The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-28
SELECT STRINGS.

Buenos Ayres has twenty-threo daily
papers.
A South Jackson Mich cat cats ice
cream with a relish.
Painting in oil was invented at Bruges
by John Van Eyeke in 1410.
Millions of small red spiders are Great
ing great havoc in the orchards of Cali
fornia.
European powers have claims upon
nearly thres-fourths of the entire area of
Africa.
Rich deposits of petroleum have been
discovered in the island Of Zante,
Greece.
An actor says that not one comic song
in ninety introduced to the public ever
becomes popular.
Two hundred and fifty tons of hops
were picked this season from a single
ranch in Washington.
The London school board are educat-
ing 30, 866 more scholars non than they
were three years ago.
At Paderborn, in Westphalia, every
topical song has to be sent to the Chief
of Police before it car be sung.
The ruins of Bluebeard's castle are
said to still remain in a lonely mountain
road near Interlaken, Switzerland,
A mahogany tree in Honduras was re-
Gently cut into boards which, when sold
in a European market, realized $1,000.
Henry Cook, a Norwich, Conn tailor,
has a beard seven feet. two inches long,
though he is only five feet six inches
tall.
TIE Alaska Indian depends upon his
5quaw in the selling Of an article. She,
having a better idea of its worth, fixes
the price.
Over 5000, 900 pounds Of trufas are
1ow sold annually in France. The
wholesale dealers i'll trua1es as a rule,
make large fortunes.
A great microscope that is being built
1t Munich, Bavaria, will, under ordinary
conditions, magnify II, 900, and in spe.
eial cases Is, 900 diameters.
A curious story from Oregon relates
that a young child in Eugene City is
growing faster on u side than on the
without apparent cause.
A church in lower Austria has just re-
,eiyed a legacy of 800 ~tiorins. 1t was
oequeathei by a merchant of Vienna to
for his having broken a window
Turing a lesson in cltecaisn when a boy
years old.
The pest of rats has become so formid-
BILE in many parts of Brazil tdat snakes
re being educated to exterminate them.
every well-regulated household now has
is pet boa to take the place Of a cat in
with the vermin.
One of General Harney's OLD soldiers
avs that the famous Indian fighter, who
vas a finished athlete. was remarkably
ond of pugilisn, and used frequently
0 get into rows beneath his dignity
to display his pugilistic skill.
Ths phenomenon of weeping tree is
aused by the presence of myriads of
mall insects called leaf hoppers, which
ave the habit of ejecting honey dew,
living the effect of weeping. The ma
ives in parts where the trees are infested
With these insects, are as a rule very SUI
,erstitious about them, and attribute to
hem death dealing powers over those
hat walk under them.
Harry Sanderson, a New Jersey oars
ian. has invented Il code Of electric
by means of which the coxswain
t an eight-oared crew can communicate
is orders without any danger of having
wal crews oyerhear. Uader each seat
here is a ''buzz," through which a COM
lunication Or signal can be conveyed to
ne occupant of the seat by pressing a
The apparatus has been tried
18th wholly successful results.
The sebroneho" bean of Sonora, Mex
%, is one of the most curious vegeta-
lie productions known. 1t will, on a
nooth surface, take quick, short jumps
"a quarter of an inch in length, and is
sore puzzle to those who do not know
lie secret of its locomotive power. The
ct of the matter is that it contains a
tile worm which writhes and twists
oout in a jerky fashion and expends
Efficient muscular energy to propel the
in which it has made its home.