Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-02
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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this year has 300,o o29 names, indicating
l.500, 145 people.-M. r San.
-Coffee-cups become smaller and
smaller for "after-dinner service The
newest size is a trile laryer than the fat
woman's thimble. = Chicago Journal.
The men employed in cleaning and
sorting vanilla suffer from a singular
skin disease, which has lately been
found to be caused by minute white
insect which lives in the bean.-St. L0asis
Post
The Island of st. Helena, where
once thousands of vessels stopped, has
been completely ruined by the Suez
Canal, vessels having almost abandoned
the Cape route to India.-C Chicago
Times. hsz 3i.cG til4 taIs.5etif-
Judge Mott, of the Court of Claims,
with his family, drove by carriage from
Washington to Williamstown, Mass,
and writes to friend that they never
enjoyed a trip so much in their lives. -
Washington Post.
"A young man, faultlessly dressed
and followed by his valet. goes through
the streets of London playing barrel
organ. He is Lord Somerset, and he
takes this method of raising money for
the London poor. .a.s+
1t will, perhaps, interest the young
man who has contracted to supply his
sweetheart at the seaside with confec-
tionery for the summer to know that
about 1872, 100000 is spent annually in
the same way by his unsophistieated
brethren. = Boston Post a13 ssGie9
Paris is a beautiful city. but it costs
a great deal of money to keep it SO
During the past twenty years more than
Sl30, 900 has been spent on new
streets, sewers, water works and public
buildings. The cost Of the Avenue de
rOpera alone was SIC, 100000. eH-a
The news that James Russell Lowell
has the gout reminds the Detroit Post
of the remark of an old Vermont farm
er. II don't see no use," said he,
England all the while; the lazy scamps
don't preach hal. the time when they
git there" ...--..s.. ...t ~
American railroads in Mexico are
to be handicapped by law requiring
that all railways fence the entire length
Of their lines with fences on both sides
which will be stock proof. The Mexi-
can Central Road will have to expond
$1,000, 900 to comply with such law.
N Y. Herald
William Brooks, of Melonville. n.
c.. was smoking cigar. although be
lad four pounds of gunpowder on the
horn of his saddle. The cigar dropped,
Brooks was suddenly lifted from his
horse, and when he returned to con
sciousness he found he had lost his mus
tache and eyebrows. The horse went
home without name e,-Detroh Post N ia
-Four children while playing in
looryard at Mitchell, Bexas, one day
recently. were severely shocked by a
bolt of Lightning, which struck the
ground near them. The youngest, a
babe, was scorched about the hair and
eyebrows, and on removing its clothes
the mother found the childs breast and
body covered with a delicate tracing of
leaves and vines. .-C Chicago Inter Ocean,
The Brooklyn bridge has the larg-
est span and is considered the largest
bridge in the world But we will soon
be obliged to yield the palm of having
the biggest bridge to another country.
There is now building over the Firth OF
Forth, in Scotland, bridge of two
spans, each of which is as as long as the
irooklyn bridge. This is the greatest
ridge ever designed anywhere. Y.
Times.
Mr.. Eugene Turpin, of Paris, dis
inguished chemist, the inventor of
armless paints for children's toys, and
lso of -'plancastite.' an explosive, said
> be of more destructive force than dy-
amite, was recently arrested in Lon
IN. He had taken quantity of the new
Splosive to England for the purpose OF
experimenting in the Darlington iron
stone mines, and was seized upon as an
agent of the dynamite plotters.-:N. Y.
Tribune. .4.. .ele.a .4F aal
Mr.. Kackley, of Hillsboro, Ore,
who burned his house in furtherance OF
a swindle on life insurance companies,
and was arrested at Ashland, that State,
confessed the whole plot. He said he