Huntsville gazette., 1884-10-11
or GENERAL INTEREST.

The Jacksonville (Fla.) Court
bouse is to be built of granite from
Maine
The French have a machine fol
stamping letters and canceling the
stamps.
There are not more than two OF
three women whose wealth is greater
than Queen Victoria's.
1t is estimated that the farmers OF
Maine have this year scattered over the
potato fields fifty thousand dollars
worth of paris green in their efforts
to destroy the potato bug.
"A gang of burglars on Staten
Island appointed two Of the number to
serenade the inmates of well-furnished
house, while the others broke in at the
back and robbed the premises. NJ I.
San.
Discussing the suicide of animals a
London paper declares that the dragon
fly SHIELD securely by the wings curls its
tail upward to its mouth and chews itself
viciously to pulp" This beats the per-
formance Of the Kilkenny cats.
"A painter in New York tried tc
smother a fire in his office with coat.
After the coat was burned up he re-
membered that there was sixty dollars
in cash and check for one hundred
and ten dollars in one of the pockets.
IN. Y. Tribune.
The inventor of an electric appara-
tus for deaf people claims that no ear is
SO dead that it cannot be made to hear,
and that In many eases the apparatus
will cure deafness. 1t may be con-
cealed in cane, umbrella handle, fan
or any such article of convenience
Chicago Herald.
A five-year-old son of Austin Brady
Of Steubenville, o., was stung to death
by black hornets recently. and little
daughter narrowly escaped with her
life. Blood poisoning followed the
stings of the insects. Mr.. Brady has
lost several members of his family in a
like Cleveland Leader.
The primeval woods of Maine con-
tain nineteen thousand square miles and
still cover an extent seven times that Of
the famous Black Forest of Germany.
The States of Rhode Island, Connecti-
cut and Delaware could be lost together
in Maine forest and still have a mar
gin of wilderness wide enough to make
its explorations without compass a
work of desperate adventure.-Bos
Journal
The degraded, half-fed farmers OF
France keep the treasury Of the Repub-
lie always full of money. The farmer
loves the Republic as much as the Paris
ian detests it. The Republic receives in
its savings banks the money of the poor
up to one thousand francs, and gives
them three and one-half per cent. for
It's use. The peasant farmers have
nearly eight hundred million dollars on
deposit in these banks.
"A young man who is serving five
years term of Imprisonment for theft in
Karthus, Bohemia, has turned his en-
forced leisure to use, and manufactured
q straw watch five centimetres in diam
eter by two in thickness. The works
comprise few bits Of straw, some cot
ton, two needles and pin, small
piece of paper forming the dial. 1t is
said to 90 for six hours, and could be
made to go twelve with few improve
mentS.
For twenty years quaint character
named Ogilvie Stannard has lived on a
small island in Pelham Bay, Westches-
ter County, n. Y. While drunk one day
last week Stannard fell through the ties
of railroad bridge, but caught on y
spike and was saved. An hour later he
was rescued while asleep on the track
before an approaching train. In the
afternoon he fell from his boat into the
bay, but was caught by the bridge
tender again. AS they were approach
ing the shore, however, he fell out and
was drowned. Troy Times.
Laura, dear, / wish you would pay
4 little more attention to young Mr..
Nickelplate. I'm sure he is a most ex-
cellent young man, and you are allow
ing the Joyce girls to monopolize en-
tirely too much of his attention"
''Why, mother, he is perfect boor. He
knows absolutely nothing; he can't
speak single sentence grammatically,
he eats with his knife, and picks his
teeth at the table" '.Tut, tut, Laura.
A girl who has reached the age of
twenty-six should have better sense than
to notice such trivial idiosyncracies y
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
A curious accident happened to an
Italian gardener named Giacoma Con-
dini, in Vistacion Valley, California,
the other afternoon. He is an eccen-
trio fellow, and has allowed his hair to
grow long and matted on his shoulders.
A singular freak came near causing his
death. He has been in the habit of car
rying lucifer matches in his hair with
which to light small clay pipe, which
he constantly smoked In going out of
the door of his cabin on Thursday he
struck the poll of his head against the
door frame, igniting the matches and
burning his scalp and forehead Sc
verely.- Virginia Enterprise.
Foo Chow, the scene Of the recent
great bombardment, has been described
as the Boston Of China. 1t has eight
hundred thousand inhabitants, with
half as many more in its suburbs. 1t
is famous seat of learning. Over
three thousand literary graduates live
there, together with seven thousand
literary ctudantc The city il aS famOIfs