Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1889-06-22
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

TO the police to arrest Satan for hang
ing about his house at nights.
"A man in Warwick. Pa. has
shaved himself without a mirror for
more than six years and has only cut
himself once, if the local paper is to
be believed.
"A Buena Vista, Ca, hen lays eggs
which are covered with longitudinal
ridges and resemble muskmelons.
This story, as well as the eggs. is to
be taken with a little salt.
"A French scientist says ttat, al.
lowing fye4acres4for each -inhabitant,
Europe has room for 150. 600, 900 more
people, Africa for 1886, 600, 600, Asia
for !, ,402, 600. 600, Oceanica for 515. 000,-
600 and America for 1900, ,000, 900.
"A New York bootblack of an en-
terprising turn of mind sends out his
business cards with the inscription:
"Shoes shined by week or month at
your residence daily, or other job
work DONE Send for me by mail. !"
"A young man OF Americus had
his picture taken recently, also one OF
his pointer dog. Then he called on a
young lady, presented the pictures and
SaohSo AAOH w Gf1hO AACA CAOlSO. SiAS oS-
lected the picture Of the dog and re.
marked that she would look at it and
think of him.
"A coroner's jury in Cheshire, En-
gland. returned verdict of temporary
insanity in the case of d shoemaker
who had hanged himself. The poor
MAN had married u~ia~1~lssitas assiHteer
children, and, as the coroner observed,
they wanted no better proof that he
had lost his senses.
One Of the "prairie schooners'
which rolled into Oklahoma had this
Inscription painted in huge letters
upon its white canvas cover: ''Chinch.
Buged in Illinois, Cicloaned in Ne
braska, White capped in Indiana. Bald
knobbed in Missoury, Prohibited in
Kansas. Oklahomy Or bust. "
There are two idle superstitions
about cramps that come in the legs
and start a man out of his bed quicker
than any thing else. One is to stick
iackknife in the headboard of bed or
retiring for the night, and the other is
to arrange the slippers very carefully,
bottna n.l. at thesfoot OF the bed.
"A Maine farmer, vowing death tc
foxes, placed q carcass near his barn
and then connected it by wire under
the snow with bell in his bedroom.
A fox could not do vigorous work on
that piece of meat without ringing the
bell. whereat the schemer would wake
up and 60 forth to the slaughter. He
killed twenty-five foxes by that device
during the winter.
The Sandwich Island alphabet has
only II letters; the Burmese, 10; the
Hebrew, Syriac, Chaldee, Samaritan
and Latin, % each; the French, %:
the Greek, "a; the German and Dutch.
26 each; the Spanish and Slavonic, q
each; the Arabic has %; the Persian
and Coptic. 81; the Georgian. Sos the
armenian. So; the Russian, Al; the
Muscovite, 43; the Sanscrit and Japa-
nese, so; the Ethiopic and Tartaric,
POP.
-"The hottest day that ever ex-
perienced," said Paul Mercier. "was
during the summer of 1889. while
aboard ship at Key West, Fla. The
sun beamed down upon the deck of the
vessel, and seemed to be so close that
it would almost raise blisters. The
fires had gone out in the kitchen, and,
as was hungry, 1 procured several
fresh eggs. and put them on the decko(
The deck was covered with piIen'
which was boiling with the heasTom
the sun. In less than FIVE hnutes
my eggs were cooked hYa. This
story may seem Incredible but it is
| true"
1T is said that an Astonishing feat
ure of the legal pfactice in Camden
County, Georgia, Is the number OF
hogs s+ere,, a,,-i thh excuses given by
those accused of the theft. When
one of the colored inhabitants wants
to employ q lawyer to defend him the
conversation is generally something
like this "Boss, kin I speak wild you
privately Tinute?'' Certainly!
What can I do. for you2'' 'Well, boss,
dey got me up in de big court.
What is the nature of the charge
against you?' ''Dey got me 'scused
of sumtin' bout a hog, but it's all
through prejudice"
An amusing S tory comes from
Japan of native doctor who had so
far assimilated his practice to Euro
pean methods that an English resi-
dent being i'll, sent for him in the alb
sence of the only European doctor of
the district. The Englishman having
elaborately described his symptoms,
the Jap doctor in his turn made
long and very vague statement, from
which it was impossible to gather any