DeSoto times. (Hernando, Miss.) 1879-1898, 1890-05-08
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
"A citizen of Portland, Me-, is worth
E,OOO, 600 that he has made in the man
ufacture of chewing gum.
The highest railroad bridge in the
United States is the Kinzua viaduct o'
the Erie road-3O5 feet high.
An English railway company has set
apart special furd from which to re-
ward acts of bravery on the part of its
employees.
Silence for ten days, speaking only
In whispers for ten days more, then
gradual return to the ordinary voice, is
q recommendation for stammerers.
A very ingenious electrical device
has lately been patented by which the
hands of clock set to a certain hour
are made to complete an electric current
connected with the kitchen stove so
that the fire is started when the given
hour arrives.
"A now kind of door hinge has been
invented for the use of those who never
think of closing doors after them. Its
popularity is that the door not only
shuts quickly and noiselessly, but it
hits the person who leaves the doo1
open fierce blow on the back.
An Irish land bailiff, who had been
boycotted for ten years, and was con-
stantly guarded by the police while he
lived, died few days ago, and the
guard being relaxed little, some per-
sons unknown stole his body and made
away with it so etrectually that it has
not since been found.
"A youth Of sixteen, at Fort Benton,
Mont, recently performed a difficult
feat of capturing a gray wolf with a
lariat from his horse Twice the ami
NAL got away by biting the moose in
two. But the third time it was caught
firmly around the body and dragged be-
hind the speedy broncho until it waS
dead
A Partisan lately made an Easter
egg, intended for a wealthy Spanish
lady at cost Of $1,000. 1t is a most in.
genius piece Of mechanism and Is made
entirely of pure white enamel. 1t is
provided with doors and slides, the In.
side being engraved with Easter gospels
The opening Of door sets a tiny birG
singing and a musical apparatus going,
which is capable of playing twelve airs.
"A recent railway accident in On
tario, in which a train rolled down q
twenty-five foot embankment, wax
marked by this incident Among the
in charge of bailif. He was chained
to a seat, and when the car turned over
he hung in mid-air. lie managed, alter
considerable effort, to free himself, ana
then went to the assistance of his kee~
sx qnd helped him from the wrecks
A Georgia fisherman recently baltod
his set hooks with small green frogs.
He left his hooks in the water all nicely
foating-having been told that this was
the best Of bait--cXpecting to return
next morning and find fish by the dozen.
He returned and to his surprise all OF
his baited hooks we're setting out on the
banks looking at him, and as he camV
close to them they would jump back into
the water ''ker chunk" He had eXpe'
rience, but no fish.
The great siphon in the new aquo'
duct for the water supply OF New YORK
CITY is considered a most wonderful
piece of hydraulic engineering 1t con-
yeys the metropolitan water supply
across the Harlem at depth of 3O7 feel
beneath the river bed. Certain advan'
tares we're gained by this method over
stone or steel viaduct, which it is be-
Eeved will cOunterhalanCe its creates
cost. Not the least of these is the i'm
munity from danger of foreign attack
A correspondent of the London
Times thus destroys the old legend o
the Devils Bridge in the Pyronees
"The popular legend about this bridge
which spans mountain torrent called
the Tech, near the small town of Ceret
was that it had been built during one
nicht by Satan and his myrmidons, anc
the fact that the particulars as to 1T
construction had never been found Il
anv of the local archives gave additiOna
strength to this legend. But the regis
trar of neighboring town called Prat!
de Mollo, close to the Spanish frontier
has lust unearthed a manuscript, datet
133t. which relates how the notable6
that town Contributed ten colder
crowns of Barcelona toward the building
of the bridge at Ceret upon condition
that the inhabitants of Prats de Moll
were exempted from paying toll.''
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