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The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07
THE MAIDEN SLEEPS.

The maiden sleeps-why will ye mourn and sigh,
Ye parents ? let ner rest;
The pale loved face that mid the flowers lie
Speaks to your aching breast;
My lot IL light; oh, wherefore weep?
> lay me down in peace and Sleep
The maiden sleeps.
The maiden sIeeps-how bIest she slumbers on;
Unconscious of alarm,
That spetless heart, unsoild, unstained, has
shossn
No earthly i'll could harm
4 mind so pure, a sinless breast.
This is the couch on which to rest
The maiden sleeps.
The maiden sleeps no more can be caress'd
In HES pure happiness.
The Bible. which her hand has iondly pressed,
LieS ON her white dress.
The last new book not,
All, all her treasures now forgot
The maiden sleeps-earth's joys or care no more
Will break that sweet repose;
Yet know we not what might have been IN store
For her OF bitter woes
She feels not winters chilling sleet,
Nor summers fierce and suitTy heat
The maiden sleeps.
The maiden sleeps its but a calm, short night
That peaceful time will lastl
Aud oh how bright the morn that greets her
sight
When that brief rest has past!
He who unbounded in bis will, 4fftN
Soothe Jairus lives and comforts stillzAt
The maiden Sleeps.
The maiden sleeps the last sad kiss now pressed
Upon the lips so still;
rhe Father help thee in thy sore distress,
For, mother, it's well,
A 0d az you hear the solemn knell
Sing We the hymns she loved SO we'll
The maiden sleeps.
rhe maiden sleeps-now, Father, take her home;
Thine for eternity,
waken stars look down from heavens dome;
Watch Ger her tenderly
And oh, We winds, breathe soft and still
n eath this treasured fower-decked hill
The maiden sleeps.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07
FERYLATEST PARIS FASHIONS.

A fashionable promenade mantle
called "Le Breton" in navy blue serge,
with an enormous plastron or breast
plate, and opening down the side, is
embroidered at the neck, collar and cuffs.
A curious feature of this article is a
wide strip of embroidery running down
the back and terminating below the
centre of the skirt n a moderate sized
Poufe. The ladies' now are all of one
stripe.
An evening mantle, the "Murillo," is
made of pale blue Indian cashmere trim
med with white feathers and white
chenille fringe.
For earliest spring costumes the new
trimming is cloth and braid fringe,
embroidered on the heading with floss
silk. d.
Another novel triGaming is parallel
rowsof silk tape in different shades.
In other fashionable fringes seed beads
are used freely with imitation feathers
in sunbeam shades.
The new sleeve dresses, LA Bell
gieuse," is very wide at the wrist and
has only one seam.
In the salons, wheraoS1ery evGnt, how
ever serious, is turned into jest, love
knots and shoulder streamers are called
Nicolini hyerD
The first spring bonnet, called 'La
is in shape perfect ex-
The ladies won'e hidt their
lights under that bushel.
The latest addition to the chatelaine
Is a tuning fonk. Beaux may now
discover if bellies are in tune.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07

Hoc They Are CIEtsvoted-One of the Ia
dWsfsfcs of a Great Empire.
One of the industries OF Japan is the
cultivation of mushrooms, which are ex-
ported in large quantities from that
country, and some interesting informa-
ton respecting them is given by Consul
Robertson in his report on the trade of
KanagaWa lately issued. The best of
the edible species of mushrooms are
known as "matsutake" and "shii-take."
The difficulties attendent on preserving
the former kind almost exclude them
from the market for export for not only
do they decompose very rapidly, but
even when successfully dried are nearly
tasteless, and thus useless in cookery.
The shii-take species, however, have this
peculiar excellence, that, though all but
tasteless in their raw state, when they
are dried they have an extremely fine
favor. The quantity that grows natur-
ally on the deeayed roots or cut stumps
of the shii-tree is not sufficient to meet
the demand for them, consequently much
skill has been brought to bear on their
cultivation, notably by cutting off the
trunks of the shii and other trees and
forcing the growth of the mushroom on
them. Different varieties of oak are
most in favor for the cultivation of the
mushroom, the tree knowpoas the shii
giving, however, the best results. About
the beginning of autumn the trunk, about
five or six inches in diameter, is selected
and cut up into lengths of four or five
feet each piece is then split down length
ways into four, and on the outer bark
slight missions are either made at once
with a Ratchet, or the cut logs are left
till the following spring, and then dsep
wounds seven or eight inches long are
incised On them. Assuming the first
course to have been pursued, the logs,
after having received several slight In
c%isions, are placed in a wood or grove
where they can get the full benefit of the
air and heat. In about three years they
will be tolerably rotten in parts. After
the more rotten parts r removed they
are placed against q rack in a slanting
position, and about the middle of the
ensuing spring the mushroom viii come
forth in abundance. They are then
gathered. The logs are, however, still
kept, and are submitted to the following
process; Every morning they are put
in water and remain there till afternoon,
when they are taken out, laid lengthwise
on the ground, and beaten with a mallet.
They are then ranged on end in the
same slanting position as before, and in
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07

two or three days mushrooms will again
make their appearance. When the logs
are beaten 80 heavily that the wood
sweIls, mushrooms are induced of more
than ordinarily large growth. If the
logs are beaten gently, a great number of
small-sized mushrooms grow up in c
c~ession. In places where there is a
scarcity of water, rain-water should be
kept for stepping the logs in. There is
yet another plan. The cut logs are
buried in the earth, and in a years time
are dug out and beaten as above de-
scribed. The mushrooms thus grown are
stored in a barn, on shelves ranged along
three sides, With braziers lighted under.
Afterward they are placed in small Jokes,
the bottoms of which are lined either
with straw or bamboo mats. These boxes
Ne then ranged on the shelves, and all
approaches carefully closed. An ever
degree of warmth is thus difused. The
boxes ranged ON the upper or lower tiers
are constantly changed, so that the con
tents Of each are thoroughly dried. An
other mode Of drying is to, string the
mushrooms on thin slips of bamboo,
which are piled together near the brazier;
the heat is well Kept in by inverting4
closely woven basket over them. Dried
mushrooms, which are, much liked by
the Chinese and largel.: consumed by
the japanese, Jain their. favor for a
great length of time, and thus bear trans
port to any distance very &ell.-PaH
Mall Gazette
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07
WIEN AND HOW TO EAT FRUIT.

When fruit does harm it is because it
is eaten at improper times, in improper
quantitiesPor before it is ripened and fit
for the human stomach. A distinguished
physician has said that if his patients
would make a practice of eating a couple
of good oranges before breakfast, from
February to June, his practice would be
gone. The principal evil is that we do
not eat enough of fruit; that we injure
its finer qualities with sugar; that we
drown them in cream. We need the
medical action of the pure fruit acids in
our system, and their cooling, corrective
Influence.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07
WERDTsR WOMEN.

A writer il Harpers Magazine de-
scribes the singular costume of the wo-
men of the Prussian Wends. The head
dress is made of single square piece of
linen as white as snow, and starched with
exquisite art, which is bound about the
head, as one sees it in the picture, by a
second person. It stands out on each
side like a great fan, but it is cool, and
it hides the hair. This is another
oriental prejudice which the %egds have
p~reserved-a reluctance to expose the
hair to the general gaze. This prejudice
does not extend, however, to the lower
limbs. While the Wendish women, un-
like ladies of fashion, scrupulously hide
their hair and breast, they expose their
legs with the greatest composure, up to
a point which would shock the delicacy
ota five-year-old girl in Paris or New
York. The venerable grandmother does
not differ in that respect from little
Anna, who for a silver groshen will give
e a glass OF water and look into her
clear black eyes. >
A jacket of black velveteen with full
white sleeves is not enough for the body;
over this small shawls of oriental bril-
liancy are tightly and neatly pinned.
The shaWls are sometimes worn instead
of the white linen on the head, and with
long fringe falling down look very fam
tastic aud picturesque. In this dress the
p~rettier girls are favorite models for ar
lists. The snowy colors and graceful
drapery are, OF course, mere artistic than
the stiff whiteqinen,.which rathersuggests
the nun. The skirts always make up in
width what they watst in length. They
are usually in plain wdolen goods, red,
blue, green or orange, Trimmed at the
bottom by a band of black Talvet ribbon
or some plaid stripe. The liAing is of
the stihest crinoline, and the skifGs re-
duced to the size of the waist by t. or
twelve rows of regular and faultless
gathering. This, of course-an excellent
lady informs me-sends the tulness to
the bottom of the skirt, and so when the
Wendish belle walks rapidly, her skirts
are inflated by the wind like the drapery
of a ballet girl. These dresses lined with
crinoline are worn only on festival days
and on Sundays; for work, the skirt is
quite as short, but hangs more modestly
about the limbs. : There is still another
costume, worn by widows and by COM
municants at the sacrament. 1t is made
in the same style, only the colors and
material differ. The skirt is black, and
instead of the heavy linen head.dress a
piece of thin white null is laid across
the head, with q black ribbon to keep it
in place. The face sinks down into an
immense Elizabethan ruff of the same
white material. With bowed head and
easped prayer-book these devout chris
tans and forlorn widows enter the vii
lage church, leaving as a last sight for
the spectator their naked feet and MACS
i've brown limbs.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07

~ Waes looking for Cuthbert every min
ute, and! thought to myself how he'd
laugh to Sc Rejoicing's figure, when into
| the room he walks and makes a bow to
her, never suspecting that she was dressed
up.
81 was just going to laugh and tell
him, when that mischievous old maid
ups and makes him allow in return, and
says she: I
"'Since Miss Jemima$$% doesn't seem to
want to introduce me, rlfao it myself.
Your servant, sir, Isaac Snoe3s, of Bung-
town, deacon and store-keerer, and a
great admirer of this young lady here,
who I hope to win for my BRIDE:
"With that she pumps herself dSTn
beside me, puts one of her short fat arfAS
around my waist, and gave me such .
hug and a sounding smack on my cheek
that poor Cuthbert fairly turned greeHS
"fI have been deceived he STAN
mered. IL have been basely deceivedr
"Of course you have, if you thought
you had any chance Of winning this lady.
She's bespoke, sir-she's mine!' cried
Rejoicing, smuggling up closer, and hug
ging me tighter than eve
81 never saw anything like Cuthbert's
facet From green it turned deadly
white, and he tried to speak, but couldn't.
"'stopl' cried ], getting alarmed. I
can explain this all. It is only
'There is no need of explanation"
thundered Cuthbert. ACTIONS are strong
er than words"
"And he pointed to that mischievous
critters arms, which were like a wise
round me.
"Then he tore from the house as if he
was mad, and Rejoicing Peters rolled
over on the floor, laughing, ready to
choke herself.
"'Tve done you q good turn, Nina
she cried. Il have cured Cuthbert Jones
of jealousy; for, when he hears that a
little, ugly, fat old maid reused the
green-eyed monster in him this time, he
will be so mortal ashamed of his felly
that he will reform for life, depend upon
it!'
"Aunt Jemima paused and sighed
again, this time more deeply than ever.
"She was wrong, Emma Matilda
wrong in one thing. She had not done
me a good turn. I received a short
letter from Cuthbert, but I never saw
him again.
Rejoicing had a long tongue. She
spread the story everywhere, and it met
him at every turn. 9
"He believed that it was a plot be-
tween us, and wrote some bitter things
in reproach to me before leaving the
town, where every n was laughing at
him.
II had a spirit of my own, as l told
you, and / wouldn't condescend to de-
fend myself when accused in such a way;
and go we parted.
"Heigho! it's a good while since that
day, and Tve got over the pain of it, but
1 can remember it well enough to want
to spare you from doing such.
"No, no, Emma Matilda! thank
heaven for giving you a kind, eyen-tem-
RArad lover. and don't yuu long FOR d
jealous one.
at may seem nice, as the apple did to
Eve before she ate it, but don't try it,
my dear, or you may live to rue it, as
she did. sand go che ought; for, if it
hadn't been for her, we women would
have had a better show in the world.
That's my opinion"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07
,yEFFERsOH,S POLITICAL MAXJMS

l. Legal equality Of thurman beings.
2. The people the only ource oflegi
innate power.
8. Absolute and lasting severance of
church and state.
4. Freedom, sovereignty and indie
pendence of the respective states.
s. The union a compact-neither a
consolidation nor a GENERALIZATION.
6. The constitution of the union a
special written grant OF pewers, limited
and definite.
Z. No hereditary Office, nor order nor
title.
8. No taxation beyond he public
want.
o. No national debt, il possible,
10. No costly spleudor of adminlstra-
tion.
II. No prescription Of opinion nor Of
public discussion.
~. No unnecessary Interference with
individual property or speech.
l3. The civil paramount to the mill
tary authority.
"A. The representative to obey the
Instructions his constituents.
Is. No fRored classes, No monopolieS.
l6. Elections free and suffrage uni
versal.
II. No public money expended ex-
cept by warrant of specific aPpropria-
ton.
IS. No mysteries in government III
accessible to the public eye.
10. Public compensation for public
services, moderate salaries and Pervading
conomy and accountability.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07

Spaniards. Even the native British Sea-
man is said to have d~eteriorated. One
important cause of this state of things Is
said to be the growth of the steam service
at sea, sailing ships being less profitable
than formerly, and the very severe disci-
pine, which might be ~ameliorsted with
better material for sailors.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07

There is a healthy moralist living in
Chicago who made money in the milk
business. He retired some years ago,and
has since occupied his time giving strug-
Cling young men good advice. They
seen, to pick right up under it. Don't
be discouraged. boys" it is his fashion
to remark. "You can't expect to get
rich all to wonst. When things doesn't
look cheerful like, think of me-. Indus
try and honesty was All the capital | had
except a tin can and 4 water pail"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07
sc4RorrY OF AMERICAN sE4MEs.

The United States navy is said to be
manned in the proportion of three to ONE
by sailors of foreign birth, and in the
merchant service it is rare to find a native
American before the mast. The British
navy does not appear Il be better off
The British representative in Peru states
that the proportion of native British sea-
men on board Of British merchant ships
in the Pacific is now but little more than
twenty per cent. of the whole number.
He cites one case in which a British ship
Of 400 tons came into Callao with only
six British seamen on board, and another
in which a ship of 1,100 tons came in
with but two Britons aboard. The crews
were mads up of Norwegiana, Germans,
French, Belgiaia, Italians, Greeks, and
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07

yoTF CANNOT HIDE I'll "That Chtarrq
s,niIs xour voice" DR.. J. II. MeLean's Won
ds1fa Catarrh snuff s9othes and Eeals all
irrjtstion in the nose, head or throat, . snre
tairS Trial boxes, 30 cents b. mil. Dt. J,
H Mclean, 314 Chestnut s st. Lonis,
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07

THA Is much that ID strange ii the
blue glass theory-for instance, the con-
junction Of opposite electricities, the
expansion of the molecules of the glass,
and the generation Of currents Of electro.
magnetiarn. Another strange thing Is
the occult relation existing between the
number Of miracles wrought and the
business enterprise Of the glass dealers.
The remedial action depends quite a.
much upon the number Of squares taken
by the vitreous advertisers in the local
papers IS upon the number or size Of the
panes. IN Providence blue glass Is work
ing well. Al book-keeper who hadSan
tortured with rheumatism for several
years inserted six panes Of blue glass IN
his office windows, exposed his foot, arm
and shoulder to the Light, and within
f~orty-eight hours was cured. An elderly
lady whose left knee, ankle and foot
were swollen to twice their natural size.
bathed In blue light, and in threa-quarters
Of an hour the soreness and inflammation
disappeared. An old gentleman whose
right foot has been useless for d year il
slowly recovering behind three mazarine
panes. The wife Of d prominent manu-
facturer who has been afflicted with
paralysis and unable 10 walk for three
years, was carried down stairs To the
paTlor and immersed 10 blue light. In
the course Of an hour or two the family
below were startled by sounds overhead,
and on entering The parlor what was
their establishment To find that she had
risen from her chair and walked across
the floor. Strength had returned to her
limbs, she was able to move her arms,
and Immediately incredulitY IN the
efficacy Ut blue glass was hanished from
that house.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07

A SCOTCH youth named Macalister has
Just accomplished the unprecedented feat
of winning at Cambridge all the chief
prizes at one swoop, and becoming
Senior Wringler, too; he began his
studies at the London university and
left it because the work was too hard,
the requirements then being more severe
than at either of the cid universities.
MFR. Conway says that the influence of
John Stuart Mill is still felt, particularly
at the London university, where the
unfortunate theory prevails that the
capacities of young men to acquire
knowledge are moderated. About two
years ago forty-ive tried to pass the
final examination for LII. B. at that in
stitution, and not one succeeded.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07

THE st. Louis Democrat has printed
several useful articles On the subject of
cheap school books. 1t alleges that ex-
orbitant prices are o charged for the
most ordinary books, and instances in
particular the common primer. The
price for which this book sells is twenty
FIVE cents ; the estimated cost of it to the
publisher is a little over six cents. The
writer puts the number of primers an
nually sold in this country at 2,0OO,OOO
which cost the people $4,000, 900, and
bring the publishers in a profit of $780,
900. The lightning calculator has for
gotten one important item he has made
no allowance for the proportion of profit
that annually finds its way into the
pockets of school boards and school
directors.
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07

The London correspondent of the Chi
cago Journal says: "You will probably
be as much surprised as | was to learn
that bank Of England notes, good as they
are all over the world, are not a legal
tender either in Scotland or Ireland. In
Ireland they are not allowed to circulate
at all. The moment they reach the
Irish banks they r cut in two, and re-
turned weekly to the bank Of England,
to be exchanged either for gold or Irish
notes. On the other hand an Irish or a
Scotch bank nete is as rare a sight in
England as a Chinese ambassador.
DAing my eighteen years Of English
life / have never once seen a Scotch
note, and only once an Irish one"
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07

The Mofussilite, one of the brightest
newspapers published in India says of
the cotton interests in the south This,
be it borne in mind, is the result of
American enterprise within the last few
years, for hardly over half a dozen years
ago the southern states lay bleeding and
exhausted, at which time many thought
it would take at least a generation to
enable America to regain her former
position. At that very time India had
exp0rtedee33 &c, 600, 900 worth of cotton
cue YEAR Nnaa sau 10 relate it only
equals about half that amount at
present so does not common sense tell
us that America threatens, at no very
remote date, to absorb the whole of the
cotton trade, and India will be shut out
from one of the most important branches
of commerce?
The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-04-07

THE Germans have q curious way of
announcing deaths by what looks Ill 9 a
flaming advertisement stretching some-
times entirely across a wide double
column newspaper. The following is a
literal translation of one of those n
nouncements made in an Augsburg
Ailgemeine Zeitung one day last month,
but the whole is made to look precisely
like q business advertisement Death
Notice. Ithas pleased Almighty God
our beloved husband, father, grand
father, brother and father-in-law, the
illustrious count Moriz gu Bentheim-
.Teklenherg Rheda, commander and
knight Of high orders, on the 9th Of
Of this month, at four o'clock in the
afternoon, in this eighteenth year, to
summon into eternity. For silent
sympathy begging, we this mournful
intelligence to all relatives and friends
send. The BEREAvRD ONES.
80 49,