Huntsville gazette., 1888-10-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

French economy is very evident
in the marketing of fowls. Not only
half birds can be purchased, but legs,
wings and breasts are offered separate
ly. The carcass is used for soup, and
even the blood is sold.
The golden youth of the day can
buy himself nightshirt of China silk
either white or delicately tinted for
the modest sum of twenty-five dollars,
or if he can content himself with linen
or lawn the garment may come as low
as seven to eight dollars.
Mother Hubbard, it has been de-
cided. had sanity origin. She is
identified with St. Hubert, the patron
Of dogs and the chase, who is repre-
sented in a long robe, a veritable
Mother Hubbard gown, and who had
successfully appealed to the magma
ton Of the story teller.
The Oldest woman's club in the
United States is the WOmen's Physio-
logical Institute of Boston. Forty-one
years ago it was organized with the
purpose of promoting the more perfect
health of women. There is one sur
viving charter member, a Mrs. Hobbs,
and she is eighty years old.
Illustrations Of the longest exist
ence of American families seem to be
in order Among others who boast of
q long pedigree, the owner Of the
Farnsworth house in Dedham, Mass,
/ should not be forgotten. Seven gen
1 erations Of the same family have been
| born and bred in the old mansiOn-a
record not often equaled in this cOun-
| try.
According to Notes and Queries
the longest word in the English Ian
guage in actual ue is ''disproportion-
ableness," with twenty-one letters,
! closely followed by ''incomprehensi
bleness." One Of the longest Of med
ical terms is 'methy hylbenzoinethOXy
yltetrahy ydropyridineca ="
which is the chemical term for coca
| inc.
| American women will be interested
to know that in Burmah etiquette i'm
peratively forbids both men and women
to betray in any way the fact that they
| possess feet and that it has thus be-
come the invariable rule for all gilded
Burmese to so dovetail and fold up
| their lower extremities as to present a
singularly fore-shortened appearance
when they sit down to converse.
| -Four hundred men are required to
take the great City Of New York across
the Atlantic and attend to the wants
Of her passengers. The engine de-
partment claims the attention Of 185
cf these workers, including twenty
six assistant engineers, thirty fremen
and fifty-four coal passers. In the
sailing department there are sixty
men and in the passenger department
$50 men.
"A man recently died in Washing
ton Territory and left will, in which
his father is made heir to watch and
chain his mother to house and lot,
and his dog Fitznoodle fitzpatrick,
came in for bequest Of $4,000.
Trustees were named to hold this sum
for the beneficiary, and to furnish him
with provisions, to consist of all the
delicacies Of the season, besides chew
ing gum, liquors and cigars.
An Albany boy having been bitten
by dog, the neighbors wanted to put
court plaster over the wound and satu-
rate it with vinegar. An aged colored
woman recommended as a sure pre-
ventive of hydrophobia that the boy
should back three times around an
electric light pole with his eyes closed
and then bite piece out of the left
ear of the first dog that he spied on
opening his eyes. The injured boy
went home with light heart and no
fear of hydrophobia.
An anecdote in the W0n,an's World
shows the attitude in Germany toward
! woman's part in public interests. AT
a call made by an English couple upon
a German of eminence and his wife,
talk arose upon the public question OF
the hour. The Englishman, perceiv-
ing that the German lady was being
left out of the discussion, asked: And
what is your opinion, madam?n Be
fore she could reply her German lord
made short work of it: Leave the
room. meine Leibe; these matters can
be Of no interest to you,"
DR.. Hay, an English chemist with
leaning toward ghastliness, has in
vented a substitute for cremation. He
would pound and pulverize the corpse
in mortar, breaking the bones to lit
tie bits. The resulting mass he would
put through prodigious sausage ma
4 chine and make it into mincemeat
Dried by means of steam heat at TEN.
perature of 250 degrees, the mass
would attain a commercial value as q
fertilizer. Should this method fail tt
suit, he suggests either the boiling o.
the body and the conversion of the re-
sulting oil into q lubricant OF for soap
or else the placing Of the body into {
gas retort and converting it into illu
| rninatinp gas water ammonia far