Huntsville gazette., 1884-07-05

Park have resolved that hereafter races
shall be run there on Sunday as well as
Oh any other day.
TIE Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage has re-
ceived the degree of Doctor of Divinity
from the Univerity of Tennessee, by a
unanimous vote of the faculty and Board
Of Trustees
PROF LEEDS, of the Stevens Institute
gives the following formula as the best
possible food for infants who for any
reason are deprived of their natural
nourishment: ''Take q pint of good
cows milk, add to it a pint of water.
Then add two ounces of cream. Then
add 100 grains of milk sugar"
The Philadelphia Times calls atten-
ton to the fact that the new Mexican
pension bill, just passed by the Senate,
repeals section 4716 of the Revised
Statutes. so far as it relates to that bill,
and that is the section that forbids pen
sions to those who voluntarily engaged
in the war on the Southern side. This
new bill, adds the Times, will embrace
Mr. Jefferson Davis.
In q late sermon Mr. Beecher made
mild attack on Ingersoll. He calls the
famous agnostic The golden mouthed
orator." and gives him due credit for
his power over an audience. He says:
81 wont say hard things of Mr.. Inger-
SOIL and intimates that it is not the
Bible, but the old calvanism that Inger
soil is firing at, and adds that he SYM
pathizes with the vigor with which In
gersou hits the old theology.
An authority on electric light con-
sumption in this country says that the
use of the electric light apparatus is in
creasing in all sections, and abroad as
rapidly as upon this side of the water.
The demand seems to keep up uniform
ly i'll all directions. The electric rail
way invention of Messrs Bentley &
Knight, of New York City, is about to
be given its first thorough and practical
test IN that city. Bentley & Knight
were examiners in the Patent Office.
KRUPP, the great gun man is said to
have produced a gunpowder which,
among other advantages, has those of
producing greater velocity with equal
pressure, and of freedom from explo-
sion except IN tightly closed space.
In the open air or in the powder-box it
ignltes slowly, and by not exploding ac-
cdents are avoided in its manufacture.
The smoke produced by it is thinner
and disappears quicker than that of the
ordinary black powder.
THE Medical News does not believe
that the paper recently published by
Pasteur, the French scientist, in which
he claims to have discovered means
OF preventing hydrophobia by inocula-
ton with attenuated virus, is entitled
to the consideration it has received. The
News thinks it has discovered a number
OF flaws in Pasteur's argument, and ad-
ylSeS the public to await the result of
the Investigation, which has been order
ed before finally accepting Pasteur's 5
theory.
The Wayside Day Nursery, New
York, has come down in its price for
taking care of the children of working
mothers. 1t used TO be ten cents day,
now 1t is five cents. The children are
led on bread and milk end bread and
molaSseS and sometimes soup. And
sometimes donations from private
sources provide them with Strawberries,
lce-cream and other luxuries in season.
me matron says the children really
lare better on five cents a day than they
did on ten.
A NEWSPAPER dwells on the discom-
lorts and diseases resulting from
'he bad ventilation of churches,
ana makes the following good sugges-
uons 'tirst-Let the church be we'll
"iled before and after each service, thus
SIvlns supply of fresh air to begin on.
'econd-While the churches in summer
are closed one or more months let ven
.Ia'ors be first thought of when repairs
aTe contemplated. Third-Let the
physicians in our churches interest
themselves ,il in this matter, and pour a
lltle wholesome information into the
SeXton's BRAIN
ihE cornerstone of home for single
n'eI mas been laid in New Y ork city,
Cl Cn0er the auspices of Presbyterian
Dnurth' The object is to furnish men
"iio nave no settled homes neat, clean
I'lu cheap quarters, with attention to
'aIlh' and all reasonable accommoda-
y I,onS lor comfort. It is to be called the
Ta'neld ~ House, after deceased pastor.
1He[e VIII be library. reading and
;'oAlhg rooms, a parior with q piano,
PHlEle rooms st 20 hil mar Yy.ak 1o,,>;