Huntsville gazette., 1889-05-18
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The number of inhabitants to each
mile of railroad in this country in 1850
was 2.571; in 1887 the number was
only Alp.
"A shoe dealer at Durham, n. c.,
has his store built on wheels. He goes
from one town to the other. and when
he finds trade dull he bitches on 0
team and pulls to the next town.
In some sections of the country
where fruit generally succeeds. the
devotion of entire farms to the grow
ing of fruits has become quite COM
mon, and is liable to e still more SO.
7 says the Germantown Telegraph.
x-It is said the reason why the prac.
tice was established OF mounting a
/ horse on the left hand side, was that
the saber or sword has always been
hung to mans left side and it would
be in the way in mounting on the
right side.
Doubtless there are more legends
and traditions connected with Easter
than with any other festival, most OF
which are founded on some beautiful
fancy. One sweet legend is that
Easter flowers are Christ's smiles, and
that every bud and blossom has its
angel to minister to longing human
hearts.
A Jersey City postman recently
saw piece Of paper sticking out OF
crack in the fire alarm box. Being
man of experience, he investigated
and pulled out letter. He mailed
the letter and then followed it to its
address, which was in the city. There
he learned that it was dated seven
months before.
Recent Investigations and expert.
ment seem to indicate that in all the
great modern European fleets, OF
which we have heard so much, there
Is not one really effective line-of-battle
ship. 1t is also begininning to be dis
covered that the big guns with which
those fleets are armed are constructed
on a wrong principle, and will not
stand the stress Of battle. Ii these
fears are well founded, the nations OF
Europe have wasted many hundred OF
millions of dollars within the last
twenty years.
Dry, loose sand. wherever it
occurs. is constantly being shifted by
the wind, and often buries cultivated
lands, buildings and forests. On the
shores of Lake Michigan are drifts 100
feet deep, and those OF Cornwall reach
800 feet in depth, while the drifts OF
the Cobb desert are forty miles long
and 900 feet high in places. On the
shores OF the Bay of Biscay the drift
ing sand travels inland 16 feet year,
in parts of Denmark "a feet, and in
Southern India IL yards. In some
places walls and barriers Of vegetation
have been created to stop the destroy
ing drifts. Fine sand is taken up to
great height in the air, and deposited
many miles away.
A Lewiston, Me-, police officer in
passing dark alleyway recently.
heard strange noise. 1t was of a
voice in the tones of supplication. The
words were undistinguishable. 1t was
about two o'clock in the morning, and
the officer drew his shooting iron and
his club and hastened to the spot. As
he neared it the tones grew louder.
Some one was shouting in loud voice
from the back end of horse shed.
The officer was not little surprised
to find the object OF his search in the
person of devout soldier of the Sal
vation Army, who was out in the cold
and the darkness Of the darkest hour
making his petitions. The officer
passed good morning, and asked the
soldier to lower his voice a few octaves.
The soldier complied and the officer
departed.
What constitutes an unsound
horse, or other animalp Perhaps the
best definition is that given by an En-
glish Judge, a good many years ago,
and which has been often quoted il
the courts since: If at the time Of
the sale the horse has any disease
which either does diminish the natural
usefulness of the animal so as to make
him less capable of work of any de-
scription, or which in its ordinary
progress will diminish the natural use
fulness of the animal, or If the horse
has either from disease or accident un-
dergone any alteration Of structure
that either actually does at the time,
or in its ordinary effects will, diminish
the natural usefulness of the horse,
such horse is unsound."