The Opelousas courier., 1891-09-05
SELECT sIFTINGS.

oGA1GOA JAR A4NS0s
Laugston, Oklahoma, has one white
man.
Carbon, Wyoming, pays its Mayor S.
a year.
Eight Indiana counties haven't a col
ored voter.
The English language contains about
1856, 900 words.
Iced buttermilk is the drink just nov
of swell New Workers.
The number of murders and homicides
reported in the newspapers last year was
1890.
The citizens of Green Cove Springs,
Fla, raised a subscription and pur-
chased a hearse.
The Union Pacific trestle bridge near
Dalles, Oregon, 325 feet long, was re-
Gently rebuilt in twenty-four hours after
being burned.
Lightning followed a line of gilt down
the wall paper in a Methodist Church at
Belpre, Penn, and burned off only the
hashy figures.
When Washington became President,
all the chief towns were on the sea coast,
or on the tide water of the rivers, except
Lancaster, in Pennsylvania.
A blue heron, measuring six feet from
tip of bill to tip of tail, and six feet one
inch from tip to tip of wings, was shot
at Pigeon River, N. c., a few days
ago.
The Chinese think that la grippe is
caused by evil spirits. Therefore, when
one of their number is stricken with it,
they come around with their drums and
in a neighborly sort of a way make him
feel glad to die.
Charles Warner, of Lebanon, Conn.,,
now in his seventy-ffth year, has re-
Gently experienced much pain in his jaw.
He consulted a dentist and found that a
new set of teeth were cutting. This will
make his third set.
j. A. B lffum of North Monroe, N.
H., has a curiosity in the shape of a
lamb; it has two perfect bodies, n
head, three cara and eight legs. They
were joined together at the shoulders,
aud it has teeth as large as a yearling
sheep.
The profits of coffee cultivation in
Mexico are very large. In the State of
Vera Cruz the berry is produced at a cost
Of 81 per 100 pounds, and sells for $22
10 1913 per 100 pounds. and sometimes
even higher. The production has quad
rupled since 1881.
A man named Hutch, living in Fancy
Bottom, near Weston, Mo-, stole Il
wagon load of corn from Mrs. Mary
Bland, a widow, and started to town
with it, but got stuck in the mud before
he was a mile away, and had to abandon
the corr and wagon, both of Which are
now in the possession of the widow.
Nearly every one knows that three
balls are the arms of tho Mediei family,
but it is not so we'll known that they re-
fer to an exploit of Averardo de Medici,
a commander under Charlemsgne. This
bold warrior slew the giant Mngello,
whose club he bore as a trophy. This
mace or club has three iron balls, which
the family adopted as their device.
Constantinople has fifty newspapers
nineteen of them are daily, five semi
weekly, seven weekly, three semi-month
", six monthly. In nationality fv.
are Turkish, seven Armenian, eigh,
Greek, six French, two French and Eng
lish, one italian, two Hebrew, two Hun
garian, one Arabian, one Persian, one
German.
Joseph Graham, of Eestmeu, Gil, had
fed his hogs the other morning and was
leaning on the fence watching them eat,
when he felt something chilly fondllng
and caressing him in q peculiarly earnest
way about the head, face and neck. He
saw at once that he had placed his elbov
ABOUT midway on the body of a king
snake several feet long and was holding
him fast down on the rail, and. as one
would suppose, both ends Of the snake
being loose, they cut up vigorous capers
about Mr.. Graham's countenance.