Huntsville gazette., 1890-02-01
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


In York County, Pa, party OF
tramps recently emptied water tank
and converted it into bedroom.
"A farmer of Templeton, San Luis
Obispo County, Cal, pulled beet the
other day that weighed one hundred
and fifty-four pounds. 1t was seven
feet long.
The Hudson County IN. J.) Health
Board was lately prosecuting healer
who, in making out bills for his pa
tients, charged so much for services and
SO much 'for luck"
About A. d. 745 books were first
bound up into leaves, and two hundred
years after they were multiplied by
printing. The Chinese furnish books to
each other for next to nothing.
Salt put in water which surrounds
the ordinary glue-pot causes hotter
glue to be obtained than where simple
water is used. Salt in the water where
mason work is being done in cold
weather prevents disintegration by
frost.
1t is well-known that whales can
exact data as to the time have been
rather lacking. In his northern trav-
els DR.. Kuckenthal, of Jena, recently
observed that harpooned white whale
continued under water forty-ive min
utes.
Recent observations of the waters
of Great Salt lake prove conclusively
that the statements made that no form
of animal or plant life exists in the lake
are erroneous. No fish or other large
form of animal life has been discovered,
but the presence of vegetable organisms
in the lake may be considered fact
from the abundance of animal exist
ences.
"A New York dry-goods merchant
says that frequently some of the sub
ordinate employees receive larger re-
muneration than the men in whose
hands rests the main responsibility for
running business. The men who
usually make the most money in the
very large firms are not the superin-
tendent and his chief assistants, but the
buyers of departments
In Bowling Green, KY, there is
very sagacious dog. The other morning
horse was left standing hitched to
buggy, and while its owner was in an
adjacent place of business the animal
took fright and ran away He was GO
ing at breakneck speed, when the dog
saw him, Jumped the fence, headed the
horse, grabbed the line in his mouth
and held him fast until the owner OF
the beast came up and relieved him.
1t is little singular, with all our
mutual benefit societies, that mutual
dowry society was never established.
Imagine the effect upon the matrimonial
market of thousand young women de-
voting ten cents a week, fixed per-
centage to be given to those who are
married within the year. The anxious
and aimless could not then become
drug in the market. Something Of this
kind is in vogue in Europe, whore it is
stipulated that beneficiary must have
been member of the society for five
years before reaping dot.
in Algeria every girl born Of native
parents is tattooed on her fore
head between the eyebrows and
just at the root of the nose with
cross formed of several straight lines
of small stars running close to-
gether. These tattoo marks are dark
blue color. Algerian women are also
considerably tattooed on the backs Of
their hands, their forearms and chests,
as we'll as on their shoulders, their
wrists being especially adorned with
drawings representing bracelets and
flowers strung together. As rule,
women are the operators, and it is prin-
cipally ON children between the ages Of
seven and eight that they have to ex-
ercise their art. They use sometimes
needle, but more frequently Barbary
fig-tree thorn. They employ kohl as
coloring substance. 1t is kind Of fine
powder made from sulphur of antimony,
which is also in great request by the
Algerian women for the purpose OF face
painting.