The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-25
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Ttalv has 4,SO0, 900 trees, which pro-
duce $50, 900, 900 lemons per annum.
A Pendleton (Ore.) man recently drank
a gallon of mineral water at one S1''inS
on a wager.
A Mexican giant, seven feet six inches
in height, is employed as special o1ncer
in the Scranton penn Arcade.
Mexico affords an opening for an ambi-
tious young ~philologist, Forty-el9h'
distinct languages and dialects are spoken
there.
John Binkley, of Reading, Penn,
carries his helpless mother, Weighing 5oo
pounds, around the house as If she were
a baby.
Erie. Penn, boasts a thirteen-year-old
how. name of Dewitt, who h peeh
making electrical instruments for the last
two years"
feminine resident of Caribou, Me,
harvested forty acres of grain this season
without any help from the masculine sex,
| She used a machine reaper.
An Australian Legislature has passed
a law taxing all married couples ll7ln3
{ with their mothers-in-laws; 500 II reSlo-
inc with the husbands mother-ln-iaW,
and S12O if with the wlfe's.
l.. C. Beecher, of Woodbridge, Conn,
| planted a hill of pumpkins last spring
From that hill he gathered seventeen
pumpkins ~aggregating 686 pounds. lie
sold them all at one cent a pound.
The greatest beer drinkers are those
of Munich. They drink 492 lltres per
head per wear, against Nienna's 29b
London's 254, Berlin's $40 and Fafls S
%. This cost the Munich inhabitants on
an average of $50 a head annually.
A Watsontown PENN man saw adver-
tised: "a Sue Cure for Drunkenness.
He forwarded the necessary dollar, and
received by return mail, written on a
valuable postal card in beautiful violet
ink, the magic words: Don't Drink.
Samuel Moss, of Essex, Mass, has been
hungry all the time for thirteen years,
He drinks three quarts of water per Gay
and eats hearty meals every hour. tn:
age is s~ixty-one years and his weight
135 pounds. els case is a puzzle to the
physicians.
On fremont street, Boston, there IS a
novel sewing machine standing IN the
window. 1t is run by some unseen
power, but is almost human in its move
ments. It plies the needle till it i time
to stop, when it slowly sinks, the dfaiIS
down. the doors shut and its Eork is
temporarily suspended.
At Cincinnati a horse hacked over the
bank of the Ohio. River and fell down a
declivity of 100 feet, dragging his cart
and driver with him. The driver die
not get into the water, but the horse
plunged into the river and swan across
to Covington, KY, detaching the vehicle
from him in midstream.
While fishing near Slaughter Beach,
Del, q party of young men caught
veritable sea devil. 1t was nearly fvt
feetin length, two feet SIX inchesin width
and had an immense head. Large fin.
grew from each side, while on its heaf
grew a long, slender fin. The latte
~appendage was used as a bait to entlc'
smaller fish when it buried itself in tn
mud.
The idea of building a great toweI
was suggested to NJ. Eiffel while build
ing the Garabil Bridge in southern
France. The bridge is the Hottest briddGS
in the world, its central part being 55'
feet above the water below. The tw'
piers which support this lofty centra
span are miniature Eiffel towers, the pial
and construction being exactly the same
M. Eifel is one of the greatest brldg
| builders in Europe.