The age-herald., 1897-09-11
GOSSIP OF THE STREET
 AND HOTEL lOBBIES

Maj. George Poindexter, who has late. ly traveled through the northern district of Alabama. was in the city yesterday. ''The cotton crop outlook in North Ala bama is better than it has been for years" said Maj. Poindexter. "The farm- CTS are expecting good price for their product, and as rule they have a good feeling. Wheat is selling at $1 a bushel, 100 per cent. advance over last years crop, and the farmers of the south are rejoicing with those of the grain raising countries. You all depend on your in- dustries heres while the farmers of the northern and southern portions of the state depend mainly on their cotton crops"
 "One of the healbhiest signs I can see is the rise in the price of manufactured iron" said President Sol Haas, of the Sloss Iron and Steel company. "None of us can explain the rise in the price of pig, and it is equally as difficult to tell how long the market will remain in it's present status. But when I see the price of ban iron and other ma nufacturers' iron going up always feel encouraged" All the fools are not dead yet" re- marked a man who had just returned from Tuscaloosa. With this he pulled from his pocket the following note, ad- dressed to the Age-Herald:
 Egypt, Ala, Sept. 2, 1887. To the Marieane Citizan.
 Your oners Of oners. please read the nt.orN ~R ,,1-1 -xr4I1 Ir ofisheley the last of October as president U. s. a.
 Yours very truley,
 Your tumble searvant of searvant,
 President U. S. A.
 R. I. HUGHES.
 ''Now that man." he continued, "fs, of course, daffy, but it is amusing to hear him tell of what f1e will do when he occupies the seat now filed by McKin- ley"
 "It has long been a source of trouble to Cuban farmers because they were unable to grow the pure Havana leaf tobacco.' said B. K. Wells of Pensa- cola. "So far they have been success full in getting the size and color, but the flavor is yet wanting.
 "The experiment has been made on large scale. A company capitalized at S150,000 and controlling in the neighbor- hood of 5000 acres of land, was organ ized for no other purpose than to exert every effort and try every means to produce this tobacco. Forty acres of land was selected for the test. A sys- tenn of underground piping was put in with every few hundred feet a spray head. This made a splendid system of irrigation. The first cutting from the crop yielded something like 10000 pounds, and after cutting yielded 15,000 pounds, making total of 35,000 pounds This amount of leaf can only be secured. however, with irrigation. The tobacco was planted with Havana seed and was cultivated by native Cubans im- ported for the purpose. As it takes time to properly cure the weed, there has been no test of the flavor as yet"
 A prominent insurance man is respon- sible for the following story: "A young Lutheran minister was sit- ting in his study not long since, when he heard on the stairs outside somebody coming up-tramp, tramp. tramp. A minute later the door was pushed open unceremoniously, and a fat old German was growing out: "We want you to come and preach at de burial of my bruter John.'
 "That was all. When the young min- ister found the house he went in and sat down, waiting for the brother to tell him to begin the service. That was all he knew of the man over whom he was to preach.
 "The room was filled with Germans, who sat there shifting their feet about and coughing. But no one said any thing about the dead man. Finally, one old fellow, as fat as the dead mans brother, gave a loud Ha.' It was an exclamation that foretold studied utter ance, thought the minister. Now said he to himself. I'll hear something about this man that will help me with my talk
 "Dis des teaches us all one sing said the German slowly. Then he looked fixedly at every one in the room. Dat ve should all get our lifes insured.'"