The Opelousas courier., 1897-07-24

against the wall. After that he lay
quite still. I believed at the time that
I had killed him, but we knew alter
ward that it was that blow which pre-
served his reason.
"The rest can be told in few words.
After that I lay there like n in a
dream, while the Presidential air slowly
did its work. Sometimes I fancied L
could feel cool breezes blowing down
on me, and at others heard some II
telling me to wake up, for that the
whistle had sounded at the pits. How
long [ lay SO, I can only conjecture. |
really knew nothing more until [ was
reused by the sound Of that coal bar
rier crashing down before the picks
and spades of q dozen rescuers, and
the hubbub from o dozen Threats as
they broke into our tomb.
"Only Just in time. Old Jim's face
was only just out of the water, and
they said that no human being could
have lived in that atmosphere for an
other two hours. And young Jim?-
we'll, there was just enough life left Ill
him to last three days.
"Till the end of that third day, I
kept to my bed; and then they sent to
say that he was going, but that he
wished to see me first. reached the
house just in time to catch his last
whisper.
"'You-youll take her, mate. Marry
her-no II else! Only--only, you'll
let my ring stay there. Promise-me
that
"What could [ do but pronise?. I
had no thought then Of marrying his
sweetheart--but it was his dying wish,
and for years jim and I had been like
brothers.
"Just a year later I asked her if
there was room in her heart for me,
and--and--well, that's enough. Now
you know why my wife wears two we'd
ding rings. "--Tit-Bits.
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. -
Munich, Bavaria, reports bottled
~liquefied ali.
Some comets have more than one
tail. The great comet Of 1744 had six
tails spread fan shape.
Two French biologists find evidence
that fasting lessons the effect of diph-
liberia and other microbial poisons.
The largest mammoth found in the
Siberian ice fields measured seventeen
feet in length and was ten feet high.
Electricity has been adopted as the
motive power of the machinery con
nected with the drainage system in
New Orleans.
To guard against disease the I.egis-
lature Of New Hampshire passed. d law
providing for the inspection of al ice
sold within the State.
The eye of the ~vulture is so con
structed that it is o high-power tele-
scope, enabling the bird to see objects
at IN almost incredible distance.
A nugget of platinum, weie hing
nearly two pounds, is on exhibition in
New York. This is believed to bo the
largest nugget ever discovered, the
metel being usually fcand in Tery
small grains.
A company has been ermed which
made a.tfer to the Municipality of
st. PetersbSv g, Russia, to light all the
streets of theNcity with electric lights
for the same peiathat nlow paid for
the very unsatisfactory lighting with
oil lamps.
Charles Burckhalter, the astronomer
of the, .Chabot Observatory, of Cali
will travel hallway arouhd the
world so that for two minutes, IN far
off India, he may endeavor to photo
graph the sun during solar eclipse of
next January. -.
True mama is said to be found on
the blades of a blue grass growing in
Queensland. Nearly three parts of it
Of mannite, which, though
sweet, is not a sugar. Masses as large
rs marbles appear on the nodes OF the
stems. The manufacturing grass is
not only indigenous to Australia, but
IS found in tropical Asia and Africa.
Telegraph and telephone poles are
The latest development in the line of
manufactures from paper. They are
made of pulp in which a small amount
If borax, tallow, and other ingredients
IRE mixed. These are cast in a III old
the form of q hollow rod of the de-
sired length. The poles are claimed
% be lighter and stronger than wood,
md it is said that the weather does
lot affect them.