The Opelousas courier., 1891-07-25
SELECT STRINGS.
Two persons die every second.

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Alaska claims the largest quartz mill.
In New York. the other day, the oath
of a sick person was taken through the
telephone.
"Gath" says that nature seldom
affords a man more than two chances in
his lifetime.
Pennsylvania has a law which provides
a fine of sixty-three cents per word for
swearing profanely.
The plug hat is said to be rapidly re-
placing the native headgear among the
mandarins of China.
The register of the largest hotel at
Jacksonville, Fla, shows $500 auto"
graphs for the past season.
st. Louis claims the honor of having
inaugrated the industry of exporting
prairie chickens to Europe.
A mar run over by a train at Lancas-
ter, Penn, exclaimed: "If I am going tc
die give me a chew of tobacco first"
Since the establishment IN 1902 OF
West Point Military Academy 1884 men
have received diplomas from that institu-
ton.
A lady adyertises in a German paper
for a few respectable children to amuse
a cat in delicate health, two or three
hours a day.
After a recent rain storm at Folsom,
CAL, gold nuggets were picked mp in
the streets. A lucky boy found n that
he sold for 50.
According to a recent report sent to
the Lower House, Prussia, there were
1895 stations in the State stud, $40
of which were bred there.
The largest reservoir or artificial tank
in the world is at Dhetar, twenty miles
southeast of Udaiaur, India. It covers
an area of twenty-one square miles.
The old Indian practise is to count up
to ten on the fingers, and then count by
tens. Some of the tribes more intelli.
| gent than others were able to count tens
of tens.
Prince Bismarck, who farms extern
sively at Varzin, is said to have cleared
$40, 900 from his cattle and geese last
year, and his profit from yeast exceeded
$50, 600.
A letter of George Washington, dated
May I'd, 1776, and addressed to Colonel
George Clinton, sold for $50 recently,
and another written from Valley Forge
Nsy 28th, 1778, brought $65.
A new species of pottery has been
invented at the Sevres mandatory
which will withstand the effect of rain
and frost. It will be in request for thu
decoration of parks and gardens.
! Only five crocodiles have ever been
captured in Florida, although alligators
are numerous. One difference between
the two is that the crocodile works his
upper jaw, while the alligator moves its
lower jaw.
The tail of an alligator of twelve feet
in length, on boiling, furnishes from
fifty to seventy pints Of excellent oil,
which, in Brazil, is used for lighting,
and in medicine especially as a cure for
rheumatism.
Not all of the Presidents were inaug-
urated on the 4th OF March. Washing
tons day was April 80, 1889. Monrue's
second term began with March 5, 1912.
Tyler took the oath on April s, 1871,
Taylor on March 5, 1849, Fillmore on
July 10, 1850, Johnson on April Is,
1866, and R. B. Hayes On March 5,
1877.
The wedding of Chow Ho, a China
man, to Woo Gu Chung, a pretty Orien
tai maiden, aroused considerable interes
in Denver on a recent week. The brid'
is the daughter of a Professor in n o
the native colleges of Pekin, and cos
her husband $1,000 price which at tn
Chinese rating is rather high even for
woman of Miss Chung's accomplish
ments.
A new society Of scientific research il
the American Anthropometric Society
lately formed in Philadelphia. Eacl
member will bequeath his brain to the
organization for examination in the in
terest of science and humanity. On
purpose of the society will be that o
studyi1g the racial features of the brain
as in the case of the North American In
6iiau, the Chinese and the African, a
well as the cerebral c~onvolutions Q
famous thinkers.