Huntsville gazette., 1885-12-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

advertised by New York importing
house.-M y Sun.
"A woman seventy-three years old
was an applicant for divorce in Hart
ford Conn.,, the other day.
An Illinois debating society il
about to wrestle with the question.
(Which goes the fastest after being
broken, colt or ten dollar billp"-
Chicago Mail.
There are DO fewer than sixty-four
volumes of the German Bible for the
blind. 1t costs twenty-five dollars.
The letters are in haut-relief and the
paper very thick.
Don't eat raw chestnuts in the
dark. How would you like to be
poor, dear, defenseless. fat little worm
and be crushed to death by munching
giant?- Pittsburgh (Pa.) Bulletin.
The practical printer who becomes
an editor is apt to be. above all things,
good paragraphist. The best schools
for editors and reporters are printing
offices. Current Fact, Cincinnati.
Two New Haven boys, with guns
on their shoulders and pockets filled
with knives and pistols, were arrested
in Bridgeport recently on their way to
the West. where they were going to
kill Indians.-Hartford Post.
OF five hundred and fifteen cases of
consumption at the Royal Infrmary.
London, sixty-eight per cent. is of per-
sons following indoor occupations.
One man cured himself by taking long
morning and afternoon walks to his
business.
The Venezuelan Congress has con-
ferred the order of "The Bust OF the
Liberator Bolivar" upon each member
of the New York Seventh Regiment OF
Veterans who took part in the unvell-
ing Of the statue of Bolivar in Central
Park in June, 1884.
"A ghost, after frightening number
of people almost to death at Derby,
Eng, was arrested by policeman and
found to be sixteen-year old boy. He
had been employed by landlord to
personate a spirit in order to drive
away an undesirable tenant.
"A young clothing clerk of Spring
field, Mass, who advertised for pleas
ant rooms, heated by steam, and sulta-
BILE for young man who wants to be
near the city, received letter the other
day asking him to call at 249 State
street. He sought out the number
promptly and found it was the Jail
Springfield Republican.
The Minneapolis Tribune boasts
that Minneapolis had truly metro
politan fire last night-one worthy of
city of over one hundred and thirty
thousand inhabitants" If this does
not incite the jealousy of st. Paul to
burn itself down in the effort to dis
tance Minneapolis, the rivalry between
the two cities has been wildly exagger.
ated.-Pittsburah Dispatch.
There is a degree of mental care
which creates alertness, watchfulness,
and always goes with successful men.
There is another degree of mental care
which is pretty sure to kill, especially
those who have passed the middle mile
stone of life. 1t is the worry over mat
tiers that are past all mending. The
insane asylum is full Of patients made
in this way.-San Francisco Bulletin.
AT Whitsbeth, Eng, lately, two or
three oysters were put away in an
earthen pan, and during the night a
couple of young mice inserted their
hungry mouths within the open shell of
one of the bivalves. In the morning
the mice were found fast held by the
oyster, and the whole party was con-
signed to a naturalist, who placed them
in a local museum.
Lion hunting, we suspect, is carried
ON very nearly always at the expense
of the lion in one way or another. The
brilliant pianist, the rising young
painter, the literary hero of the hour.
who permits himself to be shown off as
one of the ornaments of this or that
fashionable lady's drawing-room, must
feel now and then very much like the
fiddler who is paid to play while the
gentry dance.-N. O. Picayune.
"A man who believes and strictly
adheres to the adage, ''Mind your own
business is employed in the New Y York
Custom House. During a long illness
of his wife, to whom he was greatly at
tached, he carefully refrained from let
ting any of his fellow employees know
that anything was wrong at home, and
when she died and he had to lay off to
attend the funeral. he announced the
fact by leaving note to this effect on
his desk: ''Gone to Auburn on busi-
ness" IN Y. Herald.
The new winter Overcoats for the
Philadelphia police have stripes on the
sleeves, indicating in all cases where
such is the fact that the wearer has
served in the United States army, and
also the length of service on the police
force. A single strip of narrow red
braid encircling the sleeve above the
wrist designates the veteran soldier,
and light blue braid stripe is con-
ferred for each three years of police
service. One member of the Reserve
Corps, who has been a patrolman for
twenty-seven years, has quite row of
stripes. Philadelphia Press.
Music is becoming more and more
international, and the countries that
were thought to possess musical knowl-
edge par excellence are obliged to ad-
NIT others into the circle. Lately the
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