St. Landry democrat., 1891-09-12
NOTES AND

1Ae parped wire. 1t is said that these
posts can be furnished complete for plac-
ing In position at twenty-four cents each.
INDIA probably leads in the unenviable
possession of man killers and eaters,
every year hardly less than 900 human
beings being killed by wild animals. In
the year 1878 tigers killed nearly 1000
persons, IN many instances d%evourinr
them elephants killed 81 to the leonard
was iald lo1 persons eaten; bears killed
81, hyenas 69 and wolves | OG1, The
numer OF animals killed in this same
year by tigers was II, 423, leopards 49,
5o7, wolves 9,407.
ACCORDING to the report of a Commit
zee OF the British Parliament, concern
ing ether drinking in Ireland, there is
Aatte.ly a large ether consumption, es-
peclaliy IN certain districts in Ireland.
The character Of ether drunkenness, the
report says, is much the sam as with
Whlskey, but more rapid in its action
IL Is mentioned that a person may get
drunk two or three times in a dav at a
cost of six pence. movement has been
lnaugurated to try to restrain the sale of
ether in grocers' shops, and by itinerant
vendors who have taken up the traffic.
The first drops of blood that were shed
~ the civil war are in the possession OF
Coi. Is. +. Hawkes., of the Pension
Olhce, at Washington. They came from
the veins of Col. T.. +. Kelley, who com
manded the Federal troops at the battle
OF Phillppi, the first battle of the war,
and stained his vest. A bullet from the
opening fire of the Confederates passed
through Col. Kelley's lungs, and the
surgeons pronounced the wound mortal.
out the officer recovered, became a gen.
eral and IS now living at the age of 81.
Col: Hawkes. was kclley's Ad jutant at
Phlllppi, and preserved the vest as a
most interesting relic of the great conflict.
JEREMIAH NJ. RISK, Secretary of Ag-
rlcuiture, thinks the Worlds Fair peo-
PIE Z to build Il big corn palace at
the Exposition. "What we want he I
says, lis to get our corn into foreipu |
countries. 1t ought to be eaten more I
extensively. "A great many palatable :
anu wholesome dishes can be made from =
corn when properly prepared, and my !
Aaea IS that "A lot of cooks should be set q .
to work in the corn palace making cakes y
and other things OF corn. just think d
what a pleasant place that would be, if ?
'NSty III u walters anu .
cooked these dishes up in the highest II
style of the art. 1 would 90 there NV 81
self and eat as many corn cakes as any u
body" II
1HE experiments in producing rain P
Oy conclusion of the atmosphere seem
TO be successful so far as the machinery
is concerned. After trying powder, DIV.
mantle and the like, it has been found
that the best explosive is gas,i and the n
best agency a balloon or a series of bal h.
looms exploded by means of electricity "
communicated from the earth at a dis +,
lance of something Ike five hundred a,
yards. The theory is that there is al +
most always some moisture, and that the q,
explosion of sufficient gas composed of =,
two-thirds hydrogen and one-third oxv- y;
gen will precipitate it. The tests will :.
not be complete, of coulse, until it is ~
seen that the conclusions actually pro- ~
duce rain in good quantities without ex- 10,
cessive cost. u:
AN elaborate return has Just been pre- WI
pared at the British Home Office of the nc
particulars of the property and revenues II
OF the Church of England. From this no
1t appears that the total gross income of 'a'
the Church IS a tritle over e5, 500, 900, W!
Half the bulk of this is derived from an W!
clent endowments, and, strange as it may W,
appear to those who are always reading WI
OF requests to the Church, only a little " ~
more thar a quarter of a million-or, to W.
be more a%curate, e294, O00-has been .n'
contributed by private benefactors during II
of the incoma 10 dor;naa enon All
that potent source of profit of the Church cui
which for centuries men have objected
10 pay-the t1thes or charges on corn.
Next to them come rents of land. and the
Church is rich in houses as well as in $
ground rents. ted
A WRITER in the London Lancet di- ~"
reefs attention to the fact that the most w.
recent remedy for alcoholism is petrol W
or parattine oil, to which the notice W.
the st. Petersburg medical author r,,
ties was called by an accident. It ap- b.
bears that a laboring man.. who had NJ,
been drinking heavily for four DAYS and C Cn
lights, entered, in a complete state of ~,
ntoHlcation, a grocer's shop. Unnoticed D. D.
~ the shopkeeper, he staggered up to al
N open cask of petroleum and began va,
Thinking from it. With difficulty he w.
vas dragged away from the cask, and, s aIn1
eelng the large quantity of petroleum : eCC
e had lmbibed, it was expected that o,'0
e would fall down s~enscless and be W.
i'll. Instead of this, however, we
is related that the petroleum had CO., &C.,,
ure1 him of all the ill effects of over ~
rinklng, the nausea, u~nsteadiness OF ~ -
and headache disappearing as if by orta,,
laglc. In fact, it is stated he left the g." CIV.
lop sober and quite another man. dd oa,
Dr. kREUBERGI.R in Austria directs oorll
to the increasing number of rs
llcides among school children. He
lotes the figures of Durand -Farde} to
he effect that in France in ten years
lere was 1 suicide under 5 years, 2 at A
2 at 10, 8 at II, I at IS, and 2 at IA. Roth
Denmark, 1861, there were TWEEN poser
suicides Of persons under six His
en- years and of 1875 between sixteen y snr
I'd twenty. Recent Prussian statistics it
I'VE SHOWN That In four years 300 bows auth'
I'd 400 girls under fifteen years com abou
tilted suicide on account of shame or de I
ar Of punishment. The number af- Carat
cted by the two causes mentioned is far for
eater than that which is attributed to from
oney troubles, anger, vice or physical becar
ness. But a few weeks ago a Vienna it agt
hool-boy tried to poison himself a few year.
nutcs after his teacher scolded him. jewel
go other Vienna school-boys shot the
emselves, however, because they were still,
happy in love. These remedies for to tn
suicidal maiady, which, DIR. Krcu. [Clev,