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The Hoona tribe of Indians, a few
weeks ago, sent a deputation of we'll
armed warriors to sitka to treat with
them for the full value OF a certain de-
missed squaw Of the Hoona tribe, whose
existence q sitka buck a few months
before had, by the accidental discharge
of his gun, cut short. The council was
held on the beach at Indian town, a few
yards from the commanding officers
house. After arguing for and against,
the cash value Of the defunet lady of
Hoona descent was found to be 1000
yards OF calico, four camphor-wood
boxes, fourteen muskets and sixty blanAH
cts. Terms cash. The succeeding
night was then devoted to a universal
spree in the Indian town in honor of
their guests.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-02-26
French Manners.

A writer says 1: "The French are said
to be the politest people in the world,
and in some respects they are SO. Their
politeness may be only skin deep =; it
may be only q stilted etiquette, without
heartfelt emotion. But, on the whole,
it is better than studied indifference and
rough incivility. IF not absolutely sin
cere, it has the external appearance of
being so, and saves the feelings from a
sense of outrage. A Frenchman always
takes off his hat on entering a shop or
an omnibus or any other conveyance.
He is expected always to bow first to a
lady of his acquaintance it would be
thought quite out OF place for a lady to
take the initiative. On entering a draw
ing-room French people bow to every
one who may be in the room, whether
they are acquainted with them or not.
The omission of these trifing civilities
by the English causes them to be con-
sidered rude and boorish. The line of
demarcation between different eli sses of
society is less strongly defined in France
than in England. Servants consider
themselves pretty nearly upon an equal
ity with their masters and mistresses,
and their are marked by q free
and easy GOODNESS, which would be con-
sidered the height of impertinence in
England. They wish you 'good.morn-
ing and goodnight, as a friend might
do, and expect to be thanked whenever
they open the door for you; q French
man of every class touches his hat to the
servant who opens the door for him.
The lower classes in France live much
more frugally and inexpensively than
people of the same rank in England.
Soup and 6ouiAi form the usual dinner
and supper Of the upper class of farm
ers, workmen, and servants in French
families. The richer farmers have the
pot al fen every day, others only once
or twice a week, and live on bread and
SoWpe cho,tr on the other days, with
a relish of cheese, salt fish, and some.
times butter"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-02-26

atoms beset him, and he needs one to
stand by and syrnpathise. He has some
hard battles to fight with poverty, enc
mics, and with sin !; and he needs a wo-
that when he puts his arms around
her, he feels that he has something to
fight for she will help him TO fight
that will put her lips to his ear and
whisper words of counsel, and her hand
to his heart, and impart inspiration.
ALI through life, through storm and
through sunshine, conflict and victory,
through adverse and favoring winds,
man needs a woman's love. The heart
yearns for it. A sisters or a mothers
love will hardly supply the need.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-02-26

Gae-half bales instead of five, that is to
SPY, valuing the bale at $75, a fair aver
s:ge value since the war, S., $50. so in
eSead of 1876, gross receipts. But
granting that Mr. Warthen's instance is
exceptional, and possibly accidental,
and cutting down the practicable crop
% two and one,half bales per acre, and
GLOWING 800 per acre for additional
Expense of manure and labor, The result
could be from the seventeen one-half
scres $1,478 Is, against 1915. In the
iSne case the land would be left to some
degree impoverished, in the other to a
material degree enriched.
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Labor and Crops i'm Egypt.

Is An Egyptian laborer is considered to
nave done q good days work when he
Ipicks from fifteen to eighteen pounds
ISof cotton. The American negro slaves
usually picked fifty pounds in the same
time. The constant use of the stick
and bastinado is necessary to keep at
work the fellahdeen in the khedives es-
hates. This fact may, however, be due
to other reasons than mere physical in
trinity. The immediate labor Of about
ffteen persons ont of every one hun
|sdred in the United States, produces
more than enough food for all; whereas
lin Egypt the same result calls for The
Immediate labor of at least three times
Jas many persons, while the result itself
Eis greatly inferior in quantity, quality
sand variety. Rice and maize used to
sbe largely cultivated in Egypt, but the
government ordered wheat to be planted
lin their stead, and the latter became
5the principal exporting crop. It was
grown one year after another until ma
ture gave out, and the grain grew 80
poor that it could scarcely find a mar
sjket. That which found It's way to EGG
land could only be used in distilleries.
The American war, occurring at this
~iuncture, the government prohibited
the cultivation of wheat, and nominated
cotton in its place. The culture of this
;staple was pursued until the fall of
occurred after the war, when it
was superseded by sugar, which is the
present ~favorite. The exports from
Alexandra, the shipping port of the
country, furnish a close guide to the
fluctuations in the product of these arti-
Icles, occasioned by this caprioious,
Eruinous and sometimes fatal policy.
These facts are sufficient to prove that
There need be no fear of successful
rivalry in wheat raising on the part of
Egypt. Her wheat crop will take the
wings of the wind just as did her
boasted crop of cotton. Free and in
itelligent labor will always come out
ahead
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Spartan Dinners.
-- Christian RoseHi,

Paris Celebrities at the COnviviaI Board.
Have you ever heard of the academy
Of the Spartans, or rather of the Spar.
tan dinners? For this is an academy
that dimes, which gives it great adj
vantage over the French academy. II
has another advantage; it is not en-
ployed on a dictionary. It contents
itself with being witty-at table. 1t
pronources no d~iscouTses nor funeral
orations. It has held it's sessions at
Iro5s Freres ProUencGmr, at the Petit
MoWtin RoHge, at the Matson dor and
at BrebantIs.
AT the last sitting I proposed a toast
in very good champagne-to Gen.
Read, who was just starting for Greece.
He had brought q book of blank pages,
and said to us, "This book will be
mine. when each CT you has inscribed
athought in it." L don't know whether
we were especially witty that day, but
/ copy some things which fell from u
pen.
There is no such thing as liberty,
for no man is free if he is the slave OF
his conscience.
"All loVes-even maternal love
have their anguish and their Qriefs.
God has made a pain for every pleas
ure the gate of Paradise opens into
hell.
"a note from a woman, no matter
how tender, is a sight draft on you !:
you must always pay in some coin or
other.
Marriage begins with one of the
W. sacraments ; it ends with one of
the seven mortal sins.
Thought is like Jeannot's knife.
Common men arc content to keep it
bright for use men of genius first
change the handle and end by changing
the blade.
"Sooner or later we pardon our
friends the injuries we have done them.
IF a borrower comes, lend him your
ear.
Women always give more than they
promise; men less.
"Love is like liquor men say it is
killing them but always come back to it.
eff You become famous, beware Of
the fools-for they always gather around
the people who are stared at.
Gen. Read would not write a conceit
like the rest. He had just experienced
a profound grief in the loss of his
father. This is the thought he has IN.
scribed in the book, which is still at it's
first page:
Life is the road to death. The In.
dams say Death does not kill. it
makes Ms invisible. It is the sorrow Of
survivors to see no more those whom
they loved ; but the first friend we lose
gives q clearer vision to the soul.
Every step toward death opens a little
wider the gate OF eternity"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-02-26

To THE SUFFERING An old retired
physician, who is candid enough to tell
the truth about progress, has declared
that the recent discovery by DIR. Walk
or, of California, of his herb remedy,
Vinegar Bitters, is one OF the most inn
portant in medicine. He has tested
them thoroughly, in his own family.
among his frienos, and upon himself ;
and he is driven to the conclusion that
they possess rare and ~unexcelled cura-
tive pro critics. He says Of them /:
nThey contain no dangerous drug !
They never reduce the patient-never
render one liable to take cold-never
interfere with the everyday business
Of ife-neyer make their continuous
use a condition Of cure, and are adapt-
ed to even the most delicate organgiZa-
ton. They act rs kindly on the tender
infant, the delicate female, or inftm
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Ifshe could come, to-day, to-day, to-day,
@, what a day to-day would bel
But now he's away, miles and miles away,
From me across the sea.
Q, little bird flying, flying, flying
To your nest in the warm west,
Tell him as you pass that I am dying,
As you pass home to your nest.
/ have q sister, / have a brother,
A faithful hound, 3 tame white dove;
Bat [ had another, once / had another,
Aud I miss him, my love, my Lowell
In this weary world it is SO cold, SO cold,
While sit here all alone;
Twould not like to wait aud to grow old,
But just be dead and gone.
Make me fair when I lie dead on my bed,
Fair wher4T am lying;
Perhaps he may come and Iook upon me dead
He for whom 1 am dying.
Dig my grave for two, with a stone to show it.
And on the stone write my name;
If he never comes / shall never know it,
Bat sleep all the m
-Christian Roseti.
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The Transit Of Venus.

1t is well known that not only the col
ored lines but also the shapes of bodies
are given in the ~spectroscope. Thus
the red protuberances on the sun, being
vast masses of red-hot hydrogen, can
always be distinctly Q in the red
when the suns limb is brought exactly
over the slit of the ~spectroscope. So
also there are occasional vast volcanic
eruptions, Of magnesium, in the sun,
and the shapes and forms of these also
can be seen in the green of the spectrum,
when the slit is similarly arranged. It
is proposed to utilize this popularity in
observing transits of Venus. If we can
manage to place the slit on the precise
spot occupied by Venus the lines will
be broken, as Che ohromosphere will be
eclipsed in this part by the planet, and
we can follow the planets motion until
the break in the line travels down to
the spectrum of the sun; this viii mark
the instant of exterior contact at in
gress. At egress the problem is sim
pier, as the actual place occupied by
the planet prior to external contact can
be seen by an observer set to watch the
suns image on the slit of the spectre
scope. An obvious objection to this
method, if a better one can be found,
lies in the fact that Venus has, as it
were, to be "fshed for" prier to exter.-
nal contact at egress, and that the
slightest error in following the planets
motion would render the mode of obser-
walton useless.
A letter from Honolulu gives some
interesting particulars in regard to the
observations of the transit of Venus at
that station. The writer says: "The
atme spheric conditions were favorable
for the observations $50 measures of
cusps and limbs and sixty photographs
we're obtained. A totally unexpected
appearance was presented at the in
ternal contact. The disk of the planet
became visible as an entire circle some
minutes before contact, and from then
to the complete establishment no defn-
tie or sudden phase was observed.
There was no black drop after the in
ternal contact. Twenty ont of sixty
photographs came out blurred. Valu.
able results, however. were obtained.
The first external contact occurred at
seven minutes past three and the first
internal contact at two minutes later
than the "British Nautical Almanac"
stated. The revelation of the complete
circle of the planet occurred before the
actual internal contact, owing to the
effHlgence of the corona, the sun llu-
minating the whole surface of Venus
before the complete immersion"
The unexpected appearances" here
referred to was, however, observed and
recorded in the former transits of 1851
and 1853. In the observations OF
Chappe d'Auteroche in the latter year,
recorded by Cassini, a drawing is actu-
ally given Of the horns OF Venus visible
the edge Of the sun, and it
seems probable from the text that the
was actually seem on the suns
chromosphere at the moment Of egress.
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Advice to q Young King.

Alfonso is reported to have asked a
distinguished policeman, as he was
leaving Paris for Spain, if he had any
advice 10 give him. And the policeman
said, "Yes-beware of pithy phrases
"Of what sort?" said Alfonso. swell,
such as 'The empire is peace and
Italy shall be free from the Apprentices
TO the Adriatic, and Not a stone Of our
forts nor an inch of u territory, etc.
For il You give ont any Of these you
will try to adhere to what they express
or you won't. If You try TO adhere you
will fell into error after error from a
foolish fancy Of consistency, and il you
don't you will be written down as a
charlatan and . h~ypocrite."
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"a MAnafr0na Army.

aHs---r4 -
The army Of Germany which in the
last few years has played such q con-
siderable part in Europe, furnishes an
interesting topic Of inquiry TO all who
see that sooner or later the champion
fighters on that continent will again get
to licking each other, in the teeth of all
civilization. Well, the brute force
kept on hand by Germany is thus
labeled of $3.50 officers, ! 1919, 800
soldiers, 314, $40 horses, 2,70O field
cannon, and $40 siege pieces. Moltke
has them alIrubbed up every morning,
and 80 they are kept bright and shin
ing. Out Of this effective total, 846,-
720 men can be got thoroughly ready
and equipped to take the field sir weeks
after the first order therefor. The
Landsturm law which has just passed
the Reichstag will add to the army
2O2, 500 soldiers, while the organization
of the " fourth battalions will also
furnish 152, 100 soldiers and 800
officers. Thus when the day Of battle
does come, the grand total Of the inn
perial army viii be 38,948 officers,
1854, 200 soldiers, and 331,170 horses.
One hardly knows whether to pity
most the poor horses or the men caught
in such a trap.
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Hives

What the true man wants with & vile
u her companionship, sympathy, and
love. The way Of life has many drsary
places in and man needs companion
ID go With him. a man Il sometimes
oyertakea by m~iafortnnes he meets
with failure III defeat trials and tempt.
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JUST CAUSE o BEING ALARMED +
When a cough has been running for a long
time, and you begin to feel a pain setting in
upon your lungs, attended with tightness
across the chest, it is high time that you
should awaken to the danger of your disease,
which is fast running into fatal consumption.
Now before it is too late use Aliens Lung Bal
sam, which will cure the disease, ana all will
be well with you.
For sale by all medicine dealers.
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old age, rs on the vigorous and athletic
system ; exercising healthful effects
upon every blood vessel-on tbs brain,
nerves and lymphatios-on the blood,
bile, gastric juice, ETC., enriching m
poverished fluids, and imparting vigor
TO mind and body"
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We noticed in n of our exchanges
this week the statement of Dea. John Hodg-
kins, Of South Jefferson, Me, whose son was
cured OF incipient consumption BY the use of
Johnson's Anodyne Imminent. We refer to
this at this time as tending to corroborate the
statement we made last week in relation to
this Liniment as applied to consumption,
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sale by all medicine dealers.

If congress had employed AS much
scientific skill in the arrangement of it's Re
construction Policy" at the close, as the War
Department did in the beginning of the war, in
arranging for the manufacture of what was
called Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders
for the use of the Cavalry horses, no doubt
the Union would have been restored long ago.
ErchHp1p.
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ELECTRICITY IS LIFE. ALI nervous dis
orders, chronic diseases of the chest, head,
liver, stomach, kidneys and blood, aches and
pains. nervous aud general debility, etc..
quickly cured after drugs fail by wearing
Volta Electro Belts and Bands. Valuable book
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A Beautiful Head of Hair, Whiskers or
Moustache are ornaments desired by all. Use TUFTS
Hair Dye and you will possess them.
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IT is time to stop talking about the
~softening influence of woman. A Mas
aachusetts man who has four wives has
just been sent to the peaitentiary for
stealing horses.
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DkoSs w AANCA . SGAAAOA AlH E1Ae
egar tSitters are a purely Vegetable
p~repac&,:on, made chiefly from the na~
tive herbs found on the lower ranges OF
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
arc extracted thcrefrOm without the use
Of Alcohol. The question is almosr
daily asked, "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success Of VINEGAR BIT
TERS?" Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
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The properties of DR.. WALKERS
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IL is the best.
Farmers wives can excel New
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