The Opelousas courier., 1894-04-14
General Notes.

lno BrltlSn house Oh LOluS CauuOG US
abolished seoti legally without its o"" con-
The largest railroad shops in the
world are those of the Big Four at
Be%llefontaine, 0.
Active preparations are being made
all over the South to make the Confed-
crate reunion at Birmingham a memoir
able one.
A newsboy in Pittsburg, Pa, has a
bank account of $4,000, accumulated
entirely on newspaper sales during the
last ten years.
Secretary Morton says the results of
the rainmaking experiments, made by
order of the Agricultural Department,
were not successful. .
The sugar bounty for the present tis-
cal year amounts to about $10,O0O,0O0,
all but $500, 900 of which goes to the SUI
gar cane growers of Louisiana.
The factories of the Anderson Glass
Company in Indiana will start during
the week. Nearly Ill the large facto-
ries in the State are now in operation.
Out of the S9,5O0,OOo appropriated for
the improvements of the Rivers and
Harbors, the sum of $4,000 has been al
Iotted to bayou Techc and the passes OF
Calcasien river.
The fastest time between New York
aud San Francisco was made by Il spe-
cial theatrical trail in 1S86-thrce days
seven hours thirty-nino minutes and
sixteen stcnnas.
Under II decision just made by Assis-
tant-Stcrrtary Reynolds, of the Interior
Department, the insane, idiotlc and
permanently helpless children of dead
soldiers are admitted to the pension roll
under the law of 1890.
The mills of the Woonsocket Rubber
Company at Woonsockct, II. l., and
Millvillr, Mass, will resume operation
on April Is, after il shutdown "f two
months. Work will be crowded for
$500 people.
Gov. Flower. OF New York has signed
a bill authorizing the city OF New 1ork
to expend an amount, not to exceed
monuments TO the memory OF dis
tinguiSied American citizens,
The Polio" Jury of East Baton Rouge
parish, is deserving of warm praise tOI
its action in uppiuyriating $3.50 toward
the support Of the Soldiers Home. We
hope other parishes will fellow this no
bic example.-N. o. City Item.
Last week about fifty girls. employee
in the mills Of r. & II. Adams, at Pat
ersou, n. j., went on a strike for an in:
crease in wages and then maltreated
49,, ~, , trn- y,I,, yap,oinn1 ut unyE
and tried to force them to quit.
Chai.lcs De LesSepS was notified AprlI
1, that his name had been removed
from the roll Of the Legion of Honor
owing to his part III the Panama scan
dial. Count Ferdinand De Lesseps will
not be- expelled from membership.
Among Sioux Indians when one fam
lily boyiows a kettle from another it is
expected when the kettle is returned a
small portion of the food cooked in it
will be left in the bottom. Disregard
of this custom ends the borrowing bust
ness.
The River and Hallnf bill was re.
ported to the House last week. 1t car
ries an appropriation of $780, 900, q
decrease of S12,00 900 from the appro.
priation for the present tical year, and
$50, DOC, 900 less than the estimates sub
mitted by the United States engineers.
A recipe Tor preparing potatoes fol
planting. Soak them in a solution OF
saltpetre and suIphate of ammonia, six
pounds each to every twenty-five gal
Ions OF soft water. Soak the potatoes
about twenty-four hours, drain oveI
night, and then plant.
The London anarchists have succeed
ed in frightening Queen Victoria and
the Prince of Wales. The two are
guarded by detectives, aud the prince
no longer shows himself in public with
his old freedom. The queen is nervous
and uneasy all the time.
The ship Britannia has recently com
pleted her two hundredth round voy-
age and four hundreth passage across
the Atlantic. This means she has trav.
eled a distance Of nearly 1000, 900 stat
ute miles, with her original engines and
boilers, an achievement probably with
out parallel in the history Of steam nav
igation.
A German Psychologist, who devoted
himself with great patience to the
counting of the hairs on different heads
to ascertain the average number on q
human head, found that, taking four
heads of hair Of equal weight. the num-
Der of hairs, according to color, was as
follows: Red, 10000; black, 1903, 900
brown, 100000; fair, 100000.
DR.. Charles Edousrd Sequard,
the famous physician, died at Paris,
April 1, of congestion Of the brain. He
was seventy six years of age. Through.
out his life DR.. Brown-Sequard was op-
posed to the use Of tobacco. II never
seen the most evident proofs of the in
system.
The farmers of the country may de.
rive some immediate benefit from the
war that seems likely to be inaugurated
between the John Good Cordage Co.
and the United States Cordage Co., the
successor of the old trust. The John
Good Co. has just made IL cut in the
price of cordage. They have the most
improved machinery and are disposed
to be aggressive.
The Russian Imperial Commission of
Naturalization adopted, March 30, a Sc
ries of measures which Increase greatly
the difficulties of obtaining citizenship
in Russia. Foreign Jews will be ex-
cluded from citizenship. Foreigners
who are otherwise eligible will be
naturalized only after they shall have
given five years notice of their inten-
tons. Such notice is given by means
Of petitions.
The Guardian-Journal says that the
farmers who make a living at home and
devote their surplus time to cotton are
not g,umbling about hard times. IT