Huntsville gazette., 1890-06-07
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

y st Louis mas uCG tna6 Is q Iror
quenter of funerals, seeking them out
and making them specially in his diver
sions.
Chinese women, to secure the bless
ing of children, get shoe at the temple
of the goddess of children. and return 1t
to the temple if the object is accom-
plished.
A farmer who resides near Lewis
ton, Me-, says that some years ago he
planted beans the first day of May, and
that in less than six weeks they were
shelling them out.
"A woman in Ohio not long since
lost child through diphtheria, and
dead body. They all grew sick with the
same disease and died.
An Irish boy in a New York City
court recently pleaded guilty to burg
larry to save his guilty brother, but the
brother came forward when he saw the
innocent one convicted, and insisted on
being sent to prison in his stead
Rocky mountain sheep are not very
numerous, and the handsome head OF
that animal brings from S35 to 500.
Mountain sheep are sold in pairs, when
the taxidermist has saved the whole
animal, and they sell for $3.50 pair.
The statement is made that at least
seventy letters day miscarry because
of the similarity in the names Of Oswego
and Owego. For this reason each town
wants the other town to change its name;
but Of course neither town will do so.
Some one has figured that there are
in Denver, Col, thirty-one millionaires
whose aggregate wealth is $40, 500, 900,
and thirty-five semi-millionaires whose
wealth aggregates ST., 800, 900, making
in all S64, 600, 900 owned by sixty-six
men.
1t is an interesting point in Ameri-
can history it, as stated, the Confederate
gray uniform was borrowed from the
First Virginia Regiment, which borrow
ed it from the Seventh New York Regi-
ment. The Confederate song Dixie"
was of Northern authorship
That there is great deal Of exag-
geration in almost all the stories that
come from Russia can not be doubted. 1t
is quite certain that the country is in a
disturbed, or perhaps, even in danger
ous state; but the bulk of the people are
unconscious that the Gar is really the
tyrannical monster which most of the
European journals represent him to be.
There is very curious stone about
which very little is ever heard. 1t is
called the "Alexandrite" in honor of
Alexander Of Russia, who was very fond
of it. In the daytime the stones resemble
an emerald, except that they are some
what darker, but at night they are
deep purplish red They are found in
India, and, like all rare stones, vary
much in their qualities.
One reason why France, Germany
and Russia discourage immigration to
the United States is because foreigners
who come here soon drop into the
English language and discard their own,
thus making loss Of number to the
other language. This feeble check will
not delay the inevitable a month.
English as she is spoken will be the
universal language of the world in time
More than a century before the
Christian era there were many beautiful
cups in China. The Portuguese, it is
said, introduced the ware into Europe
about 1918, called it China" after the
country so long pre-eminent in its pro-
duction. The first English manufact-
ory of earthenware found place at
Stratford- -le- Bow, in Elizabeth's reign.
The Shakespeare jug is the best known
of Elizabethan pottery.
Barring Gould, in his Legends Of
the Patriarchs," says: "The custom of
saying God bless your when a person
sneezes, dates from Jacob. The Rabbis
say that before this time men sneezed
once and that was the end of them-the
shock slew them; but the patriarch, by
his intercession, obtained a relaxation
of this law, subject to the condition
| that in all nations sneeze should be
| consecrated by sacred aspiration"
German explorers last summer
found reindeer on the little Ryk Us is
| lands, which are so small that the en-
tire area of the three islands is not over
three or four square miles. There they
were in the Arctic Ocean, thirty miles
| from the nearest land one of the largest
| Spitzbergen islands, from which they
| are supposed to have migrated OF
course the islands were not within sight
| of the mainland, and the appearance OF
reindeer on these little rocks shows that
they are great ice travellers.
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