The Opelousas courier., 1892-01-30
SELECT SIFFINGS.
TIE Irish mile consists of 224o yards.

Germany's cavalry horses are shod
with paper shoes.
A petrifed elephant has been I'M
sarthed near Jasper, Fla.
The town house in Scltuate, Mass;
erected in 1864, was burned a few days
ago,
A Pasadena (Cal.) man has this season
taken 1000 pounds Of peaches from two
large trees in his orchard.
Mammoth freight houses, six stories in
Insight, are projected for the Northern
Pacific Railroad at Chicago.
All shopping in Call is done in the
evenings, as the afternoons are too not
and the stores close for a siesta.
It is said that blue-syed boys get
lost more easily aud more frequently than
bows that have brown or black eyes.
Millet's famous picture, "Tht
Angelus," is kept insured for $40, 600.
and Meissonier's "1S14' for $120, 900.
A moose was shot the other day in the
northern part of Maine which stood
twenty hands high and weighed 140o
pounds.
The first thing a japanese does in the
morning is to take down the entire front
of his building, leaving the Whole in
terror open to view.
Rev. w. FL. Quilliau, CT the English
Church, in Liverpool, has embraced
Mohammedanism. There is. a Moslen
institute in Liverpool.
The silk industry shows that a single
cocoon from a well-fed silkworn will
often produce a continuous fibre more
than 1000 yards long.
Chill, with a territory equal to that Of
all the States northeast OF Pennsyl'
vania, Ohio and Indiana, those included,
has a population of only 1000, 900.
On-a pane of glass in the window ola
dwelling in Argyle, Washington County,
N. Y, there is an excellent picture of an
old lady, photographed by lightning
during a storm in July, 1883.
A family living near Augusta, Me-,
have as a pet a anne crow, which accom-
panies them whenever they go to the city
on Sundays or market days, flying above
and a little in advance of the horses.
The sponge industry of the Bahama
Islands employs 500 small vessels ano
about 5000 men. This industry is being
developed on the Florida coast, and the
sponges in this locality are said to bt
finer than on the Bahamas.
A buried city has been discovered at
the bottom of the Adriatic, a little to
the south of the peninsula of Istria. It
is believed to be the lost town of Cissa,
which was located on an island described
by PIiny, but which cannot now be
found.
The Los Angeles Cali Herald denies
that the late James w. Marshall was the
~discoverero of gold on the Pacific Slope.
Marshall dated his discovery fromJanuarY,
1849 the Herald says that Francisco Lopez
discovered it in Los Angeles County
in 1912.
The locomotives in the United States
il coupled together would make a train
800 miles long, the passenger cars
would make 300 miles more, and would
carry /, 800, 900 people. With the al
dition of all the freight cars the train
would be more than 1000 miles long.
The smallest known species of hcgs
are quartered at the London Geological
Gardens. They came from the southern
part of Australia, and are known as
s'the pigny hogs of the Autipodes. "
They are well formed, frisky and good
natured, and about the size of a musk
rat.
The first man killed in the Franco.
Prussiau war of 1870 has had his me II
DRY honored by a monument which has
been erected near Worth. SingularlS
enough, he proves to have been neither
a German nor a Frenchman, but an Eag-
lishman, who wa with the German
army.
Virginia, Maryland and North Caro-
lima each have two species OF lizard pro
vided with three eyes. If you ask a IA.
tive of either of the States mentioned
about the three-eyed lizard he will laugh
at you; that is, unless he is a naturalist
and has given the subject some study.
Scientists claim that they are quite com
mon.
Flavoring butter with the odor. of
fresh flowers is one Of the arts of the
French peasantry. The process is very
simple, aud consists of putting the little
prints, which have first been wrapped in
a thin cloth, into a tight porcelain dish
on a bed of roses or whatever blossoms
are chosen. Among the flowers wnico
give the most desirable results are clover
and %nasturtiums.