Huntsville gazette., 1881-09-03
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"A watering-place letter says that
ex-senator Conkling is an expert SWIM
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The Mayor of Boston receives
$1,000 porss salary than the Governor
-Ifi-excavating at the Lord Lorne
Mine, at Gold Hill, Nevada, at a depth
of 800 feet, there were found in a STRAIT
h um. of clay live worms about three
\ quarters of an inchslong. sBsffs
The Arab Chief, Ali Ben ,Hilfa,
head of the insurrection against the
French at Sfax. is fifty years old. has
six sons with him, is of q rich family,
and enjoys great influence among the
tribes collected at Sfax.
kitty Ramsden, whose professional
title is the s' Golden Fly" was taking
her flight to the roof of a Moscow thea
ter, when the elastic spiral snapped and
she fell heavily to the stage from a
height of 123 feet, fracturing her shoul-
der, and spine.
Consul Wilson writes that Palestine
is fast asleep. There is only one good
wagon road in all the Holy Land, the
one leading from Jerusalem to Jaffa;
the newspapers are two small, feeble He
brew sheets; and the railroad improve
ments are yet to be made.
"A Brooklyn lady at Poland Springs
is an accomplished pianist, dexterous
croquet player, pulls good oar with
any boy in the crowd, is an admirable
fly-fsher, and a crack first base at base
BALI beside possessing unusual attain
ments in social culture.
Professor Fairchild, of Jersey City,
offers $1,000 for a parrot which can
plainly speak one single word. He has
seen hundreds which cawed and CAB
bled, but never a one which talked, and
he says the bird was not born to get the
right twist of the tongue.
Peter Joubert, the Boer General, is
called in the Transvaal +" Slim Piet -
(that is, in English, /" Clever Peter ~;
also Piet Advocate, because he can talk
very much, and has been not only rich
Boer, but also for some time an agent
in the lower courts, what in England is,
called pettifogger.
LA journalist of the Philadelphia
Times has been on a fishing trip.
Sometimes" he writes, ga raw-look-
ing country lad, with hook and line
made fast to stick cut from tree,
will bring in all the fish he wants. while
the tourist, with split BAN boo rod and
silver-plated reel, will have to buy of the
lad, OF 60 home without fish,
John Lester, who had been perfect
ing his knowledge of civil engineering
among the mines of Spain, in the neigh
borhood of Bilbao, was making q jour
ney in France, when, on arriving near
the French frontier, brigands carried
him off prisoner to the hills. He re-
manned eight days, and freed himself by
actually gnawing his bonds assunder.
j. P. Wickersham, formerly Super
intendent of Schools for Pennsylvania,
who has been examining into the rela-
tions of education to crime, has come
to the conclusion that one-sixth of all the
crime in the country is committed by
persons wholly illiterate, and one-third
by persons practically illiterate, and
that the proportion of criminals among
the illiterate is about ten times greater
than among those who have been in
structed in the elements of a common
school education or beyond.
In the sage-brush section of Nevada
lived a poor family consisting of hus-
band, wife and little boy. The near
est neighbor was wealthy bachelor,
who roughed it on one of the best stock
farms of the State. One night about a
month ago the bachelor ran off with his
neighbours wife and came East, but to
what city is unknown. Instead of fol-
lowing the destroyer of his peace the
husband went over to the stock-farm,
took possession and there holds sway.
The community has decided that he
shall not be molested and that every
herd of the bachelors cattle by right
belongs to the injured poor man. sWhat
this story lacks in detail,' says the Reno
Gazette, sit makes up in TRUTH
The late General Robert Patterson,
of Baltimore, recently said: 81 have
voted at every Presidential election since
the war of 1872; was on intimate and
friendly terms with Monroe, Adams,
jackson, Van Buren,, Harrison, Polk,
Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln and
Grant; have dined with nearly all of
them at the White House, and most of
them have dined at my house. had
the honor of intimate and friendly rela-
tions with Henry Clay, Webster, CAL
houn, Benton, Hugh L. White, Taze-
well, Grundy, Dallas, -Poindexter, Lin
coin, of Massachusetts,, Silas Wright,
Marcy, Bayard, Reverdy johnson, and
most of the intellectual giants of the
Senate and House of Representatives in
by-gone days." A @iIa
The Biggest Fool in America.