St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-12-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


was uncovered by a recent cloud burst
-'Ireland' means the westland II
comes from the Celtic word lar anG
our word "land,' lar meaning the
west.
-''Peals of giggles and ripples OF
smokers are said to have been evoked
by a comedy recently played in Con.
1t is reported that there is skipper
who has been so often across the At
iantic that he knows every wave by
sight.-N Y. Telegram.
,-Philadelphia papers estimate from
the assessors list of voters, numbering
Sz9'o92, and accept the basis of four
voters to every seventeen inhabitants
as by the last census, that their city
mas now population of 973,641.
"A six-year-old girl in Florida
cropped her kitten down well over
nifty feet deep, and at her earnest en-
sreaty her father lowered her down bv
the we'll rope. She got the kitten out
all right and was pulled up again
damp, but happy.
The strength of hand and wrist
necessary to the professional presto
nlgitator was illustrated by Hermann
the other day. He took new pack of
ordinary llnen-back cards and broke it
IN Two, then broke one of the halves
ihto quarters Chicago Inter Ocean.
Some American sent the Gar Of
Russia glass paper-weight with a
turtle n 1t, but the young man didn't
propose to have his head blown off in
that way. He ordered it soaked in
tub of water for three weeks before it
was pronounced safe for use.-Detrol
Free Press.
Three ladies and young girl, the
latter but eleven years of age, went
into Aenia CO., store to get weighed
and their combined weight was 746
pounds. One lady weighed III pounds,
one 800, and the third POI, while the
11-year-old girl weighed 1O5.-Czeve-
land Leader
"A whole army of bats invaded the
building of the Smithville (Ga.) Neacs
one night recently, and after putting
out the lights by the tapping of their
wings dashed headlong at the printers
and made things lively for them for the
space of an hour or so. 1t was not
AhSi1 aAtCI llkClI lCduSI W DIS Sldlu llaL
they beat retreat and answered to roll |
call in the woods hard by.
-Allis Brown, a colored man of
Nashville, Tenn, succeeded in steal |
ing enough furniture to fit up house,
to which he took his newly-made bride.
The stolen articles, which were after
ward found in his house by detectives,
consisted of every known household
continuance. Among them were a
handsome set of silverware, four COOL
clocks, several carpets and chairs, ele-
giant sets of bedroom and parlor furni-
ture, and Blble.-L0uiSUille Courier
Journal.
The other day Engineer Merritt,
on an east-bound D., L. & W. train
from Binghampton, saw buck on the
track ahead of him. On one side was
a steep mountain, on the other thirty
foot embankment. Turner pulled the
throttle wide open and made after the
buck at full speed. The chase was
short The locomotive gradually closed
on the frightened deer, and at length ,
canght it, and, as it happened, held it {
entangled on the cowcatcher, where
The fireman killed it.-N. Y. Sun.
1t was Sir Walter Raleigh who
gained the favor of his gracious Queen
oy spreading his cloak upon a mud J
spot SO that Elizabeth could save her
boots a-wetting. 1t was lesser youth ,
who opened pew door for an old {
ady, and afterward got 800, 600 for {
lis trouble. And now it is Richard !
an English carpenter, who {
100 met roooiroJ q9E 600 =, | :
md FL, $50 in money by the will of
tranger. 1t appears that he once
'ulled this stranger out of the River
we, but Mr.. Lighttower had forgot.
en- the incident.
Mrs. Eleanor Moore died in
georgetown, Maine, few day ago,
aving lived five days more than one
undred years. On her birthday,
ctober 4, she said to her son: ITO
ay I'm one hundred years old. Can
be possible? 1t seems like dream"
he day before her death she repeated
'veral passages of Scripture, and her
st words, an hour before she died,
ere: "God bless you all. Good-by,
srlings. I'm going home" Three
lildren. fifteen grandchildren, twen-
eight great-grandchildren and one
'eat-great-grandchild survive her. '
the visitors at Gettysburg, :
a., recently, was Stephen Walker, a
ght clerk of the Office of the Pitts =
lrgh Post. 1t was his first day off
lty for over twenty-five years. Dur
g all that time his holidays have been .
e days on which there was no work
be done on the paper. In the former o
ays of journalism it was the custom 81
1T to issue any paper on the day fol- Z
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