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The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-18

in the East and Canada, are
very actively engaged in
pushing Hochhausen system
which has of late gained con-
siderable favor in the West.
The Van Depoele Company's
system enjoys immense vogue
West, nineteen plants work
ing in Chicago, while is also
the main source of public
lighting in some rs towns in
Michigan, Minnesota, Indiana,
Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Dakota Territory. The Full
Ter Company have bushel of
testimonials in regard to the
numerous plants they have
installed all over the country.
The consolidated Electric
Light Company, who lit the
United Bank Building, have
Just made a very fine installa-
ton in the new Mutual Life
Insurance building on Nassau
street, of the Sawyer-Man
system. The Edison Com
panics are doing all the bust
ness they can attend to.
Their lights is now in oper-
alton in thirteen towns and
cities; seventy or eighty plans
are i'll hand for other large
centres of population in
New York City the demand
cannot be met, 500 consumers
now using about II OO0lamps;
an d t he is oil a t e d plants
throughout the country, num-
Der 30, running 10000
lamps.
If all this be failure, -
done duringprolonged depres-
sion in trade and commerce
we would very much like to
know what the Alta CaH-
.to,mi@ and its ally consider to
be success. We canno t
devote more of our space to
the matter, but we believe
that the people of the Pacific
Slope will soon be put in pos
session of full information on
electric lighting. We have
had the pleasure of meeting
Mr.. Isaac Trumbo, of San
Francisco, in this city, and
know thathe has been making,
on behalf of his friends in
the West, a thorough investi-
cation of the subject. He
will return home shortly, and
will then be able to lay impor-
tant data before the public,
more than confirming and
substantiating the few figures
we have given above.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-18
To Let.
To Let.

To Let,
si,n A A NEW BRICK STORE,
sI5sSsga with Counter, Shelves, and
EskssEss sssE all FiXings complete. To n
good and satisfactory tenant will he
leased on very reasonable terms.
Apply to 4. w. RAWLINS,
1870 If Soap Works, Lelco.
The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-06-18
Ghe 9ailp 8nlletin.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE IS, 1884.
DISHONEST FOES OF ELECTRIC
LIGHTING.
Continned from yesterdnv.

r fallClScO papers lTN 10 llltthe
out. Mr.. Preece is a man
who speaks as one having
authority, and not as these
Californian newspaper
ascribe, and we are content to
leave the matter to him
provided his verdict in favor of
electric light shall not be
mangled and twisted into the
very opposite. His remarks
as to bad financing have al
ready had our warm approval,
but the overreaching greed
of the money-making worlds
no more Il condemnation of
the electric light than the
operations of Mr.. Jay Gould
and Mr.. James r. Keene in
Western Union stock are of
the telegraph.
AS we have now briefly eX-
posed the nature and inward
ness of these attacks, a few
facts with regard to the pro-
gress of electric lighting may
be in order. We confess our
own surprise at the advance
revealed by rapid survey of
the electric lighting field.
The statement of the Alta
California that the electric
light has not been a success
in England, is contradicted
fiatlyby Mr.. Praece, who gives
in his paper a long list of steets
in London, and theatres all
over the country, lit by cleo
tricity. He mentions the fact
that one company is now
maintaining 900 arc lamps
and $500 incandescent lamps
in different places in England,
and that new Edison central
station in London, at Victoria
Station, will run $500 lamps.
He refers also to very salts
factory experiments in electro
lightingo on trains on the Brigh-
ton, Southwestern, South
eastern Metropolitan, Mid
land and Great Northern
railways, with dynamos, pri-
mary and secondary batteries,
and says there is no doubt of
their success. There are now
also 60 steamships afloat
lighted by electricity. But
this country shows the best
examples of success in electric
lighting, and for that reason
the statements of the San
Francisco papers are the more
extraordinary. AT the present
time there are between 80 and
40 arc or incandescent light
ing systems here, some exist
ing, perhaps, only in name.
Taking the system most
known, we find that there are
now nearly 100 companies
furnishing light under the
Brush or Swan patents in diff
ferent parts of this continent
and it is some time since we
were informed that there were
over 10000 British lamps il
use. The United States
Company are doing an enor-
nous business, and could pro-
badly make an equal showing
of Weston and Maxim lights
in use. They are about tc
light 20 miles Of streets il
Charleston, S. G. The Cali.
fornian journals quoted, say
that the New York authorities
have no disposition to exten(
electric lighting in this city
but it is noticeable, on thu
contrary, that under the con
tracts awarded last month
the Brush United States Com
panies have eaca been giveI
additional districts here. The
Thomson-Houston Company
are said TO have over % OO(
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-10-04
BlignOli's Explanation.

Sig. Brignoi tells that once while ho
was singing in concert for a charitable
object, the prima donna was suddenly
attacked with singers sore throat, and
it became necessary that some one
should apologize to the audience. The
manager declared he was suffering from
nervousness and could not do it, and he
begged Brignolito make the explanation.
The tenor, going forward, said:
Ladies and gentlemen, I regret to
zay zat Nine. N eez o leetle horse
dis evening"
Peals of laughter greeted this an
nouncement, and the tenor looked puz-
zled, thinking the audience misunder-
stood him. He advanced once more,
and with laundering emphasis roared
out:
Il zay zat Nine. N eez leetle
horse dis evening""
Another roar Of laughter, amid which
a voice in the gallery cried out: "Then,
If she is q horse, why not trot her
out?"
Then the mistake was plain to him.
and Brignoi laughed as heartily as any
one.-B0st07a Herald.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-10-04
A Correspondence University.

A number of teachers from different
parts of the country have formed an
organization with the above title, with a
view to keeping up their studies, SO as
hot to fall behind the knowledge of
their day. These instructors are grad
uates of all the leading colleges in the
United States. Students have found
that after leaving the colleges from
which they graduated, they quickly
lose the power of concentrating their
faculties in pursuing new branches of
study. The value of an education is
'the power it gives one to acquire almost
any kind of knowledge by close, mental
application. The object of the CORE
spondence university is to stimulate
chem to mcthodical study, when their
.avocations are such as might distract
them from continuous intellectual work.
It is intended to directly benefit those
engaged in professional studies which
can be taught by correspondence;
graduates doing advanced work: UNDER
teachers in schools and colleges; those
preparing for college; members of cul-
tivated families who are obliged to live
in remote localities; ofcers and men
IN the army and navy; persons intend
ing to try any of the civil service exam
nations; young men and women en-
gagged in occupations which prevent
their attending school, and yet who de-
sire to learn. The fee for four weeks
tuition in any study of the grade re-
quired for admission to college and in
some colleg ats studies, is $6.35; in
studies OF an advanced grade, the fee is
1925. The LIST of stu..ies now include
agriculture, astronomy, botany, draw
ing, engineering, engraving, military
science, music, physiology, zoology,
mathematics, Greek, Latin, English,
German, Hebrew, philosophy, history,
political science, and law. Mr.. Luc.en
A. Wait, the Secretary. of ithaca, New
York, is the proper person to adj
dress for full particulars. rs.-DemoreSt's
Monthly.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-10-04
Interpreted.

II 60 for season, but return anon" !"
playfully remarked the merchant when
be left the Office at 10 As a. m.
"What does he mean ?" timidly asked
the new boy.
"Oh," replied the boy who wasn't
new, "going for season is stepping out
tor Glove, and returning anon is COM
ing back anonymously-that is, sneak
ing around when you least expect him,
trying to catch you reading the paper
and eating peanuts. ."-EleUated Rail
Uay Journal.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-10-04
The Great Mexican Cathedral.

The cathedral, rising conspicuousl1
above all the buildings of the city, is o.
great size, and possesses considerable
architectural elegance, the facade, il
particular, being elaborately decorated
with stucco work. The design is Moor.
ish, and the bell towers, from which
come q constant changing of old
Spanish brass, command an extend.
ed view of the city, the lakes, and the
distant mountains. The interior of the
spacious house, which was erected by
the Spaniards, contains many rare or.
naments, and the nave is surmounted
by vaulted root, supported by hand
carved beams and pillars, among which
hover somber shadows. At one time,
that during the reign of the Spaniards,
the altar was laden with solid objects
OF gold and silver and precious stones,
but to-day it has lost all, or nearly all,
OF these, and is covered with tawdry
images aud imitation ornaments, while
there is everywhere apparent the ex-
treme age of the building. Entering
the nave ut almost any hour of the day,
l have never failed to find odd groups
OF Mexicans and Indians telling their
beads and lisping their prayers, while
at regular mass the cold stone floor is
covered with devout worshipers, and
the place is filed with the whisperings
OF those who pray. And what heter-
ogeneous crowd one sees. The poor and
the rich, the hungry and the well-fed,
the half-naked and those clothed in
silks, are all together. Here an Indian,
kneeling by his tattered sombrero, and
with his heavy load near by, prays with
his soul upon his lips; there dimpled
senorita, demure but conscious, reads
from her gilt-edged book. Incense
odors fill the air, the monotonous chant
ings of the priests are heard, and sill
very-toned bells ring out the holy com.
mands of the church, and send the wor-
shippers to crossing themselves and bow
ing in holy penitence. Set into one of
the outer walls of the cathedral is the
sacrificial or calendar stone of the Az
tees, 'hewn out of black porous lava and
covered with hieroglyphics, reminding,
so IT always seems to me, the ignorant
Indians who sell their bits of pottery
near BY of the greatness Of their fore
fathers, who had their palaces and tenn
pies in the square which is now the
busy center Of q great city. Juarez
was an Indian, but he became the Lin
coin of Mexico, and in good time the
other descendants of Montezuma NAV
yet regain their old-time power.-CStv
Of Meric0 Cor. San Francisco Chron-
icle.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-10-04
Spon9es.

We don't mean those sponges that
grow "in the bottom of the sea, and
which afford food for much scientific
speculation, as to whether they are ami
NAL or vegetable. No, the sponges of
which we mean to complain are dis
tinctly animal, and are of both sexes.
We oil suffer from them. Bores and
sponges are necessary evils, we sup
pose, but not any more to be admired
for all that.
Editors could a tale unfold of tho
way some people get their advertising
done for nothing, and lawyers could tell
of tons of legal advice given by them
without receiving the slightest acknowl-
edgment, pecuniary or otherwise. Doc
tors, also, are the victims of these ques-
tioners. Generally it is only the younger
members of these professions who suf-
fer. Men old in the tricks of these
friendly sponges manage to evade them,
but the young editor. lawyer, or doctor,
though he knows he is being defrauded,
has not the courage to cut short the
confidential chat, by saving that he
hopes to make his living by receiving
pay for that which his friend expects to
get for the asking.
No one expects q carpenter, black
smith, jeweler, or any one who plies q
trade. to do the smallest job for moth
ing, and yet those who willingly
pay for such labor seem to think they
have done nothing Of which to be
ashamed if they manage" to get le-
~,o1 80 ,on1s>~1 o1-s.. -:Al>-A
to pay for it.
And among women the fault is as
great. We have heard women boast of
knowing "an kinds of fancy work and
never paid cent for lessons" Their
desire to learn fancy work was greater
than their delicacy Of feeling.
Women who make their living by
dress-making, millinery, teaching fancy
work, or painting, are daily imposed
upon by friends and strangers who
come to them for suggestions and ad-
vice about material. shades, designs,
and patterns-defrauding the worker
OF hours of valuable time without o
thought Of paying for the advice given,
and often do not even thank the person
for the suggestion which she has spent
time and money in acquiring.
Strange to say, these sponges are
oftenest found among those who could
well afford to pay for what they want;
and stranger still is the fact that they
would resent, with the greatest indig-
nation. refusal to oblige them, or an
intimation that they were taking adj
vantage of another's politeness, and
thus getting for nothing that which the
giver has q right to expect something
more substantial for than mere thanks.
= Minnie W. armstrong, IN St
Louis Magazine.
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There Was An Exception.

A man who was much interested in
the subject of evolution, and who has
stubbornly contended with his wife tina.
the remote ancestors of men were an.
thropoid apes, was greatly shocked by
the reply which she made ut a dinner
party to the remork of gentleman
guest.
Il am no believer" he said, sin spec
ial creations, yet it is very humiliating
to think that all men are descended
from monkeys"
"But there are exceptions to the gem
eral rule" she rejoined, my husband
could only have been descended from o
mule. ."--Brooklya Eagte..
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1884-10-04
THIBODAUX SATURDAY, OCTOBER a,
Negro AphOrisnls.

Negro Aphorisms.
De candy-pullin' kin call louder dan
de log-rollin'.
De bes' apples float on de top O de
peck medjer.
De steel-trap know when to talk.
Hailstones don't pick hard heads to
drap on.
De young rooster dat crow too loud
Is 'lectioneerin' for lickin'.
Tall tree make de squ'el sassy.
De redbird lub to drink whar he kin
Gee hissef in de water.
De top O. de hill is harder to find dan
de bottom.
De wood-pile 'fraid o de norf wind.
De single tree got to STAN heap O.
kickin'.
Dus' dom settle on de meal-box.
A shotgun kin out-vote q good-size'
comp'ny O. watermilion hunters.
A man dat cut his finger don't brae
on his knife while de blood runnin'.
De rabbit kin make de bes' time
when he trabblin' for his health.
Dar's bad streak in folks dat think
de whole wuP is pentenchry.
One dead bee-martin is wuf a hum
dred live ones.
De shirt-buttons hep de looks O.
things, but de gallus-buttons do de
solid wuk.
De right sort O Igion heaps de half
bushel.
De steel hoe dat laughs at de iron
one is like de man dat is 'shamed O. his
grand daddy.
'Tain't wuf findin' out who gifts de
bes' Of . goat swap.
When de bait is wuf mo- an de fish.
'tis time to stop fishin'.
Old Satan couldn't git long widout
plenty o hep.
De buggy-whip can't make up for
light feed in de horse-trough.
A mule kin tote so much goodness in
his face dat he don't hab none lef' for
his hind legs.
De price o tame coons don't poster
many folks.
Some grabble walks may lead to de
Jail.
De bes' bravery is de sort dat amt
skeered O. de hot sun.
De lead steer know when de whip
cracker mended.
De billy-goat gifts in his hardes' lcks
when he look like he gwine to back out
O. de fight.
Better not pull down deempty Jail.
Little hole in your pocket is wnsser'n
. big one at de knee.
Gap in de Ak show itse'f in de chip.
De dog on three legs amt always
lame.
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Mosr any man can grab gun by IL.
muzzle and pull it over the fence OF or
of boat, but the second or third wi
leave the gun without an owner.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-05-21
Why not Organize p!

In the State of Ohio thousands
of good citizens are enrolling them
selves under an organization
known as the "Voters' Union" The
object is to organize and hold to-
gether the Prohibitionists of the
State, to keep up the agitation of
the Temperance question with Pr O.
hibition as the objective point, and
secure the election of men to office
without regard to party, who will
favor their cause.
If the three hundred and twenty
thousand freemen who voted for
the Second Amendment, last Octo :.
Der, could be thus united in pur-
pose and action, the road to Pro-
hibition would be short and easy
one. So perfect is the organiza-
ton, and SO unitedly do the few
thousand friends of the liquor traf
fic in Ohio stand together, that
they virtually dictate nomin a.
tions and make platforms for both
parties. If a tenth part of the
Prohibitionists were as well organ
lied, and united as the oppostio n
are, the politicians would be as
anxious to court favor with the M
as they now are to ignore them i.
By united action they could hold
and exercise the balance of powe r
in such manner as to compel the
politica, managers to seek their
votes, and thus secure their pur-
pose.
So in West Virginia, by little
organized effort the temperance
voters can prevent the nomination
or the election of any man to the
next Legislature who is opposed to
submitting the Prohibition
Amendment to a vote of the peo-
pie. Will they do it? Why not
organize?
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-05-21
Don't Take my Kissmas Money.

Don't take my Kissmas money,
papa" tearfully pleaded a little
three-year-old of Montreal, the 9TH
er day. Her father was once count
ed among the respectable citizens
of the city, says the Montreal Ga
zette, but while his daughter pite-
ously cried, he heartlessly abstract
ed from the little tin bank her
first Christmas savings of twenty
six cents. The bank was a pres
ent from a relative. In gleeful an
ticipation of all the nice things
they would purchase by-and-by the
little Miss regularly dropped in the
small coins as she got them, until
it seemed to her the bank contain
ed untold wealth. Her father was
generally kind and loving. but
now he listened to his child's heart
breaking appeal with indiferen ce,
and an hour later his wife found
him at the neighboring saloon in a
state of boisterous intoxication-
drunk with liquor bought with his
baby girls first Christmas money.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-05-21
OFF FOR THE CONVENTION.
Every Preparation Being Made
to Insure a Comfortable and
Quick Trip with A No. l
Accommodations.

AS to be expected, the B. & O. is
right on time with bottom figures
on the rates to the Chicago Conven-
ton. One fare for the round trip,
with tickets good going from May
10Th to June End, and good return
ing up to and including June II,
is the way to talk it, and that is
the tune the old reliable sets for
others to follow or not as they
please. 1t matters little to the
public or the road, as hereabouts
all 60 by the B. & 0. Every means
will be provided to insure ample
accommodations for all who come,
and as for time, the roads reputa-
ton in this respect leaves no room
for question. AS a matter of course,
the B. & O. will take this business
from this section, as no other line
can compare with it in direct and
rapid access to the seat of conven
ton proceedings. Its trains run
direct to Chicago without change,
and when the demand reaches the
limit of the regular trains suffi-
cient sections will be added to &C
commodate the travel to the most
satisfactory extent. An especial
advantage possessed by the B. &
O. over all other lines entering
Chicago is that it's depot may be
said to be almost a part of the
structure in which the conven-
tions will be held. 1t Immediate
ly adjoins the convention building,
and the main entrance is but a
very short walk from the platform
where the trains stop. The B. &
O.'s new depot in Chicago is be-
yond all question, the handiest in
the city; being within a few
squares of the hotels and near the
business centers. 1t is an exceed
ingly neat and commodious build
ing, with attractive waiting rooms
and courteous attendants. The low
rates-half fare, or one fare for the
round trip-will be in force for
both conventions, the National Re-
publican in June and the National
Democratic in July. 1t would be
a good idea for those contemplating
going to have a talk with the B. &
0. agents and learn all requisite
particulars, in the shape of time of
departure of trains, etc. etc.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-05-21
No Temperance Man Need Apply

At the Republican convention
held in this city, April 18th, to
choose delegates to the Chicago
Convention, Hon. Will Cumback
was a candidate as one of the dele
gates, and was defeated, as all who
were there we'll know, because he
was temperance man, and had
written letters on that subject some
time ago for the Indianapolis Jour-
nal. Those letters were used
against him and caused his defeat.
-Monitor Journal.
And yet Temperance men are
expected to walk up like the vas
sails they often are, and put in
their little ballots for every whisky
man the party leaders name.
When Temperance men show as
much common horse sense as their
enemies do, there'll be no more
items like the above.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-05-21
The Reason Why.

"WhY don't you take more in
terest in the movements of our
great political parties ?" is de-
manded of us. Well, we did used
to be interested in them. When
the bank question, and the Inter
nal Improvement question, and the
Slavery question were before the
people for decision, there was some
thing worth thinking about. But
all that is past, and now-oh dear
How can we get up any enthusi-
asm when the only great national
issue between the Republicans and
Democrats is, as the Chicago Neaos
expresses it:
1.-THE schemeI want to bring about.
And one that's bound to VIM
Is to turn the inside rascals out
And the outside rascals in"
Christian Statesman.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-05-21
A Warming.

Don't let your child be eaten up
alive for want of a good remedy
for worms. Boreman's Sweet Verm5-
fltge is the best. Don't be fooled
into taking anything else because
they tell you cit is just as good"
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1884-05-21

Don't miss the Convention. Hosts
OF prominent Temperance women
will be here, and they will en-
deavor to make it plain to our law
makers and the people generally,
Just aohat they a0ant!