The Opelousas courier., 1892-11-19
SELECT STRINGS.

Quakers are said to be unusually long
lived.
Bright violet is the Turkish mourning
color.
Some New York organ grinders make
from $40 to$l5 a day.
The foreign trade of China last year
aggregated $3.50, DOC, 900.
Light howitzers, for field use, were
first made by Paixhaus in 1923.
The first postofice opened its doors in
Paris, 1862; in England in 1881; in
America, 1910.
The Salvation Army are about to build
a headquarters for Ireland at Belfast, to
cost $40, 600.
He has an ign cble soul who is unwill-
ing to serve a royal cause unless first
decked in its livery.
Clusters of clover, if hung in a room
and left to dry and shed their perfume
through the air, will drive away flies.
A cactus plant in a house at Newport.
vile, Penn, last winter, grew s fast
that it is too tall to be taken out of
doors.
In many places it is believed that the
person who hears the w~hip-poor-will in
the daytime will die before the end Of
the year.
Over 5000 officers, high and low, have
been retired or put at disposition (half
pay within the last four years in the
army of Germany.
One man finds history an epic river of
heroes with their splendid deeds; an
other finds it a sleazy web of intrigues
with their vile scandals.
The first society for the exclusive
purpose of circulating the Bible was or
gauized in 1905, under the name of the
British and Foreign Bible Society.
Russia recently celebrated the nine
huudredth anniversary of the foundation
of the first Christian Bishopric in
Valhynia, under the reign Of st. Vlsd-
imir.
Colonel john B. Graham, of Dahlo-
mega, Ga, received a check for $3.50 the
UtHCt ud1 HULL q LAatk ~ WRtVm AC IdA
loaned the sum over forty years ago,
and who now lives in British Columbia.
A skillful artist in New York City,
who almost star we'd from the pay he re-
ceived for landscapes and portraits, is
now saving money from what he earns
by painting black eyes for people who
have had them discolored in fights.
A wealthy Scotch gentleman who had
intended to give each of his daughters q
legacy of her weight iu 81 bank notes
had an official of the Bank of Scotland
to figure on the matter for him. It was
found that the larger would get as her
share 55 ,344; the simmer, 1900.
Three four-legged chickens have been
produced this season in Connecticut
one 10 Putnam, by q hen belonging to
Peter Lessor; another in Stratford, by a
hen the property of Albert Lathrop; and
q third was Matched at Ansonia. The
latter also had four wings, but it only
lived an hour.
Fred. Perre, was boring a well at
Highland, San Bernardino County, CAL,
recently, aud the borers struck wood at
a depth of 300 feet. They kept on Dor.
ing and did not get through the tree for
100 feet more. The quidnuncs of that
region altege that a pine CON fell bot.
tom side up and the tree grew down.
ward.
The watch which the Empress Maria
Theresa presented to Mozart, an old.
fashioned memento set with diamonds,
eventually came into the possession of
Herr Pfetfer, keeper of a large bathing
establishment at Buda-Pesth, who died
last January. He bequeathed it to the
Mozarteum in Salisbury, and it has just
been deposited there.
A curious and beautiful superstition
prevails among the Armenians that whea
any one is seriously i'll the sick room is
filled with angels who are sent to watch
over the patient. Fer this reason the
room is beautifully draped and furnished
with flowers, sweets, dried fruits aud
cakes, and each visitor on entering
a chord on a musical Instrument
which hangs at the head OF the sickbei.