St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-05-28
CURIOUS FACTS.
soda water il an American drink.

Soda water Is an American dr1nKs
Celery is gaining rapidly in public
favor.
The street cars in London, Canada,
run on runners in winter.
A machine has been invented in Ham
monitor. N. J., for setting out straw berry
plants.
In Indiana and New York the statutes
take no account of the extra day IN
February in leap years.
The electric street railway in Kearny,
Neb., sells monthly tickets for 81, good
for any number of rides.
The South Dakota Supreme Court has
decided that National banks are amena.
BILE to the laws against usury.
A story is told of Texan pony that
found the watch lost by its owner and
brought it to him in his mouth.
The English policeman is never allowed
to use any weapon except to defend the
person or property of Others, or to de-
fend his own safety.
Two doctors in Idaho succeeded in
capturing an enormous bear by means OF
piece of pork saturated with ehloro-
form and sprinkled with sugar.
A prominent woman in Chattanooga,
Tenn, horewhipped one of the leading
physicians the other day because he had
failed to cure one of her sick children.
In Texas there is stone about twenty
feet in diameter that has wonderful mag
netic pewer. It is said that it will draw
q hammer or an ak to its surface even
when placed ten to fifteen feet away on
the ground.
A South African mining journal says
the surfaces of numerous powders have
been polished by the constant rubbing
of countless herds of large game, such as
the wildebeest. These examples Of the
attrition of rocks by animals are found
in good many parts of the Transvaal.
The secret service officials at Chicago,
ILL.,, have seized as counterfeit an Oil
painting in imitation of one-dollar
Treasury note, ON exhibition in an art
gallery there. After that testimonial to
the value of that one dollar bill, it ought
now to be worth a hundred dollars at
least.
DR.. Daniel Coke, of Londoa !, proprietor
and afterward Governor of West Jersey,
was undoubtedly the first to make white
ware on this side of the Atlantic. While
he did not come to America himself, be
caused pottery to be erected at Bur-
lington, N. j., previous to the year
1890.
In the cold regions of the far North,
where timber or bark is difficult or i'm.
possible to get, boats of skin are almost
exclusively employed. To provide ma
terial for them the native hunter relies
upon the seal, the sea lion and the wal
rus. Many patterns of such craft are
utilized in the fisheries pursued among
the Aleutian Islands and elsewhere on
the Alaskan coast.
The leopard is an inhabitant of Africa,
India and the Indian Islands. It's height
is about two feet. These animals are
accustomed to live much on trees, and on
that account are called tree-tigers by the
natives. They are easily tanned and be-
come very fond of their keepers, and
they like perfume as we'll as most girls
do, showing decided preference, how
ever, for lavender water.
The modern counterpart of the man
who recovered his lost eyes by second
jump into bramble bush is found in the
person of A. A. Hubbard, of Stetson,
Me. The other day Hubbard dislocsted
his shoulder by falling from an OK cart,
aud while on the way to neighboring
lawyers his horse twitched the sleigh in
some way so that the shoulder was forced
back into its original position.