Huntsville gazette., 1890-12-27
OF GENERAL INTEREST,

no miCIOsCOpe SHOWS human nan
to be like coarse, round rasp. with ir-
regular, ragged teeth.
A contract has been made at Salem,
Ore, to dig ditch three miles long for
the drainage of Lake Labish by which
means 5. 500 acres Of valuable land will
be reclaimed.
Judges ought to be more learned
than witty more reverent than plausi-
Bile. and more advised than confident.
Above all things, integrity is their por-
ton and proper virtue.
"A French doctor has recently been
collecting statistics with regard to those
OF his patients who complain of nervous
affections, with the result that he has
come to the conclusion that the prime
cause of all the trouble is the practice
of reading in the train
An advertisement has been running
in Bristol. England. paper for the last
year offering fifty dollars reward for any
well authenticated case of child be-
ing carried away by an eagle, no matter
in what country. No eagle ever did it.
The many alleged instances must go to
join William Tell.-Detroit Free Press.
Edward Bellamy's notion of pub
lie umbrella has been put into opera
tion in new street in one of London's
suburbs, where the dewalk is sheltered
by glass roof ten feet wide, supported
by slim, graceful pillars rising from the
curb. Every body halls this innovation
with delight and there is great
clamor to have its use extended
throughout London.
The amount of celery sold in the
Boston markets is said to be nearly ten
fold as much as ten years ago. We have
seen no estimate for New York, but
should judge that the increase is even
greater than in Boston. Well-blanched,
crisp tender celery is delicious and
wholesome vegetable, and deserves to
be more widely used than it is. And
tho parts that can not be eaten raw are
excellent when cooked.
An elderly lady and her daughter
stood on the elevated station at
Twenty-third street awaiting an on
coming train, upward bound, says the
New York Times. Don't try to take
this one." the daughter urged, 'it's
jtmmed full" The old lady cast a re-
proachful look upon her younger COM
panion, and mournfully remarked:
''There isn't doubt about it's being
full; but all the same / don't see any
necessity for swearing about it,"
Probably five hundred newspapers
recently chronicled the story that two
Kansas men few weeks ago found S.
900 in gold in an iron pot in gully near
a certain town. Now, the papers, Of
course, acted in coed faith in printing
the story, but as matter of fact they
were fooled by an unprincipled liar
There were no such men, no such gully,
no such town, no iron pot and no S5, 600.
Stories about the finding of buried
treasure, and about live snakes in peo-
believed.-N. Y. Tribune.
One of the sights worth seeing in
New York City this fall was a group of
aquatic plants in the fountain basin in
Union Square. There were several
varieties of water lily from India and
Japan, one of them Of an exquisite
pink color, clump of Egyptian papy-
rus, an Egyptian floating plant. and
other interesting growths from far off
lands. These were numbered, and the
names botanical and common) CORE
spending to the numbers were given on
a tablet beside the basin, so that the
spectators might at once crafty the
eye and inform the mind
Mr.. Emile Berliner, of Washing ton
City, according to the Washington Post,
has perfected his invention for repro
ducing sound A disk of polished zinc
is covered with fatty film for an etch-
ing ground 1t is placed on a turn
table, and as one talks in tube the
disk is revolved. and the vibrations
caused by the sound are traced in the
film by small pen. The etched plate
is put in chronic acid, and in fifteen
minutes is ready for use. 1t is put on
another turntab and revolved by the
turning of crank. A stiff pen traces
the etched lines and reproduces the
vibrations on a rubber or vulcanite dia-
phragm, by which the original sound is
carried into the tube. The pitch of the
reproduced voice can be made high or
low, according as the crank is turned
rapidly or slowly.