Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-15
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

| the average professional I1fe OF a good
| looking school teacher in Mereed
County, Cal.
1t was an old woman in Indiana
| who invented the whisk broom, and
millions Of them are whisking from
daylight to dark without her having
made cent out Of the invention.
-Warner, Cal, pays bounty on
coyote scalps, and some inhuman huE-
ter, after scalping several of the
animals, again set them at liberty.
The fact was brought to light by the
recapture Of two of the tortured
beings.
A Nebraska man has settled the
question of how prairie dogs obtain
the water they drink. He says they
dig their own wells, each village hav-
ing one with a concealed opening.
He knows Of one such well 200 feet
deep, having a circular staircase lead
ing down to the water.
A Rutland. Vt, family, while eat
ing dinner, discovered a small tin box
in the center Of the butter. 1t was
opened and found to contain a 're-
minder to some unmarried Christian
gentleman Of his duty" The note was
from "a girl, eighteen years Of age,
good looking, and an excellent house
keeper"
"A passenger in q sleeping-car on a
Michigan railroad pulled the bell-rope
and stopped the train When found
and questioned by tho conductor, he
only wanted to know If the train had
an engineer, conductor and brakeman,
or was running wild without them.
The conductor did not make a very
polite answer.
"A Philadelphia newspaper says
that the prevailing impression that
1.-THE old-time, broad-brimmed, sugar
scoop Quakers" are dying out is erro-
neous at least as far as Philadelphia
is concerned. Twenty-Five years ago
the same impression prevailed, but to-
day the benches in the meeting houses
are as full as then.
"A Manistee, Mich, baby which ate
an eight-grain dose of morphine was
given several antidotes, but it became
unconscious, and was given up for
however, while the friends stoou
around and silently admired the beau
ty of the corpse, the baby awoke and
smilingly demanded drink of milk.
"A Southern California paper tells
the following: "a New Orleans friend
was visiting us, and we drove him
around the country. showing him the
sights. After telling him the names
of the different trees, vines, etc, be
innocently remarked: You have ex-
planned many interesting points, bus
YOU have not shown me pumpkin
tree"
As regards the familiar term
"corn," so frequently referred to in
the European journals, it usually de-
notes in each country such grain as 10
the most prominent production. Thus,
in Central Europe the 'corn" is rye,
in France and England wheat, in
America maize, and in some countries
oats. The term pulse is also fre-
quently used in England, and has
reference to beans and peas.
Atlanta, Ga, has a paper house.
No wood, brick iron or other material
is used about the building. 1t is d
neat little store painted sky-blue, and
was erected by a Frenchman who is
agent for the paper<of which it is con-
! strucced. The rafters, the weather.
boarding, the roof and the flooring are
| all made OF thick, compressed paper
| boards, impervious to water and as
! durable as wood. The house can not
catch on fire as easily as wooden
building, because the surface OF the
paper is smooth and hard.
"A California miner says that miners
are a very superstitious class, and he
tells Of dreams and other forms OF
warning they have received, notifying
them of danger, which proved vevy
timely. He says: II know of a vastly
rich mine in the San Gabriel Mountains,
Los Angeles County, that has caused
the death of every man who has tried
to carry ore away from it. You may
call this superstition also, but there
are dozen miners besides myself who
know OF the millions that could be
taken from this mias, and yet are
afraid to 60 near it. Some half q
dozen men had been killed by caves,
ETC."
in O small village of New England,
few years ago, some OF the young
girls acquired habits Of eating starch,
coffee, cloves and the like, to improve
their compilations. The habits in
creased by indulgence, and the girls
consumed large quantities OF these
substances good in their place,
but very harmful when taken alone,
in excess. In less than year four out
Of six girls were under the doctor
care. The coffee-eater became the
victims of insomnia, and was SO nerv-
Gus and timid that little things made
her cry and tremble as with terror.
| IT, olovooa+ar had become the victim