Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-03
ODDS ANp ENDS.

Silkworms when newly Matched scarcely
weigh one-quarter Of an ounce yet in the
course of their life, which only lasts about
thirty-fve days, they will consume between
5000 and 1000 pounds of leaves.
A German has invented an apparatus for
forcing sidewise the swell in front of fast
going ships by means of steam jets from
nozzle under the water at the bow.
French scientists have analysed quart
of water taken from a typhoid infected
district, and found 100000 to 20,000,00
typhoid germs therein.
Electric traction is said to be fairly
booming in London. In few weeks line
of omnibuses run by electricity is to be
started. They will be driven by storage
batteries and have a seating capacity for
twenty-six passengers.
Each member of congress gets about 5000
envelopes full of seeds every year, and the
bill Uncle Sam pays for them amounts to
about 100000.
The PEOPLE of the United States during
1889 smoked 3, 1855, 1856 779, 722 cigars, which,
at cents each, cost the consumers $751;
7SS,6S610. This sum, at $4,000 mile,
would have built $3.50 miles Of railroad;
and at $1,000 each would have purchased
20913 locomotives
GEapnels Of new pattern for recovering
the broken ends of submarine cables are
so arranged that on hauling in the grapnel
the bite on tho cable will be not only main
tanned, but increased, and thus the tend
ency of the cable to slip, even though a
loose end be caught, will be removed.
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remove it hastily. If it is necessary to
shake hands with somebody when you are
gloved-you may be thankful. Except in
the case of intimate friends it is disagree
able to give ones hand to every one. If
some one comes to shake hands with you
when you are seated, half rise.
Sir Edwin Arnold recently visited largo
and excellent school at Toxic, containing
1000 pupils, with English and japanese
professors, where the students paid only
one yen per month--that is to say about
IS. ID, for as much learning of various sorts
as they could imbibe.
The forests of Europe, according to late
report, cover the following areas: Germany,
94,596,OO0 acres; Russia, 494, 22S 900 acres;
Austria-Hungary, 46,951, 700 acres; Sweden,
100000 acres; France, ~, 100000 acres;
Spain, 10, 900 acres; Italy, 1884, $40 acres,
and England, 2,471 900 acres.
Besides the rabbit pest, New South Wales
is troubled by another called the 'Aying
fox pest" This creature is species of bat,
the largest of the bat tribe, sometimes
measuring nearly five feet in expanse of
wings, and is popularity termed the flying
fox on account of the red, fox like color of
the fur, and ''the very vulpine aspect of
the head" The attacks of these destruet-
i've animals are mainly aimed against
fruits and other vegetable substances.
The greatest diving feat ever achieved
was in moving the cargo of the ship Cape
Horn, wrecked off the coast of South
America, when diver named Hooper
made seven descents to depth of POI feet,
and at one time remained under water
forty-two minutes. Siebe states the great
est depth to which a man has ever de
scended to be 204 feet, equivalent to press
IRE of lightweight and one-half pounds
per square inch.
A vast sum was sunk in the temporary
plant used in building the Forth bridge
The engineers estimated that 4500000 was
spent in this direction alone. In scaffold-
ing, flooring, shedding, etc, 100000 cubic
feet of timber were used. From first to
last 200 tons of mere service bolts were
needed to hold the mass of material to-
gether. Scores of hydraulic jacks, sixty
miles of wire rope and rams innumerable
were also among the temporary appliances
employed,