Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-09-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
IA 10 stated by Invention that m
Arsfrian chemist, Herr Eckstein, has
discosa red o substitute for celluloid,
named hy aline, that is not infammable.
It is grainless, odorless, transparent,
tenacious and may be drawn into
threads or rolled into films. It is de-
scribed as composed of colophcre, lac,
copal, Dammara rosin. essential oil Of
turpentine and gun cotton.
The difference between the stand
ard time and sun time still makes
trouble in eastern Maine, where it is
shout thirty minutes. A party was re-
Gently made up in one of the towns to
go to a height boring village and hear a
popular preacher. The party started
by railroad time and the preacher be-
gan his service by the Lords time, and
the visitors arrived just as the good
man was pronouncing the benediction.
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal says
that an Auburn business man, one who
Is seen upon the streets of that city
every day in the week, cuts and mikes
his own clothes And they are well
made and they fit like good fitting
glove. The man isn't tailor, either
He has cut and made his own clothes
for years, and no one can suit him as
we'll as he can suit himself He does
his cutting and sewing after business
hours
Capt Stephen A. Bills. of Toms
river, N. j., has a very novel set of
dominoes. which he prizes very highly.
They are made from pieces OF twenty
eight different wrecks which have come
ashore on the Atlantic coast between
Barnegat Inlet and Point Pleasant
They were made by Capt Charles Til
ton, of the life saving service, who was
ten years in making the collection.
Every particular domino has history,
and Capt Bills likes nothing better
than a chance to relate it.
The highest railway in the world
has just been completed up the rugged
sides of Pixies Peak from Manitou, Col.
Starting at an elevation of 6, 400 feet
above the sea the line climbs up by a
winding course, 1850 feet to the tre-
mendous height of IA. l47 feet above the
sea. This requires grade averaging S46
feet to the mile, with a maximum of
!, ,S20 feet, or % per cent twenty or
more times sleeper than what may be
called the average steep grade on an
ordinary railway.-Railway Age.
An old brindle COW belonging to an
Indiana man broke into another's field,
and in court the owner of the field
proved that the COW destroyed the fol-
lowing mentioned property, to-wit:
Two four-year-old cherry trees, seven
apple trees, five pear trees, one plum
tree, one hundred head of cabbage,
twelve rows of beans five rods long,
one row of beats one and one-half rods
long, fifty to one hundred and fifty
sweet potato plants one bed of onions,
three grapevines and fourteen black
berry bushes
The new servant girl tried two
kinds of furniture polish on the rose
wood dining table. She declared that
American furniture polish was mo
good at all, at ALL She got half a
pound Of white beeswax, two cakes OF
CASTLE soap and pint of turpentine
She boiled the soap and wax together
that is, she melted them until they ran
together. Then she poured in the
turpentine. All the hard wood in the
house shines like mirror glass now.
"'Tis the way we make the bars shine
in Dublin" said she.
The National Observer London)
tells of a French wiue manufacturer
who has discovered that the vinous
bouquet is 4matter not of original con-
stituents, but of fermenting agents,
and who has succeeded in making
delicious vintages, both red and white,
to say nothing of irresistible brandies,
out of barley, without SO much as a
suspicion Of grape juice in them. The
consumers of these beverages keep up
bygone traditions by still speaking
L..
and aromas and styles and SO on.
"A Berlin daily tells a story which
has local significance. A young Off
GER in horse car gave young woman
his seat and she took it without a
| thank you" The officer stood on the
rear platform. A few blocks further
and the young woman stepped from the
| ear. The officer saluted and said:
! Pardon me. madam. but you have for
gotten something" The young woman
hurried back into the car, but found
| none of her property She looked in
quiringly at the officer, who saluted
again and said: "Oh, ! meant only that
| you had forgotten to thank me-
Charlie Conner, of Beaver Falls,
has on exhibition a monstrosity in the
shape of a chicken formed with tw o
beaks, four legs, four wings and thre e
backs. 1t is fully developed in every
respect and lived for quite while after
being Matched out The egg from
which the chicken was hatched was one
! Of eleven placed under a hen. She
brought out ten chicks and then left
the nest, taking her ten chickens with
| her and abandoning the eleventh egg.
! The egg was put under an old goose
that was setting, but as soon as it was
| hatched out and the goose saw the man.
ner of bird it was she kicked it out OF
| the nest and it died.
Inland Lakes.
1t is not generally realized that there
are in this country literally millions OF