Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-19
opps ANp eNps.


ingnaen At Pittsburg viii cost 100000.
The Holland society, Of New York, Is
Keeping the memory OF the early Dutch
settlers green by marking historic sites in
New York city with appropriate tablets.
The papers are full OF accounts of sill
yer center piece which is being manufac-
tured for the queen, and which contains
1900 ounces Of silver As there is already
plate at Windsor castle valued at upwards
of two millions, it is difficult to conceive
what the queen can want with another CEN
ter piece.
The important work Of draining the
Roman marshes, on which the Italian gov
eminent has been engaged since 1884, Is now
well advanced toward completion. The
work can only be carried on at certain
seasons of the year, owing to the unhealth-
mess of the district.
A lady went TO one Of the groceries in
Wildwood Fla, and bought two pounds OF
butter that had been bought in the country
by the merchant. When the nice yellow
lump was cut in two, there was found in
the center Of II a large Irish potato, nicely
peeled and carefully covered over with
butter.
The fav6rite flower for the buttonhole is,
perhaps, the scarnation. 1t is a cheerful
little blossom that lasts for days with its
stem in glass of water, and smiles frankly
and contentedly all day long when thrust
in buttonhole and uncheered by drop Of
moisture.
Howardsville, Colo, has a curiosity In
the shape Of an ice mine. The mine Is owned
by parties who in the earlier days ran a
tunnel through the frozen ground and
struck spring beyond. AS the water flows
out of the tunnel it freezes, and the tunnel
is now filed nearly to the roof with pure
ice. 1t has long supplied ice for the town,
and never thaws, winter or summer.
The London Geological society possesses
white peacock. The bird preserves the
markings which distinguish the species,
particularly the large eyelike spots on the
tail feathers. The effect of these spots is
remarkable They are exactly like the pat
tern ON damask tablecloth.
Last year the world raised 1900, 600, 900
bushels Of wheat. The United States grew
400, 000, 600 bushels France, BOG, 600, 600; In
dia, 237, 900, 900; Russia with Poland, &c.,,
100000; Portugal, 1900, 900; Denmark, $780,
600; Spain $4,000, 600; Switzerland, 2, 500, 900;
Germany, S4,00O,00 Hungary, $1,000, 900;
Asia Minor, 37,000,0O0; Persia, 10000
Obstinate nose bleeding is frequently one
of the most, difficult things to check. Sew
eral aggravated cases have lately occurred
at the hospital of the University of Penn
sylvania. As last resort DR.. d. Hayes
Agnew tried ham fat with great result.
Two large cylinders of bacon were forced
well into the nostrils and the hemorrhage
ceased at once.
A remarkable surgical operation was
performed recently near Red Oak, La. A
week ago a 14-year-old son of James Hall
was shot by hired man with 39-caliber
revolver, the ball passing into the abdomen
and cutting the intestines in four places.
He was placed under the influence of ether,
the intestines removed and the cuts sewed
up. He may live.
In gratitude for their deliverance from
the perils of the voyage in the Inman liner
City of Paris, the passengers, before land
ing, subscribed 2600 as thank offering
and appointed committee to decide upon
its application. 1t is understood that the
committee have decided to hand over 2400
to the Seamen's hospital, Liverpool, for its
general purposes, and to endow with the
balance bed in the same institution for
sick American sailors.
A considerable sum of the Russian rev.
enue is annually spent in payment for the
corpses of wolves. The official estimate is
that no fewer than 10000 of the creatures
are roaming about at large. Last year the
inhabitants OF the province of Vologda
killed 1900 OF the brutes, and In the Casan
district 81 900 were killed. The wolves de-
stroyed 219 human beings in the course of
the last twelvemonth.
Habit clothes are made extremely plain,
and are constructed as to dispense with all
the weight possible. This matter of weight
is something that women are striving to
avoid. The fifteen and twenty pound
skirts which women have been burdened
with and which physicians have con-
demned are judiciously discarded now.
There seems to be good reason for fearing
that the zebra is rapidly becoming extinct
Sportsmen and travellers concur la report
ing that the zebra of South Africa is now
more and more difficulJ to find, and is, like
the aboriginal races of primitive lands, dis
appearing before the march of civilization
And, unlike "the noble savage" the agile
zebra has ever resolutely refused to be
tanned.
In London alone there are upward of ITO
piano factories, Over 300 shops and fac
tories in the metropolis are devoted to the
supplying of musical goods of all Sorts
Throughout the provinces there are about
3,000music establishments of various kinds
They possess in England no fewer than
thirty-seven newspapers dealing exclusive
ly with music. At the annual banquet of
the Society of Musical Instrument Manu-
facturers one Of the speakers estimated
that 10000 pianofortes are manufactured
every year in London.
The beefsteak dinner given by Senator
Stadler to the senate and the senate cor
respondents in Albany, N Y, has been the
talk Of the town. No knives, forks, plates
or spoons were used, the guests using their
fingers. The meat, selected for its tender
ness and juiciness, was cut in delicate and
appetizing strips, which were placed on
thinly cut slices Of bread, which were sat
urated with gravy, seasoned with pepper,
butter and salt,