Huntsville gazette., 1888-05-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


Ii to a tree, then hides and waits for
the wild birds to come up and make
its acquaintance.
1t is stated that the distillation of
one hundred gallons of crude petro-
leum will yield seventy-six gallons OF
Illuminating oil, twelve gallons of gas
oline, benzine or naphtha, three gallons
of lubricating oil. and nine gallons Of
residuum.
"A young man in railway carriage
was making fun of lady's hat to an
elderly gentleman in the seat with him.
Yes" said the elderly gentleman,
'that's my wife, and l told her if she
wore that bonnet some fool would
make fun of it.
1t is stated by IN English dealer
in East India cereals that there arc
more than ten thousand different vari-
ties of rice, and yet that there is only
one species. The different varieties are
Of all colors from black to pale yell
low and snow white.
The heirs of merchant of Mon
son, Mass, received the other day
thirty cents, sent by n man in Penn
sylvania, who wrote that they were to
pay for four apples that he took from
the merchants store when he lived
there forty years ago.
A Richmond, Mich, woman lost
her watch a few days ago. She could
not find it, but wherever she went she
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her on to greater efforts, and she
turned the house upside down in her
| search-and then found the watch in
| her hustle. ~
The Adrian, Mich, Press discov-
| cred an old account book of the crop
| Of 1880, and learns from it that wood
was worth 81 cord that year, a yard
of calico 374 cents, q pen six cents;
tea was worth 60 cents and coffee p
cents; shirting u! cents and Il spool
| of thread nine cents. Butter was
worth 20 cents, whisky 56 cents gal
Ion, and 100 pounds Of flour So.
| A Swede, Of Terre Haute, claims
to be the worlds champion water
drinker" He thinks it no feat at all.
scarcely, to drink half a gallon in fifty
seconds, and has drunk five gallons in
five hours and thirty gallons in a day.
which exceeds the capacity Of any
horse. His appetite keeps up with his
| thirst pretty well, for he can sit down
| and eat as much as can ten men.
A big bone, which local physicians
| of Carson, New, say is a portion of q
leg Of man below the knee, was re-
Gently found near Genoa, New. 1t was
two feet long, and at the point where
| it Joined the knee was eight inches
| across, OF five times the usual size. If
| the man who owned the bone was built
in proportion he must have been about
twenty-five feet high An active
search is being made for the rest Of the
| skeleton.
| John Wesley was one day walking
| with brother, who related to him his
troubles, saying he did not know what
he should do. They were at that mo-
ment passing q stone fence to q
ing. "Do you know" asked Wesley,
''why the COW looks over that wall?''
NO." replied the one in trouble. II
will tell you," said Wesley; "because
she can not look through it. And that
is what you must do with your troubles
look over and above them"
The late Emperor William one
evening at Baden Baden noticed an
officer in civilian dress trying his luck
at trente-et-quarante, pastime forbid
den to army officers. He had placed
two or three louis on the table and had
won nice little sum, when he saw the
King opposite. He turned pale,
trembled, and hesitated to take pos
session of his money. Thereupon King
William approached and whispered in
his ear: Don't be afraid. Take in
your money. but don't do it again. -
"A curious freak of memory is that
of forgetting words of q poem or speech
which has been said over a great
number of times. The leading lady of
play which has been performed seven
hundred times can not remember her
lines, even by the most violent effort,
and only complete rest of q day or two
would recall them. Another actress in
play which had great run had to be
constantly prompted towards the end.
rehearsed every day, and yet was con-
stantly pursued by terrible conscious
ness that what she was saying to the
audience was simply unmeaning glib
berish.
The celebrated DIR. Abernethy
hated the egotistic garrulity Of people
who came to consult him. A lady on
one occasion entered his consulting
room, and put before him an injured
finger without saying a word. In
silence Abernethy dressed the wound,
and the lady instantly and silently put
the usual fee on the table and retired.
In few days she returned, and held
out her finger free from bandage and
perfectly healed. ''Well?" was Abtr-
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