Huntsville gazette., 1886-08-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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In garden in Caledonia, N. T., a
bed of flowers has been laid out twenty
two feet long, to represent a huge
trout. The gills, sfins and eyes are
represented by different colored flow
) erS. sl ft .sf 20 Al
When a man builds cottage at
watering place, and fails to rent it for
the summer at few hundred dollars
more than the lot and structure cost
him, he thinks he has made a bad in
vestment. -NoaristoWn Herald. ia
One of Hon. Bison Williams In
dians is known simply as Flies-on-the-
Ceiling. The other half of his name is
supposed to be But-none-on-Me. Sew
eral of his family are having fun with
the United States troops in Arizona at
present.-Bnfalo Express. si 8 .'f
Barring Bros, the bankers, keep
$4,000, 900 in cash ''ready for instant
use." In travelling through this vain
world there is nothing quite SO handy
as a nice snug little sum like that in a
persons trousers pocket, ready the
moment you want to use it.-N. Y.
Mail t1th .8AStg3
Two heartless young men of Plym-
outh, Mass, recently saturated the
hair of dog with kerosene and then
set fire to it, burning the poor animal
to death. The Society for the freven-
ton of Cruelty to Animals took up the
matter, and the two brutes are now in
the penitentiary. -rsl" "fAAaa
A commercial exchange in an arti-
Gle on the oil market says "there is
temporary stiffening in fish oils. "
That is rather surprising. In the
weather which we are enjoying at the
present time we should naturally ex-
pect the liquefaction of all oils rather
than their stiffening Boston Iran-
script
Commas are sadly wanted in the
offices of some Paris as well as some
London papers. In the last published
instalment of feuilleton appears the
following passage: ''Raoul looked at
the beautiful girl. He admired her
teeth and her hair black as ebony, her
nose and her lips of bright red. LON
don Globe. ..4.. ia
The defaulting Philadelphia treas
urer who left written confession of
his guilt in his desk when he ran away
evidently did not write it for publica-
ton, for the dispatches say he wrote
on both sides Of the paper. 1t was
published, nevertheless. This shows
how inconsistent some newspapers are.
-jSOnserUiIe Journal, Al ul
"A Texas Judge has decided that
when one man in that State approaches
another with his hands in his pockets
it is an invitation to shoot. A Virginia
Judge, of happy memory, once decided
that calling a man a liar was equiva-
lent to knocking HIM down, and he
could thereafter govern himself accord
ingly.-R Richmond State.
/ write to you all myself, / think
these words and then write them and |
love you. | came last winter time two
years. Now the flowers grow up.
Some red and some yellow and the
birds are so happy. / think too of my
home the birds must be happy and yel-
low. like to see the birds here they
make me think Of my home. e.-Letter
from Indian Boy at Carlisle (Pa-J IN
duStftdL ScbOOt. f
Farmer Richmond Dixie, of Can
ming, N. S., owned very fine mare
that was very badly hurt by running
against barbed-wire fence. lie de-
cided to shoot her, and loaded his gun
for this purpose, and then thought to
wait until next morning. After think
ing the matter over through the night,
he concluded that life without the mare
wasn't t worth living, SO he took the gun
and killed himself instead of his pct
N. Y. Sun.
Many names of Maine towns and
villages are puzzlers to the uninitiated,
both IN pronunciation and spelling, and
it is fortunate that postmasters. mail
agents, etc., are gifted with the Yankee
faculty of guessing. A postal clerk in
Penobscot County had puzzler of the
kind the other day. He found two let
ters in his mail, one going to "Whitoo
Bedlock' and the 9th ,r to white
Opedlock" He sent them to Wytopit-
lock, and they have not yet been re-
turned. .-Lewistors (lNe. Journal.
Since the foundation of the gold
colony in the new California on the
banks of the River Amoor there have
been only three murders and two in
flictions of the death penalty-a Rus
sian having been hung for adulterating
the gold dust, and a Jew flogged to
death for having spread false news as
to the approach of body of Russian
troops, hoping thereby to send down
the price of gold owing to the panic.
There are twenty-seven taverns in the
colony, and, owing to the competition,
the prices are not high, except for
spirits. The gold fields, which are
twenty-five miles in length by three
miles broad, are said to be very rich
Chicago Tribune.
Two fatal accidents, remarkable
from their similarity. occurred in New
Orleans recently. Felix Alvarez, twelve
years old, was playing with his adopted
sister, and, half in earnest, half in jest,
threw pair of buttonhole scissors al
her. One of the blades struck her in
the left shoulder and penetrated the
axiliary artery, and the girl bled to
death before a physician arrived. AD
hour or two later two negro boys quar-
relied over game Of marbles and one
stabbed the other with small knife
The blade cut the femoral artery and
the boy bled to death. Had either