St. Landry democrat., 1888-04-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST

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& revolver sold the other dav for ten
thousand dollars.
| European specialists have made
The curious observation that acute
| rheumatism is more prevalent in dry
than in rainy weather.
The ostrich farms at Los ANGELES.
Cal, have been quite as remuneratiye
as show for curious sight-seers as
from the sale of feathers.
The heirs famerchant of Monson,
Mass, received the other day thirty
cents sent by man in Pennsylvania.
who wrote that they were to pay for
four apples that he took from the mcr.
chants store when he lived there forty
years ago.
"A brace of famous dueling pistols,
exhibited in a bar-room in Sumter. s.
g., were owned by General Z. w.
Morse, and have been in use in dozen
OF more duels, including the famous
Cash-Shannon meeting, when Colone!
Shannon was killed.
A New York society woman had :;
ball dress made of white satin which
before making had been run through
the press OF one of the great dailies
so that her costume was the news o.
the day. She won the prize for the
most novel costume.
1t is an interesting fact in connec-
ton with the work of the American So
clety Tor the Prevention of Cruelty tc
Animals that the seals of the Societx
were designed and engraved by tho
late Frank Leslie, who was one of the !
earliest sympathizers with MI. Henry
Bergh in his humane undertaking.
"A gentleman of Baltimore proba.
bly, owes his life to parrot. The cries
OF the bird awakened him at three
o'clock in the morning. He discov-
cred that his house was on fire and
barely had time to arouse his family
and get them out before the building
was completely wrapped in flames.
"A French bachelor advertised for
wife. A typographical error changed
his age from thirty-seven to eighty
seven, but it made no difference, for he
received two hundred and fifty applica-
tons from ladies ranging from the age
OF sixteen to sixty, and all promising
love and devotion to the rest of his ex-
istence.
AT Jonesboro, Ga, a man entered
a store the other day and wanted to
pay for a suit of clothes which he had
purchased there twenty-eight years be-
fore. The merchant didn't remember
the man and had no account against
any person of his name, but the strang-
er insisted that he owed the bill and
paid it with interest
1t is related that one of the pages
Of the United States Supreme Court
once found under the chair of 4 men,
ber of the court noted for his absent ,
and who had gone on
rip out of town, slip of paper on
which was inscribed: ''Mem. Things
% take along: One pair of socks, one
shirt, two collars, one pair of cuffs, one
wife,
Twenty years ago Enoch Hall, OF
Morven, GA, picked up the seeds that
IN orange eater had dropped and
planted them in little box. A few
months afterward he moved to Indian
liver, and the little orange sprouts
we're carried along and set out. To-
lay one of the sprouts is tree fifteen
inches in diameter and bears $500
ranges.
Morning Light is the name of
cry young Indian who recently az
ived in New York. He first saw the
ight of day in midocean, having been
orn on the voyage across from France
n the steamer La Bourgogne. His
arents are full-blooded Spirit Lake
chippewa Indians. who were members
f the Buffalo Bill Company. AS he
Tas born under the French flag France
nay claim him as subject.
Our mail collectors find in the iron
oxes along the streets all sorts of pd-
ers and articles which have been put
I by some hand from whose motions
ne mind has become detached for
eeond. A glove, pair of spectacles,
deed, a mortgage, q theater ticket
oes in, and on goes the person, hold
,g on to the regular letter which
Mould have been deposited This is
allied Observation-Disclosures, but is brief
macy" Scientific american.
One of the most interesting Curl =,
stiles in the United States is piece {
mosaic from the floor of the temple
, Astarte, built by the Romans at
arthage, which is preserved in the
ational Museum at Washington. 1t
two thousand years old and repre-
,nts a yellow lion IN the act of killing
horse. Eyes, teeth, blood spots and
/ are depicted by bits Of stone. The
agment is about seven feet square,
I'D is valued at twenty-five thousand
ollars.
The cheese for excellence with
gh livers is Roquefort. 1t is French
Id made of goats milk and herbs. 1t
very rich, and is served just before
,ffee at dinner. Roquefort is almost
with French epicures, and Is
lually well thought of by little an
lal probably first cousin to the Amer