St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-21

came near her, went down con al
tours" for locomotion, and "growled q
meals" The orphanage of the ne1
Dispensation Church in Calcutta coul,
make nothing of the fefocious found
ling, who has consequently been remove,
to Bas Aram, refuge founded and sup
ported by Brahmo gentlemen in tina
city. Nor is this all. A Bhagal Zemin
dar has captured in the jun gle vile
boy, whose only approach to speech i
the utterance Of chattering sounds lik,
those Of monkey. Col Sleeman ant
the Rev. Mr.. Lewis, of the Secundr,
Church Mission, have vouched for SINH
lar stories. Mr.. Mira is of opinion tina
when, as sometimes happens, an infan
child is abandoned in the bush, there i
nothing absurd in the idea that it might
be adopted by female wild animal that
had lost her young.
THE ruins of prehistoric city have
just been discovered by party Of pros,
pectors from Yuma, Cal, on the Colo.
RADIO Desert while in search of the Peg
Leg mine. The wind had laid bare the
walls and the remains of stone buildings
For distance of 420 feet in length BY
26O in width gigantic pillars, quantity
carved to represent dragon heads and
rat!lesnakes, still stood in the sand Of
the deserts, supporting on their tops
huge slabs of granite. The frieze orna-
mentation resembled Egyptian sculpture
and exhibited greater degree of skill
than is possessed by the Indian artisans
of the present day. Fragments Of pot
terry We're found underneath the debris
and, together with the parts of the
crumbled piers of the frieze, were taken
by the prospectors to San Diego, Cal.
Prospector Ferguson called the matter to
the attention Of II. C. Gordon, who in.
terested John F. Gay, Jr., wealthy man
of San Diego, and in company with four
others, they went to the desert to ex-
plore the ruins. They were driven back
by a sahdstorm. They will make another
start and make careful investigation of
the ruins.
owe are not much troubled with
snakes down our way" said Capt. La
peyre, OF Galveston, "for we have bird
which keeps 'em pretty well cleared out
This is the chaparral cock. or road
runner as it is commonly called, and
we all protect it on account of its snake
Killing propensities. The bird is about
he size of au ordinary guinea fowl and
$ stoutly and compactly built. 1t wan
lers all over the country and its chief
'bject in life appears to be the killing of
makes. The 'roadrunner' approaches
is enemy cautiously and circuitotlsly,
nd as it gets near stretches one wing
Iown as a shield, after the fashion of a
turkey gobbler strutting in barnyard, |
ND waits for the snake to strike. The |
wing is thrown to catch the bite, and as
ulcH as flash and before the snake can |
ecover, the runner with unerring aim
ends its long bill, which is as hard as
worry, through the head of its antagonist,
'hloh puts in the time from thenceforth
ntll sunset in dying"
On the day before the last earthquake
Zante cloud Of 1uttering objects, at
rst mistaken for locusts, made its ap-
earance near the Village of Megaponte,
I the coast of the Morea. As it ap,
reached the village it was seen to be
ats OF small, rust-colored variety that
aunt the coast swamps in the night
me and pass the day in caves. Thou
nds of the squeaking little excursionists
tiled on the lower branches of the
ade trees or dropped on the ground ex-
'usted, as though they had come from
distance. 1t is supposed
at they had established their dormitory
the vaults of the large limestone cav
rs six miles north of Megaponte and
ere dislodged by an eruption of sui
urous yapors from one of the volcanic
etts that cross the coast range in all
A PREHISTORIC relic of exceeding rarity
s been unearthed near Bluff Springs,
>, by Leslie Vail and Lew and George
inner, who were fishing in a stream {
llch runs through the County farm. /
ojecting near the bank of the stream
8 large bone which excited their curl
ty, and the work of unearthing it was
N done. 1t proved to be monstrous S
Vbone of mastodon, containing four
ge teeth, weighing 103 pounds, and
assuring feet Sfnches in length by 81 +
hes in width. The foothills and +
ifs in the vicinity are rich with ante t.
lyian relics, this being but one of sew. e
! valuable finds made within the last s.
nth. c
l CURIOUS operation has been reported a
the French Ophthalmological Society. -
boy of thirteen, after injury to his -
lid, had it so severely contracted that a.
could no longer close his eye. Ac- Il
dinghy an incision was made in the II
lid and tiny fragments of frog skin q,
o inserted in kind of chequer work. -
dhered perfectly and the wound was "
lpletely healed over. After about ",
months the eyelid recovered its y.
7er of movement. A tiny transverse 81 81
across the lid is the only sign visible ~ ~
the fragments borrowed from the 90
HE superstition about the number r. r.
teen has forced the manager of the he
in Opera House to renumber stall ~
md make it 12A. Formerly none of m
audience would occupy this SUP -,
idly unlucky seat, but the manager p;
ks he has now exercised the uncanny Nv -.
it. -. AZ
N example of the mutation of fortune ~; "
'rred several days ago when the !;
ervisors of Sonoma, Cal, made a ~
ial order placing Jonquin Carrislo on IN
poor list at SO a month. He was 49, 49,
one of the richest men in Califor- Ca
ev,
fol-
They Gave Europe Points. be-
are
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