St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-07-11
OPELOUsAs /:
Saturday July nth, 1885.

sacramento County, California,
claims to have the only licorice planta-
sion in the United States.
"A Poughkeepsie gossip was fined
one hundred dollars for circulating
reports prejudicial to person in that
place.-TToy Times.
"A writer on science says that when
khe'thermometeri is. at ffty-eight degrees
below zero cats ears become very
brittle, and are often broken off.
A four-year-old boy in Clark County,
Mo-, smoked cigarette the other day
and in half an hour died from blood
poisoning, the effects of the tobacco.
An unknown youth who was killed
by cars at Penobscot, Luzerne County,
Pa, had the following on the bottom
of his shoes in brass nails: "a lucky
boy, you bet. "
1t is said that no one can live COM
6ortably in Washington and keep house
and maintain any sort Of social foot
ing upon less than five thousand dol.
lars Chicago Times.
: An able-bodied United States
seaman, having become hilarious by
imbibing too freely, mistook Brook
dyn awning post for a foremost the
other night, and climbed to the top OF
1t. He reached the second story win
dow and was arrested for burglary
Brooklyn Eagle.
"A party of Communists is said to
have called on one of the wealthy
Rothschilds and demanded a division
of his wealth. He took his pencil and
divided the sum OF his fortune by the
number of inhabitants Of Paris, which
amounted to only q few francs for each
person. The Communists retired in
disgust.
In Berks County, Pennsylvania,
the three-year-old child of James
Anspach was attacked by rats the
other day and fatally injured. The
little one lay in cradle, and the TO-
dents jumped up during the night and
bit it in the nose, ears, arms and hands.
which swelled to enormous proper
tions. The rats had to be driven of
with club. -
A Hartford man, now aged eighty
wears, who has been an inveterate
smoker for sixty-seven years, has
kept close account of the cost, and
places the amount at two hundred
Thousand dollars, which he might have
now had to his credit had he invested
every six months and placed at COM
pound interest the sums he expended
in cigars. Hartford Courant.
An interesting estimate Of the
amount, in weight, Of one inch of rain
fall on one acre of ground is thus
given: An acre Of ground contains
B,272, $40 inches square. Rain one
inch deep would give that many square
fnches; 1,728 cubic inches make one
cubic root. Rain one inch deep would
give $3.50 cubic feet. A cubic foot OF
water weighs 81 1-2 pounds; 2, 900 make
IA ton. This will give 226, 875 pounds,
or 113 tons and 875 pounds to the acre,
of rain one inch deep.
The japanese, as is learned from
their colony in London, have a novel
method of advertising They arrange
small rooms along the sidewalks Of
some Of the large thoroughfares, and
represent the interior of students
chamber crowded with pens, ink-slabs,
dainty screens and popular literature.
Some rooms give an idea of a model
Kitchen and others show the scene of a
tea ceremonial, being adorned with
fragile cups and saucers, lacquered
tobacco bons, tin tea services and
carved trays.
"A passenger, Mr.. Walter Kobbe,
by the White Star steamship Republic,
which left New York April "a, 1884,
put a scrap of paper into an empty
Apollinaris bottle, corked, and dropped
ut overheard April 30, 1884 Oh
the paper was a promise to pay five
dollars on its return. Months after.
ward, on November "a, 1884, Mr..
lKobbe received the paper in a letter
,postmarked Fayal, in the Azores
Islands. Many thousands of bottles
have been thrown overheard in a like
manner, but very few are ever heard Of
again. This instance to the contrary il
considered especially remarkable be.
cause Of the great distance travelled il
safety by the bottle.-M. Z. Tribune.
The Montreal Witness pays this
tribute to the progress in architecture
fin this country: 1.-The United States
lis soon going to take the lead of Older
countries in the matter of architecture,
las it is natural that it should. a
rapidly developing country, constantly
requiring new conveniences, offers the
most promising field for the ablest
men OF the age, and scarce q week
masses that the American illustrated
lpapers are not adorned with pictures
.of some new public building, grand in
iextent of original design and of sur
passing beauty. The young Western
Ieities which have sprung up within the