The Opelousas courier., 1898-06-25

Lit HAS recently D06U Claimed t0aL
iron ships fitted with electric plants
suffer rapid deterioration of their pipes
having direct connection with the sea,
due to electrolytic action,
Draughting compasses are being
made with o flexible rubber suction
CAP on one end to fasten to the paper
and hold the instrument while the cir
Gle is being drawn.
Outdoor chairs and benches for
parks are provided with hinged backs,
which can be closed over the seat to
protect it from the weather and keep
it dry when it rains.
On the inside cover of a newly-de-
signed watch q thin pocket is provided
having an open center and a slot in
one side for the insertion of a pho
graph.
The prefix "O' before so many of
the names of Irish families is an alb
breviation Of tbs arisrlA "ogha," mean
ing grandchirl,r~
SwedenlAnd Norway fed the United
t~aairfttaasstdtgood customer of cod liver oil
and matches, those rarticles being the
principal items of eXpart to this coun-
try.
"~Johnnie," said a Chicago mother
to her six-year-old son., ais it possible
that [ overheard you teaching the par
rot to sWear?'
ono, mamma" replied Johnnie; Il
was just telling it what it mustn't
say"
The elephant does not smell with
his trunk. His olfactory nerves are
contained in a single n~ostril, which is
in the roof Of the mouth, zeal the
front.
With an apparatus called the myo-
phone a French scientist claims to
have proved that the nerves may live
hours after the death Of the body.
There are several varieties of fish
that cannot swim. In every instance
they are deep seadwellers, and crawl
about the rocks, using their tails and
fins a. legs.
A case of leprosy in its worst form
has been discovered in London. No
hospital or home for incurables will
take the patient in and no mea of
isolating him from contact with other
persons has been found yet.
There was recently opened at Leices-
ter, England, a new municipal art |
school, in which there is a department
devoted to instruction in hosiery and
knitting.
Prof. Leonard, of Heidelburg Uni
versity, who first discovered the
cathode rays, has received from the
French Academy 10000 francs.
The captain of an Atlantic liner,
after many calculations, has come to
the conclusion that the general size of
a fog on the Atlantic is about thirty
miles in diameter.
"We!l, after dinner Boresome told a
story about his exploits in Africa and
then one about an Irishman he met in
Switzerland" "But I thought you
were not at the banquet" "Nor was
I at this particular one, but I have at
tended sixteen others where Boresome
told these stories. "-Washington
Times.
"Why do you allow your wife to rule
you as if you were a baby?" indignant
ly asked Mr.. Meeker's brother. "You
ought to have a voice once in awhile in
the management of the household.
Assert your independence"
Independence" echoed Mr.. Meeker
bitterly. "She won't even grant me-
Tribune.
Experiments with locomotives on the
Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad show
mat a slight addition Of graphite to the
oil used for lubricating purposes pro-
notes economy.
It is against the rules to carry match
es on board a modern men-of-war.
From the time when the ship leaves
harbor for o cruise she is never with
out O light of some kind burning.
A statistician afirms that the major
ity of people who attain old age have
kept late hours. Eight out Of ten who
reach the age of ten who reach the age
of 80 have never gone to bed till after
- at night.
Austria is still talking Of the nerve
of Liet. Moser, of the cavalry, who on
a wager, ~''accoutred as he was" in uni
form jumped into the Danube at klos-
ternenberg and swan to the opposite
shore. He accomplished the feat in ten
minutes.
1t is announced that italian expert
uents on vegetable life with Roentgen
rays have shown that the effect is
identical with that of sunlight.