Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-05
INTERESTING ITEMS.

tains 3O1,2 grains. You can east
ly test the accuracy of this by get
ting pound and counting tn
seeds.
%A modern thinker says man,
people will be astonished when the,
get to heaven to find the angel
laying no schemes to be made arch
angels.
R% Ninety thousand four hun
bred and sixteen persons emigratet
from England, and 1905 from
Scotland and Ireland, during the
year 1870.
nay The young men at the Wheel
ing watering places have discarded
white vests. The young ladies use
so much oil on their hair that vest
is only good for one evening on the
piazza.
~A barn near Dubuque, Iowa,
was destroyed by fire the other day.
The barn was very near the own
er's dwelling, and, water being
scarce, the house was saved by the
application of great quantities of
milk 4!
D~C auiAower, called the queen
of vegetables" was first planted in
Great Britain about 1903. 1t came
from Cyprus, but was not sold i'll
the market until 1910. In the 18th
century caulifowers were COM
mon present from England to
Portugal.
E1Frederickshald, in Norway,
is memorable on account of Charles
MI, of Sweden, having been killed
by a cannon-shot before its walls.
while examining the works, in IT'S
He was found with his hand upon
his sword, and prayer-book in his
pocket.
Mr.. Child, of Exeter College.
Oxford, a recent writer on physio-
logical experiments contends that
the degree of sensibility to pain in
mankind varies directly with the
increase of civilization so that the
more highly civilized a man is, the
more he will suffer from a given
cause productive of pain.
RHrA Detroit merchant received
q check for $4,000 from a penitent
defaulter. The amount due beino
only $4,000, the merchant CRATE
fully made change with a check for
the balance. He indnlged in much
profane swearing Oh finding the
next day that the $4,000 check was
worthless.
s~On the 23d of May the cigar
seller of Quai de rEcole printed
with pen, "Closed on account of
death" on a sheet of fcolscap, in
order to preserve his shop from
pillage and fire. As soon as the
ink was dry he took a paste-brush
and posted it on his door. He was
about to re-enter the shop when a
ball killed him.
pG Mahomet was born at Mecca
in $40. His early life was passed
rs a caravan driver between Mecca
and Damascus. Attwenty-eight he
married Cadiga, a rich widow. and |
afterward commenced his religious
vocation. He accordingly passed
much Of his time in cave near
Mecca, where, with the aid of O.
Persian Jew and two Christians, he
complied his Koaan, and at the
age Of forty, publicly called himself
the apostle of God. His absurdi-
ties caused him to be driven from
Mecca to Medina, in the famous
year of the Hegira, or flight, 622.
He died suddenly at the age of
sixty-two.
@The spinning machine, called
n mule, was invented in 1919, by
Samuel Crompton, born at Bolton.
Lancashire, England, in 1853.
From the name of his residence he
termed the machine "Hall-in-the-
Wood Wheel ;" it was also called
nusIn-wheel, from its giving birth
% the British muslin and cambria
but from its COM
'ining the advantages of Har- !
,reave's spinning jenny, and Ark
vright's adoption, it derived the +
lame of mule. 1t produced yarn