The Opelousas courier., 1890-02-08
SELECT SIFTINGs.

There are 20, 900, 600 horses III nussia'
A million cigarettes are smoked n
London every day.
tt would take a train 1925 miles long
to carry the Kansas corn crop.
The Missouri runs 1000 miles through
Dakota and is navigable the entire dis
lance.
A nickel-in-the-slot machine is being
devised to take instantaneous photo
graphs.
About two tons of frogs legs have
been shipped from the Bay District TO
New York city during four months.
Under the laws of China, the adult
who loses his temper in a discussion is
sent to jail for five days to cool down.
Alizard that is supposed to have lived
in her stomach twelve years was expec-
torated by Mrs. Bertram, Of Reading
Penn.
European railroads are fenced in, have
no grade crossings, the engines have
neither bell nor headlight and the en-
| gineer must stand.
A German who intended embarklng at
| Liverpool for America missed the steamer
| and swan out after it. He came near
| being drowned, but was rescued.
The modern wal ships seem to be much
freer from strokes of lightning than the
| old wooden vessels, the modern precau-
lions being so much more effective.
] A Byron Mich woman wanted to put
$3.50 where burglars wouldn't find it, so
| she put it into the stove. Not even the
ashes remained to tell the sad story.
A machine that cuts matchsticks makes
10. 900, 900 a day. They are arranged
over a vat, and have the heads put on at
the rate of 5000, 900 per day by one
man.
Prince Leon Galitzen, who was one OF
the Judges of the wine exhibits at the
Paris Exhibition, was compelled to taste
80, 900 varieties of wine within three
months.
Mrs. Nancy Frost, who resides near
Marietta, Ohio, is 105 years old and has
lived in Ohio since the first settlement
was established at the mouth of the
Muskingum.
It is said that the late Mr.. Phinizy, of
Athens, Ca, left in his will a clause that
gave 500 to every Methodist minister
who oficiated in his funeral services.
There were thirteen present.
"Avoirdupois suppers," at which each
person is weighed and charged for theis
meals at the rate of twenty-five cents PEI
100 pounds of their weight, are the latest
in the country towns of Pennsylvania.
The entire family of Thomas Stevens,
of F~armingdale, Me-, are crazy on the
subject of monkeys. There are none Of
the simian animals about the house, yet
the stevenses profess to see them every
where.
The champion fishing story is from
Chippewa County, Wis. A resident O.
Weyerhauser claims to have caught $500
brook trout in four days. In addition
he killed two bears, four deer and TWEEN
ty-nine cartridges.
At Augusta, Me-, some boys playing
In a sandbank unearthed a huge skull o.
some extinct animal. The skull is repre-
sented as being four feet long and thu
huge jaws carry teeth six and sever
inches long which are decidedly ugl!
e:4ookinA
am (Conn.) man succeeded tn
other in eating two and a hal
squash twelve and a half minutes
winning a Pre-. The pies were an incl
and a half THO Six men entered tn
contest and twysue tors were at hand il
case their services WI laeeded.
A sturgeon fourteen long wa
caught in the sacramento~ ar. nea
Chico. Instead of killing it sher
man fastened a rope to the bodyGfes
turned it loose in the river to get fas
They feed it on the entrails of salmon
and the captive likes the treatment.
Great Britain mined almost 10, 00O, 00t
more tons of coal, iron and other mineral
last year than in 1887, and employed 10,
900 more men in the work, but fewe
lives were lost in the process. The toto
number of fatal accidents was 1886, and o
deaths occasioned thereby $50, being 81
increase of four in the accidents, bat
decrease of ninety-one in the lives lost.
The most pathetic story of the seasol
thus far is that of poor old hen in Mich
igan that has been trying for seven week
with all the energy Of despair to hatcl
out something from a lump of dried put
ty, three black walnuts and a glass mar
BILE. She is worn to a shadow, but be
spirit is u~nconquerable, and she seem
determined to sit it out on that line If
takes all winter.
For ffty-five years Christian Fegley
of Shamokin, has worked in the Coz
mines Of Pennsylvania. He is the oldes
miner in the State, but he does not loo
it. Although silver locks adorn hi
head, his eyes are keen, his carriage eret
and his arms are brawny. The averae
life of a coal miner is forty-fve years, y.
this man is as hale and hearty as many
miner of forty. He wa born in 1885,
and entered the mines at the age
twelve.