The Opelousas courier., 1892-08-13
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Siberia signifies "thirsty."

ClDSTld SiSuihCo ehAi'I
So minute are the pores of the skin
that a grain of fine sand will cover 3O0of
them.
The mole can swim excellently and it
often sinks wells for the purpose of 90
tanning water to drink.
A new underground railroad, four
miles in length, is to be constructed in
London at a cost of S., 600, 900.
Cuban BARRIERS latller their patrons
with their hands, from a bowl made to
fit under the chin. No brush is used.
A Philadelphia church is making
trouble because its pastors mis6t set OF
Ease teeth interfere with his enunclation.
The first victim to the guillotine was
| a highwayman named Peletier, who was
executed on the Place de Greve, Paris.
Unless an Austrian gains the consent
| of his wife he cannot get a passport to
Journey beyond the frontier of his W
country.
Leon Joseph, a sou of the late Chief
Joseph, of the Cherokees, is employed ID
the Government building at Kansas
City, Mo.
A merchant of Yazoo City, Miss, has
a young turtle with two distinct heads
and necks. It is covered by one she'll
and has only one set of legs.
The peasantry of the Tyrol and of
parts of Germany and Switzerland
generally carry a case in their pockets
containing a knife, fork and spoon.
One of the largest of Boston's retail
dry-goo1s stores now has a gymnasium
on tha top floor for the use of the sales
woman and other female employees.
The Women's Temple, in Chicago,
which cost $500, 900, was largely paid
for out of the contributions of penny
banks, 100. 900 of which were opened,
it is said for that purpose.
The completion of the Savannah,
Americas and Montgomery Railway, a
Georgia enterprise, adds another to the
interesting list of railroad ~nicknames.
The line is already known as the "San"
road.
A Belgian paper declares that the Gov
ernment of the Congo Free State, Africa,
In violation of the Anti Slavery Confer
ence decision, has ordered 10000 re-
peating rifles which will be battered with
The natives for ivory.
Bill Poole, the famous New York
orize fighter, lived for days with q
bullet in his heart, before he died Civ
ING expression to the famous words:
"Wrap me up in the American flag and
I'll die a true American"
A curious superstition prevails in
Norway. When people are in quest of
D drowned body, they row to aud fro
with a rooster in the boat, fully expect
' inc that the bird will crow when the
! J boat reaches the spot where the corpse
! lies.
! It is said that spectacles, or at least.
] magnifying lenses were known long be
! fore the time of Christ, and it is known
4 That Nero watched the games in the
] arena through a convex emerald. Layaro
] unearthed a tense of rock crystal from
Nineveh.
George J. Defoy and Mrs. Mary Ellef
8 Simpson, of Tacoma, Washington, hat
! lust ten minutes in which to IL marrie'
;, and catch the Victoria boat Justic
4 Sharp was SO obliging that ne married
:. them in the hack while it was rafting
! toward the wharf.
The origin of the Round Tower
Newport, r. l., is unknown. There j
no authentic evidence of its construction
by the Norsemen, who discovered Vine
s land about 1000 A. D., though claims
l that effect have been made. It is mos
1 probable it was built by the Indians
Exactly when and why no n now ca
tell.
Four years ago, Miss Lena Woodland
= = living on Thorn Greek, Washington
Y sowed the seed from one head of bar
/, :, lsy. She harvested the crop with a pa
= of shears and sowed the amount receive
che next year, again harvesting it wit
her shears. The third crop her fath'
cut with a grass scythe, getting enous
n barley from this crop to sow forty acre
; last spring, which averaged forty buanel
to the acre when threshed, making
$ total Weld of 1906 bushels from n bel