Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-10-31
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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He has studied palmistry, made En-
lisb poetry out of German verses,
learned wood-carviug, established art
volumes about gypsies and other vag-
rom men.
by placing two iron bars at seven
or eight yards distance from each
other, and putting them In communities
ton on one side by an insulated copper
wire and the other side with a tele-
phone. it is said that storm can be
predicted twelve hours ahead, through
. certain dead sound heard in the re.
ceiver.
Printers in this town, says the New
York Sun. and elsewhere. have an odd
fashion of using type for dice. Each
type has on one side small notches de-
signed to guide the printer SO that he
may set the letter right side up, or
rather upside down, as is the manner
of printers When type are thrown as
dice they are simply shaken in the
palm OF the hand and cast upon a table.
The value of the cast is determined by
the number of notches turned up.
The Danish society for the culture
of heaths, with the support of the gov
ernment, is rewooding one hundred
square miles of heath in Jutland. The
work was begun in 1886 with one
square mile. The society now num-
bers fourteen thousand members and
is enthusiastically supported by COM
munities and private individuals. Last
year it purchased plants TO the value of
sixteen thousand dollars, and about
sixty-seven thousand dollars are an
nually expended for planting and cult
vation of heaths.
Nine. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the
second wife OF Frances "Grand Old
Man." is just four decades younger
than her nlustrious husband, and is de-
scribed as lively and vivacio US matron,
IA whose veins run a mixture of En-
glish and Creole blood. She made her
future husbands acquaintance at a
country home where he was visiting.
and where she was engaged as a gov
erness, and the great engineer declares
that to her encouraging letters, mailed
to him weekly whilst he was engaged
in fighting the sand, the world owes
the Suez canal
-Ringgold, Ca, was visited by a
wonderful phenomenon recently. Mil
lions upon millions of fire-fies issued
from neigh boring mountain ridges and
took down the course of the Chicka-
m auga river, which skirts the city on
the southern border. The pyrotechnic
display was grand. Trunks of trees
skir;ing the river were plainly visible
quarter of mile distant, and the en-
tire mountain side was illuminated.
| The horde of fire-dies was fully forty
| feet high. and it took a quarter of an
! hour to pass down the stream, extend
ing over mile along its course.
An enthusiastic fisherman in Con-
| necticut enjovs the sport without sac
| rifcing any of his home comforts His
| residence is on the Willimantic river.
From back window he has strung a
wire across to the top OF a tree. Just
! over very good '.fshing hole" he has
blocked the wire. and with carrier
| and u reel he slides his baited hook,
sinker and line down the wire to the
block. The contact releases the reel
and as it unwinds the baited hook
| drops into the water and ''6shing'' be-
gins Sitting at home he can feel the
nibbles and bites, and a quick motion
secures his prey and pulls it along the
| wire to the house.
A negro was thrashed in Galveston
| by another negro on the ground that
he had attempted to separate the latter
from his wife through voudooiSm.
While he was on his way 20 a hospital
| in patrol wagon he gave to detective
what is known among the negroes as a
Jack" which is thus described: 1T is
composed of several items, among
| others a certain bone of a graveyard
| rabbit, finger nail taken from off the
| finger of a dead man. some hair load.
| stone, bone of get black cat, all
sewed up in a small red flannel bag
about the size of very large straw
berry, and having some of the same
shape and appearance"
A mum Der of persons living in the
vicinity of ReedIcv. Fresno county,
| Cal, all reputable citizens, too, declare
! that they have seen and hunted two
| dragons with wings fifteen feet long.
| bodies without covering of hair or
| feathers, head broad, bills long and
| wide, eyes not less than four inches in
| diameter and with feet like those of an
alligator. though more circular in
| form. They had five toes on each foot,
with a strong claw on each toe, and
the track is eleven inches wide and
| nineteen inches long. These monsters
were first seen near Selma, Cal, on the
night of July II. After they had made
several appc arances a party was
| organized to hunt them. One of them
| was wounded and tracked several
miles and his track in the mud secured.
Sell ng Whi>ky BY the Bubble.
There is peculiar person living in
''The Neck" who is called Long Jack. p"
| He walks up and down the street on
| Sunday, never getting far from home,
| and usually has few bottles of beer
| and a flask of whisky in his pocket.
Jack has side pocket into which a
| customer drops a nickle if he wants
| whisky or ten cents if he wants a bot.
| tie of beer. The drink of whisky is
measured in peculiar manner. Jack,
who is a tall man, looks down upon the
drinker and counts the bubbles. Three
bubbles constitutes drink, and the
! price is five cents. Seven bubbles car
! be had for ten cents, and so on down tc