The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-09-15
Fruit Drying House.

| hHIhl iiES.
A. very good method is to make IL
| frame, similar to that used to make a
| hot. bed, and cover it with sash, be-
Meath which fruit is dried by the suns
or q. sheet-iron box, about three feet
squa re and five feet high, may be made
with a tiue in the bottom, in which q
small charcoal or wood fire may be
kept. Shelves of wire gauze are ar
ranged in the box, upon which the fruit
is placed to be dried. Some holes are
made in the bottom for the admission
Of fre Sh air, which is made to pass be-
tween two sheets of iron placed Rear
tfta, 5fe hue !" a$ e 4eG9 2
shelves, the hot air, loaded with moiS
ture, escapes through a ventilator at
the top. Such dry oven as this would
dry two or three bushels Of apples, or
other fru it, in u day, and would con
sumo half Il bushel Of charcoal daily.
A ATHREl2-YEAR-oLD HERoINE.-A re-
markable feat was performed by the
Mrs. Frank Smith, of Pelican, Mimi.
and q niece Of Mr.. and Mrs s. NJ. Wood
worth, Of Audubon. While Mrs. Wood
worth was on Il visit to her sister one
day, Mrs. Smith was taken alarmingly
i'll. Mr.. Smith was away from home at
the time, and no one near the house to
render assistance save Mrs. Woodwork
and the child. Mrs. W0OdwOrth could
not leave, SO she called little Angie and
asked her to go to the house of a neigh !
Dor, three-qnarters Of ~ mile Instant, |
and summon assistance. The child did |
as she WAS directed in an incredibly |
short space Of time, and her return with |
the neighbor, it was found necessary to |
GI1 atban 3E,9 ISsfa T.
dark and storm brewing, yet this |
brave little heroine again took the road
and went to the nearest neighbor's |
house, a distance of one and a fourth |
miles in the opposite direction from
her first trip, where she found a man to
go for Il physician. Ere her return
home the storm had so increased as to
render her progress very slow, and the
livid and constant lightning might well
have stricken terror into the heart of
many an older pedestrian, yet this
child bravely and faith
fully performed her mission and re-
turned in safety.-[Audubon (Minn.)
Journal.
MOTHEK-IN-LAW.-It was an action
for breach promise, and the defense
was the prospect of too mucl mother
inlaw.
The Judge inquired if the mother pro
posed living with her daughter after
and, receiving an affirmative
answer, asked the defendant whether
ne would rather live with his mother-in
law or pay $500.
=, Pay $500" was the prompt reply.
Said the Judge:
Young man, letme shake hands with
you. There was time in my life when |
was in the same situation as Won are ara Z
n now. Had possessed yOur firsqness
should have been spared twenty-five
1ears Of trouble. had the alternative
# marrying or paying $125. Being .
loor, married; and for twcpty-fve
ears have | regretted it. I am hannv (
o meet with Il man Of your stamp. The !
,laintiff must pay $10 and costs for I
faying thought Of putting gentleman
lnder the dominion of a mofbpr-irf- F
'''''''''' ''
\ very pleasing incident of the re-
mon OF Federal and Confederate SOL Q
,lefs' ut Marietta, Ohio, last week, was q
ne presentation of beautiful gold +
letal to Major Thomas &. Jones, of 9
montgomery, Ala, an ex-COnfederate. 10
y General W. p. Richardson, an ex- ., o.
'ederaI. The medal was presented on
ehalf OF the soldiers of Massachusetts, W
Z teStlm8nial OF their appreciation of q o.
peech made by Major Jones, on the h;
ccasion OF the, decoration of the nj
raves Of the Confederate dead, at
montgomery, IN 1874, i'll which he took m
troDg ground for reconciliation he aa66
Eeen the North and south.-TN. O. ="
lines.
WHAT THE RloTER WANrrp AMI, )
Qok.-" Bread or blood > he cried, r
But he changed his mind and ocI CON
udes to take Il chew of tobacco. '
:, Bread on blood ~ yelled he again.
nut once more lie pIacated on Teceiv- Of