The Opelousas courier., 1891-04-11
SELECT SETTINGS.
Alaska has the largest quartz mill.

Alaska has the largest quartz mill.
The London libraries all have a small
s~tationer's shop connected with them
where the various c~onvenlences for writ
ing are supplied.
According to an official return which
has just been issued, there are 400, DOC
mich COWS in the colony of Victoria, and
the annual value of their milk, butter
and cheese is about three million sterling.
The fastest English trains are those
running between Euston and Edinburgh,
| which average forty-seven miles an hour,
while the speed of the fast trains between
Berlin and Hamburg averages forty-fve
miles.
In our schools at the present day we
use "Euclid's Elements OF Geometry"
written by Euclid 1900 years ago.
Euclid also wrote on music and optics,
antedating much which we think we dis
covered.
The people of Tyre we're such experts
in dyeing that the Tyrian purple remains
unexcelled to this day. The Egyptians
were also wonderful dyers, and could
produce colors SO durable that they may
be called imperishable.
A curious scarfpin worn by q Nashville
I(Tenn.) man is a petrifed human eye, set
fin a gold frame. The present owner of
this singular ornament found it in Peru
lwhile he was on an exploring tour in the
land of the Ineas with a party of scien-
fists.
A London publisher advertised for
seven bald headed men, painted the name
Of his paper, Tjd-Bts, n letter on each
head, and tried to get them seats at a
pantomime, but the manager of the the
atre objected. What a crushing blow to
geniusl
Every stone in the tower and spire Of
st. John the Baptist's Catholic Church
on West Thirtieth street, New York City,
was hoisted to its place by a derrick, the
motive power of which was an old white
horse. The congregation is going to see
that its last days are its best days.
The colonial possessions of Great Brit
ain in America comprise :, 648, 140 square
miles. These possessions are the Bahia
mas, Barbados, Bermudas, Canada, Falk-
land Islands, Honduras, Guiana, Jamaica
and Turks Island, Leeward Island, New
foundland, South Georgia, Trinidad, and
Windward Islands.
Dieppe is now q principal centre of
European ivory manufacture, but it is in
the East, especially China, that ivory is
most highly priced and most deliberately
worked into decorative forms. The
Japanese also hold 1T in esteem, and it is
extensively used in the inlaid work of
Bombay in India.
The true French plum-large, jet
soft and -juicy-eomes from the
shores of the Garonne and its af1uent,
the Lot, and is the fruit of the tree known
IS the prunier d'ente, o grated plum.
The center of the district is Clairac, a
quaint little old fashioned town built on
steep hillside overlooking the Lot.
A rich man in st. Petersburg, Russia,
lied, leaving orders that his sealed will
be opened twelve months after his
Heath. When opened it contained an
sealed packet, with instructions
hat it must not be opened for q year.
The will had seven seals, the last of
which has only just been broken, all
the testator died six years ago.
Vice-President Morton's country house
It Rhineclif, N. Y, is provided with
ESQ incandescent lamps. An interesting
eature is the wiring Of the house in such
manner that should any window or
loor be tempered with by burglars a
pecial automatic switching device win
brow into circuit a number of lights,
hus giving the nocturnal intruder a
and warm welcome.