Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-01-31
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
MANY Vermont farmers have decided
TO plant nut orchards, as few nuts are
how grown in that State.
The knights of Pythias are so well
drilled that they could put an army Of
$4,000 men into the field at two weeks
notice.
Man is the universal animal. It il
estimated that there is 1880, ,OOO, 900 OF
him on the globe. The sheep rank next
with 500, OOO, 200.
The skin of the wolf, according 70
an old superstition, was to be worn
epilepsy, and the skin of the head was
a safeguard against all malevolent de-
mons.
erected ON the river Tiber at Rome,
A. D. so. Wind-mills were in original
use in the twelfth century. Tide-mills
were operated in Venice about 170s.
Saw-mills are said to have been in use
at Augsberg, Germany, about 1882.
Boston cookies" which are famous
over very large area of England, ara
gathered from the sands, parboiled,
ton are sent by railway in bags, chiefly
large, where they are sold and consumed
as delicacies by the masses.
One sheep raiser recently sold at
Albuquerque, N. NJ, 200, 900 pounds OF
merino wool of the finest texture. II
was brought to market in sixty-three
wagons, each drawn by four oxen. Be.
toll
street parade was made. The process
sion was nearly mile long.
1T is Funny.-A big steamer, led by
tug, is passing down the starboard
side of channel. A big steamer, led
by a tug, is coming up the port side OF
channel. There is no more need of a
street 200 feet wide, and yet they toot
toot! confuse each other and smash TO-
gether.-Detroit Free Press.
If a criminal act is committed by a
family member in China, even distant
relatives are condemned to bear share
of the punishment, for it was, in some
measure, their duty to see that the de-
linquent was brought up in proper
manner: they should have used their in.
fiuehce, or at least prevented the act by
done so, they are rightly punished fol
culpable negligence.
The New York Tribune tells of q
man who has as hobby an inordinate Gu.
riosity as to his remote ancestry. He
studied the subject exhaustively and
went to Boston to discover missing
link. There he learned that the fore
father of whom he knew so little had
aov1v in tho lac haar
PEELED to leave Boston because he haG
,.-II >->1I1',,unrIS a.-.-o>.-5 e~..-.s- ..l
the street. The investigator has lost
much of his interest in genealogy.
In an article on the danger of fire
from steam pipes in Il German paper il
is said that after wood has remained Q
long time in contact with steam. hot
water or hot air pipes the surface be-
comes carbonizcd, and during warm
weather the charcoal absorbs moisture:
when again heated ths- moisture is
driven off. leaving a vacuum into which
the fresh air current, circ hlating around
the pipes, rapidly penetrates and i'm
parts oxygen to the charcoal. causing q
gradual heating and eventually combus
ton
AT Mannheim, Germany, the follow.
ing method is employed in preparing
feathers for the market. The bales of
feathers as they come i'll are opened
near a kind of gin or breaker, which
shakes out the feathers and throws them
around in a chamber through which a
strong air current is passing. From this
machine they pass to others. in which
the long and heavy feathers are sepa.
rated by ventilators from the short anG
light. until the final grade of delicate
down is blown into large receiver,
The cleaning is effected by jets OF
steam, the dirt thus 1oosened being
drawn off by currents of dry air.
Nowadays many kitchen stoves and
ranges are constructed on scientific
principles with a view to the attainment
of the best possible results from the
burning of the coal consumed When
cold weather comes. and. for that mat
ter. in all seasons many persons try to
make more heat by filling the stove o4
range with coal to the lids. In most
stoves the best results are attnined with
a bright fire that just fills the fireboX OF
that rises but very little above it. The
fire should be we'll started and made ts
burn evenly. and then it should be fec
with thin layers Of coal spread with
some care so that it will burn readily
and all at the same time.--NI. Y. Sun.
What Girls Eat.
Four hundred and sixty -seven girl.
lunchcd in large New York restaurant
tho other Sav Thirteen orders con