The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-04-02
SAYINGS AND DOINGS.


tai population of 2,415 souls, and real
estate amounting to about 100, ,OOO acres,
of which nearly O,OO0 belong to their
own home-farms.
The Benedict Arnold house at New
Haven is being demolished to make
room for neighboring store. 1t was
built between 1850 and 1860, OF brick
brought from Holland, and was not
only once the lodging place of Benedict
Arnold, but the scene of his marriage.
"THE proportion of the marrled
among the insane is smaller than that
of the unmarried" Undoubtedly.
man who has to scratch around and
make a living for his wife and eleven
children couldn't be insane if he wanted
to. He hasn't the time.
SOME observer who has noticed the
effect of great religious aWakenlngs
might do the good cause service oy
publishing the number of old debts
that are paid after each revival. There
are scoffers who affect to believe that Ii
an amount has been overdue very
long time no religion in the world will
make the debtor hunt up and pay the
man he owes.
AN English picture collector recently
bought an enormously valuable "old
| master" on the Continent, and, in Or
| der to get it into England under hight
| duty, had modern "daub" painted
over the old master. When they
| washed off the daub the old master
went with it, and left behind portrait
of George III; so it wasn't very old
master.
TWELVE years ago an efficient Michi-
| gan prosecuting attorney nearly roared
away his lungs in convicting Henry
Smith of murder, and Henry has been
| in the penitentiary ever since. Now
| the friends of the prisoner are trying
to procure q pardon for him, the muir
dered man having died short time
ago, confessing that the murder had
never taken place.
THE Sultan of Turkey employs in his
palace 5000 servants of both sexes. He
pays and feeds 800 cooks, 300 gardeners,
| 500 coachmen, and 600 more to do odds
and ends about the house. To feed
these people and their hangers-on l,2OO
| sheep and 1000 fowls are killed every
day, and 10000 francs for lights are
expended. No wonder they call him
the sick man of Europe.
THE southern baptists have joined
| heartily in the plan proposed by the
American Baptists education commits
sion for the celebration of the ap-
preaching Centenary of American In
dependence. The Nashville Advisory
committee, which met Feb. %, passed
resolutions urging the formation OF
state committees in the states 1t repre-
sents, namely Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Arkan-
sas. Louisiana, and Texas. The COM
mittee recommended the endowment of
the Southern Baptist Theological Semi
nary, and of the denominational lnstl'
tutions of learning in each state.
The legislative committee appointed
od hoe. lets the eagle out of the Napo-
leonic bag-an eagle, by the way, ever
stuffed With meal. They discovered
that the Brutals had already organized
q secret empire, which was carrying on
functions throughout France, proselyt-
izing army and peasantry, intlmldatlng
judges, projects molding more or less
all others in executive authority, ana
distributing daily over SOC, 1000 copies
of imperial journalism. The commit
tee advises the stopping of this busl-
ness, but does not say how it is to be
stopped. The discovery of the secret
embfre gave rise to the recent fears OF
a coup d'etat.
MARY E. ARBoNs was advertised by her
husband in San Jose, California, as
having left his bed and board without
lust cause, and so forth. Mrs. Arbong
; retorted in q card, In which she said
that she had been married ten years,
and in that time had cooked about ten
Thousand meals, spent fifteen Thousand
hours over q hot stove, borne six children,
MIXED COWS over ten thousand times,
: and performed other heusewifely duties
in proportion. She adds: $! have
= drawn the picture very mildly. have
: made allowances for my sickness, When
, have had help, something after the
3 way that farmer would hire horse II
r his own was sick and unable to work.
J had nothing when l went there, and
nothing at the end of those ten years OF
3 servitude."
. Tn the Malavan Peninsula large apes
of naturally intelligent breeds are en-
\ ploved by their masters much La the
q same way that haman slaves are made
8 use of in some parts of Africa. Inc
I cocoanut palm is valuable for it's fruit,
q but this is very difficult to procure, SO
: the landlord of tope of palms trains
!; his apes to climb the trees and judi
a ciously pick The richest nuts for ann.
2 The apes seem to delight in the work.
:; The apes thus employed in the neigh
t borhood of Singapore and Penang are
: bred in Atchin, and the owners timer
+ ate and hire them out. They go mp
Q the trees with line attached, and obey
q the command of their masters, choos-
1 inc the proper fruit. They twist the
t nut round and round till it falls down
9 from its stalk, when the feat Ii halled
Q on the part of the apes by jumps and
q chuckles of evident satisfaction.
Our secretary of legation at st. Pc
! tersburg has Deutsche-soundine
= = name-Sohuyler. It has been said Of
: late that on account of his curious and
deep dives into Russian matters, Prince
Gortschakoff had asked his recall. The
. saving is denied from st. Petersburg.
w Il is a significant fact, however, thai
: the Russians are extremely bitter
- against the Germans, and all that
= smacks of German sound. TneJ
= have 80 far received all their civllIzatloI
'; imported by German heads and hanas'
4 and manifest tendency TO kick out
- ward from their own ster1!lty. OleySl We
~ Germans monopolize their big ana d11n
I; ;s cult jobs and places, could not De 0on: