Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
Of GENERAL INTEREST.

All astronomer mas inquired out unab
The sun will furnish us light and heat
for only ten million years more.
Adam Forepaugh will erect brick
md iron circus pavilion in Philadel-
phia. He will use it two months in
the year.
The courts of Michigan are to IN
vestigate the remarkable conduct of a
public school teacher who beat a scholar
with club, and then paraded the
room with revolver to keep the big
boys under subsection.
A citizen Of Waverly. Mich.
walked right through the handsome
plate glass window Of Kalamazoo
bank few days ago. He said after
ward that the glass was 50 clear that
he took it for an open door.
George Wheatley, of Americus,
Ga, has rabbit-hunting horse. The
other day when negro was leading
three horses one of them stepped on a
rabbits foot, and refused to move until
the rabbit had been captured.
Mr.. Osgoodby. of Albany, and his
four boys foot up pretty well in the
aggregate. He is six feet six inches in
height, the oldest son is two inches
shorter, the next is six feet three, the
next six feet two, and the youngest, a
lad, is six feet one inch tall.
A lady living in Rappahannock
County, Va, had twelve stands Of bees
which were very valuable until dis
tillery was started in the neighborhood.
Since it was started, however, the bees
pay frequent visits to the still, get very
drunk, and are Of little profit,
Many years ago, before the civil
war, Emerson fairly predicted the tel
ephone. ''By new arts" he wrote,
1.-THE earth is subdued and we are on
the brink of new wonders. The sun
paints; presently we shall organize the
echo, as we do now the shadow"
"A man living near West Bend,
Wis, has been married seven years
and does not know his wife's given
name. She became insane recently,
and the mans remarkable ignorance
was revealed when application was
made for her commitment to an asy-
| lum. saa
A list Of plays which people in
mourning may becomingly witness is
published in Paris They even carry
out the idea to the fine point Of prepar-
ing a half-mourning list. The auth OF
of Mourning la Mode was far be-
hind the times or he might have in
cluded this notion in his satire.
A New York paper says that the
artificial flower trade is the worst paid
of all trades. Learners are paid one
| dollar week and the best workers
rarely average over four dollars week.
For single sprays of fine flowers that
are sold for from fifteen to eighteen
| cents dozen, those who make them
receive eight cents gross.
The authorities of Canton were
officially notified of the recent eclipse
of the moon and instructed what to do
when the event occurred. They were
to wear court dress, beat gongs and
save the moon from being swallowed
up by the sun as long as the moon was
above the horizon. When she disap-
peared they were to make one low
obesance, but she need not be saved
when below the horizon.
Somebody has figured ont that the
fo,,,oIa loxvroYc in tho TTpitaI Gtatac
number forty-fve, and they are to be
found in Iowa three, Missouri two,
Michigan six, Utah Territory one, Dis
trict of Columbia three, Maine one.
Ohio four. Illinois seven, Wisconsin
five, Indiana two, Kansas three, Min
nesota one from Iowa), California
two, Connecticut one, Massachusetts,
one, Nebraska one, Washington Ter
ritory one, Pennsylvania one.
The citizens of Virginia, New,
have complained that the Lake Tahoe
fishermen cheated them by forcing
down the throat Of each trout caught
as many smooth pebbles as it would
hold. When the Virginians objected
to buying stones by the pound at trout
rates, the fishermen were indignant.
They said they had not been cheating,
but that the trout had swallowed the
stones as ballast-that the lake was OF
great depth and had subterranean pas
sages to Donner lake, and that the
trout had to swallow the stones in or.
der to sink deep enough to find the
passages. The explanation was not
entirely satisfactory.