St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-26
CURIOUS FACTS.

There will be ffty-threc Sundays i
1892.
Only three species'of reptiles exist i
Ireland.
In the parrots beak both mandible
! are movable-a popularity unknown il
other species of birds.
Lead pencil wood-soft cedar-a,
comes from Florida, aud it will be ex
hausted in few years.
By putting aside a quarter off a dolla
every day New Jersey mau has il
twenty years saved $685..
Eggs are fried in the shapes of hearts,
stars and other devices by means of pans
having sunken places in these shapes.
A Swedish gentleman wears watch
chain made from one of his own ribs,
taken from his body by asurgical opera.
ton.
Daniel Webster was able to repeat the
whole Constitution of the United States
word for word, including punctuation
stops.
The first coins made on this continent
were made in iIexico in 1885. Thew
were called the ''real," and are now
worth ST each.
The fame of some men is preserved by
their cast-of clothes. An old hat of
Dillon, the Irish leader, recently sold in
Australia for '$25.
The glass makers of Thebes, forty
centuries ago, possessed the art of stain.
ing glass and they produced the COM
modify in the utmost profusion.
American travellers have become 80
numerous in Portugal that sons of the
shopkeepers in the cities display this
sign in their windows: HAmerican
spoken here"
The descendants of single wasp
number as many as 80, 900 in one season.
November is the fatal month which kills
them all off except two or three females,
on whom depends the perpetuation of
the race
There is farmer'iD Ventura county.
CAL, whose name is Stubblefeld and
another named Haymaker. Los Angeles,
CAL, has still another honest granger
who bears the euphonfous name of John
3eanblossoms.
When Lemuel Richards, of Milwaukee,
Wis, read OF the suicide of his old !
riend, DIR. Boring, of Evanston, he was
o much affected that he choked himself |
o death. Both Richards and Boring
we're over seventy years old.
When Captain Cook first visited Tahiti
ne natives Were using nails of wood,
zone, shell aud stone. When they saw
ron nails the fancied them to be sheets
f some very hard wood, and, DESTROYS
t securing such valuable commodity,
hey planted them in their gardens.
In Japan archers test their arrows by
them on the nails of the second
nd third fingers of the left hand and
'pidly twirling them by the feathered
nd with the fingers of the right hand.
the arrow makes whirring sound, it
crooked and must be straig htened.
A Japanese doctor never dreams of
king poor patient for fee. There
"a proverb among the medical fraternity
: Japan-''When the twin enemies,
overty and disease, invade home, then
, who takes aught from that home,
rem thong it be given him, is robber."
Horsedesh is used for human food in
enmark, Sweden and Switzerland and
so in several parts of Italy. 1t is not
nsldered fit for human food in Buchar-
t, Scotland or England. Attempts
are made in 1868, 1875 and 1878 to
troduce it into London, but they were
It successful.
A girl in Dexter, Me-, has a faculty
1ich mystities her friends. When
ndfolded and provided with photo
aph she can describe the person or
lect portrayed in the picture, and she
IL also describe the objects in any pic
re or print after merely running her
ger tips over the surface.