Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-01-09

OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
"A startling dream. in which shs
saw her husband killed, made such an
impression upon Mrs. Cornwall, OF
Bridgeton, l. l., that she begged him
not to go to work next day. He
laughed at her fears, and went to busi-
ness as usual A few hours later he
was brought home a corpse.
Mrs. Ada Meinott, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, took her seventeen-year-old son
to a dime museum, where one OF the
attractions is William Tell act On
the following day she playfully put .
potato on her head, remarking to the
boy he couldn't shoot it of. The boy
found q revolver and the coroner's ver-
dict was that the woman WAS to blame.
The model servant dwells with
She was the first servant with whom
Mrs Weir began married life. and has
retained her present position for forty
three years. She has never been a
night absent from the house or even
whole day, has never shirked her duty.
never been impertinent, and is still
strong and active.
If you are to sleep in strange
bed, says an exchange, and entertain
suspicion of dampness of the sheets,
lay your watch between them and
either smoke or read while. Then
take out the watch and If there is mist
on the glass do not go to bed, or if you
do, sleep between the blankets, which
are never damp. Hundreds of drum
mers, especially men past middle age.
take this precaution and profit thereby.
On a New Jersey hillside, on Oct
ober 4, the thermometer marked e2
degrees, and within a space of 500 feet
chestnuts were falling fast, buckwheat
was ready for the reaper, the hickory
was dropping into shell-barked fruit,
while the Jack rose gave forth all the
fragrance of June, the geranium was
in all its beauty, and a lot of straw
berry vines exulted in as fine, ripe fruit
as they produce in their usual season.
While deputy marshal was taking
a deserter to the military post in San
Antonio he was struck by street
car and knocked senseless The force
of the collision broke the handouts
| that bound him to his prisoner, but the
latter, instead of running away, saved
the marshal from being run over,
| waited until he had recovered con-
sciousness, and then went with him to
the post A petition has been presented
to Gen. Stanley for the lightest possible
sentence.
While sitting in the Plaza des Armes
in the City of Mexico an American
missed a valuable field glass from his
coat pocket, and while he was search
| ing for it three policemen stepped up
with prisoner and glass, requesting
the owner to go to court and testify
| <1a iaf In laSS than Gffaan
minutes after entering the court room
| the thief had been sentenced to serve a
term of five years as a soldier in the
Mexican army and the glass had been
restored to its owner.
The famous Rutherford photo
graphs of the moon, now in possession
| of Columbia college, were the earliest
made, and they are esteemed as re mark
able examples of lunar photography,
! even by those who have seen the photo
| graphs of the moon taken at the Lick
observatory in 1883. When the Ruther
ford photographs were sent to Green
wich they excited the skeptical admira-
ton of British astronomers. Nothing
of the sort had yet been done in
Europe, and it was hard to convince
the Britons that the photographs were
genuine
| "A new order has gone into effect on
the Harlem division of the New York
Central railroad, and brakemen who
have hitherto been accustomed to thrust
their heads in at the car doors and cry
"Tr'm'nt'' and "NeXfrd'm,' now
gravely enter the car, close the door,
lean back against it, and say with de-
liberate eloauence, This station is
| fremont" or, 1.-The next station is
Fordham." The younger brakemen
deliver their little orations with GER
tain consciousness that is highly anus
ing to the passengers, and for the first
few days each announcement sent rip
pling smile from end to end of the car.
Some old watches have consider
able value and some have very little.
In the first category are watches with
hogs bristles for regulating the vibra.
tions, egg watches, all watches with
one hand, with or without ornaments
tiops; watches without balance springs
and without regulating arrangements,
those with perforated cases, those will
finely chased cases, if the chasing be
distinct; enameled gold watches of fine
workmans ship, watches of wood or ivory
or with iron or porcelain cases, anC
nearly all watches with peculiar move
ments Old watches of little value are
those that have chased cases, the fig
ures of which are worn Oft or, If wei
preserved, are of inferior workman
ship: painted pinchbeck cases, cases o.
four-colored gold layers with ordinary
designs. and painted dials that displa,
poor workmanship. Watches with fig
ures striking on bells are of little value
| Origin of u Custom.
The peculiar custom OF lovers break
ing piece of money, each retaining
one.half as token of remem brance
has come down from ancient times