Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-14
opps AND ENDS.

a AeW system OF burning Dflcky Qy the
usa of kerosene oil instead Of wood, is
now being tried as an experiment ut Jova's
yard, north of Newburg, N. Y, on a kiln
containing $4,000 brick.
1t has been decided that the 'Tonn Of
Euripides is to be the next Greek play at
Cambridge, England. 1t will be presented
next November by the students of that
university.
a new disinfeetant has made its appear
ance under the name of thiocamph. 1t is
a combination Of camphor with sulphur
GUS acid, containing over sixty times its
volume of sulphurous acid gas, which,
upon its exposure in warm room, is grad
ually evolved.
Seville is infested with women BARRIERS.
They are pretty women, however. A wo-
man barber can tuck towel under gen
tleman's chin, hold him by the nose and
brandish a razor as well as q man, and can
do more talking at the same time.
A census of wolves has been taken in
Russia They amount to 170, 900, according
to the enumerators. They commit great
havoc among the sheep and pigs, and dur.
ing the past year 203 human beings have
been devoured by them. The price of a
VOLTS head is fixed by the government at
ten roubles. About $4,000 of them were
killed last year.
A Berlin restaurant and cafe Is cooled in
summer and heated in winter by electricity,
and the food of light from the electric
lamps is tinted delicate pink, which is SO
becoming to the complexion of the lady
visitors that the place is thronged.
A statistical enthusiast says that plan
list, in playing a certain presto, played
5,595 notes in four minutes. The striking
of each note involved two movements Of
the finger and one movement each of the
elbow, wrist and arm. From this it is cal
culated that seventy-two voluntary move
ments were made per second.
The Institute of France has just been
presented with 5000 volumes, including
maps and documents, relative to the so
called Latin countries of America. The
collection was presented as a tribute of
sympathy toward France by committee
consisting of Col. j. J. Dias, minister of
Uruguay; DR.. j, Gutieres-P Ponce, secretary
of legation of Colombia, and j. A. GARLIC
y Navos, formerly consul general of Vene-
zuela.
The annual list of articles lost during
the balls of the preceding season in the
Winter palace at St. Petersburg has just
been published It includes a grand cross
of the order of st. Anna, two stars of the
order of st. Stanislaus, two gold coins
struos in memory of the coronation of
Alexander III at Moscow, five small orders
and fifty bits of womens jewelry valued at
$50, 900.
Judge w. 7. Newman, of Atlanta, owns
a pewter coin or medal bearing on one side
the representation of Independence hall, at
Philadelphia, and the date 1910. On the
other side is the Liberty bell and the in.
scription: Proclaim Liberty Throughout
the Land, unto All the Inhabitants There
of, (" with the denomination, "95."
This year is the 2OOth anniversary of the
invention of the improved tobacco pipe
the bowl, the tube and the mouthpiece. Up
to the year 1890 the only medium of enjoy
ing the fragrant weed was by means of a
cylindrical instrument fashioned from the
crude clay and smelling of the earth
earthly. The inventor of the present com.
bination pipe was a physician, DR.. Vilar.
ius, of Vienna. The first tobacco pipe
mandatory was established in 1890
Enough jewelry was lost at the last
queens drawing room to have stocked a
small shop The crowding and pushing at
barriers were so terrific that several wo
men had their dresses and feathers serious.
ly damaged, and two ladies passed through
the throne room with fearfully disheveled
hair. However, the jewelry which is lost
at the palace is ALWAYS well looked after
so the missing property was ultimately re-
gained by the owners.
Montenegro has hardly any plains. The
limestone ridges of the Dinarie Alps which
traverse it occasionally diversified by lofty
peaks, are SO rugged and rocky that the
people have the common saying, when
God was in the act of distributing stones
over the earth, the bag that held them
burst, and let them all fall upon Monte
negro"
1t is difficult for us to conceive the Sa-
hara as having been a splendidly watered
and richly productive region, yet there is
proof it was once so. Among the many in.
teresting statements made by Col. Flatters,
of England, who in 1871 made a prelimi-
nary study of Eastern Sahara, with view
of building railway through Timbuctoo
to Soudan, is that the desert is traversed
by many mountain chains, which are in
tersected by the beds of ancient rivers, and
everywhere in these valleys an abundance
of water is found not far below the surface