General News.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4393, 1 February 1883, Page 2

General News.

Mr J. W. Gilman, Kearney county, Nebraska, writes to the American AgrU culturisfc of an arrangement of the halter for easy leading of catilo that are inclined to hang back. He writes :—•• £ learned the method from a young Dane in-iny employ. I had two cows, neither of which : wduld lead with any idejfre¥'lbf comfort; to lead them both at once was out of the question.-One'day I noticed the Dane leading them with as little trouble as-if they were well-broken horses. This ease in leading was due to his taking a ImlF hitch in the haiier around one ear of each cow jn such a way t^hat it would not slip off. this ide 7a %i* been worth a great deal to me.." ...To those who have tugged arid' worried jßve'r a Ijow^ raafc would not lead at the halter this hint will be welcome.

. Wm. IL Cuimiughaui, a-workman, at * the. Birmingham rolling mills,: left work on November 18, walked, over to the blast furnace, ascended to,the mouth of the stack, and awaited the moment for charging. When the bell was raised he threw off his hat and leaped head foremost into the furnace. , „.,„. It is a singular fact (says the Freeman's Journal, Auckland) that girls who would be shocked to have a young-man place bis arm about them when walking, consider the act perfactly harmless when set to music of a waltz. You cannot change immodesty by getting it to music." A leetle too far, this.

Nine widows weeping at a husband* grare may seem to most people a doubtful occurrence, but such an incident did actually take place, if we are to before a New Orleans oracle.- According to that authority, a Thomas Smith, a prominent mullato resident in New Orleans; "died recently, leaving nine wires behind him. Seven of them attended the funeral ser>ice, and wept freely.; Four of them rode to the cemetery, and after the interment returned to the late residence of the dead man, where, with the other widows, they engaged iv a free fight about the property. Ihe furniture was demolished, and all the women moire or less injured. Smith was foamed by a Baptist minister erery time he chose a wife. ' _ ' -. . Milwaukee people fight burglar* ■% garden hose, which will take the moral courage and the physical stiffness oat of a mau the quiokeit ©f anything ire know.