Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-30

The advance of spring is indicated
in New York by the appearance on the
street of Italian women with an ice
packed pail of ice-cream and the cry,
.Wona centa class"
"A st. Louis college sold a lot OF
old and worthless books for 5000, and
two months later bought them back
from an old bookstore as valuable rel
les, and worth the 5000 asked.
Observations in uthe Atlantic give
from forty-four feet to forty-eight feet
as the highest measured waves. But
such heights are rarely reached, and,
indeed, waves exceeding thirty feet
are very seldom encountered.
1t is not an uncommon thing for
| immigrants to land at Castle Garden
with families of nine or ten children,
and recently a husband and wife, with
thirty-two children, ,disembarked there.
1t is only fair, however, to mention
| that the woman was the mans third
wife.
Gabriel Nan-wog-gyah, a chief OF
| the PottawatOmies, who died at the
| Sacred Heart Mission the other day,
was reputed to be one hundred and
| twenty-five years old Some of the
| most aged members of the tribe re-
member that when they were children
he was the father of a grown-up fam
| lily.
| Some of the greatest men the world
| ever saw were superstitious. Napo-
leon Bonaparte was believer in
omens. The great Duke of Yelling
ton would not offer battle on any day
that he met or saw yellow dog cross
| his path. Hannibal used to get out OF
his camp bed backward so as to secure
| good luck for the day, and Frederick
the Great carried rabbits foot to
| guard against evil.
1t is said the larks of Scotland are
the sweetest singing birds of Garth.
| No piece of mechanism that man has
| ever made has the soft, sweet, glorious
| music in it that the lark's throat has
When the farmers of Scotland walk
out early in the morning, they flush
the larks from the grass, and as they
rise they sing, and as tney sing they
circle, and higher and higher they go,
circling as they sing, until at last the
| notes of their voices die out in the
sweetest strains earth ever listened to.
Woman's Magazine.
"A portion of petrified tree was
| discovered In g. solid sandstone rock
quarry at GAINESVILLE, o., the other day.
The tree is about the thickness of a
telegraph pole and has well-detined
bark and roots. 1t was found while
blasting or Immediately after blast,
| 5nlly sixty feet below the top OF the
| hill, and was in solid rock. Over it is
the earth formation, then a species Of
shale, then limestone strata, followed
| by a conglomeration of stone, then
some forty feet of solid sandstone,
| near the bottom of which is the petri-
fed tree.
A New York store advertises as
the newest thing out its patent chill
| dren's knee pads" The history Of the
pads is interesting. A Northern New
Hampshire woman, with boys who
would go through the knees of their
knickbockers and stockings faster than
she could mend them, in a moment of
inspiration fitted some soft leather
smoothly over the knees Of two OF her
boys A summer visitor saw the
scheme and adopted it for her boys,
Al. IL, Itltn hn
world, and now somebody has patented
the New Hampshire woman's idea, and
is making money out of it.
The State of New York has sixty
counties and thirty cities. The cities
are Albany, Amsterdam, Auburn.
Binghamton, Brooklyn, Buffalo,
Cohoes, Dunkirk, ,Elmira, ,Hornellsville,
Hudson, Ithaca, jamestown, Kingston.
Lockport, Long Island City, Middleton,
| Newburg, New York, Ogdensburg,
Oswego, Poughkeepsie, Rochester,
Rome, Schenectady, Syracuse, Troy,
Utica, Watertown and Yonkers. The
counties which have two cities are
Albany, with Albany and Cohoes;
| Cnautduqua, WIN DunRlfK anu JdinSS-
town, and Oneida, with Utica and
Rome. Thirty-four counties have no
cities within their limits at all.
During recent violent storms in
the English Channel, the sea washed
through high and hard sand bank
near the Isle of St. MalO, France,
nearly fourteen feet thick, laying bare
portion of an ancient forest which
was already passing into the condition
of coal This forest, at the beginning
of our era, covered an extensive tract
of the coast, but with the sinking OF
the land it became submerged, ano
was covered up by the drifting sand
Mont St. Michel once stood in the
middle of it. The forest had quite
disappeared by the middle OF the tentf
century. Occasionally, at very low
tides after storms, remains OF 1T are
disclosed, just as at present. 1t Is DC
| Iieved that some centuries ago tn
hirhest tides rose about fOrty-two fee