The Opelousas courier., 1902-01-25
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John Bull is still buying horses in the
United States for cavalry remounts i'll
South Africa. He knows seryiceabie
animals when he sees them, and he
knows where to get them.
The Nebraska State game warden has
forbidden the farmers to fight the grass
hoppers with poison, saying that the loss
of birds and game is too costly q price
to pay for the destruction Of compare
lively few insects.
Over King Edward of England hangs
the menace of death by cancer-an old
enemy of the Guelphs, and one against
which modern medical science is impo-
tent. There may be a prolongation of
days whose every hour is anguish, brit
no cure.
The Yellow River, in China, may be
hrued to the vscillating murderous
kings of history. Twenty-Five Gaes dur
ing the last century it has ehanked its
course, and during that time itss floods
are said to have klled eleven billion
people.
Brock, in Holland, is the neatest wn
in the worlde So tidy are the pc pl.
that they won't allow horses in Ghs
streets. 1t contains a population of&.
700, and the chief industry is making
cheese. Even the cows that furnish the
milk are not allowed within the town.
Mrs. E. D. Gillespie, Franklin's, great
granddaughter, who died in Philadel-
ptia the other day, and who in personal
appearance and in many of her intellect
ual characteristics greatly resembled him
used to say: mo gentlewoman can be
a real gentlewoman who cannot sen
we'll"
South Australian apples are now sold
in European markets at from five cents
TO ten cents each; choice ones even high
er. The apples are packed and shipped
in small, long boxes containing 100 each
They are wrapped separately in tissue
paper, and are packed in wood, wool and
the leaves of corr husks.
Another American invasion" Of En-
gland has begun, this time by the watch
trade. An American firm, it is said, has
contracted to deliver 100000 watches
in London during the next twelve
months, the Americans having underbid
the Germans and the Swiss. The order
is said t o be the largest ever given.
To study Ieprosy DR.. Louis Knapp,
of St. Louis, Mo-, has undertaken the
sole care of a Chinese leper in that city.
and will be isolated with his patient un-
til the death of the latter releases him.
The doctor parts with his wife and four
children indefinitely, and assumes his
charge in the hope of discovering a rem
edy for the disease.
Chicago has named a new park Nc.
Kinley Park. 1t has an area of forty
acres, and along its southern edge an
artificial hill has been built up, the only
elevation for nearly a mile around. In
corner of the park a wading pool
has been made and near it q large swim
ming pool, about eight feet deep in its
deepest part.
The earliest maps of America are said
to have been discovered in the historic
of Wolfegg Wurtembesg, by al
professor of geography, Father Joseph
Fischer. The maps bear the dates OF
1907 and 1916, respectively, and are said
to be in a remarkable state OF preserva-
ton. The first 10 believed to have been !
drawn under the supervision of Column
bus. The fad is considered the mos:
important Of its kind in modern times.
A number of philanthropic London
have opened several man.
moth kitchens in the slums of the En-
glish capital 1t is the purpose of the
of the scheme TO supply
vegetable and cereal food to
the poor of the great city at nominal
lost, thus eventually teaching these peo-
pie what is. to the vegetarian's enlight-
ened minds, the proper way of living re-
specially at q small cost.
Professor Dexter, of the University
Of Illinois, who has studied tine effects
If weather on morals, finds that the de-
ire to fight rises with the thermometer,
9ut stops at eighty-fve degrees; willis
lfter that as the mercury rises. Assault
asses are therefore commoner in sum-
than in winter. Drunkenness, how
sver, lessons with summer and increases
with the coming of cold. Suicides are al
maximum o. bright days with a high
barometer and increase as the wind
Englishmen are congratulating them
on the invention by one OF their
:ountrymen of . loom which automatic
lily removes the shuttle when the yarn
herein breaks or is exhausted, and sub
a full one. A loom OF this char
.cter was invented in the United States
time ago-in fact, 10000 of them
ave already been sold, but, natusailY !
he English manufacturers are grateful