Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-24
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Old Batter sen bridge, the solitary surviv-
ing pile hridge Oh the lower Thames, is to
be pullotdown.
Teachers salaries in the United States
annually emount to more thaa SG0,0O0,0O0
1t IS estimated that there are 1900 diff
ferent kinds Of postage stamps in the
world.
There are 527 members of the house Of
lords ana GO members of the house Of
commons.
The light seen through the eyepiece Of
the Lick telescope will be 1900 times as
bright rs that seen by the lsllsed eye.
Recent very trustworthy calculations of
the population of the Chinese empire by
Russian authorities reckon it at 49,, 900, 900,
and the annual increase mt 100000 Not
one in l00C9 ever heard of the religion Of
Jesus Christ.
"Do you think | could go to the fancy
ball as Helen of Troy?" asked very stout
lady of her lusbnnd Perhaps Helen of
Ayoirdupois would be BETTER" was the
answer.
The first shipment of sealskins to Lon
don this season left Victoria by the Cana
uldl 1 dtllit lWAb Week. HSI hilcll seven
cars, and were valued mt $4,000.
The Corcan alphabet is phonetic, and so
simple that any one can learn to read in a
day Nearly all the women in Corea can
read.
J. M. Gibbs, of Rochelle, has several red
pepper stalks of last years growth. The
stalks bore pepper last year, and owing to
the warm winter were preserved. They
bore all through the winter and are still
bearing, aud If nothing happens to them
they will be bearing this time next year.
A doctor and an undertaken heard of
man who was hurt near Menominee, and
rode to the scene Of the accident in the
same rig, the former taking his pill box
and the latter his coffin. The doctor got
the job
1t is proposed to put the newspaper re-
porters of Brussels, Belgium, in uniform,
and n semi-military costume. with hand
some frogged tunic, is suggested as the
proper thing. The desirability Of the uni
form was first made apparent ut the Stan
ley reception, when they were hustled
about like ordinary mortals because their
identity was lot known.
More or less successful attempts have
been made to graft nearly all the different
tissues of the body, including skin, bone,
teeth, muscle, nerves, glands, eyes, mucous
membrane, etc, Dr. w. G. Thompson now
reports a successful experiment in brain
grating, q small piece of the brain Of cat
being made to grow on the brain of dog
Professor Huxley has a son-in-law who
Is something of an artist, and still more of
wag. A recent picture from his studio
represents his young wife, the professors
beautiful daughter, fast asleep in an arm
chair. At her feet, its pages tumbled by
its fall, is book, of which the title, LAY
Sermons by Huxley" may be plainly dis
cCrned.
There are nearly 5000 dialects and about
900 languages. The Bible or the New 'Tcs-
lament is published in nearly $50 languages
and dialects. The American Bible society
has 242 different versions, and last year
issucd it in six new languages.
An Ohio clergyman surprised his con
gregation one Sunday by making the fol
lowing announcement; NEARLY every
member of this church is either wealthy
or well to do, although no one would think
SO from an inspection of the collection
plates, which are burdened principally
with nickcls would remind you, broth
rem, that the collection plate is notn nickel
n-the-slot machine, and that few bills
would come in very handy in the work Of
the church"
The flora of Europe embraces about TO-.
GOO species, India has about 1900; the
British possessions in North America,
though with an area nearly us large as
Europe, have only about 5000 species; one
of the richest floras is that Of the Cape of
Good Hope and Natal, which figures up
about 10000 species; Australia also is rich
in species, about 10000 being now known