The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-07-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A debt OF honor Is one that dis.
graces a man when the consideration Is
known.-N. o. Picayuae.
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.
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 oil
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 We're superstitious. Napo-
leon Bonaparte was a believer in
omens. The great Duke of Yelling
ton would not offer battle on any day
that he met or saw a 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 a rabbits foot to
guard against evil.
1t is announced, as a result OF
scientific experiments, that fat persons
who desire to become lean should icon.
fine themselves to a diet of lean meats,
acid fruits, and such vegetables as
contain but little starch. Fluids of all
kinds should be drank sparingly, tea
and coffee, and especially alcoholic
stimulants, being wholly avoided. Five
or six hours in the t%wenty-four should
be the maximum of sleep, and daily
exercise should be habitually and per
~sistently taken"
1t is said the larks of Scotland are
the sweetest singing birds of earth.
No piece of mechanism that mar 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 i'll the morning, they flush
the larks from the grass, and as they
rise they sing, and as they sing they
circle, and higher and higher they go,
circling as they sing, until at last tho
notes of their voices die out in the
sweetest strains earth ever listened to.
- Woman's Mogazinc.
A portion of a petritied tree was
discovered in a solid sandstone rock
quarry at GAINESVILLE. O., the other day.
The tree is about the thickness of a
telegraph pole and has ~wel!-detined
bark and roots. 1t was found while
blasting, or Immediately after a blast,
fully 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-
fled tree.
Emperor Frederick is not an adj
mirer Of stiff court ceremonies. When
he visited the societies of which he
has accepted the patronage he always
appeared in an ordinary military uni
form, the members being requested to
do the anne. But one day he came in
grand gala uniform, with all his or
ders, etc. The club members looked
very uncomfortable in the ordinary
dress, but the Prince exclaimed, jovi-
ally: Excuse me, gentlemen, for
appearing before you in this costume.
The cause of it is that | have just
received the Shah Of Persia"
"A New York store advertises as
the newest thing out its''patent chill
knee pads" The history of the
pads is interesting. A Northern New
Hampshire woman, with boys who
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
and adopted it for her boys,
and so the pads went out into the
world, and now somebody has patented
New Hampshire woman's idea, and
g making money out of it.
The State of New York has sixty
counties and thirty cities. The cities
ire Albany, Amsterdam, Auburn,
Binghamton, Brooklyn, Buffalo,
Johoes, Dunkirk, Elmira, Hornellsville,
Hudson, Ithaca, jamestown, Kingston,
1ockport, Long Island City, Middleton,
Newburg, New York, Ogdensburg,
Poughkeepsie, Rochester,
Schenectady, Syracuse, Troy,
Jtica, Watertown and Yonkers. The
counties which have two cities are
with Albany and Cohoes;
Jhautauqua, with Dunkirk and James,
own, and Oneida, with Utica and
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