Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-11-28
1A~nB b. SARA SATURDAY fNovEME
or GENERAL INTEREST.


In parts OF the south, and per.
haps elsewhere, the word dip is used
to designate any liquid sauce for pud-
down from time of simple manners,
when sauce was applied by dipping each
persons portion Of food into a common
vessel containing the dip"
Maryland biscuits are seldom or
never seen in New York, and are not
often made anywhere north of Della
ware. They look like porcelain door
knobs, but are more edible. To be
just right they should be Of a certain
size, say two-thirds that of the door
knob, and it is the fatal defect Of the
northern counterfeit that it is always too
small
"A little girl of Los Angeles, while
visiting the ostrich farm with her faith
err the other day, had her thumb bitten
off by one of the bears kept confined
there. The father dafed not let go the
child to get help or a weapon. but beat
the brute over the jaw with his fist un-
til his knuclsle bones were barred before
bruiu would release his hold on the
child's hand.
There is constant and reasonably
rapid increase in the amount Of busi-
ness done in the United States, as mir
rored in the weekly reports of the
various clearing houses. The total
clearings for the last week in Septem-
Der were 81, 1,374, go, ,191 against 81, ,2o0,-
1S5, 294 the preceding week and 81, 1c3,-
22G, 567 the corresponding week last
year.-Portland Oregonian.
"A Tulare candy seller agreed the
other evening to sell stranger ''all
the candy he could eat for ten cents
To the amazement and CONSERVATION
of the dealer, the man ate three pounds
OF candy and then stopped, not because
he had enough, but because the dealer
would not let him take a drink OF water
and go on again. The candy fiends >
throat was SO sticky he could no longer
swallow.
There may be money in autographs.
and then again there may not The
late Edward H. Left ng well, of New
Haven, Conn, left an autograph collec-
ton, which many judges pronounced
the finest in the world. 1t contained
the signatures Of nearly twenty thou
sand noted people. Nevertheless, 1t
was modestly put down in the inven-
tory of the estate as worth $4,000, and
the family would have been willing to
accept even less Not long ago it was
sent to Boston to be sold, and to the
surprise of every body it brought $751;
2O0.O7.
In regard to the much discussed
question as to the rapidity with which
a locomotive can run, says the Electric
al Review, some interesting official fig
ures have been given by Mr.. Stretton,
au eminent English engineer, showing
briefly that the highest speed ever ac'
! curately taken was with Bristol 6
| Exeter broad gauge engine having nine
| foot wheels, and which was. as long
| ago as 1858, officially timed at speed
Of just over eighty miles an hour for 4
short distance. this occurring in the
case of falling gradient and with a
light road.
A lunatic was arrested a day or
two ago in New York who believed
himself to be walking telephone. AS
he walked along he occasionally placed
one of his coat tails to his mouth and
shouted some question, and then would
hold the other coat tail to his ear tn
listen for al answer. Delusions OF
this kind are not without precedent
A man in Connecticut some years ago
imagined that he was glass bottle,
and that if he fell he would break into
pieces He did fall. however, at one
time and then, finding that he did not
break, concluded that he was only a
tumbler
The bank Of England, which is the
great depository of bullion in the
| realm, holds at ordinary times in its
| vaults Sl25. 900, 900. The bank of Ger
many holds $500. 600, 900 of bullion ii
| gold and silver. The bank of France
| usually holds S475, 900. 900. The United
| States holds in the treasury and in the
various national banks somewhere
about 500, 900, 900 in gold and silver
! The increasing wealth of the variou:
| nations is somewhat remarkable. Dur
| ing the last ten years the bank o
| France has more than doubled its re
| serves The bank of Germany in 1SS
held about sl4O, o0O o0O.-Drake's Mag
| azine.
A delightfully."- dainty kind OF farm
ing. more elegantly aesthetic than grow
| ing lilies in Bermuda and almos
as profitable as raising checks an
bank notes, IS that of Mr.. Timoth.
| Hopkins, of MenIo Park, Cal. In
grove of giant oaks. Mr.. Hopkins has
| five-acre patch of violets of the rares
and most beautiful varietics-doub bl
| whites, double blues. sky blue and on
variety which is blue with n faint do
Of red on one of the petals. The violet
are planted in rows two feet apart, an
| under the cool shade and in the leaf mol
| soil they attain perfection. For si'
| months a year The grower ships an az
erare of fifty punches of violets dali
to San Francisco. and the returns ar
| not far from the same mum Der of do
lars.
| Bliss in n Storm.
| II guess I'll have to have an ur
| brella when I start for home" sal
| George to Elise, as the sound