The Opelousas courier., 1892-01-23
time, it is not improbable it win prove
the cheaper of the two.-N. 7. Sun.
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California raises the cork-oak tree.
Louisiana has a 1900, 000-acre farm.
Baseball is played in a Chicago hall as
a winter entertainment.
There are over 1, 100, 900 railroad cars
md 5000 locomotives in the United
States.
Thirty barrels of incense were burned
during a three days cereponial in Siam
recently.
The earliest American coin was issued
in 1912 and had a representation of a hog
on its face.
Companies in New York and New
Jersey have united to bridge the Hudson
at jersey City.
Cincinnati is about to build a mann
moth building similar to the Auditor
ium of Chicago.
In Paris, Me-, there was a recent
meeting OF eleven persons whose ages
added up to 1913.
Within forty minutes the other day at
Hamilton, Mo-, one cat killed and
stacked up twenty-eight rats.
Fifty English sparrows were taken to
Australia in 1850. They have multiplied
until theynow number countless millions.
The history of Iceland as a nation ex-
tends back more than 1000 years, yet the
records show but two thefts in all that
time.
Bounties were paid for sixty-oae bears,
thirty wolves, ~forty-nine lynxes, 6016
foxes, S3S eagles and 4539 hawks in
Norway last year.
It is told that Pennsylvania will re-
produce Independence Hall at the
Worlds Fair as the building especially
devoted to that State.
A gentleman in Tacoma, Washington,
recently gave a dinner to twenty-eight
people, the dining-room being the inte-
rior of the trunk of a tree on his estate.
The British Parliament allows to each
of the daughters of the Queen an income
of $50, 900 a year. The younger sons
of the Queen receive 1926, 900 each a
year.
The chair occupied by Garibaldi, in
the italian legislative chamber in Rome,
is hung with a laurel wreath. Since the
patriots death no one has been allowed
to use it..
When Queen Victoria's head gardener
left her service recently the Queen pre-
sented him with a superb silver tea SER
vice es a token of the esteem in which
she held him.
The largest amount Of mail ever car
ried across the Atlantic by any n YES.
sci was $40 sacks on board the City of
New York, which arrived at Queens
town the other day.
Waves exert a force of one ton per
square inch when they are only twenty
feet high. At Cassis, France, granite
blocks of fifteen cubic metres have been
moved by wave force.
In the museum of the Dead Letter
Office at Washington, D. c., there is a
piece of parchment upon which is penued
a copy Of the Lords Prayer written in
ffty-four different languages.
Benjamin ParnelI was awarded the
prize of 500 offered by the Bradley
County Fair Association at Warren,
Ark, for exhibiting the largest family.
He was present with his wife and ninety.
eight descendants.
George Holmes, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
is the owner Of a peculiar diamond. In
the morning it is a beautiful sky blue,
at loon is perfectly white, and at six
o'clock in the evening begins to turn
black, and after sunse. il i. like a piece
of coal.
The American Humane Society,
through George T. Angel, of Bostol,
has offered a prize of $1,000 for the best
equestrian dranatization of Black
Beauty" which shall embody the merci.
full teachings of the book.
An idea of the amount of ammunition
wasted in battle may be gained from
the statement that it requires at least
1000 shots to kill one man. This is
equivalent to eighty pounds of lead. At
the battle of Solferino it was found that
279 pounds of lead were expended per
killed, representing $54 worth of
small-arm ammunition.
It is almost impossible to find on the
peninsula of Delaware and Maryland a
point ten miles from navigable tide
water. The whole region is cut up by
navigable streams, and in the lower part
of the peninsula small ship-yards are
found in many villages, aud, indeed,
often clear outside of village limits.
There are many good shipwrights
throughout the region, and for nearly
two hundred years much of the produces
has been carried in vessels built within
q few miles of where it was grown.