Huntsville gazette., 1884-12-27
or GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
Every boarding house keeper in
New Orleans expects to make for
tane this winter.-N Y. Sun.
The Mexican canary is being intro
duced North. He has softer, swester
voice than our own yellow bird.
The boats of the Union Ferry Com
pany, in New York, carried nearly fifty
million passengers last year.-N T.
Journal.
The Russian banker, Stieglitz. who
lately died, left six million roubles
($4, ,620, ,00O to Nine. Sophie Menter.
the Bavarian pianist.
"A policeman on the Brooklyn force
has been dismissed for an attempt to
f1irt with a young lady who was un-
kind enough to make complaint
Brooklyn Union.
The process Of drying lumber by
surrounding it with common salt is
just now attracting attention. The
peculiar power of salt for extracting
moisture is well known.
Alfred Mitchell, Prosecuting At
torney of Belmont County, West Vir-
ginia, has resigned his Office to avoid
prosecuting his brother, who is in
custody charged with murder.
John Adams lived longer than any
other President of the United States,
reaching the age of ninety. Garfield
died youngest of them all, lacking two
months of fifty years. Y Tribune.
"A jury in Orange County, New
York, awarded three hundred dollars
for a beer wagon, one hundred and
twenty-five for negro's life, and four
thousand dollars for broken rib
Troy Times.
"A Chinese play at San Francisco
theater has run forty-two nights and
only reached the third act. There are
twelve more acts to come, and it will be
a year or more before the critics can
begin their abuse.
A Dundee (Scotland) dairyman
was recently convicted of selling milk
which had stood in room in which a
child was i'll with scarlet fever. The
milk absorbed the poison and seventeen
persons were infected with the disease,
four of whom died.
A process has been perfected in
Pittsburgh by which natural gas may
be burned under boilers in the form of
hot air. 1t is claimed the discovery
reduces the amount of gas required
one-half, while it doubles its heating
capacity. Pittsburgh Post.
-''You sit down here,'' said Miss
Kate Field to the good people of the
Bay State, "and fancy that Boston is
the hub of the universe, and that the
West can teach you nothing. 1t has
taught me more than half dozen trips
to Europe. . Chicago Herald.
you've got my seat, SIR" said a
man on Texas railroad, who had left
his seat for a moment. There is no.
thing to show that you have retained
this seat" ''Look up there! There is
my hat box on the rack right over this
seat" "Well, then you sit up there on
your hat box, if that's where you have
retained your seat. .''-Teras Stft1mgs.
Special ceremonies are observed in
France at the execution of parricade,
and these were carefully observed lately
in the case Of a soldier at Rouen. Be
fore the whole garrison the criminal,
clad in his shirt, feet bare, and black
veil over his head. advanced to stake.
At the word "Firer' eleven bullets en-
tered the mans body. The troops then
marched past the corpse.
Mercury is firmly believed by the
Chinese to possess wonderful virtues.
They hold that it not only prolongs
life, but expels bad vapors, poison. and
TIE gloom of an uneasy mind. The
doctrine of the transmutatiOnsOf mer-
curry into other metals prevailed in
China two thousand years ago. CHINA
bar was known TO the Chinese in the
seventh century before the Christian
era.
"A man who lives near Pittsburgh
has six pieces of silver, each weighing
a little more than the standard silver
dollar, all perfect, and dates as plain
as when new. The dates run from,
1876 to 1854. On one side the figure
resembles General Washington's head,
the other side being hierog1yphics.
These pieces were plowed up in field,
ana uueH OWUer WdutS ,SOueDOuy TO
tell fim what they are. Pittsburgh
Post
There has been fifty speakers of the
National House. Henry Clay served
longer than any other, holding the po-
sition during six Congresses. Jonathan
Dayton served two terms. Nathaniel
Macon three, F. A. Muhlenburg (the
first speaker) two, Joseph B. Varnum
two. Andrew Stevenson four, James
K. Polk two, Linn Boyd two, Schuyler
Colfax three, James G. Blaine three,
and Samuel J. Randall three.-N Y
Star.
The pompano is considered by
dealers to be the choicest American
marine fish, and it now sells in the New
York market for fifty cents per pound.
Hitherto the average weight of the fish
brought to market has been about three
pounds, but this week two pompano
cauOht IN tho Maina cnact opd Govt %r