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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

LABELS FOR FRUIT TREES. We
have d so many suggestions OfIabels
FER fruit trees and have t9ied=s0 many
that we hfnkit may be well tomention
that the Il we have had in use for 25
years is the best of them all. We take
4 sheet Of zinc, cut 1T In strips half an
inch in width and two and o halfinches
long, bore.a hole IN Oneend, and write
with a ~goosetquil, which is the best, the
name Of the fruit omit. But common
ink will not do, as it would soon wash
off. You must make ink for yourself,
which is easily enough done, as follows:
Go TO d druggists and get six grains of
sulphate of copper, which mix with one
ounce ofWater; dissolve and add three
grains of sal-ammoniae and 20 drops of
sulphure acid, and you have an ink
that, If we'll put on, will last for 20years
But we forget to say that you must use
copper wire OF suitable taiekness-sav
No. II. 18. 19-With which to fasten Tile
labels upon the trees. But plenty of
room must be allowed for the trees to
grew, or the wire will cut through the
bark, and sometimes will destroy the
branch or tree to. which it may be ap-
Piled. Be sure not to make a mistake
in purchasing the chemicals. The next
best label is, In our opinion, the Old0ne
used by nurserymen rs long as we can
remember-the vine strip painted white,
written out with a lead pencil. and fast
ened with copper Eire
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31
~ ,NoreheFn~ sympathy.
From the Rrashear News

81 "a EEAs-E e
Our readers will remember that, ever
since the reverse and disappointment
which attended the Fusion case, before
Congress last winter, the political lead
ers in New Orleans have been directing
attention to the next session, and pro-
missing sure relief when that time shall
have arrived.
Mr.. Matt Carpenter has been indicat-
ed as the type of that great Nothern
Conservative element, which was to
arise at someXague future period and
sweep everything before it. His course
during the controversy, his speeches.
andthe immense promise of his prOsnect-
i've action had gradually been shaped
into one Of the principal bu1warks of
the cause and Mr.. Carpenter had be-
come the recognized apostle Of Northern
sympathy, and a leading saint in our
political calendar. ,sl... - .
No wonder, then; that his recent visit
IN New Orleans vas a sort of ovation,
He was BATTERED and Toasted, and sur
rounded by taWning multitudes. -
The Fusion journal pointed to his ar
rival as a new departure in our career,
and spoke nnetuouslyaDfi the great GOOD
which was sure to spring from the visit.
One OF the leading contestants on the
State ticket rendered him i superb ban
quet, and the chiefs of Fusiondom g 9fIl-
cred by the score toload the distin g1ish-
ed guest with honors and soothe his soul
with adulation. .5'f +!3A8 3fGT
On Tuesday evening the great speech
TRANSFERRED. Nearly three thousand of
the oldest and best" assembled in Elk
position Hall ohearf from Mr.. Carpen-
ter's lips the language of wisdom and
political salvation. It was the Fusion
leaders, trump. "We have been telling
you to be of good cheer; that the NortI
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

WHY AMERICAN WOMAN ARE DELI
CATE.-AnOther reason of the d~elicaCy
Of u women is the far greater style
affected by all. classes in dress, and the
wearing Of corsets during early youth.
Naturally, it one has attained a full and
fine physical development, tight cOrsets,
heavy skirts, clOseitting boots and
weighty chignons cannot iniure to the
same extent as when these appliances
are put upon the soft and yielding mus
Giles of a young and growing girl. The
noble ladies of England exercise many
hours daily in the open air. They do
not disdain to don heavy calf-skin shoes
and colOred petticoats, in which to per
form this duty. This, Of course, would
not alone make them as healthy as thev
are, were it not their constitutions are
strengthened by q proper physical edu-
cation before they are eighteen years of
age but it sufices to. retain them in q
good degree of health. Our fair Ameri-
cans early in the day attire themselves
IN charming morning costumes, with
white skirts, and then they are averse
to solling these by exercise, and the least
dampnessdeters them from q prOmenade
American ladies think far more of dress
and fashion, and spend more money and
time on their toilet than any women in
Europe, not even excepting the French.
from whom all IourfashiOns come.-EGaI-e
axy. *
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1t is almost incredible, but it is seri-
otusly stated that one hundred and sixty
two women of Lowell, Mass, have petit
toned the legislature to make polygamv
legal. The petitioners, however. would
have the taking of a second wife depend
emit upon the consent of the irst--a yerv
wise provisO, if any such foolish and
wicked statute is to be enacted. mas
much as the consent of the first wife
would, in a majority of cases be impOs-
sible to- obtain. But Gov. Andrw's
forty thousand anxious and aimless wO-
men" still remain in Massachusetts and
the question what is to be done with
them is as far from being answered as
everyone of the problems which # is
pleasant to think hat time at least must
solve.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

To FARMERs.-Few farmers are aware
OF the great profit to be derived from
the raising of broom corn. Two crops
can be raised every season, as it will take
only ninety days for each. The Weld is
1000 pounds per acres, and this will bring
in cash six cents per pound, delivered at
the Braham industrial works. The pro
prietor will furnish gratis to those who
wish to plant, all the seed necessary.
Droughts never affect this crop, and our
readers can see at a glance that it. is
more prohtablethan cotton. Let two or
three acres be planted as an experiment.
and our readers will thank usfOr caIIi1@
their attention to this matter.-[Braham,
Texas, Banner.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

As a matter Of course, when clergy
men exchange they preach old sermons.
That they may do SO is one of the rea-
sons for exchanging. It does not follow,
however, that they should not look over
the MS. to see If the local points need
alteration. We read of a Somerville
{Mass.0 preacher who went over lately to
Andover to preach. In his discourse
was an allusiont to the Insane Asylum at
~Someryiile. And forgetting thathewas
in AndoVer, he said, Sooner than a
child of mine should be subjected to
have him confined nstitution.
Andover Theological Seminary.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

-=H.EE=n -. e.
ENGLAND's NoBTL1TY.-In England,
feudal nobility is decidedly on the
Wane.. Most of the old families have
become extinct; The most illustrious
Of the mobiles of modern times are of
plebeian origin. They have won their
cOr0nets by their achievements. 4 -
Lord Asburt0n was, a few years ago
plain Mr.. Alexander Barring, earning,
as a merchant, that wealth which
helped him into the House of Lords.
Lord Lyndhurst was a Boston boy,
son of the portrait painter, Copley.
His armorial motto, ultra Peyyere,"
(strive to the utmOst,) proclaims the
secret of that p0Wer by which he climbed
to the height of Lord High Chancellor
of England.
Lord Eden, perhaps the ablest lawyer
who ever sat upon the w0Olsack, was
the son of a Newcastle eoa1-miner. In
his. own f0reible language he has in
| formed us how he won his ,eOrOnet. It
was shy living like a hermit and work
| ing like a horse.n
Sir Robert Peel could proudly en-
blazon a spinning-jenny on his escut-
cheon. The ample fortune, without
which, in England, he could not have
attained his high position, was earned
by his father, amid the din Of Icons
and tne Whir of the mandatory.
Lord Brougham, a poor and hiendless
boy, commenced his career as the
teacher of a village school. With gig
antie energies he fought his way to the
House of Commons. The power he
there displayed and the influence he
welded led the mobility TO solicit him
to come into their ranks, that his genius
might embellish the peerage.
Az the accession Of Victoria, in the
year 1882, the English peerage consisted
Of four hundred and fifty members. Oh
these, three hundred and sixty had
been created within the last one hun,
bred years.
This left bnt one hundred and ninety
families who could claim anything like
antiquity,
Whenever q minister wishes to In.
crease his influence in the House Of
Lords lie ereates a new batch of mobiles
from those who are pledged to support
his m~eaaures. Lord Melbourne, during
the four years of his premiership. con.
ferred forty-tWo coronets. tt is fhii
constant fusion of plebeian blood which
sustains the patTician class of England
J.. SC. Abbot.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

Two WAYS OF PLANTING A TREE
First Way.-Have a tree dug up by an
awkward, man, with d dull spade. No
particular directions need be given in
regard to sparing the, roots, or to the
condition Of the severely short ones
which may come up with the tree.
Roots are of little consequence in this
mode of planting. Next dig q small,
deep hole, as for a post, and crowd the
mutllated stump into it as deeply as
you can fill in the earth, ram it down
we'll and the work is done. You can
plant another tree in the same hole
next year, which is q great advantage.
Second Way.-Have the entire ground
to be planted well prepared by deep
spadlng. or subsoiling, enriching it with
suitable manures IL necessary. DIG a
shallow hole simply deep enough and
wide enough TO take in all the roots
without twisting or cramping them,
Have the tree properly taken up; prune
OF, with a sloping cut from the under
side, upward, all broken or bruised
roots set.the tree perpendicuiarly into
the hole. IN The same position in res
pect to the points OF the compass and at
about the depth at which it grew in the
nursery; ill in the earth carefully,
shaking the tree slightly to make the
soil fill the creviees among the roots,
press the earth round the tree with the
foot, commencing at the outer edge of
the hole. The earth should be raised
slightly above the surrounding level, to
allow for settling. IF it be thought
necessary to use additional manure in
planting, let it be old well rotted com
post and in no case fresh stable manure,
Except in case of accident, this tree
will be likely to occupy the place in
which you have put it for many years.
Rural Carolinian.
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THE MAKE UP or THE BoDY.-Sup-
posing your age to be fifteen or there
abauts. 4 can figure yon to a dot. YOu
have d hundred and sixty bones and
five hundred muscles; your blood
weighs twenty-five pounds; your heart
is five inches in length and three inches
in diameter; it beats seventy times a
minute, forty-tWo hundred times per
hour. a hundred Thousand and eight
hundred per day, and thirty-six million
seven hundred and twenty-five thOus-
and per year. At@eaeh beat a little
over two ounces of blood is thrown out
of it; and each day it receives and dis
charges about seven tons of that Won
derfnl fluid. tYonr lungs will contain
4 gallon of air, and You inhale twenty
four thousand gallons per day. The
aggregate surface of the air cells Of
your lungs, supposing them to be
spread out, exceeds twenty thousand
square inches. The weight of your
brain is three pounds; when You \ a
man it will weigh about eight ounces
more. Your nerves exceed ten millions
three LAYERS, and varies from one-fourtI
| to One-eight of an inch in thickness
The area. of your skin is about seven
teen hundred square inches, and you
are subjected to an atmospheric pressure
of fifteen pounds to the square inch
Each SQUARE inehof your skin contains
thirty7five hundred sweating tubes OF
persniratory pores. each of which may
be likened to d little drain tile one.
| fourth of an inch long, making an az.
gregate length Of the entire surface d
your body of two hundred and ont
| thonsnnd seven hundred and six feet, o
a. tile ditch for draining the body al
most forty miles long.
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All O Printing

-%-
There is prevailing Ignorance regard,
ing the art of printing. We know ell
about it, being in the,business. Goliath
is believed toIave been the first printer.
He did it with his feet, leaving his
prints wherever he went. Printers have
been on the tramp ever since.
The first movable type was i'll the ff-
teenth century. It was never fully de-
cided who moved it. Guttenburg is sus-
pected, as he was guttin' nearly every
thing i'll those days.
An edition of Donatus was the first
book printed from movable type.-D0-
natuS was a cannibal. He would have
dom ate us if we had been around about
that time.
tating handwriting. We would like to
catch anybody initiating our handWrit-
ing, lettered or unlettered.
Roman type was made in 1465.-We
didn't make any until the year follow
ing, and we haven't made a great deal
since. But the "Grecian type" is our
choice-made of Athens business, You
know.
Printing was introduced into Paris in
1910. Being i'll France, the introduce
ton was very formal.
The largest size of type used for books
IS Great Primer. We never got any
thing but little primers incur youthful
days. The smaller sizes of types are
English, Plea, Small Plea, Long Primer
(mixed half and half with Great Primer
it makes Great Long Primer, Bour-
geOis, BREWER, Minion, Nonpareil, Agate
(nOw editing a New York paper, Pearl
Diamond and Brilliant, evidently very
similar.
Pearl is the smallest type found in an
ordinary printing Office. Cora Pearl il
about the loudest type found any,
where. -.l-
The type most in use for advertise,
ments is NOnpareil. Where there il
non-pay there is very little 'reil, nova.
days.
In America, printers are paid by tht
thousand ems We once had a girl nam,
ed Emily-a sweet creature-and a thou
sand Ems I'VE have since seen who could'n'
hold a candle to her.
A good composition will set, correc,
and distribute about six thousand EN-
in a day of ten hours. The shocking
creature! 1t he could set, ETC., six thou
sand ems in a day of ten hours, how
many Julias and Polly AIMS could h.
serve in the same manner? (Answer il
our next.)
The hand-press is said to have beef
invented in 1850; but, bless you, hand
pressing must have reached way back O
that time. The hand-press has been il
operation ever since young folks of op
pOsite genders were on earth, you bet
Ink rollers are made from mixture o
molasses and glue. Is frequently be
comes necessary to watch the roller
boys to prevent their licking off til
1asses. .
The Hoe press was patented in 1871
You ought to see Hoe handle one of hi
presses. Before the Hoe was invented
newspapers were printed on a shovel.
Fiat Contributor.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

Our colored friend ellis has given up
his aspirations for public office, and gone
into the ice7cream business. Heecircu-
Iates r0undtown with afternoon,
and everybody who has tried it pro-
nOunced it good
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

The whole number of deaths in this
city, last week was 189. Eight died of
cholera sporadica, 70 of cholera infan-
tum, u OF cholera mOrbus, 10 of CON
SUMPTION, z OF chronic diarrhea, 3 OF
dlarrhea, l OF accute diarrhea, 4 of dys-
EMERY, Z OF levers, Z of meazles, II Of
pneumonia and 10 of smallpox,
Crescent City, May 18th.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

We call the attentionof all liquor and,
tobacco dealers, and all others interest
ed, to the advertisement of Mr.. Ed. P.
Goodwin, deputy collector us. Internal
poovraoITo Bog .g.--4s ,44sans, ag
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The Sioux are very Ohservant. One
of Spotted Tails followers. who speaks
a little English, seeing one of the ser
vant-girls Of the hotel take off her
ehignon, exclaimed,-"Howi White
woman raise her own scalp! Indian no
good heTe!n
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

That ssscllool of journalism 4 at Yale
College is success. An Iowa editorials
written to the President for d couple of
graduates as soonas they are turned out.
Salary six dollars per Week.-EPrinting
Gazette.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

The Subscription. price of the jour
NAL lis two dollars payable in advance
we repeat this for those who have, not
yet learnedtour terms. - ~ 9a ~
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

An intoxicated printer in n western
city wandered mt0a shoe sh0pinahbs0f
mental alteration, and set upseveral
sticks full Of shoe pegs, and took q proof
of hismatter i'll the boot press before he
realized his awful onditions-[Printing
Ga1nffn
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

A MAN VINO NEVER 0wEn MORE
THAN FIVE CENTs,-=A correspondent of
the fredericksburg Ledger, Writingfr0m
Essex county mentions the death of a
remarkable and worthy old gentleman
of Richmond county, Mr.. John B. Sisson,
In the eightiethyearof his age. He was
an industrious man, and had aeeumula-
ted some property, which he left to his
only daughter. He was q soldier in the
never owed any one but five eentsduring
the eighty years of his life, and that was
a balance ON a bill of goods purchased of
old Mr.. Hutt, deceased, the father of s.
s. Hutt. He said he couldnot sleep that
night because of his owing five cents,
and he got up very early the next morn-
ing, Went to see Mr. HUT. and paid the
five cents, Never before or afterwards
| did he owe any person one cent.
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The German Heart Breakers,
from the st. Louis Republican.

From the ST. LOUIS republican,
They do some things in Germany diff
ferent from our customs, and much bet
| ter thanTed do AmaFriage engagement
is with The Germans a more serioUsthing
than with us. Tt carries with 1.-THE force
| of a solemn compact, and some of the
responsibilities OF a marriage contract
| already performed. The engagement is
known to all the friends of the parties ;
| 1t is published In the newspaper, >and Is
regarded as almost as irreVOeable as
| marriageibself. In Cassel, twOarmy Of
fieers, One of them a count and an adiu-
tant, were discussing the susceptibility
| of woman, and the count made n wager
| with the other, that lie, poor as he was,
could win the afectionso of any rich heir
ess the two might agree upon, and be-
come engaged to marry her. They set
tied that the count should lay siege to
the heart of a very pretty andayery rich
young girl, the daughter of a widow
whose former husband had been a notO-
ri0us gambler.
The suit sueceededI the engagement
! was soon made. and published. The
count was victorious and won the bet, it
being a gorgeous wine supper. He then
thought the joke had gone about far
enough, and wrote the young lady that
it would be impossible for him TO keen
the engagement to marry her, because
her father was a gambler. The affair
made a great deal of public scandal, and
the German ehronicler of these events
states that the story came to the ears of
the Emperor, William, who strongly-d dis
approved of the whole proceedings of
his army officers. The supper was pre-
pared, and the count and his friends
were about sitting down to their Fianda
and champagne, when an order came fol-
the arrest of the two officers, who had 80
disgraced their cloth and manufactured
scandal. They were not permitted even
to drink their wine, and are now await
ing a trial by court martial. That's the
way they treat these harmless little jokes
in Germany.
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A fashionable young1a lady accidentally
dropped one of her false eyebrows in
her opera box the other evening, and
greatly frightened her beau, who on
seeing it, thought it was his mOIstaehe.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

No man possibly improve in n COM
pany for which he hasnot respectenouoh
to be under some degree of restraint.
fChpsterfaId-
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The Picayune acknowledges, Kellogg
to be received as Governor BY one-half
of the State,a while Kellogg claims 8
little B than one-half. JIG he has
one man more than one-haf he is a le-
gal Governor by virtue of q majority,
and the Picayune rests its political
hopes on a very slight tenure-too
slight TO Warrant revolutionary meas
ures in oppositioR.IECReseen City.
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A boy in Williamsport, Pa, got bill
lard ball into his mouth recently, and
the help Of physician was needed to
get it out again. =
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

PLANNING PoEAToEs.-Early last
springI plowed d piece of ground two
rods wide by nineteen long; narrowed
it fine: then took a two-horse pillow and
ridged it up something like sweet potato
ridges, only fatter on top; then took q
hand-stake sharpened at one end, and
made holes by thrusting the stake
down into the ridge. The holes were
made about eighteen inches apart, on
alternate sides of. the ridge. A boy fol
lowed and dropped seed in each hole
then we took Is mixture of slaked lime
and leached ashes, equal parts and put
a handful in each hill, and covered
lightly with earth. They soon started
to grow, and as the plants began to an
pear above ground we covered them
with straw about one foot deep. That
was all the work they got, except going
through them every morning for two
weeks and killing tile bugs. The weeds
never got through the straw during the
summer. We began using them thu
18th of june used weWantedla fami'
lY of six peTs0ns) until the LIST of No
vember. We took up what remained
which was fifty bushels, of as large an6
dry potatoes as could be desired. They
were of the EARLY Rose variety. Thl
ground was only common prairie, an
has been in cultivation ten years.-[Gor
Rural World.
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The April showers have come III May.
In close succession to the floods of last
week it rained in torrents last Tuesday
and Wednesday. The prairies westward
to the Sabinesare a sheet of water. At
a time when it is SO necessary to serape
cotton and cultivate corn, the ground is
too vet to admit Of either, and the grass
is rapidly choking the crops.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1873-05-31

The regular June termooff the Supreme
Court at Opelousas commences here IN
the 9th proximO. rar 90
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LOCAL ITEMS.

we cali attention to Mr.. Bog o5ggiia's aad--
%vertisement. ~.IIEE.E u