St. Landry democrat., 1891-09-12

the next life. Divorce is easy, the mar
. merely giving his wife a letter permit
ting her to remarry, and the wife merely
being required to pay an unwilling hus
band thirty rupees for release. Only
high Shans can be Cannibals. Their theol
of the c~osmogrny is that "the eartl
came out Of the depths by means of white
ants"
T. VI. Mullins, who lives Just a mile
from Eastman, Ga on his farm, relate:
that he has for a long time been much
j, puzzled to know what was sticking fine
holes III his eggs and drawing out the
contents, until lie kept strict watch OF
the hens next, When the mara,ider was
found to be a sap sucker, which. with
It's keen, aNl-liko bill. had coutrivcd
from time to time to suck dozens Of
eggs, picking holes in many, from which
he used very litt.e of the contents. The
bird was promptly shot, sine which
time no derrodation~ Lave been com
united like those Of which it had been
found guilty.
AT Mou!tOn, Ala, Il farmer Bought a
pound OF powder, Il pair Of shoes and a
new tin pan, and putting them into the
back Of his wagon, started for home.
He was not smoking and no fire was
about the wagon, bit a mile out of town
the powder exploded. knocking him out
OF the wagon, almost tearing his clothes
off and burning him terribly about the
face and body. The bright tin had
acted is q c0ncave mirror TO concentrate
the rays Of the sun to a focus on the
powder, hence the novel explosion.
On January i last two laborers were
at work on & railroad running into IN
annapolis. One was teIiiuga story, and
while bending over he was accidentally
struck on the head with a hammer by
his companion and his skull was frac-
turcd. He was rendered unconscious
and remained IN a cOmatose condition
until 4 recent night, when DR.. &. D.
Sturtevant Of indianapolis trepanned the
skull, and Immediately upon removing
the pieces OF skull from against the brain
the man continued the story which was
started several months before and had
lain latent in his brain during all this
time.
AFTER a young woman in Philadel-
phlt had ma@e It purchase aud had gone,
the druggist remarked: 'That's the first
line III live years I've mad a call for
dragons hlooJ. What is it? Well. IT'S
a vegetable substance, obtained from the
fruit Of several small plants ia the East
Indies. Many Years ago it was III great
demand among Young Women who wished
to win back thcir recrcant lovers, they .
burning a small lump Of it with a certain
lncantation. That girl has probably
heard Of 1t from her grandmother. and
has determined to test its virtues"
TIE remarkable flight of a carrier
pigeon has caused considerable com
ment among the sporting people of Ger
many. a few weeks ago a man in Char
Gutenberg, IA suburb of Berlin, sold a
to a Londoner. On the second
day after his arrival in London, how
ever, the Engli,hman missed the pigeon.
The former owner of the bird wa not a
little surprised a week later to see it
again in his yard. 1t is needless
% add that the man will 0 part with
us treasure again.
For twelve days and nights 300 men
:earched the woods around Ottawa, Ont
or missing Miss Clara Workman, who
the while was quietly living on a
arm not two miles from her fathers
loUse. She had clothed herself in one
# her brothers ~caSt-otf suits, had cut
1T her hair and had hired out asa farm
'91U at Ais nor p,n.+i, II hn, l:r,,-
red she confessed that her curious con-
.uct was wholly attributable to her de.
ire to initiate the heroine of a novel
he lately had read.
HE town clerk Of PoSen, PresVue Isle
Mich has filed a curious bill of
ale for one live ouk nineteen feet in
circumference and one small white ok
zee two feet n diameter growing out of
ne roots Of the parent tree, and com
lonly known as the Baby Oak" The
ak grows 200 miles from the section to
'hlch the oak is indigenous, and how
seed got there is a mystery.
JOHN ANDERSON of Hastain, Mo, re-
entity removed three hard, 1inty stones
a gathering back of the lower Jaw
a fine mare which he purchased in "
ansas last spring. The largest of the
ones measured one and one-half by V
~ree-quarters inches, aud the Others !
'out one-half that size. The gathering i
'mmenced two years ago. I,
A GOA which has but two legs and !,
hich in walking stands in an upright i
like human being, is bringing E E
ekels to the pockets of its owner, a Il
who is exhibiting it in the G,
districts in the South. "
A KANSAS farmer proved by actual th
sasurement that corn on his place grew
rec inches between shutdown Sunday
ening and nine o'clock the following II
ondav morning. 90