Feliciana sentinel., 1891-01-24
RANC1HI1E A-F.o oBAYoU ARAsA
OF GENERAL INTEREsT.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The population Of foreign deacenS
in North America may be broadly SOM
sidered as belonging to three races
the African, the Latin and the Teutonic
Aryan.
Apparently mid-winter was tho
time when the medieval British wolves
asserted themselves most savagely; so
at least we may Judge from the fact
that our Anglo-Saxon ancestors be-
slowed on January the name OF wolf
month
In the vast majority, Of luminous
animals with which we are acquainted,
the phosphorescent light Is useful only
in guiding one sex in it's search for the
other, and this is probably the case with
deep-sea fish as well as with terrestrial
creatures.
While packing away his dead wife's
clothes, James Mcirath, . laborer of
Louisville, KY, discovered concealed In
an underskirt s., 800 In currency. Mrs.
McGrath had never given intimation to
her family of the possession OF the
money. She had cow, and sometimes
sold butter and milk.
Organized charity, in the form In
which we now recognize it, has had
hardly twenty years of life. In 1862
that is, before the combined action OF
the poor law with charity organization
the proportion of the adult able-bodied
paupers in London, indoor and out, ex-
elusive of vagrants, was 6.7 per 1000; In
1883 it was 3.2.
-Herodotus tells of sorcerers who
once in every year had the power OF as
suming the semblance Of wolves for sew
eral DAYS at a time. Marcellus Sidetes
also tells of men who at the beginning
of every year were afnicted with q form
of madness, during which they believed
themselves to be wolves or dogs, and
spent the night prowling about burial
grounds.
~. A. Melter, of Jacksonville, Fla,
purchased 5000 OF ,nges. and, depositing
them in public place, invited passers-
by to help themselves to the fruit The
only proviso was that the eater should
quarter the oranges and place the peel
in a barrel of alcohol standing near.
About 1000 of the oranges were eaten
by the surrounding crowd, and Mr..
Melter got goodly amount of work
done for nothing. ''The peeling viii be
shipped to England to be used for med
ical purposes"
John Shersmidt, while hunting on
Daniel Bakers farm, north OF Spring
field, O., stepped on to a little knoll,
when the ground gave way, and he was
precipitated into cave eighteen feet
deep and twenty feet square. He was
imprisoned in it day. His cries at
tracted the attention of a passing dog,
whose strange demonstrations brought
people near by to the scene. A pick.
shovel and trowel, covered with rust,
were found in the cave. How they got
there is mystery.
The enterprising editor Of the Ari-
zona Howler offers a bottle of Koch's
| lymph to any one who secures three
new cash subscribers for the Howler.
On which the editor of the Kicker makes
the following comment: s'The coyote
who thinks he edits the Howler is a
royal arch jackass. In the first place,
! he couldn't tell Koch's lymph from
paregoric; and in the second place, the
| free and enlightened people of Arizona
don't need any consumption cure, that
disease being unknown in this favored
region"
-Ex-Mayor Averett, of Quitman,
Ga. has shrewd dog. Rips owner is
in the habit of giving him a written or
der on the butcher for a piece of beef.
! Not long since an order was given the
dog. which he took in his mouth, trotted
| around to the market, and, securing the
| beef carried it back to the store, where
| it was fed to him. There was not
quite enough to satisfy Rips appetite,
and he went back to the market, where,
..inding the order, which the butcher
had dropped, he picked it up, presented
it again and secured another piece Of
beef"
On September S, 1774, fifty-three
delegates. from all the colonies except
Georgia, met at Carpenters Hall, in
Philadelphia, for the purpose of uniting
forces and forming some plan of de-
fense. This is called the First Conti-
mental Congress. During that same
wear a Provincial Congress, with John
| Hancock as President, met at Cam
bridge. Various measures of safety
were taken and men all over the col
ony We're warned to take up arms in
defense of their rights, and be ready to
march at a minutes warning. The
members of this strange militia We're
called Minute-men.
-Chauncey Depew, speaking of the
difference between American and En-
glish appreciation of humor, says: 81
have often. after having made a speech
at dinner in England, had q guest to
come to me three or four days later and
remark that he was beginning to com
prehend the point of the joke TO which
he had listened on the night it was ut
tered l said to guest at a dinner, who
told me about two weeks afterward that
he had been laughing that night at ths
story had told two weeks before, hay
ing just seen the point-I said: Did Il
come to you on a freight train? %, no,
said he, 4 have not seen any freiglu
train"
Care of the Lamps.
All parts of the burner of a LAM
should be thoroughly clean. A ittl
kerosene or alcohol on a cloth is as goo,
for this purpose as any thing else t.
clean the burner, providing it is polishe'
clean and dry afterward Every par