The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-09-10

farislan uses potatoes for soan.
the Chinese word for farewell me.r.
ego away slowly
A family Of Eve generations live I'M.
der one roof ID town a T.anisizaa.
one sheet Of paper recently made "a.
eight feet wide and seven aad t,re.
quarter miles long.
Prayer books. bound in ivory. tba.
sell at S33 apiece, are amoag the favor.
in demand at shops that carry specially
gift stocks.
Twelve oranges, which grew on a twig
six inches long in George Stones Grove
near De Land, Fla, completely fired !
peck measure and weighed thirty-6ve
pounds.
A Mexico (Mo.) man has tax recent
in his possession acknowledging the nav.
ment Of forty three cents on forty acres
Of land in Boone County. The recent
is dated 1S43.
The Hawaiians are supposed to be Of
the Malay family Of nations. Their
complexion is tawny, inclining to olive.
They are of middle stature, we'll formed,
with muscular limbs and open counte.
nance.
A man applied for naturalization at
MERGED, CAL, the other day who, after
thirty years residence in this country.
could not answer word of English Of
a single question put by the court re.
garding our laws.
The proportion Of insane to sane per-
sons in the United States is one in every
262; in Scotland it is one in every 574;
in the agricultural districts Of England
it is one in $40; in London the proper
ton is one in 400.
The State of Washington owes its
name to a Kentucky member of Congress
named Stanton. The petition to be set
off as a separate Territory from Oregon
was before Congress as early as 1867,
but was not acted on till 1855.
In the German custom of clinkling
glasses before drinking the rims are apt
to get Clipped and the particles of glass
to fall into the cup. At "commersp
recently in Castle student swallowed a
piece of glass thus Clipped off and died
in horrible torture.
The people of Thessaly, Greece, were
the first to break horses for service in
war, and their proficiency as equestrians
probably first gave rise to the ancient
myth that their country was originally
inhabited by centaurs, fabulous Great
ures supposed to be half horse and half
man.
While the mate of an Ohio River
steamboat was endeavoring to drive a
cow on board she tossed him overheard
and jumped in after him. He was COM
PEELED to dive to get out of her way, and
when he escaped she swan to shore,
furiously dashed herself off bluff, and
was killed on the rocks below.
Mabel Hunter. asixteen- year-old Iowa
girl, is the victim OF peculiar habit
formed in childhood. Whenever she is
sent on an GRAND she walks to and from
the place backward. Sometimes she
will absentmindedly walk right, but up7
on recovering her senses will Immediate
ly retrace her steps and begin the jour
ney over again backward
The Xerobates Agassizii, the grass
eating turtle of the Mojave Desert, is
said to be the only one Of the turtle
species which lives by grazing like a
horse or an OK. Xerobates dig hole in
the sand to escape the intense heat; is
about ten inches in length when full
grown, and weighs from six to eight
pounds. Coast dealers in curiosities
value them at So each
The Corean wears his hair braided
down his back, it being considered un-
holy to cut it, or to even wear it loosely
around the neck and shoulder After he
gets married, and not before, the law
permits him to wear it curled up Oh top
Of his head. To tell a married Corean.
that he had ought to wear his hair down
is equivalent to telling him that his wife
is the better man Of the two.