St. Landry democrat., 1889-08-17
MISCELLANEA

The successful farmer has to be sharp
as a raiser Merchant IrdDeter.
The old Clinton and Port Hudson rail-
road in East Feliciana parish, is being put
in good repair from Clinton to Ethel.
Judging from the number of cordial
recantions. given to the Shah of Persia, it
10 no wonder that he is reported to be
always full of good spirits. -BoIttnaore
Anaersc0R.
Heel wonder which of those two
Young ladies is his sister, She-"Why,
the brunette, of course. Didn't you notice
that she had TO put on her wrap herselfI
-SomerUilLe Journal.
The simplest way to fum1gate room is
to heat an iron shovel very hot and then
pour vinegar upon it, drop by drop. The
steam arising from this is disinfectant.
Doors or windows should be opened that
it may escape.
Fishermen on the New England coast
state that the mackerel amt schooling" in
those waters this year. All of which is
discouraging. Experience has demonstra
ted that nothing is so hard to bring up in
the way it should go as an unschooled
mackerel-Philade.p1si Press.
At Saltwater last week the 5-year odd
daughter of John Carl, of Oak park, fell
into a barrel of rain water and was
drowned There was only one foot of
water in the barrel, and it is believed the
girl had been reaching over the edge of
the barrel trying to dip out water with
tin cup, and fell In and was unable to give
an alarm or extricate herself.
w. s. Game, NJ. P, who has been
travelling in Japan, reports that the area of
that country is las, 900 square miles, with
q population of $4,000, 600. Yet there are
only 10000 paupers in all Japan, owing to
the fact that they drink tea there in the
place of beer, whisky, and other strong
liquors. Great Britain, on the contrary,
with 1872 900 square miles, has upwards of
million paupers. But in Great Britain
something stronger than beer is imbiDed.
If any one should give me dish of
sand and say there were particles of iron in
it, might look with my eyes for them,
and search for them with my clumsy fin
gers, and be unable to find them but let
me take a magnet and sweep it, and how
it would draw to itself the most invisible
particles by the mere power OF attraction
The unthankful heart, like my finger in
the sand, discovers no mercies /; but let the
thankful heart sweep through the day, and,
as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find
in every hour some heavenly blessings
only the iron in Gods sand is gold.-OAoea
Wendell Holiness
The weight and bulk of the gold and
silver coins now held by the United States
treasury forms the subject for inquiry by
q correspondent of mathematical turn of
mind, and he finds that the weight of the
gold is COL tons of 1000 pounds and the
silver 5000 tons. Packing it along the
highway as cordwood is packed, the gold
would make barricade feet high, feet
thick for distance of 335 feet, and the
silver, if similarly packed would extend
4248 feet, or fve-sixths of mile. Ii
packed In carts, ton to each cart, the
procession would be nearly 80 miles long,
of which distance the gold bearing carts
would cover 81 miles and the silver a
fraction over 301 miles.-Neao York TEL.
egrGm.
The following is an epitome of cores
pondence received by Messrs. Dan Tai,
IMAGES Sons FROM various parishes in and
respecting the louisiana rice crop: The
heavy rains which are falling daily,
together with the high river (MississippD,
are doing wonders for rice in general,
especially the late paintings. Those who
formerly estimated that thekEwop might
perhaps be 400,0 sacks (rough), now
concede that GOO, 900 or 100000 sacks are
more likely to be the outcome. With
each succeeding return the amount contin-
ues to grow, and among those who have
heretofore been classed as conservative,
the possibility of 100000 sacks is men
toned. If the present weather continues
the crop is likely to be the largest ever
produced within the borders of that State.
E. s. Wilson, blacksmith, of Ozark,
Mo-, has a relic of the Marshfield cyclone,
which occurred on Sunday, April Is, 1880,
that Is a very remarkable curiosity. This
witness of one of the freaks of the great
storm is black quart bottle, bent bS,some
mysterious force into an ellipse without a
crackes break in the glass that the
closest scrutiny can discover. The neck of
the bottle actually touches the edge of the
bottom, and the fact that the glass was not
broken in any way by the strange force of
the storm is shown by the test of its hold :
ing water or any other fluid. By gradually
turning the bottle as the water is poured
in, it can be nearly filled to it's full capac-
ity, so as to show the perfect soundness of
the material The bottle was found by
Mr.. Wilson the day after the Marshfeld
disaster, and examined by Prof. Tice, who
soon came to the scene of destruction to
study the phenomena of the cyclone from
q scientific standpoint. The famous me-
teorologist attributed the bending of the
bottle to the force of electricity. The bot.
tie was found in the wreck of one Of the
Marshfeld drug stores. Mr.. Wilson has
been offered extravagant prices for the
curiosity, but declines to part with the
relic st. Louis Globe Democrat.