Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1892-01-30
ST. FRAN lap B RAA
or GENERAL INTEREST.

or GENERAL INTEREST.
"A curiosity has been found in an A.
pena sounty (Michigan) wood. Two
hemlcck trees, the trunks of which are
fifteen inches in diameter. are growing
SIX feet apart At tile height OF ten
feet from the ground the trunks unite,
forming IN arch, and then rm .
single stem eighty feet high.
The varieties of money in existence
in the United States are gold coin. sill
yer coin, gold certificates. greenbasks.
national bank notes aud the new tire rs.
ury notes, or silver bullion certificates
of 1890. These are the sorts of money
Of denominations Of 81 or over and do
rot inciude fractional silver.
An innocent trader in Madagascar
writes to q newspaper of the island to
ask ''how a trader should act when his
house has been broken into and he SUR
prises the thief in the house?" He says
he is not we'll acquainted with the laws
OF the country. and he would feel grate-
full II the editor would tell him what to
do in such case. The editor advises
him to make things warm for the
burglar.
The ingenious novelist could not
invent q queerer hiding place for will
than one reported from real life by the
Maine Farmer. The will was tackled
up on the partition of a wood she'd a
piece OF brown paper tackled over it, and
there it remained for years, no one but
the author surmising its identity. After
the testator died, in clearing out the
shed the brown paper was removed
and the precious document found.
MIR. Barrie, of Boutwell,, sporting
gentleman of well-known standing in
Scotland, tells n curious story OF an iu-
te1ligent duck at Rothsay castle, which
| carried its entire family OF goslings,
pig-a-back, from the castle moat to a
ncighboring duck pond. But the hum
blest sportsman in American waters
| has observed the preternatural sagacity
OF the coot, which dives when the flash
| leaves the hunters gun and is away
down in the wild celery before the shot
come whistling along harmlessly over
head
"A st Louis gentleman who pro-
fesses to know says that Bulwer Lyt-
ton, father OF the Lord Lytton who died
in Paris recently, was a great believer
| in the fficacy of water cures. Such es-
tabiishments he habitua11y patronized
when tired out He would then @rinlS
water in almost unlimited quantities,
and he sweated and soaked until he
had lost several pounds in weight. He
usually emerged from this experience
| with a bad cold, but other wise he was
vastly improved by the treatment. He
| once wrote a pamphlet in advocacy of
this system.
During the year ended Move mber Z
seventeen Gloucester fishing vessels,
l - 10 ~f
valued at Ss9, 900, were lost. The total
insurance was S7s,900. Seven,y-eigh,
lives were lost, or eight less than in the
previous year. There are registered in
the Gloucester district 4s1 vessels OF
go, 242 tons. Forty-nine vessels were
added to the fleet this year. the largest
increase for many years From 1880 to
| 1891, inclusive, 4l9 Gloucester vessels,
valued at S1,SlO,7l0, were lost. the in
surance amounting to S!,355,4lS. Dur.
| ing the same period o,249 men sailing
from Gloucester lost their lives at sea.
] The first theatrical company to
| play in the United States came from
| England in 1882, and landed at York,
! in Virginia. The first public appear
| ance of the players, then known as
His Majesty's Servants" was at Viii.
| Iiamsburg, Va, September ). From
there they went to Annapolis. Md, and
built theater, but, the venture prov
| ing unsuccessful, they went thence to
| New York, and on September =, 1853,
| played Sterne's 'Conscio L0-ers. -
| Under the management of an actor
named Hallam they went to Phiiadc
| phia in 1854, and in 4 vacant store,
rented for the occasion, they playc /
THE Fair Pcnitent"
| The historic Treaty Elm" under
| which William Penn made his alliances
| with the Indians-a tree as famous in
the annals of Pennsylvania as the
| Charter Oak was in Connecticut-was
| blown down in 1910. and in 1927 a mon
ument was erected to mark the spo.
! This memorial, long since forgotten.
was recently hunted up by = Phi!aael.
| phia reporter, " ho found it. dilapii 4 ated
and defaced, in an abandoned lum mber.
yard at Kensington. No one could be
discovered in the neighborhood who
| knew anything about the monument or
its history. and many people inter.
] viewed by the reporter were ignc rant
| even of the name of Penn.
a LonE-Felt Want.