The Opelousas courier., 1901-04-20

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1t has been discovered that German
carp become lake trout while being
transported to market.
Inventor Tesla announces that he
will establish communication with the
inhabitants Of Mars. 1t should be IN
derstood, however, that messages will
be subject to delay in transmission.
It was at first seedless oranges. Now
it is seedless apples. Well, it is a sat
isfaction to know that some things
cannot be reduced to a seedless condi-
ton, among them the great American
pumpkin.
Experiments are to be conducted in
Connecticut to determine the relative
nutritive values Of various foods. There
are enough men willing to eat without
working to make the selection of sub
jects an easy matter.
Maine takes care Of her Indians, and
as a consequence they are on the in
crease. The Penobscot tribe, which
numbered 245 in 1880, is now 400
strong. The state appropriates $4,000
annually for their benefit.
A prisoner In the Ohio ~penitentiary
insisted on having his striped trousers
creased and had to be punished to
make him give up the idea. Ohio is
evidently determined to get on in the
world Of fashion as well as In the do
main Of politics.
In Holland a law making %vaccina-
ton of school children compulsory
wen. into effect in 1873. Prior to that
time the average death rate from
smallpox was SO in every 10000. For
the ensuing sixteen years the average
was seven in 100000.
While New York State leads all
others in point Of population, it is sew
enth In railroad mileage. Illinois, the
third commonwealth in population, is
the greatest railroad state, with nearly
11,OO0 miles Of track. Pennsylvania is
second, both in population and in rail-
road mileage.
Thirty-two young people Of Liver
pool, England, contracted typhoid fe-
yer, all on the same day, from eating
Ice cream. Young man, read this awful
experience to that girl Of yours when
she wants a dish of ice cream, and you
have but nine cents and a suspender
button in your pocket.
A Berlin professor has discovered
eight men with green hair in a body of
BOO laborers who constantly handle
AS the freak is a product of a
Of copper poisoning and takes
years of intimate association with the
metal to develop, 1t is scarcely worth
any woman's while to envy or to cult
The claim is made for South Dakota
that it has for the third consecutive
year produced more wealth per capita
than any other state in the Union, the
total for the year just ended having
been $106, 10000. OF this sum $27,-
100000 comes from live stock, $18,-
10000 from corn, $15,O00,000 from
wheat and $4,000, 600 from minerals.
The public bath movement is spread
ng. Worcester, Mass, New Haven,
Conn. st. Paul and Minneapolis,
dinn., are all establishing municipal
oath houses. The n at Rochester, n.
being patronized by an average of
yer $50 persons daily since its opening,
he city has decided to build two more.
rhe estimated cost of running the
Rochester plant is 5000.
Oklahoma's career as a territory,
which will be only ten O eleven years,
8 not quite SO short as that of Cali
ornia, which was knocking for admis-
ion as a state before the politicians
lad time to organize it as a territory,
r as that Of. the republic Of Texas,
which entered as a state without pass
ng through the territorial stage. 1t
will be shorter, however, than that of
most Of the territories. This is a dis
for Oklahoma which carries a
God deal Of significance with it.
In every county in the state Of Ohio
here is an agricultural society, formed
or the purpose of holding a county
air. Any citizen Of the county pur-
a season ticket to the fair is a
of the society. The county
ociety selects delegates to the state
and the state association
lects the board Of agriculture, which
manages the agricultural affairs of the
tate, including the state fair, and also
hooses the secretary or commissioner