The Opelousas courier., 1894-06-02

ease that an ordinary man a a
silken cord.
LADY HENRY SoMERsET's son. Mr..
ID. Somers Somerset, has had some
exciting experiences during his shoot
ing expedition in the Rocky Noun
tains. While north of the Canadian
line the party lost themselves for two
weeks, and had to subsist mainly on
horsefesh. "Being driven to the
starvation point" writes one of the
party, 1--WE killed one of our horses
and roasted the meat before the fire.
1t didn't taste bad under the circum-
stances. During the twelve days that
we had horse1esh straight and moth
ing else W. travelled a couple Of
hundred miles. By hat time our
horse meat was all gone, and we had
to decide upon killing a dog. We
didn't care to kill another horse, as
we couldn't spare one. We were
about to kill the dog when we dis
covered one of the Hudson Bay posts,
Fort Mcleod, and our hardships
ended"
THE Mayor of a small village in
Germany has discovered an effectual
way of stopping duelling among the
hot-headed citizens of that place. A
few weeks ago two physicians quar-
relied at a public dinner and chal-
lenged one another to fight with
pistols. The village chief magistrate
heard of the quarrel. He informed
the village fremen, and together,
drawing a machine, they proceeded to
the lonely spot in the woods where
the encounter was to take place.
Just as the seconds had stepped off
the distance a heavy stream of water
struck one of the physicians in the
neck. A moment later the second
doctor was drenched to the skin also.
The would-be fighters, in their drip
ping clothes, looked SO ridiculous that
they both burst out laughing, shook
hands and returned to their homes,
thanking the Mayor for his interyen-
ton.
A YOUNG mar named John Rudy,
living at Cammack, Ind, who has
been an idiot since he was 6 years
old, was caught by a couple of boys
and scared for the fun of it, a few
days ago, and when released he ran
home, a distance of about two miles.
Rudy, who had before been harmless,
then became a dangerous maniac.
The physicians who were called to ex-
anime Rudy said he might possibly
survive the crisis and afterward not
! only regain his senses, but the shock
which had been produced by his be-
ing scared IA likely to restore him
to a reasonably sound mind. This
has now proven to be the case, as
Rudy now talks and acts with COM
parative intelligence, and he is also
harmless, as before, which is now
looked upon by all as a wonderful
restoration of the mind after an mac
ton of twenty-five years.
COLONEL A. T. FRASER has sent to
London Nature an interesting note
from Bellary with regard to two Hin
du dwarfs which he photographed IN
the Kurnoul district of the Madras
Presidency, not far south of the River
Kistna. In speech and intelligence
the dwarfs were indistinguishable
from ordinary natives of India. From
an Interrogation of one of them it APP
peared that he belonged to a family
all the male members of which have
been dwarfs for several generations.
They marry ordinary native girls and
the female children grow up like those
CT other people. The males, however,
though they develop at the normal
rate until they reach the age of six,
then cease to grow and become dwarfs.
These stunted specimens of humanity
are almost helpless, and are unable
to walk more than a few yards.
THE San Francisco Chronicle issues
a sixty-four page paper devoted to
accounts of the progress Of the city
and State during the past year. Cali
fornia mines yielded $40, 600, 900 in
1898, of which SIS, O00, 900 was gold.
The wheat crop was 36, 900, 900 BUSH
els; grape brandy, 2,00O,0O0 gallons;
canned fruit, 1000, 600 cases; barley,
ii, 500, 900 bushels; beans, 10000, 600
pounds; raisins, CD, SOC, 600 pounds;
dried fruits, 154, 0OO, 900 pounds;
prunes, AZ, OO0 900 pounds wool,
80, 0,O00 pounds; hops, $4,000
bales. The total exports Of Cal
ifornia are estimated thus: Vegeta-
b1es, 10, 600, 900 pounds; dried fruits,
90, 600, 900. The value. of wheat ex-
ports was $13, DOC, 900; flour, So, 5O0,-
600; exports of wine amounted to
Ii, OO0, 900 gallons.
THERE is an interesting anomaly on
a ranch near Burbank, Cal. A gen.
t1eman who moved out recently from
the city and commenced farming on
a small scale for the benefit of his
health, bought, among other stock,
a COW and eight young pigs. After a
while it was noticed that the pigs
thriyed and rapidly grew fat, while
the COW seemed to be eating her head
off and giving no milk to speak of for
family use. The cause was soon dis
covered in the fact that the little
porkers were in the habit of sucking
the COW, and the latter seemed to en-
joy it immensely. In fact, when she
was shut up away from the pigs she
mourned as though she had lost her
offspring.
An automatic sculpturing machine
operated by electricity has been pat
ented by a French inventor. It is
not intended to take the place of ar
ticfc hnf ic ncod for makinn nnnioc