Huntsville gazette., 1893-06-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A recent issue of the Jonesborougi
(Ga.) Enterprise had the following
"W. w. Archer requests us to state thai
he has a son, very lively young man
who is very desirous of forming a mat
rimonial alliance. All communication
will receive prompt attention.
A novelty has been introduced by q
Boston woman that bids fair to become
a mania in the cultured society of that
city. She has complete breakfast
service of cups, saucers and plates for
her large family on which are given.
from photographs, the likenesses of the
members, SO that the servant can prop
erly place the china to be used.
Mrs. Horace Goodwin, of Boston,
owns and will exhibit in the Massachu.
sets building at the worlds fair. the
torch said to have been carried into the
VOLTS den by Gen. Israel Putnam. The
torch is a roll of birch bark about the
color of cigar. 1t is about eight
inches long and the size of mans
wrist. One end is charred and black
ened
-On May 4, 1776, the legislature OF
Rhode Island passed an act releasing
the inha habitants of that colony from al
legiance to Great Britain. 1t was car
ried in the upper house by unanimous
vote, and in the house of deputies with
only six dissenting voices out of sixty.
This act was tantamount to a declara-
tion of independence and the establish
ment of self-constituted republic.
Jacob Houghton writes to the De.
troit Free Press that the North Ameri-
can Indians would have boards if they
willed it. The medicine men have
taught that growth of hair on the
face or body is sinful and unseemly. 1t
is the custom of both sexes of the race
to pluck out these growths as fast as
they shall appear. This superstition
has been handed down for thousands
of years.
The cultivation of the sugar plant
was introduced into this country about
the year 175l by some Jesuits from
Santo Domingo. who, with some negro
slaves, settled on the banks of the Mis-
sissippi, just above New Orleans. The
first sugar mill was constructed about
175S, but the juice of the cane was not
converted into sugar until 1864. When
Louisiana was ceded to Spain, sugar
vived until 1791.
columbus barracks, at Columbus,
Ohio, is one of the army posts especially
coveted by officers. Life at Columbus
is still simple enough to make it possible
for an army officer with no income but
his pay to help lead the society of the
place. There is plenty of house room
at the barracks, dress parade is a pop
ular diversion with the people of Column
bus, and no commissioned officer, save
perhaps the quartermaster, has any
very exacting duties.
For the seven years ended in 1921,
the annual expectation of tobacco to
England from Virginia averaged about
143, 900 pounds. King James tried to
suppress it's inordinate use. and wrote
"a Counter-blast to Tobacco;'' and in
May, 1921, parliament passed bill for
that purpose, by which no tobacco was
allowed to be imported into England
except from Virginia and the Somers
Isles, Bermuda, and none was allowed
to be planted in England.
The first recorded public Thanks
giving appointed by authority in Amer
lea was proclaimed in Massachusetts,
bay in 1851. Washington issued a
proclamation for a general thanksgiv-
ing by the continental army on Thurs
day, December Is, 1777, ard again at
Valley Forge, May 7, IT'S. AS presi-
dent, Washington appointed Thursday,
November 26, 1889, day for general
thanksgiving throughout the union,
also Thursday. February 10, 1855.
1t is reported that human face
cemetery at Stony Brook, L. l. When
examined at short range there is moth
ing peculiar about the grouping of dark
spots and viens in the marble, but seen
at distance of thirty or forty feet the
spots and lines all become part of a
clearly outlined whole, with lights and
shadows, producing regular face of
oN Vi uSC stSS. hC law oPPCnio Ol
the back of the stone, and the eyes
seem to be looking down upon the
ground
In the United States there are 3o,-
600. 900 men and 81, 900, 900 women. Men
are in the majority in all the states and
territories except in the District OF
Columbia, Massachusetts,, Rhode Island,
North Carolina, Maryland, Connecticut,
New Hampshire, New York, South Car
olina, Virginia and New Jersey, in
which there are more women than men.
The District of Columbia has the larg-
est proportionate excess of female pop
ulation, and Montana contains the
largest percentage of men. In New
Jersey the two sexes are most nearly
equally represented.-AtI Consti-
tuition
A Woman's Face.
The lines of woman's face are the
tracings of her life history. Temper,
emotions, principles are plainly written
there. A woman who exists like an
oyster can keep her face unlined. The
woman who lives must expect to show
the march of years. Too many
women ptay with their emotions: they