Huntsville gazette., 1881-09-10
GENERAL.

County, L d. WucIc Guc Oll-DCdilue5 AOOn
is found in abundance. Fifty thousand
acres have been leased for oil purposes.
The Rubber Era says that the value
Of the stocks held by Mr.. Edison in the
yario1s companies formed to introduce
his incandescent-ligh is about $5,OOO,-
| 600.
"A bag containing something like
f50O in gold, intrusted to the care OF
| well known public official, was recently
| left by that gentleman in hanson cab
| in London. Shortly after dismissing
the vehicle the loss was discovered, but
| before any steps could be taken for its
recovery the money was returned intact
by the driver. As reward for his hon.
esty the lucky finder Immediately re-
ceived half a crown.
-Mummies are ground up, bones,
coverings, bitumen, cases and all, for
paint. Artists pay high prices for it.
The bit of autumn leaf in yonder pic
ture is ground-up Browning of many
hundreds of years ago, and the reddish
brown pool in the left-hand painting is
an Egyptian paragrapher who smiled
quantity and sweetly in the forgotten
corner of one of Pharoah's second edl-
tions.
"A bald-headed eagle lowering over
Sir Johns Island, Canada, suddenly
swooped down and attempted to carry
off two-year-old child OF Mr.. John
Clancy, playing in a field alone. The
light clothing gave way with every tug
| Of the voracious bird, and was torn into
ribbons. Some men working near by
came up in time to save the child from
injury, but the eagle refused to so any
distance until shot at.
remember one day in Sacramento"
says a California preacher, 81 saw four
or five little boys sitting on the curbstone
taking turns smoking a cigar stump they
had picked. up on the street. stopped,
and tapping one little fellow on the
shoulder, said: MY dear boy, do not do
that. You don't know how bad it looks.
Throw away that cigar and give up the
habit The little chap, turning around
and facing me, said, as he emitted a
volume of smoke from his mouth, Il
would, sir, but can't do without it.
The steamboaters down from the
upper river report the buffalo unusually
numerous between the mouth of the
Milk River and the Muscleshell. Men
who have run the river for twenty years
say that they have never seen them so
plenty. They seem to have no point to
make, only to wander from one side of
the river to the other. They are fat and
tame. Capt. Smith says that one thou
sand head could have been killed from
his boat, the G.. X. Peck, during her re-
cent trips. The slaughter in the Yellow
stone Valley last winter evidently did
not exterminate this noblest of Ameri-
can game.
The Lord of Wintersheim, who died
about century ago at Noebdenitz, Sax
ony, married an heiress, and being a
man of no landed property, was re-
preached by his wife with this lamenta-
BILE lack. Resolved to enjoy posthu
nous revenge, he purchased from the
parochial authorities of Noebdenitz a
venerable oak and gave directions that
his bones should be placed within its
hollow trunk as lasting protest against
the charge that he had owned no real
estate. To this day the visitor at Noeb
denitz looks through the iron grating
into the hollow oak where sits in state
the skeleton of the Lord of Wintersheim.
The Chinese and Japanese build
most of their vessels of teak. This wood
is very durable, and will stand the water
better than any other wood that is used
for ship-building. According to the
Austrolasian Shipping News, there lies
at the bottom of Dusky Bay large YES
sci that can be plainly seen in clear
water. She has been there for centuries,
and the Maoris have alegend about her.
They say that their grandfathers told
them that in their childhood large ves-
sci sank in Dusky Bay; that the crew
managed to reach one of the small
islands and after living there for years
died off one by one. Who they were or
where they came from the Maoris could
not say. A diver is said to have recently
examined this mysterious old hulk. He
reported that she is built of teak and
appears to be still perfectly sound and
firm.
The heedlesness with which too
many women rush into matrimony, says
the Chicago Tribune, is well illustrated
by the career of the bigamist Marvin,
who was arrested Thursday at Lynn,
Mass, after successful career of five
years, in which time he had succeeded
in contracting no less than eight unlaw-
full marriages Of which the police have
cognizance. In each instance Marvin,
who is a portly and respectable-appear-
ing man of nearly 60 years, had sue
ceeded in inducing the woman to marry
him without giving his character the
most casual investigation-not even that
to be secured by few months acquaint-
ance. In view of the fact that in nearly
every instance Marvin's victims were
selected from among the upper circles
of society, the success of his schemes is
sad commentary on the American sys-
tenn of courtship and marriage, and
shows conclusively the wrongs which
may easily be perpetrated under its pro-
tecting influences.
Lord COleridge on Breach of Promise.
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