Huntsville gazette., 1888-11-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Before he died Allen McLinn, Of
Texas, Mich. aged eighty-three years,
Spiritualist, asked that at his fune-
raj bands be played and dancing and
other recreations be enjoyed. His de-
sire was carried out to the letter.
A Scotch beadle took his sweet
heart to a graveyard, and showing her
a dark corner, said: MARY, my folks
lie there Would you like to lie there
when you die?" 1t was grim way Of
proposing, but Mary was sensible
Scotch lassie and accepted him.
"A colored man was hanged the
other day at Marlin, Tex, but the pun
ishment was insignificant when COM
pared with the treatment he received
at the hands of the newspapers. For
instance one paper headed descrip-
tion of the execution, "a Midair
Dance" and another described him as
having been "Jerked to Eternity"
1t is pretty generally known that
not few young women use belladonna
to give brilliancy to their eyes, but it
l.
jority Of those who thus injure their
sight and brave the danger of becom-
ing blind are women who have light
eyes. Dark-eyed women either have
more sense or think that their eyes
are well enough as they are.
The yellow fever scare has given
rise to various precautionary measures
against the germs OF disease. A
Philadelphia physician, while riding
on a railroad car, spread clean hand
kerchief over the glass from which his
children drank water. The Sanitary
Inspector says that better plan is to
rest the edge Of the glass against the
chin, allowing the whole mouth to
project into the fluid.
A Bar Rarbor teacher, who means
to have her pupils well informed as to
what goes on in the world, as well as
to what is in books, has some of the
pupils put on the blackboard each
morning Bulletin Board" made up
from headlines in the daily papers.
| She also has read aloud articles from
the papers that pertain to the most inn
| portant events of the day. This new
| department is said to be very success
i full.
A house that formerly stood on a
hill in Stratford, Conn, has been re
moved to Bridgeport, part Of the dis
tance being accomplished by water.
the building resting on two large
| scows. Pictures were left hanging on
the wall, provisions remained on the
pantry shelves, and the family did not
move out. Hardly jar or a tremor
was felt during the entire journey, and
| the domestic work went on without in
terruption.
One Of the most irritating of the
recent idiocies of tourists is the fashion
Of leaving cards at the tombs Of dis
tinguished people. The bust Of Long
fellow in Westminster Abby is con-
stantly surrounded by these inappro-
| pirate bits Of pasteboard, and the
grave of III. H." is said to be literally
covered with the visiting cards left by
tourists who climbed the lonely mount
ain near Colorado Springs to visit the
last resting place Of the poet and
| novelist
| cit is just as well to bear in mind, "
says the London Hospital Gazette, THAT
chlorate of potash lozenges are not
| lollipops properly so called. The use
of these pharmaceutical sweetmeats in
any thing approaching excess is apt to
be attended by marked prostration and
even severe toxic symptoms. A num-
| Der Of cases are now on record in which
an excessive dose of the salt, taken
either by accident or from inattention,
has been followed by alarming and
even fatal effects"
A curious experiment consists in
taking a water flask or other wide
mouthed bottle and placing a small
cork in the neck while holding it in a
horizontal position. 1t will seem an
easy matter to blow the cork into the
bottle, but upon trial it will be found
almost impossible to do 50. The harder
one blows the more forcibly is the cork
elected out Of the bottle. The expla-
nation is that the bottle is already full
Of air, so that no more can be blown
into it; and the only effect produced
by blowing is to compress the air
already inside.
A French scientist in China at
tempted to reason a Chinese family out
of making the onerous and expensive
provision for the comfort OF a dead
relative which they believe it neces-
sary to make, on the ground that the
deceased did not require any such COM
forts. This led to a discussion as to
the future state Of the dead, and one
Of the Cinnamon, at last getting tired
Of the argument, seized huge knife,
and proposed to the Frenchman that
thew should each 'cut their throats,
50 as to 60 and see what the state OF
the dead actually is and put an end to
the talk about it," The Frenchman
politely declined to accede to the
| nroroci+ion and LEFT the Chinese eniOy