The Opelousas courier., 1892-04-30
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Arabs never eat catfish.

Arsenic Is extensively used in making
ice cream.
The pendulum was first attached to
the clock in 1855 by Huygner.
India has a priest who is drawing a
pension and is II his 152d year.
There are 40, ouo women studying in
the various colleges in America.
Ammonia as a motive power is comlng
into use on various street car lines.
The ttheaviestD woman in Europe has
Just died in Bavaria. She weighed $50
pounds.
The number of Government employees
N all department is said to be about
$50, 900.
The colossal stltue at the Worlds
Fair, Chicago, will be a female figure
twenty-five feet high.
Three times as much spirits are con-
tumed IN Scotland, according te Popula.
lion, a. is in England.
A man in Sydney, New South Wales,
has S250,000 invested in city property,
Ill of which was made out of pigs.
There are 400 widows of Confederate
! ,oldlers on the Georgia Pension List,
which compels an annual tax of $780,
900.
Hundreds of fish are still alive IN the
loyal aquarium in st. Petersburg Rus
| tia, that were placed there more than $50
years ago.
Carriages were frat introduced in Eng
land in 1880, and were for a long time
used only for the conveyance of the sick
and of ladies.
A fall caused the heart of Mrs. Ann
Barr, of Vincennes, Ind, to shift from
the left to the right side. This is the
opinion of her physicians.
Should a man in China be unfortunate
enough to save the life of another from
drowning, be is at once saddled with the
expense of supporting the survivor for
the remainder of that persons life.
John W. Wise, a grandson Of John
Wise, a miser who lived in Kansas and
died without revealing his hoard, found
s35, 900 while digging a foundation for
a house, also a will leaving him all the
property.
A Kings City (Col.) man recently,
after a severe illness, entirely forgot the
combination OF his safe. None of his
clerks knew it, and after a long delay he
was finally obliged to send to a distance
for a man who had been formerly in his
employ to open the safe.
bet Lunn is the name applied to He'll
goland by the natives of that island. It
is a small, island in the North Sea, about
thirty-six miles northwest of the mouth
Of the Elbe, fifty-four degrees eleven
minutes north latitude aud seven degrees
ffty-one minutes east longitude.
A local reporter on the Chico (Cal.)
Chronicle-Reco1d got into trouble by
making a wrong heading over a marriage
notice. The groom's name was AverV
and the bride was a Miss Small. The
heading was set up "A Very Small We'd
ding The groom, who is a muscular
young rancher, is now looking for the
reporter, who is absent from home on a
vacation.
a blacksmith IN Belfast, Me-, relates
that forty years ago, when he was an
apprentice, his employer bought o super
animated horse for fifty cents, ordered
him to shoe the animal, and sold it, with
its four new shoes, for seyenty-ive cents.
The app entice was so incensed at having
his work. valued at only twenty-five cents
that he took an oath then and there
never to shoe another horse, and he never
has, although he has been in the black
smith business ever since.
The Bongo people Of Africa have an
iron currency having the shape of a spade,
with q handle and an ancher-like end to
il. This they call loggo colluti. The
largest iron coin circulating there ID oil
size and shape of a large plate, being one
foot in diameter. These treasures are
piled up ID the warerooms Of native
merchants just as the silver or gold bars
in other lands. For ten iron plates Of
two pounds weight each the ~love-loru
Bongo swain buys his inamorata of hel
papa. When be can't get ten Of sncf
iron plates he has to be satisfied with al
elderly beauty.