Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-05-21

or GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST
There exists in some parts OF South
Dakota, Colorado and Texas . singular
variety Of grass called the ''sleepy
grass" when iii fresh, green state,
this plant is strongly charged with mar
cotic propensities, SO much so that
hofsee and cattle grazing It are thrown
into profound sleep.
-Forty-eight tons of supplies were
hauled from Berlin Falls, n. H.. to Dam
forth's Camp, a sportsman's resort at
Lake Parmachenee, Me, this season, at
an expense of &, 200. The hunters who
visit Pafnnachenee live high, and soiiie Of
them have a sweet tooth, for 500 pounds
of candy disappeared there last year.
There is now imported into this
country a peculiar vegetable material
from Oran, IN Algerian seaport on tho
Mediterranean sea. The fiber Of this sub
stance possesses the quality of being 10
elastic that it can be used as a sub
stitute for springs, and the like in the
manufacture Of furniture backs and
seats.
The Arkansas worlds fair board
has selected ten acres near Little Rock
which it will have cultivated with the
view of raising various agricultural
The board has made arrangements to
send to Chicago for the Forestry build
ing specimens of pine, white oak, red
oak. sweet gum, cypress and walnut.
-Sixty-fivc years ago Elias Eviston,
of Marion, Ind, became a husband, and
lived happily with his wife until a fort
night ago. when she became alarmingly
i'll. She was of the same age as himself
-eighty-five. He earnestly prayed that
he might die first. His wish was grant
ed, and he died seated in a chair while
watching at her bedside. Two days
later she breathed her last.
Near Olympia, WASH, is a well that
is coming gradually to the surface. It
is between twenty and thirty feet i'll
depth. For some time the brick wall Of
the we'll has been protruding through
the ground, until now it sticks up into
the air like a funnel to the height Of
ten or fifteen feet. The bricks are un-
disturbed, and the we'll is intact. The
bottom of the well, too, is rising with
the wall.
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 freed from its impurities by several
| other machines, after which it is taken
up by a slipper" and twisted into soft
yarn. Several strands of this are
twisted into one fine thread; three of
these are then twisted together, making
| the six-cord thread. which, after being
b!eachcd, is ready to SELL
1T has been said that two queen
bees will not live in the same hive. but
| this is disputed by some bee-keepers,
who claim that in large hives there
have been independent colonies. neither
| molesting the other. This. however, is
exceptional, and not by any means de-
! sirable. Bees sometimes fight, and
with very disastrous results. About
four quarts of bees were found dead in
and about hive after battle which
occurred in the summer of 1891.
"A number of owners Of steam
yachts in New York intend to utilize
them to transport themselves and their
friends to the Columbian exposition by
way of the St Lawrence and Welland
canal. They believe it will be of great
advantage to live aboard their yachts,
and thus be independent of crowded
hotels. 1t is reported that the owners
of many steam bargcs in Canada will fit
them with comfortable quarters, and
carry Canadian visitors to and from the
fair.
There are laws in most of the states
forbidding the practice of medicine
without diploma. The penalty is fine,
or imprisonment. or both, depending on
the nature and repetition of the offense.
A doctor with a diploma can practice
anywhere he pleascs unless under
special local restrictions. In some
places it is allowable for a man to place
Doctor before his name, but he is not
allowed to place M. D." after his name
unless he has the degree of Doctor of
Medicine.
A Detroit man has 4 novel walking
cane that represents the work of odd
hours every day for six weeks. 1t is
made of old postage stamps of various
denominations and six nationa1ities-
United States, Canadian, English,
French. German and Italian. The face
value of the stamps was 800. The sur
face of the cane, when the stamps were
all on, was filed smooth and finished
until it glazed. A heavy gold knob
completes one of the handsomest and
most unique canes ever seen in Detroit.
Concerning Rev. F. f. Hale's state
ment that while George Washington
was u great gallant prior to his mar
| riage there is not a single love-letter
rxtant written by him" The Richmond
| Dispatch says: I'VE are under the i'm
! preston that ex-Gov. Fitz Lee has in
his possession the initial number of
what might have been n series of love-
| letters from Washington, but the lady
to whom or about whom this was writ
ten is said to have rejected George be-
cause he had big hands and feet. or be-
cause he entered room awk~ardly or
for some equally good reason, and hence
the correspondence was soon termi
uated."
Presenting Arms to Cat.
Some fifty years ago a very high En-