Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-28
ODDS AND ENDS.


In NewhFg is factory which is working
night and day turning out ice machines They
claim their machines will make ice for o. so
D ton.
An English lady is about to open a barber
shop in London in which all the attendants
are to be of the weaker sex.
Stanleyis new book is TO be called tsThe
Darkest Africa, and the Quest, Rescue and
Retreat of Emin, Governor of ,EquatoFia.
1t viii beissued simultaneously in England,
France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia
and America.
There is a Home Of Rest for Horses in Lon
don, regularly Incorporated and with lord
for its president. 1t is said to have been
! very successful in small way, and now is
trying to get $500 endowment with which
to buy and maintain a farm for the benefit Of
aged and decrept horses.
The English inspector general of recruit
ing, in his annual report, just issued, tells
that men on strike rarely enlist, and that the
artificial demand for labor created by strikes
does harm to recruiting.
| There were II 1856 books published in Ger
many last year, an increase Of nearly LOCO
over the number in 1885, The list Of educa-
tional books is the largest, 2,0SS, and of Ma
sonic books the smallest, 90.
The new City and Southwark subway in
London has had successful experimental
test, fifty persons travelling in two cars
through the tunnel underneath the Thames at
speed of thirty miles an hour by electric
power. The road is from fifty to seventy feet
underground, and elevators will take people
up and down at the stations.
There are today royal and imperial orders
in the world, with prodigious assortment of
collars, crosses, stars and other fancy insignia,
laid up for the tickling of human ambition.
The oldest is ST. Andrews order, first insti-
tuted in England in 1877 disused afterward,
and re-established in 1910.
The Russian government is taking vigorous
measures to keep the cholera out of its Asiatic
dominions All travellers from Persia and
Turkey have to submit to ten days quaran-
tine, and no more passports are issued from
Russia into those countries
The government of Denmark has erected
fifty telephone stations, chiefly on the west
coast of Jutland, for the use of fishermen,
who are thus able to communicate with the
fish dealers at distance and secure better
prices. All the lifeboat stations in the coun-
try are also connected by telegraph and tele-
phone.
The twenty-seventh annual exhibition of
canaries and British and foreign cage birds
has been held at the Crystal Palace. II was
one of the largest, If not the largest, show Of
birds of this kind ever exhibited-the num-
Der of entries being ISIS, divided among 100
classes. The birds were shown in a tent in
the nave, extending from the central tran
sept to the tropical department.
Forty-fve millions of dollars of capital
have been invested in the building OF the
''new Rome" during the last six years The
larger part of this amount was supplied by
mortgage banks on the security of the lands
and houses. Between 1882 and 1887, when
the building fever was at its height, rents in
creased enormously and are now much high
er than in any other Italian city except Ma
pies.
A Florida fisherman recently baited his set
hooks with small green frogs He left his
hooks in the water all nicely foating-having
been told that this was the best of bait-ex-
pecHng to return next morning and find fish
by the dozen. He returned, and to his sur
prise all of his baited hooks were sitting out
on the banks looking at him, and as he came
water 'kerchunk"
A practical joker with ability as ventrilo-
quist recently blocked traffic in Paris street
by standing beside an open drain and calling
"Help" in a voice that sounded down in the
drain The police summoned laborers, who
made a thorough exploration Of the drain
without discovering the source of the cries,
and the excitement became so intense that
Gordon of police had to be formed to keep
people away from the place. The ventrilo-
qust being forced back with the rest of the
crowd, the cries ceased and the excitement
was over
A doctor in Rome had compiled and pub
lished statistics showing that several thou
sands of persons are annually buried in a state
of coma throughout Europe. The San Reno
correspondent Of The Scotsman says that he
recently saw body exhumed which showed
signs that life had not been extinct when 1t
had been placed in the coffin. The face showed
marks of a struggle, and one hand, as il in
despair, had firmly clutched the skin Of the
side, and had remained so clinched in death.