The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-04-16
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.

GKerClOn.
THE man who predicted mild winter
because corn-husks were thin, was found
frozen to death in corn field the other
day, few miles from Dayton. They
buried him close to the grouDd-hog.
I'm sorry to hear of your embar-
rassment," said gentleman to friend
who had failed heavily. "Not at all, y
said the latter "keep your sympathy
for my creditors it is they who are
embarrassed.
DoRE's picture of the "Seventh Cir
Gle of Dante's Hell'' contains 900 fig
ures. Those in the foreground are the
size of life. They are grouped in a
circle about Dante and Virgil, who are
on central eminence.
THERE is an artesian we'll in Mission
Bav, near San Francisco, over half a
mile from the shore. It is 200 feet
deep, and through pipe eleven inches
in diameter furnishes 10000 gallons
of pure fresh water every twenty four
| hours.
"GEo1oGY is all we'll enough in its
way" said Blifkins the other morning,
"but it takes twice the science to get
into pair of breeches when the lining
in the legs is torn, than it does to per-
meate the Silurian or any other OF the
Paleogoic ages.
THE Journal of Horticulture says:
Sawdust is a good thing for earthing
celery, placing it between the rows and
around the plants after the leaves and
stalks have been brought together,
pressing the sawdust about them SO as
to lie compact and insure blanching
perfectly.
THE following puzzle is again on it's
rounds "To five and five and fifty
five the first of letters add, twill make
thing that killed the king and drove
wise man mad" It was published first
about twenty years ago, and has never
been correctly answered. But they say
there is an answer.
THE six follies OF science are said to
be the following The quadratute of
the circle, the establishment of perpet-
ual motion, the philosophers stone,
the transmutation of metals, divina-
ton, or the discovery of secrets by
magic, and, lastly, judicial astrology.
SoMBER thoughts and fsucies often
require real soil or substance to -four
ish in they are the dark pine trees
which take root in and trown over the
riffs of the scathed and petrihed heart,
and are chiefly nourished by the J.s,n of
unavailing tears and the vapors of
fancy. +. Boyes.
A MAN conversing in earnest, if he
watch his intellectual processes, will
find that o material image, more or less
luminous, arises in his mind, contem-
poraneous with every thought. which
furnishes the vestment of the thought.
Hence, good writing and brilliant dis
course are perpetual allegories. s.-E'n1-
eTsOn.
SPRING has come, Spring ha come, Spring has
Hark! the feathered songsters tune their notes
of joy
Hark, the lowing herd! List, the warbling
Gaily, smiling, budding, blooming Spring has
come!
Gn horn)
The new Encyclopedia Britannica
saws: "If the natural resources OF
America were fully developed it would
afford sustenance to $500, 600, 900 in
habitants-a number five times as great
as the entire mass of human beings now
existing on the globe. And, what is
even more surprising, it is not more
improbable that this prodigious popu-
lation will be in existence within three
or four centuries.
ONE of the methods adopted by the
authorities of Paris for the encourage
ment of birds in the parks is the manu-
featuring of artificial nests so cunningly
constructed that each variety OF bird
will recognize it's home at once. The
nests are made by women for the fol-
lowing birds: The sparrow, titmouse,
warbler, king fisher, ohafinch, cuckoo,
blackbird, magpie, and others. Three
thousand of these nests have been put
up recently.
A.1ADY went to pay her respects to
one of the latest arrivals on the list OF
babyhood, when the following coloquy
took place between her and the little
four-year. old sister of the new conner
"I've come for that baby now," said
the lady. "You can't have it, " was the
reply, " "But must have it-I came
over on purpose" urged the visitor.
"We can't spare it all" persisted the
child "but I'll get piece of paper
and you can cut pattern.
(WHICH, TODAY, ARE
Sweet flowers.
Ye we're too faire,
With dropping lids,
Among your heavie morning teares,
found ye.
Faire buds!
left ye there,
For sorrow bids
Brief greeting to gay youth, it feares,
To wound ye.
But deare roses, in your noone
(Tbat graceful, merrie prime)
stole away the lovely boone,
And was it not crime
To rob the wooing aire
OF your sweet breath ?
All daintie flowers,
The wanton hours
OF middays golden shine
Will see ye pine,
Tomorrow and so fade
Away to death.
EDGAR A. PoE's memory is to be hon
ored with @ monument at last. The
sum desired, 81, 800, has been raised
through the efforts of the public school
teachers association of Baltimore, and
the work will be begun at once. The
design is an obelisk Of pure Italian
marble, with bas-relief of Poe on one
of the panels, and appropriate inscrip-
tions and emblems on the other three.
It is thought the monument will be
ready for dedication within q few
months.