St. Landry democrat., 1880-08-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

-Pug-noses and frcckles are the two
great drawbacks to woman's happiness
on earth.
The Island of Elba, Napoleon's first
exile home, has been devastated this
spring by an army of locusts from
Africa
The Rhode Island Legislature voted
to present Governor Van Zandt the chair
he has used during his three years
service.
Around hedgehog killed at South
StarkSboro, VT, the other day was found
cOlled large snake wounded by two
hundred and seventy nine quilts.
In Logan County, Kentucky. two
little sons of John W. Peck were out
hunting birds, when one of them acct
dentaly shot and killed the other.
Samuel Beers and Welthy L. Lyon,
both deaf mutes, have been married in
Alton, N. Y. a slate and pencil being
used during the ceremony torecord the
responses.
What is said to be the first pound
of coffee raised in the United States has
been grown by a Mrs Atzeroth on her
plantation on Indiana River. Florida.
The plants were furnished by the agri-
cultural Department at Washington
"A formation of porous white stone
in the st. Gotharl Tunnel threatens to
retard its completion. Geologists are
of the opinion that the trouble can only
be overcome by constructing a new
route around the white stone, instead
of through it as now
The business of decorating paraso1s
pays well. There is one Boston artist
who IS making 500 a week, and with
out exerting himself much either. She
paints bouquets and wreaths of roses
for New York firm, and is looking
forward to time of welI-earned leisure
in which she can paint her ideal picture
Italian statisticians calculate that
10000 Italians cmigrate to the North
and South America yearly. Up to 1871
South Americas had received 227, $50
Italian settlers. The numberno now leav-
ing the peninsula are alarming to
landowners. During March u single
steamer bore away to Montevideo 800
and other steamers shipped nearly as
many a. load.
The contractor who is to furnish
10000 tOmbStOnes for the Government
has a marble shop at Factory Point,
Vt, furnished with the necessary ma
chinery to commence operations, but is
waiting for the names which are to be
put upon the stone s. They are to he
+ h,.on nd h,1f E, ,rr1,
ed top, ten inches wide and two inches
thick. Names will be cut on them by
means of a sand blast, which will cut
names in about two minutes. The con-
tractors expect to turn out three hundred
stones per day.
The death of the late Hon. Henry
S. Foote was caused by an exceedingly
painful malady developed out of an in
jury inflicted by striking the top of his
head, when suddenly rising, against the
sharp point at the bottom of a chande-
lier, under which he had been sitting
This accident happened in Washington
during his recent visit there. AS a last
resort, his physicians in New Orleans
performed upon his scalp a most ex-
operation, which. however,
giving no relief, he resigned his position
in the Mint in that city, and came home
to die.
All old male orangs are covered
with scars inflicted by the formidable
canine teeth which these animals use
wholly for defense and o1fense, since
they are fruit eating. and hence do not
employ them in chewing. Their effort
is always to seize the arm or head OF an
enemy and draw the fingers or lips in
to their mouth, instead of advancing
their own heads to bite. Almost every
specimen obtained of the mature ami
mails had lost some fingers and toes thus
bitten off, and large pieces are similarly
torn from the lips. The baby orang
exhibited like propensity when angry.
and would seize person by the wrist
aud try to draw the hand into its mouth
so as to bite the fingers.
"A curious survival of an old-time
institution exists in some remote places
in England, viz, the Official ale faster.
The ale faster takes an oath to "try,
taste and assize The beer and ale put on
sale' in his district, whether the same
De wholesome for mans body" The
Did ale taster's method of 6 analyzing7
beer for the purpose of detecting the
addition OF sugar to the liquor was
.ather primitive. Like most men ia
hose times he wore leather breeches
md when he went to test the ale for the
of sugar, pint of fluid was
split on a well-cleaned bench and the
,aster sat upon it till it dried. If, on
Using, the seat of the breeches stuck to
he bench. then sugar was present, but
f not, the beer was pure.