Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-07
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

by the Indians has been discovered i'll
Fannin County. Ga. There is . legend
that similar mine exists in jackson
County, and a number of persons are
making vigorous search for it.
j. L. Campbell, United States Con-
sui at Auckland, New Zealand, says in
his latest report to the State Depart
ment that twelve million dollars has
been expended in New Zealand in the
last eight years in the effort to over
come the rabbit plague.
A man who has been in the fish
trade at Port Clinton, o.. says the fish
caught there are SO strongly impreg-
mated with oil that it is hard for the
dealers to get rid of them. Many
people will not eat them. The oil is
washed from the Wood County fields
down the Portage river.
"A Philadelphia shoe house recently
received an order for pair of slippers
from a member of the Japanese royal
| family, the Princess Tanabe Kin. The
order was accompanied by piece Of
paper on which was traced the outline
Of the royal foot. with the necessary
measurements. 1t calls for No. 24
slipper
The results Of the shot water" cure
are said by i physician to be the stimu-
lation of the stomach at first, but after
repeated use lesscning Of the tone Of
the digestive tracks, which causes con-
gestion and dyspepsia. Hot drinks
| tend to lessen bronchial irritation, and
may be used proftably in some cases
Of consumption.
There is wonderful brown and
golden bird in Mexico, species Of
| bee martin, that is remarkably ex-
pert bee catcher. He has q way OF
ruf1ling up the feathers on top Of his
head 50 that his crest looks exactly
| like beautiful flower. When bee
comes along to sip honey from this de-
lusive blossom it is snapped up and de-
v0ured.
A party Of ladies and gentlemen
started to explore q cave near Clyde,
Ark. About nine hundred yards from
the mouth Of the cavern they en-
countered an immense army Of rats.
The rats were vicious and made q
savage attack or the explorers. Two
Of the ladies tainted and had to be
carried out Hundreds Of the animals
were slain by the men.
A few years ago school ma'am in
Cumberland County, Maine, was pre-
sented by her beau with deeds to some
California lands. Both considered
them worthless; but a woman hates to
part with any thing, 50 she put them
away. Recently she received an offer
of S250,000 for the land, valuable
mineral deposits having been dis
covered, which she promptly accepted.
-Thirty-fve years ago prominent
farmer Of Wayne County, o.. was
passenger on a train on what IS now
the Fort Wayne road, and neglected to
give his fare to the conductor. few
DAYS ago lie called on the station agent
1T Wooster and told him he wanted to
pay for the ride, as his conscience had
been troubling him for thirty-five years.
The money was paid over with interest
in full and forwarded to the general
passenger agent.
DR. James G. Hyndman, Of the
Ohio Medical College, tells how the
only Catholic priest in America who
wears beard came to let his whiskers
grow. The priest, whose pastoral
duties are performed in Cincinnati, i
subject to throat trouble. On the adj
vice Of Dir. Hyndman he let his beard
grow and had no further Inflammation
in his throat. His superiors, however,
objected to the innovation and the
priest was obliged to 60 to Rome to OBJ
tain permission to wear whiskers.
General Badeau notes that Grant
and Lee met once, and only once, af-
ter the surrender at Appomattox. 1t
was soon after Grants Inauguration as
President in 1869. Lee had gone to
Washington on some matters concern
ing railroads, and had taken the OPP
nortunitv to call on Grant. The latter,
referring to Lees main purpose, said,
with grim humor, ..You and |, Gen
cral, have had more to do with destroy
ing railroads than building them" /"
But Lee did not smile, continued the
conversation gravely, and the remark
able point of the interview seems to
have been that it included no other ref
erence to the past.
A place where people don't want
office has been discovered, and, strange
10 say, it is in Ohio. Bonneville, Ross
County, place Of about five hundred
inhabitants, was Incorporated as vii
lagc several years ago, but as time
passed the people got tired Of holding
offices to which no salary was attached
and could get nobody to serve when
| elected. So they ceased to hold
elections, and for fully eight years the
town has been without government
Two saloons having started ur.
some of the inhabitants wanted to BAN
ish them BY legislation, but were sur
,e.;~ol ~, Jao,.p that thrcurh faiiura M