The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-05
General Notes.

man army officers from betting On horse
races.
Germany officially denies that she in
tends to establish a protectorate over
the Samoan Islands.
Lord Randolph Churchill, according
to MIR. Arthur BalfOur, is the most bril-
liant cOnversationalist in the world.
Last week a twelve-year-old girl of
Mount Vernon, N. Y, died in a hospital
in that town from the effects of excess
i've rope jumping.
For the first time in many years Gov,
Waite, Mount Vesuvius and Col. Phoebe
Cousins are each and all in a state of
profound observation-disclosures City Star.
The Board has issued orders for re-
newed vigilance on the East Prussian
frontier as cholera is epidemic in Kov-
no, kalisz, Flock and Warsaw. in West
Russia.
The severest earthquake of the last
ten years shook Athens, Thebes, Alta
lanta and several other cities of Greece
at half-past five o'clock, April 30. Many
houses were damaged.
The Grand Duke of Hesse married at
C0burg, April 10, his cousin, the Prin-
cess Victoria MeIita, of Saxe-Cobnrg
and Gotha. They are both grandchii-
dren OF Queen Victoria.
David Dudley Field left his home in
the Berkshire hills, and arrived in New
York city with a Bible and $40. He
died full of honors and of years, and
leaving an estate of 81 900, 900.
Jesse B. Seligman, the well known
New York banker, died suddenly at
Coronado Beach, Cal, last Saturday.
He came to this country at the age of
fourteen and began life as a peddler.
The new Court House, the strong
effort of II citizens are making for a
High School and the prospects of a rail
road have already started a boom in
our little city.-Marksville Enterprise.
Patriots Day, April 26, the new Mass
achusetts holiday, was celebrated with
great enthusiasm. Paul Revere's ride
was reproduced, and there was a sham
fight, representing the battle of Concord.
An order was received in Chicago last
Thursday from the English War De-
partment for a sample consignment of
500 tons of compressed fodder for hor-
ses, a combination of crushed oats, corn
and chaffed hay.
luC SCiCuJlSJ WHO OlSCOSclcu III the
human larynX the anatomical reason
why woman has IA soprano voice and
man Il bass one, was IL woman, Mrs.
Emma Seller. She was a German, born
in Wurtzburg.
If you are a merchant don't advertise
in your home paper-buy a rubber stamp
and use 1t. 1t may save o a few
dimes and MAKE the D look as
though it vas printed in a o~ne-horse
town.-Abheville Meridional.
Mr.. A. E. Gremillion of Marksville,
has on his place Il common creole hen,
u it is a positive fact that every egg
she has ever laid had il double yolk.
Can any of u sister parishes beat
that ?-Marksville Enterprise.
On Wednesday II rubbish heap, which
was being burned behind Il hardware
store in Huntsville, Ont, set fire to the
store and before the hames could be
checked, tliirty-seven buildings had
been destroyed. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
The Supreme Court Of Louisiana has
decided that exemption from taxation
OF property used for schools" is res
tricted to schools where the ordinary
elements Of knowledge are taught and
LUG " CAtCuu " u cCuubl VI Sttub-
graphy," "typewriting," etc.
la spite of the cold water which Sec
rotary Morton has poured on the science
OF rain making the spring has no SOON
er arrived than there are indications
that the experiments of last year are
considered il scientific success, and will
be resumed this year with increased
vigOr.
1t is announced that the Amoskeag
Mills. No. 8 and 4, at Manchester, N. H.,
will close to-day, for an indefinite pc
riod owing to a lack of orders. Two
thousand operatives will be thrown out
of work. The working hours in the
other mills of the corporation will be
reduced.
Mr.. Spofford, the Librarian of Con-
gress, has prepared a plan, embodied in
a bill introduced, last week, by Repre-
Black, for the organization of
I'D literature, sclenCt and fine
arts in this country as is filled in France
by the French Academy.
The total of deaths caused in Greece
by the earthquake is 800. About 800
persons were injured. An almost inces-
SAINT trembling of the earth continues,
diluOuSu tbCiO ~ NJ StStIt sibDChs.
Three large fragments have fallen from
the Parthenon, in Athens, and one of
the walls seems to be insecure.
The betrotbal is announced of the |
Grand Duke Nicholas, heir
to the throne of Russia), to
the Princess Alix Victoria Helena
Louise Beatrice of Hesse, a grand
daughter of Queen Victoria. This match
is said to have been earnestly desired !
by the Emperor of Germany. i
In the House of Commons April 20, i
A. G.. Morton moved that the payment +,
of the annuity of $4,000 to the Duke of l
Edinburg cease on the ground that he {
is now a reigning German prince. The
was put to a vote and was over
defeated, 29S members vot- s
ing against it to 81 in it's favor. The {
government and Conservatives united
in the opposition to the motion.
The Mannheim tailor, Dove. t
gave an exhibition Of his bullet. proof T
coat, April %, before the Surgeons'Con-
gress, now in session at Berlin. The
bullets fired at a twenty -fiye-fOot n =
failed to penetrate the coat or even :
Dove, who was inside it. When :
the test was over Dove was app|anded '
heartily, and several members of the
congress spoke flatteringly of his inven- t
ton. L
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