St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-10-18
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

house is to be built of granite from
Maine.
The French nave machine TOE
stamping letters and cancellng tneE
stamps.
There are NOS more than two oE
three women whose wealth is greater
than Queen Victoria's.
1t is estimated that the farmers or
Maine have this year scattered over tne2
potato fields fifty thousand dollars"
worth of paris green in their enorISr
to destroy the potato bug.
"A gang of burglars on Staten"
Island appointed two of the number to-
Serenade the inmates of well-turnlshed
house, while the others broke in at thee
back and robbed the premises.-N. 4
San.
There is said to be in the Museums
of Exeter, England, book bound in a.
portion of the skin of q murderer, who
was executed in 1880. The binding is,
of tawny color, and is neatly chased
in gold.
Discussing the suicide Of animals q
London paper declares that the dragon
fly s'held securely by the wings curls its
tail upward to its mouth and chews itself
yiciously to pulp" This beats the per-
Torrance of the Kilkenny cats.
"A painter in New York tried to-
smother fire in his office with a coat
After the coat was burned up he re-
membered that there was sixty dollars
in cash and check for one hundred
and ten dollars in one of the pockets.
N. Y. Tribune.
The inventor of an electric appara
tus for deaf people claims that no ear 49,
so dead that it cannot be made to hear
and that IN many cases the apparatus
will cure deafness. It may be con-
cealed in q cane, umbrella handle, fam
or any such article of convenience.
Chicago Herald.
A five-year-old son of Austin Brad!
of SteubenYille, o., was stung to death
by black hornets recently. and little
daughter narrowly escaped with her
life. Blood poisoning followed the
stings of the insects. MIR. Brady has
lost several members of his family in a,
like manner Cleveland Leader.
The primeval woods of Maine con-
| tain nineteen thousand square miles anu
| still cover an extent seven times that OF
the famous Black Forest of Germany.
The States of Rhode Island, Connecti-
cut and Delaware could be lost together
| in Maine forest and still have mar
| gin OF wilderness wide enough to make
It's explorations without compass a.
work of desperate adventure. Boston.
Journal
The degraded, half-fed farmers OF
France keep the treasury of the Repub-
lie always full of money. The farmer
loves the Republic as much as the Paris
ian detests it, The Republic receives in
its savings banks the money of the poor,
up to one thousand francs, and gives,
them three and one-half per cent for
its use. The peasant farmers haves
nearly eight hundred million dollars on
deposit in these banks.
"A young man who is serving a five
years term If imprisonment for theft IN
Karthus, Bohemia, has turned his en-
forced leisure to use, and manufactured
straw watch five centimetres in diam
eter by two in thickness. The works
comprise few bits of straw, some cot
ton, two needles and pin, q small
piece of paper forming the dial 1t IS,
said to go for six hours, and could be.
made to go twelve with few improve
ments.
Indiana has one illiterate voter in
every thirteen; Massachusetts, one in
every sixteen. The Northern States
range from. one in ten in California to
one in thirty-one in Colorado. In the
Southern States, the illiterate voters in
South Carolina are more than one-half1
in Alabama, Florida, Mississippi,
Georgia, NQrth Carolina, and Virginia,
one in two; while Missouri with one in
uine presents the best record.-N T.
Herald.
For twenty wears quaint character
named Orifvie Stannard has lived on q
small island in Pelham Bay, Westches-
ter Countv5gN. Y. While drunk one day
last week Stannard fell through the ties
of q. railroad bridge. but caught on =
spike and Vas saved. An hour later he
was rescued while asleep on the track
before an approaching train. In tho
afternoon lie 1fell from his boat into the
! bay, but twas caught by the bridge
tender again. AS they were approach
ing the shore, however, he fell out and
was drowHed. Troy Times.
-"Lau{a, dear, I wish you would pay
, a little more attention to young Mr.
Nickelplaks I'm sure he is a most ex
: ceIlent young man, and you are allow
ing the Joyce girls to monopolize en-
tirely toe much of his attention.
; ..W6y, mother, he is perfect boor. He
knows absolutely nothing; he can't
) speak single sentence automatically,
he eats with his knife, and picks his:
teeth at tie table Tut, tut, Laura.
) A girl who has reached the age of