Huntsville gazette., 1891-01-31
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

I'm some places in Europe the num-
Der of telephone subscribers, in proper
ton to population, far exceeds the ratio
in America. This is said to be due to
the low rates charged by the Govern
ment, which owns the telephone plants.
Christopher Columbus was only
fourteen years old when he made his
first voyage in a vessel under the COM
mand of his grand-uncle Colombo, and
for twenty years he followed the sea,
touching at the islands along the west
ern coast of Africa, and sailing far up to
the north of England on some of his
voyages.
While Cromwell of England was
Protector, the people of Massachusetts
and other parts of New England enjoyed
unrestrained liberty as to their political
government, but upon the restoration
of Charles III. change came. Com.
missioners appointed by the King were
sent across the sea to examine the af-
fairs of the English colonies in America
and to establish the authority of the
King.
1t is on record that the waves of
solid column of freestone thirty-six feet
high and seventeen feet in diameter at
the base. The diameter at the place OF
fracture was eleven feet At the top OF
the Bound Skerry of Whalsey, in Zet-
land, the waves have broken out OF
their beds, which are eighty-five feet
above the level of the sea, blocks of
stone weighing from eight to ten tons.
MIR. Withers saw body floating in
the Thames and sent man from his
yacht in rowboat to fetch it in. The
sailor tied rope to it and towed ii
ashore. A medical man pronounced it
dead. However, two other fellows be-
gan to rub it, and after two hours of
unceasing work, discovered that it was
not lifeless, but still John Hudson, who
had been capsized from sailboat and
who is now in good health 1t is the
most remarkable case of recovery from
supposed drowning known.
Some of the most priced appoint
ments in the newest houses in New
York are bits of old houses that have
been worn out and torn down. Men
about to build fine dwellings now go
shopping for colonial fireplace fixtures,
old mantels, fanlights of 1880 to 1910,
door frames, door knockers, and even
| the doors themselves. Sometimes
whole houses are sold by the dealers in
| these wares. There is a new hotel in
| Asbury Park, which was once an old
| hotel in the suburbs of New York.
Near Fort Worth, Tex, a full-grown
African lion escaped from it's cage on a
railroad car and was discovered attack
ing drove of cattle. 1t killed one COW
and drove another into the barn, where
the lion was surrounded. A posse of
farmers arrived with various agricult-
ural implements and the owner of the
cattle emptied the contents of double
barreled gun into the animal with fatal
effect. The circus people wanted to
buy the hide, but the farmer refused to
SELL He says he will sue for the dam.
age to his stock.
House decorators say that the beau
tiful quartered oak, so much in use
now, is not the expensive thing that
uninformed persons might suppose. In
fact, it is the most beautiful, and at the
same time one of the cheapest of the
hard woods, says the New York Sun.
Black walnut, for example, now little
used in house decoration, is consider
ably more expensive. The carving Of
| hard woods, as well as the decorative
| cutting of stone, has been brought to a
high degree of perfection in this coun-
try, and only the best class of European
work equals that put into comparatively
inexpensive buildings here.
81 assure you," said the doctor,
"that many physicians do great deal
of work without pay. There are emer
gency cases that must often be treated
for nothing. Every doctor has scores
of relatives who do not expect bills for
| his services. The clergy are apt to be
| free patients. There are poor people
and shabby genteel people who have
not much to give for fees. A medical
friends who would be offended if he
charged them full rates. Then all
| kinds of folks with all sorts of ailments
seek few words of advice and a pre-
scription at cost price, which is cheap
enough.-N. Y. Sun"
| "A statistical investigation of light
ming strokes in Central Germany, COW
ering period of twenty-six years, has
been recently carried out by Herr Kast-
ner. The number of cases has in
| creased about 129 per cent In 1889 it
amounted to 1,145 The investigator
distinguishes four thunderstorm paths.
| The starting points of all these are in
the hills, and in their course the wood
less districts and fat country, river
valleys and low meadow ground about
lakes seem specially liable, while the
wooded, hilly parts generally escape.
The hottest months June, and especial
ly july and the hottest hours of the
day, or those Immediately following
them three to four p. n.y., show the
most lightning strokes.
Indian Decorative Art.
When the Sioux go on the warpath,
in any thing like reasonable weather,
| thew eYerciSe great economy in dress