St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-09

other hand, humble potato merchant il.
the suburbs has been allowed to wea
female garments for reasons which salts
fed the Prefecture of Police.
AN offer of 2, 800 sheep for nothing be
ing refused is recorded by q Sydne,
paper. This occurred in the Riverina
New South Wales, where, in consequence
of the drought, the land is greatly over
stocked. In the case mentioned the
sheep had been shorn, and as tn,
selector, to whom they were offered,
had no spare feed or water for them,
they were killed and their carcasses were
burned. In other cases sheep have beer
skinned, their carcasses being burned, as
| the skins were worth more than the
sheep were when alive. One lot, sent by
rail some distance, did not realize enough
to pay expenses.
IT is not generally known that several
New York shoe factories are now supply,
ing customers with odd shoes. TO give
thorough satisfaction to a customer ia is
necessary to insist on his trying on both
the shoes in pair, and it often happens
that the right foot is good fit and thu
left a poor one. To get over this diff
Guilty two pairs are broken, and When
the next order is sent in the stock is
made up. Very few custom shoemakers
measure both feet, and in this respect
the ready-made salesman does more to
please the customer than the one who
makes to his order.
Mr. FRANK FIELDS, who resides at
Mount Tabor, Or, reports that great
scheme has been hit on for the extermna-
ton of caterpillars in that neighborhood
He says that at the corner of West avenue
and the railway a toboggan slide has
been fixed from the corner of the fence
to the ground, on which is placed a
bucket containing kerosene oil. The
catcrpilars all make for this corner and
slide down into the bucket, where they
perish. Mr. Fields says over twenty
bushels of catcrpillars have been trapped
and killed in this way, and the work
goes on.
THERE is now to be seen in the Mid
way Plaisance in Chicago Herr Pollak,
who claims to be the fastest talker in tho
world. He has repertory of 90 900
words, which he repeats in forty minutes,
being at the rate of 900 words a minute.
These words are in no way connected
and make no sense, the rapidity of theil
enunciation being the sole feature OF
Herr Pollak's performance. He places
himself under bonds to repeat no words,
and offers 40, 900 tlorius, which he carries
with him, to any stenographer who can
take down what he says.
A SHoRrHoRN DEVON steer, eight years
old, weighing about 5000 pounds, and
a 2, 780. pound Norman gclding are among
the curiosities at the Chicago stock yards.
The horse stands twenty one hands high
and the steer nineteen hands. The steer
is supposed to be the largest in the coun-
try, and his owner, W. W. Crandal, of
Crandall, Kan. challenges the world on
three points: Weight, style and color.
He values him at 81 per pound, or
$4,000.
MOSES WILLIAMS, colored. lives on a
farm about five miles east of Fayetteville, |
Texas He is G5 years old, but no one
would take him to be more than about |
so. He was married twice and had born |
to him forty-fve children. BY the first |
wife he had twenty three children-three |
boys and twenty girls and by the second |
twenty-five children-two boys and !
twenty girls. He says he has about forty
grandchildren.
AN oddlooking plant and one which is
seldom seen except by travellers along the
coast of South Africa is now on exhibition
in Chief Thorpe's greenhouse at the
istolochia Gigas Sturtevanti. Its peculi-
lrity lies in its strange animal shaped APP
pearance, very closely resembling one of
The deep-sea variety, equipped with a
heavy coat of mail as q protection and
ong thin tail, probably used as a teutacle
with which to gather food or hold on to
It's enemies when once within its power.
A SMALL tablet of carved wood, less
han 10 inches long by wide, was sold
1t Christie's, in London, the other day
or the enormous sum Of 1850. The
carving represented Adam and Eve in
he Garden of Eden, and on the frame
we're two small medallions showing the
levil triumphing and a slain lamb on an
Iltar transfxed with dagger.
CHARLES BURsoN, an employe at the
Mills of the Andrews Brothers Company,
It Youngstown, Ohio, has developed
nto a veritable curiosity. His hair is
white, but after working in
he mills a few hours and becoming
leated it turns brilliant red. When
3urson leaves the mill and cools off his
lair resumes it's natural color.