The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-21
SELECT SIFTINGS.
IRON bricks are in use.

IRON bricks are IN use.
Tea was first used in England in 1858
The average weight Of q skeleton is
about fourteen pounds.
A million silver dollars weigh twenty
eight and a quarter tons.
DR.. Hinckle, of Americas, Ga, has a
piece of chinaware 791 years old.
The drivers of the street cars in Allan
Ia, Ga, are not allowed to carry whips.
The artificial incubation of egg
originated in Egypt, where it is still
carried on.
Rebels in Morocco are executed by
permitting elephants to walk over them
and crush them.
The average weight of an Englishmen
is $50 pounds, of a Frenchmen, 1876
pounds; a German, 146 pounds.
Brooklyn has recently developed two
women housebreakers one of them under
twenty and the other about fifty.
A person wounded must die within O
year and a day to make the person in
f%icting the wound guilty of murder.
The intestines of an OK have an aver.
age length of about $50 feet, and those
of a sheep or a pig of about ninety feet.
A swordfsh that weighed $50 pounds
was caught recently by George Wake
field, keeper of the Cape Porpoise (Me.)
light.
A baby BORN on a train in Tennessee
one day recently has been named Rom
illus, after the sleeping car in which he
first saw light. -...
The Turkish mother loads her child
with amulets as soon as it IS born and a
small bit of mud well stepped in hot
water, prepared by previous charms, is
stuck on its forehead.
Two gum trees which tower v e 100
feet above a little church in Guatemala,
are sixty feet in circumference, and their
strong roots have pushed the foundations
of the church out Of place.
The policemen of Jersey City, N. J.,
are obliged TO wear a head dress of mos
quito nettin over their helmets at night
to protect themselves from the ravages
of the tormenting askeeter."
Winter forcing of tomatoes is very
profitable, especially near large cities. A
high temperature, plenty of sunlight and
great care in the growing are all that is
required to produce good results.
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In the course of the recent eruption Of
Vesuvius some aeronauts made a visit to
it in a balloon, remaining over it loa,
enough to get good photographs of the
crater, running lava, and so forth.
In the museum of the Dead Letter
Office at Washington, d. c., there is
piece of parchment upon which is
penned q copy of the Lords Prayer
written in ffty-four different languages.
The old-fashioned Russian wagon
driver who carried passengers aud freight
long distances in his rule, self-eontrived
vehicle is still competing successfully
with the steam horse in the land of the
White Gar.
The greatest depth in the Western
Mediterranean Sea, 10, 800 feet, is be.
tween Sicily, Sardinia and Africa. Re.
cent sounding in the eastern basin has
a maximum depth of Is, $50 feet
between Malta and Gambia.
It has been found impossible to keep
ostriehes alive in the London TOO"
Their omnivorous Threats discriminate
against nothing, aud poisonous coppers,
which mischievcus people feed them, are
IS eagerly devoured as any other deli.
cacy.
They are building a root cellar upon
farm connected with the Insane Asy-
lum at Augusta, Me-, which is said te
be the largest in the State, being 40xt0t
feet. 1t viii cost $4,000, and will b
used to store potatoes from a twenty. acr,
field and vegetables from a twenty-five
acre garden.