Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-13
ODDS AND ENDS.

In Scotland it is said that to rock the empty
tradle will insure the coming Of other occu-
pants for 1t.
London university has now on its rolls
lady masters of art lat bachelors of art, 2
| doctors of science, 81 bachelors Of science and
ladies holding medical and surgical degrees
Swallows and butterflies made of jet, gold
tinsel, and beads fly across the skirts and
bodices Of some of the latest fashionable even
ing dresses of English ladies, and 1t Is predict
ed that the new style will drive out flowers as
a trimming
A Russian government committee has pre-
pared plan for the through Siberian rail
way, to be completed in ten years. The total
length of the line is to be 4,375 miles and the
total cost 2500OO,0O0 rubles.
Do you think you can read all the new
books9 In England last year the books pull
lished numbered 6,067. OF them 1873 were
new editions and 1904 new books. Add to
this number the new publications Of Ger
many, France and America, and you can
readily see how impossible 1t is to keep up
with the press.
The revival of trade noticeable through
out the whole Of Europe, has not been with
out its effect in Austria. The settlements on
the Vienna bourse in 1880 amounted to
3,39S, 100000 forms, as against 2,635 900, 900
in 1885, and trade and industry generally
shows similar improvement.
There is a curious enactment in Sweden
In regard to commercial travellers. Any
foreigner or Swedish subject residing abroad,
who visits Sweden for the purpose Of trade,
must give a declaration as to how long he
mdends to stay, and must pay tax Of about
IS los. month for the privilege of being al
lowed to conduct his business.
The CA pvnditures Of Paris actresses for their
dresses have reached such an extravagant fig
ure that at least one well known actress has
refused to continue her engagement because
she could not afford to buy the dresses needed
for new play that was about to be produced
Her salary was &c. 600 per year, and her dresses
alone had cost her IS 200 during the last year,
although there had been but three plays.
1t was the goddess Strenna (strength who
gave her name to strenna, the Italian for
New Years gift, whence came the French
word etrenne which means the same thing
On the first day of the year, in the earliest
Roman times champion wrestlers used to be
conducted amid music and dancing to her
temple, and there crowned with verbena-a
plant which had the reputation of giving
strength to those who inhaled It, For that it
was planted all around Strennas temple, and
also in courtyards and gardens.
Among the indications Of decomposed fish
are external and internal bleeding and clot-
ting, which CLOTHING is intensified by cook
ing, and is frequently seen extending along
the back bone of cooked fish; cloudy,
habby, soft, insipid flesh; a fshy smell;
loss Of brightness and brilliancy about the
scales; any luminosity or phosphOres-
cenoe in the dark. When cooked, sour or
acid taste, with darkened clotted blood, indi-
Gates decomposed fish The darkening Of a
silver spoon indicC tes sulphur, product Of
fish decomposition.
A specimen of the species of acacia, COM
monty called the angry tree, was brought
from Australia and set out at Virginia, New.
When the sun sets the leaves fold up and the
tender twigs coil tightly, like a little pigs
tail. II the shoots are handled the leaves
rustic and move uneasily for a time II this
queer plant rs moved from one pot to another
it seems angry, and the leaves stand ont In
all directions like quilts on a porcuPjns. A
most pungent and sickening odor, said to re-
annoyed, fills the air, and it is only after an
hour OF so that the leaves fold in the natural
way.
The recently opened electric tramway con-
Meeting Clermont-Fer with Royat Is only
Il mile and half long, but on il are thirteen
stations. The generating plant comprises a
$50 horse power Farcot engine and six pole
separately excited Thury dynamo, giving $50
\ pyk-
current is taken TO the cars by an overhead
conductor, the rails acting as return Each
car Is driven by a 40 horse power Thury mo-
tor. The normal speed is eight miles an hour
The names of the principal mountains in the
world are nearly ali suggestive or descriptive
Of their snow covered SUBMITS The names
of Showdon, Ben Nevis Mont Blanc. the
Sierra Nevada, Snafell in Iceland and in the
Isle Of Man, the Sneeuw Bergen at the Cape
OF Good Hope, the Sneehatten in Norway
and the Weisshorn, the Weissmiss and the
Tete Blanche in Switzerland, White noun
tains in New Hampshire, as we'll as the more
archaic or more obscure names of Lebanon
Of Caucasus, and of the Himalayas, are ap-
pellations descriptive, in various languages,
of the characteristic snowy covering Of their
lofty submits.
In 1888 the total imports OF ivory into Eng
land weighed 1851 huudredweight. This
would mean at least G0.000 tusks and the de-
struction Of 10000 elephants for this market
alone France, Germany and America share
in these supplies, but they also obtain ivory
direct, more especially Germany. One au-
thority reckons the annual mortality OF Afri-
can elephants as high as $500 FOR export
alone besides which there is a large consump-
ton in Africa itself. the chiefs In the center
keeping the choicest tusks for the decoration
Of their temples, houses and graves,