Huntsville gazette., 1882-01-28
GENERAL.

A "solar locomotive has been
placed on the Northern Railway OF
France. 1t is so called owing to an
electric light which is placed in front
and fed by the engine itself.
Judge Gaslin, of Nebraska, told the
Grand Jury that it was ''relic OF bar
bariism, a source of useless expense to
the county, and no earthly consequence
to the community"
The only reason a man at Cairo
had for shooting at boy was to see II
he would jump. The boy jumped ana
all might have been lovely if the shooter
hadn't been sent up for two years
John E. Owsley went from Ken
tucky to Chicago to collect bill tor
whisky. The debtor had no money, but
offered some land near the city, which
Owsley declined to take, though he was
by trick compelled to do so. That
was when Chicago was young and
small. That seemingly worthless prop
erty soon acquired value, which grew
to something considerable, and made
the foundation for the great fortune
which Owsley has now left at his death.
If geographic research is worth
prosecuting at all then the Jeanette has
not been sacrificed in vain, and her sur
vivors must return laden with sheaves
of knowledge garnered in remote cor.
ner of the globe on which the gaze OF
geographers and scientists has been for
century most wistfully fixed, and into
which she was the pioneer of search
which will end only when its remotest
secrets have been made common human
knowledge.-N. 7. Herald.
because Clara Louise Kellogg sang,
without any charge, about S 900 worth
to the inmates of the Nebraska Peni-
tentiary, Boston discomfort says that
"a man who had never stolen anything,
Or made love to another mans horse,
would have to pay 81 TO- hear her.
Ebout the only man who gets left nowa-
days, and. .has to pay big price for all
the fun he has, is the honest, respecta-
bles hard-working citizen"
when Gladstone was very unpopu-
lar with the Conservatives q few months
ago, their favorite charade was: 81
should be my first, if [ had my second
to throw at my whole" But, according
to writer on North country names,
the first syllable in Gladstone's name is
not "glad'' in the sense of pleasure or
rejoicing. 1t is gled's stone-gled
meaning hawk or kite, and gladstone
the stone or rock where the hawks were
in the habit of meeting or congregating.
"A fraud of considerable proportions
has recently been unearthed in Southern
Dakota. A gang of scoundrels in
Douglas County, Of that section, it is
alleged, have issued 100000 worth of
alleged county school bonds, though the
county itself has never been organized
into school districts, and though the
whole taxable property of the county
does not exceed S15, 900 or $40, 900, and
contains only some forty voters.
1t is now settled, if nobody doubts
the evidence. According to the Sierra
Madre Nstd, a new paper printed IN
Los Angeles County, CAL, Mr.. Abbott
Kinney, a gentleman who has made
three trips around the world and recent
ly settled in San Gabriel, says that val
ley is the original Garden of Eden. MIR.
Kinney writes, GAS for the doubling
IhOmaS, let MN go 20 the olu OctaSon
house in the pueblo of Los Angeles and
he will see the graves of Adam and Eve,
the very place where they were buried.
The evidence is conclusive
The reports of the newspapers
throughout the country generally indi-
cate that the custom of New Years
calling is falling into decay. In New
York, where it gained its first foothold
on this continent, it was most disregard
ed. The reporters found in stroll
through the fashionable quarters of the
city that the baskets were two to the
one opening doorway, and that the fam
lilies that did not receive were of the
Vanderbilt and Astor class. In some
houses q feature was made of evening
parties, but, on the whole, there was a
decided departure from the traditional
custom of the day.