St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-05-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST

~ nele ale salo TO be several gypsie
IN New York that are worth over on,
hundred thousand dollars apiece.
"A priest in the State of New Yorl
claims to have cured a case If oonn;na
undoubted hydrophobia by putting the
patient into vapor bath of very hiof
temperature until he was comnlctel1
Sweated out.
"A rose-colored report from Pan.
anna says that "work on the canal ooas
on fast, and now that the lock system
has been definitely adopted the belief
is strengthened that ships will pass
through on the day fixed by Count de
Lesseps.'' Wv
1t is reported thatit has been found
Improbable to ship from the East to
the West all the printed material used
by the Postal Department. when the
paper can be bought and the PRINTING
done in St. Louis and Chicago quite as
Well So branches of the Government
Printing Office are to be established in
| these cities.
"A little Buffalo girl was not feeling
WELL and her parents suggested that
she might be about to have chicken
pox, then prevalent. She went to bed
laughing at the idea, but early next
morning went into her parents room,
looking very serious, and said: Eyes.
it is chicken-pox. papa. l found a
fodder in the bed
Prominent ladies in WASHINGTON
society have decided to present to the
City of Paris statue of General
Washington, in acknowledgment of
that given by France to New York in
1876. 1t will be the work of an, emf
nent American sculptor, and cast in
this country, that it may in every sense
be purely American gift.
An interesting legal question is
likely to arise over the finding of a lar
containing $4,000 at Holman station.
Ind, by Smith Stewart on a farm which
he had rented. The landlord claims
the money on the ground that it had
been buried by his sister, now deceased.
The collection includes some coins
o'S' WV uul40tSu years Olu. |
An English family has a custom of
feeding wild birds regularly after break
fast. Opening the dining-room win
dow, they ring a bell, and immediately
all kinds of birds, and sometimes even
squirrels, come to the feeding place.
A curious result of the custom is that
numerous applicants are seen each
morning waiting the sound of the bell
Ike SO many patients at hospital.
In Germany the average duration
u the life OF gardeners, mariners, and
lshermen is tifty-eight years; butchers,
ltty-four years; carpenters and brick ,
ayers, forty-nine years; shoemakers j.,
nd tailors, forty-four years; compost.
rs and photographers, forty-one years, =
nd laborers, thirty-two years. Of the 6
Professions the average lifetime of cler
ymen is sixty-seven years; teachers, =
fty-seven years; lawyers, fifty-four =
ears, and physicians, forty-nine years. y
"A Methodist brother, a licensed :
xhorter on Martha's Vineyard, was h
'acher of an adult class in Sunday Il
;hool. The lesson was on the cruci- :,
xion. Owe read here" said the ~
acher, ''of two male-factors. I have !
udled the Bible quite carefully, but q,
I've found no mention of female h
ctors. Will each of you during this a,
eek search as thoroughly as you have i,
ne, to see if there be any reference ri;
female-factors in any part of the ~
-,
Two Maryland inventors have dis to
vered and perfected a substitute for ii,
e pendulum in timepieces. 1t con- ii,
It's OF hydraulic escapement, itself tif
piston or plunger that is propelled oc
ward and downward once in twenty in
II hours through a cylinder filled w,
tn mercury. There is no noise ex- 10,
)t when the clock strikes The in co
1tion supplants the discovery of Cali pa
i, and, it is claimed, will eventually As
'olutionize the clock manufacture, VIZ
ough cheapness and perfection. the
The medicinal qualities of onions an
re lately been made subject of dis isti
sion by medical men. One writer Lo
S: During unhealthy seasons.
en- diphtheria and like contagious :
eases prevail, onions ought to be 'lo
en- in the spring of the year at least es'
e week. Onions are invigorating oc
prophylactic beyond description. I'm
Their, | challenge the medical fra car
lity, or any mother, to point out Il tina
'e where children have died from II.
ltheria OF scarlatina anginosa. etc., DAT
re onions were freely used.'' par
When Rosa Bonheur, who paints con
lale attire, appears in the streets of . u
IS, she is a large, elderly lady, rath- r'us
lainly dressed in black, her gray y W5
tucked under close bonnet; and W.
ss for the peculiar strength of her -
and her piercing, attentive eyes. fror
ould not be noticed that she diff Yor
from any other woman in the find
I'd, except that she wears the red mat
on of the Legion of Honor. She latte
lnally dressed as boy to attract seen
attention when she went to study cove
lals at the stables, cattle-yards and that
ageries, which were visited chiefly since