Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-10

as with the other. -..---.s.-s.s
King County, Washington Terri
tory, has one woman Justice of the
Peace and one woman Constable.
-Deroe, the weather prophet, says
that if potato is left in the ground
after the vines are dry it will lose its
havor III
The Western Union Telegraph
Company has three thousand, eight
hundred and forty-nine stockholders
N. Y. Sun.
--Yn ro other city in the country do
ss MANY women make their living by
keeping boarders as in Washington.--
] Washington Star.
A horse at Cleburne, Tex, got into
bis masters poultry-yard and devoured
thirteen young chickens, which he
found in box there, feathers and all.
If you have any oyster plates in
the house throw them into the alley at
once. They are no longer in fashion.
You must eat your oyster soup from a
bowl.--DctrOI Post.
Idaho claims a population of
lightweight thousand and shows an
assessment roll of nine million dollars
as an evidence that she is able to main
tain State Government.
Mr. Thomas Meehan, who has been
visiting the Alaska glaciers, reports a
torrent hundred feet wide and three
or four feet deep flowing winter and
summer from under the Muir Glacier
there.
"A lady in Nashville, Tenn, keeps
five cats, two dogs, two canaries, a
monkey and swearing parrot, and
yet she is very indignant at her neigh
bors because they think that this do
mestic menagerie is nuisance.
Captain Chetwynd, of the British
Navy, who has been pouring oil on
troubled waters, concludes that al
though it may be of great use to ships in
an open sea, it is of no practical advan-
tage to lfeboats having to pass through
large breakers.
The advertisements of furnished
houses to let in Washington paper in
dictate that the lowest price desirable
house can be procured for is seventy
five dollars a month and the highest
three thousand, seven hundred and
thirty three dollars.
There are now about one million
and two hundred thousand domestic
servants in this country, who annually
earn about two hundred and sixteen
million dollars. In England the same
number of servants would earn only
ninety million dollars.
The interesting fact has been
demonstrated by Mr.. Arthur Searle
that the Milky Way is about two
magnitudes brighter than the mean
brightness of the sky, and a square de-
gree Of the Milky Way must give be-
tween five and six times as much light
as an average square degree of the rest
of the sky.-Boston Budget
One scarcely thinks of coral as,
growing under the ice-swept and foggy
seas of the Newfoundland banks. Yet
on the eastern slope of Banquereau is
an area of bottom, several miles in ex-
tent, so covered with growth OF
coral that travis set upon it are rarely
recovered. The fishermen call it the
"stone fence" and avoid it as far as
possible.
A boy was caught stealing cur
rants, and was locked up in a dark
closet by the grocer. The boy com
menced begging most pathetically to
be released, and after much persuasioD
suggested Now, if you will let me
out and send for my father, he'll pay
you for the currants and lick me be-
Sides" The grocer could not with
stand this appeal Chicago Herald.
The body of the elephant is nearly
naked, but the mammoth. an extinct
species, had a covering of long, woolly
hair. Elephants live in large herds,
and subsist on foliage and grass. There
are but two living species, the Asiatic.
with long head, concave forehead,
small ears and short tusks; and the
African, with round head, convex fore
head, large ears and long tusks.
DIR. Marcy, of Paris, has succeeded
in measuring the motive power of the
human body as developed in every
movement AS one of the results OF
his studies he shows that something is
gained in the power of walking by
quickening the pace from forty to sew
cnty-five steps per minute. But the
latter number is the extreme limit; with
a greater number of steps power is lost
instead of gained.
Until recently only pearls and
| OldQODuS WtTC COHSIutItu CohoioIChV
with the spotless purity of the brides
attire, and in France even diamonds
are interdicted as too glaring and
snowy, pearls being considered the
only suitable jewelry for young. girl
to wear at the altar. But an Earlss
daughter, recently married in England,
wore a magnificent parure Of sapphires
and diamonds, which, of course, opens
the door to any innovation upon old
and unwritten laws.-N. Y.Tribune. W
Sheriff Bishop, of Cloverdale, Cal,
recently started to Guernivilie, to cap
ture prisoner. On the way he met a
person who asked for ride. DE as
sented, and in short time was con-
fiding his mission to the stranger, and
wound up by asking him if he would
get the prisoner drunk. The stranger
\ agreed, and after tapping the Sheriff
for fivedollars for expenses IN securing
the required drunk, took his depart
ure. with the understanding that he
would meet the Sheriff at an appointed
| time and nIace The Sheriff was there