Huntsville gazette., 1889-11-02
OF GENERAL INTEREST;

-''Stone fence" is the euphonious
cognomen given to whisky which is
drunk with cider instead OF water.
In Belmont County, o., an old
gobbler attacked and killed playful
young puppy because he persisted in
chasing the young turkeys.
AT Brilliant, o.. dispute con-
corning the ownership of two 50-cent
turkeys led to lawsuit, in which the
costs amounted to $40 and the attor-
neys' fees to $35.
A Middletown (Conn.) man re-
turned home the other day after an
absence Of four years, and discovered
that his funeral had been held long
ago and that a body, supposed to be
his, was resting in the ohurchyard.
A Hartford girl, who says that six
different men had previously gone
back on their promises TO marry her,
has landed the seventh in court. She
has evidently determined to have her
feelings no longer trifled with.
There is q lady in Greenville.
Mich, who has three daughters whose
birthdays are celebrated on the same
day-June IL. They were all married
in the same month OF the year. and
each OF them married man having
four letters in his surname.
The noiseless powder is not new
invention. In the third volume OF
Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography the
author relates that when suffering
from fever in Ferrara he cured him
self by eating peacock. and that he
procured the birds surreptitiously by
shooting them with powder invented
| by him that made no noise"
A church congregation at Red
Bank. n. j., paid big price to get
| minister who was a hustler. He
hustled around the first week and got
his facts and figures, and on Sunday
he told them that there was more
meanness in the town TO the square
foot than in any other place in the
world. On Monday they paid him
| bonus to hustle away.
Probably the most valuable par
rot in Atlanta, Ga. is one owned by
conductor on the West Point railroad.
1t is worth $400. Its owner has been
offered that price for his bird. but re-
| fused TO take it. The parrot is . fine
African gray and is an excellent talker.
When you 60 about him he first re-
CARDS you critically, cocks his head to
one side, winks one eye at you slyly
and says: I'm $40O bird"
Mark Twains story OF a man who
made collection OF brickbats has
been matched by DR.. Hammond, of
| Washington. He has a patient with
heaps Of money and lots Of unem-
| ploycd time, who devotes himself to
the collection Of corks. His museum
Of shoppers is classified according to
| the liquor the bottles contained and
the countries from which they came.
Give him q cork and he Will at once
determine its origin.
1t is commonly asserted that per-
sons who fall from a height die in fall
| ing, ana are mere unconscious DOdIeS
when they crash against the earth.
Perhaps this comfortable conviction
| has had some connection with the fact
that monuments and other elevated
! structures have sometimes been chosen
BY suicides as their stepping-stones to
an uncertain future. But one who
falls accidentally is in a different posi-
tion as regards apprehension and in
tensity OF feeling from that Of one who
precipitates himself. 1t is highly
probable, however, that in any case
the momentary whirl Of sense provides
that its sudden and usually fatal ar
rest, if not painless, will entail at
| most n mitiuated Danp.