The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-02-25
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


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The site of the city of Boston wa
sold in 1885 by John Blackstone TO,
ESQ. :"
The latest fad of New York girl,
Is whistling. A married lady is tn,
champion whistler and she has score.
OF imitators.
AT a ball near Hot Springs, Ark.
recently a young lady, her mother
grandmother and great grandmothe,
danced in the same set.
Ohio has fifteen cows with woode,
legs. Up in Vermont they have an,
quantity Of cows with wooden arms
but they call them pumps.
Grand Forks and Walsh countje,
in the Red River Valley in Dakota
raised In 1887. 10, AL, 992 bushels O
wheat, besides 4,616,68 81 bushels O
oats.
The largest savings bank in tn,
world is the Glasgow Savings Bank
The last report shows funds in hand O
t4,68O,0 900, and "a, 622, 900 are due t.
depositors, who number 1877, 204.
"A minerin Strawberry Valley, Cal.
says he has led the life of a hermit sine,
boyhood, his only companion beine
newspapers. Yet this man is able te
discuss social, political and other prob
lens in a manner creditable to a mar
Of high social position.
The unbound volumes and logs O,
the ships Resolution and Discovery
during Captain Cooks voyage, which
were found in the British Record office,
contain at least ten separate accounts
OF Cooks death. They give some GU.
rious variations from the accepted mar.
rative.
A party of jocose Americans re.
Gently sang Here's a How Dy'ye Do
and other scraps from "The Mikado''
before the great bronze image of Bud.
dha, at Kamakura, Japan. The Jap
anese We're awed by the song, and
thought it was offered as an invocation
to Buddha.
The Italian residents of Washing
ton propose to present to the United
States a marble bust of Garibaldi as
"a link in the chain of sympathy which
all free men feel for the champions of
liberty and republican government"
if they can induce Congress to accept
it. AS Congress never refuses any
thing the bust will soon be in place.
"A Maine mar has looked up the
records of thirty-six boys who about
fifty years ago went to the '~little brown
school house, in Sanford. All have
become prosperous and excellent citi-
zens, -Four are prominent lawyers;
n a successful Boston physician; thir-
teen prosperous merchants; one Il
wealthy Kansas farmer; one is Super
intendent of the Li1e-Saving Depart
ment at Washington; one an officer in
the United States Navy, and five are
bankers. Four have been Mayors of
their cities, and seven, all leading citi-
zens, still live in Sanford.
The Tower of Victory. just COM
pleted at Washington's headquarters,
New York, has cost the National and
State Government IS 5000. 1t stands
in an elevated position. overlooking
the Hudson river and neal the historic
building in front of which the Cont
mental army was disbanded on October
8, 1888. The design represents a tower
of victory, built of native stone, of a
rectangular form. The Dimensions on
the ground lines are 81 by 80 feet. with
a total height of 50 feet. -Four large
archways open into the atrium on each
side. In the center of the atrium, upon
n polished pedestal of red granite,
stands a life-size bronze statue Of Gem
eral Washington, which is still vailed.
is 6 feet 2 inches, aud weighs about
1000 pounds.