The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-01-08
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.


I took the white spots and marks off
my vanished furniture, and made it
look new and glossy, simply by wetting
a sponge in common alcohol camphor
and applying it freely to the furniture.
It has nearly, if not quite, the same
effect that varnish has, and is much
cheaper.
A NEW potato, known as the White
Queen (reine 5lanchG), is being culti-
waited in France. In good soil from
twelve to fifteen acres are formed, many
of which attain or exceed twenty-five
pounds. The flavor is said to be very
fine. Planted in February or March, it
becomes ripe in July.
FINALLY q wan has actually caught
fish in the Seine at Paris. Many men
have, ihowever, been after that fish
great many years. IL was salmon
which was sold to the keeper of res
taurant on the Palaias Royal for forty
three francs. This will give new i'm
pulse to fishing f1om the quay, tho pur-
suit in which Paris &C. lOafs and INDUCES
its slou."
HARRIET MCEwEN K1MBALL calls such
language as this ga Kiss :"
Only the roses will hear;
Dear,
Only the roses will soc!
This Once-iust this
All the roses, wis,
They envy me
Here is a half-blown spray;
Say.
This shall loves anadcm he
A roHe-strung wreath
For thy brow, and beneath
A rOse for mo!
IT is contemplated to Introduce into
the French assembly ''voting ma
chine" An electric apparatus is to be
installed on the desk of each member;
there are to be two knobs like those of
electric bells-one for the yeas, the
other for the nays. The votes will be
registered instantaneously on frame
work behind the president, opposite the
names of the members, set down in
alphabetical order.
JOHN PAUL On naturalization
Neither of Moses It does sometimes
seem to me that people, so far from not
knowing enough to go in when it rains,
don't even know enough to get under q
tree. Here the fools sit gaping at the
show on the stage; why doesn't some
one seize "Santunn" by the scruff Of
the neck, and hook on to "Honto" by
the top-knot? If they're spirits they'll
melt away and dissolve, and there's no
harm done; and if, on the contrary.
they prove to be hulking louis of farm
ers humbugging in rags and feathers,
the broad of shovel could be applied
to no better agricultural purpose than
the putting OF heavy top-dressing
where it would make sitting down TN
comfortable and standing up the only
thing to be thought of.
Otis 0. HALL, of San Francisco, was
a bank teller, two years ago, at salary
of $4,000. He loved Miss Sharon.
Miss Sharon loved him. Mr.. Sharon
was agreeable, but the elder Hall ad-
vised Otis to wait a pair of years, travel
in Europe,s grow world1y-wise, return
and marry. All this Otis did as he was
advised. He left his situa-
ton in San Francisco, made an exten-
sive tour of Europe, and short time
ago returned, the period of his proba-
tion having elapsed. He got back just
in time to read in the newspapers Of the
marriage of Miss Sharon, his betrothed,
to T. G. NeWlands, young lawyer OF
San Francisco. It was also stated for
Halls further edifcation that Newiands
had received 81, 600 coo in cash for bis
beautiful bride. Hall got position as
clerk in Chicago hardware store, but
he is not happy. Chicago Times.
A C1NctNNATI youth, who parts his
hair in the middle, made slight mis-
take at theater in that city the other
night. In order to obtain o clearer
perception Of o high note by singer,
he reached in his eoat-tail pocket and
brought forth what he thought was an
opera-glass, but what proved to be re-
vised compilation Of Deringer. People
in his immediate vicinity we're surprised
and somewhat frightened to see him
elevate the ordnance to his eyes and
steadfastly gaze down into his dark
dark caverns of death. II was upon
first impression, thought to be cool
deliberately planned suicide, bnt when
he quietly put It back in his pocket
and brought tho real article into requi-
sition the horror melted from before
their eyes, and it became apparent that
it was only mistake after all. 4 few
hairs whose beat lay on the larboard
side of the young mans sk1ll had by
some means gotten on the starboard
side; hence the slight alteration of
mind.