Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-02-13
or GENERAL INTEREST.

Ore. In dressing the fowl woman dis
covered In the craw two small nuggets
of gold about the size of q small nail
head. How the chicken found the gold
is now the question.
What is believed to be the largest
steel planer in this country was shipped
the other day from Plainfield, N. j., TO
ittsburgh. The bed of the machine
weighs forty-three tons, the table
twenty-six tons and the crossroads
twenty-five tons. The arch weighs
four and one-half tons and driving gear
four tons.
The bail bond of jefferson Davis.
bearing the signature of Horace Greeley,
Gerritt Smith and some other prom
inent men, has been missing from tho
files Of the circuit court of Richmond
since 1870, and how much longer it is
difficult to say. The present clerk of
the court thinks that the person who
stole it is now dead.
"A rich young woman in New Jersey
has married coachman. Whether or
not this was advantageous to both par
tics or to one of them or to neither is
not reported. II the woman is good
for nothing, the coachman is to be pit
led provided he be good for nything.
If.neither of them is of any account,
they are we'll matched.
Chambers Journal has an article
on the commercial value Of small
things. The weight of the postage
stamps sold in New York city last year
was thirteen tons. In Russia l26, 900. 900
wooden spoons are made every year.
One factory in Paris makes 100, 600, 900
toothpicks year. In the United
States 1000. 900 matches are used an
nually; in France 900, 600. 900.
Every lover of rare and curious in
formation knows that most of the an
clients were dead set against beans,
but no modern unraveler of old-time
mysteries knows why. 1t may be truly
said that there are but few philoso-
piers of the present day that "know
beans" Pythagoras admonished his
pupils to abstain from beans" but on
what grounds no one knows"
To make a spool of thread the very
best Sea Island cotton is used This is
taken in the raw state and torn to
pieces by a machine called a breaker.
1t is then freed from its impurities by
several other machines, after which it
is taken up by slipper" and twisted
into soft yarn. Several strands of this
are twisted into one fine thread, three
p1 lNeSe dIc VucA I"lSGco loScbucTs
making the siX-cord thread, which, af-
ter being bleached, is ready to sell.
A ply ysician who spent some time
in the countries bordering on the Gulf
of Mexico found curious body of men
amopp the native. --l'.A c,.sI s.,1,' ue
Calebra, or the safe from vipers. Hav-
ing been inoculated with the poison OF
serpents they were proof against their
venomous bites The incubation was
made with the venom tooth of viper
and the bulb OF a native plant called
mano del sapo (toad's handy The pre-
ventive incubation has been an old
custom among the natives OF that
region.-New York Sun.
The practice of ''trotting" a child
on the knee of the nurse or mother,
though it has the sanction of long prac-
tice, has not the sanction of common
sense and should never be INDUCED,
especially with infants Treating the
adult body in the ratio OF correspond
ing strength, the exercise would be
about equivalent to being ourselves
churned up and down on the walking
beam of good sized steam engine. 1t
has been very properly said that gen
tie movement is as pleasant to the child
as riding in an easily running carriage
on smooth road to an adult; knee
iolting as unpleasant and harmful as Il
Journey over tho worst corduroy
roads"
Few persons, says the San Francis
co Chronicle, have ever troubled them
selves to think of the derivation of the
word dollar. 1t is from the German
thai (vallcy), and came into use in this
way some three hundred years ago:
There is little silver mining city or
district in northern Bohemia called
Joachimsthal. or Joachim's valley. The
reigning duke of the region authorized
this city in the sixteenth century to
coin a silver piece which was called
"Joachimsthaler." The word "Joach-
i'm" was soon dropped and the name
'.thaler" only retained. The piece went
into general use in Germany and also
in Denmark, where the photography
was changed to "daler," whence it
came into English, and was adopted by
our forcfathers with some changes in
the spelling.
AS old china is tecoming a well-de-
veloped fad, collectors will be interest
ed to know that Mrs. Ollie Stevens, of
Stroudwater, Me-, has one of the finest
collections of old china in New En-
gland. In her collection is Washing
ton plate, enc Oh INC IiAirteeh ha'u-
featured by an eccentric manufacturer,
| who refused to pursue his calling any
| longer, and thus it has been thought by
collectors that none of the thirteen
were in existence. Her Canton tea
cups were brought over in the vessels
whose tea was thrown overheard in
Boston harbor early in the revolution
ary war. The sideboard is prettily in
| laid and was once owned by Capt
| Means, an officer of the revolutionary
war. When Lafayette visited Port
land, after his reception, he visited his
| old friend, Capt Means. and was served
with toddy from this side board