Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-10-03

or GENERAL INTEREST.

or GENERAL INTEREST.
The Columbia gas well 1T McKees
mort Pa. was plugged up with the re.
anlt that all the water wells In the
neiehborhood began to bubble and SO
taste of petroleum that they were unit
for use. Il
[The will of George Merritt, one Oh
,the old California pioneers, provldes
that a band of music must Precede the
funeral cortege and that refreshments
must be served at the close OF the cere-
monies
The greatest bird cage on the con-
tinent is said to be the Grand Central
railroad station in New York. Inc
noisy English sparrows swarm there oy
the thousands and nest in the great
arching roof girders.
The San Francisco board OF trade
| which is In fact local-developmento Or
| eanization, il discussing the feaslohSy
| Of maintaining a training ship from
which the merchant marine OF the "a
cidc may be recruited.
"A New York police captain carries
about what looks to be an ordinary
umbrella, but which is in reality
breech-loading gun-barrel 1t can be
fred rapidly and has q magazine Tor
I
one hundred cartridges
DIR. William A. Hammond says that
| even well-to-do Americans require more
rest than any other people in the world
and get less. He thinks a human being
should have a succession of labors and
diversions as a farm hss rotation OF
crops
One morning, while making repairs
To a residence in Moulton township,
, Ohio. carpenters came upon nest OF
bats in a window casing. They kliieo
$50 of the animals, which ranged IN
size from an inch to seven inches II
length.
. "A cook fell overheard from q
:. schooner on the lakes recently, ane
j, was stunned by the fall Consequently
y he remained under water for half ar
!, hour without Inconvenience so far a.
drowninp was concerned, and was IN
few minutes after his rescue as We'll a
!. | usual.
:. There is a hotel in Boston that l
a frequently mistaken for church o.
- strangers who pass one of its entrances
At the end of the corridor and vlslbl
from the street there is a peculiar fea'
r ure of the stairway which, from a Iii
tie distance, resembles the pipes OF
"a organ. -,
;. The Astorian says that as NJ
~ Alexander, an Oregon sheep raiser WI
=, driving a herd of ten thousand mutto
y. sheep through Klickitat county TO u
Sound market recently a small canyc
~ was reached which the herders did n
-. see. and when the front sheep came
~ it the rear ones pushed them aheao u
>S' til there was a bridge formed with q
struggling and dying leaders. ~
en- rest Of the band passed over, and VIII
ms the herders arrived they found thr
Sn hundred and sixty dead and dyl
lit. sheep.
'ie -..starboard," which has alwa
w. been disputed by scholars as to
n meaning. has at last been explain
~ with satisfactory authority. Mr.
Keat saws that DR.. Kingsley infor
e him that as ''starboard" is, by comm
consent, from ''steer-board," the 81
on which the helmsman stood to gra
Co. the steering paddle, SO larooaro
from "leer-bodrd.' the empty 81
where the steersman didn't stand
Hakluvts ..voyages'' there is t
passage about Ohthere: "Whereur
he tooke his voyage directly no
oo- along the coast, having upon his stee
boord alwayes the desert land,
unon the leereboord the maine ocea
Georgia has unique railroad trs
In W.. which is described by the Atlanta -
stitution." It runs from Cham olee
eh' on the Air Line road out to Roswel
distance of only about fifteen miles,
Gu the little train is famous 1t cons
Of one car, which is divided into tn
my compartments, an engine wlthout
lisn, of the modern improvements, WIZ
ii' even a tender. the wood being Plleo
Ways As coon as every body
10 on the train starts. There Is no
liminary bell-ringing or warning
man, the engine, but you are on ouin. I.
for and rolling around at the rate OF al
look nine miles au hour before you kno'
ltion A st. Bernard dog became lnvo
sses' in a quarrel with two ours at Win
ton, Del The ours snapped and gro
ty OF at the canine bully, which tu<ned
time made the little fellows "kl-yL
oe- other dog, which was watching .he
your saw that the ours were getting
loteo worst of the fight, and lmmeoi.
started for help. At Whiteman S Il
send stable he found three collles an
-"Of other large dog to whom the stu
it my was Quickly explained by barks.
can four stable dogs made dash To-
you corner. When the St Bernard say
reinforcements coming he found
irt as he had important business in the
t the ton of Market street The ours ina
Vas it the collies for their timely ald oy
actly. rinp their tails, and the coilles
and l back to the stable
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i Bull HE GOT MARRIED.
xr wbx He Quit Bossin