Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-02-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Capt s McPhee, OF fishing
schooner, recently fishcd mp on the
Georges Banks several pieces Of rock,
each with human hair attached The
medical experts declare that the hair
came from q mans head, but nobody
Gun explain how it beeA. attached to
the rock.
Tho Chinese tea trade has been
greatly injured in recent times by the
increase in the use Of Ceylon tea in va
rious countries of the world. It Is esti.
mated that 1O0, 900. O0O Of the Chinese
people are engaged in the culture,
preparation, sale, carriage and exporta-
ton of tea, and their interests are ad-
versely affected by the rivalry of other
countriea
At the Indian school In Carlisle.
Pa, DR.. Rose. the ethnologist. il meas
uring and examining the red-skinned
students in order to get their cranial
their check bones heavy, their eyer
small and their brain of good size. The
results of his investigations will be
tent to the Smithsonian-institut ir
Washington.
The vital statistics OF Massacfu.
setts for 1890 are sufficient answer to
the people who talk 50 foolishly about
1.-The decadencc of Massachusetts," The
| number Of births exceeded the deaths
by l., ,249, a ratio which has never been
exceeded since the registration began,
except in 1859 and 1889. The number
of marriages in 1890 was 90, s3s, which
| was larger than any previous year.
Various explanations have been
given of the origin of the term gray
hound, some authors claiming that the
| prefix gray is taken from Graius, mean
| ing Greek; others that it signifies great,
| while still others say that it has refer
ence to the color of the animal. In no
other breed OF hounds is the blue or
gray color so prevalent and conse.
quently the last mentioned derivation
| seems the most plausible.
| One of the most inge genious methods
practiced by poachers for the purpose
| of netting pheasants is that in which d
game cock is fitch with artificial
| spurs, and then carried to the pre-
serves. Then the game bird crows,
| one CIR two more of the cock pheasants
Immediately respond and advance to
| fight. In this way sometimes five or
six pheasants are taken, while the
| game cock remains unhurt
| MIR. Fisher, Of Butte, Mont, has
found new weapon of defense against
highwaymen. Two ragged rascals held
up Fisher on Granite street a few nights
ago and were suddenly put to flight by
the efforts of n little pet skunk which
he had in his pocket. 1t must be a con-
siderable shock to robber to put his
hand in 4 wealthy-looking pocket and
find oaly n mcphitic pet there. Mr..
| Fishers tastes in natural history are a
little out of the ordinary run.
! Corn bread has various names in
different localities. The general name
Of the article is Indian bread In Del
aware griddle cakes made of Indian
meal are called corn cakes. In Mary
land they arc called cookies. Pone is
the name for Indian bread an inch OF
more in thickness and baked to "A crisr
| crust, top and bottom. In parts OF
| New England corn meal, baked into a
tn elk, crisp cake, is called Indian ban.
| mock. The Puritans. it is supposed,
learned the art Of making that bread
| from the Bannock Indians.
| OF other metals which are used in
coinage in civilized lands copper is used
| to quite an extent in Africa The can
nibalistic NiamNiam especially like
English bar copper Of onc-inch diane
| ter Expeditions to the territory ol
| the Mann Nam, therefore, have gcncr.
ally been forced to include several cop
persmiths, and these men. as soon a
the Mann Nam land is reached, apply
themselves to Transforming the bars
OF copper into rings OF sizes varying
| from that of Il bracelet to that of :
tiny fiager ring. And so great is the
love of the Niam-Niam for these
baublcs that even one of the small
copper finger rings (vaiuc less than {
cent? would purchase Il fat chicken O.
them.