St. Landry democrat., 1878-02-02

without any freezing or other artlhclal
process of preservation, are sent to Eng
land by every steamer, where they
arrive in excellent condition.
The republic of Honduras is about to
Introduce the American free school sys-
tenn, In it's capital, Camayagua, a
national college is to be established, and
q commissioner has been sent to this
country to obtain books and teachers.
Glycerine may be burned iq any lamp
so long as the fame is kept on a level
with the liquid. On account of its
viscidity it will not ascend an elevated
wick. The fame produced is colorless,
and affords pure, clear light.
The Rev. William Gleeson, in recent
lecture in San Francisco on lrelands
independence. said that there are from
eighteen to twenty millions Of lrishmen
on the globe, and that an army of 1000
could be easily raised to remove British
supremacy in Ireland.
Miss Josephine A. Store, a colored
girl, who graduated from the high school,
at Newport, Vermont, this last summer,
took the gold prize for the highest schol-
arship, gave the vaiedictory, and did the
last two years study in one. She is the
daughter of cook and supported herself
by her own labor.
Chambers, complaint to which Cali
fornians have thought their horses were
not liable on account OF the glorious
climate, has recently appeared at San
Francisco, one of three horses "a fire
engine stable being attacked. The ami
NAL was Immediately taken to a con-
venient locality and shot.
Judge Guigon suspended the licenses
of six Richmond barkeepers whose
registers tor the month Of October did
not show enough sales to pay tax and
license, but suspended sentence until the
supreme court could settle the matter
For December these same barkeepers
report six times the business of October.
The Montreal street-car conductors
laugh at the shaking OF bell punch, and
SO the directors compel them to advertise
their dishonesty by carrying cash boxes
slung around their necks. The passenger
places the money on the lid of the box,
the conductor presses spring, andit falls
in. If the conductor touches the money
with his hand he is discharged.
On the first day of the Jewish new
year most of the fifty or sixty thousand
Hebrews living at Odessa go to the sea-
shore to pray and cast their last years
sins into the waves, beginning the incom-
ing season with cl can souls. Some turn
their empty pockets inside out and shake
! them towards the sea; others only make
a gesture as if flinging something into it.
A queer fish, caught recently in an
oyster dredge near Alexandria, Virginia,
is shaped like turtle, and has hard
shell. 1t has eyes in the she'll, and its
under side is furnished with number OF
arms or claws terminating like those OF
the crab, while the back part of the
stomach is covered with jointed scales
like common cockroach 1t has tail
like turtles, about a loot long.
Standing Rock agency, on the Upper
Missouri, takes its name form bottle.
bowider about two feet high and about
eighteen inches through at its base, on
the prarie two miles north of this point
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the tribe, who paint it green, red OF
yellow, as fancy dictates. In summer
wreathes of flowers are thrown over the
rock and in winter the upper portion is
wrapped in flannel.
/ There are twenty-five packing houses
in Baltimore, employing each from so
to 450 hands, and handling 100000 ol
| raw and IL GOO Gao nf canned ovsterS
each season. Besides there are 50steam-
ing houses, where 25,000,000 cans are
prepared each season by 1000 men.
Nearly 1000 men are engaged in making
cans. Oyster shuckers make on an aver
erage $l.25 a day, but some experts
make as much as SIS. A bushel of cys-
tcrs in the she'll will make ten cans, and
one firm have shucked and canned as
many as $500 bushels in day..