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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-09-30

FETE A STE. MAR1E.-Nou-
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general Nichols a promis d'y as
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celebre piece The Elpiatiom ct
Dimanclie soir Colleen Ba,cn par
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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-09-30

ELECTIONS PRELIMINAIREsDE
LA PAROIssE AssUMPT1ON-Les
pei s0nnes don't les MONS suivent
ont etc nominees
Legislature, E. E. Lanve ct
Drauzin Himel Juge de Parois>
sc. Alfred T6te; Sheriff, John Dal
feres Recorder. Albert Himel !:
Grcffier. q. L. Hebert ; Coroner,
A. j. Bourg.
Pas de nominations pour Juri
de Police, Juges de Paix ct Cons
tables.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-09-30
H HOFFMAN, e. J.L AUCOIN
Dealers In

EuRNITURE, Hardware, Pslpta. Ola
n,. y WINDOW glass, Wall-psI,sr, Lime, sand
IN connection with A. H. HorrxAxx Cab
met Maker aud Repairer Of all kinds Of fur.
u!uro; , Main Street,
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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-09-30
Leon GOdchaux.

O1A 0OCIC1auX
Aux Nos. 81 ct 81 de la rue du Canal, Of
Nos. 2l3, 2l5 ct 2l7 de la rue
FIELLLE LEVEE.
PLUS GRAND STOCK. le stock Ia
1|Pius compiet Embellishments. dc lingerie
ct dc chapeaux qui ait .jamais etc otfert.
L'attentiOn. des families 1T des tuteurs rat
appellee sur nOtre stock d'habilIemeuts d'E.
coles pour jeunes gareons il ne saurnit
etre surpasse ct nous le vendOns 4 trAs bas
prlx. LEON GODCHAUX.
, 1876-11-10


The first attempts at bedsteads made
by our Saxon ancestors were rough
benches of wood, upon which were laid
sacks filled with straw. An accom-
plished writer on domestic history, in
describing the mode of furnishing
houses in the middle ages, tells us
''there were tables of cypress, carved
cabinets, and, above all, the bed, the
most important piece of furniture in
the house" "Whoever shall bear my
surname and arm, " says a great English
lord, "shall, according to my will, have
my great bed for life"
There was the standing bed" and
the truckle- bed. On the former lay the
lord, and on the latter his attendant. In
the daytime the truckle-bed, on casters,
was rolled under the standing bed. The
posts, head-board and canopies of bed
steads were sometimes carved or painted
in colors; but they are generally repre-
sented covered with rich hangings.
Few objects of antiquarian curiosity
have acquired more notoriety than a
bedstead of unusually large dimensions
preserved at Ware, twenty miles from
London, on the road to Cambridge.
Shakespeare employs it as an object of
comparison in the play of the Twelfth
Night" where Sir Toby Belch says:
"As many lies as will lie in thy sheet of
paper, although the sheet were big
enough for the bed of Ware, in Eng
land" This curious piece of furniture
was twelve 1eetsquare, and large enough
to hold twenty or thirty persons.
Early in the fourteenth century, one
Thomas Blaket, or Blanket, introduced
the wooden fabric which still goes by
his name. The beds of the better classes
were sumptuous and comfortable; mat
tresses were used, but more frequently
the straw lay loosely upon the mating.
In the order for making the kings bed
occurs the following command: ga
yeoman with dagger is to searche the
strawe of the kynge's bedde, that there
be none untrenth therein-the bedde of
downe to be cast upon that" In the
Tudor times warming-pans first came
into existence; they were deliberately
made, and engraved with armorial bear
ings, notices and inscriptions. Many
of the lofty four-post bed-steads in
which our grandfathers delighted are
still in existence. They we're nuisances
which must have sorely tried the pa
tience of those that had to do with them /;
once taken apart it is almost impossible
to make the screws that hold them to-
gether fit into their places again, and
the sacking bottoms must have required
tightening up whenever they were
slept upon. The immense hight at
which they stood from the floor rem
dered small ladder necessary, and the
task of getting in and out must have
been attended with no small amount of
difficulty. if not danger.
, 1876-11-10
How sea1-skins are Procured.

/ But man takes life for many other
purposes than for mere food; he desires
hides, horns, furs, feathers, ivory, ami
NAL fats and oils, and considers himself
fully justified in satisfying these desires.
/ however extreme or whimsical, by the
destruction of life. The savage, in need
of clothing, and unable to manufac-
ture wooden garments, may indeed
plead the necessity of wrapping himself
in furs; but can civilized man, who is
we'll acquainted with the art of produc-
ing artificial covering equal if not supe-
riOf to furs, advance the same plea {? All
that he can say in justification of his
practice of killing and torturing, in or
der to obtain furs and feathers, is to
proclaim that not his necessities,
not his convenience or well-being,
| but his luxuries, whims and ca
prices are a fall warrant. 1t may be
here useful to glance at the seal-skin
trade as an instance in point. Till a
comparatively recent period, seals were
hunted merely for their flesh and blub-
Der, by Greenlanders, Esquimaux, and
occasionally by whale-fshers from civil
lied nations; their skins were in little
demand, and unattractive in color. I'm
fortunately for the seal-and, it may be
added, unfortunately for the honor of
humanity-a method was discovered of
converting the grayish hue of its fur
into a rich, lustrous brown. Forthwith,
seal-skins became the rage, not for ca
or waistcoats of sailors and fishermen,
or the garments of Skralings, but for
the jackets of fashionable ladies, and
found ready sale at high prices. To
obtain them, extensive hunting expedi-
tions were sent out, and conducted with
an amount of cruelty which is perhaps
without parallel in all the dealings of
man toward the lower animals. Seals
are most readily captured at the time
when they have young cubs not yet
capable of following their mothers
through the water. At this time they
may be found upon the shores of GER
tain Arctic regions in great numbers,
and here accordingly they are attacked.
The mother seals are stunned with blows
from clubs, and then hayed, often be-
fore quite dead, it being considered that
the fur is thus obtained in q more lus-
trous condition. As for the young ones,
bhCg alO Acle W PERISH OI COlu anu nun
ger. The frightful atrocity of this sys-
tenn will be more fully understood if we
remember that the seal stands high in
the scale of animal life, and possesses a
large, well-developed brain, and deli,
cate nervous system. All this cruelty
is therefore done for the sake of " fash
ion, )" and to it all wearers of seal-skin
jackets make themselves accessories. 1t
is true that some voices, in England and
elsewhere, have been raised against this
system, and that some attempts have
been made to mitigate its horrors by
legislative enactments. But policemen,
officers of the Society for the Proven
tion of Cruelty to Animals, and magis-
trates, cannot follow every seal-hunting
expedition to the Northern seas; and
there is every reason to fear that, as
long as the demand for seal-skin jackets
continues, the supply will be obtained
substantially in the manner we have
sketched.
, 1876-11-10
Choate's MagnilOquenOe.

Speaking Of aperson hesitating to com.
nit a small offense when contemplating
a great crime, Rufus Choate said: SIS
it possible to think, nationally. that il
person is going to plunge into cata-
ract below the precipice he would be
over careful not to molsten his feet with
dew?" OF an improbable narration he
said: '"The story is as unlike the truth
as a pebble is unlike a star-a witch's
broomstick unlike q banner-staff." OF
a cunning witness: 'Heis quick, keen,
knows when to hold his tongue with the
bushy-tailed fox-all's right" OF a
lonely place: "It was as lonely as the
desert behind Algiers." OF a captain
deceived in his reckoning; st suppose
if the philanthropy of two hemispheres
shall find only the grave of which Sir
John Franklin's body has warmed a
place, every coxcomb clerk will pass an
opinion; judging by after facts, and say
precisely where the error in judgment
was" Ofan unseaworthy vessel: The
vessel after leaving Boston harbor en-
countered the eternal motion of the
ocean which has been there from crea-
ton, and will be there till land and sea
shall be no more. She went down the
harbor a painted and per6dious thing,
soul-freighted, buta coffin for the living,
q coffin for the dead" OF a captain
sailing past st. Helena: "Such were his
meditations as the invisible currents Of
the ocean bore him by the grave Of
Napoleon" OF dry goods merchants
bankruptcy he said: $50 have heard
that the vast possessions Of Alexander
the Conquerer crumbled away in diving
dynasties, in the unequal hands Of his
weak heirs" In regard 10 the people
Of Danvers, several miles from a rail-
road, he said: ''Her people are Just near
enough 10 hear the whistle Of the loco
motive and gaze at the sparks Of that
flying giant; yet for all practicable pur-
poses they might a. well stand under
the sky at midnight. gazing At . firma-
ment Of falling meieors." When Choate
eeaayed the pathetic he was always sim
pie. There Il no more beautiful fn-
stance OF this than his remarks on Web
ster's love Of New England: "He loved
New HamPshire-th old granite
crystal hills. gray and eloud-tOpped: !:
the river, whose murmur lulled his
cradle; the old hearthstone; the grave
Of father and mother. He loved Mas
saehussetts. which adopted and honored
him-that sounding aeaahore, that
charmed elmtree seat, that reclaimed
farm, that ehoiee herd, the smell Of
earth, that dear library, thoss dearer
friends; but the sphere Of his duties
uas his true country
, 1876-11-10

DIED OF BAD ANA source of dis
ease from which our ancestors were ex-
empt may be traced to what we term
neutrality-suspicious.. In the old colo.
NAL houses there were no notifications
Of water-pipes, no water-closets, and no
vide-mouthed hoppers on the chamber
floors for getting rid of the waste, that
found its way at once to a place pro-
vided for it beyond the confines of the
house. In this they had to submit to
what we would call great deprivation,
but, on the other hand, they knew no.
thing Of diptheria, and kindred diseases.
Shggins said, when interviewed on the
liquor question, g If there is any one of
them less odious than another It is the
liquor called rum" And we may say,
that, If there is difference in the way
OF getting rid of fhouse waste, the sewer
Is better than the open vault. But,
whilst the sewer may be more effectual
IN removing that which emits gases
deadly to man, it is equally true, that it
may prove to be the more dangerous Of
the two, In that, if not properly trapped
and perfectly ventilated, it viii lead the
poison into our dwellings, instead of
removing it to a distance, where it can
do no harm. The contents of the vaults
saturates the whole Of the surrounding
earth, poisons the spring and the wells,
and finds its way in little currents
through the interstices of the founda-
hon-Walls Of our houses; there it throws
on gases too slight to attract attention,
put too deadly to be inhaled by the in
mates with impunity. The soil-pipe is
an improvement on this; but II it be not
nght IN all is parts, IL there be any i'm.
perfectly soldered or calked joints, WOO
1ende the man who sleeps near Il; for
she destroying angel il abroad, and will
nnd him a. surely a. he lies down and
- up In an atmosphere 40 charged
slth The germs Of disease.-Amerioa1i
, 1876-11-10

CrcrNHER PIcKLEs.-wash sulicient
eaeanbers to an . three eAllOn jar; put
% then teaaPOonful Of salt, and cover
'nen with boiling water. Let them
wand over night, then pour OF the water
aud NiPe the eueumbers dry. Then put
'nen into a has kettle and cover them
' Sl.h vinegar; ALI a piece Of alum the
- o. q hickory nut. Heat Eently; do
~. ALLOW them 10 boil, bat keep them
arm tor three hOuFa and then pour "a
me ne vinegar. which will b worthless.
~ the eueumbera into q lar, and then
treah vinegar and heat % boiling In
!. u,a.. kettle. adding spice, mustard
-, - and peppers 10 taste. skim and
~ u While boiling hot on the cucum-
80. -. Lei stand foe - hours, then pour
and boil and skim The vinegar. FOL.
so~!sg The boiling of The samo vinegar
~ ,hree successive days. Then pour Il
~ NE eueumbers and nst aside rcady
-. sse. Good cider vinegar should b.
1ed'-Ars.L P.Hail, IL HssaeTl Raral.
, 1876-11-10
Size of Americans.

STATISTICS OF THE RELATIVE SIZES OF
AMERICANS, GERMANS, ENGLISH AND
IRISH.
Statistics have been recently fur
nisbed. saws the Cincinnati Times, in
ragard to the size and development of
americans, which are of interest. They
sorve TO dsssipate a good many un-
founded notions that have crept into the
General mind, and have obtained wide
oredence. These statistics were com
I,iIod from those taken in examining
men fer the army. Towards the close
nf tbe war. when the average age of
soldiers was the highest, there were ex-
omined 10, 162 men, of whom 6 ,359 were
native born, $50 Canadians, 554 Eng
iisbmen, All Irishmen, and l, ,343 Ger
mans. The mean heigth of the Ameri-
cans was the greatest, 8 feet 7.29 inches
of the Canadians, 3 feet rs inches; of
tbe Englishmen, 5 feet 6.3 inches; of the
Trishmen, 5 feet 1.2 inches; of the Ger
mans. 5 feet SO inches. The difference
between the Germans, who were the
shortest, and the Americans, who were
+be tallest, was almost two inches.
The mean girth of the chest was as fol-
lows: Americans, 80. .491 inches; of the
canadians, 32.666 inches; of the Eng
lishmen, 80, $40 inches; of the Irish
men. 33. 118 inches; and of the Germans,
33 O47 inches. The Germans, who were
the shortest, measured about half-an-
inch more around the chest than the
Americans. The Irishmen, who were
rather more than an inch taller than the
Germans, measured a trifle more around
the chest. In the mean expansion of
the chest the Americans were only sur
passed by the Canadians, and by them
only hree-hundredths of an inch. The
average expansion of the Americans was
3.242; of the Canadians, 1922; of the
English, 3.1S7; of the Irish, 3.2OS, and
of the Germans, 1921.
To some extent these figures bear out
the idea of the Americans that has long
prevailed. They are taller and more
slender than the foreigners. But the
difference is not very great, not so large
as might have been supposed from the
caricatures of Brother Jonathan that we
see in the illustrated papers.
We have figures of weight from other
sources which are well calculated to be
approved by our sense Of patriotic
pride. OF l ,537 recruits, examined for
the army of the Potomac, the mean age
was A01 years; the mean height feet
7.3 inches, and the mean weight 148. 80
pounds. The mean age of a lot of Brit
ish soldiers was "a years and the weight
l4S41 pounds-less than one-eighth of
pound more than the Americans. The
average weight of 1882 Scotchmen,
whose ages ranged from % to As, was
1859 pounds. These are two of the
heaviest races, and yet their weight ex-
ceeds that of Americans by only frac-
ton Of a pound. The Germans and
Frenchmen are lighter as well as
shorter.
, 1876-11-10
"He Has an Az to Grind"

Franklin says: When I was little
boy, 1 remember, one cold Winters
morning, 1 was accosted by a smiling
man, with an ak on his shoulder.
my pretty boy" said he, ''has your
father gripdstone?"
"Yes, sir, said 1.
"You are fine little fellow" said he:
"Win you let me grind NV ak on it?"
Pleased with the compliment of ga
fine little fellow" "Oh, yes, sir, an
swered; ''it is down in the shop"
"And will you, my man." said he,
pattng me on my head, "get me little
hot water?"
How could I refuse? I ran and soon
brought kettle full.
"How old are you, and what's your
name?" continued he, without waiting
for q reply. I'm sure you're one Of
the finest lads that ever I have seen.
Will you just turn few minutes for
meP"
Tickled with the fiattery, like q fool I
went 10 work, and bitterly did I rue the
day. It was o new Ak, and / toiled and
tugged till was almost tired to death.
The school-ben rang, and I could not
get away. My hands were blistered,
and Il was not half ground. At length,
however, the AZ was sharpened, and the
man turned to me with:
Nov, you little rascal, you've played
the truant; scud to school, or you'll
get itI'
Alas thought /, II was hard enough
10 turn q grindstone this cold day. but
now 10 he called q little rascal, was too
much. II sunk deep in my mind, and
often have / thought Of Il since. When
I see . merchant over polite 10 his Gus
toners, begging them 10 take q little
brandy, and throwing his goods on the
counter, thinks I. that man las an AZ 10
grind. When see q man fattering the
people, making great professions Of at
taehment 10 liberty, who il in private
life q tyrant, methinks, look out, good
people, that fellow would set you turn
ing grindstones.
When SO q man hoisted into ofIics
by party spirit, without a single qualifi-
cation 20 render him either respectable
or useful, alasl methinks, deluded peO-
pie, you are deomed fDr a season 10 turn
the grindstone for SbOoby.
, 1876-11-10

ES0LIsH BARBARIANs.-All tire bars
barians are not members Of the Turkiah
army in Bulgaria. Edwin Lindsaye
age thirteen, while on his way on SUE
day, August 81, to q chapel in Tenings
ton, 81. Clement. England, was seized
by three men, who pulled of the boys
shoes. and taking the laces therelrom,
tied his legs with them. The men then
strapped the boys hands behind his
back, carried him q short distance 20 q
wasp nest. which they had just dug
up, and, having thrown him into Il.
thev departed. The boy was horribly
stung on his face. neck. arms. knees and
thighs. His screams of agony we're
heard long distance. and a last even
moved the hearts Of his prosecutors,
Who returned and released him The
FufIians were arrested and have recently
been tried. They were each fined -,
and the costs. e 5O.-
, 1876-11-10

BIETHDAT TKEEs.-They have q pleas.
ant pFactice q planting birthday trees
In England. There are now on the
grounds Of Osborne House. on the Iale
q Wight, q Pieea pin.aPo spruce, thir-
ty-dve feet high. that Was planted by
Queen Victoria on Nay -. lSi9, when
she vas thirty years old. The practice
should obtain in this country.
, 1876-11-10

REMEDY FOR NIGHTNAnE.-Slight de-
rAngement Of the digestive or other
functions are often sufficient 10 occasion
q temporary delirium in children. com
menced during the slerP and continued
during the waking. The suffering l.
great and the condition an alarming one
20 parents and friends. The mental ex-
cilemcni i 20 inien-e a. b. resist the
impression from vithOu. 30 an extra
ordinary degree. Il i herr that the
associati0n of smell can h. used more
e1ectually than any Others 10 break mp
the morbid brain. A good uhiG 0f
cologne almost always brings the little
suiIsrer back 10 iis ordinary World; oF q
little ammonia may L. used. But an
olor which i agFceahle i probably
more encctivs than one which 4 merely
pungent. II l. . common observation
that mental associations are awakened
by Odors more than BY impressions %
any other sense. In the case q night
mare the strong. familiar smell SEEMS
70 break mp the train of abnormal men
tal excitement.
A HHIDoE should be tried by is piers
, 1876-11-10

Cows.-There is, probably, $780,
000, 900 invested in cows in the United
States. It does not bring in the yearly
interest which it might and ought to
yield. The average profit which the
ordinary farmer receives from his cows
is quite small. But they ought to pay
well. If they do not, it shows either q
lack Of skill or attention on the part of
their owners. The great, perhaps the
greatest, cause Of the loss is, most farm
trs keep poor cows. A poor COW hard
ly pays, while good one pays a hand
some profit. 1t will cost but little
more TO keep o good COW than q poor
one. The former will make from six
to eight pounds of butter per week for
forty-two weeks, worth say thirty-fve
cents per pound, realizing an income Of
from s68 to S117,. while the latter,
making only three or four pounds q
week, viii bring only from Sl4 to $40
per yoar.-Hsifs Land Journal.
, 1876-11-10
The Origin of Gin.

About two hundred and fifty years
ago the Count de Morl ct, son of King
Henry the Fourth of France, invented
or brought into palatable condition,
juniper-wine, which was found cheap
and easy to make, pleasant to drink, and
very useful as a medicine for every one
suffering from dropsy or any of the
other diseases which require that the
kidneys should be encouraged to do
their work efficiently. The wine soon
came into use, but being found to be too
much of a medicine for persons who
were not invalids to care about taking it
in large quantities, Dutch professor,
Mynheer Sylvins, of Leyden, who died
just two centuries ago. discovered a
process for converting the Juice of the
juniper-berries into liquor which had
all the medicinal properties of juniper
juice and grapevine, and was at the
same time more suitable for general use,
and as the French word for juniper is
genierre, the new spirit came, to be
called geneva-a title which must not
be confounded with Geneva, the capital
OF Switzerland. The invention came,
not from Switzerland, but from Hol-
land, and to this circumstance and to
the fact that for very long time it was
principally manufactured in that coun-
try, both it and the similar liquor which
now goes with us by the name of gin,
are often called Hollands. The original
geneva, however, is very different from
both Hollands and gin. 1t is a spirit
formed by the fermentation of Juniper
berries by themselves, which contain q
peculiar saccharlne principle, yielding
alcohol to the extent of thirty three per
cent. of the entire substance fermented,
along with about one per cent. of very
powerful essential oil, which is the real
medicinal element of the liquor. The
old geneva soon came into fashion, and
from being made and sold exclusively
by the apothecaries, BEG An to be sold in
larger quantities by ordinary distillers,
until they found it convenient to de-
velop a new trade by adding a certain
quantity of juniper-iuice to ordinary
corn-spirit, and thus to produce a yet
more 1palatable beverage for the use of
healthy people. This beverage also took
the name of geneva, although to separ-
ate it from the juniper spirit the more
appropriate name of Hollands was ap-
piled to it, and its manufacture rapidly
became very important branch of bust
ness, especially in Schiedam, where now
there are about 175 distiIleries, nearly
as many as are to lie met with in Rotter-
dam, Amsterdam, Condo and all the
other Dutch towns.