Huntsville gazette., 1885-06-06
or GENERAL INTEREST.

among the tradesmen in the United
States in having no union.
-Citron raising is receiving attention
in Florida. The fruit picked in brine
is worth hundred and fifty dollars
ton in the London market.
Josephine County, Oregon, pos
sesses a natural curiosity in the shape
of subterranean cavern. 1t is situated
in the mountains, south of Grants
Pass, and has never been thoroughly
explored.
AT the annual sheep-shearing in
Vermont the heaviest rams fleece
weighed twenty-eight pounds thirteen
ounces, and the heaviest ewes fleece
weighed twenty-one pounds nine
ounces. This, it is claimed. exceeds
the record at any public shearing.
There are one hundred and eighty
two genuine collectors and dealers in
autographs in the United States who
prey upon the suffering states
man, actor, soldier, or man of letters.
exclusive of the thousands of youths
in training as album tiends.-N Y.
Sun.
The sale of copies of the Vienna
ANgenaeinc Zeitung. one of the best
conducted and widely known news
papers in Austria, has been for two
years interdicted throughout the Ger
man Empire. The decree has now ex-
pired, and the sale of the paper in Ger
many is enormously large.
An Atlanta man claims to have
discovered a new principle in hydrau-
lies which upsets the old theory that
water will not rise in vacuum more
than thirty-three feet. He says he can
pump water any distance required, and
partially proves his assertion by pump
ing it 600 feet without valve and on
direct vertical rise.
The most easily photographed ami
mails are cats. They are easily kept
quiet, and their eyes are not so restless
as those of dog. When their atten-
ton is concentrated their gaze is more
direct and absolutely motionless than
that of human being. A fixed eye,
not CLASSY stare, is the thing to be
attained in a Photograph Chicago
Times.
Something new in leather is the
tanned and stamped buckskin for
mems riding suits. 1t is beautifully
marked, and will not fade. Over
hundred STYLES Of this article are shown
at the New Orleans Exposition. They
are worn for riding pantaloons and
jackets in some parts Of Mexico, and
are worth two dollars and fifty cents
to three dollars each.-N. o. Times.
"A farmer loaned his dog to man
to whom he had sold flock of sheep
to drive home, distance of thirty
miles. The drover found the dog so
useful that, instead of sending him
home, he locked him up. The dog es-
capped, and, concluding the drover had
no more right to keep the sheep than
to lock him up, he collected all that had
belonged to his master and drove them
home again Chicago Herald.
A resident of Statesborough, Ca,
heard noise out in his barn the other
night, and he took his gun and slipped
out. He saw man standing at the
door of the barn, and, as the moon
was shining, he took good aim and
fired, but the object never moved, so
he fired the other barrel and called for
his wife, and when she came they went
and found he had shot twice at his OWE
shadow.-Louisvt1lc CoatrscrvJourran.
A very profitable business in these
hard times might be done by leasing
ragged children to people seeking par
dons for penitsntiary birds. One woman
in a Western State is said to have
"worked' pardon out of Governor
by going to him with eight children
whom she had temporarily "adopted"
from charitable institutions. After the
pardon was got, she returned them on
the ground that they ''didn't quite
suit. ."-Detroit Free Press.
1t is said that the seas on the Aus
tralian coast are heavier than any,
where else in the world. For hun
dreds of miles black, beetling cliffs,
from four hundred to six hundred feet
high extend without an opening of any
kind into which distressed ship might
run for safety. Round the base of
these cliffs the crested hills of angry
waves surge and roar, swept along
with terrible force by winds born at
the Southern Pole, and which, career
ing over thousands of miles of sea,
have encountered lands here for the
first time.
"A noteworthy incident is reported
to US in connection with the preva-
lence of scarlet fever here. In house
in which one child had died of this dis
ease the little ones clothes were put in
to back shed to await further atten-
ton, and in the meantime they were
tumbled about and played with by pet
dog. Soon afterward the dog was taken
crazy and had to be killed. A cat also
in the same family was affected in
similar way and had to be killed. The
animals undoubtedly contracted the
disease by coming in contact with the
clothing st. Adams w. Messenger.
On the Sandwich Islands an almost
exclusive substitute for wheat and pota-
toes is the taro, dubious root some
what larger than the potato, growing
in the mud and water. 1t is the princi-
pal article of food of the natives 1t is
eaten baked and boiled, but more gen.
orally used in the form of poi, which is
simply the roots boiled and mashed
into stiff paste. 1t having become an
important article Of diet, several manu-