Huntsville gazette., 1888-11-10
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

An Indian farmer got up in his
sleep and stole his own mule and hid
him in the woods, where the sheriff,
who came the next day, couldn't fnd
him to serve an execution.
Down in Brazil the emancipation
of slaves was mainly due to an editor
who kept his paper red-hot with aboli-
tion arguments. He did not have much
success until he printed translation
of ''Uncle Toms Cabin" Then the
people walked up. They cried over
the story, and raised such protest
against slavery that the Government
was forced to abolish it.
A Greenville (Mich.) woman who
asked for a divorce the other day told
the court that little, measly, one
armed cuss had licked her husband.
''My marriage contract calls for lord
and protector" she said, ''but when q
man is so easy to get away with he
can't be much of lord to woman
and protect her" The court allowed
that she had all the logic on her side.
king Mwanga, who rules over the
black Province of Uganda, is not a
pleasant man for next-door neighbor.
He rules over 100000 subjects, and
is as ferocious as he is powerful He
has 1900 wives, and kills five of them
every day for his amusement. He is
the largest slave-trader in Central
Africa, supplying the Mohammedan
dealers annually with about 100000
slaves.
A passenger on west-bound train
from Chicago hid his money in one OF
his shoes, on retiring for the night,
and then placed the shoe and its mate
in the aisle, near his berth. A porter.
having subsequently blackened the
shoes and found the "hidden treasure"
returned it to the owner, who is said
to have demanded light, so that he
could count the money and see if the
finder had taken any.
A writer in a recent book about
travelling in the East, telling of the
slow pace and multitude of animals
required in caravan travelling, makes
| the calculation that the Israelites,
when they went from Egypt under
| Moses, must have had a caravan at
least two hundred leagues long and
must have employed six million
camels. What parade for the youth
| full Egyptian as he saw it pass.
-Jefferson's Island, in Louisiana, the
sometime winter home of the genial
actor of Rip Van Wrinkle, is a superb
hill crowned with great forest trees,
lying on a trembling prairie or semi
marsh, and with fine lake, called
Lake Peynier, for its outer margin.
On this island, which contains 1000
acres of land, was formerly an orchard
of fine oranges. Here MIR. Jefferson
plays at raising fine cattle. He has
something over two thousand head and
few blOOded horses.
Extraordinary stories are told OF
the healing properties Of new oil,
which is easily made from the yelks
of hens eggs. The eggs are first
boiled hard, and the yelks are then
removed, crushed and placed over a
fire, where they are stirred until the
whole substance is just on the point Of
catching fire, when the oil separates
and may be poured off. One yelk will
yield nearly two teaspoonfuls of oil.
1t is in general use in South Russia as
means Of curing cuts, bruises and
scratches.
Julius Eichberg, the well-known
Boston musician, tells this story of an
| early experience: One day lady,
somewhat advanced in years, came to
make arrangements for taking private
lessons in singing. At the end Of the
second lesson the teacher felt con-
strained to tell her that her ear was
not true. She received the remark
very coolly, and at the next lesson
sang as badly as before. 81 am
| afraid said Mr. Eichberg, ''that you
can never learn to sing in tune" ''Oh,
it doesn't matter" was the surprising
answer Doesn't matter!' said the
| astonished teacher NO" said the
pupil, Il don't care any thing about
music, but my doctor said that singing
| would be the best thing for my dys-