The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-06-23
GRAVE AND GAY.

In Sweden beggars are arrested and
made TO work.
The Dersimmon tree of Japan il now
becoming d standard fruit tree m Cali
fornia. The fruit is like q small apple "
size. In taste it may be likened to
cross between d plum and a peach.
"A new style of gun in the shape OF
IAN ordinary walking-cane is coming into
General use in San Francisco. The new
weapon will propel a bullet one hundred
PAGES, and whea fired makes only Z
trifing report.
Sometimes, when a man Is ~ 10
hung for outrage and murder, churcS's
womeD send him beautiful bouquets,
while the grave CT the poor child and
the home OF the heart-broken parents are
left unadorned. What hunbugs we
humans sometimes are.
There is a newspaper which might
have contained an account OF the cruel
fxion of the Savior had there been cor
respondents at the time OF that great
event. The Gazette of Pekin, China
was started 719 years before the birth =
Christ, and is still Z Journal in good
standing.
The citizens of Winfield, Kansas,
turned out epmasse lately, headed by
band Of music, and fought grasshoppeta
all day. The account says: LAS the
neonle drove clouds OF these pests from
them the band discoursed sweet music,
and made the war q very amusing and
interesting one"
Some women are certainly very IN"
reasonable. There's Mrs. Miller, OF New
YOSk, for instance, who had her husban6
arrested the other day upon a charge OF
"habitual drunkenness and refusing tc
provide any support for her" just as II
any husband could be expected to make
money enough at this dull seasop 70 keep
habituaIly drunk and support his wife at
+hesame time--L0uiariNe Courier-JOur'mt
You can't always tell. We have
known a sweet-faced young man, who
spoke such beautiful meiodious words OF
: moral b~enevolence Mt the boarding house
table as brought tears to the eyes Of the
te~nder-hearted landIady. Suddenly he
departed with q month g%Oard unsettled,
; and all the souvenir he left in his valise,
g secondhand pocket Testament and 9
= pair of faded paper collars.-PHck'
D.. "A hungry-looking specimen of hn-
uaaity, apparently from the rural dis
. +r;cta walked into a Devonshire-atreet
|, saloon Yesterday and a~nxiously inquired.
-, " How much do you ask for your din
! ners p, "rhat ds,oends upon what you
have; weGhavea bin of fare" the waite
, replied. With a disappointed look and
3 trembling voice, IS he ttIrned to go he
. said, "Bout q year sgo ! cane in here
i somewhere and got a dollars @3n fof )
, quarter r'-Boston Post.
. "A Nicaragua journal glvesan accom-
' of an electric magnet plant, which, &C.
! eording to the writer, Mr.. Levy, ls 81
. extremely remarkable species, and has
been named by him PhycotGta EI9cS'7cH.
4 He maintains that this plant possesses
strong electromagnetic propertles-Fo
much 20 that, on breaking OF a branch
= the hand feels a decided shock, as II 'fohH
o Ruhmkorf battery. I also Affected
. the magnetic needle at a distance O.
seven or eight PAGES, and more and more
. violently with g nearer approach. NJ
trace was seen in the SURROUNDING soil Of
y iron or ether magnetic Metal, and thu
- writer fully believes that the electric
condition resides in the plant itself. he
:. states that the strength of the phenomena
! varies with the time of day, 1t being A.
: most zero at night, and attaining it,
maximum power about two O'clock IL
J." the afternoon. It is also increased II
!, stormy weather, but intermitted during
q rain, No insects nor birds were eve'
:. seen neav the plants