The Opelousas courier., 1892-01-16
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Germany has 5000, 900 acres of for
ests.
The assessed value of New York State
is So, 779, 1913, 746.
Emile lola is usually about nine months
writing one Of his novels.
Wisconsin's wheat crop is estimated at
eighty-six and a half per cent. OF a full
yield.
Green Lake, Col, 1929 feet above
the sea level, is the highest lake In the
world.
The ogreatest long distance bicycle
riding record is 7t5 miles in ifty-four
aud one-h4t hours.
A family of SIX brothers and sisters
living near Richmond, Va, have a conf
bined weight of 1851 pounds, ora triae
over $50 pounds apiece.
In New York City the quantity OF
huckIeberries sold is ten times that Of
any other berry. Dried h~uckleberries.
in winter time, always brings a fair price
It is pointed out as an interesting fact
that people with a tendency to consump-
ton are never bald. Ga the contrary,
they unusually possess a ~luxuriant head of
hair.
The average French family embraces
three members and the average Irish
family FIVE. In Eagland the average
number of me nbers of a family is
four.
More thar $1,000, 000 was receive | in
London, England, d iring the past year
in dog taxes. TIE London police
are vigilant in this direction, If no
other.
It is the custom in Lima, Peru, to keep
animals on the roofs of houses. A calf
makes its first appearance on the roof,
and never descends until it comes down
as beef.
Lewiston, Me-, has a three -year-old
girl who prattles in French, Swedish aud
English. Each OF her parents was a diff
ferent nationality, AMI she picked up
English from visitors.
A new style of saddle cloth has the IN.
derside made like a waffle. The holes
and their edges are intended to hold fast
to the horses hide, and prevent slipping
if the saddle-girth is not fastened firmly.
A railroad tunnel 1000 feet long is be-
ing drilled through o mountain peak
neal the village of GaIera, Penn, which
is Is, 900 feet above the level of the sea
and 500 feet above the perpetual snow
line.
In twenty-five life insurance conpa-
MES doing business in Massachusetts, to-
day, there were in force at the close of
last year ~1,213,442 policies, and the
number is increasing at the rate of $780,
600 a year.
DR.. John Piente, the amateur tele-
scope maker, is now finishing a 3oj-inch
silver. on glass mirror for Allegheny
PENN College, which, when mounted,
will give that Institution the Lrgest re-
aecting telescope ip this country.
A Truckee (Cal.) saloonkeeper has a
curiosity in the shape Of a couple OF big
trout joined together like the Sianese
twins. The body of each is perfect, bat
they are united by a membrane attached
to their bellies. They are alive and
frisky.
Lieutenant Maxwell, of tho United
States Army, says tie climate of the
Dakotas adds to ones stature. When
ordered to that country he was over
twenty. one years old aud had reached
the age when growth was supposed to
stop, but during a residence there of
over a year he grew three and a halt
inches.
Some immigrants carry tin trunks. 1t
is easy to imagine what happens to a
tin trunk when al ordinary trunk falls
on 1t. "Why anybody should make a
tin trunk" a baggagemaster says, "is
more than I can understand. They may
be good enough to stand in a house to
put things in, but they are worthless for
travelling"
Some of the designs in use on the
Oriental carpets that are 50 attractive to
Western ideas OF taste have q history
thai reaches back to Xerxes and the
early Persian kings. They are handed
down from generation to generation Of
rugmakers, mothers transmitting then
to dau rhters, for most of the carpet
weaver of the Orient are m