St. Landry democrat., 1893-05-13

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stepped into his store. Seeing the box
and the scales he remarked: "You
needn't weight that, for can tell you
to an ounce just what it weighs. The
thought came to me just as came in the
door that that box an dcontents weighed
lust 373 pounds" The dealer was not
prepared to adopt this mode of weighing
without verifying it, so he put the box
on the scales, and it tipped the beam at
exactly the weight named.
A REMARKABLE family record is that
of Thomas and Catherine Smith, who
moved to Coles county, ILL.,, in 1850 and
settled near Jauesvillc. Both of them
died in February, 1865. They left fifteen
children, fourteen of whom are still
living. Twelve of them have grand
children aud three have great-grand
children. Counting the whole genera
ton from the parents down there are
now 2J6 persons living, as given in the
| following rccaptulation: Fourteen chill
iren, II grandchildren, liz great grand
children, and great great grand chill
| dren.
SOME curious figures bearing on longe-
witty are published by the vicar of Sand
hurst, England, in periodical called
Worcestershire Notes and Queries. He
says that during the last half century he
finds in his parish registers 68 persons
who died between the ages of 80 and 90,
and IS between 80 and 100 years of age
Of these, 8 were IS years and upwards,
nd MI he
| former, one was 80 and another, 100.
The centenarian was one Hannah Han
cock, who died in 1859. Out of the Is
| persons over 90, II were females.
ANTOINE. NELSON, Colorado cowboy,
lassooed an eagle a few days ago. Mel
son, was riding over the prairie on his
little cow-pony with his lasso tied to his
saddle, when he saw the eagle flying
ahead of him quite close to the ground.
He started his pony on run towards
the bird, and when short distance
! away threw his rope, which settled over
the eagles neck and under one wing,
aud he succeeded in getting the bird to
the ranch house alive. The eagle meas
! ured eight feet from tip to tip of its
wings.
A RESIDENT of New Jersey village
had his watch in soak for three weeks
winter in peculiar way. lie dropped
it into the miIlpond, in about six feet of
water and during the night the pond
froze over. Three weeks later, when the
ice had gone and it was possible to drain
the pond and search the bottom, the
watch was found. 1t had waterproof
case, and, having been dropped in the
water at half past niue, it had stopped at
half past four after running seven hours
under water. 1t is running as usual now.
THOUSANDS Of dead crows lie upon
the ground under the trees on the noun
tain east of Frush Valley, beyond Nc
knights Gap, Penn. This place has
been roosting place for crows for many
Years. Inc unusually severe winter and
the deep snow have killed the birds
There are said to be tons upon tons of
dead crows on the mountain at this
famous roostiny place. The GOODNESS
has blinded many of them SO they cannot
find any food.
-'lkS. MAH1 OLACh, Vi AlCFSiuuu,
attended funeral in Woodland Gene
terry, and took seat in the corner of the
vault, where she fell asleep. The mourn
crs departed. the vault was locked, and
awoke at three o'clock in the morning.
Her cries alarmed the guard, and it was
thought that one of the bodies entombed
the previous day had come to life. She
WAS released and sent home in an under
takers wagon, and became quite i'll.
LIEUTENANT SMoILoFF of the Russian
Army has trained the falcon to carry
messages in lien of the pigeon. The
falcon has several advantages over the
ordinary carrier. A pigeon easily flies
100 leagues at speed of eight to ten
leagues an hour, but u falcon can as
easily cover fifteen leagues an hour for
fifteen hours, whereas the pigeon rarely
accompanies such Il feat.
A BLIND bcggar, in the streets of
Paris, bore on mis- breast a picture re-
presenting indistinctiy an earthquake OF
an explosion of fire damp. A gentleman
stopped and kindly questioned the poor
bcgyar. "Tell me, my good man, in
what country that catastrope occurred
Of which you have been the victim. II
can't tell. bought the painting at an
auction SALE