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The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06

The s%ea-coast negro is as much of an
aamphibian as the Sandwich islander.
The Bermuda negroes are marvels of
sWiftness, skill and long breath in the
water and under it, and in chasing and
catching things thrown into the water,
they are more expert than a pet
spaniel, as also are the negroes of the
African coast. We have read the ex-
PLOTS of the idle Arabs of the Red sea
in diving for coins (Which seems to be
the chief means of livelihood with that
kind of performers); and here acorres-
pendent of the San Francisco ChToni-
Gle describes the black divers of Sene-
gal, on the other side of the Ozark
Continent"
The ship no sooner comes to anchor
than it is surrounded by a of
native canoes, '~dug-outs," most of
them straight, some of them crooked,
and all of them filled with yelling
negroes, whose business it is to dive
for your amusement and pay, and to
beg for money, food, clothes, cigars,
anything. With the exception of a
brecch-cloth, they are entirely naked,
and ready to dive for a piece of money
the moment it is thrown into the wa
ter. AS q coin takes a zigzag, oscillat-
ing motion in sinking, and therefore
goes down slowly, they never fail to
secure one. At first they will not dive
for less than a franc, but afterwards
they will plunge in for a copper. They
will dive under the ship and come up
on the opposite side.
We dressed one Of them in Il COM
pleto suit of gentleman's clothes, black
silk hat, kid gloves and boots entire,
upon condition that after being thus
attired he would dive for q franc. 1t
was curious to see the savage dress
himself, and very laughable when he
was obliged to ask for assistance in
getting on his gloves. At length,
being completely attired, he stood
ready for the CON-, and the moment it
was thrown he plunged into the sea
without hesitation, clothes, hat, boots,
gloves and all. Well, he got the coin,
but not without difficulty, and at the
peril of his life, for his clothes EN-
barrassed him, and he hadto be hauled
into the boat,
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06
Bathing Facilities om Monterey Bay

The surf rolls in invitingly along
the shining sands along the blue, blue
bay Of Monterey, but no n accus-
toned to the torrid shore and the tep-
i'd waves of the New Jersey coast would
dream of a dip in the Pacific at any
season. The air and the water are de-
cidedly too cool for comfortable surf
bathing, and the trade winds are rath-
er more than the MONDAY sun a sub
due. To overcome this a large bath
house has been built on the beach, in
which there are four large tanks filled
with sea-water, heated to different
temperatures. The tanks each meas
ured thirty-six feet in width by fifty
in length, and the depth ranges from
three to six feet. Beginning with the
cold water rs it is pumped from the
ocean, each tank holds water of a diff
ferent temperature, ranging from tep-
i'd to warm. The pools are surround
ed with tropical plants and trees,
vines creep up the wall, and with a
glass roof and many windows the
placeis bright and sunny. The am
phibious folk parade up and down
the sides of the tanks in their bathing
suits and dip themselves first into one
pool and then into another. The chill
dren scurry and plunge about like SO
many frogs, and faint screams are
heard from. over the partition, where
the modest women are taking their
warm swim.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06
A Lost Ma,,,s A,s,ve,. to az, o,,,,

1t was while in the North Woods
that the following is said to have hap
pened: A party were camping at
Cedar Pond. One of them strayed off
by himself in quest of fun and some
thing to shoot at. He became lost, and
as the shades of night began to creep
over the landscape, he began to get
troubled, then scared; and as he was
scared he ever anon would shout,
'Man lostl man lostr!' And as the
deepening shades of night drew on
he became frantic, and made the well
kin ring again and again with the
despairing cry of "Man lost! man
lost !" just as day faded into night,
and he shrieked the despairing cry
of the wall of the lost, a horned owl,
perched on a tree neal by. with all the
wisdom of his race, cried out, "Who,
who, a who, whoo?" The man stop
ped and started, and then in answer
to the query, answered, "Jim -, of
Rochester, you fool you"
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06
LADIES DEPARTMENT i.
A PriMcess's Dress

At a recent wedding the Princess of
Wales wore a dress of white satin, fit
ting her exquisite figure like a glove.
The skirt had three f%lounces, each
edged with coffee-colored lace. Over
the bodice was a short zouave jacket
Of coffee-colored lace. Her bonnet was
white straw trimmed with the same
material. At one side was a bunch of
pink carnations, and fastening the
strings a bunch Of dark red flowers.
She carried a white parasol with a gold
handle. The three %princesses were
dressed in plain white frocks.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06
White, Red and Black.

Among the Seminole Indians there
is a singular tradition regarding the
white mans origin and superiority.
They say when the Great Spirit made
the earth he also made three men, all
of whom were fair complexioned, and,
after making them, he led them to the
margin of a small lake and babe them
leap in and wash. One obeyed, and
came out purer and fairer than before;
the second hesitated a moment, during
which time the water, agitated by the
first, had become muddied, and when
he bathed he came out copper-colored;
the third did not leap until the water
became black with mud, and he came
out his own color. Then the Great
Spirit laid before them three packages,
and out Of pity for his misfortune in
color he gave the black man the first
choice. He took hold of each of the
packages and having felt the weight,
chose the heaviest; the copper colored
man chose the next heaviest, leaving
the white man the lightest. When
the packages were opened the first was
found to contain spades, hoes and all
the implements of labor; TIE second
unwrapped hunting, fishing and war
like apparatus; the third gave the
white man pens, ink and paper. the
engine of the mind-the means of
mutual mental Improvement, the
social link of humanity, the founda-
ton of the white mans superiority.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06
Something Nice In Shoes.

Miss Emerson, niece of Minister
Lowell, was the center of attraction at
the Countess of Stanhope's ball in Lon
don. The most wonderful things
about Miss Emerson were, it seems,
the shoes she wore upon her tiny feet,
adorned with insteps 'too artistically
arched" for a fair republican. These
shoes were made of yellow Spanish
velvet, with high French heels, and
laced up the sides. The eyelets for
the cords topass through were trimmed
with solid gold, and to the side Of each
was set a precious stone-first a ruby,
then a sapphire, then IN emerald, then
an opal, and over again in the same
order. The top of the shoe was fin
ished in the same fashion, and in front
were sisteen gold chains, caught by a
diamond pin.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06

their sabers. One by one they hacked
off every toe !; and as a browning act
of torture, they dug out that poor
faithful slaves eyes, and cutting off
both his ears, crammed them into his
mouth.
"After a time the troop rode away,
and my friend supposed they had taken
F%lorencio with them, for he heard
nothing of him.
"When it had grown dark, he ven
tured to creep down out of the for
nulla, and there found his poor servant
in a swoon, still hanging by the rope
to the palm-tree. But he was living,
and toward evening, the poor creature
had SO revived that he could speak his
masters name. My friend had him
carefully nursed until his wounds
healed, and afterward hired a negro to
wait on him constantly.
Eighteen months later my friend
fell in n of our hopeless battles and
Florencio at length found his way to
Havana. You now understand why
it is that [ never pass the poor fellow
by.
"In the name of Cuba's lost liber-
ties I always give him something; and
I would divide my last dollar with
him, rather than see him suffer fur
ther."- Youths Companion.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06
made Up with Pompadour

gowns, made Up with Pompadour
yokes.
Fashionable women have one para
sol for each street or carriage costume
made of the dress material and tgimme9
to match.
Different figures require different
styles of tournures. Whatever gives
the bell-shape to the skirt is considered
most beautiful.
Ribbons reign this season, not only
in %profusion on bonnets, but also in
fancy knots, bows and rosettes, to
brighten up costumes.
The most fashionable Parisians are
wearing the basket drapery on the hips
known as the Marie Antoinette pan
iers, and a close narrow skirt below.
Illuminated leather, which is so fash
ionable to-day in every department OF
furnishing, plays an important part
also in. cabinets, forming admirable
panels.
Ornamental pins or brooches in fam
ciful designs are used to fasten the
end of the pelerine over the left
shoulder. or to attach a bow or bou-
quet at the sama point.
Some fashionable women wear what
the Lancet calls the 'varioloid" petit
coat; in a word, the crinolette, which
bears the same relation to a hOop-skirt
that varioloid does to smallpox.
White and black French laces wo-
ven precisely Ike those that initiate
Chantilly dre the novelties for lace
dresses. They arc made up over mex
pensive white or black satin Surah.
Dressy basques are cut open in oval
shape below he throat, and finished
off with a standing net collar embroid-
cred with gold, silver or steel BEADS,
and made to Project by fine ~thread-like
wires, and Fastened by a diamond
brooch that represents buttons. The
sleeves are of lace to the elbow with
beaded %ruf1les, and there are satin
creyes for epaulets.
A cool and charming dress for
morning in the country is of pale gray
nuns yelling, with the skirt in five
lengthwise pleatings from belt to foot
in front, but only half that depth be-
hind. The gracefully festooned polo
naise is caught up very short on the
front and hips by bows of narrow gray
and garnet Ottoman ribbon, and bows
to match are on the t%ournure.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06
G'ashLoll Notes.

Painters are on the increase.
Basket bonnets grow in favor.
White dresses OF all tinds are worn.
Plaids and Ghes>-b.ard pattern goods
are all the rage.
Dust gray is tho fashionable color
for travelling YEA
Low Shoes, tied across the irstep,
are worn with black stockings.
Short pc .ri1ea with long tai like
ends in trout, al much worn.
Bonnet; of traw fsinge are a nov
city. They come in al the fashionable
shades.
Spiders Of exaggerated size and
made of silver are. favoslte designs in
brsas.piEs.
The new Irish point lace collars are
two inches k;gn, and STAINS ap around
the neck In a military sss,e.
White camels-hair dresses, trimmed
with straw braid, also white flannel
ones. are tho popular sort for yachting.
Linen lawn trimmed with real lace
Il much uaea for handsome night.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06
Use of Trees ON Streets.

Prof. Goret, of the university of
Geneva, points out the functions Of
trees in streets as not limited to acting
as screens for sun-shunning wayfarers
they temper the heat and serve as a
protection against dust; the evapora-
ton from their leaves tends to keep
the surrounding air cool and moist,
and, as one of the best ways of refresh
ing the air of a sick room is to place
in it plants and branches, and sprinkle
them with water, a like effect is pro-
duced by trees. Sunlight is necessary
to health; but trees, if not too thickly
planted, do not intercept sunlight--the
continual vibration of their leaves and
swaying of their branches admitting
the light every instant and in sufficient
measure, serving, moreover, to pro-
tect the eyes from the MONDAY glare.
So far from trees impeding the circula-
ton Of air, they help to purify it; the
evaporation from their leaves deter
mines a current from above, and the
fresh air thus brought down assists in
driving away the heated and dust inn
pregnated gases Of the streets. Anoth-
er useful property of foliage is that,
while in hot, dry weather it moistens
the surrounding atmosphere, thus rem
dering it filter TO breathe, this effect,
which is due to evaporation. ceases in
wet weather.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06
Hints for Love Making.

Mixed with the humor and nonsense
Of the following selections are many
shreWd and valuable hints to those
young ladies whose minds are prone
to thoughts of love:
First, catch your lover.
Hold him when you have him.
Don't let go of him to catch every
new n that comes along.
Try to get pretty well acquainted
with him before you take him for life.
Unless you intend to support him,
find out whether he earns enough to
support you.
Don't make up your mind that he is
an angel.
Don't palm yourself off on him as
one, either.
Don't let him spend his salary OF
you; that right should be reserved till
after marriage.
If you have conscientious scruplss
against marrying a man with a moth
CT, say so in time, that he may get rid
of her to oblige her, as he thinks best.
If you object to secret societies and
tobacco, it is better to come out with
your objections now than to reserve
them for curtain lectures hereafter.
If your adorer happens to fancy a
certain shade of hair, don't color or
bleach to oblige him. Remember your
hair belongs to you, and he doesn't.
Be very sure it is a man you are in
love with, and not the clothes he
wears. Fortune and fashion are both
so tickle, it is foolish to take a stylish
suit of clothes for better or worse.
If you intend to keep three servants
after marriage, settle the matter be-
forehand. The man who is making
love to you may expect you to do your
own washing.
Don't try to hurry up q proposal by
carrying on a Irritation with some 9TH
er fellow. Different men are made of
different material, and the one you
want may go off in a fit of jealousy
and forget to come back.
If you have o loye-letter to write,
don't copy it out Of q 'letter-writer."
If your young man ever happened to
consult the same book, he would know
your sentiments were borrowed.
Don't marry a man to oblige any
third person in existence. It is your
right to suit yourself in the matter.
But remember at the same time that
love is blind, and a little friendly adj
vice from one whose advice is worth
having, may insure you a lifetime of
happiness or prevent n of misery.
In love affairs always keep your
eyes wide open, S 10 that when the right
man comes along you may see him.
When you do see him you will 'recog-
nize him, and the recognition will be
mutual.
If you have no fault to find with him
personally, morally, politically, relig-
iously, Or any other way, he is proba-
bly, perfect enough to suit you, and
you can afford to behave him, hope in
him, love him, mary him.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06
4 MOthei.,s Lore.
Some da,

Some day,
When others braid your thick brown hair
And drape your form in silk and lace,
When others call you " dear" and "~fair,"
And hold your hands and kiss your face,
You'll not forget that far above
all others is o mothers love.
Some day,
Mong strangers in far distant lands,
In your new home beyond the sea,
When at your lips are baby hands,
And children playing at your knee
o then. as at your side they grow,
How I have loved you, you will know!
Some day,
When you must feel loves heavy loss,
You will remember other years
When /, too, bent beneath the cross,
And mix my memory with thy tears.
In such dark hours be not afraid;
Within their shadow Ihave prayed.
Some day,
Your daughters voice, or smile, or eyes,
My face will suddenly recall;
Then you will smile in sweet surprise
And your soul unto mine will call
In that dear, unforgotten prayer
Which we at evening used to share.
Some day,
A flower, a song, a word may be
A link between us strong and sweet;
An, then, dear child, remember me!
And let your heart to "mother" beat.
My love is with you everywhere
You cannot get beyond my prayer.
Some day,
At longest it cannot be long,
shall with glad Impotence wait,
Amid the glory and the song,
For you before the Golden Gate.
After earth's parting and earth's pain,
Never TO part! Never again!
-Delaware County american
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06

Mr.. J. Charles King is an English
engineer who has a method by which
the Irish difficulty can be got over, and
the particulars of which he has pub
lished in a pamphlet. Mr.. Kings plan
is a real union of Great Britain with
Ireland-a union which it would be
difficult to repeal. He would fill up a
space in the North channel between
Antrim in Ireland and Cantire in Scot
land. The distance from land to land
is only nineteen miles, and the greatest
depth 474 feet. The hills on each side
are from 900 to 1900 feet high, and MI.
King would have the loaded trucks
run down to the sea by gravitation,
and thus a great part of the expense
would be saved. About a square mile
of earth 100 yards deep would be re-
quired to form the isthmus. The labor
could be done by 10000 convicts taken
from the prisons near London, and this
would lessen materially the expense Of
the project were the nation to adopt
the scheme. The cost would be about
e2,OO0,00O, and the result would be,
the sanguine Mr.. King thinks, a more
perfect homogeneity of the united peo-
pies, while physically it would change
the Irish sea into a land-locked bay,
lessened in depth by the cessation of
the Atlantic flood from the north, there
by serving to aid the natural drainage
of the adjacent coasts. and make the
marsh land of the west coast of Ireland
capable of the highest forms of cult
walton.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06

"Why our fish disappear is the title
of an article in the american Apgzer.
It is because small boys with bent pin
hooks and pockets full of worms are
allowed to fish in the streams after the
city sports have goRs home Disguised,
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06

"Well, TIL be hanged said the
mirror when it found itself in the
hands Of q purchaser,
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06

The Corsicans never mention pork
og pig without m apology,
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06

A statistical comparison showing
the relative extent to which various
nations ale addicted to the use Of to-
bacco has been published by the Etoie
Beige, which manifcsts no little pride
in the position occupied by Belgium.
The proportions are: For England,
France and Russia, 5; for Italy, z;
for Cuba, II; for Austria, IA; for
Germany and North America, Is; for
Belgium, "a; and for Holland, 70. In
some parts of the New World, how
ever, the achievements of the Dutch
are, according to the same authority,
altogether surpassed. The readers OF
the Etoi1e Beige are Informed that in
Mexico especially every n is, with
very rare exceptions, a smoker. The
school children who have done best in
their studies are rewarded by being al
lowed to smoke a cigar as they stand or
sit at their lessons. The schooImaster
himself is seldom without a cigar in
his mouth. In the law courts all per-
sons commonly enjoy their tobacco
freely, and even the accused in a GRIM
inal trial is not denied this indulgence,
but is allowed, if his cigarette goes out
in the heat Of the argument, to light
it again by borrowing that of the
policeman who stands at his side to
guard him.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-10-06
TOPTCS OF THE DAY.

The Apache Indian may be suscepti-
BILE of civilization, but it seems to be
of a crude sort thus far. A traveller
who writes about that warlike race to
the Boston Post tells of a buck who
was called "a bad Indian because he
had killed his mother, wife and pa
poose. He complained to the Indian
agent: "They don't treat me fair.
They call me bad Indian They say
L killed my mother. eGes, I did, but 1
did it because she was too old to work.
Then they say l killed my wife. 1 did
that because she was too sick to work.
They talk about my killing my pa
poose. Well, J. did that too, but it
cried too much and I couldn't sleep.
1 am good Indian not bad Indian
Of the colonies Of Russian refugees
established in different parts of Amerl-
ca, probably the most successful is the
one in Burleigh county, Dakota, which
has already risen to the rank of a town
and been named Wechsler, in grateful
recognition of the assistance rendered
by Rabbi Wechsler, of st. Paul. Mr..
Berger, the prominent Hebrew resi-
dent of Vienna, who has recently
visited all the colonies in this country,
and reported to the Alliance 1sraelite
Universellety, of that city, says of the
colony at Wechsler: "My attention
was especially attracted to the thrifty
and diligent habits of these emigrants,
and / admired the zeal of a sixteen
years-old mold, who alone with a spade
uncovered and planted an acre with
potatoes. 1t is needless to add that
this colony is a deserved success"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-08

Even the Charleston, S. c., News
and Courier is guilty of disgusting
abuse of us. 1t heads an article
Tennessee put to shame. The
bondholders of the thieving state
hold a meeting and discuss her dis
honesty" This is as unkind as ii
is untrue. If we were to go into q
rehearsal of the woes that have befall
en- the south and trace them to their
cause, the tracks would be found to
center in South Carolina. That
paper certainly does not understand
the facts. If it does, its traitorous
SANDER is inexcusable. The north
ern papers have bursted the cylin-
der heads Of truth and wrecked all
decency in their abuse of us, but
we can stand it, as it only exempli-
fies their hatred of the south and
cannot be taken as in any way re-
flecting facts. There has been too
much Tennessee blood split in main
tanning principles first asserted by
South Carolina to justify her lead
ing paper in abusing Tennessee for
adopting a policy that puts her
bonds down in the market to 46
cents, while South Carolina has a
series that cannot be sold for s cents.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-08
What means all this tariff she,

What means all this tariff specu-
lation and propositions and coun.
ter-propositions touching our in
dustries? 1t is answered by the
closed doors and silent looms and
wheels in northern factories. The
south's competition is getting to be
successful and it must be crowded
down. The north's industrial life
depends upon the south's subjec-
ton and detection. 1t has been
demonstrated that iron can be made
cheaper here than there, and it
needs no demonstration that cotton
goods can be manufactured cheaper
where the cotton grows. These
facts are being built upon at the
south and the north sees IN these
rapid strides premonitions of her
own decay. 1t is only question of
time. The south's natural advan-
tages will carry her successfully
over the opposition of the north's
millions and the governments OPP
pressions. When capital is no
longer successful there it will come
here inevitably. New England's
doom is written.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-02-08
The Skipping Treasurer.

Alabama's treasurer has not beer
apprehended. His stealage amount
ed to a little above 100000 and
he left for New York, he said, to
get money. The last seen or heard
of him was in Nashville where he
stopped for breakfast and got
clean shaved. He may be there
yet, taking it for City of Refuge.
The legislature offers $4,000 re-
ward. His losses all occurred in
stock speculations and high living.
One of the brokers to whom he
paid $4,000 has had his proper
ty attached by the state. Ala
bama's financial condition is not af-
fected. He stole his bond from the
records but it can be established
by parol and his deficit will be
realized.