St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-11-21
CURIOUS FACTS.
A Baltimore mulatto is turning pink.
The Aims stand in six different States

A Baltimore mulatto is turning pink.
The Alps stand in six different States
A sunfower in season will produce
~, 900 seeds, while poppy bears 3D.
600.
The amount of gold in the world
would fit in room twenty feet each
way.
A rose cultivated in Philadelphia
dollhouse measures seventeen Inches in
width.
Covent Garden in London has beer
in the possession of the Bedford famil
for 800 years.
Telephones are put in the houses OF
Stockholm, Sweden, at the rate of $2.75
year each. For each call, however,
there is charge of 2a cents extra.
A novelty at the Botanic Garden in
Washington is plant whose leaf bears
remarkably we'll executed caricature OF
the Duke of wellington; all done in the
veinlng.
A Cheviot eve in Dumfries, Scotland,
gave birth to five lambs in May. Three
other ewes in the flock have dropped
trlplets, which makes fourteen lambs to
four ewes.
When the japanese hitch horse IN
the street. they do so by tying his four
legs together. Hitching posts are never
used in Japan or Corea, except by
foreigners.
Some land in Paris has been sold at the
rate of $4,000, 900 per acre, some IN
London for what would net IS, 900, OOt
per acre. and some in New York for
sum equal to $4,000, 900.
The City Troop, of Philadelphia, pos
sesses what is believed to be the only
Continental flag in existence. The old
flag is preserved between two pieces OF
glass to keep it from falling to pieces.
The importance of microbes to the
growth of plants has been practically
demonstrated by NJ. Laurent, OF France,
who obtained only one-fourth as much
buckwheat from sterilized mold as he
did from soil swarming with bacteria.
There is cone Of FURNISHED tin,
twenty inches in height and twelve in
diameter, on the top OF Mount Katahdin,
placed there by the Appslachin Club, OF
Bangor, Me. It denotes the distance
from which the summit OF the peak may
be seen.
In the hippopotamus the eyes, ears
and postrils are set exactly on the same
plane. This enables the animal to sink
its body entirely below the surface o.
the water and yet be able to perceive
the approach of foes By hearing, sight
and scent.
DR.. A. n. Crawford raised a musk
melon in his garden in South Abbeville
Ga. this season that measured three fee
in length aud was correspondingly large
In circumference. The favor OF tn
melon was excellent, rivaling the can
telope in this respect.
A citizen of Chestnut Ridge, Penn..
owns a tame crow that is remarkably in
telligent. Last summer he split the
birds tongue aud taught him to talk
The crow delights in calling the cows
and will laugh immoderately when h
succeeds in fooling the dog and cat.
The hide of the former Cincinnati ele
phaut, Old Chief, which was shot las
February, has been stuffed, aad with th'
mounted skeleton of the brute has beer
housed in special building at the Gin
cinnati Geological Gardens. The hid
weighed HOO pounds, and it has beef
stuffed with oakum.
The oldest church in Europe is sal
by some who are discussing the questio
to be St. Martins, Canterbury, England
which was built as a church before tn
end of the fourth century. st. Mar!
in-the- Castle, Dover, was built aboy
this time, but for nearly two hundre
wears it was used as garrison fu
depot.
Boiling to death was once legal put
ishmcnt, though not frequently usee
). 1t was the sentence for poisonin:: an
. coming. Drowning was also commo
The latter was used in Anglo.Saxo
times for theft, and it was instituted b
a Richard the Lion Hearted as the punist
ment for any soldier who killed fello
crusader journeying to Palestine. Th
was discontinued about the beginning
the seventeenth century.