Huntsville gazette., 1886-02-27
OF GENERAL INTEREST,

DCtfOtC lTtOUWS.
If every inhabitant of the country
gets his share of the years grain crop
he will have to consume or waste fifty
three bushels Chicago Herald.
"A snow-melting machine which,
it is claimed, will melt snow as
fast as fifteen men can shovel it in, was
tried in New York the other day.-N.
Y. Sun.
From tests made by Dr. Fisher, the
German chemist, it appears that in or
dlnary stoves not more than twenty
per cent. of the fuel consumed is
Utilized in warming the rooms.
1t may be remarked, for the COM
fort OF honest poverty, that avarice
reigns most in those who have but few
good qualities to recommend them.
This is weed that will only grow in
barren soil.-Hughes.
1t is when we come to rejoice in
duty, to take pleasure in sacrifice, to
follow justice, mercy and truth, not
only with the firm and steady step, but
with a loving and tender clasp, that
we realize the true vitality Of
righteousne.s.-N Z. Ledger.
An English medical publication
says that turnips, beets, onions, carrots
and parsnips are so completely made
up of water and waste materials that
they can not be depended upon for
nourishment, but are valuable aids in
digesting the more concentrated foods.
"A very sad affair is reported from
Ridgefeld Park, N. j. A bridegroom
died of lockjaw within a fort
night after marriage. His death was
caused by slight wound from a nail,
and his funeral service was read in the
same room which a few days ago was
gay with the bridal party.-N. Y. Ta-ib-
u1ae.
On the first day of January, 1885.
a contribution box was placed in the
conversation room of the Working
Mems Institute, at Millville, N. j.,
the object being to raise six hundred
dollars to place town clock in the bel
fry. The other day the box was opened,
and was found to contain fifteen cents.
-Bufalo Express.
A man who was sued in Charles
County, Md, last summer by
neighbor for killing his dog, and paid
dog alive and well, except having be-
come thin from exposure. Where the
dog has been is a mystery. The dog is
beagle, and some of the witnesses at
the trial valued it at fifty dollars
Baltimore San.
A man from New Lisbon, n Y,
mailed two letters at the Oneonto post
office the other day. His strange man
ner in buying the stamps, and his
query as to what to do with the stamps
after he had bought them, excited curl
osity, and inquiry brought out the sin
gular fact that although fifty-five years
of age he had never before mailed let
ter.-Uttca Herald.
AT dinner of fifty covers, given
by a resident of North Broad street,
Philadelphia, the other night at the
Bellevue Hotel in that city, the cur
tains at the windows of the banqueting
hall were removed, and curtains of
natural flowers, costing over one hun
dred dollars each, were hung lin their
place. The cost of the dinner was
about two thousand five hundred dol
lars. philadelphia Press.
Peter Cummings drove the first
boat that made the trip from Buffalo
over the Erie Canal in 1925. De Witt
Clinton stood at the bow of the boat
and gave the word to start. The boat
was called the Young Lion of the West,
and was drawn by nine horses gaily
caparisoned. Cummings drove until he
was seventy-five, when he was drowned
at Pendleton. He is buried at Tona-
wanda, and Erie Canal boatmen are
now raising fund to erect monu-
ment over his grave.-B Buffalo Courier.
The friends of certain man in
this city, who occasionally fingers with
the wine-cup far too long for his own
good or that of his family, are just
now having a laugh at his expense.
His son, poor little innocent, chanced
to hear some older people talking about
sleep, and piped in his childest treble
after this fashion: ''Pa gets awful
sleepy sometimes; he came home the
other night and was so sleepy that he
couldn't get in the house, but just laid
down by the wood-pile right cut CT
doors. ~ Portland Oreqonidn.
A new incandescent electric light
has been invented by Frederick
Schaefer, young German OF Boston
Silk thread carbonized is employed in
the globes, and it is found to be as en-
durable and flexible as platinum wire.
The invention has been patented and
is in use. 1t is evident that there is
abundant field for new inventions in
electric lighting. The energy with which
American inventors have pursued this
subject is quite remarkable. The old
world can learn much from the sue
cesses of American experimenters--
Boston Journal.
The small boy who teaches theoi-
oey to the historian was very bad, in
deed. at the table the other day-so
naughty, in fact, that his sister said To
him seriously: '.You seem to get worse
every day. Are you ever going to be
any bettera' "To-morrow,n asserted
the small boy with engaging certainty.
.I'm going to pray to God. tonight
when 60 to bed to please make me
good, and then Ill get up early in the
morning and be good all day" "You'd
La++ar nrav now and hepin RIGHT off