The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-11-11
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

made by machinery in Great Britain
alone and from fourth to half OF
this number in the United States
AT Belfast the Alexandria craving
dry dock, completed in 1889, has g
floor length of eight hundred feet
while from outer sail to back of wall
the distance is eight hundred and fifty
feet The inside width at the top is
ninety-tvvo feet and the bottom fifty
feet. This dock can be divided into
three separate docks or used as one
large dock.
An old rural custom still prevails in
the western part of France during the
harvest season. On the edge of a field
bordering the highway sheaf of 81 ain
is left standing, to which all the peas
ants of the village contribute and
which is called 1.-The strangers sheaf,
as it is the property of the first home.
less way farer who may choose to carry
it away and profit by its price.
1t is said that female cod fish will
lay 45, 1000. 900 eggs during single sea-
son. Piscatorial authorities say that
were it not for the work of the n atural
enemies of fish they would fn all the
availa BILE space in the seas, rivers and
oceans. During the spawning season
the eggs are sometimes SO thick on the
banks that they form huge masses and
are frequently seen by passing vessels
a a great distance from the shore.
The rarcst American coin is tho dol
lar of 1904. There are believed to be
not more than ten in existence. As
much as $500 has been offered and re-
fused for an 1904 dollar. Many eNpla-
itions have been given of the scarcity
of this coinage. One is that in the year
1905 Il China bound vessel was lost con.
tanning almost the entire mintage OF
1901. AS curio the dollar of 1904
stands first among United States coins.
The customary morning sd lutation
at all seasons in old Marblchead is,
GLOW is the fish, In the past rainy
summer the answer, after Il look down
the street. has generally been, ''Oh, her
tail is going round and round" This
is the towns way of speaking OF the
weather vane on the Congrega tional
church, the infallible oracle which de-
termines whether boats shall put out
to sea and leisurely landsmen go
a-riding.
An average waltz takes a dancer
over about three-quarterS of mile: a
square dance makes him cover half a
mile. a girl with well-flled pro-
gramnc travels thus in one evening:
Twelve wa1tzes, nine miles: four other
dances at half-milc apiece, which is
hardly Il ia irly big estimate, two miles
more the interlnission stroll and the
trips, to the dressing-room to rcnovate
her gown and complexion, half Il mile;
grand total. eleven and one-half miles
The Welsh in the United States
claim that they are in number as many
as their countrymen in Wales, and they
also claim that one of their ancestors
foresta1led Columbus in the discovery
of America by two hundred and seven
ty-two years. They base their asser-
tions en- historical traditions and the
ma nu~crpts of old Welsh bards on the
one hand, and on the prevalence OF
Wclsl, in many of the languages of the
Indians, both of South and North
America on the other.
The red and fallow deer which
formerly roamcd through the English
forests had a ha bit of scraping up the
Garth with their fore feet to the depth
of several inches, ometincs even of
half Il yard. The stranger passing
through these woods was frequently
exposed to the danger of tum bling into
one of the hollows, when he might be
said truly to be lin a Scrape." The
college students of Cambridge, in their
little perplcxities, picked up and APP
Piled the phrase to other perplexing
ma tiers which had brought a man NOR
ally into a fix.
Our double eagle Of $40 is equal to
20 patakas of Abyssinia, 80 kvvans of
Anan1. "a forms of Ara bia. 20 pesos OF
Argentine. a bout IL forms of Austria,
about 1O3 francs of France, SO rnilries
of Brazil, 2 condors Of Chile, St rigs
dalers of Denmark, 400 pia tiers of
Egypt. ca of Great Britain, los draGh-
ny.ls Of Greece. 81 ma rl<S OF Germany. As
rupees of India, 1913 lire of Italy, 90
yens of Japan. so scudi of Malta, 103 lei
Of Rouma MIA, SO guilders of the Neither
lands. % rubles of Russia. $ tomums of
Persia, 231 piasters of Servia, 50 tico}s
of Siam, 1O3 pesetas of Spain, 200
gvvush of Tripoli, tillas of Tnrl<estan.
81 patacons of Uruguay and 25 pesos of
Venezuela.
Frogs, whether blind not be-
come dark green or black if they are
kept in dark vessel in sparingiy-
lighted room: hut when larger
branch with green leaves is introduced
into the vessel, they all recover their
bright green color, whether blind or
not. In some way unknown the re-
nected green light acts either upon the
nerves of the skin, or-what seems
more proba BILE, if Steinach's expert
ments are taken into account-directly
upon the pigment cells. Moreover, the
sensations derived from the toes have
also an influence upon the changes OF
color. When the bottom OF the vessel
is covered with a felt or with q thin
wire net, the frogs also become black,
recovering their green color when a
green branch is introduced into tho
vessel.
An old New York bachelor who
lives in boarding house in Twenty
first street, near Broadway, likes eggs,
likes them fresh, and wants them
cooked Just right Therefore he buys
them of a fancier at 81. 25 per dozen and