St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-10-24
CURIOUS FACTS.
Some insects are in a state of maturlt

Some insects are in state of maturlt,
thirty minutes after birth.
The husk of Indian corn is being used
for the manufacture of paper.
A Chinese newspaper published in San
Francisco has been sued for libel by ar
Indian.
The Columbian River is so clear at
low water that salmon fishing can only be
successfully conducted at night.
A new mineral has been discovered in
Texas which is said to be seven times
stronger than any other when made into
wire.
The largest watermelon reported this
season weighed sixty-two pounds. and
was grown near London, Rusk County,
Texas.
In the Philippine Islands canary seed
is ground and made into a most palatable
bread which is in common use among the
people there.
People in Japan are called by the fam
lily name first, the individual, or what we
should call Christian, name next, and
then the honorifc-thus, "Snith Peter
Mr."
Probably the rarest stamp in existence
has been sold in London for $50 pounds
sterling. 1t is an American fve-cent
stamp, issued at Brattleboro, VT, in
1910.
Lizzie Arnold, of Fenton, Mich,
weighs only eighteen pounds, and is
twenty-seven years of age. She has re.
ceived overtures from circus managers,
but her parents prefer to keep her at
home.
Wheat is brought from Chicago to
Buffalo, 800 miles, by water, or 500
miles in an air line, for one per cent. per
bushel, and the lighter grains at proper
tionally lower rates.
A statistician has computed that man
might add $500 to his income by saving
the clippings of his hair every time it is
cut and having it manufactured into soft
pillows, mattresses, etc, No'hair is 81
softas that of human beings.
DR.. George e. Cramer, in his descrip-
ton of the Tabasco coal forests, in
Southern Mexico, speaks of district
where an intoxicating liquor can be man
ufactured from palm juice in a few hours
at an average cost of ten cents a gallon.
The Dolcoath mine in Cornwall, Eng
land, one of the most famous and most
tin mines in the world, has
been opened to depth of 2472 feet, and
the main shaft is now being sunk deeper.
At the bottom the temperature is nearly
ninety degrees Fahrenheit.
Ofthe entire human race, 500, 100000
are well clothed, that is, they wear gar
ments of some kind; $50, 900, 900 ha-
bitually 60 naked, and zoo, 200, 900 only
cover parts of the body; 500, O0O,O OJ
live in houses, 700, 900, 900 in huts and
caves, and $50, 900, 900 virtually have
no shelter.
It was during the three hundred years
between the Norman Conquest and the
death Of Edward III. that some twelve
hundred monasterics were founded in
England. In the twelfth centuryit was
as much the fashion to found religious
house aud endow it with parochial tithes
IS in the sixteenth it was to found a
grammar school.
The ancient Firms believed that mys-
lie bird laid an egg on the lap of Val
nainou, who Matched it in his bsom. He
ct it fall into the water aud it broke, the
over portion of the she'll forming the
Earth, the upper the sky; the liquid
white became the sun, and the yelk the
noon, while the little fragments of
broken she'll were transformed into stars.
The mummifed corpse of some old vik-
ng who departed this life perhaps a
thousand years ago was dug up recently
n peat bog at Holstebro, Denmark. Il
vas sewed in deerskin, with sinews,
cry neatly. What there was of the old
'agan was well preserved. He seemed,
However, to have lost part of his anatomy,
'articularly his nose and part of his
kull, in fight, as vikings were apt to
10, seeing that their life was one long
attle. Such as he is, he will have the
lace of honor in the royal museum, that
oasts of few such relics.