The Opelousas courier., 1889-03-09
or GENERAL INTEREST.

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gland, Germany, France, Italy, SPAIN
Australia, Asia, Africa, South Ameri-
ca and Mexico.
Fire Company No. 10, of Cincln-
natl owns a dog which is said to have
saved the lives of several fremen.
The animal is described as a large
handsome Newfoundland, and is cred
tied with being able to climb a ladder
three stories high.
An artist recently from Paris says
American painters can never hope to
sell their pictures to Frenchmen or to
the French Government, however
meritorious they may be, since 1t is
the business of the French to make
and sell art, and not to buy it.
There was an exciting battle at
Pierce, Iowa, the other day, between
an owl and a large shepherd dog, the
bird coming off victorious. Another
bout was then arranged between the
victor and a brindle bull pup, and
again the owl was the winner.
Ski running, Scandinavian sport,
is becoming popular in Minnesota
The performer slides down hill on long
wooden skates, or foot toboggans, and
at a prepared jolt makes a leap into
space. Ninety-five feet is the longest
ski-jump on record in Norway.
A Yankee has invented an appar-
atus for timing horses. A clock with
three hands-minute, second and quar-
ter hands started by the official
timer. When the winning horse
touches the wire the clock is stopped
by electricity. The same instant the
current opens q camera, which photo
graphs the horse and the clock face.
MILAN, Paris and London lead the
world in all that pertains to a
thoroughly artistic knowledge OF
dancing. The Royal Academy ''de la
dance at Paris, founded by Louis
XIV, and which is presided over at
sthe present time by M. de Soria, is the
mos5 finished school of dancing in the
world, and approached by none save
that of La Scala, in Milan.
Texas has its own idea of the mar
rage ceremony. A judge of Center
Vile recently performed a marriage
ceremony, which was in substance as
follows: "Do you and each OF you
solemnly swear that you are in earnest
about this business, and that you will
stand by each other as husband and
rife, through thick and thin, sink or
vim, live or die, survive Or perish?'
Both parties nodding their assent they
were pronounced man and wife.
Several of the big buildings of
| Philadelphia have recently had placed
in them scales with a hopper recep-
! tacle capable of holding several tons of
coal. They are situated under the
| sidewalk chutes, and the coal is
| dumped directly into the hopper from
the cart and then weighed. The en-
! gineer Of one of these buildings says
that thus assuring full weight in the
coal he buys, he v the value OF the
scale many times during the year.
-.Spike teams" are an instltutio~
peculiar to the South. The Georgia
team consists of a msle or a jenny ane
an OK. These are geared to an old
rickety wagon to haul guano and
w%atermelons in. The Florida team is
less complicated and more economical.
An OK is harnessed to a pair OF shafts
fitting to a yoke on the animals neck
and connected with a pair of wheels in
which a box is placed, a rope attached
to the creatures horn answering for
reins. The box generally contains q
man and a woman of a type that car
be found nowhere but in Dixie.
There is a dog in Orlando, Fla,
with a fine sense of humor, if this
story is true as told by the local news.
paper: His owner frequently gives
him a piece of coin to carry along te
market. A day or two ago he gave
him a dollar, and the dog was trottlng
along when he saw a colored mar ap'
preaching. He stopped a little distance
in front of the darkey, dropped the
dollar from his mouth to the sidewalk
and then walked to the edge of the
pavement. apparently as if he cared
nothing for the money. Mr.. Darkel
walked briskly up, and was in the &C
Of STOPPING to pick up the money
when the dog few at him as if to bite
quickly seized the money. and trottet
off with an air of NO. you DON'T" ant
overlook his owner.