St. Landry democrat., 1880-06-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

to men; decency, in giving them no OF
Tense.
Pleasure is the mere accident of OH
being, and work its natural and mos
, holy necessity.
-Seventy-siX towns in Connecticl,
(about one-half the State) have vote,
against licensing the sale of liquor.
Alexander H. Stephens is CROWN!
fat At the end Of the war he weighed
scvcnty-one pounds; now he weigh
ninety three.
The japanese doctors cure will
herbs and roots altogether, and thei
charges are so low that it is cheaper t.
be sick than well in that country.
-Horse-shoes of artificial flowers are
now used to ornament tables OF brackets
They are SO perfect as to deceive the eve
and have the advantage of being unfad
ing.
"A centennial birthday party in May
is to be given to Mrs. Sallie Pressier by
the citizens of Plattckill, N. Y. She
employs her time knitting stockings, and
every day performs some houseworS in
the home of her son. She is in excellent
health and spirits.
"A remarkable feature in the history
of William Smoak, of Charleston, S. c.,
is that he has lived to see his youngest
and thirteenth child grandmother He
has just entered his ninety-seventh year,
has one hundred and four grandchildren,
three hundred and ninety one great
grandchildren and seventy great-great
grandchildren.
The widest dream never surpassed
the romance of the widow of the third
Napoleon sailing from England to touch
at st. Helena on her way to look upon
the spot in Zululand where fell the fourth
and last Napoleon. The Empress is
said, as she left, to have looked sadly
broken, and her hair has turned gray.
General Kaufman has just presented
to the Geological Garden at Moscow
hairless horse from Central Asia. The
animal belongs to hybrid species, and
is considered a great rarity; it is well
formed, but its skin is red and without
the slightest trace of hair, and in cold
Moscow it has to be kept covered with
blankets.
Partisan toy dealers are in trouble
ing of children who have played with,
and doubtless sucked, colored toys, and
now the Project of Police has ordered
that all colored toys offered for sale and
supposed to contain poisonous matter
shall be seized and sent to the municipal
laboratory for examination.
A new and curious case of death from
poisoning has occurred in Philadelphia
A young woman who wore colored stock
ings and shoes with copper nails, had her
heel punctured by one of the latter In
nammation Immediately set in, and in Il
few days she died. Physicians do not
know whether to attribute the poisoning
to the stocking or to the nail, or to both
Nathan Orlando Greenfield, who is
under sentence to be hanged at Syracuse,
N. Y, busics himself with building card
houses. The largest of these structures,
which he hopes to complete before he
goes to the gallows, is composed of $500
bits of colored cardboard, and is COM
plete model of his father residence. This
employment, he says, enables him for
the time to forget his doom, and makes
the time pass pleasantly.
Liz 'lttih uftS III AlucIlcd COLL
menced at about 10 a. m. May 10, 1880,
and continued until the middle of the
next day. The Arizon0 Miner says that
a woman living on the Little Colorado
was twenty-eight years of age at that
time, and remembers the circumstance
She is now 1913 years of age. The dark
ness created great CONSERVATION among
her people, the Spanish and the Indians.
The Spaniards buried their saints and the
Indians took to feasting.
An account of recent affray in
Prussia shows that the old brutal spirit
of Junkerdom has lost little or nothing
that Il party OF German officers took Of
Tense because their salute was not re-
turned by the civilians in an inn at |
Ceorgenburg which they entered. There
upon one Of the former drew his sabre
and ran one of the refractory civilians
through the body, by way of giving him
a lesson in good manners.
The railway system is extending rap
dly in Japan, two lines have been re-
Gently completed in the island of Niphon,
ind third in the island of Yesso, the
most northerly of the japanese group.
The rails are of English make, but the
.olling stock and engines have been Or
Tered in America. The two first en-
,ines are to be named Benkei and Yosh-
tsZe, after two celebrated early Japan
'se heroes. 1t is the first order of the
lind that has been given by Japan to
American houses.
While travelling menagerie was ON
Jew at Bath, England, and a number of
persons were present to witness a snake
one of the reptiles coiled
tself around the exhibitors throat. Aft
L some struggling he fell from exhaus-
ion. There was much CONSERVATION
mong the crowd, and the ladies
creamed loudly. Ultimately the snake,
which was about seven feet in length,
vas detached by fellow employee.
A serious illustration of the risk at
ending electric shocks, even when APP
arently slight, occurred recently in New
Iaven, Conn. A gentleman was induced
. try a shock ''just for fun from the
1achine of an itinerant peddler of cleo
ricity. He turned away, but had not
one far when he was seen to stagger and
Ill. He was picked up unconscious and
SO until he died, two days later.
he physicians pronounced it a case of
cupo,.ipd,,aad bu tho alaotrio