The Opelousas courier., 1891-11-14
SELECF SIETINGS.

About ten per cent. of the flowers that
grow in Europe are odoriferous.
CASTLE is the only country in the
world where CASTLE soap is not used.
A syndicate of Chicagoians is about to
embark in fig-culture on a large scale.
A huge potato, weighing twenty-seven
pounds, has been raised by a farmer at
Bayou Sara, La.
A mountain of coal in Wild Horse
Valley, Wyoming, has been burning for
more than thirty years.
In a lifetime of eighty years the human
heartbeats 800, 000, 900 times, an average
of seventy beats a minute.
Henry Cook, a Norwich Conn tailor,
has a beard seven feet two inches long,
though he is only five feet six inches
tall.
The temple of Hom-mon-ji, at Ikega-
mi, begun in 1882 and finished in 1907,
is one of the most famous religious struc-
lures in Japan.
A traveller said the other day that
Philadelphia had more people with dark
hair and blue and gray eyes than any
place he ever visited.
Petroleum, which actually flows uu-
aided through the rocks, has been dis
covered at Crows Nest in the Canadian
Rocky Mountains.
The way to tell q well-bred dog &C
cordinp to a canine ~fancier, is to grasp
him by the back of the neck and held
him up. If 9 cur, he yelps; if well-bred,
he never utterS a whlmper.
In the reign of William III. all child
~stealers apprehended were branded with
a red-hot r for rogue on the shoulders;
M for manslaughter on the right hand,
and T for thief ON the left one.
Carrier pigeons are being trained at
Portsmouth, England, for carrying mes
sages from ships at sea to the shore.
During some trials they successfully
crossed the channel during a fog.
The artificial incubation of eggs origl-
mated in Egypt, where it is still carried
on. According to a Consular report no
fewer than 5000, 600 eggs are Matched
in this way every year Oh the banks OF
the Nile.
Robert T. Barker, of New Bedford,
Mass, read the Bible through for the
first time in 1903. Since that date he
has read it ninety-nine times. 1t usually
takes him two months to read it from
beginning to end.
A man fishing at Jersey, England, was
caught by the rising tide, and a boat had
to be put out to rescue him. The next
day the magistrate sentenced him to
eight days hard labor s'for the trouble
he had caused"
The census reports show IN average
value of COWS in the United States OF
$21. so, or ffty-two cents each less than
ten years ago. There must be some
cheap COWS somewhere. Horses average
$1.84 less in valuo than in 1880.
Probably the finest and c~ostliest COL
loge library building will be the one
which has been built for the University
of Leipsic. Nearly $1,000, 900 were ex-
pended on it. The library of the Uni
versity consists of $40 900 volumes.
A curious fact in the early history }of
pins is that when they were first soldgin
'sopen shop there was such a great de-
mand for them that q code was passed
permitting their sale only on two days in
the vear-the list and ID of January.
Nine hundred tons of green peas were
delivered in London by the Great East.
ern Railway Company on a recent satur-
day. This large quantity so depressed
the prices in the market that most of
them are said to have been sold at a
loss.
An army of locusts ten miles wide re-
Gently swept over the Punjab in India.
It occupied five days in passing. Not
| much harm was done to crons, however,
since they were so far advanced that
| they could be harvested before the locusts
reached them.
The lion IS eaten by ONE African
races and the hippopotamus by others.
The Zulus find carbon 50 much to their
liking that they apply to it the word
"uborni," s~ignifying great happiness
The aboriginal Australians and Hotten'
OTIS prefer the iutcstincs of animals.