The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-10-11
NEWsY cLEANlNcs.

New York is the wealthiest State.
Africa kills 69,OOO elephants annually.
Herding sheep on bicycle Is an innova-
ton in California.
An Indiana calf, now two months old, has
hoofs like horse.
England loses $50, OOO, 900 worth Of prop
erty each year by fire.
Ten thousand persons have applied for
licenses TO hunt deer in Michigan.
Half dozen once wealthy ''forty-niners"
are in the San Francisco almshouse.
A gas we'll has been discovered on the
farm of Henry Evans, Berwick, Iowa.
An oighty-year-old thief has Just been sent
to the penitentiary from st. Charles, Mo.
There we're Il, 1854, ia punches Of bananas
consumed in the United States last year.
SPANS revenues from taxes have fallen of
over 5000, 900 as compared with last year.
What is probably the largest apple ORCH
ard in the world covers 1887 acres in Fair
mont, Kan.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Little, Of Austin, Texas. claims
a large part OF the land on which Columbus,
Ohio, is built.
A New York man won temporary fame
| the other day by eating ninety apricots
without stopping.
Dairy cattle of st. Louis are dying by
scores from anthrax. which is also raging In
Randolph County, Missouri.
The canadian 500" ship canal, around
| the st. Mary's River at the foot of Lake
| Superior. has been opened for traffic.
New England cotton manufacturers, rep
resenting an aggregate capital of $500 ,000,-
900, will meet at Atlauta, Ca, in October.
OF seventy deaths from lightning in
! France last year, sixty occurred in the
mountains Of the department of Puy do
Dome.
Chicago has 1900 acres of parks, exclusive
of the lake-front common, and about eighty
five miles of broad, improved boulevards
connecting with them.
The new Congressional Library Building
will be finished by the time Congress
assemblies, and it is said to be one Of the
handsomest structures In the city
In the ancient ruins near Buluroayo. in
South Africa, great find of antique jewelry
and gold work has just been made; over two
hundred ounces have already been taken
out.
Mrs. Andrew Moorehead, of New Haven,
is the first woman to take out naturalization
papers in Connecticut. She was born in
England. Her husband remains q British
subject.
The recently elected police force of South
Bend, Wash, is probably the smallest and
biggest in the country. 1t consists of two
men, one of them weighs 295 pounds and
the other 2S5 pounds.
A princess, countess, a duchess and the
daughter OF reigning prince We're among
the 1000 thieves, professional and unpro-
fessonal, arrested in Paris during the first
six months Of this year.
Last year thirty-three persons in London
lost their lives by the explosion OF coal oil
lamps. In twenty-five cases the lamps were
glass lamps, and it is therefore proposed to
prohibit their sale and use.
Colonel John Bradbury the San Francisco
millionaire, with his bride, set out to make
n tour of the world in ninety days, got home
two DAYS behind time. They lost it by miss
ing the Southampton steamer
Mrs Dennis Scully, wife of a laborer OIL
CORY. Penn, has been notified by the au-
thorities OF Calcutta, India. that she is ono
of two heirs to the estate OF her uncle, Michae
Shanahan, valued at 81, 100000.
Constantinople Bulgarians have ordered
from a Vienna manufacturer an iron ehurcf
1O5 feet long and forty-nine feet wide, will
atower ninety-eigbt feet high. twill weigl
500 tons and cost, including transportation
$4,000.
There is a wild man near Sun Prairie, Wis.
who amuses himself after dark by borrowing
the farmers horses and riding recklesst
about the country, as II to ease an overbur
dened conscience, He lives on fish and Der
r1es and camps in secret hiding places.
WHATEVER enlarges hope will ais
] J1alt courage.