Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-17
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

1T is now an imperial regulation in
Brazil that person who die from yellow
fever shall be cremated. the State bear
ing the whole expense.
One of the Partisan restaurant
keepers hangs out placard reading,
"Kakes de buckwheat du Americaine,
and fancies he leads the procession.
"A Buffalo merchant has in his pos.
session the great iron paddock which
was used in locking the great gates Of
Fort George during the war of 1919
1t weighs about five pounds.
In the year 1875 sixty thousand
buffalo robes were shipped from Ben.
ton, NJ. T.. their value being three hum
dred thousand dollars. This year only
dozen or so were procurable there, the
buffalo having become almost extinct
Mr.. Moody, the evangelist, says
that there has never been a cancer
among the Hebrews, and suggests that
their freedom from this scourge may
be due to their abstinence from pork.
How would it do for our learned physi.
clans to investigate this subjectP
"A citizen of Pennington, Me-, re-
ceived letter from school agent in a
rural district inquiring for school
teacher. The writer gave long list
of the qualifications which teacher
must possess, and among other things
stated that no one that ate with knife
would be acceptable.
"A New Orleans jury declares keno
is not gambling. The idea is that keno
is not a game of chance. The house is
dead sure to get all the money players
have if the players will keep on play
ing long enough. There is no cheat
ing in the game; but general con-
sumption of funds. s.-Picayu'ae.
The number of tall ladies now in
Washington society is notorious. A
niece of Secretary Bayard, Miss Bay
ard. of Baltimore, is six feet tall;
Speaker Carlisle's wife is five feet nine
inches and General Greely's wife, Mrs.
Wilkinson, of New Orleans and Miss
Gintner, of Kentuck, are about the
same height
Prof. Kirchoff, to decide bet
recently stated that Chinese was the
most popular language in the world.
1t is spoken by 400, 100000 persons.
Hindoostani by upward of 100, ,000,000;
English by more than LOO, ,000,0 900; Rus
sian by more than 100000; German
by 5S,00O,0OO; Spanish by 4S,OOO,O00,
and French by only 100000.
Nevada horse raisers and ranch
men on the Pioche and White Pine
ranges are complaining of the wild
horses of that region. In the She'll
back Mountains are bands of from $50
to 200 of these horses, each under the
leadership of powerful stations, and
they make regular raids on the ranches
and run off the horses of the ranchmen.
Frankfort, Pa, has man who
sleeps in coffin. He is well educated
and comes from one of the former first
families of the town, his father having
been leading politician and wealthy.
He is now destitute and beneficiary
of the undertaker's charity. His lady
love died many years ago, since which
time his mind has been somewhat un-
balanced.
A Chicago cigar dealer says that
if he had no other way of reckoning
time he could tell the day of the week
by the kind of cigars he sells to those
of his PuStOmars who ara n1arES Earlv
in the week they come in proudly and
call for 1.-TWO for a quarter" By
Wednesday they ask for a ten cent
straight and when Friday comes along
their formula is, Gimme good five
center"