The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-11-23
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Porous window glass is the newest
thing in Paris. The minute holes
serve to ventilate. bait they do not adj
NIT the wind so as tomake it disagree
able.
The mule has qualities which en-
title him to respect. A mule and a
man in Georgia made crop of cotton
which packed into seventeen bales,
averaging five hundred pounds each,
besides making enough corn, fodder,
hay and peas to feed the mule another
year.
"A Nebraska man has organized a
band consisting of a concertina, a tri-
angle, two drums, a pair of cymbals
and a mouth organ. He plays the en-
tire com bination himself, and would
make a mighty snowy organization if
he could only afford to hire a drum
major.
There are on exhibition in the
rooms of the State mining bureau at
San Francisco four ''desiccated human
bodies" that were found by Signor S.
Marghieri in a sealed cavern at an
elevation of 4, 900 feet on the eastern
side of the Sierra Madre mountains in
Mexico.
-''You'd be surprised" says New
York safe manufacturer, ''at the
number of sham pasteboard safes in
New York and they're made so well
that any ordinary person would be de-
ceived. They have businesslike ap-
pearance and give an Office a thrifty
look, all for s. or Sc whereas the real
article would cost something like 800.
Joe Patrick, of Delevan, Wis,
married his mother-in-law, Mrs. Cas-
perwich, the other day, and brought
about a very complex state of things.
He thus becomes stepfather to his
former wife, He was formerly the
son of his present wife; being the son,
he becomes the brother of the old
lady's daughter (his former wife) and
also father-in-law to himself.
Thomas Cruise, the millionaire
stockman of Montana, proposes to
rent ewes at fifty cents each per year
for term of years, the lessees to re-
| turn the same number of ewes at the
end of the term; the ewes to be taken
| as they run in the flock when leased
and when returned. The Iessees have
| all the wool and bear the losses. Mr..
! Cruise, estimating the sheep at $2.5O
per head, receives twenty per cent. on
his investment.
"A negro entered an Americas (Ga~ }
restaurant and laying down dollar
said: "Give me a square meal and nc
change" The proprietor hustled
around to oblige so good customer,
but soon sickened of the bargain. The
hungry man ate thirty-two links Of
sausage, thirteen biscuits, half a dozen
slices of fresh pork and two fried
| muIlets. He remarked as he left the
| restaurant: II have been suffering
from dyspepsia and my appetite isn't
very good"
A pair Of carrier pigeons but three
months old, and entirely unframed
were sol9 by man in New Haven tC
a citizen of Boston, who carried then
home with him. A month afterward
they appeared at their old home IL
New Haven, and were shortly fol
lowed by a postal card from Boston
saying that they were missing. The
question is yet to be answered: How
did these young and unframed birds
know the way from Boston to New
Haven, a distance of 145 miles?
The following is from a Grass
Lake, Mich, daily: Last Monday
morning, while small knot of men
were talking together at the Central
Depot in Jackson, the peep of a chicken
was distinctly heard. ThereupOn one
of the number opened his vest, and in
an inner pocket was revealed a chicken
Just Matched and still partly in its
shell. He reported that he had carried
an egg for twenty-one days on ten
dollar wager that it would hatch from
the natural warmth of his body"
Trained feas are exhibited from
time to time Whether trained or I'm
trained, they are extremely interest
ing insects simply from an athletic
point of view. A healthy flea viii
cover two hundred times its owl
length at one jump. They are plucky
fighters, and will stand on their hinC
legs and strike at one another until they
lose legs, antennR and life. A single
flea has been known to draw a silvel
cannon twenty-four times it's OWL
weight, and to show no fear at the dis
charge of gunpowder from the cannon
in the town of Sutro, New, ther'
is a silver mine the main gangway o
which runs from that place to Vir
ginia City, four miles distant. Ere
quently this tunnel route" as it i
called, is used by SutrO parties desir
ing to go to Virginia City theaters
The parties enter the tunnel almost a
their own door, Chamber into a ca
drawn by several mules and ar
carried the full length of the tunnel il
comparatively short space of time
Once there they are hoisted up a shat
1910 feet deep, issuing within few
minutes walk of the Virginia Oper
House. The route is cool in summe
and warm in winter. The cars are s.
clean that the best of dresses can b
worn without disastrous result.
HABITS AND LONGEVITY.
Researches Bearing the PrOIOngatIOl