The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-06-02

my face, aud, eugh! eugh! in my mouth.
I have had green flies buzzing in my
ears, and crawling, eugh eugh! over me
they are coming now! They are coming
now!"
Music, painting, sculpture and poetry
are culture. Music tickles the senses,
and is the source of visions in which
knowledge cuts no figure; painting,
sculp:u Gand poetry are vain efforts to
fix ON vanvass, in stone and in verse some
idle dreams. Beautiful, beyond question,
softening from their impression on the
emotions, but involving the intellect not
81 much as the building of a chicken
NilWaukee Sentinel.
THE blue panes that hung in windows
with a southern exposure have mostly
been taken down. The peddlers who
went from house to house, vending a few
square inches of blue glass at fifty cents
or a dollar a pane, are driven with scorn
and contempt from the door. The most
diligent search has failed to find a man,
woman, child, horse, mule, dog, cat,
cana,y bird, or house-plant in the city or
around it which has been benefited to
the smallest appreciable extent by the
" blue ray."--CIeveLand Herald.
A GENTLEMAN has just died in Paris
who owed most of his celebrity to the
quaint manner in which he managed to
disembarrass himself of his creditors. No
sooner did a dun present himself than he
was ushered into a room hung around
witna variety of mirrors, some convex,
others concave, etc. In one the unfortu-
nate creditor beheld himself with a head
as fiat as q founder, in another his fea-
lures were nearly as sharp as a knife, in
a third he had several heads and in a
fourth he was upside down. Here he had
the broad grin of a clown, there the long
drawn visage of an undertaken. On one
side of the room he saw himselt-~a head
and no body ; on the other it seemed as
ifs dwarf had put on the bootsof a giant.
No applicant, however p essing, was
known to resist this chamber of mirrors
for more than a quarter of an hour.
PRINCE LUBOMIRsKI is a Russian gem
tleman who was formerly page to the
Emperor Nicholas, and who has written
many lively sketches of Russian charac-
ter. In n of these he relates how the
car sickened and died of grief on be-
cor-@sftTaware o. those gigantic frauds
which SO Powerfully contributed to the
the defeat of his armies at Sebastoss-t,
He had ordered, for example, the con-
struction of a vast hospital, and had
month after month forwarded immense
sums for it's completion but when he
dispatched an aid-de-carap to see how the
sick and wounded were treated, the hos
pital was nowhere to be7found, the &C.
counts written by Prince Lubomirski of
Russian maladministration would aston
ish a Pasha--or a Tweed.-M. Y. Tri-
bune.
CAMERoN's Across Africa saws that
on the death of a Urua chief it is the
custom "to divert the course of a stream,
and in its bed to dig an enormous pit,
the bottom of which il then cov@e with
living women. At one end a woman il
placed on her hands and knees, and upon
her back the dead chief, covered with
his beads and treasures, is seated, being
supported on either side by one of his
wives, while his second wife sits at bis
feet. The earth is then shoyeled in on
them, and all the women are buried
alive, with the exception Of the second
wife. To her custom il more mereiful
Than TO her companions, and grants her
dhe privilege of being killed before the
huge grave is filled in. This being com.
spleted, a number of male slayes-some-
S9ines forty or ~ffty--are slaughtered and
their blood poured over the grave: after
which the river il allowed to resume its
course
DARWIN mentions a .poisoneus plant
growing in Virginia which kills white
haired swine, but does not kill those
with black hair. DIR. Ogle saws that
there is no evidence that the black
swine eat the plant, and that the whited
swine, becaus., they are not supplied
with q certain black pigment necessary
70 the possession of taste and smell. are
deficient in both tastes, a. are thsre.
tore unable to discriminate bet yeen
poisonous and non-poisonous plants.
Ehey therefore eat poisonous plants.
which the black pigs, with better taste.
refuse to eat. A correspondent cf the
Scientific American writes TO say that he
Goes not kn1W anything about the effects
% poisonous plants on the nigs Of Vir-
glnla, but that there is a poisonous plant
m Florids upon which black hogs fatten.
while those with white hoofs after eating
y become lame and their hoofs drop
of-Philadephia Ledger.
AN account Of the business failure Of
y keek, Of Cincinnati, il pleasant read
ing despite pity for his misfortune. He
was possessed OF over a million dollars.
was president Of several monevad ;nst;.