Of General Interest

- (imen arounu wmte uaKs, a. M., are like water claims - taken up as sooii as discovered. - Chicago Times. - Salem, Mass., has three bank cashiers whose united terms of continuous service have been over one hundred and seventy-two years. - Boston Post. - Several valuable diamonds have been found in Montana, and many gold hunters ara turning their attention to the precious pebbles.- Chicago Herald. - A farmer of Warren ton. Ga., watched for the robber of hishens' nests and saw a half grown heifer go to a nest and eat its eontents shells and all. - Atlanta Constitution. - A roll of bilis aroounting to $2,000, snpposed to have been washed ashore trom some wreek, was picked tip recent] v by a person living in Black Rock, near "Bridgeport, Conn. - Hartford Post. - The Supreme Court of Alabama has decided that the Inferior Court' of Criminal Jurisdiction of Mobile is no court at all. The court declares the act of the .Legislatura providing for it, unconstitutional and void. - N. T. Sun. - Wing Lee. ahideous looking Chinaman, and Nellie Burton, a handsome girl, eloped from Louisville and were married by Justice Doiiglass, of Jeffersonville. The marriage creaíed quite an excitement. - Louxsville Courier Journal. - The Baltimore American, speaking of the observance of New Year, says egg-nogg has declined in favor as a refreshment, and apple-toddy has yirtually disappeared. Simple wines are preferred. Coffee and chocolate grow in favor. -Mr. Tyler, the Zulu missionary, says that when he iirst went to South África, thirty-four years ago, the people wore nothing but tho skins of cows and other animáis. Now few of theni appear in town without civilized dress. - N. Y. Ezaminer. - The ice erop of the Hudson River, in consequence of additional ice-houses having been erected during the past year, is now about 4,000,000 tons, and it takes from thirty to thirty-five days of food weather to house it. When all the ouses are taking in ice, fully ten thousand men and boys, two thousand horses, and fifty steam engines are einployed. - Troy Times. - íogs, puro and simple, says an Englsih wnter, are not caused by stnoke, but by dust, not the dust of the streete or chimneys, but by the dust of invisible atmospheric molecules. Henee we must look upon our breath as seen on a cold morning as evidence of the dusty state of the'air.and every pufl of steam as it escapes into the atmosphere will remind us still more powerfully of the same disagreeable fact. - Probably the largest oleander tree in the world is near Spanishtown, Fia. It covers a space of ground thirty-six feet in diameter; from the ground to the tip of the topmost limb is twentyfive feet; at the surface of the ground the trunk is divided into twenty or twenty-five separate sterns, the group being at least iive feet through and one single stem is, by actual measurement, fourteen inches thick. - Si. Louis Post. - We are informed by Deputy United States Marshal Rieketts that aboutthree years ago a fortune, estimated at $l,.0O0,(KX), was left John Spring, who died in tuis city a few days ago. The property and coin was left him by his cousin, Captain Arthur Spring, a merchant at Callao, Peni. Inquines for John Spring were at once set on foot, but he was not found until about threo weeks before his death. - Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise. - A request in the Boston Post for information respecting the whereabouts of oíd clocks has Bttrred up a number of correspondents in New England. One old gentleman has an eighUday clock, with brass dial, and at a running age of one hnndrod and fiftyyears isstill keeping good timo. Anothor has the record of one made in Bristol, England, in 1694, which is doing faithful service in a Western State. Hon. E. C. Moody, of York, Me., has a clock made in England in 1620, with the date and maker's name on the brass dial. It is still keeping good time. The case is handsomely inlaid with flowers and figures. This clock was brought over by Mr. Moody's accestors in 1623.