The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-04-23
SAYINGS AND DOiNGS.

with the Lord SO much as giving four
full quarts for every gallon" says an
SArkansas circuit rider.
SPRING brings joy to the heart of a
western editor, who sings: "Soon the
dusky squaw will be seen straining
maple sugar through her winter stock
ings."
A FASHION editor reports that the
Easter bonnets have a hurricane deck,
a bell tower, signal lights, birds OF
Paradise, quail, Welsh rabbits and
flower gardens ad lib.
A BELL has recently been cast in Ger
many weighing $4,000 pounds. It was
! made from cannon taken from the
French during the late war. 1t is for
the Cathedral church at Cologne.
When common Japanese goes into
the presence of IN office e-hOlder he must
say " Great and distinguished child
of the sun, deign to put your foot
upon my neck" There's some pleas
ure in holding an office in that country.
The removal of substances from the
ear may be accomplished by doubling
horse hair in the form of loop,
and, placing the patient upon the
side, passing the loop into the ear as
far as it will go, then turning it gently.
The substance will generally come out
in the loop after one or two withdraw
ais. The application will do no dam
age if the hair be carefully used.
A PARTY who was looking at house
in the sixth ward the other day, said he
couldn't afford to pay SO much rent.
"Well, look at the neighborhood, " re-
piled the woman. You can borrow
fat-irons next door, coffee and tea
across the street, -four and sugar on
the corner, and there's big pile of wood
belonging to the school l-house right
across the alley y
THE lunatics used to see tough times
in the sixteenth century. In enlight-
ened England, in 1891, William Hack
ct, a fanatic, personated the Saviour,
and was executed for blasphemy. James
Naylor also represented himself to be
the Saviour. He was convicted of BIAS
phemy, whipped, and his tongue was
bored through with hot iron, by order
of the house of commons"
The villagers of Bexkah, near Anti
och, in Asia, Minor, while digging near
the old castle called Bughazi, on the
Akra mountains, the other day, came
upon leadeu coffin having q lid re-
sembling woven feathers. These were
supposed to be the feathers OF the
samandar, or phoenix, and on putting q
piece of it into the fire it did not melt,
bnt assumed different hue. The gov
ernment has given directions for the
preservation Of what remaius Of this
relic.
GoULD's st. Louis Directory for 1875,
just out, gives the population of that
city at four hundred and ninety thou
sand on January l, 1875. Increase in
the population since the census, fifty
seven per cent, or more than ten per
cent, yearly. Business and manufac-
lures of the city better in the aggregate
than ever before in spite of the general
prostration. Annual value of products
Of manufacture, two hundred and thir-
ty-nine million dollars. Very satisfac-
tory figures.
SOMEBODY wants to know "who
wrote that article" in the Houston
(Tex Telegraph, and it promptly re-
spends thus "The man who wrote
that article early in life was hard
working blacksmith later he was deck
hand on a steamboat, then he was a
cowboy on the frontier, but OF late
years he has followed the profession of
priz Fighter. He only became an
editor to reduce his flesh by starvation
so as to become more of q success in
his peculiar line." The Telegraph re-
ceived no further inquiries.
LIVELY ADVICE. -" How shall I ad-
vertise ?" asked timid merchant of his
more enterprising neighbor. How?
why advertise-do it, go it, make
break-you are not advertising while
you are asking how and while you
ask how, somebody else is taking in the
custom, Ssart-that is the point you
will soon get into doing it. the right
way, while if you act as some folks do
and ask 'how to day and how to-mor-
row, and keep up asking to the end OF
your days, you will never advertise at
all, aud very likely never be worth
cent"
THERE'S no danger of our being claim
ed by Sydney Smiths genuine Mrs. Par
tington, if we say that somehow-we
are not bound to tell how-:he railroad
brings rain. Would it not be wonderful
if that brace of iron bars across the con-
tinent should literally interpret that
pleasant Scripture "And the desert
shall blossom as the rose? And it
looks like it. The old devices for arti-
fetal irrigation are growing useless,
and territory hitherto unproductive is
beginning to do something for man.
And this, not because of the pioneers
to whom tho railroad has made the
desert possible and accessible, but be-
cause of it's direct influence upon the
climate. Rain clouds west of the
Rockies, that have never spoken loud
word within the memory of man, are
now talking as audibIy and emphati-
cally as if thunder had been their
mother-tongue from babyhood, and rank
vegetation is growing where nothing was
ever before sown but fire. The vast
system OF iron network and the hair
lines of telegraph, about enough to
make snare to catch the planet, have
disturbed the electrical equilibrium,
and the results are seen in the new and
novel phenomena of thunder and show
ers.-Berg. F. Taylor.
A FAvoR1rE subject of speculation
among those devoted to the science of
geology has been the state of the inte~
rior of the earth, and the source of the
high temperature observed at all con-
siderable depths beneath its surface.
Prof. Hopkins makes the interesting
statement, in this connection, that the
terrestrial temperature at certain depth