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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1880-03-27

Thibodaux, March 9th. 1890.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19
A PERPETUAL DeIusiOn.

An exchange says Albert Pielnowski,
a Pole. residing IN New York, has in
vented almost perpetual motion ma.
chine, and those who have seen it, and
are competent to judge, say that it may
work a revolution in mechanics. It
consists Of pair Of hollow metallic
wheels, which revolve in opposite d.
rections on the same axis. The moving
power is nine metallic balls, placed
within the wheels; SO as to beat the
rim down at first and gravitate toward
the axis. where the side groove runs
them off to q grooved radius of the
wheel running in the opposite direc-
ton to the axis of smaller grooved
wheels that regulate the speed of the
machinery. This invention, like all
other perpetual devices, gets almost
there, and-that's all. Perpetual mo-
tion is blind delusion, and has sent
its hundreds of victims to the insane
asylum. 1t is q fascinating study, and
men follow it for years-for life. time
in many instances. Each one is conf
dent OF success and some come so near
it that all that prevents the perpetual
motion of the machine is friction Of
the movable parts. If the friction
could be overcome the machine would
run without stopping. But, like the
pendulum Of the clock, which will
swing for quite while OF its own mo-
mentum, it will stop unless there is a
continued renewal Of power; and that
implies consumption uf forces.
Power can be generated only ut the ex-
pense OF something. Whether it be by
the consumption of fuel generating
water into steam and the latter into
mechanical power; or by the consump-
electricity is generated and converted
into magnetism and then into mechani-
cal power; Or by chemical action; or
by the force of gravitation as in the
water wheel; or the power of tides
and winds; in each and every case
there is q draft made upon certain
forces in nature which must be ap-
piled to the machine before it will run.
Even the human body will not run
itself. 1t is the most complicated
piece of machinery ever constructed,
| and draws upon a larger and more
varied supply of natures forces than
any mechanical structure man ever in.
vented.
There is no escape from the law OF
creation. There is only one being who
can create something out of nothing
and he, from that very fact, must be
omnipotent, and We call him God.
Believer and infdel will alike concu,
in tue statement that it requires q
power greater than human to create g
force that does not pre- exist. There il
nothing in all that man has discovered
in the realms of science; there is moth
ing in nature that he can draw 10y
analogy to sustain the principle in
volved in any theory of perpetual mo
ton. 1t is delasion and snare, and
we advise every reader of the Ha,ohey'
to shun it as he would fatal epidemic
Quarantine against it if you would
avoid a wrecked life.-Havkeye.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19
How Candles are Made,

1t is On easy matter to drop rus-
cious chocolate cream or a crystal cam
dy into ones mouth, but the process by
which the morsel is produced is not so
small matter. Take q chocolate cream,
for instance. First, a half-barrel of
sugar is put into caldron with little
water, and placed over q slow fire until
it assumes paste like consistency.
Then it is put on marble slab and
worked, Ike butter, until it is smooth
and plastic. That paste forms the
basis OF all cream candies. The flavor
ing is put in aftcrwsrd - vanilla,
orange, lemon, strawberry, pineapple
anything, in fact, that may be desired.
The chocolate used comes in huge
cakes, is melted. and the creams GOV.
cred with it by dipping them in rap
idly.
The crystallizing of candies requires
more work. and it is in this that espe.
sially prepared apparatus is used.
First, the form Of the candy is secured
ny holdings in finely ground starch.
Then the candy, favored and prepared
according to taste, is reduced to q
syrup aud poured in tho molds, and
placed in closet to cool slowly. These
closets are kept at u certain tempera-
ture, aud it requires from three hours
to several days to bring the candy to
the right consistency. When it is
taken out the starch IL removed with
brush, and the candies are ready for
sale. Each kind requires a different
node of tire .tnent, and the work occu-
pies the entire time of q professor Of
confectionery and four assistants to
supply the demand. Candies may be
bought of large wholesale manufac-
turers as cheaply as they are made by
smaller dealers, but greater purity and
freshness are obtained by manufactur.
ing them, and the supply can be regu-
lated to meet the demand.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19
Why and When Lamps Explode.

All explosions OF coal oil lamps are
caused by the vapor of gas which col
lects above the oil. When full of oil
of course lamp contains no gas, but
Immediately on lighting the lamp, con-
sumption of oil begins, soon leaving q
space for gas. which commences to
form AS the lamp warns up, and, after
burning a short time, sufficient gas will
accumulate to make an explosion. The
gas lamp will explode only when ig
nited. In this respect it is like gun
powder. Cheap or inferior oil is al
ways the most dangerous. The follow
ing shows that many things may occur
to cause the fame to pass down the
wick and explode the lamp:
l. A lamp may be standing on q
table or mantel. and slight puff of air
from the open window, or sudden
opening of door, may cause an ex-
plosion.
2. It may be taken up too quickly
from table or mantel and instantly
explode.
3. If taken into any entry where
there is q strong draught from the
doors, an explosion is likely to ensue.
L. If taken up fight Of stairs, or
raised quickly to place it on the mantel.
it is likely to explode.
In all these cases the mischief is
done by the air movemsnt-either by
sudden checking the draught or forc.
ing the air down the chimney against
the fame.
5. Blowing down the chimney to ex-
tinguish the light, is frequent cause
of explosion.
6. Lamp explosions have been
caused by using chimney broken at
the top, or one that hss piece broken
out, whereby the draught is variable
and the fame unsteady.
7. Sometimes thoughtless person
puts q small sized wick in large
burner, thus leaving q considerable
space along the edge VI the wick.
g. An old burner, which by right
should be thrown away, is sometimes
continued in use. the final result is ex.
plosion.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19
ton was laid open to the gaze of the

ton was laid open to the gaze of the
Osages.
Tie girl could recognize nothing in
the darkness. She only saw the dark
forms standing around, but whether
friends or foes she could not tell.
The chief looked at her moment,
and drew his tonahawk. But at this
juncture the sharp crack of rifle
broke the stiffness, and the chief tum-
bled headlong into the opening with q
bullet through his brain. The next
moment, and before the Osages could
recover from their surprise, q volley
was poured into their midst, and such
as were not killed or desperately
wounded Immediately fed.
Charles Hamilton, upon reaching
the settlement, after he had discov cred
the abduction of his daughter, pro-
cured enough men to insure success, if
such thing were possible.
They hurried forward on the trail,
which was easily followed, as, at short
intervals, some of the Indians broke
through the crust, which as they pro
crossed northward, was found to cover
the snow like a sheeting of ice.
On the second morning they en-
countered the returning Usage.
They were so certain Of his be-
ing an enemy that he was fired at
before he coull make himself known.
He soon made them understand his
errand, and led them to the rescue Just
at the oppOrtune moment.
What may seem remarkable, but
what ut the same time is characteristic
of Indian nature, Is the fact that after
this Usage had assured himself of the
safety of the girl, ne left her party,
and ever aiterward was the bitter aud
unrelenting enemy of the whites. 1t
was several years before he became
reconciled to his own people, but he
never cherished any feelings except
enmity toward the race which had in
tiicted such an indignity upon him.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19

PREPosTERoUs HRADaBAR AT THEA
TERs.-We bow to gentlewomen in
all other senses, but are no more dis
posed-at least in theaters and concert
rooms-to make obeisancs to their. for
such places, preposterous headgear
than Michael, the friend of William
Tell, was to bow to the hat of Gesler.
Ii the ladies will insist at other times
on bearing sloft these portentous
masses of indescrioable if beauteous
variety, let them at least doff them in
places Of public entertainment. Lovely
AS may be the hats, and thrice lovely ~
may be the wearers, persons who go to
the theater, with or without such hats,
wish to see the stage. 1t might, to
be sure, make some difference if the
fair offenders sat with their backs to-
ward the footlights instead Of their
faces. In this, at all events, there
might be some consolation. But as
such = metkod of assisting at per-
Torrance is not at present in fashion,
and AZ the hats seem unlikely to 70 Out
of it, gentlewomen should be persuaded
either to dress their heads for public
assemblies in manner more consistent
with the rights and comforts of Others,
or to assign their hats to the care of
attendants. as is SO commonly done in
Earope.-N Y. Eosnipg Poet.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19

WIFK-BEATINa.-A case Of wife-beat.
ing 80 outrageous has recently occurred
in Illinois that the penalty already
recommended in England is advised.
It is proposed to establish the whip
ping post and administer the remedy
on homeopathic principles, but not in
homeopathic doses. The trouble will
be to secure conviction. The only wit
ness to such O performance is, as q rule,
the victim OF the beating; and with
devotion at once charming and exasper..
sting, she always refuses at the criticex
moment to come forward as q witness.
In Brooklyn, the other day, husband.
locking the door of the room, proceeded
to beat his wife over the head with
pair of boots. She was taken to the
hospital, but subsequently refused to
appear in court againt him. Unluckily
for him, he overdid the outrage and she
died OF the injuries. The brutal man
was thereupon arrested and will proba'
bly, be held for murder. Wife-beating
is comparatively exceptional offense
in this country and if there is any plan
necessary or likely to discourage tbs
cowardly otfense it deserves adoption
Detroit Free Press.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19

CREAM PuFFs.- For the cake: Take
of sifted -four two cups, butter one ana
one-fourth cups, sugar teaspoonfal;
rub together we'll and put into Pint
of boiling water; boil and stir briskly
until it thickens; remove from the hre
and add gradually eight eggs well
beaten; stir rapidly and when wen
mixed let stand until cold; have put
tsred tins ready and drop the mixture
in tablespoonfuls. about six inches
apart. Brush over with the white OF
An egg and bake in q quick oven
light brown color; when done these
win be hollow shells. which are to be
out apart and filed with cream. Cream
is made ~ follows: Beat two eggs to a
froth; add one-third teacupful o. pow,
dered sugar, ohe.half teacuPini, o.
-four; stir all into pint of boiling
milk aad cook until it thickens; wnea
cool favor with lemon or vanilla ~"
fill the shells with it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19

LONELINESS ON THH OoEAN.-Any
one who has never travelled upon the
ocean expects to find it somewhat
thickly populated. He thinks of the vast
travel and traffic that go over the waters,
and he is ready to imagine that the great
deep 10 alive with this hurrying to and
fro of nations. He reads of lands
whose commerce whitens every sea,
and he is ready to think the ocean is
full OF sails US the harbor OF some
mighty metropolis. But he finds his
mistake. As he leaves the land, the
ships begin to disappear; as he goes on
his way they soon all vanish, and there
is nothing about him but blue sea and
blended sky. Sometimes he may meet
or overtake solitary ship through the
day; but then, again. there will be
many days when not q single sail will
be seen. There are spaces, measured
by thousands Of miles, over which no
ship has ever passed. The idea of o
nations commerce. whitening every sea
is the widest fancy. If all the ships
that ever have been built were
brought together in single feet, they
would fill but hands breadth of the
ocean. The space that man and his
works occupy on the sea is 50 small in its
extent that the hold ON it by his power is
slight aud superficial. Both together
are as nothing. The ocean covers three
fourths of the globe; and by far the
greater portion of this il and ever has
been free from mans presence and
visitation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19
Woman's Danger and Deceit.

No lady," of any age, color, occu-
patton, character or condition IN life,
ever felt that she could live up to her
proper lady hood without greater or
less supply Of silk dresses. From the
"rich black silk which was for long
time supposed by the American people
to be the. sole external dress of the
gracious lady Of she White House down,
or up-to the gorgeous apparel that
flares along the streets, as the proud in
sigma of being "as good as anybody "
on the part of foolish women who
scrape and pinch and starve to win and
wear this glorious badge of ladyhood,
a silk dress is an indispensable quantity
in the sum Of feminine human happi-
ness.
Comparatively few of our American
ladies-we would not venture to in
dulge our preference for calling them
women in such connection are aware
that their generic passion for silk
dresses is, like most of the other pas
sions of poor, weak human nature, at
tended with some risks. We do not re-
fer to the exhausting effects produced
upon marital exchequers. In many
cases, the cost of new silk is matter
of no consequence at all in many 9TH
ers, it ia born out of the self-denying
economy OF the wearer. But the risk
is an intrinsic one. Heavy silk dresses,
made in France and Germany, are liza
BILE, if not to actual explosion, at least
to spontaneous combustion. Numer-
GUS fires have occurred in the silk ware
houses abroad, which have been traced
directly to the chemicals aud dye. stuffs
with which the silk fabrics are loaded,
and it will be dreadful thing if these
fires begin to break out on our side
walks, at the opera, in the ballroom or
at church. The old dangers of too
close proximity to the gorgeous half of
the human family are great enough,
but if women are liable to burst into
flames, at moments warning, q total
separation of the sexes will become the
unavoidable condition of fashionable
society. Any properly-constitutea
weman would naturally prefer the risk
of confagration and even of sequestra-
ton from mankind rather than surren-
der her beloved French silk, "real
Lyons" as it always is. Nor will she
be much weakened in her devotion to
the standard material of her sexs gar
niture when she is told that not only is
there this incendiary quality about it,
but that recent scientific analysis has
decided that there is very little actual
silk about her after all. -Phlladeiphia
Bulletin.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19
An Angels Flight.

Thin shadows pass across the moon,
The solemn night lie strangely still.
The heart-throbs Of the sleeping June
Do all the soul Of beauty thrill.
Three angels--on each brow a star
High heavens arch are flying through
But one speeds downward peeriug far
Across the crystal depths Of blue.
Within cottage lies the dead,
Upon the fsca starry glow
Tread softly for the spirit fed
Scarcely a moments time ago.
A fsir-haired boy stands at the pane
And sees star sweep down the sky
Mamma is coming back again"
heard the little darling cry.
Midsummer Dreams.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19

At Gillingham. near Chatham, Eug-
land, singular ball was recently held.
The party was made up of fifty. nine
ladies aud gentlemen whose united ages
amounted to 4 .259 years. A gentleman
born in 1876 opened tho dance with q
lady ouly four years his Junior, and it
is said their wsltzing was As brisk
as that of any young couple of
twenty. i-'|i' .~tT
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19

When the Indians were in Washing
ton, Ourays wife wore . mans straw
hat, bead snbI oidered noccssins, q
$3.50 seal-skin sacque, lace collar, and
veps hsse rutfies ut her wrists, and q
pair of regulation cavalry trousers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-19

Nothing is difficult to the brave and
faithful.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1880-07-07

81 am dying, Egypt, dying,
said he. "My heart is enlarged to
three times its natural size, and
oh. l am bleeding to death"
She had opened the nozzle, and
the three quarts of hot water were
pouring over him, saturating him
from his head to his heels. She
had not meant to let out more
than half pint of water on him,
but when it got to flowing she
couldn't stop it, so she got out OF
he'd and told him to save himself
He attempted to stop the flow OF
blood. aud she struck light and
asked him if his life-preserver had
not sprung a leak, and then he
looked at the rubber-bag, and
went and run himself through a
clothes wringer, and he slept or
the lounge the rest of the night
and he says his wife is the mean
est woman that ever drew the
breath of life. She tells her friends
that Josiah has been miraculously
cured of heart disease.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1880-07-07
HEAPS OF Fun Ahead.

An old and still partially intoxi-
Gated sailor was brought up before
Justice Wandell in YorlIville police
court the other day, says the New
York Sun. The Justice asked
"Thomas, why do you drink the
nasty stuff"
The old sailor respectfully salut-
ed his honor, and inquired of him
if he meant liquor.
That's just what l mean," re-
Piled the court sit is very nasty
stuff"
"Your honor is all wrong" pur-
sued the sailor, rehectively-"all
wrong"
"Look at me-" said the Justice
II am over sixty years Of age, and
| have never tasted liquor
"Was your honor never drunk =
"Never in my life"
MAY / be -. Well, your
honor, you're not too old yet.
There's fun ahead for you-heaps
of fun ahead"
When the courtroom became
quiet in a measure the old sailor
was discharged.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1880-07-07
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laugh to her face, said that she
was not sad.
"Yes, but I have noticed it,
Annabel FASTENED to say. ever
since the night when Mr.. Harod
Blaine and Belle Wingate rode up
the valley laughing, you have been
east down. Why don't Mr.. Digh-
ton come any more y
But Lucia did not hear the ques-
ton.
"Harod Blaine, you say, Anna
bel 2" she cried,
"Yes, sister. They stopped at
the spring after they passed the
bars, and / saw them BOTH
For a moment Lucie Drayton
was silent. A strange and start
| ling revelation had been broken to
her; in the instant of fash, she
saw herself the victim of scheming,
the dupe of a willy mans heart.
"Annabel, shall thank God for
what you saw that night" she sud-
denly cried, catching up her sister.
"They have made me wrong him.
and. if it is not too late, | shall
make PREPARATION. Go to the house,
sister. want to meet the person
who is coming"
With a look into Lucie's face
and a glance at the horseman just
appearing in sight, Annabel left
her at the bars.
A moment later Harod Blaine
rode up, and dotted his hat with
true Virginian gentility, but no
welcoming smile from her.
The young man looked nonpluss-
ed.
"Let this be the last time" she
said to him. II now know who
rode by the bars that night"
He colored guiltily to the tenn
Piles, and bit his lip.
With her accusing look upon
him, he gathered up his reins and
looked ahead.
at is enough. l have been the
victim of a plot, Harod Blaine
shall make an atonement."
Then he turned his eyes upon
her, and said madly:
"The man who would not plot
deeply for you, Lucie Drayton, mus
be fool. Now that you have founC
me out, let me confess. When hi
started for Richmond, he sent M
to you with a message informing
you of his departure. | rode hi
horse, aud, with the aid of a won
an, formed a plot which has failed
l do love you, Lucie. | ever viii
Now, it is farewell"
Saved !" murmured Lucie Dray
ton. "My sister has saved me y
A week later Shirley Dighto
!, came back. In his bosom he cal
ried a letter which merely sale
"come home," and at the bars Lit
Gle told the story of her anguish
and he kissed hack to life the low
which had died for while.
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