St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-08-13
General Notes.

The diameter of Mars is 4400 miles,
Congress adjourned on, the night OF
the 9th.
More thaa 100000 men stand ready
for battle in Europe.
Seven -eighths of the bread used in
London is made Of American wheat.
The Knights Templar held a grand
national conclave. in Denver this week,
which was very largely attended.
II. Clay King, the Memphis,murderer,
will not hang. Gov. Buchanan has
/ committed his sentence to impfison-
ment for life. u
A young man named Sam Solomon
4 was killed by lightning last Monday at
Lake Charles while out rowing in the
Calcasieu river.
II The Bank of Thibodaux has declared
it's fourth quarterly dividend of II per
cent, making II per cent dividend for
the years work.
The largest and longest stenezbridge
| in the world Is over an arm of the China
sea, five miles long, with 800 arches,
each 70 feet high.
| The Puget Sound oysters are the larg-
est known, being sometimes two feet
across and Weighing, inclusive of the
shell, as much as sixty pounds.
Seven counties in Western Texas
have refused to issue marriage certi-
ticate to boy fifteen years of age and
widow forty years old with thirteen
children.
The revolution in Honduras seems to
have collapsed. A New Orleans bana-
ma ship, transformed into man of
war, turned the scales in favor of the
government
Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky, is out
in an open letter in which he opposes
the free coinage of either gold or silver,
but advocates unlimited coinage of both
upon terms of exact equality.
At Lafayette, a sneak thief entered
the residence of Hon. VIM. Campbell
last week and stole valuable gold
watch and chain, besides a masonic
keystone on which was engraved his
name.
New Iberia suffered from a $500 fire
last week. Mestof the destroyed prop
erty was insured. All the burnt places
will have to be rebuilt in brick on ac-
count OF fire limit having been adopt
ed about a year ago.
Col. Louis Bush, OF New Orleans, died
in Wisconsin last Wednesday, aged 70
years. He was fine type of the native
Louisianian, a gallant confederate SOL
dier, and had many friends all over the
State. His remains will be brought
home for Increment.
The Worlds Fair at Chicogo will be
followed in 1896 by worlds fair in
Berlin. In 1898 there will be worlds
fair in Vienna, and in 1900 France will
take another whirl at the fair business.
|, t,t,
be given on this tidy planet in the space
of less than ten years.
The project is being talked up in
Lake Charles of starting line of barges
and tngs to bring the rice from along
ries to the rice mill at Lake Charles
The same barges will aiso trouHfcr Utner
fraial.t from Lake Charles to the far
mers along the Mermentau.
A long distance telephone to Mars is
what Prof. Payne, Of Minnesota, thinks
would be the proper Edison idea. If
the wizard of Menlo Park expects to
hear the sound Of cyclones on the sun,
as he says he does, he certainly ought
to be able to connect with Mars. Per-
haps he may yet find a redheaded
.'hello" girl on the neigbboring planet.
Twenty million dollars in gold, coined
at the San Francisco mint, were re-
ceived at the sub-treasury in New York
on Tuesday, the train making the jour-
ney between the two points in ITO hours
and 40 minutes. The coin was packed
in 500 boxes, each box containing $40,-
900 and weighing 100 pounds, and was
closely guarded in transit by we'll armed
men.
New Iberia Enterprise, 6: Mr.. Chas.
Conrad shipped last Saturday, to New
Orleans five barrels of rough rice, which
was the first of the new crop to arrive
and it sold at $3.50 per barrel of 1862
pounds. Mr.. Conrad's crop consists of
about 1900 acres, and is as fine as could
we'll be desired. He expects to COM
mence harvesting in earnest Monday
next, weather permitting.
Mars is now only $4,000 900 miles away
from us, and the Lick telescope brings
it within one-seven hundredth part of
| that distance, or only $4,000 miles away.
| The constant improvement in telescopes
| will bring it still nearer our vision some
| day, and we may be able to catch a
glimpse of the people who are said to
| inllabit this planet. Camille Flamma-
rion not only lays it down as fact that
people are living upon Mars in high
| state OF cultivation, but he has claimed
also that these people have been vainly
| trying to signal the inhabitants OF our
terrestrial sphere for many years.