The Opelousas courier., 1892-01-09
SELECT SIFTINGs.
Chill money is pasteboard.

Chill money is pasteboard.
Russia has the biggest Krupp gun.
Detroit, Mich, has a horse twenty-one
hands high.
The school boys of Maiden, Mass, will
hereafter be taught to sew during school
hours.
At st. Louis the Mississippi is $500
feet wide; at New Orleans it is $500
feet wide.
Immense focks of crows have externi-
mated the grasshopper pest in some parts
of California.
The waters of Lake Erie are to be
piped to Cincinnati, taking in many
other cities en- route.
To date of December, 1890, the British
had 1410 breech-loading rifles adoat, ex
elusive of secondary battery guns.
Sanford Dowd, who was the father Of
thirty-one children, has just died at
Eldon, Iowa, at the age of eighty-seven
years.
Monkeys have been even objects of
alteration; and in Ahmenadab Qndia)
hospitals were erected where from 1000
to 1000 monkeys were kept in supposed
ease and luxury.
A veteran hunter says that there are
twice as many large game animals In
| Maine now as there were ten years ago,
and attributes this fact to the faithful ems
forcement of the game laws.
There is a thrifty farmer in the West
who pays twenty-five cents a day less to
| those of his hands who work in the fields
nearest to the railroads. This he does be-
cause they stop whenever the trains go
| by, and so lose e-sixth of their working
time.
The ruins of the palace of the Queen
of Sheba have not been found in Masho-
holland, Africa, whence the wonderful
gold of 0phir is supposed to have come
But the Zimball ruins show that this
strange country was nce the scene of a
mighty civilization.
Business correspondence between
firms and peers is necessarily ungran.
NAUTICAL. The former are obliged to be-
gin "My Lord" (since the plursi is out
of the question), aud to conclude ln the
same manner eve remain, my lord,
your obedient servants
IN the Harleian MS, A. D. $50, men-
ton is made of an extraordinary piece Of
work-the whole Bible contained in au
English walnut shell no larger THAI a
hens egg. ttThe NUT says the MS,
stholdeth the book, aud there are as
macy leaves in it as in the great Bible"
The modes of fishing for oysters are
as various as the modes of rearing and
eating. At Minorca the fisherman sim
ply dives to a depth Of seventy feet with
a weight in one hand to carry him down.
With the other hand he picks up as
many oysters as ne eau carry and brings
them up to the boat.
Young people at Kingston, Luze.ne
county, Penn, have held a .scooweb
party Selecting a numbered card
from a basket they searched the walls of
the house, from attic to cellar if naces-
sary, until they found thereon q CORES.
ponding number aud a designation Of
partner to aupper for each searcher.
The ancient city of Smyrna has been
the scene of many CONGREGATIONS in past
years. In 1853 a fire destroyed 5000
houses, with a loss Of 1000, 600; in
1872 a fire in the same city carried off
5000 dwellings, aud 5000 to 1000 shops,
entaiIing a loss Of $50, O0o, 900; and in
1776 there were 1000 shops, mosques,
magazines, ETC., burned.
French Canadians who move over the
border into New England usually Angli-
CHE their I'm IN the course OF O gen
Grafton or 50. Dubois becomes Wood,
Des Ruisseux and Larivierc become
Rivers, etc. Occasionally curious freaks
IN appellation result from the practice.
Not long ago a French Canadian named
Noel Rocquette took out his naturalizaa
ton papers as Christmas snowshoe.
About ~thirty-four years ago a vessel
called the Sally, while coming up the
SoIway, was wrecked opposite Carsethorn,
Scotland. Juriously enough, within the
last few days the mast Of the vessel has
appeared above the sand, and now there
IS 4 considerable portion Of the hull in
sight. The reason assigned for this is
that the channel has shifted, as it FREE
quentIy does in the solwly. anl has
caused the vessel to tilt up through thu
sand. It will, Of course, be . great
danger to shipping In the district