St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1892-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

600 gallons OF water daily.
There are 100000 of people in thu
| United States who have red hair.
! It is calculated that q 900 people
sleep nightly aboard the steamers OF
| the Thames.
It has been estimated recently by 8
shoe man that the people of the United
States spend $3.50, GOO, 900 annually fol
shoes.
There are 25,ooo.ooo people in Rus
sla who owe taxes and cannot pay them
and the government is short 100000
600. There are 2S6, 100000 people in
India, an increase Of 81 100000 in ten
years.
In the lumber season just closed in
Minnesota, the "cuto for the year was
AT, 7,713,252 feet, 2O7, ,221 900 shingles
and 81, 7,697 600 lath. This beats the
record of last year by 1O3, ,13S, 800 feet
of lumber, 45,003, 500 shingles and II,
40O,250 lath.
The Oldest widows now living of rev.
olutlonary soldiers are said to be Ann
Young, aged one hundred and one, and
Nancy Raines, one hundred years old.
Florence Nightingale, the heorine of
the Crimea, is now seventy-two years
old, confirmed invalid and suffering
from an attack Of grip. She is now re-
siding in London.
The retirement of Gems. John NJ.
Schofield and O. O. Howard, will take
out of the active service, it is said, ev-
cry regular army officer who command
ed corps during tire civil war.
There are thirty-seyen rear admirals
OF the United States navy on the re-
tired list. Most of these live in Wash
ington, and are frequenters of the Ar
my and Navy club. One OF the most
noted of these is Admiral Worden,
who, as commander of the Monitor,
was struck by shot during its encoun-
ter with the Merrimac.
The national library in Paris, with
its 100000 printed books and 16O, 900
manuscripts, is the largest library store
house in the world.
It is said that the sale of the aver
age novel does not exceed ! 200 copies,
and publishers regard themselves as
unusually fortunate when called on
for second edition.
Andrew Carnegie has increased his
ST 100000 endowment Of the Pitts
burgh public library by cool 500,
600 on condition that the main build
ing be of granite rather than brick
and terra Gotta.
Queen Victoria was 73 years old May
24th +; she has reigned about Sc years.
The town of Wellington, Kansas,
was struck by water-spout, May 9th,
and many buildings and several lives
destroyed.
The sun never sets on the soil OF the
United States. When it is 6 o'clock
p. M, at Alto Island, Alaska, it is 6 80
a. M, the next day on the eastern coast
of Maine.
Seven convicts broke out of the Miss
issippi penitentiary May 28th. They
were pursued s1d all recaptured.
A passenger and a freight train coll
ided on a bridge over Crooked bayou,
Arkansas, May 81, and fell into the
water which was Is to 20 feet deep.
Many persons we're killed, drowned
and wounded. Many of the passen-
gers were returning from the Baptist
convention at Atlanta, Ga. One of
the killed had just been made bride
the night before.
The Brazilian war steamer solimoes1
sunk recently, drowning 123 persons,
only saved.
Deacon, from the United Statets,
who killed man named Abeille in
France for intimacy with his wife, has
been sentenced to one years imprison-
ment
The smallest percentage of illiterates
in Europe is in Germany ny-seven-tenths
of one per cent the largest in Poland
80 per cent.
Nine-tenths of Chicot county, Ark,
is under water.
A Peoples Party convention will be
held at Omaha, July 4th to nominate
for president and vice-presi-
dent of the United States.
The electoral college that elects our
will have "A votes this year.
The Mississippi liquor dealers will
test the constitutionality of the new
liquor law OF that State in the courts.
A block of houses was recently taken
from Lawrenceville, Pa, ferried across
the Allegheny river and placed in Pitts
burg, with no injury at all to the bull
1ings. The buildings were first taken
off their foundations, and turned by
Jacks and blocks to position at right
angles with the river. Half a dozen
sand ssfats" or floats were then lashed
together and tied up to the shore. On
each float three towers of blocks were
built to the height Of about eighteen
Feet, heavy scantlings were adjusted to
the river bank, and by means Of ropes,
rollers and pulleys, the row OF houses
was moved on the block foundation
aboard the floats. Tug boats were next
brought into service, and in due time
she buildingf were towed across the
and disembarked at the new
lite.
Hubert P Gorringe, brother OF the
'amous civil engineer who brought
over Cieopatra's Needle to America,
lied few weeks ago from diptheria in
poorhouse near Chicago. His iden-
5ity was not discovered until after he