The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-05-26
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

There are said to be several gypsies
In New York that are worth over one
hundred thousand dollars apiece.
"A priest in the State of New York
claims to have cured a case of genuine.
undoubted hydrophobia by putting the
patient into a vapor bath of very high
temperature until he was completely
sweated out.
"A rose-colored report from Pan.
anna says that "work on the canal goes
on fast. and nov that the lock system
has been definitely adopted, the belief
is strengthened that ships will pass
through on the day fixed by Count de
Lesseps."
1t is reported thati it has been found
improbable to ship from the East to
the West all the printed material used
by the Postal Department when the
paper can be bought and the printing
done in St Louis and Chicago quite as
we'll. So branches of the Government
Printing Office are to be established in
these cities.
"A little Buffalo girl was not feeling
well, and her parents suggested that
she might be about to have chicken
pox, then prevalent She went to bed
laughing at the idea, but early next
morning went into her parents room,
looking very serious, and said: Yes,
it is chieken-pox, papa | found a
fodder in the bed"
Prominent ladies in Washington
society have decided to present to the
City of Paris a statue of General
Washington, in acknowledgment Of
that given by France to New York in
1876. 1t will be the work of an emil
nent American sculptor, and cast in
this country, that it may in every sense
be a purely American gift
An interesting legal question is
likely to arise over the finding of a jar
containing S12,00 at Holman station,
Ind, by Smith Stewart on a farm which
he had rented. The landlord claims
the money on the ground that it had
been buried by his sister, now deceased.
The collection includes some coins
over two hundred years old.
An English family has a custom Of
feeding wild birds regularly after break
fast. Opening the dining-room win
dow, they ring a bell, and Immediately
all kinds of birds, and sometimes even
squirrels, come to the feeding place.
A curious result of the custom is that
numerous applicants are seen each
morning waiting the sound Of the bell,
like so many patients at a hospital.
In Germany the average duration
of tile life of gardeners. mariners, and
fishermen is tfty-eight years; butchers,
fifty-four years; carpenters and brick.
layers, forty-nine years; shoemakers
and %tailors, forty-four years; composit-
ors and photographers, forty-one years,
and laborers, thirty-two years. OF tho
, professions the average lifetime of cler-
gymen is sixty-seven years; teachers,
fifty-seven years; lawyers, fifty-four
years, and physicians, %forty-nine years.
A Methodist brother, 4 licensed
exhortcr on Nartha's Vineyard, was
teacher of an adult class in Sunday
school. The lesson was o the cruel
tixion. 1--WE read here" said tho
teacher, ''of two male-factors- | have
studied the Bible quite carefully. but
have found no mention of female
factors. viii each of you during this
week search as thoroughly as you have
time, to see if there be any reference
to female-factors in any part of the
Scriptures?"
Two Maryland inventors have dis
covered and perfected II substitute fol-
the pendulum in timcpieces. 1t con-
sists of a hydraulic escapement, itself
a piston or plunger that is propelled
upward and downward once in twenty
four hours through a cylinder tilled
with mercury. There is no noise eX'
cept when the clock strikes. The in
vention supplants the discovery OF Cali
leo, and, it is claimed, will eventually
reyolutionize the clock manufacture
through c~hcapness and perfection.
The medicinal qualities of onions
have lately been made a subject OF dis
cussion By medical men. One write
says: During unhealthy seasons
when diphtheria and like contagious
diseases prevail, onions ought to b.
eaten in the spring of the year at leas
once n week. Onions are ~invlgoratlns
and prophylactic beyond description
Further, | challenge the medical fra
ternity. or any mother, to point out
place where children have died iron
diphtheria or scarlatina anginosa, etc.
where onions were freely used"
-When Rosa Bonheur, who paint
in male attire, appears in the streets o
Paris, she is a large, elderly lady, rath
or plainly dressed in black, her gra,
hair tucked under a close bonnet; ant
unless for the peculiar strength OF he
face and her piercing. attentive eyes
it would not be noticed that she dii
fered from any other woman in tn
crowd, except that she wears the re-
ribbon Of the Legion Of Honor. Sh'
originally dressed as a boy to attrac
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