The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1889-12-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A region where buffaloes are increas.
ing, and that at a rapid rate, Is North
Australia. Specimens of the wild buff
falo were introduced in 1929, and vast
herds are said to be now wandering over
the country. 4
Some doctors at the Pawnee agency
recently tested the pulse OF an Indian
who had run mile, and it had increased
only one beat. Another ran up hill
side for five hundred feet and down
again and the increase was two boats.
"A railroad dog, who travels steadily
with his master in the cab of Denver u
Rio Grande locomotive, is said to be
highly valuable in many ways. He can
scent cattle on the track when they can
not be seen, and drives them off when
they are indisposed to get off.
Concerning the sale of roses with
out ,thorns on the streets OF London,
Truth says: The poor women who
sat at corners selling them carefully
strip off all the prickles so as to encour-
age customers to buy. There is some-
thing little touching in seeing the
venders, whose lives are so full of thorns,
clearing them away for the purchasers.
The United Brethren church at Fall
mouth, near Lancaster, Pa, is built
directly on the ground without cellar,
and in the floor just in front of the pull
pit is knot hole, through which
small spicewood tree has grown to the
height of three feet. 1t is full of green
leaves, and thrives without any atten-
tion. The members of the congregation
christened it ''The Tree of Life" and
will not allow it to be removed.
There are twenty-seven colored
churches in Philadelphia, branch OF
the Young Mems Christian Association
and three amateur dramatic societies.
There is colored Working Mems Club.
with kindergarten attached, and two
influential race papers are published.
There are twelve colored Masonic
lodges, six colored lodges of the Knights
of Pythias and twenty colored Odd-Fel-
lows lodges. There is great deal OF
wealth and refinement among the col
ored people of Philadelphia.
For the removal of foreign bodies
from the stomach the highest authori-
ties are now recommending the eating
OF potatoes only, in large quantities,
cooked in different ways to stimulate
the appetite Cases are cited in which
articles of iewelry, brass weights, nails,
pins, ETC., were successfully elected
after few days of the potato diet
Nothing should be eaten but potatoes
during the time required, which varies
from two to nine days.
The Sumterville (Fla.) Times knows
a girl who made last year ten bales OF
cotton, worked two acres in potatoes,
MIXED three COWS, did the churning,
did all the washing and ironing, worked
the garden, made 115 gallons of sirup,
raised twenty-five bushels of peas, and
sold them for $33. She sold her po-
tatoes for S75, her cotton brought her
S451, she made S65 taking in sewing,
making in the aggregate $621. She did
most all the work herself, and only paid
out few dollars for extra work.
Tho fight of birds can be easily
measured; but it is very difficult to
guage the speed Of fishes. AS general
rule, the fast fishes are trim and pointed
in shape after the manner OF yacht,
and their fins lie close to the body.
Fishes of prey are believed to be the
fleetest, tho ordinary food-fishes being
slow and easily captured, but corre-
spondingly prolific. The dolphin and
bonito are exceedingly swift, but their
highest speed is not known. Dolphins
have been seen to swim round and round
a steamer, so that they are capable OF
doing at least twenty miles an hour.
-"Among the Piutes,' says the Vir-
ginia City New Enterprise, sit is
always the father-in-law that makes the
trouble. Every married Piute is always
glad Of visit from his mother-in-law.
He welcomes her with his broadcast grin.
The arrival of the mother-in-law gives
him double team, where before he had
only one animal He halls her appear
ance with delight, and piling jackass
load of wood upon her willing old back,
sends her into town with his wife (sim-
ilarly packed) to peddle out the fuel and
bring back to him supply of money for
his favorite game of poker. The Piute
father-in-law is Of no use as wood
packer, nor will he gather grass seeds
or pinenutS