Huntsville gazette., 1894-09-29
or GENERAL INTEREST.

- Inc BOVtTHucut Va NCN couI-
Wales proposes to put an end to the alb
solute sale of public lands, and to in.
troduce a system of long leases, with
guarantees for continuous residence on
the part of the lessees, and to gradu,
ally subdivide the great pastoral hold
ings into smaller aliotments.
-Brockport. n. ", is one of the
great bean markets of the United
States. All sorts of beans are shipped
thence in every sort of condition
green, dried, and canned. Many hun
dreds of acres about the place are
planted in beans. and there is strong
tendency to revert to beans as topic
in conversation thereabouts.
The negro bootblack is an occa-
sional survival on the west side of New
York. though elsewhere ne has almost
totally disappeared. You find him
sometimes grown man, attached to a
saloon as doer of chores in return for
the privilege of his stand. He works
with more deliberation than his Italian
rivals, is genial, southern and talk
ative.
-Philadelphia is likely to lose a
notable monument in the noble old
elm tree that has long overshadowed
Walnut street just below Broad. Mrs.
Dudas Lippincott, who has long de-
Tended the old tree from threatened
destruction, has just died, and it is
likely soon to be removed. The great
tree shadows the whole width of the
street, and its largest limbs ovcrhang
the opposite sidewalk.
There is concern in New York
that undertakes to put your photo
graph on anything, and the display of
all sorts of articles adorned with photo
graphs is convincing evidence of the
firms good faith; but it remained for a
Broadway photographer to undertake
the substitution of the owners photo
graph for the initial on the pocket
handkerchief, and to exhibit samples
of the same in his showcase.
Sir Henry Bessemer says that
thirty years ago Sheffield steel made
from Swedish iron cost two hundred
and fifty dollars a ton. Now it costs
less than twenty-five dollars a ton,
owing to the Bessemer process. One
years production of Bessemer steel
would make wall five feet thick,
twenty-five feet high, inclosing an area
of seven hundred and ninety-five
square miles, and weighing ten million
five hundred thousand tons.
Since grass growing has become a
science and an art you may hire man
to create a lawn for you in a fifth of
the time once thought necessary for
such creation. Thick and luxurious
lawns are produced between spring
and autumn, and lawn of two years
under the modern forcing process may
easily rival one of five years under the
old-fashioned system. Artificial stim-
ulants and abundant water are re-
sponsible for the new order of things.
An assessment committee at Ver-
sailles decided some time ago that an
NJ. Louchet was to receive two million
dollars as compensation for an acre and
a quarter of land near Pontoise, want
ed by the city of Paris for sewage pur-
poses. The city authorities appealed
to the court of cessation, which quashed
the award and sent the matter for de-
cision to the civil tribunal at Amiens.
This court has just awarded M. Louchet
one hundred and eleven francs for his
land. Of course, he appeals.
1t is well known fact that on ac-
count of the superficial position of the
blood vessels at ankles and wrists the
blood in cold weather is easily chilled
at those points. For the same reason
in warm weather one ought to keep
these localities as lightly covered as
possible. This is the case with regard
to the wrists, but ninety-nine men out
of hundred have thick leather cover
ings high over the ankles, and the
shopkeepers say that SO few low shoes
are called for that it is often difficult
to fit satisfactorily a customer who
does demand them.
There is one cheering sign of inn
proved taste in the great American
shirt-wearing public, though it is
shown in rather negative fashion.
The evidence lies in the fact that the
mems furnishing shops are at this late
stage of the season left with a great
quantity of the most luridly colored
outing shirts unsold. A large percent
age of these neglected garments are OF
those ineffa BILE shades of pink that sug-
gest straw berries and cream. Before
the autumn regularly sets in these
gorgeous things will be selling for a
third the prices at which they began
the season.