Huntsville gazette., 1889-10-19
Q? GENERAL INTEREST.

Gently sneareQ ram tlat cIlppeQ 0of
pounds.
A Juniata County, Pa. woman
publicly fogs her husband every time
he comes home drunk. y- aDu Z,
"A resident of San Francisco re-
Gently witnessed terrific battle be-
tween a swordfish and whale in the
harbor at San Francisco. The sword
fish was finally victorious, killing the
whale.
Says an English verbal critic:
Americans are generally falling into
the habit of using the word affirm
for confirm For instance. when an
official is questioned as to the truth
fulness of certain rumor, his answer
is apt to be: i will neither affirm nor
deny the report OF course he ought
to say confirm"
The following sentence, from
letter written by Livingstone short
time before his death, and which re-
fers to slavery, is inscribed on his
tomb in Westminster Abbey: "All l
can add in my loneliness is. may
Heavens rich blessings come down on
every one, American. English or
Turk, who will help to heal the open
sore of the world"
A farmer of Sporting Hill, near
Mannheim. Pa, has twenty-fve-year-
old horse that was so stiff that he
could hardly walk. He was put into
a pasture through which runs a creek.
1t was noticed that great part of his
time was spent in bathing and lying in
the water, and, in short time, to the
surprise OF the owner, he became as
spry as young colt \.
Three young women lately caused
a good deal Of commotion in Eastwood.
wealthy little suburb of Louisville,
KY. The teacher of the village school
having resigned, three young women.
members of the best families Of town,
applied for the position. The author
tiles were unable to choose because OF
the embarrassment of riches, and an
election was ordered to decide the
question. .Y.U....... ..t7
"A Geneva ga man says that no
saw a rabbit whip and kill snake a
few days ago. The snake had caught
a young rabbit and was trying to swal-
low it. The old rabbit rushed by the
snake and bit at it as it passed. 1t
then ran by the snake again and bit it,
and repeated the run several times.
biting the snake each time. The snake
finally dropped the young rabbit.
crawled off short distance and died.
The Sugar Beet" quotes from an
exchange the following statement, but
seems to be somewhat doubtful of its
authenticity: "A hen that had gone
through a clay puddle went with her
muddy feet into a sugar house. She
left her tracks on pile Of sugar 1t
was noticed that wherever her tracks
were the sugar was whitened. Expo
riments were instituted. and the result
was that wet clay came to be used in
refining sugar" .
The amount Of water passing over
Niagara Falls varies with the height
of the river. Prof. w. ID. Gun
ming estimates the average amount at
1S,000.0 900 cubic feet per minute. AL
lowing 623 pounds to the cubic foot
this would give total of 562, 800 tons
per minute, or 25,312. 500 tons in forty
five minutes, OF which somewhat more
than two-thirds passes over the Horse
shoe Falls. Other estimates place the
total amount passing over both falls as
high as 100, 900, 900 tons per hour. In
comparison, the recent flood at Johns
town was gill.
The Allan Ia Constitution remarks:
'.It looks like the Lord is compensat-
ing the South for the loss OF its slaves
by opening new and unsuspected
sources Of wealth. For instance, in
slavery days the problem OF the plan
tation was to dispose OF the cotton
seed-it was burned, rotted, dumped.
When slavery lifted it was discovered
that the despised seed were good for
fertilizers and stock food. Then thir-
ty-five gallons of oil could be taken
from each ton without impairing its
value and this oil refined up to ST.
per gallon. Then that the hulls made
good food, the ashes good potash. the
refuse good soap stock and the flDer
of the stalk good paDern