Huntsville gazette., 1884-12-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

| ant habit to get into.
knitting black stockings is the
latest craze among fashionable young
ladies.-N. z. Graphic.
European bankers estimate that
the loss to the continent during the
past summer by the cholera scare ex-
ceeds $25, 100000. Switzerland suf-
Tered most severely.
An old lady, whose grandson was
about to proceed to the Black Sea,
among other parting admonitions.
gave him strict injunctions not to
bathe in that sea, for she did not want
him to come back negro.-B0ston
Globe.
A man in Susquehanna County,
Pennsylvania who has a wide local
repute for his ability to distort his
countenance and make fun for others,
recently threw his jaw out of joint, his
mouth being firmly set wide open. 1t
was no laughing matter, and he was in
agony till doctor was procured and
his jaw replaced. The shock caused
him Serious illness.
Modern business modes are un-
wholesome. They take on the forms of
gambling. They have dazzled the eyes
of our young men to their ruin. BY
them they have been drawn into exi-
gencies where the laws of God and man
seem to offer no barrier to temptation.
Our business life has been heaped up OF
late with the wrecks of these bewildered
and misguided men.-Zion's Herald.
Wooden wool" is now, used as
| ~ o,5 ,,cof,,l Jracci,,rr fo,. rroupJc
and is being prepared extensively as a
commercial staple for surgical dress
ings. 1t is finely ground wood, such as
is extensively used in the manufacture
of paper. 1t is a clean-looking, deli
cate fibered, soft, yellowish-white sub
stance, having an odor of fresh wood,
and absorbs an immense quantity Of
liquid.
There are 10000 fishermen IN
France. The coast fisheries provide
employment for only $4,000 Of this
great force, so that $4,000 French fish
ermen make their livelihood out of for
| eign waters. The value of fish caught
in 1883 was 94,289,076, of which
more than 93,000.000 worth were
drawn from outside their own waters
thousand are drowned during the year.
Once a kite-fyer attached to the
tail of large kite kitten, sewed in a
canvas bag with netting over the
mouth TO give it air. When the kite
was at its greatest height-some two
hundred feet or more-the mewing 0!
the kitten could be distinctly heard by
those holding the string. To the clear
ness of the air was attributed the hear
ing of the Kittens voice. and no tele-
phone patent was applied. Chicago
Herald.
A returned traveller says: II en-
joyed genuine pumpkin pies at one or
two missionary tables in Japan and
China, and other American delicacies
| (served without an ocean of crockerv), !
at the hospitable boards Of some of our
representatives in Syria. Oatmeal,
griddle-cakes, hot biscuits, genuine pies
and custards are unknown out of
America, save in few London and
Paris restaurants, where they are some
times counterfeited, without the sue
cess that might be desired"
the highest velocity that has, haan
;,,aa,.41l -oo-a-v-o ervc,m rs one thouS- |
and six hundred and twenty-siX feet
per second, being equal to mile in
three and two-tenths seconds The |
velocity of the earth at the equator,
due to rotation on its axis, is one
thousand miles per hour, or a mile in |
three and six-tenths seconds; and thus,
if cannon ball was fired due west, |
and could maintain its initial velocity, |
it would beat the sun in its apparent |
Journey round the earth.-N. T. Sun. |
There is convict in the California |
State Prison who has made three /
attempts to kill his wife, and she is still |
alive and hearty. For the first time he /
was sentenced to only year, as the |
evidence was not clear that he meant /
to hurt her seriously, but as he let less
than q day pass after being liberated !
before stabbing her the second assault |
was deemed rather murderous, and for /
it he served five years. He used a pis-
tol in the third onslaught, and went to |
prison for ten years, which have nearly
expired. Francisco CAL.
The Medical Record makes the
startling statement that looking glasses
are responsible for mercurial poison
LII CNC SetcCS SIf GIL, u iIldI dHu Ills
wife, the cause of the trouble was in
looking glass hanging to the bedroom,
he wooden back of which was dotted
with thousands of minute globules of
mercury. The apartment was heated
during the night. In another instance
the source Of poisoning was a mirror
forty years old, whose back had be-
come weak, and from whose face the
guicksilvery freshness was fading. The
aged culprits having been summariy
removed, their victims speedily re-
covered.
The streets of Winnipeg present
great variety. Opera glass exquis-
ties are jostled by half-breeds shod
with moccasins; daintily dressed
ladies of fashion are side by side With
the Indian mother whose infant rests
in a braided pocket or cradle with a
wooden back, which is fastened abDut
the mothers neck by sort of wooden
81 Al, - 1