The Opelousas courier., 1884-07-12

MOMENTOUS MATTERS.
An international Electrical Exhibi.
ton is to be held in Philadelphia, early
next fall, under the auspices of the
Franklin Institute. A building will
be erected for the purpose. Applica-
lions for space are coming in from all
parts of the country, as well as from
Europe. It is designed to provide 9
separate department for the govern
ment display, which alone is very
extensive.
The dog question is stirring up the
agricultural mathematicians all over
the country. One writer, after making
careful estimates of the damage by
dogs in Northern States alone, finds
that it costs not less than $33,0O0,00
annually to support II dogs, a sum
that would buy 10000 farms at Gov
eminent prices for land. or it would
buy 10000 neighborhood Libraries OF
200 volumes each.
A popularity Of Washington is the
| excellent manner in which the streets
are kept. No city on this continent
approaches it in this respect; perhaps
no city in Europe, not eve excepting
| Paris, excels it. It has IT'S miles OF
paved streets, more than one-third OF
which is of concrete-asphalt and coal
tar; thirty miles Of gravel, and the re,
naming seventy miles Of stone block.
rough stone, macadam and wood.
Year by year, says the C~atlttodtoT,
the lands of Southern planters on the
banks of the Father of Waters, notably
in Louisiana, are being rendered more
and more untenable. The whole rea'
son of this is that the reclaimed lands
have been protected or confined by {
wretchedly inefficient system of levees
Effective measures, such az those taker
by the Iaborious and industrious Hol
lander in their dyke system, are abso
lutely necessary to fight the laws o
4 ~
nature successfully.
A writer in the Wonnan's JouT7aa
mentions having seen several femal
railway station agents in Minnesota
One was a girl of fifteen who took tn
place of her father, an invalid. sh
was telegraph operator and train dc
spatcher as well as ticket agent. Cor
ductoss ard freight men came to heI
telling her to have such a a side
tracked, and asking her where Nc. 5
was. agad so on. At another static
tive girls had entire charge. One W.
telegraph operator, the other tickle
agent and baggage master. In sun
mer. when there were heavy trunks
the agent was allowed a man to bel
her. Women's quick ear and finger
seem especially to ct them for tel
graphing and ticketselling. The tra'
: elIer was informed that the girl ager
!. was very reliable, and that the raj
way company esteemed her highl
Then came the question: docs ST
i ret as much pay as a man?' "JuI
the same"
Future analysts may well DESERT
this period of American history as I'll
wire age, says the Boston Adcertise
In no part OF the economy Of u dai
life are we divorced from wire. Il
our slave, and yet an ever presel
master. Sleeping. we repose on wi
mattresses. Eating, we see foods tn
g have passed through sleeves and Whi'
are sheltered from insect appetite
d wire covers. Calling, we pull wires
D ring curled wire gongs. Travelin
we are conveyed BY cable OF eleetr
/ railways, hoisted by elevators hung
: wires, and hurried over wire bridge
We announce III coming by telegral
or telephone wires. and We thread o
way BY night through streets light
BY . Of electric cables. Aero
our fields are strung many thousan
2 of miles Of barbed wire fences. again
which dumb brutes protest, Tex
rangers draw the knife, and laWye
p juries. judges and reporters Whet tn
q intellectual blades. Our clocks are
by wires, our books are stitched "
wire, our pictures are hung BY wiz
te and our politics managed By VII