Huntsville gazette., 1890-07-19
or GENERAL INTEREST.

Clans nave unanimously cOnCluueu ehee
girls should not marry under twenty
years of age.
Elk Rapids, Mich, has a mammoth
pine tree in which an eagle has nested
regularly for twenty-six successive
years. 1t is baldheaded bird.
"A marriage in Minneapolis was de-
layed several hours recently after the
guests had assembled, because the
groom had forgotten to take out mar
riage license. t-Et ylt
The old treasury vault at Washing
ton, containing 5000, 900, 900, was bored
through by an expert in seventeen sec
onds, and an aperture large enough to
admit man was made in seventeen
minutes.
A postage stamp was recently found
by Connecticut physician in the ear OF
a lit e patient, and on its removal Sc
we're pain, from which the child had
suffered and which caused the visit to
the doctor, disappeared.
New York has quite a large and inn
portant Japanese colony, with clubs
and other institutions for mutual bene-
fit. There is not single Japanese
pauper in the city, and every Japanese
resident possesses at least moderate
means.
"A Waynesburg Pa.) man found a
hens egg which measured one inch in
circumference one way and 624 inches
the other. The inequalities in its
make up gave it the exactappearance Of
a moccasin, showing the opening for
foot, the broad heel, contraction at in
step and expansion at ball of foot.
"A recently returned Mexican tour
ist says that the average Mexican senor-
ita is ugly, and that q beautiful woman
is as great rarity there as truth tell
ing native. Many of the women look
picturesque in their mantillas, but on
close inspection their beauty proves
delusion and a snare.
While little two-year-old girl was
playing in yard at Lethonia, Ca, re-
Gently she suddenly called Ma" but
the mother paid no attention to her. In
short time the little girl went to the
front. porch, where the mother was,
having a small sblael1s snake firmly
grasped in her little hands. Tho woman
was badly frightened, but managed to
release the child's grasp and kill the
reptile. The snake did not bite the
child or make any attempt to do so.
This year is the two-hundredth an
niversary of the invention of the i'm
proved tobacco pipe-the bowl, the tube
and the mouthpiece. Up to the year
1890, the only medium of enjoying the
fragrant weed was by means Of a cylin-
drical instrument fashioned from the
crude clay, and smelling Of the earth,
earthly. The inventor of the present
combination pipe was physician, Dr.
Johann Franz Jakob Villarius, of Vien-
ma. The first tobacco-pipe mandatory
was established in 1890.
Recently several gentlemen met in
hotel at Kingston, Ont. One Of them
received in change ten cent piece on
which was inscribed the mystic symbols,
HTS" "By Jove" said he, 'here is
ten-center that some fellow has marked
to see if it will ever come back"
"Lets see it," said gentleman Of the
party. Gentlemen, he said, "my name
Is IJdIIy DOl luOllu' WD1NO yCdIS ago
at Halifax, N. S., marked twenty ten
cent pieces as this is marked. This is
the third one that has turned up.p He
offered the owner of the coin 81 for it,
and got it.
A singular life history is recorded
by an exchange: 'Hiram Samp, who,
from being rising lawyer Of North
western Pennsylvania and man of the
most flattering political prospects, sud
denly abandoned his profession and be-
came recluse of the most exclusive
kind, died in his hut near Waterville,
Pa, on May 30, aged eighty three years.
He had lived the life of hermit in
miserable hovel for over fifty years. No
reason for his singular retirement and
wretched seclusion was ever known. He
| represented the Warren district in the
| Legislature, and would have been sent
| to the Senate the fall he took up the
| life Of hermit, and was to have been
married to a daughter Of Judge lap
ham. Miss Lapham is still living, aged
| eighty years, having never gone into so
ciety since her strange abandonment by
| her aff1anced lover r.arf