Huntsville gazette., 1886-11-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


beer and liquor bottles.
Sir Richard Sutton, the English
breeder of Short horned cattle, has lost
his valuable herd of Jerseys through
that fell agency, pleuro-pneumonia.
The sting of a humble bee contains
only one-fiftieth part of a drop of poi
son, and why a boy jumps up and down
and takes on so about it is more than
medical seieneeiean explain. $50
The proprietor of a celebrated res
taurant out West is described by q
local Journal as being, IL Appearance
and dress, a combustion of an English
| lord, q United States Senator, an AM
erican poet and French painter.
r. Daniel Webster ,Marshfield estate
is now owned by Walter Hall,iof Bos-
ton. II contains four hundred. and
fifty4acres-a supports fifty COWS, five
horses, two yoke of oxen and. several
head of young stock. Boston Journal.
A new poet sings The Whistling
Buoy is Anchored at Sea- The
whistling girl, however, continues TO
| float about in fancy free to the envy
of the boys who can not properly
puckef to whistle atune:- 6hicaJo Inter
Ocean 49,.
Archibald Ford has met nine diff
ferent Kings and Qneens, but when be
| nickel he gets no~betteT measure than
those of us who have simply gazed on
| the coat-tail buttons of United States
Senator. Detroit Free Press.
Probably the largest grape-arbor
in Central North. Carolina is Soup
pernong arbor on a plantation in
sumter County. 1t has seventeen
hundred posts, covers nearly an acre
Of ground, and every year it bears an
abundance of Scuppernongs.
9'-l2Fiie Boston Record throws off the
following editorial enigma: IT five
generations fed on. canvass-b back and
fefrapin are required to produce 3
Maryland beauty, how many centuries
of beans and brown bread are needed
for the,eyolution of a Boston BELIEF
A spotter in Guelph, Can, swore.
that he had drank ginger-ale and
whisky in a certain saloon. At the
trial the bottle was produced, the wit.
ness tasted the contents and swore that
they were gingcr-alc and whisky: aud
then the defendant proved that the
drink was .gingef-a!e and pepper sance
;ihf was acquitfed. 7
-&Pcople who are qtriek TO -.take up
remarks and td'resent. SUPP posel Hsttlss-
are kept pretty busy by the world. An !.
o1d1man, who was before Judge Cow
iug in: News Y ork, "a day or two ago..t
admitted that he had been .arrestea.1
about one hundred and thirty times OH
chafges of assault, and explained that
ne was mot going. TO let anybody CALI
him names. IN 7. Mail. ~.
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the burial
place of Washington Irving, which is
directly tire Hudson from Nyack,
N. ", has become 50 crowded that the y
adjacent property has been purchased
torenlarge the grounds. The addition y
is forty-one acre lot on. the north :.
side, and cost thirty thousand dollars
Thc1ccrletery IS visited by thousands
of strangers every Fear.--I Troy IimeS.
Samuel Gilbert, OF. Georgetown
n. j., stored one hundred and fifty
bushels ofspotatoes in the attic Of his
little house preparatory to- barreliDg
them. The other night while his fami-
ly was at supper the floor gave way
and the potatoes came down on them,
breaking Mr.. Gilbert's arm and Mrs.
Gilbert's leg, fractnring her shoulder,
and injuring a daughters arm so that
it will haveto be amputated. N. j.
Sun.- s.t-- t- 80 f.
! A laborer >wl1iie digging a we'll at
Norristown, Pa, Struck a-quicksand Il Y
and became fastened. He called for
help, and ropes fastened ta q windlass
were lowered, but as they pulled he
cried that they were tearing him limb
from limb. lic was fhaalv feSeuet By
means of graphing hooks placed un-. ~
der his feet, crib having been lowered
around him. When extricated he hid
been in the euic ksaad seventeen hours.
-Norristown Herald
There is q valley in. Chautauqua
County, N. Y..sealled .sNo-God hol-
low" and this is the way it came by
its name: An evangelist went into tho
valley and w6rkeds very earnestly2for
some weeks, and apparently without. 2
any good results. One day in speak.
ing to one of the residents of the place
he said: IL do not believe there is Il Z,
God in Chenango valleyr This was
picked up. and since then the placehas i
been known as '.No-God hollow. = =
Ba.Galo Erpress-
A sixty-year-old widower, of
Albany, N. Y, who has selected a
young woman of twentv-six years for
his second wife, was chaffed SO much
by friends about the great expense he
was liable to incur in taking so young
wife that he thought it would not be
amss to sound the mind of his intended,
and did so. She named over the num-
ber of dresses she would need and
capped the climax BY insisting that the
first two years must be spentin Europe.
The match is now off.-Attdny Jour
nal.
Gratifying evidence of the advance
of woman in England appears in the
statement that of about thousand
students, from the Liverpool region,
examined in science and art at South
Kensington, more than two hundred
were women. Two young girls passed
in magnetism and electricity, twelve in
inorganic chemistry, and two in agri-