Huntsville gazette., 1888-11-24
OF GENERAL INTEREST

Porous window glass Is the newest
thing in Paris. The minute holes
serve to ventilate, but they do not adj
NIT the wind so as to make it disagree
able.
The mule has qualities which en-
title him to respect. A mule and a
man in Georgia made a crop of cotton
which packed into seventeen bales,
averaging five hundred pounds each,
besides making enough corn, fodder,
hay and peas to feed the mule another
year.
A Nebraska man has organized a
band consisting OF a concertina, tri-
angle, two drums, pair of cymbafs
and mouth organ. He plays the en-
tire com mbination himself, and would
make mighty snowy organization if
he could only afford to hire drum
major.
There are on exhibition in the
rooms of the State mining bureau at
! San Francisco four "desiccated human
bodies" that were found by Signor S.
Marghieri in a sealed cavern at an
elevation of 1000 feet on the eastern
side of the Sierra Madre mountains in
| Mexico.
You'd be surprised" says New
York safe manufacturer, lat the
number of sham pasteboard safes in
New York and they're made so well
that any ordinary person would be de-
ceived. They have q businesslike ap-
pearance and give an Office a thrifty
look. all for $5 or Sc whereas the real
article would cost something like 800.
Joe Patrick, of Delevan, Wis,
married his mother-in-law, Mrs. Cas-
perwich, the other day, and brought
about a very complex state of things.
He thus becomes stepfather to his
former wife. He was formerly the
son Of his present wife; being the son.
he becomes the brother of the old
lady's daughter (his former wife) and
also father-in-law to himself
Thomas Cruise, the millionaire
stockman of Montana, proposes to
rent ewes at fifty cents each per year
for term of years, the lessees to re
turn the same number of ewes at the
end Of the term; the ewes to be taken
as they run in the flock when leased
and when returned. The lessees have
all the wool and bear the losses. Mr..
Cruise, estimating the sheep at $3.50
per head, receives twenty per cent. op
his investment
-Anegr entered an Americas (Ga.)
restaurant and laying down dollar
said: "Give me square meal and no
change" The proprietor hustled
around to oblige SO good customer,
but soon sickened Of the bargain. The
hungry man ate thirty-two links of
sausage, thirteen biscuits, half dozen
slices Of fresh pork and two fried
mullets He remarked as he left the
restaurant: Il have been suffering
from dyspepsia and my appetite isn't
very good"
A pair of carrier pigeons but three
months old, and entirely unframed,
were sold by man in New Haven to
a citizen of Boston, who carried them
home with him. A month afterward
they appeared at their old home in
New Haven, and were shortly fol-
lowed by postal card from Boston
saying that they were missing. The
question is yet to be answered: How
did these young and unframed birds
know the way from Boston to New
Haven, a distance of 145 miles?
The following is from Grass
Lake, Mich, daily: Last Monday
morning, while small knot of men
were talking together at the Central
Depot in Jackson, the peep of a chicken
was distinctly heard. Thereupon one
of the number opened his vest, and in
an inner pocket was revealed chicken
just Matched and still partly in its
shell. He reported that he had carried
an egg for twenty-one days on ten
dollar wager that it would hatch from
the natural warmth of his body"
Trained feas are exhibited from
time to time. Whether trained or un-
trained, they are extremely interest
ing insects simply from an athletic
point of view. A healthy flea will
| cover two hundred times its own
length at one jump. They are plucky
| fighters, and will stand on their hind
legs and strike at one another until they
lose legs, antenn9 and life. A single
flea has been known to draw a silver
cannon twenty-four times its own
weight, and to show no fear at the dis
charge Of gunpowder from the cannon.
in the town of Sutro, New, there
is silver mine the main gangway OF
which runs from that place to Vir-
ginia City, four miles distant. Fre-
quently this ''tunnel route" as ID is
called, is used by Sutro parties desir-
ing to 60 to Virginia City theaters.
The parties enter the tunnek almost at
their own door, Chamber into car
drawn by several mules and are
carried the full length of the tunnel in
comparatively short space OF time.