St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-10-14

And want ii crisp and neat;
THE DEMOCRAT fully meets theiri> Jews
;. They say it can't be beat.
Ou Friday last there was IA shower Il
II frogs at Pine Bluff, Ark.
1t is possible that Utah aud Nevad
s may again be merged into one.
Snow fell on Friday in parts of Penn
D sylvana, New York and Massachu
setts.
> Two-thirds ut the gold now in use il
the world was discovered in the last )
years.
Tobacco was discovered in Cuba il
Z 1492, but was not introduced into Eng
! land until 1866.
The directors of the Worlds Fair an
. nOunco that the exposition will posi-
, lively close on October 81.
The attendance at !Ie Fair for the
, months OF September was 1868 90:
, against 3.515,493 during the month OF
August.
In a square inch Of the human scalu
the hairs number about 1000 and the
whole number on an adult soap is about
10000.
Albert Is. Sheppersun, an authority,
makes careful estimate of this years
yield OF cotton at 6,8O0,000 bales, 100000
more than last year.
| Don't think you are any richer because
your taxes are higher. 1t is this new
plan OF increasing your assessment,
dear boy Lake Charles Echo.
White Cap outrascs have become so
frequent in North Louisiana that Gov.
Foster has been appealed to for assis-
tance to put stop to them.
The Secretary of the Bureau of Music
at the Worlds Fair, has prohibited the
playing Or singing of the song after
the Ball. on the Exposition grounds.
The Treasury Department is exchang
| ing WORKOUT United States paper mon
| ey and national bank notes for new
ones at the rate of nearly S1,250O0O
day.
Frost is the only hope for the people
of Brunswick, Ga. Yellow fever is ex-
pected to remain there uutil au extreme
| change in the temperature destroys the
germs.
According to an elec ton return lust
made to the British Parliament there
are G, G,229, 129 voters in the United King
dom. There are 4,592, 4S2 voters in Eng
land.
Clifford NJ Calverly, the tigit-ropo
walker OF Toronto, Can, fell a distance
OF ninety feet while giving an exhib-
tion in Trenton n. j., last week, and
will probably die
Three of the huge turbine wheels
iNy1It for hn -
power of Niagara Falls will soon be put
in position. Each wheel is expected to
develop 5000 horse power.
All the awards in the department of
electricity at the fair have been made
and the American exhibitors have cap
tured nearly all the medals, the Ger
mans being their only competitors.
The most remarkable days business
the Ferris wheel has had since the Fair
opened was Sept. 21st, when extra ticket
sellers bad to be put on to accommodate
the purchasers, and $4,000 were taken
in.
The custom of speaking Of the Ples- !!
dent AS s his Excelency" is unwarrant- |
ed. No such formal title was ever Civ !
en- him by legislative action. His legal |
title is "the President of the United |
States"
Edward 2. kinselIa, St. Louis cof.
fee importer, has a sidewalk built en-
tirely of pebbles taken out of sacks of
coffee received from Brazil, and which
he has paid for, as being coffee, the sum
of $4,000.
The first live gorilla that is said to
have ever been brought to America ar
rived here recently. Some idea of bis
can be gained when it is said
that he wrenched the three-inch iron
bar from his cage on the way to this
country and twisted it into shapeless
tangle.
Secretary Smiths estimates for the
for the Interior Depart
ment for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1895, call for an aggregate of S176,779,-
1874, which is S3,308, ,496 less than the ap-
for the current year. The
principal item in the estimates is $780,
100000 for army and navy pensions.
The Shreveport Times asked the fol-
lowing pertinent questions:
Wanted to know. What has become
of the state commissioner of immigra-
ton 7 Has he been buried amid the
wrecks of the financial furry, or lost
amid the dust clouds of the Cherokee
strip?
"The best of friends must part At
ast it appears that there is row in the
forces of this state; if
not row, at least uneordial relations.
Gov. Foster and ex-World's fair Com
missioner Jno. C. Wicklitfe do not speak
Is they pass by, neither do they bump ;
he social glass any ger.-Farmer-
vile Gazette.
Nine. Patti will sail for America on
Ter regular farewell tour Oct. 49, She
yill be accompanied by Nine. Fabri, !
signors Galassi, Lely and Novera, a
maid, a valet, a cook, monkey, two
parrots and a pug dog. Mr.. Nicoiini, !
husband of the diva, will, it is under
tood, also be of the party, if they can
make room for him.
Bushmen and New Caledonians are said ,
o enjoy spiders, and we have heard of !
German.-a scientific German of course
who spread them on his bread like
'utter. But the taste is not a European J
ne any more than taste for caterpil-
ars, cockchaters, ants aud wirewOrms,
ii of which are eaten in different parts {
# the globe.-London Spectator.
Advices received from Persia show !
Il at for the two weeks mast chOlnra has