St. Landry democrat., 1893-08-05
General Notes.

tons or meat.
In the rock of Gibraltar there are 70
miles of tunnels.
Ceylon has cinnamon plantations coy
cling $4,000 acres.
Cattle were introduced into Virginia
in 1909, into New England in 1924.
Queen Victoria has about 40 pet dogs.
Her greatest favorites are cOllles.
The Queen of Corea has lady physi-
clan who gets a salary OF $4,000 yearly.
One of the most original gifts for
Princess May at her wedding was a SOL
id gold mouse trap.
Thirty thousand tons of " staff'n mate
rial were used in the walls of the
Worlds Fair buildings.
The average weight of the Chinese
brain is greater than the average weight
OF the brain in any other people.
The more the South engages i'll manu-
facturies the more prosperous and indie
pendent will her people become.
According to a Washington dispatch
there are 800 Republicans still in the
Consular Service of the Government
The duke of Westminster has spent
over million pounds i'll rebuilding
Eaton Hall, which is now considered to
rival Chatsworth as England's finest
house.
The railways in France employ 24,0S0
women, the majority of whom, however,
receive small sum merely for opening
aud shutting gates where roads cross
the track.
Some idea of the slaughter OF ele-
plants can be secured from the fact
that in Zanzibar alone some 100000
pounds of ivory are marketed every
season from the tusks of 10000 Gle
plants.
Among the crown jewels of England
in the flower of London is kept the
coronation spoon 1t dates from the
time of Edward the Confessor, 1866. 1t
is of pure gold, richly set with gems
and is used to receive the cOnsecrated
oil used at the coronation. 1t is some
times called the amounting spoon"
New Guinea has the credit of producing
thoogists-the Roir N'Doob, or Bird |
of Death There is no antidote to the |
bite OF this bird which causes cxcruca- |
ting pain IN every part OF the body, loss !
OF sight, commissions, lUckjaw and |
certain death within two hours.
The vast amount of cotton seed oil |
which is yearly consumed in Cincinnati |
can not be accurately estimated. Some |
idea, however, can be arrived at when
it is considered that in the manufacture
of soap alone 10000 barrels are used an
nually.-Lake Charles American.
The South was rich before the war
the richest country in the world
richer far than New England with all
her hive of lndustrieS-not because of
slave labor, but because she lived at
home aud filled her corn cribs and
with homo raised corn and
meat.
There will be an enormous increase in
the production Of sugar this year. Be-
sides IA big cane crop, the yield of beet
and maple sugar is the largest ever
known. Under the stimulus of the
bounty, it will not be long before the
United States will produce more than
enough sugar for homc consumption,
and have some for export.
A recent writer thus gracefully de-
fiues maiden ladies: 1.-The undeliver-
ed packages at the express Office. They
were originally intended for somebody
but the parties to whom they were adj
dressed have never appeared. or else
they had the wrong address, or the ad-
dress some how got obliteratcd. Often !
very valuable parcels, which would
have given great joy if they had been
delivered TO the proper consignee.' /
The Washington ID. c. grand Jury
has found indictments against Col
Inewprfh ahiof n tho 4
sion division Of the War Department
eco. W. Dant, contractor VIM. E.
Covert, superintendent, and Francis
Sasse, engineer, for the disaster at Ford's
Theatre building, by which number
If clerks of the War Department lost ,
heir lives. s
The extraordinary spell of dry wealth
IF IN London this season, which was
yet unbroken ten days ago, entirely
'cllpses all previous records there. Up
% July IA the drought had lasted 1902 s
lays, forty-f four days longer than any
lrought I'D the past twenty-eight years.
During the whole period the total rain s
all IN London was rather less than s
of an inch.
N. 0. City Item: The society for the
prevention OF cruelty to animals is NOV
~ T
ambulance is to be constructed and !
Ised, and three more water trougils have +
'een ordered and located--one on Dry :
des street, near the Dryades Market r
ne in the vicinity of the Northeastern r
epot, and one at Claiborne and Canal r
treets. !
Major General George 0. Watts COM a
handing the United Confederate Veter- Z
MS OF Louisiana, has issued an appeal (
o the Confederate Veterans through '
ut the State for contributions and as |
lstance for the needy and destitute I
of the Fred N. Ogden Camp, Il
ufferipg by the overflow of the Rescue e
revaSsu. q
Ii is proposed by tho Board of Liqui- .
alton that the 100000 in the State
reasury to the credit of the interest
und be used in the purchase Of Louisi-
ma consolidated bonds. The object of
ne board is to use this idle money in
down the state debt aud there
y save the expenditure OF large sum
the payment interest.
The report of the Supreme Recorder
the Ancient Order of United Work
ten, shows the membership of that
reatest OF the beneficiary orders to
ave attained the imposing number of
So'!SS on the LIST OF June, or more than
Ouble that OF its strongest sister soci-
ty OF like character. The grand iuris-
lctlOn OF Texas, to which the Louisiana
,dges are attached, had "a membership y
4191 on March /.
A pair in a hammock
Atfpm utpl to kiss !