St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-09-02

grown over. The placing Of the skele-
ton in the tree is supposed to have b<sa
the work of Indians
A CURIOUS operation has been reported
to the French Societe d'Ophthalmolgie.
A boy Of thirteen, after an injury to his
eyelid, had it so severely contracted that
he could no longer close his eye: Ac-
cordingly an incision was made in the
eyelid by NJ Gilet de Grandmont, and
tiny fragments of frog skin were inserted
In d kind of checker work. It adhered
perfectly, and the wound was completely
healed over. After about five months
the eyelid recovered its power of move
ment. A tiny transverse line across the
lid 10 the only sign visible of the frag-
tnents borrowed from the frog.
"RATTLEsNAKE PETE" of Oil City,
Penn, as his name would indicate, Is o
man of somewhat grewsome tastes. He
is now proudly wearing double breasted
sack coat and pair Of trousers made Vf
fattlesnake skins SO arranged that the
yellow and black stripes form a
pleasing effect; that is, Pete thinks they
do. 1t took him four years to gather the
skins for this suit, and he had to kill
1875 snakes to do. it. The buttons of
his coat are rattlesnake heads mounted
with gold.
The phenomenon Of double conscious
hess, SO skillfully used in "Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde,' is by 10 means uncom-
mon. Many mysterious disappearance
are by it accounted for in manner
wholly consistent with the innocence of
the missing one, and even with his ap-
parent sanity. A very singular recent
case was that Of a Western judge who
went away from home while derang%l
from overwork and became q day
laburer under another name
A REMARKABtE character of Bernards-
ton, Mass, is Arnold Scott, blind letter
carrier, sixty-seven years old, whose eye
sight was lost forty-six years ago. He
has a long route, which he traverses twice
a day, and rarely makes mistake in the
delivery of letters. He walks confidently
in summer, but the snow troubles him
somewhat in winter. Mr.. SCOTS knowl-
edge of the reighborhood is said to be
perfect, and he has never been known to
get lost.
TOM ROE, truck farmer, of Waco,
Tex. is not prize fighter, but if he should
run afoul of SOME of the supposed fighters
they would not get off very easy. Sew
eral days ago his horse, that had been
grazing in the field, became crazy and
made a rush for Tom with open mouth,
and would probably have seriously in
jured him had he not leaped aside and
struck the horse on the neck with his
fist, killing him instantly.
IT is said that an unmarried woman's
chances Of matrimony at from Is to 20
years Of age is 14a per cent; from 20 to
IS, 81 per cent. from 25 to 30, IS per
cent. from so to 80, ISL per cent.
from s. to 40. 81 per cent. frem 40 to
45,.25 per cent. from 45 to so, per
cent, and from so to So, per cent. \
widows chances at any age are far better
than those of spinster.
Mrs. MERCY JORDAN of Greene, r. l.,
has celebrated her ninety-third birthday
by family reunion, ut which there
were present her children, grandchildren,
great grandchildren and great, great
grandchildren to the number of more
than one hundred. She is the mother
of thirteen children, of whom six sur
vive, the oldest being seventy-three years
old.
LIVE rattlesnakes are sold for 81 a
snake by peddlers in the streets of
southern California towns. Buyers are
found among persons who want to tan
the hides for various uses, and each
buyer can Kill his snakes in the manner
that he regards most conducive to the
preservation of the skins colors.
A CERTAIN Mile Zelic, in the course
of tour around the world, gave con-
cert in the Society Islands. When she
came to reckon up her share of the pro-
ceeds, this is what she found: Three
pigs, twenty three turkeys, forty-four
chickens, 5000 cocoanuts, besides con-
siderable quantities of bananas, lemons
and oranges.
PATRICK BRENNAN of Charlottesville,
Ind, received tifty-cent shinplaster in
payment of debt of ten cents. He
neglected to return the change. Re
Gently he hunted up his old creditor and
gave him forty cents, saying that the
matter had so preyed upon his mind that
he could stand it no longer