Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1891-07-25
or GENERAL ,MrEnEsJfy.

Jack II. Benner, q
longing to Henry Benr
has been all along noted
at rat killing, but he So
mer records recently.
twenty-one rats in fiftE,
tainted away as soc-~
of the last on.
strous ones, SOM
as an ordinary
An Albany
his shop the otht
favorite cat Whi- i.
glanced into cor
hu1e rat snake and q,
The other half occupied
snake. The reptile Vs.
| police and measured eighrS
| few moments more it would
cceded in getting outside the cat
out much difficulty. ~,
The Medical Record calls attentioii
] to a new morbid habit which of late
| wears has become enormously prevalent
It is the inhalation Of tobacco smoke
quite akin to the opium habit. ''The
old cigarette smoker" says the Record.
'would not exchange few deep whiffs
of his cheap cigarette for the finest Ha-
vana that could be bought with gold"
| It should be borne in mind that this
| habit, once esta ablished. becomes, ac-
cordipg to the testimony of physicians,
practically incurable.-N. Y. Herald.
The first account we havs OF an
armorcd ship is in 1880. 1t wa> -.ane OF
the fleet of the Knights of St John,
entirely sheathed with lead, and said
to have successfully resisted all the shot
of that day. At the siege of Gibraltar.
in 1882, the French and Spaniards em-
| T,rxv In-v1v r1~
| their decks The first practical use OF
wrought iron plates as defense for
| the sides of vessels was by the French
| in the Crimean war in 1853, to be used
against the Russian forts in the Baltic.
Mr.. Singerly has made an interest
ing experiment as to the time required
to print his Philadelphia Record upon
paper direct from the tree. This is the
record: Chopping one and a half cords
OF poplar wood, stripping and loading
on boat, 8 hours: time consumed in
manufacture of wood pulp. 12 hours;
manufacturing the wood pulp into pa
per, hours; transporting to Record >f-
FIVE, / hour and 30 minutes; weting
paper preparatory TO printing, 80 min
utes: printing 10000 Records, 10 min
utcs. Total time from tree to paper, %
hours
|
the surprise of Europeans each tourist
season. A correspondent tells of a
Denver man who STAGED in LONDON Tour
hours. "Say. young fellow, said he to
the clerk ''I'vc been to the mint, the
Bank of England, the Tower of Lon
don and the British Museum, an I've
seen 'em all! Anything else here?'
The clerk looked at him TRANQUILITY fol
a moment and replied: mo, sir! You've
seen hour greatest sights! Better go te
, Paris! man who can do London in
three hours is wasting time when he
stays here hover a day.
One OF the interesting features oi
, the exhibit which will be made by the
interior department of the government
, at the worlds fair will be that relating
to the American Indians. One of the
2 officials of that depar rtment in speaking
Of the matter, said: I'VE will have
Sioux and Pueblos on the ground ir
, their peculiar wigwams, making all the
articles of merchandise that they now
. I make. The Zunis, who are classed with
the Pueblos, will make blankets, stone
. bottles and a peculiar kind of pottery
, while the Navajocs will weave blankets
so firm that they will hold water. The
peculiar huts Of the Pueblos, which are
entered from the roof, will also b'
shown.
; 1T is the purpose of the govern
{ ment,'' writes New York Times cor
: respondent ''to import reindeer from
Siberia to St Lawrence island in Behr
! ing sea. and number of Siberian
6 with them to teach the natives how t
raise and care for the animals A rein
), deer park will be established, and a
soon as the animals are obtainable i,
:, ficient number some of them will b
- taken to Alaska and distributed anon
- the people in that country. And thu
the dogs, now used for sledging in tn
United States Arctic possessions, Wi
be displaced by deer, which Will forf
nutritiS r. food in case of emergency
q whes- Sf"rs do not furnish the mos
y pa cat"
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