The Opelousas courier., 1893-04-29
SELECT SETTINGS.

Ocean cables stretch 100, $50 miles.
Every town in Mexico has Q public
bath house.
They refoot stockings in England At
q small expense.
A horseAy will live for hours after its
head has been pulled of.
Wine is frequently used instead OF
water in Spain in mixing shoe backing.
The forests of Germany pay an annual
Government revenue of nearly $25, O00,-
900.
An Alaska Indian declares that WITHIN
a year he has seen a live mastodon run
ming wild.
More mushrooms are raised in the
vicinity of Paris than in any other place
in the world.
Brussels, Belgium, boasts OF a clock
which is never wound by human hands.
Wind power does it.
Many of the most appetizing soups
that delight the palate of mar are said
to have been invented in the middle
ages.
The historic chateau at Grey, France,
has been sold to a rich manufacturer for
$500, 900. 1t was once the homo of Vol
taire.
There Is a tribe in Central Africa
among whom speakers in public debates
are required to stand on one leg while
speaking and to speak only as long as
they a so stand
Captain Samuel Barron, VINO dled IN
Norfolk, Va, recently, was a grandson
of Commodore James Barron, who fought
the celebrated duel with Stephen De-
catur, in which Decatur was killed.
The famous thoroughfare of Berlin,
enter den Linden, is the best lighted
street in the world. II is Illuminated b!
three lines of electric arc lamps which
are separated by two lines u lime trees.
Macaulay, the English essayist, took
his Sunday dinner alone at a coffee house
After dinner he would build q pyramid
of wine glasses, which usually toppled
over. He would pay for the broken
glass and go.
The Athenian Archaeological Society
has carried out some excavations or the
site Of ancient Corirth, which have
resulted in the discovery of a consider
able building belonging to the Sixth
Or Fifth Century, B. G.
When a COW is two years old a wrinkle
begins to form at the base of her horns.
At three years this wrinkle is fully de-
veloped. When she is five years old au-
other will form, and after that one will
form each year. Thus her age can be
discovered.
Two cows, the property Of Hill Cos
fellow, of Windsor, N. c., were found
dead with the neck of one fast between
the horns of the other. It is supposed
that they were fighting, and, being
caught in the above position. broke one
another's neck.
Tom Malana broke 1000 glass balls in
forty -four minutes at Rockford, ILL.,, the
other day. He stood thirty feet from
the thrower and his feat breaks the
worlds record. Old marksmen say
Malana il the steadiest mar with a rife
they have ever seen.
John Lister, of Passaic Falls, N. j.,
figures in the Wheel as the Oldest active
bieycler in the country. he is over
sixty, a veteran of the war, and once
rode 1870 miles on his machine in two
days. Since last January he has covered
nearly four thousand. miles.
naval orncers INC ma Jla5 tnsrr
gloves grow mouldy when thor ships
are in tropical seas viii DO interested to
learn of Admiral Crosby's device for
averting mildew. He placed his kid
gloves in an alright preserving jar,
and discovered that thus they retained
their pristine condition.
A steamship flying at it's masthead a
broad pennant Of "burgee'' of led with |
a blue border, bearing in its upper left
hand corner a blue eagle with a shield
upon It's breast and a bunch of arrows in |
one claw and an olive branch 10 the
other, is conveying the United States
mails, under new laws which give our
shipping lines a fighting chance for their
existence. This is the design Of the
s'ocean mail burgess selected by Pest
masfar, Ganaral Waunmaknr |