DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-03-13
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

/ itIEh1 NdlltJl'h Ol llSll suitable lOF lOOu.
The first apple tree planted in Ohio,
they say can be seen alive and vigorous
on farm in Marietta. 1t was planted
in 1883.
A kid glove with a little outside
pocket in the palm for the wearer to
keep car fare, is one of the latest devices
! for comfort.
-Sicmens, the electrician, says that
no death has ever been caused in Berlin
| by contact with electric wires. The
city's immunity from danger is due to
underground conduits.
"A citizen Of Taunton, Mass, says
that he knows a woman who for several
years made from 1000 to 1,2OO pies year
for family of three persons, and one
member has eaten more than two-thirds
of them.
1t is said that women in New Or
leans enter more occupations unusual to
the sex than in any other city. They
become merchants, hunters, florists,
dairy farmers and manufacturers, and all
make good living.
In Lawrence, Kan, comparison
by means Of photOmeter, between the
brightness of the full moon and that of
the arc lights in use in that city, showed
that at an average distance Of 100 feet
from the lightof the lamp the brightness
was twenty-five times that of the full
moon.
During the year 1889 there were car,
ricd over the elevated railroads Of New
York 162. 413,9S7 passengers, not one Of
whom was injured by carclessness or
other fault Of the management. This is
certainly q wonderful showing and af-
fordg marked contrast to the accidents
associated with surface travel
The principal sea fish that servo as
nourishment to the human race are the
skate or ray, the shark family, the stur"
geon, the funny, the mackcrel, the cod
fish, the herring, the sardine, the an
chovy, the salmon and the eel. Some
readers may be surprised to see the
shark included, but it is numerous
family and all are not man-eaters. The
shark fishery is a regularly established
industry in some parts of the world.
in the United Kingdom valuable
waste products derivable from fish refuse
are usually ignored in every household.
Excellent stock or basis for soups can be
made from the heads, bones, skins of
fish and of fIleted fish, familiar econo-
my in China, where even sharks fins
-, y,
some countries. English rays are i'm
ported into France for making soup;
bone earth from fish refuse for manure;
albumen from fish blood.
The wife of farmer at Maysyille,
S. D., having learned that her husband
had mortgagcd his farm to pay whisky
bill contracted at a ''blind pig, - as illicit
drinking places are termed there, col
leCted seven more women, and the eight
sailed forth armed with pickaxcs and
hatChets. Before noon tho determined !
women had broken up several 'blind |
pigs and destroyed their fixtures and |
furniture. The proprictOrs offered but |
a feeble resistance, being taken by sur
prise. A large crowd accompanied the
women on their rounds and cheercd |
them on.
The original post-of1ice box used in |
the town of Pomfret, Conn, one hun
drcd years ago is now owned in that town,
being the property of benjamin GroS-
venor, one of whose ancestors, Lemuel |
.troSveRor, was the first postmaster ap-
pointed between Hartford and Boston.
lie received his appointment from Pres
dent Washington, and held the office
until the election of Martin Van Buren,,
when the infrmities of age demanded
MS REIMBURSEMENT of office. The box
tsclf is four and one-half feet in height
md four feet in length. There are two
apartments at the top, with five drawers
making curious relic of
he earliest postal days and service in
Connecticut.
Divorces, according to the report of
he Commissioner of Labor, have bcnn
rranted in this country for the follow
ng causes: zone woman was granted q
Iivorce because her husband persisted
n coming home at ten o'clock at night
nd keeping her awake talking. This
he called mental cruelty, and the court
greed with her. Another woman Sc
urrd divorce because her husband cut
# her bangs by force, and still another
ccause her spouse refused to cut his toe
als. One wife's feelings were lacerated
D the point of legal separation because
cr husband would not wash himself,
hus causing her mental anguish. The ;
of another vito were out
,gcd past cure because her husband t
lid her sister was thief One man t
OF q divorce because his wife didn' sew i
n his buttons"