The Opelousas courier., 1893-03-25
NEWsY GLEANINGs.
LoNpev has 80. 900 telephones.

LoNDeN has 90, 1000 telephones.
FRANCE has a public debt Of 81, 00a,0 900.
900.
sMALLpox prevails in Washington and
Oregon.
BRADsTREEr's notes a general gain in
prices Of products.
EARTHQUAKES. billiards and small -pox
are prevalent in Japan.
Rich coal discoveries are reported in the
State Of Hidalgo, Mexico.
THEY opened soup kitchens in Cincinnati,
OHIO, during the cold snap
CANADAs Council will issue new currency
to the legal limit, SO, 600, 900.
The debt Of the Dominion of Canada,
June 80, 1892, was $2f1, t3l, 434.
A THOUSAND claims have. been staked in
the opal fields at Opaline, Idaho.
The School of the Chicago Art Institute
has az attendance Of go pupils.
A BILL to legalize cremation has been
presented in the German Reichstag.
Mess pork has risen from about $l4 last
year to $50 and $21.5 a barrel.
some IS, 900 lambs are being fed and fat
tened in the Cache la Poudrs Valley, Col,
this season.
FoRTY-TWo passengers were killed last
FWA~4 va "a @N%s& SoAo VI d OAGSJ H604dj dAN
b5s injured.
promises that New York City shall have an
uptown postof6ce.
TEE Canadian tariff of canal tolls for 1893
puts an end to discrimination against
American interests.
TIE trustees Of gindlay, Ohio, have shut
Oh the supply Of natural gas of all the glass
factories in the town.
FOREIGN Governments have appropriated
nearly 80. co., 900 for representation at the
Chicago Worlds Fair.
TIE Philadelphia Postodacs is embar-
raised BY q great increase Of mail matter
without sufficient clerks.
TIE Ecopomite Society of Pennsylvania
Will largely abandon farming and turn its
attention more TO manufacturing.
KALIsPELL, the principal town in the
newly opened Flathead Reservation in Mon
tans, already has a population Of 1000.
COMMISSIONER RAUM estimates that an
appropriation OF $l72, 10000 will be -neces-
sarY TO pay pensions during this fiscal year
ending June, 1894. o.
Our exports to the Inflammation couns
tries for eleven months of 1892 were ah@ut
1900, 600 in excess Of those for the CORE
spending period Of 1891.
PHILADELPHIA firms are withdrawing
their applications for space at the Worlds
Fair because they can get no information
about spac 9 allowed them.
ANARCHISTS are extremely active in GeEs
many and France, hoping to profit by the
mining troubles in the one country and the
Panama scandal in the other.
THERE was a gain of ~, DOC, 900 In the COLI
lsctlons of internal revenue for the first six
~nNrxh~ IS thu AcAAH -A~~ ~%~~ 4LA
receipts for the corresponding period Of the
last year
The ice in the bays and sounds of New
Jersey from Barnegas to Cape May has
killed thousands Of bushels Of planted
oysters in private beds. Most of them are
frozen in the heavy ice, which will carry
them away when a thaw comes. # is este
mated that fully 10000 bushels have been
killed.
ANOTHER transcentinental line has been
added to the list by the completion of the
Great Northern. A through train Service
between st Paul and Seattle will be ar.
ranged at once. The new line is 17ss miles
long and is said to be 1875 miles shorter from
the East TO the Pacific tidewater than any
IHR largest freight car ever built has
been turned out Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Coinpany's shops at Altoona, Penn. It
ID TO De USED TO transport from Sparrow's
Point, near Baltimore, TO Chicago the 1874
ton cannon being manufactured at the
works OF the Krupp Gun Company at Essen.
Prussia, for exhibition at the Worlds Fair
This car practically consists of two cars.
with eight pairs of wheels each, Joined by
an iron bridge, thus presenting the appear
ance OF one long car, with sixteen pairs of
wheels.