The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-08-27
a Kan.as boz weIgha I25a pound.

Most "sTdincs' arc sprah aud Pilch-
ards.
A Louisiana orange tree win yield
1000 oranges.
A Nonistown PENN family owns
fosty-seycn cats.
The United State, declared war
against Tnpoli on June 10, 1901.
4 residont Of Fort Worth, Texas.
claims 70 have earnivorous COW.
A medical journal states that five
elergymen live as long AZ eight working
men.
A sonoma County (Cal.) yineyardist
has purchased 10, 900 paper bags TO coy
or the young vines and protect them
from grasshoppers.
There is colored girl in Baltimore
who wants 10 remain black, and has
gone TO hospital tc be treated for .
peculiar disease, by which her skin -
turning white
Generosity il national trait Of the
Chilians, aud the American tramps who
drift into Santiago are reputed to make
from $40 to $40 a day by begging at the
doors Of the wealthy.
A baby alligator, brought from Flor
ida FIVE years ago and liberated In Lin
1 colu (Mo.) swamp has grown to mon
ster that can eat dog, 80 the noble
Penobscot Indians say.
The first German court OF justice has
held a session in HeIigolaud The cal.
endar was blank The clerk registered
the fact that the court met and adj
journed and all was over.
One Of the finest collection Of stamps,
numbering 100, 900, in the world is
owned by Dr. Legrand, Of Neuilly, in
France, The collection is kept under
lock and key aud is rarely seen by any
one but its owner.
The largest ship canal in Europe IL the
1 great North Holland Canal, from Am
sterdam to 1elder, fifty-one miles; com
pleted in 1926, l25 feet vide at water
/ surface thirty-one feet wide at bottom;
I depth twenty feet.
4 IT Is said that chocolate is used In the
interior Of South America for currency,
rs are ooeoanuts and eggs. Norway
even now uses corn for coin. In India
cakes Of tea pass rs currency, and in
China pieces Of silk.
A log raft composed Of sixteen cribs,
each sixty feet long, forty icot wide and
nineteen feet deep, is presently to be
towed from st. John, New Brunswick,
to Brooklyn The cribs arc 70 be eighty
feet apart, making the tow about 400
feet long
A turtle four feet across tho back has
been located in Current River, Missouri,
for fifty gears Tho other day hunter
shot il between the eyes, but tho bal
glanced OIL aud inbedded itself 10 d
tree, while the tui tie swan placidly into
deep water.
A Burmese woman, who was alarmed
4 NY the iungscontinued absence Of her
husband, consulted s'charmerp as Ia
the best means OF scouting his return.
She was told to place lighted candle
on her bed and leave te Ia :.sSss-.mrrIss "a
f~fff.fft0u candle under her mosquito cur
tain and went away, only to return %
iind her house aud the adjoining one.
in flames. The fire spread and l3i
houses were destroyed.
A Baltimore freak is a frog Of good
size aud q tsihc light in color, but APP
parently not different from any othel
frog. The frcakishness developed wher
his frogship was worried, when, Instead
Of hopping of or giving utterance 70 th'
deep, sonorous note usually heard from
frogs, he simply opened his mouth auc
cried. The frog is nothing If not hu
man, aud suggests both in tone and vol
umo bad, poeyish child. The cry
not a single note, but several, and ls con
tinucd oven after the annoyance ceases.