Huntsville gazette., 1888-09-15
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

LA COSt1 Island, on the Florida
coast, will soon he one immense CO.
coanut grove, it is said, so rapidly is
it being set out with cocoanut trees.
Mrs. Langtry has been exceeding
ly thrifty in a business point Of view.
Her property in New York is said to
be worth $25O,0OO. Then she has pos
sessions in California.
"A young man who was asked by
an elderly friend the other day why
he carried a cane was able to give an
answer. Said he: Il carry cane be-
cause, getting in the habit of it, ]
never lose an umbrella"
A blacksmith at Oviedo, Fla, ap:.
pears to be second Elihu Burritt-
His sign reads: "Thurston Holling-
worth, general repairing and jobbing
in all materials neatly and promptly
done. Notwithstanding and pho
Biography. Information given on sci.
entifc and mechanical subjects"
-Apricots are slow of bearing,
usually. Sometimes they fail to pol
lenize well, but when then they do
they are often destroyed by the cur
culio. Examine the flowers and see il
they are perfect; if not graft over to
some other kind. Should they set
well. prevent attacks of the curculio
| by spraying with some offensive mix
ture at frequent intervals. Apricots are
not usually raised at profit this side
of the Rocky Mountains, at least in
Northern latitudes.
kentucky has man who is
probably the heaviest man in the
world. His weight is given at 1872
pounds and it requires thirty-seven
yards of cloth to make him a suit. He
is six foot four and one-half inches in
hight, is thirty-one years old, and
weighed eleven pounds at birth.
When two years old he took a 81 ,00e
prize at the baby show in New York,
| tipping the beam at 206 pounds at that
time His father weighed 115 pounds
and his mother l22.
| A Bristol cat had struggle with
young rat one day which came near
ending fatally to both animals. Pussy
pounced on the rodent as he came from
behind cracker barrel, and soon was
getting the best of the fight Suddenly
the rat made dive at the cats open
mouth, and half Of its body disap-
peared. There was terrible scratch
ing and coughing, and when the store
keeper came to the rescue of his mouser
he was just able to grab the rat by the
hind legs and pull it from the cats
throat, which was fast choking to
death.
The assistant examiner of Chinese
customs service has sent to the
Treasury Department here a printed
list of Chinese medicines exported
from Yangtse ports. Among the
remedies are tigers bones, ground
blood, bears gall, asses glue, tree
bugs, elephants gall, fossil crabs,
fossil teeth, fowls gizzards, ''insects
of nine SMELLS" Jobs tears, cow-hair.
glass, rhinoceros horns, cows knee,
puff balls, dragons teeth, straw,
hedgehog skins, dried silkworms,
snake skins, crabs eyes, horse tails,
and centipedes.
| The naval cadets of Annapolis
have invented what is called the
smile drill' for the benefit of their
lower class men. The upper class man
holds up one finger and the poor lower
class man must smile-just little. Up
goes another finger and the smile must
broaden; still another, and it is wider
than before. At last all the fingers are
liup and the grin is stretched as far as a
grin can be. This rather painful stu
alton can be prolonged until the cruel
upper class man is tired of seeing the
other fellow smile. Then he closes his
hand and the smile must instantly
cease. Prompt obedience is the es-
sence of the smile drill, as of every
other.
One Of the finest collections of au-
tographs in this country was made by
the late DR.. Leffingwell, Of New Haven.
1t is valued at $4,000. Among the
famous names whose possessors wrote
them are Adelaide, Queen of William
w.; Queen Anne. Caroline, Queen of
George H.; Charlotte, Queen of George
I'LL; Charlotte, daughter of George
". Charles l., Charles H., Edward
W., Queen Elizabeth, Elizabeth Wood
vile, Queen Of Edward w.; Elizabeth.
daughter Of Charles l.; Henry w.,
Henry ", Henry vi, Henry VII,
Henry Will, James l., James H., Rich
ard H., Richard Ill, Lord Francis
Bacon, Oliver Cromwell, Lady Jane
Grey, Sir Isaac Newton, Sir Walter
Raleigh, Robert Burns, Lord Byron,
William Cowper, John Dryden, Oliver
Goldsmith, William Shakespeare,
George Washington, james Madison,
John Adams, John Quincy Adams
Martin Van Buren and Roger Williams.
|
In a Depressing State.
In descending the stairs Bobbys foot
slipped and he and the coal hod which
he was carrying ratified to the bot