Huntsville gazette., 1886-08-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


OF legal-cap paper, averaging eleven
words to the line and thirty-two lines
to the page, thus containi' g eleven
| thousand six hundred and sixteen
words, was recently record.u in McIn-
tosh County, Ga.
"A twelve-year-old boy in Pleasant
Valley, o., attempting to draw water
from well fifty feet deep. fell in. He
went to the bottom without hitting the
stones on the sides, grasped the rope,
and was drawn out in safety by his
/ mother and -sister.-Toledo Blade.
An old soldier attending the
Knights of Pythias convention at To
rOnto attempted to alight from NOV
ing train at Canandaigua one day re-
Gently, when he slipped and fell in
such manner that the wheel of the
car passed over his wooden hand and
severed it from the arm.
John Wade, one day recently, at
Cowantown, Md, punished his vicious
bulldog with pitchfork. The next
when Wade came home he was met at
the gate by the revengeful canine,
which attacked him and was terribly
mangling him when he was rescued
One of the greatest advertisers Of
ancient times was Trajan, who inserted
a whole column in the Roman Forum.
He put cut of himself at the top OF
the column, and ordered the whole
thing to run daily eft" The result
was that Trajan sold out his whole
stock long ago, and retired from busi-
ness.-SprTpgfeId (Mass.) Union.
"A Philadelphia physician says that
a great deal of what passes for heart
disease is only mild dyspepsia, that
nervousness is commonly bad temper,
and that two-thirds of the so-called
malaria is nothing but laziness. Prob
ably he doesn't tell his patients SO, but
there is no doubt good deal of truth
in what he says.-Boston Budget.
New Mexico newspapers tell of
''norther" that passed over the north
ern edge of Lincoln County accompan-
led by hail-stones as large as a mans
fist, doing great damage to sheep. One
man lost 5000 killed, another 5000,
third 1900 out of herd of 5 600
Merinos and Cotswolds. Several beeves
and some cattle were killed, and it was
rumored that the hail killed two herd
ers also.
A table giving the price of gas in
ninety-tive of the principal cities of the
United States shows total range in
price of from ninety cents to four dol
lars per one thousand feet. The low
est price is in Wilkesbarre, Pa, and
Wheeling, w. Va, near the heart of
the coal regions, and the highest rules
in Galveston and San Antonio, new
places and far removed from COAL
Chicago Times.
"A sanguine young man in New York
has started what seems to be a new
line of business. He has lot Of shot
guns, single and double-barreled, that
he proposes to lend, for considera-
ton, by the day, week, month or year.
He reasons that in apopulation olarge
as that of New York there must be a
great many people who would like to
go hunting if they only had guns, SO he
steps in "to supply long-felt want"
In Epping, N. H., where number
of Quakers reside, says the Newbury-
port Herald. one of the Friends was
disciplined for not attending the meet
ing of the society, and among the
charges was one that he did not attend
the funeral of members OF the society.
When the old gentleman heard this he
was willing to acknowledge his short
comings, and made confession, say
ing: II shall be right glad to attend
all their funerals"
When Isaiah Thomas, of Massa-
chusetts, was printing his almanac for
the year 1870. one Of the boys asked
him what he should put opposite the
'.13th Of July" "Any thing, any thing"
The boy, thus ordered, returned to the
office and set '.rain, hail and snow"
The country was all amazement when
the day arrived, for it actually rained,
that time Thomas ALplapde was in
great demand. - Baltimore Anaerlcan.
A lively time was experienced by
an apiarist recently at Bruce Town
ship, Ont, when sixteen swarms Of
his bees came off at the same time and
besieged branch of tree, where they
formed huge roll several feet in cir
cumference and five feet long. He
separated them, finding out each Of
the sixteen queen bees, which he put
into hive, and gathered enough bees
to make swarm, until he had the
whole sixteen quietly settled in new
hives
The new rose, Her Majesty, is so
popular that five hundred bushels were
sold at one auction during the present
season in New York Flowers, like
everything else, have their day of fash
ion. and when the latter changes nei-
ther beauty nor fragrance avails. The
jacqueminot rose is still fayorite, but
the present craze for daisies and butter
cups has impaired its sale. Last year
they were retailed for five cents, but
now you can buy half-dozen for that
sum, and they are sold singly at one
cent.-N Y. Mail
A former employe of O Bath (Me.)
firm recently stepped into the count
ing-room and asked member of the
firm to accept twenty dollars from him.
.sWhy, you didn't steal it from US, did
you?'' asked he. ''Oh, no." said the
former employe, ''but / think did not
do all / might have done for your in
terest, and this twenty dollars will help
to make it square. He explained that
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