Feliciana sentinel., 1892-09-10

Of GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
The Standard Oil Co. has secured
the contract for furnishing oil for fuel
for the worlds fair. 1t is thought that
at least 225, 900 barrels, OF AZ gallons
each, will be required, and this Is to be
furnished during the year 1898, for 721s |
cents q barrel, delivered at Jackson
park.
Snakes climb by means OF ribs and
the scales on the abdomen, to which
each rib il attached by a set OF short
muscles These scales grasp the SUR
face over which the snake passes, some
species being able to climb trees with
great facility. On q perfectly smooth
surface d serpent cannot move.
The Americans ure said to be the
| best buyers of diamonds in the world
and insist upon having the finest stone"
and the most perfect cutting. hussias
fancy is for the large yellow diamonds,
and China has recently become large
buyer, owing to the fact that the en-
press has broken the custom there
| which nrohibited women from wearing
diamonds
In the government building at the
4.or1a,s fair will be exhibited an origin
lied by act of congress, May 1s, 1877,
for executing surveys OF governments
lands. The chain was made by Ben
iamin Rittenhouse, of Philadelphia, IN
1797 and is still in the same hard
wood box in which it was sent out by
the manufactures.
"A curious and beautiful superstition
, prevails among the Armenlans tna''
when anyone is seriously ill, the sick
room is filled with angels who are sent
to watch over the patient For this
reason the room is beautifully draped
and furnished with flowers, sweets,
dried fruits and cakes, and each visitor
on entering, strikes chord on q inu
, steal instrument which hangs at the
. | head of the sick-bed.
l The Gatling gun is now worked oS
4 an electric motor in the American navy
i The motor is attached to the preech
). the gun. Hitherto couple OF 'ne'
were required to serve the gun, one
q train the piece and drop the shot' IN
o other to work the firing crank; ou. nov
t one man is sufficient BY toucnlnE
q switch he can train ana operao: -,
r gun at will, so as to fire either singi
~ sho+ or at the rate of 1,2O0 minute
= ,.r,can c;r1s. in search of foreig
!. .;.,oa ,us+ now look to their laurel
d for the Australian beauties are o:s
% n;ne to attract the attention OF title
rs En~,isbmen. Miss Maud wilson, who'
le enlargement to the earl of Hun .ongoc
I'd has been recently announced, /. sa,a
IN be the first Australian girl wooed an
won by an Englishman of title In FL
l gland, though other colonial marriage
lie and engagements have occurred in Au
Tn tralia.
10 Nine men had to hold patient vii
1clns was administered. I ne dose co
sisted of three pills, each the size Oh
cricket ball, and the patient was u
KS hippopotamus Caliph, in Centrai par
New York The medicine conPris
nd 2,94O grains of aloes and Az drops
lie, croton oil. combined with hnseeo
.er .,d c,inoer. and the pills were fore
ey down Caliph's throat with a policeman
cir club. The patient speedily recovered
bt. Mr. Nicholy Jensen, OF Washir
ON ton. has patented a simple device u
de- greatly facilitates the accurate set'i
ne of watches. 1t consists IN a Icy
VS. which. when pulled out, stops 'he 5
net ond hand at the sixty point al
the this the other hands are SET, anu " l.
TO the secondhand of the resuia
acn reaches the sixty point lever ~ On
watch being SeC Is puotS :,
est. leases the secondhand and the o.
and two the same moment Ihe Tn
the hands thus march in step
OF The bluejay is the most persis,
WIS practical Joker in the feathered Nj
the dom. He will conceal hlmsei !,
the clump of leaves near the spot WI
10 s,,,,I birds are accustomed to gat
tine and when they are enjoying themse
arc in their own fashion Will sudae
ines ines frightcn them almost to death IN
con, screaming out like hawk. VI co
aho they scatter in every dlrectioh'
ans when they do so the nischievous ra
'io gives vent to a caclle that sounos
rohs much like a laugh. If he conhneo
pranks to such jokes as thls' nows
co,o he would not be such bad nelgho'
envy birds smaller than himself out
81 OF he amuses himself by breaking the
eaVy in their nests and tearing the youn
9ehe pieces with his bill he becomes
rther lent nuisance, and they often col.
'es their forces to drive HIM OUT OF
neighborhood.