Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-03-12

Of GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
If all the locomotives in the United
States were coupled together ttey
wonld make a train of solid iron and
steel over 300 miles long Add the pas
senyer cars and we would have 5oo
miles more of wood and iron; TINS
would give us a gigantic passenger
train COO miles in length, counting both
engines ond cars.
During the year 1891 there were
surveyed at the port OF Bangor l''94''
o63 feet of dry pine, Z. 16s, sos 1eet oi
green pine, 1ls, 2O5,74 feet OF spruce
and % 664, s44 feet of hemlock, juniper
cedar, etc.-a total of lG4, 9s5, 3'6 feet
This is II, 900, 600 less than in 1899, and |
8, 600, 900 less tn an IN 1889. The great
est falling off was in spruce AMI pine,
and the decline was chiefly due to the
| demonstration OF the New York mar
ket.
| The first fore-runner OF the type
writer in the United States was ma
chine invented in 1s43 for those VINO
we're unable to use the pen and pencil.
The name ..type-writer" was first gwen
10 the machine invented by three men
of Milwaukee, Wis, which embodleo
the principles of the present machine
in a crude manner. Since 1s43 there
have been issued in this country $50
patents for writing machines, $50 OF
which have been granted since 1889.
Among birds that have the power
of imitation the parrot IS supposed 10
talk the best; but, as matter OF 'ac',
its voice is decidedly inferior to that OF
the mynah, a species OF staring, o.
which there are examples at the Lon
, don geological gardens. Curlous.y
enough the male bird speaks IN a high
clear tone, like that of a child. while
+ i the female has a gruH voice Inc
mvnahs are fond of showing off their
, vocal powers to visitors to the gardens
, Stain and Cromwell, who were
! sentenced to the Maine state prison Tor
4 life fer the murder of Cashier Barron
!. of the Dexter bank, have not lost
n DAVIS work since they entered the
n nrison. Lowell, the Lewiston murder
O er. receives liberal pension, which ne
o speuds for luxuries that are allowed
e He has a special brand OF cigars, man
IS featured in Rockland. Chandler. wn'
s is serving a sentence Tor forgery ls Wv
j prisou orgauist. and he has composed
u st,cl. of music, some of which he IN
! tends to publish after his release.
in On. of the most persistent begzar
r. in Portland Me-. is a collie dog whicI
;s very fond Of doughnuts The colle
ii in com pauy with his mistress, visited
of bakery one day last fall, an l, percelvln
come douchnuts in a show case, ne Sd
n. down and pleaded, by means OF shoF
,u sharp barks, for treat The cfer
ve generously fed the smart dog. but no.
nd he wishes that he hadn't, for every a !
II since the collie has appeared to peg Il
be more doughnuts If the shop door
,se closed he will wait outside until SON
,ut one opens it, and then dodge IN anu
rs his reg liar free lunch
,lv 1T was largely the fashion in Il
Of sixteenth. seventeenth and eighteen
ed o.ntrr;as with In lies of wealth to ha
he their watches richly incrusted WI
,r- ,,-.c;ous stones A lady's watch ma
No. toward the end OF the reign of q 'c
ne. E,;z,b beth had a gold case set with "
nd hundred turquoise stones arran2so
ZEN cight concentric circles win SID
II - l., the middle On the upper pr
10. t;o, of the case was Iud r rose
it crimson and green in translucent
ton | am.l and on the margin crimson a
blue leaves and fruit in ename'. l
balance wheel was protected ny
gilt cock.
ent About thirty years ago Moses ot
ling and others put two small hoch
mt sbeen on Morhagar, a bleak and roc
'ne island off the entrance u fenooS'
'es, b,v. believing that sheep could ia
not .,re of themselves almost anywhe
'on- S;nce then the flocks have increase "a
ing. an aggregate of two hundred and n
hey head. running wild and receiving
lear attention whatever. Once year II
ing have zone to the island, driven
en- sheep int, pen and shcarei them
for ,.rlled the lambs The sheep are Il
IL owned bv half a dozen persons So
IN of whom have not seen the stock
~. twenty years
ety' some great hunting was doe
ssu- the closing days OF the late hum
luce season in Maine. A party OF Bos
ish' snortsmen, with A. Il. Douglass
tne Eustis, as guide, chased ten-year
ahee moose for eighteen days, when on
II nc the party shot him. The am
1 70 weighed about 700 pounds and car
S OH e,landid antlcrs- Two monster
lrac ,nooso were b-ougt int, Sebec sta
tha' g., fcw days after Christmas, ha
IN hecn kil.ei near Nahmakanta lax
use D.niamin Woodward and Horace L
on ~ Atkinson One of the heads,
at,on .ntlers, weighed s913 pounds, the c
tn'' ST. pounds. and tAe larger antlers
SCI" snr,ad of feet inch.
That sPi