St. Landry democrat., 1888-06-23
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A young lady in New York had on
clothes and jewels at her marriage
valued at S75, 900.
"A Tuscola County, Mich, man has
during the past eleven years been
tapped 1874 times for dropsy and $500
pounds of water taken from his body
An East Wareham fisherman re-
Gently caught at the Agawam river
weir, between sunrise and sunset, with
dip net, $4,000 herrings, or 220 bar
sells, worth S4.O0 a barrel in the Bos-
ton market as bait for deep sea fishing.
Two ragged Italian children, who
were arrested at Chicago while gather
ing cigar stumps on the streets, ex-
planned that they sold the discarded
weeds to fellow-countryman for tif-
teen cents ponnd, and that they were
"made into cigarettes.
American enterprise is felt at
Hernosand, Sweden, which has just
been provided with the most northern
electric light station in the world.
The lamps there at extreme times are
lighted at 2:30 o'clock in the after
noon and put out at 1915 o'clock at
night. Electrical Review.
"A brother Of one of the lady teach
ers who perished during blizzard in
Dakota recently visited that section
for the purpose of removing the re-
mains to the old home in the East. In
settling up with the school directors
where she had been teaching they
made him discount her bill twelve per
cent. because she had not finished the
| term.
The scope of the messenger boys
work appears to be broadening very
materially. In New York, the other
day, one of them was called upon to
escort an intoxicated man from
saloon in Forty-second street to his
home, in Harlem. He appears to have
performed his duty faithfully-not-
withstanding its unpleasant nature
even putting his'helpless charge to bed.
Queen Victoria has now reigned
over England longer than any mon
arch but two-Henry iii. and George
Ill She overlook Queen Elizabeth
six years ago and has outdone Edward
Ill, who only reigned one hundred
and forty-eight days over half a CEN
tury. IT she lives few years longer
Victoria will have reigned longer than
any royal parsonage of history.-Phila-
delphta Times.
Some one has got up an alphabet
of precious stones as follows: Ame-
thyst, beryl, chryso-beril, diamond,
emerald, feldspar, garnet, hyacinth,
idiocrase, kyanite (more commonly
cyanite, a blue mineraD, lynx-sap-
phire, milk-opal, natrolite, opal, py-
rope, quartz, ruby, sapphire, topaz,
uranite, vesuvianite Ga species of gar
metz, water-sapphire, xanthite, zircon
/ Ga Cingalese stone).
The Boston Transcript tells of two
shoemakers who formerly did business
in Boston. One of them placed this
sign over the door: ''P. Flaherty,
Bootmaker, from Paris" His rival
ssw that this was strong card, and
determined to play one equally strong
if not stronger. So he had sign put
over his door which reads as follows:
-. Mahoney, Bootmaker. Never in
Paris, But as Good
I'm November, 1887, a woman, aged
seventy years, resident of Leeds,
England, was charged with the larceny
of shoemaker's last, valued at four
pence. The Judge, in passing SEN
tence, said that offense was a serious
one. inasmuch as it might deprive o
patron of the cobbler of his shoes
when he most needed them. The de-
fendant was then sentenced to nine
months imprisonment and fined two
pounds. Her only daughter was
buried the day she went to prison.
"A Florida newspaper says that the
killing off of alligators is having
marked effect on the supply of water
in the cattle country. When alliga-
tors took possession of Il water hole
they always kept the mud pushed up
on the banks, and even when hundreds
of cattle went to the pool, and by
crowding and pushing filled it with
mud, the alligators soon repaired the
damage by digging and pushing back
the mud. Now the cattle stand around
these holes, which are filled with mud
and almost entirely dried up. and
wait for rain; the only water they get
meantime being from the dew-coyered
grass which they eat at night
AN interesting investigation as to
the comparative length of the index or
first finger and the ring finger (the one
next the little finger) has been going
on for many years. 1t seems that ac-
cording to ancient Greek art, an index
finger trife longer than the ring
finger is a characteristic of the higher
forms of human beauty. In the Apollo
Belvidere there is said to be no ap-
preciable difference in the length of
the two fingers. Among Gorillas,
Orang Outangs, Bushmen and cognate
creatures, the ring finger is the longer,
although they do not wear rings.
Among Europeans and Americans there
is no uniformity in the matter, many
having the ring fingers the longer.