Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-16
GF GENERAL INTEREST.


1T is claimed that the Colorado
grass crop will be worth thirty million
dollars this year.
An Albany man says he has been
in prison two hundred and six times
albany IN. Y. journal.
"A crematorium built in the time OF
the invasion of England has been dis
covered in the city Of London, England.
"A specimen of every plant named
in the Bible is said to be growing in the
gardens of the Missouri Botanical So.
ciety, near St Louis.
The whole business of the Dominion
of Canada in tslegraphy is not equal to
the business of the Western Union Tele-
graph Office in the city of Chicago
Chicago Herald.
"A man in Denver has q curious
fowl. It has no eyes, one foot is webbed
and the other is not. It has flat back,
and one wing is entirely without joints.
--DcnUer Tribune.
The Afghans are the dirtiest peopl.
in the world. They never allow water
to come in contact with their bodies il
possible. When an article of clothing
is put on it stays there until it wears or
rOtS OF.
An Ohio man has just remarked
the wife from whom he was divorced
eight years ago. He proved to her that
he had quit snoring and she demon
strated that she had learned to make
good bread. Cleveland Leader.
Partisan ladies now employ what is
known as ''dog modiste" to fashion
the garments of their pets. Elegant
collars set with precious stones are
furnished by jewelers., while the modiste
makes the cushions or rugs on which
the petted darlings sleep.
The New York Board of Health has
issued orders forbidding the use by
soda-water manufacturers of water OBJ
tanned from those artesian wells which
have been found upon investigation to
be impregnated with substances dele
terious to health.-M y Sun.
"A writer recalls the facts that dur
ing the reign Of the cholera in Pitts
burgh in 1854 the total number of
deaths was something like one thousand,
or an average rate Of fifty day. There
WAS as many deaths in the hill districts
as in the low districts. Pittsburgh Post
"A recent cablegram from London
Fays the committee engaged in revis-
ing the Old Testament have finished
their 'labors, and after submission to
khe convocation the Testament will be
issued to the public. Twelve of the
twenty seven members have died dur
ing the revision.
"A convicted thief in Morocco is
told to hold up his hands and then po-
pitely asked which one he would like to
keep. When the choice is made they
cut off the other with an ak, and the
system is continued so that an obstinate
offender sometimes looses both his
hands and both feet.
-'American society is no longer
provincial, says Edgar Fawcett, the
novelist. ''People come to us from
European courts and marvel at the scale
of magniicence on which our revelries
ARE conducted. We are foreign and
Initiative only in our snobbery, and
might add-in our memory"
"A man in Wexford bought daily
paper in which he saw an advertisement
asking for information of his where
hbouts. He promptly answered it and
learned that by the death of an uncle
he had fallen heir to $4,000. The
moral of this is, always buy paper in
stead of borrowing one.-NorrIstoaon
Herald.
The cold world has not used many
of us SO we'll that we wouldn't exchange
our dreary load of manful responsible
ties to be again the buoyant lad on the
fence, careless of the future and with no
ambition more lofty than that some
vagrant yellow dog may trot by to be
stimulated to panic by the flying cracker.
-Nesc Haven Conn., Nesos.
Vaccination performed once does
not act as a preventive of smallpox af-
ter certain length of time has elapsed.
An examination of the statistics of this
disease shows that of those who had
taken it and had been vaccinated in in
fancy, ninety per cent. are over ten
years of age, while only ten per cent
are under ten years of age. Revaccina-
ton at intervals, say, of seven years, is
the only known effective measure for
protection. Chicago Journal.
The retrospective clause in the
French Divorce act will probably have
the effect of keeping lawyers and the law
courts busy for some time to come.
Couples legally separated for upward
of three years will be entitled to demand
divorce at once, and the application
may be made by either the plaintiff or
defendant in the separation suit. The
court will, however, have to review the
evidence given in the earlier proceed
ings, and if the facts should seem not
to be Of sufficiently grave nature to
warrant divorce, it will be withheld.