
years old.
A New Zealand idol, $50 years old, six
inches long, cut out of jade and uglier than
an Allegheny mud puppy, has been caught
trying to come through the New York Gus
tom house without paying duty and is in
the care of the treasury agents. 1t was in
tended for the Metropolitan museum and
was mailed to them in ignorance of the
regulations of our tariff