The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-14
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At three vegetarian estsuran'S ~
don the dinners daily served up average
1850.
A canary at Birmingham, England,
through its companionship with a parrot,
ia said to have learned to speak several
words distinctly.
woman at Danville, Ind, the mother
of two children, sold a bed when nso
been given her by an aid soclesy 'of
money with which to pay for q license 10
marry another man.
A gentleman OF Fredericksburg, va,
on buying, recently, an old Confeaera'e
note as q souvenir, discovered 'ha' ~ "a'
Endorsed with his W signature ~ A"'~
ing been paid in 1852.
An inmate of a lunatic asylum In hfes-
cia, Italy, was released on feoroary =,
after a seclusion of forty years: during
this period his cost to the INSTITUTION
footed up more than $4,000.
tt is a singular fact that glassbloWers
live as long as the average of manklna
and develop larger lungs than anybody
else. Most n glassblower can expand
his chest five or six inches, and there Is
one man who can expand twelve.
An electric vegetable is said to have
heen discovered In India which has the
mower of affecting the magnetic needle
aat a distance of twenty feet when the
weather is favorable. In rainy weather
IT. has no electric influence whatever.
A little girl five years old arrived in
Paterson, N. j., having travelled by rail
alone from Saginaw, Mich. The child,
at the request of her father, was shlppeo
as express matter, with a tag about ne,
neck giving her name and ms sno
also the key of her trunk.
The latest attraction of the London
Zoo il q collection of monster lizards, the
LARGEST animals of their class. They are
so large and strong that it is said in ind''
BURGLARS sometimes make use OF them
Selling hold of the lizards tail n belns
drawn by it to the upper windows OF
house.
At Small Point, Me-, the prospector'
for coal are contemplating exploring thu
bottom of the sea. A large scow has beer
engaged, and on it will be placed the en-
CINE which will drive an electric dynamo
to furnish a light for a diver, who is tt
explore the submarine depths at Small
Point.
:, An advertisement was printed in a New
: York paper calling for a ''bank burglar
frst-clsss, must have done time and b.
. well up in nitro glycerine and othe
modern explosives, to call at 1115 Broad
vay at 8 P. NJ" One was found wht
!, filed the bill. He was wanted by
theatrical troupe.
Last year there were 3131 calls to fire
' in London. OF these SEA were falls
alarms, 1879 were chimney fires and 233'
D for other fires, 1853 of which resulted ii
serious damage. Forty-four persons weE
y burned to death. To extinguisn the fire
90 900, 600 gallons, OF $4,000 tons o
water were used.
;. George 8. Mcintyre, of Biddeford
II Me-, aged so years, is described as
|: natural mathematical prodigy and til
possessor of a prodigious memory TO
poetry. "Yet at present, !" we are told
'she lives in q Biddeford garnet, subsist
] ing on the scraps which charitable &C
ouaintances give him."
Miss Ella Ewing, living near Rainbow
Mo-, eighteen years old, is now seven fes
u eight inches high, weighs 225 pound
i wears a number fifteen shoe, which, {
}. course, she has to have made to ordel
o and her shoemaker had to order q speci'
last. The girls parents are about tt
it usual size. the father being possibly
i little taller than the average man.