Huntsville gazette., 1888-10-13
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A witness in court, being interro-
gated as to his knowledge of the de-
fendant in the case, said he knew
him intimately well: "He had supped
with him, sailed with him, and horse
whipped him!'
The largest horse farm in the
world lies thirteen miles northeast of
Cheyenne, w. T.. where the stock
holders of the Post Percheron horse
ranch have invested some 81, 225, 900
in 120, 900 acres of land and the i'm
provements and stock thereon.
The county court house at Pitts
burgh, Pa, cost nearly $3,000,000.
The tower rises to a height of APO feet.
1t has a bridge over which the prison
ers pass between the court rooms and
the Jail, which is modelled after the
famous Bridge of Signs" in Venice.
"A very careful and saving Chicago
policeman picks up all the old horse
shoes he finds in the street and sus-
pends them from the lamp posts on the
corners. Every fortnight or so
second hand iron merchant calls around
and collects the accumulated wealth of
"cast-off" shoes.
A Rhode Island young man, forty
one summers since, proposed to
young girl. He has kept on proposing
ever since, and the other day, when he
had attained the ripe and mature age
of seventy-two, she accepted him.
There are not many girls who can keep
a lover forty-one years.-HoteL Mail.
Here is a nut for vegetarians to
crack. An Indian runner lives almost
entirely on dried meat, and he can
stand more fatigue than any other man
in the world. The BlackfoOt runners
do three hundred miles over the rough
est country in four days, and in the
race a horse stands no show against
them.
Dealers recognize four notes in
the song of a canary, and they can tell
by listening to it for few minutes
whether the bird is German or Amer
lean. 1t is said that American birds
fail to hold the rolling note, which is
continuous melody, rising and falling
only to rise again, while the German
birds do.
An old writer says: "A long chin
declareth man to be peaceable yet a
babbler. They that have little chins
are much to be avoided and take heed
of, for they are full of impiety and
wickedness, and are spies like unto
serpents. If the end of the chin be
round, it is the sign Of nice manners;
but the chin Of a real man is square,
A Southern paper contains the
following melancholy item of local
news: The extreme heat has melted
the clapper out of the Booz Hotel
breakfast bell, and now slate-colored
darkey, with linen duster and huge
palmetto fan in each hand, walks out
into the piazza and in sonorous tones
cries: "Ah, there! Breckas, sab,
breckas, come on to breckas," and the
drummers reluctantly respond.
The Athenaum Library, Bury St.
Edmunds, has a biography Of man
named Corder which is bound in
piece of human skin. Corder murdered
his sweetheart and married some one
more to bis liking. Having been de-
tected and hanged the doctor who OBJ
tained his corpse sent a piece Of his
skin, properly cured, to the publisher,
and a copy of the dead mans life was
accordingly bound up in his skin.
The scheme of some Jeffersonville
(Ky.) landlords for compelling delin-
quent boarders to pay up would be
an admirable one were it not that its
operation is violation Of law. When
aJeffersonville boarder finds himself
so much in arrears that it seems best
to him to retire privately and expedi-
tiously from the mansion of his credit
or, the landlady publishes his name,
and he can not get board anywhere
else in town until the bill is paid.
"A Dakota man essayed the peril
Gus task of assisting his wife on wash
day. He was assigned to hanging the
garments on the lines. The unfortu-
nate man moved to his doom like
Roman martyr. He had almost com
pleted the job when the lonely sus-
pender which held his pantaloons in
place gave way. To grab the falling
garment was his first impulse, and in
doing so the clothespin held in his
mouth dropped into his throat. A
commotion ensued. To protect his
person and prevent suffocation occu-
pied both hands, but his wife arrived
in time to extract the retreating pin
and save his life. Hereafter he will
journey to the country on wash day.
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