The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-01-01
FACTS AND FANCIES.

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awful warning.
-" Willie, I'm going to heaven" she
wrote, "and you will never see me
again." which was pretty heavy on
Willie.
A good test on a young mans
strength of character is to have him
stay in his own town while he raises
side whiskers.
There is nothing SO highly priced
as soft, sweet voice in woman, except
her ability totake in washing when hard
times come.
An urchin being rebuked for wear
ing out his stockings at the toes, replied
hat ii couldn't be helped "toes wig
gled and heels didn't"
The San Francisco board of brokers
consists OF but eighty members, and the
number cannot be increased. A seat
was recently sold for $40, 600.
According to Washington paper
all the gentlemen at recent party there
wore striped silk stockings and low
shoes, with buckles and rosettes."
Tons of postal cards without adj
dresses are destroyed in the dead letter
office because people write their mes
sage first and then forget to address the
card.
M. Moca, q French scientist, has
discovered that the flesh of the Cauoas-
ian is bitter and salty, while that of the
black is of fine flavor, and will keep
much longer.
The molar tooth of mastodon was
recently exhumed near Waterloo, Ind.
It weighs six pounds, is eight inches
long, and has four prongs and four
double crowns.
AN Indiana man bet $40 that he could
ride the fy-wheel in q saw-mill, and as
his widow paid the bet, she remarked
"William was kind husband, but he
didn't know much about fy-wheels."
On retiring from business q wise
old man said to his son and successor
"Now, my boy, remember that common
sense is the best thing you can bring to
bear on every affair of life except love
making"
A man had better have milestone
| tied to his neck and cast into the sea,
than to promise to marry Texas girl
and then refusa. The whole country
turns out to hunt him, and he is gener-
ally left to grow up with tree.
"A Williamsburg man woke his wife
the other night, and in startled tone
of voice, informed her that he had swal-
! lowed dose of strycnine. "WelI, you
fool," said she, 81 lie still, or it may
come up."
An exchange, edited by an old bach
elor, says Man becomes sort OF ele'
waited slave or servant to a woman when
he marries." Probably that's why the
place of sacrifice is called the high
menial altar.
A little girl reading the " History of
England" with her mother, and coming
to the statement that Henry I. never
laughed after the death of his son, lock-
ed up and said "What did he do when
he was tickled ?"
DIR. Samuel W. Francis says that
the liquid injected hypodermically by
the mosquito contains the principal of
quinire, and was sent by Providence as
an antidote to the fever which arises
from marshy and musquito-infested dis
tricts.
"A farmer named A. G. Lewis, living
four miles north of Mansfield, o., while
cutting fodder with q steam cutting ma
chine, last Wednesday, had his left arm
drawn in and cut off inch by inch nearly
to the elbow before the machine could
be stopped.
A hundred years ago 100000 souls
gleefally sported beneath the tropical
foliage of the Sandwich Islands, Of
whom only $4,000 dyspeptic remnants
are now extant. The various oontr1V-
ances of modern civilization, such as
rum. corsets, soap and fine-tooth COMBS
did it.
The new "Reminiscences crema-
tion furnace has been tested at Berlin
with satisfactory results. Two hundred
weight of animal carcass was consumed
in about so minutes, and reduced to
white ashes at the cost of less than Ona
dollar. Eighty-two German cities pos"
sess cremation societies.
Paris has successfully introduced
the American horse rail say, of STRAIN,
as it is called there. The cars used ara
small, having accommodation for only
twenty-eight passengers, ten of whom
stand on the platform. These latter,
instead of being charged full fare, IS in
this country, are counted as second class
passengers and pay reduced fare.
A Sandstone anvil has been discov-
cred near Ironton, Ohio, supposed to
have been used by the mound builders.
II is composed of very sharp grit, con-
tains over 100 depressions, weighs about
500 pounds, and measures feet inches
at it's greatest circumference. This relic
of an extinct race is to be presented to-
the Cincinnati Society of Natural His
tory.
It may interest the consumers OF
Rhenish wines to learn that at Kehl
there is large establishment for the
manufacture of wine without grapes.
In the Rheingan and the Palatinate
there are hundreds of similar establish.
ments, according to the London Times
correspondent. The Excise Bureau OF
the German empire recognizes this pro-
duct as grapevine.
The practice of keeping iurymen
confined without food until they have
agreed upon verdict is one of the most
unquestionable relics of dark age. In
Pennsylvania, few days ago, an unfed
jury hung for sixteen hours not feeling
confident of the guilt of the accused, it
being capital case. The starvation
system had it's effect, though, finally,
and in the verdict they hung their man.
-Guizor's heirs have discovered the
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