Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-04-04
or GENERAL INTEREST.

in a corn-husking match in western
Iowa, each of two contestants, working
ten hours, huslxed in a field, averaging
forty bushels to the acre, one hundred
and fifty bushels. The prize was given
to the man whose corn was the freest
from huslss.
The Medical journal advises t!,e
careful examination and washing Of
celery before it is used. Many culti-
vators force the growth of the vegeta BILE
with night soil, which is full of typhoid
fever bacilli. The plants construction
is such as TO make it peculiarly apt to
hold portions of this soil.
Should Have Waitcd.-Henry Will
liams gave hack driver two dollars to
take him to the depot in Savannah in
advance of the bus, and he got there
in time to be run over by horse,
smashed under bill board and tram
pied on by drove of mules. When the
bus came rolling up he was rolled off
to a hospital.-Detroit Free Press.
Recently q young man who was
hunting in the woods near Nevada City,
Colo, was chased by wild hog and
'treed.'' AS the beast showed signs of
staying the young man reached down
for his rifle, which he had left standing
against the trunk. In drawing it up it
was discharged, and the ball so badly
shattered the hand that it was found
necessary to amputate it.
Three different newspapers in New
York printed on the same day recently
three different descriptions OF Miss Ava
Willing, the bride of John Jacob Astor.
According to one she is a black-halred
Young woman, with luscious dark eyes,
a slender figure and Il stately manner.
The second paper said she was blonde,
who recalls the delicate tints of Amelie
Rivcs' dainty beauty, and the third de-
scribed her as "brOwn-halred, sunny
eyed Young woman who had lived so
long in Europe that she spoke with a
French accent.
1t is not generally known that com
1nercial glycerinc contains consider
a BILE portion of arsenic. This fact
should be borne in mind by persons who
imagine this article to be SO harmless
that it can be used in almost any guam
tity. A recent medical journal reports
a case in which gentleman nearly lost
his life through symptoms closely re-
sembling those of cholera by the use
of cheap grade of glyccrine. Unless
the glycerinc is chemically pure, it is IL
bic TO prCuuce polSoAiouS sSAiPIoAiiS
when taken internally.
The Indian of colonial times did
not hesitate to resort to treachery to
eutrap his foes. He would profess
friendship in order to disarm an enemy.
He gloried in ingenious tricks, such as
the wearing of snow-shoes with the
hind part before, so as to make an enc
nv believe that he had gone in an op-
pOsite direction. He would sometimes
initiate the cry of the wild turkey and
so tempt a white hunter into the woods
that he might destroy him. An Indian
scout would dress himself up with twigs
so as to look like a bush. Many of these
things the white people learned to prac-
ticc also.
The New York Central boasts car
that is a novel specimen of a labor-sav-
ing machine. Inside it is some clock
like mechanism which, as the car goes
over the track, records every defect in
the rails. If these have spread the
thirty-second part of an inch beyond
tho standard width, or there is loose
Joint or defective connection the ma
chine notes it all down, as well as the
distance from one place TO another.
Formerly this work was done by AL
army of tracll-wallkcrs. 1t is proposed
to develop the invention and combine
the detective mechanism of the car with
an ordinary coach SO that mechanical
examinations of the tracks can be made
by the regular trains.