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Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-10

All lawyer bulD kb LuOf0 IS promising field for investigation in the practices of certain patent lawyers in Wash ington. Poor inventors have long claimed that many of the patent lawyers of Wash. lngton are the paid attorneys of corporations and big patent sharps. who employ them to harass inventors who apply for patents which might clash with their interests. These law yers, it is claimed, keep their most profitable patrons posted, and whenever an unlucky in ventor puts his case in their hands they pre-. pare to systematically wear him out by de- lays until, in sheer desperation, he abandons his case, or sells for a song what might have been worth fortune to him if he had fallen into honest hands. It is an easy thing for a shrewd lawyer, who knows the ropes, to keep an application for 8 patent hanging along for one, two or three years, especially if he is in possession of inside facts.
 Senator Edmunds is acting like a wise man while the talk and sentiment in favor of him as the next Republican presidential candidate are increasing. A Washington correspondent says: The presidency seems to have no charms nor terrers for him. He seemingly looks at 1t as the old North Carolinian did 60 years ago, as an office neither to be sought nor declined. If an honest opinion of the Senate could be had as to the fittest Republi- can for the place he would get every vote, and the Democrats do not hesitate to say so openly. But Edmunds will not lift one in- ger, write one letter, make one speech or
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-10
CORRESPONDENCE.

Our Warrington Letter-Soefety Matters -SnObbfshness Senator McDOnaId's Boom-The Tariff Bill, etc., etc.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-10

How FrelInghuysen Won Hix Bride. From the Chicago Tribunel
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
Newspaper Honor.

Said Colonel G. A. Pierce, in an adj
dress at Fort Wayne, Ind. A short
time ago a discussion arose in Chicago
as to the relative duty of lawyers and
newspapers, and the following query
occurred to me: What would be said
Of any respectable journal that would
take a fee for trying to make black
appear whitehall should undertake
the defense of a notorious murderer.
for instance? Not secretly, and while
pretending to be impartial-that, of
course, would be intensely hypocritical
and dishonorable-but openly and
VIGOROUSLY? The accused party would
say, for instance: II want defenders,
I will hire lawyer Such one and
newspaper So and-so." What an out
cry would go up, and yet what is it
that makes such an act highly dishon-
orable on the part Of a newspaper and
proper and permissible on the part of
an attorney? Is newspaper honor held
too high, or is legal honor too low? ]
believe the time win come when a
lawyers duties will be confined to see
ing that murderers and highway rob-
bers have a fair and just trial accord
ing to law, and when no amount of
money viii be allowed to convert them
into paid eulogists Of dangerous men.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
Talmage on Newspaper Men.

Encourage newspaper men, for you
know what annoyances they go
through. Their most deliberately pre-
pared articles sometimes thrown out
because of pressure on the columns !;
expected to make accurate report of
some speaker who is so indtstinct of
utterance that the entire discourse is
one long stenographic guess I; the mid
night that finds you asleep demanding
that they be wide awake their most
careful work DETAINED by one careless
typesetter their lives ground out be-
tween the wheels of our great brain
manufactures sickened with the APP
proaches Of those who want a news.
paper commentator or retraction
now called on to sketch a funeral and
now a pugilistic encounter shifted
from place to Lace by the sudden rev.
olutions any.day liable to come in any
journalistic establishment |; precarious
life becoming more and more pre-
carious. Be affable to them when you
have no AK to sharpen on their grind
stone. Discuss in your own mind
what the nineteenth century would be
without the newspaper, and take
every opportunity to cheer all who
have anything to do with this great
interest, from the chief of the edi-
torial staff down to the boy who
throws the morning and evening paper
in your basement window.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
Cannibalism in Russia.

A Russian paper with the melodious
name of the 1easklG Tedomos6 re-
ports a case which shows that the SUI
perstition attributing magical power
to the eating Of human flesh is not
confined to the Australian aborigines.
In the graveyard of the village Of
NaurusoW, III the Naltshik district,
the police noticed that the grave of a
recently-buried child was much dis
turbed. Suspicion fell on a man re-
puted to be d soreerer. His hut was
searched, and he was found sitting at
q fire, on which was a pot simmering.
He refused to answer any questions,
but on the adjoining bedroom being
examined large portion OF the body
of the missing child was found hang
ing from d hook. and in a corner Of
the room were skulls of several chill
dren. The wretch, upon being inter
rogated as to where was the remaining
portion of the child's body, pointed
silently to the pot. His daughter, a
miserable, starved girl, admitted, on
examination, that the father used regu-
arly to steal the bodies of little chill
dren, cook and eat the flesh, and from
the fat make ointment and medicine,
which he gave as charms. He had
threatened to kill and eat her il she
ever gave information o. his doings.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
Growth.

The two American papers of 1871
and thetWenty-fiye OF 1771 have grown
into more than $4,000 in 1883, and are
about equal in number to all the
journals Of the rest of the world.
Sometimes the news of old Rome was
written in red chalk on the walls Of
house,, and sometimes the tablet was
hung out where the public could read
with more convenience. It was in
this way that Julius Caesar, who was
in his time a journalist, instructed his
people both as to the proceedings of
the Roman senate and the occurrences
of the day, and perhaps this was one
reason of his POI ularity. Births,
deaths, trials, executions and anecdotes
were published. The reporter was
abroad and the stenographer also, and
the latter in his own way-though we
know not Just what that way was
took down the speeches of the
Roman senators. Stenography had its
origin in Rome, and it's more modern
use, like many other things, is but a
restoration of one of the lost arts.
Cromwell set the ex~ample-.so common
in our civil war-of attaching a print
ing press to the army, and the first
newspaper printed in Scotland APP
peared in I.eith in 1928. 1t was
only a reprint of the London Journal,
and issued for the amusement Of the
Round Head followers of the Pro-
~tector. Ninety years before, Venice,
then at war with the Turks, issued its
Gazette gazette being the name of a
small coin to prevent the circulation
of false news. So, when the Spanish
Armada threatened the invasion Of
England, Queen Elizabeth, for the
same cause, in 1888, issued the English
MercurSe, the first paper printed in
England. The first Irish paper APP
peared in 100, and the first penny
paper in England in 1705.-Hon.
EYastus Brooks.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
French Funerals.

The law on religious and civil fun
erals, which has just been finally voted
by the French senate, provides that
the last wishes of every individual as
to what ceremonies shall or shall not
be used when his or her body is laid to
rest shall be fully respected. II the
intentions of the deceased redisputed,
the decision rests with the Judge de
paix, from whom an appeal lies TO a
higher court, and this Judgment is
final. The last win or other written
testimony shall be the only admissible
evidence, and both courts must decide
within tWenty-four hours. The penal
sanctions Of the law are very atrin-
gent; any minister of religion who dis
obeys the order Of q court is liable TO a
years Imprisonment for the first of
tense and to FIVE for the second. and it
is presumed that those who unlawfully
withhold religious rites will be visited
with the same penalties. CiVil-that
is, non-religieusIfunerals have of late
greatly increased in Paris. In April,
1881, the percentage was seventeen; in
April, 1882, it was tWenty-one, and
last February it had risen to twenty
four.-PaU Mou Gazette.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
How Tacks are Made.

The iron is received from the rolling
mills in sheets from three inches to
twelve inches wide, and from three
feet to nine feet in length, the thick
ness varying, according to the kind Of
work into which it is to lie made,
from one-eighth to one-thirty-second of
an inch. These sheets are all cut in
thirty-inch pieces, and by immersion
in acid cleaned of the hard outside
finty scale. They are then chopped
into strips Of a width corresponding
to the length Of the nail or tack re-
quired. Surprising the tack to be cut
is an eight-ounce carpet tack, the strip
Of iron, as chopped and ready for the
machine, would be about e~leven-six-
teenths Of an inch wide and thirty
inches long. This piece is placed firmly
In the feeding apparatus, and by this
arrangement carried between the
knives of the machine. At each revolu-
tion of the balance wheel the knives
cut off a small piece from the end of
the plate. The piece cut of is pointed
at one end and square for forming the
head at the other. It is then carried
between two dies by the action
of the knives, and these dies
coming together form the body of the
tack under the head Enough Of the
iron projects beyond the face Of the
dies to form the head, and while held
firmly by them, a lever strikes the pro-
iecting piece into a round head. This,
as we have said before, is all done
during one revolution of the wheel
and the knives, as soon as the tack
drops from the machine, are ready tic
cut off another piece. These machines
are u at the rate.of about $50 revolu-
tions per minute. The shoe-nail
machine, for cutting head1ess shoe
nails, are run at about 500 revolutions
per minute, and cutfrom three to five
nails at each revolution.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
MIR. Swfller's Temperance.

"Fact u.s." said Mr.. Swiller, sitting
down at the round table with his
friend. "Fact is-two beers, Tonyl-
there's just as much intemperance in
eating as there is in drinking, and
that's what puts me-by George, that's
refreshing, isn't it? Cold as ice. FIJI
'em up again, Tony-out Of patience
with these total abstinence fanatics.
A man can be temperate in his eating,
and he can be Incorporate in his
drinking, and I go-light a cigar?-
in for temperance in all things. Now,
l like to-thank you; yes, I believe |
will repeat--sit down with a friend
and enjoy a glass OF beer in a quiet
way, just as we do now. It's cool, re-
freshing, mildly stimulaat-have an
other with me-and does me good. L
know when l have enough, and--once
more, Tony--when / have enough, l
know enough to quit. Now, do |
look Hello There's johnson. Sit
down here with us, Johnson. Three
beers, Tony. I was just asking Blotter
here if | looked like a victim OF dys-
pepsia. I don't drink much water
this weather; | believe it's the worst
this time with me, fe,lows--thing a
man can put into his system such
weather as this.
81 believe beer is the best thing for
any man, and ] know it's the best
thing for me. But don't hurry,
have another before you go here
Tony!-don't gorge myself with it. l
don't sit around and get full every
time / take a drink. l like to-three
more, Tony-sit down quietly with a
friend and enjoy a glass of beer and a
BITE of lunch, but l don't like to gorge
myself. 1 don't eat myself into a
fill these up Acknowledgements either
and then claim to be a temperate man.
Temperance in all things is mymozzer-
mozZo-motte. Thatsh me. Now l
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 1 donkall myshelf a
drinking man-once more with me,
fellows-I like to sit down quieshly
wish few frens and Joy CLASH beer
Just because does me good; good. But
I don't eat myshelf to death-oncsh
more all rown-like thesh temperals
falatics-onssh in a while l like CLASH
of beer-jush in quiet way oncesh in
while, but you ~don'see-you don'see
me gettin' full ev'y time" (Talks
temperance in all things and undue in
diligence in nothing over twelve more
glasses and succumbs to sweet re-
pose.1
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
The Fist Organ in Anne lea.

The first organ ever brought to this
country is still in constant use in ST..
Johns chapel, Portsmouth, n. Ell. The
Hon. Henry G. Oliver, of Salem, Mass,
thus gives it's history: cit is some
times known as the Brattle organ,
having been the property of the Hon.
Thomas Brattle, who was born in
Boston in 1858, and was treasurer of
Harvard college where he graduated
in 1876, one of a class of only three
members) from 1893 till 17l3, the year
of his death (unmarried) in Boston.
Brattle square and Brattle street and
the now extinct Brattle street church,
Boston, of which he was the leading
founder, giving the land on which it
was built, take name from him. The
organ (not large) referred to was of
English make and imported. Mr..
Brattle in his will says: Il give, dedi-
cate and devote my organt to the praise
and glory of God, in the said church
(Brattle street J If they accept thereof,
and within a year after my deeease,
procure a sober person that can play
skillfuliy thereon with a loud noise;
otherwise to the Church of England
(King's chapel), in this town, on the
same terms and conditions, and on
their noncompliance, or discontinue
ance to use it as above, unto the col
lege, and on their non-acceptance, to
my nephew, William Brattle.' Brattle
street church refused the gift, the OF
position to organs in dissenting
churches being then as great as it is
now in churches in Scotland, But the
parish of Kings chapel Stone chape)
accepted the gift, complying with the
terms and procuring a sober person.
MI. Edward Enstone. from England,
on a salary Of $50 per annum Here
it was used till 1856, when it was re-
placed by a new and larger one from
England. It was then sold to st.
| Johns church, in Portsmouth-though
rumor has it that it was for a while in
a church in NeWburyport. 1t is now
at least 175 years old, and yet in good
order. Why, on its discontinuance,'
it did not go to Harvard college, &C
cording to the terms of the will, is not
Lnoyup - &
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
How 10 Preserve Lemons.

aMy guess is" said the man at the
hotel, "that before long lemons viii be
worth their weight in gold, and now
while they are cheap I'm going to get
in a stock"
"How are you going to save them ?"
was a Herald mans inquiry.
"There, now, you're asking ques-
tions," said the man, who makes a
breakfast off lemon juice and egg,
"and now il you'll get up close, where
the man who runs the fruit-stand can't
hear, I'll tell you. Put them in but
termilk. Leave an orange or lemon in
that stuff one, two or three months,
and when you take it out ii win be
fresh as q daisy. This is a pickle that
I've got a patent on. and I want you
to understand it can't be b~eaten."-
Syracuse Herald.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
A Watermelon Episode.

The chief editor quite unconsciously
munched away at bis slice of water
melon, thoroughly considering mean
while an editorial on scientific pro-
gress. He ate deliberately and daintily,
and had got half way through the
generous slice when the idea that he
was seeking came to him. He picked
up his pen with one hand, and with
the other executed a slow sweep that
carried the half-eaten slice, weighing
about two pounds, out Of the open
window to the sidewalk, where the
hurrying Uhrong was. He did not
consider the hurrying throng. He was
absorbed withhis idea.
Just at that moment there was a
sound of footsteps on the staircase.
You would have thought that the
incomer was taking two steps at a
time, possibly three. The incomer
opened the outer door as if he were a
giant-powder cartridge, and came
through the inner door like a cyclone.
His voice was like a bulldogs, and his
mouth had four corners as he yelled
CnreaGeningly:
"Who diditp"
The chief editor beamed at him
mildly through his glasses. The man
had a watermelon air about him that
was curious. There were little hunks
of pink sticking closer than a brother
all around his shirt bosom, and there
was watermelon in his eyes and in his
ears and everywhere. A big piece of
rind protr,lded above his shirt stud,
and from his looks you would have
thought that he had swallowed a ripe
watermelon whole, and it had exploded
and burst through him.
"You are mistaken, my FRIEND" said
the chief editor, with his think-of-the-
p%oor-heathen look. Watermelons are
prohibited in this office In the Office
above, however, they eat them contin-
ually. I think you will find them at
it now"
The man shot upstairs and blew
himself inte~the room above, while the
chief editor locked both doors and
moved adesk against the inner nj
eff he had seen them," he said,
pointing to some seeds IN the desk,
81 was a dead mans San Fguncisco
Post.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15

SO renowned for the vast extent of his
reading and his amazing memory that
the learned usually consulted him
when they were writing on any sub
iect. If a priest was going to write
the life of a saint he would request
Magliabechi's assistance as to refer
ences. The librarian would tell him
who had said anything about that par
ticular saint, and name certain au-
thors, giving sometimes as many as a
hundred, naming the books, the words,
and the very number of the page. He
did this so frequently and so exactly
that he came to be looked upon as an
oracle. The Grand Duke Casino Ill.
made him his librarian. One day the
grand duke sent for him, and asked
him if he could get him a book that
was particularly scarce. mo, SIR" he
replied, cit is impossible. for there is
but one in the world. That is in the
grand signior's library at CONSTANT
nople, and is the seventh book on the
second shelf, on the right hand as you
90 in"
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
Increase Of Stature at Night.

The daily variation in human stat
ure has been made a matter Of practi.
cal study by DR.. Merkel. the result
being, as he finds, that the height Of
an individual after q nights rest,
measured before rising from the bed,
is two inches greater than it is in the
evening. measured standing; that is,
there is gradual elimination in height,
caused by the yielding of the plantar
arches and Of the interyertebraI disks,
and a sudden diminution when the
individual rises, this occurring at the
a~rticulations of the lower extremities.
The sinking at the ankle is one-third
Of an inch, one-twelfth to one-eighth
of an inch at the knee, and two-dfths
Of an inch at the hip-the shortening
at the knee being due, probably, TO the
elasticity of the cartridges, which
would easily involve the extent Of
variation named.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
TalIAr2s S%neculatiOns
An interesting story is told of tht

An interesting story is told of the
way in which a paying teller OF a or
the city banks, Of a shreWd and provi-
dent turn of mind, was able to acquire
a competency in a short time, and then
retire from his position without the
bank having been any the loser by the
operation and without having his own
reputation blasted. The story is that
the bank carried a heavy cash balance
to meet such calls as might be made
upon it from day to day, and to draw
upon in case of a run This was in
trusted to the paying teller. Instead
of allowing this sum to remain in the
banks safe, as was the intention of the
directors, and as they supposed to be
actually the case, the teller invested
largely in six per cent. bonds and
early issues OF the government four
per cents. These were substituted for
the cash, the investor cutting off the
coupons and getting the money on
them as they became payable. The
prospective calls upon the cash could
be readily estimated, and anything be-
yond that limit was converted into
bonds. This state of affairs went
along smoothly for about two years,
the enterprising teller enjoying all the
privileges as to coupons of a bloated
bondholder.
Soon after the Oby Owen defalca-
ton became public the directors had a
sudden spasm of vigilance, and n
day. without a moments warning,
they called upon the teller for his keys
and were about to institute a count OF
cash. With an assurance and nerve
that struck the investigating directors
fairly speeches., he said: Gentle
men, you cannot have the keys. I
will give you my written resignation,
according to the terms of the contract,
but you shall not have the keys to the
SAFE"
The gentlemen were taken COM
pletely by surprise, and knew not what
to say or do. Arrest was threatened,
but the teller was obdurate, and the
directors finally withdrew to talk the
matter over. This gave him his
chance, and slipping out with the sur
reptitiously purchased bonds, he speed
lily converted them into cash, and the
right amount was deposited in the
vaults. BY that time the objection to
the surrender Of the keys was re-
moved, and the directors and bonds
men, who had been thoroughly non
plussed and thoroughly frightened by
the. refusal, found their ~heaped-up
thousands secure and the bank on as
sound financial bedrock as it had ever
been. The fact that the teller had
just disposed Of a large amount OF
bonds, however, led to the discovery
of the way in which he had been using
the funds of the bank for his own
emolument and the resignation went
into effect. During the time between
the purchase and sale of the bonds
they had largely appreciated in value,
so that during the transaction the
teller had cleared between $4,000 and
100000 from the rise in value and the
coupons. The bank was none the
%poorerfrom the cooperation, and attempts
made to compel the employe to dis
gorge his profits were unavailing. Pub
lie prosecution would have given the
affair unpleasant notoriety for both
parties, and the story has consequently
been closely Rept.-St. Louis Globe
Deyp0cTnt.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
Pare gymnafhT.

aWhat have you got for dinner p
inquired d Disguised drummer of The
waiter. ThedrIlmmer had been in the
.own tWenty-four hours without TAX
ing an order.
Roast duck, sir.
.AhI was the duck shot on the
wing2"
nj presume likely enough, sir"
Good bird sagacious fowl; rara
avis. / admire his pluck and pity his
misfortune. You may bring me that
duck. I'll take the whole of him. iii
helm him along on the road.g-SdtSngs.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15

what is this man charged with r.
asked his honor of a police officer in
the Tombs police court yesterday as
Paddy Duffy was arraigned at the bar.
with whisky, your honor, I believe"
answered the officer, with q smile.
wen send him to the island until
he's discharged answered his honor.
-NeaD FORK Journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15
snake and Cont.

Judge stribling. of Fort Griffin, has
a stock of goats. He says his goat
herder found a snake wound around
the leg of a nanny, and his snakeship
was helping himself to the milk.
Our friend, G. w. Robson, furnishes
this information In his new paper, the
Albany Bcho. It is terribly hard to
believe, but still more difficult to doubt
such authority, therefore we take it all
in.-Tepas WooI-GroWer.
The Opelousas courier., 1883-09-15

Boston has 779 policemen, and the
cost Of the force last year was $780,
662.