Huntsville gazette., 1886-12-18

Out of the 1,O66 paintings contrib
uted to the exhibition of the Royal In
stitute of Painters in water colors, in
London, 342 were sold for $4,000.
Vermont pays its judges 2,5OO
year. and there is a scheme to raise the
salaries to S3,000 with $500 for ex-
penses. The Green Mountain Gov
ernor gets $1,000.
A bronze tablet commemorative oi
the first blood shed in the Revolution
was recently placed opposite the spot
of the historic Boston massacre, March
5, 1770.-B0St0n Journal.
--'Legislative chestnuts'' is the lat
est slang phrase. A Legislative chest.
nut is measure that has been dis.
cussed for years and, after being
squelched time and again, continues tc
bob up serenely every time the Legisla
ture meets Chicago Times.
"A constable at New Castle, Can.
who recently set out to find a mar
charged with having molested a flag
man of the Grand Trunk railway, car
ried with him pair of handouts, paii
of old-fashioned brass ''come-alongs,
q large piece OF strap, several yards OF
rope, baton, two revolvers and 2
gun.
The station agent at Mansfield.
Mass, on the Boston & Providence
railroad, was surprised the other morn
ing, upon opening freight cars con-
signed to him, to find a large proper
lion of their contents, $500 ducks and
about 500 geese shipped alive, dead
Lack of ventilation had caused the loss
-BoSton Hcrald
The members of a society recently
organized at Hudson, n. ", pledge
themselves to not make use of the
feathers of any wild bird as ornaments
bf dress or household furniture, and
also to discourage their use by others
for decorative purposes. The associa-
ton has membership of one hundred,
and includes many of the leading peo-
pie of the town. Troy Times.
The abundance of woodchucks in .
Madison County On. Y. town led the
authorities to offer a bounty Of ter
cents each for tails of the offending
"varmints." During the absence OF
the town treasurer the boys passed II
fourteen hundred tails of chipmunks,
the treasurer's wife paying one hun
dred and forty dollars bounty foI
them. When her husband returned
lessons in natural history were at once
taken up.
The steamship Assyrian Monarch,
from London, which arrived in New
York recently, had on board several fine
specimens of the animal world, Of
which there were three kangaroos for
the Central Park Geological Gardens.
One of them is mouse-colored and
two are nearly black. They are five
years old, and came from Australia
and were fed mostly upon hay during
the voyage, but showed preference 1
for cabbage.-N. Y. Post. i
Between Fourth and Fifth streets,
on Spruce street, workmen recently
came upon an ancient remini5cence III
the shape Of a cemetery that antedates
local historical records, and is not ac-
counted for by the oldest inhabitant-
The laborers first struck stone wal!
several feet below the surface of the
street, which was regularly and sub
stantialiy built and had resisted the
ravages of time, and close by found
a vault, in which were human skulls
and bones and the remnants Of de-
cayed and broken coffins. PbiladeipAia
Press.
Near Colusa, Cal, recently. an ar
row point made of ivory was extracted
from the breast of a goose shot on the
wing. AS there are no savages nearer
than the Arctic regions with whom
ivory is plenty, the conclusion is that
the arrow was made from the tooth Of
a wSlrus or some other ivory-jawed
monster and shot into the breast Of the
bird By an Esqulmau, or perhaps by
an inhabitant of those polar regions
which our world has been unable to
penetrate. The point had been IN the
flesh for SOME time. as the skin Of Ihe
goose had grown over the arrow.
One morning recently, relates the
Boston Record. young lady on her
way to work passed by one of the bess
hotels, in front of which stood three
well-dressed gentlemen, evidently
quests Of the hotel AS the young lady
approached she observed thinly-clad,
haif-starved little girl repulsed by one
of the gents. The little girl asked her
for money, so she took nickel out OF
her scanty supply and put it into the
outstretched palm. And as one OF the
gentlemen had his hat upside down in
his hand, talking to his friends, she
dropped three coppers iLto the shiny
silk hat, and, never pausing to look
back, passed quietly on, leaving the
gentleman who had told the beggar to
Ego to the devil standing there.
The various kinds of ingenious
contrivances which have been brought
forward from time to time for the
prompt detection of fire damp in mines,
are well known, but most of them have
| been of a somewhat complicated ma
ture, and on this account failing OF
| their purpose. The latest of these
| brought to notice, however, is described
| as SO simple in principle and construc-
| ton as to excite wonder at its not hav-
ing been thought Of before A child $
! India-rubber ball with hole In 1t IS
squeezed fat in the hand and held III
| the place suspected of fire damp while
released, and allowed to suck in the