The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-12
Eor]v in the mOrninr he had seen John

son gliding down Sixth avenue, between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. He
had a bundle under his arm and kept in
the shadow, and Gilmartin stopped him.
The bundle contained q fine brand of
cigars, and johnson explained he had
got them as a prize orslancing. Gil
martin used to be a drum major, SO he
pulled out his night stick and began
rapping out q jig on the pavement.
"Dancc to that music, then" he said.
The colored man did not move, even
though JIG. cog, patter and sand dances
we're pounded out. Gi'mtrtin concluded
the cigars were not won for dancing, and
took Johnson along. At the station
house a ''jilnmy'' was found in his boot
Leo. He said he couldn't dance because
he had an iron foundry in bis shoe. The
cigars had been stolen from a saloon.
A CURIOUS old custom, dating from
ancient Saxon times, is the payment of
what is known as the ''wroth silver, u
or "wroth pcn"y," on the last Saturday
of November of each year at knightlow
Cross in Warwickshire, England. The
money is paid to the Duke Of Buccleugh,
as lord of the manor oil the Hundred OF
Knightlow. 1t is practically a curious
method of collecting tithes due to him
by immemorial custom. The amounts
due vary from a penny to two shilllngs,
ana are dropped into a hole in the stone
of the cross. A o payment of the
fee may subject the delinquent to a fine
of twenty shillings for every penny not
forthcoming, or else the forfeiture of a
white bull with a red nose and red ears.
This penalty was enforced not many
years ago. After the ceremony the Duke
provides substantial breakfast to his
tenants.
T.. TILTENsoR, a veteran moldmaker
in one of the Trenton IN. j. potteries, is
the possessor Of a new nose, made to Or
der and made out of flesh. For the past
twenty-five years he has been carrying
q large and ugly nose that was the source
of much annoyance. There were a num-
Der of unhealthy formations on it that
made it unsightly. He applied to a
physician at the head of one of the city
hopitals, and on his advice he had all
the flesh cut off and the bone cleaned.
A new nose was then built of flesh taken
from his forehead and his neck. The
patient suffered little from the operation,
although he is over sixty years of age.
The new nose is not quite as we'll
rounded as was his original nose In his
early days, but it is a marked improve
ment on what it was recently.
PABLO ORTEGA, Thomas Lewelling
and Teedulo Martinez were out hunting
quail, near Los Angeles, California,
and had with them a small dog.
The canine was in the lead some distance
up a canyon. They heard him barking
and fighting rand thinking he had en-
countered a Coyote or a wildcat, they
fastened on to assist him, and when they
| arrived at the scene of battle they found
Keno, the f'purp." in a sanguinary strug-
gle with a monster gray eagle. One of
the young men shot and killed the bird,
and endel the fight and doubtless saved
the dogs life. The eagle measured
eight feet from tip to tip.
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. man of Ban
gor, Maine, learned for the first time, a
few days ago, that he has a twin sister,
alive and we'll, in Providence, r. l.,
where she is married and has q family.
Their mother died when the twins were
five months old. Two Bangor families
adopted them, and the one taking the
girl moved III of the State shortly there
after. The boys father and five brothers
and sisters kept track of the boy, but
never told him of his twin sister. and it
was only by accident he learned of her
existence.
CAPTAIN GERRY BAssETT, of Hyannis,
Mass, can remember an exciting incl
dent of the War of 1912, when an Eng
lish privatccr chased u cotton-loaded
schooner into Hyannis halbor, where
the captain ran his vessel ashore. Some
of the towns-people secured q cannon,
and fired several shots from the shore,
which frightened the invaders away with
out the coveted prize. Captain Bassett is
eighty-four years old and the son of a
Revolutionary pensioner.
A QUAINT old watch with an aver
mere quaint fob chain lies in the dis
play window of James T. Edwards
diamond room, Chicago. The watch is
of gold, very thin, open faced, aud of
French make, with engraved silver
dial aud gold hands. It strikes the
hours and quarters on single and double
gongs. A double strand fob chain has
antique sides and seals deeply engraved.
A CASE of petechial hemorrhage, or
the oxidation of blood through the pores
of the skin. came before the Chambers
Street Hospital New York; surgeons re-
Gently. The case is one of the rarest in the
annals of surgery. and medical opinion
is divided as to its cause. The s'bloody
sweat" of the Saviour is generally be-
licvcd to revive explanation in this phe-
nomenon.
COLONEL ALTON R. EAsToN, who died
in st. Louis recently at the age Of 81,
had two towns named after him-Easton,
Me-, and Alton, Ill. He won a national
reputation through his bravery in the
Mexican and Black Hawk wars. Colonel
Easton is said to have been the first white
child born in the louisiana territory
after its annexation to the United States.
AN English sparrow met a curious and
uptimely death in London recently in
trying to take a drink of water from the
famous Temple fountain. A gold fish,
it is declared by witnesses, jumped up
and seized the bird by the leg. A sec
ond fish did likewise by the birds other
leg, and between them the sparrow found
a watery grave.
A CURIOUS fact, demonstrating the
extent of intcrmarriage between mem
bers of European royal families, is that
every crowned head in Eurnne with tho