St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
CURIOUS FACTS.

The lobster mouths, drawing off his
claws as men do boots.
Cromwell is the ideal, the true lion
hearted hero of England.
Ten men can be arranged to march in
single file 3, G2 :, 900 WAYS
The largest heather temple i'll the
world is at Seringhatn, India.
The inhabitants OF the Cook PENN
sula, in Australia, are passionate snlok
Crs.
All the trees Of the tropics except
those imported from older climes are
evcrgrecns.
Z. james hIcNa~t"r, of Lockport, n.
Y, has married Miss Emma Eyclctt
after a twenty years coHrtslip.
Bullets made of 4arnetS were used 10y
a tribe of natives on the Cashmere from
tier lii fighting the Britlsii troops.
One of the pupils i'll :, country school
at Grayson, Ky, has attHlncd the ripe
age Of forty four years. He also holds
the position of Justice of the Peace.
After the recent heavy suowstorm in
the mountain districts Of Northwestern
Donegal, Ireland, sheep we're rescued
WHO had been buricl under heavy drifts
for sixteen days.
An Illinois man Travelled over 1000
miles recently to recover an old family
horse that had been stolen from HIM two
years ago. lie recovered the animal
finally in Georgia.
The new clock being made for st.
PauI'5 Cathedral in London, England,
will have It face thirty feet in diameter.
The hammer which strikes the bell
weighs $50 pounds.
Professor A. G Reese, of CarplIton,
Gl, has been teaching school for fifty
SIX years. lie says he has taught nearly
5000 pupils and never has had but two
to die in school time.
y turtle farm tiourishes at Lisbon,
Ill. One Of the turtles is quite inteIll-
gent, and is known as Dick. 1t is
amusing to see him, when summoned to
his food, crawl towards his owner on
hearing his name called.
In Sweden special gymnusiums are con-
structcd for the treatment of the sick.
In these passive motion IS first given by
attendants with the use Of medical appll-
anccs. Later, the patient begins to eX-
ercise himself with assistance
Chicago skaters are to have q skating
rink with real ice to glide over, all the
year round. The ice is to be made arti-
ciaiIy, and the surface renewed every
night. The temperature of the room
will be about forty degrees, winter and
sumner.
David Linsay, the explorer, while in
an Australian desert awhile ago found
that the inhabitants got their water sup
ply by draining the roots OF the malice
tee, which yield quantities of water,
supposed to be absorbed from the air by
the leaves and tWigs OF that tree.
The Netherlands, or low countries in
the west Of Europe, formerly comprised
Belgium rs we'll as the present Kingdom
of Holland. In 1880 the severance of
the Belgian provinces IRON Holland oc-
Cured, and since that time the name
Netherlands has been politically TC-
strictei to Holland.
The longest single span of wire rope
in the world is that now in use in a dam
at Austin, Texas The main cable is
1850 feet long, and two and one half
inches in diameter. The hosting appa-
ratus will lift a weight Of seven tons and
carry it the entire length OF the span in
about minute and hall.
At one time the number of swans i'll
England must have been emo rmou>.
Paul,ls J0vlus, writing three and half
centuries ago, declared that he never
saw a river 50 thickly covered with
swans as the Thames; and Il 1925, when
John Taylor, the water poet, ro"ed from
London to Christchu1ch, and then went
up the Avon to Salisbury. he was amazed
at the swarm of birds OIL that stream.