Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-22
ODDS AND ENDS.

hangs In a cage in front of the establish
ment, and occasionally advises passers by
to get their hair cut.
Charley Cy, u tall, angular Chiaaman,
has been granted license in Philadelphia
20 marry Maggie Bgeqh. pretty white
girl, Is years old.
1t is reported that an effort is being made
ut Atlanta, Ga, to organize Il company
with 5000, 900 capital to establish II newly
invented system of electric motive power.
1t has been suggested that the phono-
graph shall be used as u cash register.
Every sum the cashier receives might be
called in the monograph, AMI there re-
corded as check on the accounts.
The steamer Palestine, which has just
reached Boston from Liverpool, reports
that on June %, in lat. AZ, A north, lon.
As, "a west, she passed an iceberg appar-
emily one mile in length and about 50 feet
high.
Professor Totten, of Yale, has actually
discovered the date of Joshua's long day
BY series of calculations he proves to sat
isfaction that the juncture of the sun and
moon which marked Joshuas long day
took place at lib n. m, eXlctly 8, 43j full
lunar years ago, or, in other words, the
365th Sabbatic year.
The chief of the police of Moscow has is
sued orders that those who sell papers or
other printed matter in the streets shall
not be allowed to pursue their vocation if
they arc not dressed in proper uniform or
il they do not appear clean and tidy. From
the date of this order two weeks was al
lowed the vendors of newspapers to get
their uniforms into proper shape.
Some cnrious statistics IN the amount of
artificial lightinc supplied ner head in
Paris have been laid before the Sot.iete In
ternotionnle des Electricians Thirty wears
ago the lighting was equivalent to 3,165
candles per annum for each inhabitant
BY 1872 the amount had arisen to 6,0O0,
and by gradual increase it in 1889 reached
1890, which was equal to about thirty can
dies per head per day.
A school teacher at Fairfield. Me. has
hit upon n Man which greotlv aIIeyiates
the trials of the district schools in the hot
summer months She moved the whole
school out of doors and taught on imnro.
vised recitation benches. while the nnniIs
studded ON rural desks. The only disturh
ancc was caused by small boy, who be-
came disinterested in his primer and
"shinned" willow tree.while class was
reciting.
The coolest placc where men do business
in New York il the old Washington mar
ket All the refriperators in the market
are cooled bv the Cool Air company. The
pipes which lead from the central nlant to
the refrigerators run in every direction
lust under the roof of the market. On the
warmest DAVIS these pines are covered with
snow half an inch thick. This cools the
air around them, and the cool air naturally
falls, thus cooling the entire atmosphere
in the market.
"It NAV come to mass. y said British
lecturer lately. ''that some African NAV
In centuries tn come noint ont how a race
of Establishment once dominated the West
indies and wore ironrovod off tho face ~
the land Such fears are real enough
In 1893 there were in those islands a non
Europeans to 1900 Africans. In 1900 the
numbers were 80, 900 Europeans and 300, 900
Africans. In the last census the figures
were 14433 Europeans, 100, DAG colored or
mulattoes, 4A,lSJ Africans and 1920
Asiatics.
A Moxicon norrot ,ybic,, bas iust d;ed
in New York at the aqe Of u snoi,c French
and English no weIl as snonish with
rotico.IIo rnoncv She emo IInrIisb and
Snnnish sentimont,l snnars Hor favorite
dittv was GLOW Can We over Meet "a
Stranpers2,, This she could sing all
thron9h without sl,inninrr n word or max
inn . false note She couId cali NV name
every member Of n LARGE family md every