Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-11-26
OF GENERAL. INTEREST.

OF the leaves dry. This consists on . |
great number of minute hairs covering |
tine tops of the leaves Water cannot
f%netrate among these hairs, even when
the leaves ars forced down beneath the
surface. /
1t has always been generally De-
1ieved that snow keeps the ground
Warm, bot no very accurate data on the
subject has hitherto been forthcoming. |
Accordingly it is interesting 20 learn, !
from observations recently made at |
Kathefinenhurq, that at depth OF |
fourteen inches the soil, when covered !
with two feet of snow, was ten degrees |
warmer than at the surface.
The whole Moslem race cespise and
abhor the sound Of bells, which they
say cause the evil spirits to assem- BILE to-
gether They do not use them on their
mosques or churches, but have instead
men called muezzins, stationed in the
minarets, who call out five times each
day for the people to assemble Tor
prayer. The cry is: There is no god
but God, and Mohammed Is his
prophet"
"A practical joke was played by a
Jolly fellow in Roseburg, Ore. he
chewed soap until he frothed at the
mouth; then, with carving knife, he
rushed rnadly at a young lady in the
street, as if about 10 kill her. Mr..
Long, her escort. promptly knocked
him down and sat upon him until an
officer appeared and it is likely that
the Joker will be imprisoned for his
| Stiffness
The water spider, which spends
most of its time under water, carries
! bubble of air for breathing on the un-
| der side of its body, and when tins ar
| is exhausted it comes to the surface fcE
| more. 1t is enabled to carry the air
! bubble because the under SIDE OF its
| body is covered with tiny hair SGT so
close together that the surface him OF
| the water does not pass them, although
| the air does, and thus the air is imprls-
oned among the hairs
| During the past forty years the
churches in the United States have
| grown in numbers at much greater
rate than the population. In 1850 there
were 3s,ls3 churches or buildings de-
voted to purposes of worship. In 1890
there were l42, 258. The gain in forty
years was 100 ,O73, or 272 per cent In
the same period the population of the
| United States increased from %, l9l, sac
to 62, ,622, $50. This shows a gain of 3D.
| 43o, ,3T4, or 40 per cent.
| ALI the fungus diseases of plants
such as Inildew, scab, blight, rust, rot
etc, are contagious. The contagion IS
, r.. r-r;feiI fi.orn-rear TO year in the dis
eased parts, be ii leaf fruit aT branch
| The presence of any of this diseases
, | material in the orchard or vineyard in
: creases the chance of the appearance
and spread of the disease another year
| Nothing is so destructive to the fungu
: | spores as fire. and all affected plants
! or parts of plants, should be cut out an
, | burned.
A tenor in n Brooklyn church Otter
| endcavored to cause fun in the choir b.
q making droll faces at the other singers
a There was ore member of the congre
, | CATION who considered his levity idiotic
r In the collection basket he dropped
Z paper containing these words: IT
& the Pastor:-The service would be mucl
q more interesting IL You could persuad
a your tenor to act more like a man, an
: less like monkey" The pastor handle
/. | the slip to the tenor. and since then
|, | during service. his face has been e
y grave as that of high-priced sexton
= BY law of Richard IL, of En-
b. gland G3Ss). abled- bodied beggars wer
4 punished and compelled to labor, an
. / provision was made for the helpless
q BY an act of Henry Will Q53O) license
!. | were given to impotent persons to be
Y within fixed limits, but unlicensed bel
gars were whipped and all persons CIV
ing aims TO such forfeited ten times tn
amount given. In the reign of Eliz;
beth beggars above the age of fourtee
were previously whipped, burne
through the ear with hot iron. and fc
r the third offence were put to deatl
n This regulation was repealed in 1898.
d Nearly thrce-fourths of all tn
: cases Of cholera in southern Russi'
d | or in the region between the Caspia
d | sea and the Black. have proved fata
o | In St Petersburg, where better sanitar
conditions exist, over half the cas-
r have proved fatal. In Hamburg ii
ratio # deaths in cholera cases has bee
n nearly one-half, while in northern &c
'e many, in Belgium, and in France,
q has been about onc-thirl About eight
Is per cent. of the cases in Persia al
a Thought to have proved fatal y quar-
,e er of "A million Persians are supposed
have Perished by the Asiatic cholei
this year.
II One Of the most Interest," 2 cxhit
n tions in connection with the receI
Orientalist congress in London is a &C
or lection of tools used by workmen
IL building the pyramids of Egypt The
"A were gathered and are exhibited by Il
n ilustrious Psychologist. Mr.. Flinde
ne Petrie. These utensils indicate thi
ancient vorkmen had an astoniShir
r. acquaintance with many tools whiS
os we have been accustomed to consid
ed essentially modern Among the Q
hibits are solid and tubular corundur
By tipped drills and straight and circul;
m saws aud chisels describ bed as mot /
n, in ferior to those now used
II a Gigantic Goddess Of War.
, In the japanese capital there is
n gigantic image of woman made
~ wood. iron and plaster The time