The Opelousas courier., 1890-05-03
SELECT sIFTINGs.

A Young lady at Dayton, Tenn, has
died of bydrophobia from the bite OF a
sat.
A Philadelphia shoemaker's dog died a
lav or two ago from swallowing a piece
# sole leather in mistake for beetsteak.
A evsnty.nine-year-old woman, con
fined in the steuben County House, NY,
has read the Bible through fifteen times.
An agreement without consideration is
ooid: a note made on Sunday is void;
contracts made OF Sunday cannot be en-
forced.
Levi Williamson, of Ansonia, Conn,
has a hog that is seven feet long ana
weighs 1000 pounds. 1t is so fat that 1t
is unable to get up.
A Chinese laundryman at Bristol, Penn
rents all the places in the city available
for laundries, SO that he can enJoya
monopoly Of the trade.
A hen in Meiggs County, Ohio Matched
out some turtle eggs that were piacso
under her lately, and treats the little
creepers as tenderly as she would chicks
Never buy diamonds except on a clear
day. The least mist or fog in the atmos-
phere will prevent you from discovering
she flaws in them. Damp, murky weather
practically kills the diamond business.
lydia Bacon, Of Sudbury, Mass, who
has lust been cut off in her 1O3d year,
attributed her longevity to hard work,
plenty of exercise, plain living and read
.ng enough to keep the mind In peace
With the body's vigor.
An artesian we'll at Woonsocket, South
Dakota, poured out ito waters IN such
nrofusion before it was brought under
control that q lake of forty acres was
formed. A dense fog is continually rising
from the warm water.
Unreasonable freaks are plentifully re-
norted In Connecticut. Mrs. Avis Ross,
Of Danielsonville, opened the front door
| of her house after church service one
| Sunday, and a big black snake tied itself
into knots for her edifcation. She got a
| club and killed it.
A remarkable little animal has been
| added to the London Zoo. It is a deer,
though in size but a triae larger than a
| full crown cat. The cloven hoofs pro-
| claim its position in the mammalian
| world beyond doubt, but it has no horns.
In the r1ale two long canine teeth pro-
iect from the upper lip, and these, per-
haps, serve in their stead.
The twenty-six letters of the alphabet
NAV be transposed $40, 44s, 401, 733, 1885,
439, $50, 900 times. All the inhabitants
of the globe, on a rough calculation
could not, in e thousand million of years,
write out all the transpositions of the
| twenty-six letters, ever supposing that
each wrote forty pages daily, each Of
which pages contained forty different
| transposition of the letters.
Bosworth Smith, in a report on the
| Kolar gold field in Southern India, re-
cords some finds of old mining imple-
ments, old timbering, fragments Of
bones, an old oil lamp and broken pieces
of earthenware, including a crucible. He
expressed astonishment at the fact that
| the old miners were able to reach depths
of 100 or 300 feet through hard rock
with the simple appliances at their COM
mand.
A fine female pigeon belonging to a
citizen of Shenandoah, Penn, wa re-
Gently shot. For three days and nights
| her mate walked to and fro or top of the
pigeon house, mourning constantly. The
female pigeons that had no mates alighted
in his pathway every little while, but all
the notice they got from the mourner
was a thump that sent them kiting from
the roof. Then the females fought one
another. The widower watched the
| fight, and soon after made one Of them
his second mate. .