Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-15
ODDS AND ENDS.

At a shooting party Of five guns recently
given by Count Weissemburg the bag con-
sisted Of {, 1858 hares and 2l9 pheasants, shot
on one day.
The Bulgarian government proposes to
adopt the Gregorian calepdar instead of the
old style Greek calendar still Used in Russia
and some weeks out of agreement with the
rest of the world.
The rule of growth is that child should
increase two pounds in weight for every inch
in height between three and four feet and
two and one-half pounds for every inch be-
tween four and five feet.
During performance OF "L'Africainen re-
Gently in Paris at the Opera the chorus be-
came SO fat that the director sgnaled for
the orchestra to cease playing, and the
prayer, 60 Grand Saint Dominique was
given without accompaniment. The explana-
tion afforded was that the choristers were
over fatigued by rehearsals.
Cotton paper is used in the cheapest grades
Of cigarettes and wrappers for 1000 cigar
cites cost only two cents. Rice paper is the
| choicest and most costly used in cigarette
making. To5acconized paper is made by
saturating paper with an infusion of tobacco
and pressing it in such way as to produce
an imitation OF the veins of the tobacco leaf.
Some boys PLAYING on the canal bank at
Retford found hole fullof silver coins. Nine
of the lads filled their caps with the money,
which they took to the police station. The
treasure place was afterward thoroughly
searched, and altogether $3.50 worth of coins
were taken out The coins had evidently
been under ground for many years
The dagger with which Ravaillac assassi-
mated Henry " of France has been found by
Berlin autiquary. He bought a curious
thick cane from peasant and on examina-
ton the stick proved to be hollow and to
contain On ancient poniard aud tiny snuff
box In the latter was paper stating that
the owner OF the stick had carried off the
historical dagger from the Paris Palais de
Justice in 1915
A 14-year-old boy confined in a Paris prison
for attempted MURDER being put into a strait
Jacket as punishment for violation of the
rules managed to free himself by rubbing off
the fastenings against corner of his cell
door frame, and then made out of his clothes
| a rope with which he strangled himself from
the bars of his cell.
The largest and heaviest building stone
ever quarred in England was taken from
lUb IIdllhtHSGOu Houi 4NOtNICuI III
February 1889 1t was in one piece with
out crack or flaw, and weighed over thirty
five tons 1t was Is feet long, 6 feet high
and feet wide.
The French government is taking vigOr
Gus measures to suppress the morphine habit
by furnishing the druggists who sell the drug
to persons whom they know to be addicted
to its use One druggist who had been con-
victed of this offense in one district, and had
paid the penalty, has been refused a diploma
in another district, where he has opened a
new shop.
Tushkuroff, the Russian traveller and eth
nologist points out in recently published
statistics that there are in the Russian army
400, 600 heathens and $4,000 Mahometans, The
latter forming 70 per cent. of the Russian
Cossacll regiments, He also states that
Christianity is rapidly decreasing in the
southeastern parts of the empire.
English thieves are using contrivance
looking like an ordinary walking stick, but
which is SO arranged that by pressing spring
at the handle the ferrule will spread apart
and form a sort of spring clip that will take
hold of anything that is within reach. The
thing is called "the continental lifting stick, ~
and is used to take goods from behind coun-
tiers when the shopman's back is turned.
The deepest lake in the world is Lake
Baikal, in Siberia. Its area of over 5000
square miles makes it about equal to Erie in
superficial extent; its enormous depth of be-
tween 5000 and 4, 800 feet makes the volume
of its waters almost equal to that of Lake
Superior; although its surface is 1850 feet
above the sea level, its bottom is nearly 5000
feet below it.
The largest advertisement in the world is
that of The Glasgow News, cut in the shape
of flower Leds on the side of hill back of
Ardenlee, Scotland The words Glasgow
News can be seen and plainly read distance
of four miles; the length of each letter is 40
feet; the total length of the line 1923 feet; the
area covered by the letters IA, $40 feet.