Huntsville gazette., 1888-07-07
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A Vermont humanitarian has Just
patented fypaper skull-cap for bald
headed men to wear in church.-Puck.
The cowboys have fired so many
bullets into telegraph poles in certain
districts in the West that a gust of
wind snaps the pole short off, and
much trouble results.
At a coin sale in New York the
other day a cent of 1898, known as the
Liberty Cap" and very rare, brought
$3.50, q perfect specimen of the year
1904, sos, and one Of 1895, $50. A
half-cent of 1896 went for sol.
Flower culture is suggested as
one Of the most attractive and profita-
BILE occupations which women are fit
ted to pursue Two New Orleans la
dies went into the business few years
ago, and are rapidly growing rich.
Small boys in Phillips, Me-, make
circus money by digging bait for trout
fishermen. The latest quotations were
twenty-five cents a quart offered by
one the leading grOcers, and eighteen
quarts were brought in at those figures.
They handle wheat with wonder
full celebrity at Duluth. The other day
the steamer Montana Eagle made fast
to the dock there, adjusted six receiv-
ing spouts, took on fifty-two thousand
bushels Of wheat and was off with her
load in forty-nine minutes. This is
claimed to be the fastest job Of loading
wheat on record.
A new State is about to be added
to the sisterhOOd of nations. Letters
patent have been granted to The
British East African Company" giving
them full power to erect and maintain
a government, with taxes and army.
1t lies north of the German East Afri-
can Society near Zanzibar, and in
cludes some of the finest land in Cen
trail Africa.
"A curiosity in Norwich, Conn, is
one-legged English sparrow, which
has a nest on the crown Of column in
the front porch of the City Hall. He
wasn't worth much at building o nest,
but he could help little about Matching
one leg. His mate had to build the
nest unassisted, but he furnished her
with lively advice, and she seems to
think as much Of him as though he
had two legs.
A curious calculation has been,
giving the work of the heart in mileage.
Presuming that the blood was thrown
out of the heart at each puisation in
the proportion of SO strokes per min
ute, and at the assumed force OfY feet,
the mileage of the blood through the
body through the body might be taken
at POI yards per minute, miles per
hour, 166 miles per day, 61,32O miles
per year, or 5,150, $50 miles in a life
time of eighty-four years. The num-
Der of beats Of the heart in the same
long life would reach the grand total
Of Z, 1863, 776, 900.
A Boston girl, retiring at night,
found rat in her room. She closed
the door and started in wild pursuit Of
the creature about the room. She was
lust about to deal it crushing blow
with the French heel of her shoe when
the rat took refuge in the spring of her
bed, quite out of her reach ''WelF'
said she, II guess after his experience
he will stay where he has found he ia
safe And then she went TRANQUILITY
to bed and slept all night, and in
the morning she got a terrier at
neighbor's, and the dog ferreted out
the rat and killed it.
There are thousands of chairs in
HYDE Park, London, which can be
hired for penny each, and their his
tory is an interesting one. 1t dates
back to shortly after the battle OF
Waterloo, when an English General,
who had done good service, found him
self reduced to extreme poverty. The
government Of that day acknowledged
his past services by granting him and
his heirs forever the right Of letting
on hire chairs at Hyde Park. The
General gathered his resources and
i started with a hundred chairs. There
are now over q, 900 chairs, the in
come from them amounting to over
$50, 900 year.
The bridges over the Tay and the
| Forth in Scotland have attracted much
attention as engineering works, the
first named viaduct being notable as
the largest bridge in the world. 1t IS
only one link in the line of northern
travel. The second, or Forth bridge,
from North to South Queenstown, and
which is scarcely less important, Will
have the distinction Of being made OF
steel throughout its entire length Of
more than five thousand feet, and,
when completed according to the vast
and admirable design Of its projectors,
will be one Of the greatest marvels OF
engineering construction which Europe
can show. The island Of lnchgarvle,
in the middle of the arm OF the sea
which it crosses, enables the bridge to
be in four spans, only two OF which
are over water; these two principal
spans are each of about 1,700 feet, and