Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-09
ODDS AND ENDS.

Ono man In Robbinston, Me-, has 5000
little chickens with quarters in 300 barrels.
People go miles to see the sight.
The Italians make holiday of the 21st
of September, the anniversary of the Ell
trance of the Italian army into Rome.
Chris l.. Magee has given 1000 toward
the erection of home for newsboys, boot
blacks and messenger boys in Pittsburg.
The total coal output of France in 1899
was 2458s,SsO tons, an increase of nearly
100000 tons relatively to 1888.
A Paw Paw man worth 100000 carried
water for circus and thus got inside the
tent free.
1t was Emerson who said, Glitch your
wagon to star" but unfortunately the
great Yankee philosopher neglected to tell
us how,
1t is estimated that the number of pas
sengers carried by all the railroads i'll the
world averages 6500,000 n day.
Berlin has a stenographer with an unique
speciality. He attends all funerals of
prominent persons, and takes down YER
bntim the addresses of the officiating
clergymen. Then he prepares highly orna-
mcntcd copies of the addresses and sells
them to the friends of the culogized dead.
His business is so good that he has taken
one assistant and has advertised for
another
There has Just been finished and placed
in the cathedral of Charkov, Russia, a clock
of solid silver, weighing COO pounds. 1t is
in memory of the ears escape from death
in the railroad accident ut Borli, and is so
arranged that upon Oct. II, in each year
the anniversary of that event-it will ring
peal of bells.
Tho droshky drivers Of Kursk have in
vented II new kind of n strike; they will
not carry passenger through II street that
is not paved. As most of the streets of
that town are not paved, the public is in
| trouble especially on rainy days, when the
mire is knee deep, The droshky driver
will take them only rs far as the pavement
goes, and then let them wade through the
miro.
Many parents are apt to consider their
daughters worth their weight in gold, but
Scotch gentleman estimated his two
| daughters Valuc at even higher rate
than this, beqaeathing to each her weight
| in 81 notes. The elder seems to have been
| simmer than her sister, for she got only
! G5l, POO, while the younger received G57, 344.
! A 5-ycar,old child in West Camel is of
| the following dimensions: Height, 4 feet;
weight, III pounds circumference of abdo-
| men, 42i5 inches: waist, 81 inches; chest,
! 81 inches; neck, II inches; head, 29l inches;
thigh, % inches; calf, 10 inches; arm, IL -
! inches; forearm, 1913 inches He j. very
healthy, eats all he can get. and is fairly
| intelligent The parents are 10y no means
corpulcnt, and their other children are of
ordinary size.
An electrician who has made a speciality
of spectacular electricity says the day is not
far off when electrical fireworks will SUI
perscdc those now used. He declares that
for comparatively moderate outlay he
could arrange an electrical display for the
city which would last for many years, and
could bc repeated MS often rs desired 1t
would comprise rockets, Roman candles,
wheels, Niagara Falls and all the modern
| pyrotcchnic effects
1t may be news to some men who smoke
pcrfcctus and Manuel Garcias at twenty
cents apiece to learn that the list price of
the better brands of Cuban stock runs up
to $50 thousand This means that they
are eighty cents apiece at wholesale Now,
with the duties paid and the profits ex-
pcctcd on nm article of this kind they
could not he sold for s. straight, or about
500 box These cigars are bought by
the royal families Of Europe. There's not
, much market IN America for cigars costing
s. each