The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-11
SELECT SIFTINGs.

One Colorado wheat field employs 800
hands.
Gold is melted at a temperature of
about 1900 degrees.
Mahogany and ebony are used for rail
road ties in Mexico.
A petrified alligator was recently found
on the beach at Cutler, Me.
An Ohio youth of sixteen has developed
a long and luxuriant mustache.
Freemasons in the United States num-
Der $50 900; in the world about three
million.
Educational gifts on the average amount
to about SIS, 900, 900 per annum in this
country.
A Chinaman arrested for fighting regis
tered as Cabbage Cow at a San Francisco
police station.
The colony at Victoria, Australia, with
LOO, 900 inhabitants, is said to muster
$50 religious ~sects."
A lady who fell asleep on an Allentown
PENN street car was carried around the
line three times before awaklng.
A ffty-year-old grapevine grows in
Germantown, Penn, on a trunk which
measures two feet and a half round.
A huge wrist pin in the shape of a
horseshoe has recently been cast in Penn
s~ylvania which weighed $500 pounds.
At the mayoralty of ~Berthecourt,
France, babies are now baptized IN the
name of the republic, and SO duly regis
tered.
The flag with forty-two stars will not
be legal until July 4, 1890. The new
States will not be admitted until next
winter.
A man who is in the Birmingham (Ala. J
Jail charged with murder weighed only
eighty pounds when arrested. His weight
is now $50.
The force which a California pumpkin
exerts while growing is equal to the
strength of a large horse attached to a
stick of timber.
The grade of the cogged-track railway
which is being built at Pixies Peak, Col.
will be twenty-five feet to the one hun
| dred, OF 1920 feet to the mile.
A lion in the Philadelphia Zoo, suffer
ing from the toothache, his keeper adj
ministered laughing gas, put the beast
to sleep and safely extracted the offend
ing molar.
An Ohio father sent a note to the
| county Judge forbidding him to issue a
marriage license to his daughter. 1t had
10 effect, for the ''girl" went there her
self and swore she was thirty-ive years
of age.
There is a large body of English Mus
sulmans at Cape Town, South Africa. the
descendants Of Malay anne Theil
language is English, but they are pro
vided with mollahs and Arabic teachers
from Constantinople.
The Ceylon papers the death
of an elephant named Sella, which, has
served the public works department for
over sixty-fve years, and had worked in
| various parts of the island under differ
J emit circumstances for an unknown period.
One of the notable men in Pulaski
County, Va, is William Craig. He is
eighty-fve years old and the father OF
twenty-one children, the youngest being
twenty-nine years of age and the oldest
sixty-fve. His wife is eighty-four. He
works on his form every day and says he
feels as young as when only forty,
|, The following inscription may be seer
upon a brass in a c%hurchyard at Hedon,
a village in Yorkshire, England: "Here
lyeth the body of William Stratton, OF
Padrington, Buried the 18th of May
1884, aged 81. Who had, by his first
wife, % children, and by a second, II;
own father to 45, grandfather to Sc,
great-grandfather to 81, and great-great-
grandfather to %, in all 251."
A curiosity in the shape of a milk
pumkin can be seen on a farm few miles
southwest of Anderson, Ind. The vine
upon which the pumpkin grew was partly
covered with loose dirt when in bloom
At the points where the dirt covered tn,
! vine small roots grew out. The vine wa:
lifted up and the roots carefully PLACED
in a pan of milk, which was rapidly alb
sorbed. The pumpkins on the vine grew
to enormous size, and one weighs 12s
pounds.