St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-09-26
is wonderful, as the sRp of the shed was
quite a distance from the street.

is wonderful, as the tRp of the shed was
quite distance from the street.
GOLD KATE" horse burned to death
in Cincinnati, was, her owner alleges,
forty-tivc years old. She was born in
Wales of thoroughbred stock. She was
shipped to Canada in 1916, being only
ycarling. The voyage had bad effect
upon her, and the importer sold the
stunted colt to farmer, who kept her
.until she was three years old, when she
began to grow. The farmer sold her to
Hugh Morgan, lumber dealer, and he
kept her up to his death, in 1861. She
WAS of jet black at that time, and
served as carriage horse At Mr..
Morgan's death the mare went to Mr..
Inning, who ran planning mill. He in
turn sold her to 4 fish and oyster dealer,
and it was of this man that her last
owner bought her seven years ago. She
was then thirty-eight years old, bat
lively as kitten.
II KNOW of half dozen frauds, said
q New York post office employee, "who
waxcd rich hy mailing advice to people
who expected something for nothing.
EvcrVbod has not heard of the man who
alvcrtiscs to send sewing machine for
twenty-five cents, and who sends the
dupe a needle; OF the man who offers
steel portrait Of Garfield for ten cents or
OF Franklin for two cents, and who mails
a five cent and one cent stamp with
the engraving on them of those gentle
men. These people rarely get caught,
because a man feels so cheap he will not
COMPLAIN The latest fraud of this sort
has Just been arrested for advertising in
the agricultural papers How to Keep
Hogs Healthy To inpuireGs who sent
him the fifty cents asked, he replied:
Feed them well and water them when
they need it,"
A Coh0RED woman in Georgia h0ed
cotton until midday and then lay down
for a nap in the shade Of a tree. She
was barelootcd. Suddenly tickling
sensation in one Of her big toes disturbed
her slumbel. She looked sIecpily in that
direction, and saw sight that made her
teeth chatter. 4 huge black snake had
swallowed the tee, and was acting as
though he proposed to swallow the rest
Of her. AS she gazcd along the sleek
back Of the undu}ating serpent he
seemed 50 long that his tail was below
the horizon. When she recovered from
her temporary paralysis she arose like a
sky rocket fired s.au'w,se, and dlsap-
pcared in the pine timber with Il blood
curdling shrek. After being jerked
through the underbruSh for few rods
the snake let go.
TIE vitality of the mule is little short
of amazing. In Memphis, Tenn one
fell twenty-five feet down an opening IN
the street. It landed on its head and
the hole being narrow, it vas unable to
change its position. 1t was supposed
that the beast had broken its neck, as a
sharp, clicking noise was heard when 1t
struck bottom. After half an hour the
mule was hoisted out by the heels and
laid on the ground. 1t showed no signs
Of life, but, Notwithstanding, it was
given brandy literally and, in little
while, to the surprise of the thousand
spectators who had collected, the mule
rose to his feet and walked off as though
nothing unusual had happened.
A REMARKABLE occurrence took place
at Florence, S. G., about the middle of
July. A hailstorm of unprecedented Sc
verify completely devastated the fields,
stripping the leaves and stalks from the
cotton and leaving bare stems over a con-
siderable area. Three days after the
storm some persons from the town
gathered cotton bags full Of the hail
stones and made ice cream with them.
Most of the. stones were considerably
larger than hens eggs, and the devasta-
ton was complete as far rs the storm
spread.
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 cherry trees, seven apple
trees, five pear trees, one plum tree, 100
head of cabbage: twelve rows Of beans
five rods long. one row Of beans one and
a half rods long, fifty to $50 sweet pota-
to plants, one bed of onions, three
grapevines, and fourteen blackberry
bushes.
ScR1vES COUNTY, Ga, has a genuine
curiosity in the form of a colt which car
ries a pair of unmistakable horns on his
head. He is now nearly year old, and
in no way remarkable save for the horns,
which have grown with him until now
they are nearly foot in length and as
handsome pair as any cow ever carried.
Nor far from Portland. Me-. a barn
was set on fire by lightning. The same
bolt that fired the building shattered
pipe that connected with a water main,
and the flow Of water extinguished the
flames.
In a recent storm in North Dakota
hailstones of such extraordinary size fell
that residents sought refuge in cellars.
One of the hailstones, it is said, meas
ured twelve inches in circumference.
The cold Maid Question Solved.