The Opelousas courier., 1890-10-18
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Cincinnati Ohio, consumes 5000 frogs
daily.
Movable types were made IN she tenth
century.
The Prince of Wales often dozes on
horseback.
Block printing was invented by the
Chinese about 593.
A New York dentist recently pulled
eight of his own teeth.
The Atlantic cable authorities count a
word exceeding ten letters az tive words
Scarlet fever has been spread through
a library book, used by a hospital nurse
The town Of Southampton, Long
Island. celebrated it's S50th anniversary.
A London photographer has paid Ex-
plorer Stanley $4,000 to sit for his photo
graph.
In India, road-dust and linseed oil are
Used to paint woodwork exposed to the
weather.
Il hes been proved by algebra that two
and two make five, but it is a mathenat
ical fallacy.
An saed lady died suddenly in q hotel
in Alabama. ind in her hustle 5000 was
found concealed.
Philip Hensen, of Mississippi, is sig
feet six inches high, but his beard
reaches to ths ground.
A New York hotel clerk AYERS tfat for
nearly thirty years every third summer
has been intensely hot,
f1be Manufacture of soap is Eaid to have
begun in Londdr in 1924. 1t was made
in Bristol before that TIME
The Theatre of Bacchus, at athens,
Greece, built by Philos in 42O B. O., Is
said to have been the first erected.
The Korean alphabet is phonetic, and
40 simple that any one can learn TO reao
in a day. Nearly all the women OF Korea
can read.
The Khedive of Egypt has but one
wife. while Ismail, his father, has as
rtany 40 three hundred OF a time in his
different palaces.
The petroleum industry of western
Galacia; Austria, is older by ten years
! than in Pennsylvaria aud the oil-produc-
ing region of far greatersztent'
The word "Thane'' was a Saxon title
of nobility. which was abolished in Eng
land at the time of the conquest upon
the introducs ion of the feudal system.
A bundle of spider webs, not larger
than a buckshot, and weighing less than
a dram, would, if Strengthened oft and
untangled, reach a distance of $50 miles.
A wealthy scotchman, Alexander Nc
Bean, has purchased a tract OF 5o,ooo
acres Of land in Wyoming, on which ne
PROPOSES to establish d city named after
himself.
A monster crab was landed Ia a net
at San Diego, GAL, the Other day tna'
measured sixteen inches across the bodys
while the spread of the nippers was thlr-
ty-six inches.
A Frenchman who received the bastl-
nado in Japan and the kout In Russia
saws it is about an even thing which
hurts the most, but in both cases he was
laid up two months.
The historian tablet which the Chinese
Government has taken measures to pre-
serve has been known for more than 25e
years, and according to its W lnscrlp'
ticn was erected 1000 years ago.
Queen Victoria's favorite cook is q
Mussdlmau rejoicing in the style and
title of Sheik AbdulIa Mustapha. He re-
Gently went to India for his health, and
the Queen was delighted at his return.
Chamois in the Swiss Alps need pro-
lection from indiscriminate sportsmen
lest their a should disappear. The
Federal Council has been petitioned to
restrict chamois hunting, especially be-
tween the Jungfrau and the Wildhorn.
In Russia, when collins are covered
with cloth, the color of the covering is
to a certain extent, distinctive, pink be
ing used when the deceased IS a child OF
a Young person, crimson for women, ant
brown for widows; but black is in nj
case employed.