DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-07-10
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A private dinner given at Delmon.
lco's, New York, recently, cost Sl6, 900.
The floral decorations alone cost So, 900.
A resident of Hartford, Conn, who
Is 'stone deaf" declares that recently
by the aid of an ear trumpet he heard a
heavy clap of thunder.
The town Of Roswell, Lincoln
County, n. NJ, is 216 miles from any
railroad. No other place in the United
States can say as much.
1t has become the fashion in Chica.
go for men to buy their wives bonnets.
The milliners like the change and say
that, as general thing, a man knows
better than woman what is suited for
her.
The bodies Of forty-flve deer were
found piled up in heap near Weaver
vile, Cal, recently. They lay at tho
bottom of high bluff, from which they
had apparently fallen during the time
of tho deep snow in California late in
the winter.
Tobacco smoking quickly contami-
mates delicate fruits of allkinds A few
Whlfs blown upon a box of raspberries
will entirely destroy the delicate flavor
OF tho fruit and render it unpalatable.
The same may in a degree be said Of
strawberries.
Two workmen in the Michigan gold
mine at lshpeming quit work without
I'M 81; 10,
searched their trunks over IS, 900 worth
of gold was found therein. 1t is sus-
pected now that many others Of the men
have been doing similar business.
An advertisement in a recent issue
Of the Chicago Tribune read: "Person-
all will donate twenty-five dollars to
charity, to be named by the Tribune, if
] can not name the place where you get
the toughest steak and poorest service
on Madison street Y141, Tribune"
"A lady went to one of tho groceries
in Winwuod, Fla, and bought two
pounds of butter that had been bought
in the country by the merchant. When
tho nice yellOwlump was cut in two there
was found in the center OF it largo
Irish potato nicely peeled and carefully
covered over with butter.
The ancients designated tho seven
metals by tho names of the planets, be-
cause each were supposed to have some
hidden relation: each being denoted by
particular symbol, representing both
the planet and metal. Gold was the
curry copper, Venus; iron, Mars; tin,
Jupiter; lead, Saturn.
An Australian schooner recently eff
fected the capture of the father Of
sharks. He belonged to the species
known as tho basking shark, and was
forty-three feet long When his jaws
were pricd open pork barrel could be
rolled in. and there were eleven rows OF
teeth in his jaws. He had the mouth to
bite horse in two at clip.
-Quail-fghting was a sport once pop
ular in ancient Rome in her most lux
urious days. Even in Greece, where, to
the honor of the race be it said, the
g)adiatOrial shows of the Romans never
became popular, quails were kept for
fighting purposes; in China, sparrows
are set at one another; and the English
proverb, THAT beats ck-fighting,'
tells OF the coarse fiber Of tho Anglo
Saxon only few years ago.
A Finland paper mentions a curious
stone in the northern part of the country
which serves the people instead Of a
barometer. This stone, which they call
"Jlmakiur, turns black, or blackish
gray, when foul weather is approaching;
fine weather has the effect of turning it
almost white. The Firms regard the
stone with superstitious reverence, but
the scientists say that its changes in
color are duo to salts contained in its
composition:
"A paste eboard box marked "Flowers,
was received at Gainesville, Ga, ad.
dressed to n lady Of that city. Upon
onenng tho box she was Mortified tC
find reclining on bed of crushed roses
half-grown snake that lay quietly con
cealcd and sluggish from its confine.
ment. A member of the sterner sex
pacified the nervous female by again
sealing up the package and returning it
to the post-oftice, where it remained until
report of tho case could be heard
from. The Attorney-General, in reply
to a query from the inspector, said the
offender could not be punished; that
while the snake was an unmailable
article there was no statute Furnishing
the sender 1t is thought that the
woman's husband, from whom she has
been separated, was the sender.