Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-13
ODDS AND ENDS.

The danger of infection from impure
water is said to be only slightly reduced
by filtration through sand, bacteria pass.
ing through at all times, but in larger
numbers just after the filter has been
cleaned and again after it has been used
for some time.
1t is proposed to substitute new meas
ure of light as standard In place of the
candle, and it is thought that some one of
the measures already used will be adopted.
A black thunder cloud had obscured the
sky. "The other day it was tightening"
said little girl, land now it's darkening."
The first prize in the competition for the
memorial to the late German Emperor
William l, in Silesia, has been adjudged to
the sculptor Herr Christian Behrens, OF
Breslau, and the architect Herr LIGHT, Of
Leipzig.
A "Wild East" has been brought to Lon
don, for an attempt similar to that of Buff
falo Bill Eighty Arabs and few negroes,
including women and children, horses,
eamels, asses, dogs, tents--in fact, the
oriental outfit complete-have come over
to exhibit the life and to execute the fan
tasias of the desert.
At Torrelagorda, Cadiz, Maxim auto
matte rapid firing gun weighing about 300
pounds threw projectiles weighing some
thing over one pound at the rate of fifty
shots in ten seconds. In high wind it
put forty-seven shots out of fifty in tar
get COO meters distant. Afterward it fired
fifty explosive shells in ten seconds at 1900
meters range, and dozen shots pierced
the target.
Two English cyclists have Just completed
the tour of Europe on bicycles. They left
London last summer, and travelled exclu-
sively on their machines, except when
obliged to take steamer for crossing a sea
or lake. They went through France,
Switzerland and Austria, into Roumania
and Turkey, thence returning via Russia,
Sweden and Norway, Northern Prussia,
Holland and Belgium.
At the beginning Of the year It was esti.
mated that about S600, 600, 900 was invested
in the electrical industries The telegraph
companies had $3.50, 0O0, 600; telephone, $780,
100000; electric lighting and power com.
panies, $500, GOO, 900; electrical supply com.
panies, 100000, 900. There is no doubt thai
another year will show $1,000, OOO, 900 in
vested in electrical industries.
The biggest telescope in the world, erect
ed at Ealing, in England, has just been
made, single handed, by Mr.. Common, the
astronomer Its whole mass weighs nearly
twenty TONS The enormous iron cylinder
which forms the tube is 20 feet long and
feet in diameter, resembling the ordinary
boiler of a stationary engine. Inside this
Is delicately distributed some ten tons of
pig iron, the whole instrument going to
form the most wonderful machine which
the planet possesses. Through Mr.. Com
mons telescope it will be easy to see no
fewer than 100000 atars.
An elaborate system of protection against
fire is to be installed at the Brussels theatre
de la Monnaie during the summer holt
days. An immense water tank will be
connected with a number of small taps
placed all over the building. When either
Of these taps is turned the water will run
into q series of pipes playing upon the stage
and will automatically bring down the iron
curtain, ring alarm bells and light electric
lamps in all the passages, so that the au-
dience may find their way If the gas fails.
The site of the old court house and
county jail, erected In 1764 In Great Bar
rington, Mass, is to be marked by block Of
stone with the following inscription: Near
this spot stood the first court house Of
Berkshire county, erected In 1764, where,
Aug 16, 1774, occurred the first open resist
ance to British rule in this country" II
was at this court house, in 1850, that Theo-
dore Sedgwick, under the bill of rights,
secured the freedom of Elizabeth Freeman,
a runaway slave OF Gen. John Ashley, Of
Sheffield. This is supposed TO be the first
freeing Of slave by legal process In North
America
One often reads pathetic stories Of pet
birds that die simultaneously with, or
shortly after, their child owners. II sounds
pretty, but the simple prose Of the matter
often is that the owners infected the birds
Canaries aud other songsters- will catch
scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, or almost
any other human disease. and II left in the
sick rom they are almost sure TO be in
fected. Pet cats and small dogs, too. ara
often sacrificed in the same way, and in
their cases there Is also the risk that they
win go out and become the unwilling In
straments Of disseminating disease.