The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

-Iwenty-three per CEN o. Inc
white girls Of Alabama who are fifteen
wears old and under twenty-one, can't
write their names.
-''For every five girls you put into
business Offices" says q New Yorker,
''you will make three old maids.
They will be appreciated for their
work, just as boys are, but they will
lose the influence of their sex over
men,
Fort Keogh, Mont, has the widest
range of temperature Of any place on
earth. Last summer the thermometer
ranged from 1870 degrees to 100 degrees
above, while in winter it marked IS de-
grees below zero-a total range of 49,
degrees.
To be quite English a man must
wear the single eye-glass, not the old
fashioned glass disk glued in the eye,
but a glass encircled with a gold rim
and provided with a spring which,
fixed into the eyebrow, keeps the
wearer awake.
One of the simplest forms OF shoes
is that worn in Singapore and India.
1t is merely a wooden sole, with
raised heel and toe and a peg or post
in front. The shoe is adjusted with
this peg between the big toe and its
neighbor, and the shoe is held on by
a muscular effort Of the toes.
A waggish foreman, on being
asked by a friend who was going tc
Oklahoma as t. the outfit required,
was thus advised: Take money
enough to take you there, one pistol,
some whisky, another pistc'1 some
more whisky, a long box, money
enough to bring you back in the box
The usual medical complain
against ice water is heard at the be
ginning of the warm season, but mos
people prefer living comfortably for {
less average duration of life than liv'
ing without the use of ice a longer
period. !. is curious to notice the ex'
tent to which ice water has beer
adopted abroad,
-T%hirty-ive housekeepers waiting
in one small intelligence Office in Bos
ton the other day showed that the
domestic difficulty is still unsettled.
One lady confessed that she had spent
each day for nearly two weeks in the
same occupation of hunting for a
girl" and that she was apparently as
far from her object as ever.
Garden and Forest quotes this
simple method of testing the quality
of a pear: Write a name with pen and
ink upon the dry skin of the fruit. Il
the ink is quickly absorbed, leaving
clear, sharp lines, the quality of the
fruit is good; if the skin does not alb
sorb the ink quickly and the lines are
blotted, the quality is inferior.
Captain Rigio, who recently died
at Grand Isle. La, is said to be the
last survivor of Laftte's famous ban6
of pirates. He was the oldest inhabit
ant of the island, having lived there
from the time the band was dispersed.
In his early days he participated il
most of Laftte's raids, but when the
band was broken up he took to cultivat
ing oranges and other fruits, and made
a snug little fortune.
M. Pietremont has recently read 6
paper before the Anthropological So
ciety of Paris on the origin and ekolu'
ton of the pointer dog. in which he
states that fourteen species of house
and hunting dogs are to be recognized
on the monuments of Egypt, Assyris
and Nineveh. But neither on these
monuments, nor in the works of Greek
or Roman writer's, which he has ex'
haustively searched, r there any in
dications that pointers and settle ) e =.
listed as sporting dogs before now.
in the estimation of the Pitts.
burgh Chronicle, the beauty of women
depends on their early lives. 1
poorly fed in infancy the tension O
the nerves is rendered Uneven. the
nerve centers lose tone and wen the
brain becomes anamic. This results
in uneven or imperfect development,
One side of the face may be different
from the other; there may be toolnuch
fat or not enough; the eyes may be
weak or one stronger than the other.
In such cases the teeth almost in
variably suffer.
The real Shetland pony is only
thirty, Or at most forty, inches high.
Those commonly seen ia tL1 country
are from the north or1reland. beile
bred with the horses there, and are
larger than the real Shetland, for the
genuine pony is difficult to a The
country of which he is a native is bare
and the farmer is sharp, and when the
little creatures survive the rigors o
the climate and the effect of having
but little to eat, the farmer values hin
so highly he only sells hinAfat a high
price. 1t costs a great deal to shiE
them. and they die IN the voyage, al
of which goes to account for there be
ing SO few of them among us.