St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1895-03-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

IAN able man shows his spirit by
gentle words and resolute actiens. He
Is neither hot nor tinnid. Chesterfield.
Circassia took its name from the
Seherkes, q tribe of Tartar warriors
who established themselves between
the Black and Caspian seas.
How did scrawlins get his reputar
tion for originality ~ Very simply.
He makes it a rule TO know nothing
whatever about the topic on which he
| writes. - Washing Star.
| The dificnlty Of registering the
temperature at the bottom OF the
ocean is due to the fact that at great
depths the thermometers are crushed
by the pressure.
The greatest sum Of coin that was
ever collected IN one spot was IN the
| national treasury of the United States
In the silver crisis, when no less thar
| $500, ,000, 900 was contained there.
-"When ] lived somewhat quietly IN
Boston, said q New Yorker, Il discov-
cred novel use for the conventional
hat box. My chnm and myself found
that our pitcher would sit up beauti-
fully in the hat box, and we used the.
combination to work the growler Mo-
body in Boston could suspect the pres
ence of pitcher full of beer beneath
the innocent exterior of hat boz.
The longest distance letter can
be carried within the limits of the
United States Is from Key West, Fla,
to Ounalaska, 6,371 mIE1s, and all for 2
cents People who would save money
will at once start for Key West or
Ounalaska and SO address their corre-
spondence that they shall get their full
moneys worth.
China took it's name from Tsin, an
emperor who founded dynasty 800
| years before the Christian era He was
the monarch who built the great wall
and accomplished many other works of
utility to the empire It is also called
the Celestial Empire. because most
of its early rulers were, in the popular
belief, deities, or NEUROLOGICAL person
ages.
AT Brighton, England, a Christmas
dole of half a sovereign has been dis
tributed for years TO the oldest poor In
habitants. 1t was given this year to
$50 persons, 95 women aud 55 men. who
averaged over SO years of age, and, as
the day was fine, SO OF them appeared
in person, headed by an old lady of g5.
She was followed by sight more old
ladies who were over 30. The Oldest
man present was 50, but an old gentle
man Of 100, who could not come, headed
the list.
Rock candy, which Is only sugar In
large, hard cystalss Is now produced
wholesale In tin buckets inclosed In
wooden frkins- Strings are stretched
across the buckets and upon these the
crystals form. tt happens often that
the rock candy of to-day is not the
white, semi-transparent product of
twenty-five years ago. but cloudy,
reddish-brown crystal, as il made from
cheap sugar. It is not easily adul-
terated, and capitalization Is an essen
italy honest process.
Portsmouth, n. H., claims the bis
cult in the toll bridge contest, there
being half a dozen toll bridges within
q radius of ten miles thereof. Norther-
1y and easterly from Portsmouth are
the bridges from South Newmarket to
Stratham, from Newington to Dover
Point, from Dover to Eliot, Me-, and
from Kittery, Me-, to Portsmouth.
Further east is one from Kittery to
Kittery Point, and the one from Ports
mouth to Newcastle furnishes the last
link in the chain. The only escape
from the city W land free gratis is via
Greenland and Rye.
Lovers of flowers not rich enough
to buy often have various ways of pro-
longing the life and freshness Of the
few they get. Violets may DO kept
fresh If kept In fresh water and COW
cred over night with q tumbler. Most
flowers will retain their freshness for
several days II kept overnight in the
open air. Any one possessed of one OF
those delicate French clocks that have
to be covered with q glass dome cannot
do better than sell or pawn the clock,
usually an object of neither use nor or
nament, buy flowers from time to time
with the proceeds, and use the glass
dome as a protector for the flowers at
night. It will keep them fresh for
days.
WelI--were it not a pleasant thing
to fall asleep with ones friends, TO
pass with all our social ties TO silence
from the paths OF men; and every
hundred years to rise and learn
the world, and sleep again; to
sleep through terms of mighty wars,
and wake on science grown to more,
on secrets of the brain, the stars, al
wild as aught Of fairy lore; and all
that else the years will show, the poet
forms Of stronger hours, the vast re-
publics that may grow, the declarations
and the powers; titanic forces taking
birth In divers seasons divers chimes;
for we are ancients Of the earth, and lii
the morning of the times. Tennyson.
| One sometimes sees In showcases
filled with cigars wet sponge placed
there to keep the cigars from getting
dry. 1t wouldn't be just the thing to
put wet sponge in o box Of smoking
tobacco, but a slice OF carrot or small
piece of potato will serve the purpose
there. The carrot Is preferable,
simply because 1t looks better; its
pretty color and it's circular form
make it more agreeable to the eye as
yon open the box, but Il there are no
carrots in the house a slice Of potato
will do Either will dry up quickly
and needs to be renewed; it Is better to
do that than to put in too big a piece
to start with, for that would make the
tobacco too damp.
Hint to Those Who Carry Umbrellas.