The Appeal., 1889-12-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

1t has been figured out that no less
than 328,716 divorces were granted in
the United States from 1867 to 1886.
For compelling cadet to chew pa
per while standing on his head, two
Naval Academy cadets have been found
guilty Of hazing and sentenced to dis
missal.
"A Pottstown (Pa.) man was re-
warded with ten cents for restoring q
stray $4,000 team he had found and re-
turned to the owner. whom he spent an
hour in finding.
"A mistake Of one word cost mer-
chant of West Bay City the price OF
fifty bushels OF potatoes. He told his
clerk to write to Grayling man for
twenty-five or thirty bushels, and the
clerk wrote for barrels.
Two colored persons recently trav-
eled from Lagos to Liverpool, dis
tance of 5000 miles, in order that the
wedding ceremony might be performed
by Rev. L. Nicholson, of Brighton. for
merly chaplain at Lagos.
An Ohio paper prints the following
notice under the head of 'sObituaries:"
''Mr. William Jones, Of Malta township,
aged eighty-three, passed peacefully
away on Tuesday last, from single bles-
sedness to matrimonial bliss, after a
short but sudden attack by Alice Bios
som, a blooming widow of thirty-ive.
"A Cincinnati physician left his horse
united and it ran away. The doctor sent
messages all over town and had about
given up all hope Of ever seeing his rig
again when he was called to the tele-
phone. He recognized the voice of his
afianced, and iyas rejoiced to learn that
the animal WaA standing patiently in
front of her residence.
The ordinary duration of bows
musical usefulness is five years, his
voice becoming of value at about ten
years of age and continuing until he is
fifteen, although in some instances boys
have sung until they were nearly eight
cen years of age, but this has been in
the case of solo singers, and because OF
special care and training.
The boys of the College for the Blind,
OF Worcester, Eng, indulge in cricket,
and are reported to play a very fair
game. The ball used is made of wicker.
with bell inside of it, which rings
when it is thrown. The wicket-keepe1
claps his hand behind the stumps tc
guide the bowler, and so expert are the
bowlers that they can hit the wicket
with three balls out of six.
An advertisement appeared in
New York paper the other day calling
for information concerning 1O5 persons
whose residences at certain dates were
mentioned. Some of them were last
heard of in 1885. On inquiry it was
learned that all were depositors in the
Bowery Savings Bank, and that there
was money in that institution which
they or their heirs had neglected to re.
move.
The much-maligned compositor and
proof-reader have saved one newspape,
from serious loss. The Gazette de France
is the lucky sheet Accused with sew.
eral other papers of printing without au.
thority the act of accusation against
General Boulanger, the Gazette escaped
on showing that, owing to serious mis-
takes in composition and proof-reading:
the document it published was not
true copy of the act, and that the offense
contemplated by law had not been com.
mitted. The other papers whose com
positors and proof-readers were above
reproach were convicted and fined.
NO variety of chrysanthemum is
more widely known than the Mrs. AL
pheus Hardy, an exquisite feathery
white. The story of the lady and the
flower is somewhat romantic. Years age
Mrs. Alpheus Hardy and her husband
were on a vessel coming from Japan tt
this country. After the vessel had beer
several days out little Japanese stow.
away was found among some goods The
Hardys became interested in him, and
on the landing of the vessel took the lit.
tie fellow to their home in Boston anG
educated him. He afterward returned
to his country as Rev. Neesema, ma,
tive missionary, whence he sent back tc
Mrs. Hardy the most magnificent col
lection of chrysanthemum roots that the
country possesses to-day.