The Opelousas courier., 1891-09-12
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10 thew YORK has a deaf mute book agent.
.;unp A Pennsylvania girl keeps six rattle
Snakes as pets.
In the interior Of South America choco-
late, cocoanuts and eggs are used as cur
rency.
General Grant was Secretary of War
adj interim from August IL, 1867, to
January IA, 1868.
In the gizzard of a hen killed at Lu-
bee, Me-, was found a small gold pin
lost ten years ago.
A bee sting on the temple has entirely
eradicated the rheumatism from a Falls
ington PENN man.
Only one person is said to have been
struck by lightning in Poughkeepsie,
N. Y, In forty years.
A turkey few through a plate glass
window ive-eighths of an inch thick at
Mansfield, Ohio, but was not injured.
If all parts of the United States were
as densely populated as Rhode Island
the population of the country would be
945, 760, 600.
An Ohio man has a colt that is jet
black save its name, tail and feet, which
are milk white. The dam and sire of
this freak are plain black.
The explosion of a dynamite cartridge
to blow up an old ship near Mobile. Ala,
sent to the surface a jew fish that
weighed more than 200 pounds.
An experienced caterer says that when
the guests at an entertainment are well
acquainted they eat twenty per cent.
more than they otherwise would.
A snake nineteen feet seven inches in
length was killed in the act of carrying
off a snail pig near Gladw;p, Mich. He
stole several before he was caught.
A farmer in the Cherokee nation was
sentenced the other day to imprison-
ment in the penitentiary for three years
and to pay a fine of $4,000 for calling a
man a hog-thief.
The Bible of Martha Washington,
which was bought by Mitchell, of New
York, at the sale Of the Washington rel
les in Philadelphia, has passed for $4,000
into the collection of G. f. Gunther, of
Chicago.
A piece of fine property was sold in
st. Louis recently the owner of which is
a native of and resident of johannesburg,
Natal, South Africa. The deed was
made at that distant point and was writ
ten in Dutch,
A Camden (Me.) lady who pledged
herself to earn a dollar in some unusual
way for church carpets carried out her
contract by digging worms for her
brother-in-law to use for bait on his fish
ing expeditions.
The Rev. DIR. Breckenridge, who fell
dead at the last Presbyterian General
Assembly in Detroit, Mich, had $20, 900
insurance on his life. His policy ex.
PRED the day before his death and he
renewed it by telegraph.
History says the ancient Greeks used
olive leaves for ballots, and the Austral-
ian voting system is a revival of the
practice in Rome 1000 years ago. His
bOEY ItpEdLS 1boClls u4OdCAA 1upACVC-
ments are often only the revival of an
ancient vogue of some sort.
Will Waters, aged twenty-one years,
was drowned four miles above Knox
vile, Tenn, the other day. He was en-
joying a days fishing. He had a num-
Der of live fish, which he strung around
his neck and attempted to swim the
river. He sank on the way over, pulled
down by the live fish.
An English paper offers an answer to
a question often spoken: The Authors
Society is asking why the publishers
don't cut the edges of their t~hree-volume
novels. The answer is simple. Nine
tenths of the public buy a book by its
appearance, and 'tPaternoster row"
loves "a fat book Now, il the edges
were cut, a thicker and more expensive
paper is needed to produce the same
bulk than if the edges were left uncut.
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