The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-05-21


his trunk. His olfactory nerves are
contained in . single nostril, which is
in the roof Of the mouth, near 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 as legs. -"..
Curupay is Paraguayan wood OF
reddish color and extremely hard. It
lasts for years under ground or in
water and is chilly used for railway
sleepers:'
The Belgian government is contem~
plating the establishment Of an over
head single rail between Brussels and
Antwerp. It is expected that speed
of about ninety miles an hour will be
obtained.
If dry ropes are soaked for four days
in bath containing twenty grains of
sulphate of copper to quart of water,
they will be preserved for consider
able time from the attacks of animal
parasites and rot.
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 means of
isolating him from contact with other
persons has been found yet.
One of the heaviest locomotives of
ordinary pattern ever made is now run
ming over the Great Northern Railroad.
It weighs ninety-fve tons, exclusive of
the tender.
There was recently opened at Leices-
ter, England, a new municipal art
school, in which there is 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
fog on the Atlantic is about thirty
miles in diameter.
"Well, after dinner Boresome told o
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
[ 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
" asked Mr.. Meeker's brother. "You
ought to have voice once in awhile in
the management Of the household
Assert your independence" i
Independence" echoed Mr.. Meeke'
bitterly. "She won't even grant M
! autonomy" +EChicago Tribune.
Experiments with locomotives on thu
Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad SHOW
that slight addition of graphite to thu
oil used for lubricating purposes pro
notes economy.
It is against the rules to carry match
es on board modern men-of-war
From the time when the ship leave
harbor for q cruise she is never with
| out a light of some kind burning.
A statistician affirms that the major
itv Of people who attain old age hav
kept late hours. Eight out Of ten VIII
reach the age of ten who reach the ag'
of 80 have never gone to bed till afte
II at night.
Austria is still talking of the ner1
of Liet. Moser, Of the cavalry, who o!
a wager, "accoutred as he was' in uni
form jumped into the Danube at Klos
terpenberg and swan to the opposit
shore He ACCOMPLISHED the feat in tel
minutes.
It is announced that italian expert
ments on vegetable life with Roentge!
rays have shown that the effect ]
Identical with that of sunlight.