DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-05-01
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The United States, Liberia, Rayti,
the Argentine Republic, Guatemala and
Spain put duty on books. Every other
nation admits them free. g.-
"A Blue Springs (Ky.D paper says
that in recent lawsuit in that town
lawyer in addressing the jury brought
down the house by singing a comic song
as an illustration in making point in
the case
An English naval officer has In
vented pneumatic line-throwing gun,
very light and portable, which fires a
hollow she'll bearing the cord to a
wrecked vessel, or into burning build.
ings on dry land.
"A Graysville (Ga.) young man who
advertised in the Cincinnati Enquirer
for lady correspondent, received a
proposal of marriage from mulatto
girl, who described herself as bright,
pretty and sweet sixteen"
AT Aspinwall, on the Atlantic side
of the Isthmus of Panama, the rise OF
the tide is only one foot and half, but
at Panama, on the Pacific side, there Is
at times difference of twenty-one feet
between high and low water.
-Clot Bey, the founder of modern
medicine in Egypt, says that it requires
as much surgery to kill one Egyptian as
seven Europeans, and there is no doubt
that Egyptians bear surgical operations
with extraordinary pluck and success.
"A mining claim was taken up re-
Gently in Hawthorne district, New, and
the following notice was posted; "We
Clame de lege from the law of the Amer
lean Congress and the United States be-
gin at these noticia and run 1,500 feet to
the first day of January"
The Spanish tongue competes with
the English for the mastery of the New
World. With the exception of Brazil
and the Guianas, the language of the
South American States is Spanish. 1t is
also the dominant language Of the West
Indies, Central America and Mexico.
The vitality of snails is remarkable.
One that had been glued to card in
the British Museum for four years came
to life upon being immersed In warm
water. Some specimens in the collec-
tion of naturalist revived after they
had apparently been dead for fifteen
| years.
"A young couple of Bradysville, O.,
we're married twice in two days. They
,an away from home on account of the
objections of their parents, and were
married by squire at Aberdeen, o.,
but, fearing the marriage was illegal,
they returned home, and the next morn
ing the ceremony was again performed
by local squire.
Small mules, as we'll as small horses
are going out Of use. The day was
when railroad graders used small mules
on scrapers But since the old-fashioned
scrapers are giving way to the heavy,
| two-wheeled machines that move ton
of dirt at load the little mule has had
to take a rest and let one of substance
and weight step to the front An /, 100
or I, 1,200-pound mule is now required to
draw the plow and do railroad work.
-Smugglers are reaping rich harvest
near the Canadian frontier. They pur-
sue their unlawful work in houses built
on the boundary line, half in Canada
and the other half in the United States.
| Generally these houses contain tram
way, upon which cars, containing con-
traband goods, can be moved from one
country to the other. When United
| States officers make raid the cars are
pushed into Canadian territory and vice
versa.
"A Cleveland artist says that genu-
inc artist is very much like singed
cat He is better than he looks. In
speaking of artists in general he says
that the artist of ability does not differ
in appearance from the ordinary man.
He says that in Munich when the STU
dent begins to draw from the antique he
let's his hair grow long and carries a
paint box around with him. When he
enters a more advanced class he cuts his
hair reasonably short and leaves the
paint box at home. When he gets down
to genuine painting he wears his hair in
the ordinary style and dresses like the
ordinary mortal.
In consideration of erecting the
Texas State Capitol building, Senator
Farwell, of Illinois, his brother and
Congressman Abner Taylor are in pos
session of 5000, 900 acres Of land, tract
larger than the States of Delaware and
Rhode Island combined, and nearly as
large as Connecticut. This "Farwell
empire" as it has been called, if as
densely populated as the United States
would have 100000 people, or 500, il
as thickly peopled as Illinois. The land
is now fenced off into tracts Of a thou
sand acres and used for cattle ranches.
1t is estimated that in ten years it will
be worth thirty or forty million dollars.
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