The Grenada gazette., 1888-05-12
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

name of Boomer Blizzard died recent
ly in Newburg. n. Y.
"A Racine man said "whitc horse"
when he met a red-headcd girl the
other day. She fell on to him Justify.
knockin9him into a muddy ditch with
her umbrella.
"A citizen of Blakely, Ga, has a
novel method of hunting wild turkeys.
He takes tame gobbler along tethers
it to tree, then hides and waits for
the wild birds to come up and make
its acquaintance.
"A young man in a railway carriage
was making fun of lady's hat to an
elderly gentleman in the seat with him.
"Yes,' said the elderly gentleman,
chats my wife, and told her if she
wore that bonnet some fool would
make fun of it"
1T is stated by an English dealer
in East India cereals that there are
more than ten thousand different vari-
ties of rice, and yet that there is only
one species. The different varieties are
of all colors, from black to pale yell
low and snow white.
The heirs of u merchant of Mon
son, Mass, received the other day
thirty cents, sent by a man in Penn
! sylvania, who wrote that they were to
pay for four apples that he took from
the merchants store when he lived
there forty years ago.
"A Richmond. Mich, woman lost
her watch few days ago. She could
not find it, but wherever she went she
heard that watch tick. This nerved
her on to greater efforts, and she
turned the house upside down in her
search-and then found the watch in
her hustle.
The Adrian, Mich, Press discov-
cred an old account book of the crop
of 1880, and learns from it that wood
was worth 81 cord that year, Il yard
of calico 374 cents, pen six cents;
tea was worth 60 cents and coffee q
cents; shirting y! cents and II spool
of thread nine cents. Butter was
worth 20 cents, whisky 56 cents gal.
lon, and 100 pounds of flour $3
A Swedc, of Terre Haute, claims
to be the "world's champion water
drinker.' He thinks it no feat at all,
scarcely, to drink half gallon in fifty
seconds, and has drunk five gallons in
five hours and thirty gallons i'll a day,
which exceeds the capacity of any
horse. His appetite keeps up with his
thirst pretty well, for he can sit down
and eat rs much as can ten men.
A big bone, which local physicians
of Carson, Ncv., say is Il portion Of a
leg of man below the knee, was re-
Gently found near Genoa, New 1t was
two feet long. and at the point where
it Joined the knee was eight inches
across, or five times the usual size. If
the man who owned the bone was built
in proportion he must have been about
twenty-five feet high. An active
search is being made for the rest of the
skeleton.
The late Emperor William one
evening at Baden Baden noticed an
officer in civilian dress trying his luck
at trente-ct-qliarantc, Il pastlH1 forbid
den to army officers He had placed
two or three louis on the table and had
won nice little sum, when he saw the
King opposite. He turned pale,
trcmbled, and hesitated to take pos
session of his money. Thereupon King
William approached and whispered in
his ear; Don't be afraid. Take in
your money, but don't do it again"
A curious freak of memory is that
of forgetting words of a poem or speech
which has been said over n great
number of times. The leading lady OF
a play which has been performed seven
hundred times can not remember hel
lines, even by the most violent effort,
and only complete rest of day or two
would recall them. Another actress in
a play which had great run had to be
constantly prompted towards tho end
rehearsed every day, and yet was con
stantly pursued by a terrible conscious
ness that what she was saying to the
audience was simply unmeanlng glib
bcrish.
The celebrated DR.. Abernethy
hated the egotistic garrulity OF people
who came to consult him. A lady OF
one occasion entered his consultin!
room, and put before him an injured
finger without saying word. II
silence Abernethy dressed the wound
and the lady instantly and silently pu
: the usual fee on the table and retired
In few days she returned, and hel'
out her finger free from bandage an'
perfectly healed. "Well?' was Aber
nethy' monosyllabic inquiry. "Well,
was the lady's equally brief answer
Upon my word, madam. said the de
lighted surgeon. ''you are the mos
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