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Cosgress, but the man who has money
u more apt to get there.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-06-05
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The present, alphabet, in the course OF
centuries, grew from the original twenty
two signs Of the Phenicians-
The finest screws used in "a watch have
$50 threads to- the inch, but screws with
500 threads to the inch cam be cut. 1t
takes 144, 900 watch screws to weigh a
pound.
The horses of fie Numidians and soma
of the northern nations were in ancient
times so docile and we'll broken that they
could be managed by the voice, without
rein or bit.
Harry Brownlee, of Adair county,
Iowa. has eaten tweuty-three big cucum-
Der pickles in four minutes. and there
fore claims to be the champion pickle
eater eff the State.
.Cathay was the name that Marco Pole
applied to China when he visited it in
the thirteenth century In the employ OF
the khan Of Tartary. Columbus expected
to find this land by sailing westward from
Spain.
An ordinary freight car holds ninety
barrels of flour; $40 bushels of wheat
200 sacks of flour; 430 bushels of pota.
toes: 5000 feet of lumber; and unless
you keep a sharp lookout, from II tc
half a dozen tramps.
There was a sort Of prison and place
of correction attached to the farms and
villas of the Romans, in which those Of
the slave family who were kept in fet
tiers were lodged and made to work il
| irons; whereas the rest, who were not
chained, were provided with separate
Recommendations another part of the es
tablishment.
A microscopic slide in the possession
OF the Manchester Philosophical and Lit
erary society, in England, contains thu
Lords prayer written within the 400,
OOOth part of an inch. The minute sFecE
can be found with powerful microscope
only with great difficulty, as the focu
point of the lens must be made to cove
the exact spot bearing the object. 1t wa
engraved by Mr.. Webb some years ag'
by the aid of an instrument now held b.
the society,
On May 12, 1850, a remarkable dark
ness overspreadN New England, varying IL
intensity at different places. In some sec
tons persons could not read common
printed matter in the open air. Birds be
came silent and went to rest: barnyart
fowls went to roost, and cattle sough
their accustomed evening resorts. House
were lighted with candles, and nearly al
out-of-door work was suspended. TIL
observation began at 10 o'clock in tn
morning and continued until night. Th
cause of the darkness has never been re
vealed. The air was unclouded.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-06-05
Glass Eyes.

Nearly all the CRITICAL eyes used in
this country are imported from Europe.
Attempts have been made to manufac-
ture them here, but the industry has
never fourished, The finest eyes are
made in Paris, and good ones come from
Germany and Switzerland. The eyes are
made of glass, and are in the shape OF a
hollow hemisphere. The pupil is formed
of colored glass, and its execution re-
ouires the greatest skill OF the part OF
the workman. The white of the eye is
initiated with wonderful accuracy. 1t is
of cream white, yellow1sh white, blue
| white, or any other shade so as to exactly
| match the white of the remaining real
eve. Before the final glazing is put on
small red veins are traced with a pencil
on the surface. There is a slight rldge
| along the edges which enables the muscles
| of the socket to take hold and move the
ball.
Dealers in artificial eyes, keep them il
separate boxes, which they call the blue
box, the black box, the brown box, ano
SO on. These boxes contain eyes OF al
sizes, from as large as a marble to ont
as large as a pigeons egg.
A dealer in artificial eyes said: "Wt
fit the eyes to the sockets by heating ane
softcning the ball, and then cutting j
with hot scissors to the proper size ane
shape. The hollow part fits over thu
stump of the eye. When this is neatl,
done the eye moves as readily as tn,
other eve, and it is difficult to tell which
one is glass. The great majority OF arti
fetal eyes are used by workmen, espe
cially those in iron foundries, wher
many eyes are put out by sparks. It
seldom that a woman has a glass eye.
artificial eyes are used not only t
improve the appearance, but also to pro
tect the stump from injury, which woul'
be apt to affect the other eye: An art
fciaIeye costs FIVE dollars, and lasts fror
one to FIVE years. It is acted upon by tn
salt of perspiration and of tears, which
dulls and roughens the surface. Fo
this reason it IS customary to take tn
eve out at night, which also giyes a res
to the socket. If the lachrymal duct ha
not been destroyed, q man can cry a
well with an artificial eye as with a goo
ono p-Ngr York Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-06-05

wool clean in muddy water wrest,;n.
t Wisn INC struggling sheep, and turning
.nen OUT on to dusty roads or an uncIean
yaIo 10 drain, is a waste of effort and a
rlsk TO health, as well as absurd and
worse Than useless. The wool is made
narsh and rough and if it is left on the
sheep TO recover its yolk and softness #
loses In b meanwhile its partial cleanli-
ness. 1t is then rated as unwashed and
us loss OF weight brings no ADVANTAGE
III gam In price. The usual reduction Of
ene-thlrd from the price of washed wool
LOT unWashed is less than the loss of
weight by washing, SO that the farmer
VINO invites colds, chills and rheumatism,
oy inc barbarous fashion of washing BIS
MOCK IN the brook or the mill pond actu-
any pays q considerable sum for his privi-
iege, while his neighbor who
saves himself from the disarreeabIe
anu dangerous exposure gets a substan-
tlai premium for his wisdom. The nu-
merous owners of sheep who are finishing
their hrst years experience in the bust
ness will do well to avoid this supposed
necessity and save both trouble and
money.
The yolk of woods is a natural pro
vision for keeping the fleece in good
condition and preventing its telling into
a compact mass upon the sleeps back.
1t IS a secretion from the follicles of the
skin in which the fbres are rooted, and
which are supplied with glands that
secrete the oily, soluble soap of which
the yolk consists. The yolk is a com
pound of oil and potash, which is in
fact q soap, soluble in cold water, aud
contains a large proportion of free and
uncomhined potash. The potash con-
tanned in the yolk is sufficient to give
valuable fertiiizing properties 10 the
water in which the wool is washed, and
IS economically separated from the
water by the French wool manufacturers
and sold to the farmers. For this reason
the old fashion of washing sheep is &
great waste, and it is better to tub-wasl
the wool and use the waste water as ,
liquid manure for grass or as an addition
to the manure heap.-New York Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-06-05
The Stomach.

The walls of the stomach are thin and
elastic, and may be temporarily dilated
by overmuch food, or by gas generated
by the decomposition of food. Affiliated
stomach. crowding against a heart enfee.
bled by fatty degeneration, or by any
other cause, may so far hinder the action
of the latter as to result in sudden
death.
But the stomach may become perma.
nenth2 dilated, and enormously so. In
the latter case, the two openings-the
entrance and the exit-may be so affected
as to make it difficult for it to eject food
into the intestines.
The muscular walls OF a dilated stom
ach are weakened. This causes the
food to remain too long in it-sometimeS
several days. The food thus retained
decomposes into a number OF irritating
acids and annoying gases. The wors
forms of dyspepsia result.
Such dilatation may be due to a dis
eased narrowing of the pylofus-th'
opening by which the food passes from
the stomach-or to its. obstruction b.
tumors of various kinds, thus hinderins
the passage of the food through it. Oh
the coats of the stomach may have be
come weakened by disease; or the nerves
of the stomach, on which its pc~ristalti'
action depends. may have lost their nor
NAL irrita5ility.
Habitual ~overeating also causes thi
dilatation. All persons are liable to
who overload their stomachs with eithe
food or liquids, especially with beer
| clearest evidence of dilatation is the ha
| bitual retention of food in the stomach
over night.
tbs dilataion is faequent in children
especially among those, fed artiicially
But it is not confined to them. Man,
mothers nurse their children at nigh
almyst continuously. Such infants hay,
good appetites-for their food does no
/ duly nourish them-but they are badl,
troubled with indigestion, collie, ant
diarrhea. Their abdomens are distended
The only relief is in more PROPER feed
ing. y
It is the same with adults, tt ough tn
muscular tone of the stomach may b
strengthened by tonics. The worst case
require the doctor .-Youth's Companion
The Opelousas courier., 1886-06-05

POPULAR SCIENCE.

A French geographer reports that all
the peaks of the Alps, extending over a
distance of more than $50 miles, are cas-
lily visible from the summit of the Dole,
which has an altitude of j, 500 feet.
In a cannon foundry /lt Bourges,
France, electricity has been successfully
applied to mechanical purposes for mole
than five years, two large movable
cranes, each weighing over twenty tons,
having been worked by electric motors
without difficulty.
The musical quality of the so-called
''singing sands" of California is thought
to be easily explained by the fact that
among their eoralline particles are also
small black particles, formed principally
of crystals of augite, nepheline, and
magnetic oxide of iron imbedded in a
CLASSY matrix. d.
A remarkable discovery, Illustrating
the value of photography in the study OF
solar physics, has been communicated to
the Paris academy of sciences by Mons.
Jansen. On June %, 1885, there APP
peare1 on the suns disc n of the larg-
est spots ever detected there, which
would hardly have been perceived, how
ever, if its occurrence had not been re-
corded by Photographic apparatus.
Says the Boston Journal. ut is an in
teresting fact to know that the present
style of stereoscope was devised by DR..
Oliver Wendell Holmes. The older appli-
ances were set in box. He conceived
the idea of an open stereoscope, ex-
planned it to Joseph L. Bates, the we'll
known merchant who has just passed
away. and the latter brought out the in
vention. Undoubtedly they did not pat
ent it, and thereby lost a fortune"
Foot-and-mouth disease has recently
formed tho subject of some important in
vestigations by DR.. Nosatti, the we'll
| known Italian scientist and veterinarian.
His researched have led him to the fol
lowing conclusions. Q) That epizootic
aphtha is not a disease susceptible OF de
veloping itself spontaneously. (2l 1t is
not an indigenous, but an exotic disease.
(3l It's nature is eminently contagious.
az It's v~irulent element is represented by
microbes, discovered first by Rivolta, (5)
The virus can be cultivated when placed
in appropriate media, and by reducing
its virulency by successive cultures II
nav become a safe and proper agent OF
4 incubation.
Perhaps no more striking illustration
of the wonderful reproductive powers OF
certain insects could be given thar thai
contained in new work by Mr.. Theodore
Wood, an English ~entomologist. 1t l
assumed first that 1000 ophides weigh
no more collectively than IA single grain
and, secondly, that only a very stout ma
can weigh as much as 1000, 900 grains
Then it is found, that if multiplication
were entirely unchecked, the tenth broot
alone of the descendants of a single ophl
would be equivalent in actual matter t.
more than 500. 600, 000.of very stout mel
-or one-third of the human population
Of the globe, %supposing each person t.
weigh $50 hounds.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-06-05
Discovery of Daguerreotyping.

J. A. B., writing from San Rafael,
says: An interesting fact in the history
of sun-printing which, in its beginning
was called daguerreotying, accidentally
came to my knowledge recently, which !
take the liberty to furnish for the Chron-
acs. My edition of Appleton's new cy-
clopadia says it is not known what led
Daguerre to discover the art called by his
name. Mr.. Louis, an intelligent French
gentleman, who has a shop in San Rafael,
gave me, in substance, the following ac-
count of the beginning of this wonderful
discovery and invention, to which the
world of science and art is so deeply in
debted to-day: cit was about the year
1874 year or two after the cholera
plagueII was an apprentice boy In the
f.st of the three silVersmith establish
ments in Paris. Mr.. Daguerre, the ar
fist, had been polishing a silver plate in
the fourth story of his house, where he
had skylights arranged to afford fuller
light for his purposes. One day, having
occasion to leave the room for a time, On
returning he found some one had dis
arranged the room and stolen his money.
Looking down upon the table where he
had left the polished plate, to
his surprise he discovered the image OF
his gardener, who came onc a weekto
arrange his grounds, whom he charged
with the theft, and recovered the money.
This accidental discovery led to expert
ments with the camera, which established
the art, and rendered Mr.. Daguerre {
wealthy man. / took him a polished
plate, sat for my picture, and obtained
nv likeness at a cost of about n dol
lar Such is the statement of Mr.. Louis
which / suppose is substantially correct
There seems, however, o discrepancy il
dates, Mr.. Louis putting the date Of dis
covery about the year 1884 whereas TIL;
cyclopadia places the establishment o
the art in 1889. And | remember som,
wears ago Mr.. Rulofson,. of Bradley 1
Rulofson, in San Francisco, told me tina
he Rulofson) worked in Boards gallery
London, in 1889, which was about tn
begianing of the art-chio (Gal
Chronicle.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-06-05
About Seed.

In either planting or sowing, the
quality of the seed is of more value than
many persons suppose. If the seed is
mixed with foul seed, and all seed not
specially cleaned is more or less SO, the
time spent in fully cleaning is time well
spent. Grain seeds should be first cleaned
over sleeves specially prepared for the
various species. If very extra seed is re-
quired, this may be gotten by casting
the seed across the barn floor. The
heaviest will fly furthest. Now, if you
always say your seed from this heavy,
perfect seed, sowing the next perfectly
cleaned grade for the general crop, it
will be-if you start with pure seed-but
a few years until you have that in most
respects up to a true pedigree variety.
IN relation to crops that require culti-
waiting, a short series of years will con-
vince any experimenter of the absolute
necessity of usingnone but the best seed.
Take the potato, as an instance. The
writer years ago increase the earliness
OF the Mercer potato a week by planting
liberal pieces of the seed end, with only
three eyes left, and got also smoothness
by selecting as seed only smooth, medium
shaped specimens. While the average
of the crops-and in scarce seasons, small
potatoes-were planted for the market
crops, the prime specimens were always
saved for planting for seed.
The true way to cause q variety to be
come weak and in time unfit for cultiva-
ton il to plant inferior seed As being
well attested, the following experiment
Of Major Alvord, OF Houghton farm
will serve as a case in point: "Wltf
eighty-two varieties of potatoes the av-
erage weight per hill from the Whol
fuber-medium sized-as seed was
thirty-six ounces that from the usua
cutting-about three eyes-twenty-fou'
and a half ounces; that from one eye,
twenty ounces!"
Although particular seasons nay mod
ifv.this, vet it is a well known fact that
except that on rich, specially prepared
soil, where the young plant quickly get
hold. no good can be done by planting
small cuts of potatoes, and here again
is another lesson; the richer the sol
near the seed the better for the crops
South and West.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-06-05
Some Hints on Horse-Barns.

There IS a point to be observed in fit
ting a barn for the reception Of horses,
and that is the size of the stalls. The
narrow dimensions of the stall are a posi-
tive cruelty to the horse. Many stalls
are built too narrow to enable the horse
10 extend his limbs when lying down.
he is compelled, when in a recumbent
position, to double his limbs up under
him; his legs are thus kept in a cramped
position when he ought to be completely
at rest. IA narrow stall tends to make q
horse FESTIVE and uneasy, and frequently
induces him to kick violently against the
contracted sides Of this narrow prison,
and develops in him the Objectionable
practice of crib-biting. Imagine, for a
moment, our own misery, were we CON
fined in a narrow cell in which, when
standing, we could assume none but a
cramped position, debarrel from the
privilege Of extending our limbs, and
obliged to keep them doubled up. In
considering these questions of the com
fort of our live stock, while mere human
ity should certainly furnisha motive suf-
fcient, it is well to remember that the
comfort and weli-being of stock means
TO them health and prolonged life, and,
consequently, pecuniary benefit to our
selves. Still another cause of great
needless suffering is occasioned to the
horse by keeping him tied up by the head
lin order to enable a horse to sleep com
fortably, he should be able to lie down az
full length, limbs extended, and his head
resting on the floor. This he is often I'M
able to do, owing to the short halter
strap, which will not allow him to rest
the lower portion Of the head on the
Hoor, andfhe extraordinary discomfort
Of the position in which the poor beast il
thereby compelled to seek his natura
rest, can be better imagined than dc
scribed.-Noti0adl Lire Stock Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-06-05
FertiIization 81 Strawberries.

Among other matters of interest re-
ported upon by the American Pofaolog-
ical Society are the papers and discussions
on ssThe Influence of Pollen on the
Form. Size, Color aud Flavor of Straw
berries, n elected at the last session Of the
society.
The subject was introduced by Prof.
Lozemby. OF Ohio, who reported the re-
suits of two seasons experiments ~
crossing. The first year there was q
marked effect produced By the foreign
pollen in every instance. The Chas.
Downing pollen communicated its shape,
texture and other qualities and the same
with Sharpless and Wick. The next
season there occurred no very marked
resemblance between the berry and the
variety which furnished the pollen.
Mr.. Crawford, Ohio, who has had ex-
cellent facilities for making observations,
said that he had Yet II find any good
evidence that the influence OF pollen ex-
tends beyond the seed. 81. j.. Bafrlll,
Illinois, stated that he hal been unable
To detect any difference il the fruit OF
pi~stillate strawberries, on account OF he
kind OF pollen used for fertilization.
ii. s.. Fuller, New Jersey, claimed that
repeated Investigations only confirmed
his convictions i'll regard To the influence
Of the pollen reaching 50 far beyond the
seed as to effect the fruit sufficiently in
many instances to change size, form,
color and even the favor. T- Wilde,
Michigan, told how he had tested the
crossing Of strawberries for three years
with variable results. The influence Of
The Opelousas courier., 1886-06-05
A Hungarian Amazon.

The Widdin correspondent of the St.
Petersburg Noeosti sends to that news
paper the following account OF a young
bulgarian girl who took an active part in
the late war against Servia, distinguished
herself at slivnitza and at Prot, and
received two crosses for bravery. Pre-
yious to the outbreak of hostilities she
Joined a company of militia-such COM
panies were then forming in various parts
If Bulgaria-and accompanied it to the
southern frontier with the hope of their
meeting with the enemy. During some
time she managed to conceal her sex, for
her comrades took her to be o youth with
an effeminate face, OF which there were
many such to be met with among tn,
militia. Only the commander of her
company knew her secret; she was
obliged to- disclose il to him when the
company ses sSs ssTssa lbs march, and
he appears to have Loyalty kept it to him
self. In all exercises, parades n re-
views she took part jointly with her male
comrades. AL last, when Servia declared
war against Bulgaria, the heroine took
uart in the forced march to Servla, fought
at the battle of Slivnitza and joined II
he attack upon Prot. During the fight
she did all she could to encourage hel
comrades and they, in RETURN unanl.
mously voted to her the ceInpany's media
for bravery. When, in consequence q
the war coming to an end, the militis
was dispersed, she went to Sophia, and
was there presented to Prince Alexander
who awarded to her a second decoration
for bravery. She then returned e
| Widdin, her place Of domicile before ia
war. where she acts as servant to an Ole
LADY. She says that should the saryIan'
beain another war she will aggain fighl
against them, but In her Wonlan's attire
for N IL NOT Worth while TO change one
! dress for such an enemy.
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