St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-08-24

Cyprus, just transferred.to England,
is about as large IS Connecticut. This
is conceded in return for England's great
kindness in bossing all Asiatic Turkey.
South Londonderry's (Vermont)
candidate for being the meanest man in
the country, snesked into the village
cemetery tomb recently to cut off his
dead wife's hair fer the purp >se of sell
ing it.
The philosopher Of the New York
Times has calculated that the flies in the
boarding houses of the city of New York
alone would, if gathered together. form
a pyramid with base of one Thousand
| feet square and a height of six hundred
and fifty feet.
"A young man walked through
Broadway, New York, not long ago, with
a pacard around his neck bearing this
inscription: 81 am reduced noblemsn;
my father is dead, and my mother has
one foot in the grave. Will some one
give me a situation"
| .."It's all very well to talk about how
the Thermometer stands in the shade,''
remarked gentleman with a boiled-lob-
ster-colored face who dropped in the
other morning. "What want to know
is how it stands in the sun. That's the
way have to take it.'
Perhaps the Oldest and best known,
as we'll as the best lighthouse keeper on
the Atlantic coast, is woman, Kathleen
Andre Moore, of Black Rock lighthouse,
near Bridgeport, Conn. She is sixty
five, and lives alone in her little house
with two dogs and pet lamb.
The richest bachelor in the country
is said to be Peter Goelet of New York
his property being estimated at $15, 0o0,-
oO0 He is now seventy-eight years of
age. and is perhaps still possible
"catch" for some aspiring young hus~
band.seeker.
There are many women in the better
} walks of life who have imbibed the love
of strong drink, and it is charged that
\ the drunkenness among them, to con-
siderable extent, is due to the practice
' of physicians in recommending the use
of liquors as stimulants.
. Some people are always putting
their duties off. They are "just going
, to" all their days, but the last day comes
and nothing is done. Lavater says:
; "He who prorogues the honesty of to-
day till tomorrow will probably pro-
, rogue his to morrows to eternity"
-" Sound,' said the schoolmaster, lis
what you hear. For instance, you cam
} not feel sound" "Oh, yes, you can"
said smart boy. John Wilson, re-
J torted the pedagogue, chow do you
!, make that out? What sound can you
feel?" "a sound thrashing," quickly
replied the smart boy.
M. Babinet, of the French Institute.
gave this test for Distinguishing colorless
gems from diamonds: If a person looks
through transparent stone al any small
object, such IS the point of a needle or a
little hole in card, and sees two small
points or two small holes, the stone is
not diamond. All white colorless
gems, with the exception of the diamond,
he held, made the object examined about
double. In other words, double refrac-
ton, whenever exhibited by stone, is
proof conclusive that it is not diamond.
"A girl in broad and butter period Of
sixteen or whereabouts, very gauzily at
tired, boarded Lincoln avenue car and
plumbed herself upon a seat TO which
the sun had for time been devoting ind
vidual attention. La few seconds she
sprung up, searched in vain for fire,
blushed, sat down, and gazed nervously
at vacancy. The sympathetic conductor
hurried to her side and asked her If she
was sunstruck. "Mind your business"
she ierked out pettishly, and the boy in
blue went aft to mediate = Chicago
Times.
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