The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-09
SELECT SETTINGS.

SLACK lee cream ls a new fad.
A redskin has just been admitted to the
bar in South Carolina.
The caterpillar feeds with two saw
edged jaws, working transversely.
A fashionable hotel has been opened at
the foot Of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
Capital punishment has been abolished
in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
Each member of Congress gets about
Eve thousand envelopes full of seeds every
year.
II is said that 1000 rose trees are re-
quired to supply two ounces Of altar of
roses.
China is the only country in the world
where small fre-crackers are manufac-
tured.
The costliest metal regularly quoted in
commerce is gallium; price, $14o a
gramme.
A colored woman nearly a hundred
years old was baptized a day or two ago
at Atlanta, Ga.
Ihe largest cabbage ever grown IN
Florida weighed 364 pounds, A pounds
heavier than all competitors.
An Allegheny penny woman has
given birth to twins weighing together
only n and a quarter pounds.
Sugar was used as fuel by the steamer
Polynesian, of the Allan line, On a recent
trip, the supply of coal having run
short.
Goldfish follow the ice of IN iceberg
down until they reach the water under it,
which place affords them an excellent
feeding ground.
The Oldest ruins in the world are prob
ably the rock-cut temples of Ipsambut or
Abon Samboul, in Nubia, on the left
bank of the Nile. They are over 1000
years old.
The total length of the streets, ave-
nues, b~oulevards, bridges, quays and
thoroughfares of Paris is set down at SOC
miles, of which nearly 300 are planted
with trees.
A ranchman at Antelope, CAL, being
annoyed by the coughing of his cook,
hauled him from bed and thrust him
] head foremost into a barrel of water and
drowned him.
The wife Of Ignacio Martinez, a pool
1aboring Mexican who lives at Puente.
| Los Angeles County, CAL, gave birth q
few days ago to male triplets, whose tota
weight was twenty-three pounds.
"Big SIX q Binghamton (Ala.,
colored man, earned $5 by butting .
three-year-old bull to death. After tht
animal had been butted five times it fel
to the ground and in five minutes wa
dead.
The growth Of the nails on the lef
hand requires eight to ten days mol
than those on the right; the growth !
more rapid in children than in adults
and goes on faster in summer than in
winter.
Hugh Denton, Of Grant Parish, La,
recently killed a mammoth wild turkey
gobbler which had a beard one foot il
length. The hunter kept the bird ant
sent the beard to the editor of the Colfa'
Chronicle.
The name esJohnny cake" Is said to b
derived from tsjourney cake" becaus
emigrants ~journeying from New Englan'
to the West were obliged to bake thel
Indian meal cakes in the ashes OF thei
camp-fires.
One of the largest forests in ths worl
stands on ice. It is situated between tn
Ural and the Okhotsk Sea. A well wa
recently dug in this region, when it wa
found that at a depth of 116 metres tn
ground was still frozen.
The imperial or ssGreat' canal O
China ID hardly rivaled, SO far as extern
is concerned, sven at the present day
This wonderful engineering exploit ]
said to have occupied 100 years in it
construction and given employment +
80, 900 men. It is about 1000 miles ]
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