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Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-06-12

The public lands are a heritage Of the peo-
pie of the United States and should be re-
served as far rs possible for email holdings
by actual settlers. We are opposed to the
acquisition of large tracts of these lands by
corporations or individuals, especially when
such holdings are in the hands Of nom
resident aliens and we will endeavor to obtain
such legislatlon as will tend to correct this
evil. We demand of Congress- the speedy for
feitare Of all land grants which have lApsed
by reason Of Noncompliance with acts Of in
corporation, and In ali cssee where there has
been no attempt in good faith to perform the
condition of such grants.
The grateful thanks Of the American
people afe due TO the Republican soldiers and
sailors OF the late war, and the Republican
party stauds pledged to guitAble penEona To-
Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-06-12

WASHINGTON, June 6.-President Arthur
received the decisive news from Chicago with
great composure. President Arthur re-
sponded to a card Of the agent OF the Associ-
ated Press, who found him looking not only
cheerful but apparently in the best Of spirits.
Heremarked that the news from the oonven-
ton to-day had not taken him by surprise, dis
appointments in politics being of such COM
mon occurrence and 80 readily discounted
Senator Logan said his feelings were
expressed in his congratulatory telegram to
Blaine.
Senator Sherman said "You can say, il
you choose, that / shall support the ticket
heartily. am Republican, and shall sup
port the nominees Of the party, Of course
Senator Hawley sat in his committee room
while the ballots were being received. When
the votes Of Illinois and Indiana assured the
nomination OF Blaine he elevated his feet
upon q window sill, put his thumbs into the
srmholes of his waistcoat and said s'I'm as
happy as any man can be. My state remained
with me. The nomination OF Blaine was evil
dent during the third ballot"
Senator EdmundB spent the early part OF
the day, and part OF the afternoon after
the adjournment Of the Senate, in his COM
mittee room on the judiciary. He was found
At home early In the evening, and said, in re-
ply to request for b,1 opinion regarding
the nomination Of NJ Blaine at ought to
be the most popuk thing going. Ali the
great central stat and pretty nearly ma
1ority Of New XOrk on the lAtas yoees, where
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
a ps.iDnYe Circus.

The greatest novelty in Paris is a
priyate circus, which is owned and
managed by M. Molier. The arena
which is as large as that Of the public
establishment Of the same kind in the
Champs Elysees, presents the appear.
ance of the square Of some Spanish
city, the spectators occupying places
at the windows and on the balconies
of the surrounding houses. and the eff
feet is heightened when, as on the first
night, these balconies are crowded
with the prettiest women in the CAPT
tai, escorted to the evenings entertain
ment by the most distinguished repre-
sentatiyes Of the Paris clubs. The
troupe is composed of amateurs, pro
f~essionals being excluded, and includes
a number of horsemen and horse
women, gymnasts and clowns, nearly
all Of them nj. Molier's own pupils,
The proprietor himself rides the met
tlesonne horses that he has had the
patience to train.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
ONCE Seekers in the White House.

An ,anecdotal paper on "The White
House," by E. V. Smalley, is the open
ing illustrated paperof the April Century.
Of Office seekers he says in part: "The
late President Garfield once said that he
was obliged tie see an average of about
thirty persons for every Office to betilled.
If the question was one of removal, the
number was much greater, including the
friends of the incumbent as well as the
candidates for the place. There is an
amusing story, not a new n by any
means, of the method Mr.. Lincoln
adopted to settle a contest over a post
mastership which had greatly annoyed
him. There were three candidates in the
field, and petition after petition had
poured in uponthe weary President, and
delegation after delegation had rushed to
the White House to argue the claims OF
the rival aspirants. Finally after he had
been bored for half an hour by a fresh
delegation, Mr.. Lincoln said to his secre-
tary, ''This matter has got to end some
how. Bring a pair of scales" The
scales were brought. Now put in all the
petitions and letters IN favor of one man,
| and fsee how much they weigh, and then
weigh the other candidates papers," II
was.found that one bundle was three.
quarters of a pound heavier than the
other. "Make out the appointment at
once for the ma who has the heaviest
papers," ordered the President, and II
was done.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
The Pantheon,

The Pantheon wa called by Byron
the "pride of Rome" and by Pliny zone
of the wonders Of the world 1t is the
oldest yet best preserved of all the an
cient buildings in Rome. In fact, it is
the only building of the ancient city not
now in ruins-the only building now
standing that Paul saw as he entered the
city of his martyrdom. 1t stands IN
Piazza della Rotonda, a part of Rome SO
low that it is often overaowed with
water. Should you visit it when the
Tiber is full, you will be reminded OF
Venice, and will have to enter the great
doorway in a boat.
The Pantheon is a vast rotunda, its in
terror consisting of n immense circu-
lar room 143 feet in diameter and lab
feet in height. This measurement does
not include the walls, which are twenty
feet in thickness. The exterior is rough,
but the whole building was once encased
in marble. Two awkward, impairment
little modern towers or belfries were
added by order of Urban VIII. in 1925.
They are called in derision after the name
Of the architect, THE ASS ears OF Der
ninl:o
From an inscription upon the friezesoi
the portico it appears that the Pantheon
was built by Agrippa, son-in-law Of Au
gugtus Caesar, twenty-seven years before
the birth of Christ.-Trcy Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
Az Eaa-Keeptna TEST.

At the Birmingham Poultry Show,
England, prizes were offered for the
best preserved eggs that had been kept
two months. The eggs were tested
by breaking n of each set competing
for the prize into a clean saucer, also
by boiling one of each lot.
The eggs that had been preserved in
lime water, it was found on breaking
them, presented cloudy whites. Eggs
preserved by rubbing over with bees
wax and oil showed thin watery whites
Eggs that stood best the test of boil
ing and which gained the first prize had
been simply Packed in common salt
These had lost little if any by evapora-
ton, had good, consistent albumen and
were pleasant TO the taste. The exhi-
bition which took the second prize was
served as follows: Melt one part OF
white WAX to two parts Of s%pernaceti,
boil and mix thoroughly; or, two parts
clarified suet to one of wax and two OF
spermaeeti. Take new laid eggs, rub
with autiseptic salt or fine rice starch
Wrap each egg in fine tissue paper
putting the broad end downward
screw the paper tightly at the top
leaving an inch to hold it by. Dill
each egg rapidly into the fat heated t,
100 degrees. Withdraw and leave Il
cool. Pack broad end downward il
dry, white sand or saw dust. Tn
Judges were inclined to believe tina
had the trial been for a longer periot
than two months, this latter metho'
would, perhaps, have proven the bette
Of the two. The eggs were excellent
and-on stripping off the waved pape
the shells presented the clean, fresl
appearance Of. newly laid eggs.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20

Mr.. CHARLES w. MORRIS, eagle" Office,
pittsfeId, Mass, writes, May %, 1893: "FoR
several months my wife's mother (Mrs. Amy
Boyce) had been in u very precarious condi-
lion with dropsy or Bright's disease of the
Kidneys, and having used all methods and
measures for her restoration in the line OF
treatment by our leading physicians, and
having failed to benefit Ter, her family de-
SPARED of seeing her relieved, and gave her
up TO die. Happening to run across the tes-
timony of a Mrs. Dawley, who had been cured
ST similar sickness by using Hunts Remedy,
re at once procured g bottle of it, and COM
nenced giving it as directed. After using il
three days she was SO far improved that she
could get from her bed to her chair without
assistance Ca circumstance that had not hap
7ened for months). Previous to taking it
she was troubled more or less with short
breath, requiring a continuous tanning %
keep her alive. This gradually improved as
We continued the use of Hunts Remedy. and
IN the fourth bottle she was able to set up all
day. She was bloated terribly in both limbs
and body upward TO the lungs. The tenth
day the bloating left her bowels, and now she
Is not swollen above the knees. Her kidneys
we're very bad at the time, discharges being
Of a bloody character and emitting a sicken-
ing odor. I can say that the change in her
sase has been wonderful, and Hunts Remedu
has worked a miracle in her."
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
Ezeetvfcttu as a Bag killer.

A European journal relates that a
few months since Workmen employed
mon some constructions ON the bank
of the river Dnieper, in Central Russia,
employed the electric light to enable
them to prosecute their labors &C night.
The brilliant rays of light attracted SO
many millions of nocturnal moths,
beetles and other insects, that from
time to time it was necessary to stop
work and set all hands to destroying
the clouds of winged victims that fire.
auently completely obscured the light
This suggested the idea Of employing
the electric light to destroy nocturna
insects preiudicial TO agriculture. and
ovneriments in that direction are TO be
tried next spring. Not only to insects.
but fish, the light proved fatally at
fractiye. Its rays, directed to the sur:
face Of the water, drew together vast
quantities Of all the fishes found in the
| nnieper, and when within the charmed
field Of illumination they lay crowded
together in masses, seemingly blinded
and stupeaed.. The Workmen. improv'
inc the opportunity, made . notable
haul of fish.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
FHecfs Of HeaG

The effects Of heat may be seen in the
iron rails on the railroads throughout
the country. There is q variation of8O
degrees in the temperature between the
cold of winter and the heat of summer.
This is sufficient to elongate q bar Of
iron ten inches long, FIVE one-thous-
andths of an inch, OF one tWo-thous-
andths part which would require. to
produce the same effect, q force Of fifty
D nsupor the square inch. The tubes
Of Manai bridgevaryi in length with the
changes Of the ali. from half an inch TO
three inches every tWenty-four hours.
Iron bars, when much heated. frequent
III in5ure nzasonrys instead Of support
IND &, from the sae
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
nodgine-noases tor women.


Jennie June says in the New York
World There is another. great want
IN this city, and that is respectable
Iodging-houses for women that can
afford opay. Every woman who can
be reached is constantly in receipt of
inquiries like this /" Do you know of
any place in New York where a lady
can get board for a week at a moderate
rate or where she would feel perfectly
safe ii remain over night when in town
on D shopping trip or to attend a must
cal festival z" The woman addressed
never does know where to find such
quarters, and is obliged to suggest the
hotel on the European plan as the only
solution to tbs problem. But why
would not the Amsterdam Woman's
Hotel scheme be good here I? That is
hotel for women only, based on prin-
ciples of moderation and cleanliness,
minus the length and extravaganza Of
OUT hotel billsof fare. minus the bar,
he Wine-cellar, and the d~ress-coated,
hsaYiIy-fed waiter but orderly, clean.
safe and home-like in the best sense
IN its culinary department. 1t is one
Woman's opinion there would be money
as well as comfort in it.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20

or crochetted lace collars and cuffs are
very popular for little girls. These
are quite deep also.
Colored flannel shirts are still very
fashionable for ladies, but they are
embroidered with silk the color of the
skirt, not with a different color, such
as pink with blue or blue with cardi-
nal, sc.
The only ornament that should be
used on party dresses for young girls
are natural flowers or ribbons. Col
ored ribbons are very much used.
The cpiffure should be simply ar
rangeN
In spring dress fabrics are displayed
many s~elf-colored materials, which
are remarkably handsome, all founded
on the old prismatic, but under new
grades, variations, and titles often
perplexing to comprehend,
j.. Wooden ornaments for dresses and
cloaks are made Of white holly that
initiates old ivory, and are carved
or painted. A set consists of buckles
a large pin for the drapery, and but
tons of two sizes for the basque and
coat.
New silk basques are made with
wide collars placed outside the stand
ing collar, and sewed on in such
way as to leave a square opening al
the throat. Lace frills are set inside
them, and the open space is filled
with lace.
4 new use for the bead and jet ant
steel ornaments is to besprinkle TIT
officer collar and cuff of the jersey will
them. Six on the collar, two on eacl
cuff, and a braiding of metallic core
on the edge, removes the smallest sus
picion of plainness.
Accordion is the name given t.
the close-plaited dress skirts now be
ing sent out by London tailors
These skirts, however attractive il
appearance, cannot be commended
for they are too heavy for any womal
to wear with ease.
An old princess pattern is revive
for street dress this season. Th
back breadths are plain, the sid
breadths PLATED and the front open
to show a petticoat cross-barre
with velvet. The only trimming
embroidery on the waistcoat an
down each side of the skirt opening.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
A Wonderfully Rich Strike.

The Belknap, Montana, Enterprise says
that John Flahcrty, of Deadwood, has
struck, near the mouth of Butte creek, in
Ceur d'Alene mines, a quartz vein UNI
parallel in history forits richness. Solid
chunks of gold are found i'll the quartz,
some as big as a mans thumb. A big
rush, of course, ensued, and the ground
is rapidly being taken up and men going
to work. Good judges predict for this
camp the most wonderful quartz hedges
ever known in America. The ground OIL
Butte creek, putting into Pritchard'
about five miles above Eagle city, pays
from $15 to $25 per day to the man az
far as prospected. All the quartz so IA
discovered is in that vicinity, and two o,
three towns have been laid off there.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
70 him that she was not in love with

-
he cautiously prefaced his declara-
lion with afew questions, for he had
no intention of Throwing himself
away Did she love him well enough
to live in acottage with him? was
she a good cook. and washer? Did she
think it a wife's duty to make home
nappyS Would she consult his tastes
~ wishes concerning her associates
and pursuits in life? Was she eco
nomical? Could she make her own
clothes, &c.
The lady said that before she an
sWered his questions she would assure
nm OF some negative virtues she DOS.
sessed. She never drank nor smoked,
never owed a bill to her laundress OF
TAILOR; never stayed out all night
playing billiards; never lounged on the
pier and ogled pretty girls; never in.
dulged in wine suppers.
Now said she, rising Indignantly
Il am assured by those who know thai
you do all those things, and it is rath
er absurd for you to expect all thu
virtues in me while you do not posses:
any of them yourself. 1 can never b,
your wife,"
And she bowed him out, and lef
him on the doorstep. a madden if MOI
a wiser man.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
DIES DEPARTMEET.
queen Of

CIV Queen of Madagascar is
.goanS of . pleasing expression OF
e~oantenance, and s~ingularly digniied
andasdylike. On the right occasion OF
her Inauguration she wore a dress OF
iyDfysatin. with much gold embroid-
sry. she had a train two or three
Yards in length of handsome, dark
crimson velvet, spangled with gold
burne by six officers Of State. The
rold crown was already on her head
and thus she stood upon the throne
The Prime Minister is her welded
husband, and old enough to be hel
grandfather. She is the third Queen
whohas been his wife.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
success WIN n switch

A Philadelphia newspaper tellsof a
woman who has manipulated a railway
switch for twenty-five years without
once in that time failing to put the
Wellknown corrective Of the course of
trains in It's proper place 50 that the
cars might continue in the way that
they ought to go. We see nothing to
wonder at In this. JIG is admitted that
the woman was married in the long
ago, and that she merely succeeded her
husband on his death as wielder of the
switch. Being married she probably
had children. on whom practice with
the domestic variety of switch had
made her so perfect that she vas fully
competent to handle the more ponder
Gus railway instrument al soon as the
necessity for dong SO Had the
amiable Philadelphia paper told us of a
woman who had kept her hand off a
switch for twenty-five years we might
havefelt inclined to participate in its
mild surprise. but We rise altogether
too early In the land Of the setting sun
ID be astonIshed when we hear Of one
managing a railway switch, a hickory
switch, or 8 switch of back hair fol-
any number Of years that may be i'm.
imagined.-Ghicag Wears.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20

Some editor who evidently knows
whereof be writes sends out the follow
ing: dip the Atlantic Ocean with .
teaspoon, twist your heel into the toe OF
your boot, send up fshinghooks with q
balloon and fish for stars, get astrlde q
gossamer and chase the comet, choke a
mosquito with an anvil, get a horse-tro-
up herein short. prove all things here
| tofore considered impossible to be posi-
bic. but never, never attempt to please
everybody when you edit q paper.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
Unsafe.

The man who puts off marriage until
he has earned or acquired sufficient prop
erty to maintain a style of life that pride
and worldly ambition suggest is in great
danger of missing both happiness and
honor in the relation. He is likely to be-
come the victim of craft and design on
the part of those who court his money
and position rather than himself.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
Disappearance of the roreheaa.

The Christian at Work turns it's bat
teries upon the female bangs and says:
sit is about time some one was ap-
pointed to make an investigation on
the subject and see whether the girls
nowadays really have any foreheads,
or whether they have all gone off,
like Pats gun, with a .bang!' A
sensible writer in the Intelizgencer
says that men seem to wear them as
they used to do. And ladies, also, of
advanced or advancing years. But as
| 60 to the city daily, and see in the
streets and on the cars and ferryboats
whole bevies of bright and beautiful
girls. | am constantly wondering at.
if not admiring, the ingenuity dis
played in covering up, hiding, and
practically getting rid of this crown
ing feature of the human face divine,
What it has done. or what change has
passed upon it, that it should he SO
ANONYMOUSLY expelled from sight, I am
unable to discover or imagine. Time
was when a lover might have been
as much enraptured with his mistress
fair brow as with her beautiful eyes
but now he can only sing, if he sings
at all, the fascinating friz, the delight
full fluff, or the lovely bang his lady
wears, behind which her forehead long
sincedisappeared.
To me it seems against nature. II
she had wanted the forehead covered
up with hair, she'd have made it grow
there, like the beard on a mans chin.
I wonder If you like it any better than
I do? I don't believe the minister
does, for I've noticed two or three
times, when he had girls to baptize,
he could hardly find a spot on the
foreheads big enough to put his fin
gers on, and it did seem to trouble him
a little. Perhaps l oughtn't to say
it, and yet somehow it set meto won.
dering how the angel it speaks Of il
the Book of Revelation could fine
room to seal the servants of God il
their foreheads or write their Father
name there if they were all covered VI
like that.
I'm very much afraid we've seer
the last of them-the foreheads,
mean-and another generation won
have any, unless q change comes yer,
quick. You know these scientif
men say that a faculty or organ tina
is constantly disusedI believe tina
is it-tends to disappear altogether
And why not a feature too? lean
bear to think of all the beautiful
foreheads covered with hair GROWN
down to the eyes, can you? And ye'
what's to hinder | don't see, if the hal
is deliberately and steadily trained t
grow there. The old artists knew be-
ter than we. not to take the regalit
from the feminine face, by hiding til
brow under a mop of hair. The beat
tiful Madonnas of Raphael and Muri
10 have brows OF queenly lovelines
And imagine Florence Nightingal
-
going about in bangs.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
woman's E1rsa Daty.,

One OF the first duties of a woman,
says an English paper, IS TO always
look is pretty al possible.
And, WHAT more. woman ought nc
more neglect trying to look pretty to
the end Of her days than she ought to-
forget to do her duty.
It goes without saying that wives
mothers and maidens shall be good.
tempered, skilled in housewifery, true
hearted and kindly-tempered.
Leaving the greater matters of the
mwritten lawsof life, however, among
tho minor ones id that which makes it
an instinct with beauty to adorn itself.
But grandmother is pretty still, and
sill always be pretty ill the white
hands are cIasped over the quiet breast,
and she goes home to those who went
home before her.
al woman, no matter how poor she
III and how deep the cares Of family,
ought to take more and more pains with
her dress as time rolls on. Ayoung
girl may wear almost anything. A
matron, however. who has lost the
first plump charm and indeanable
beauty Of youth, has to be careful.
al bit Of ribbon here, 4 touch of color
Nhere charm of face and figure, shape
u hands and pretty feet, comely
waist and supple neck here and there
and everywhere about beauty's person,
from the curve of the dainty little pink
ear to the slope Of the shoulders and
the carriage Of the person, there's one
manifest voice To be heard am try
ing toIook Iny best.
Who does not know the dear old
grandmother, whose sweet wrinkled
face, clean cap, clean dress and layend'
er4scented lace collar carry ~ back x
childhood's days Z There are year.
there, and the experience Of trouble
Tho sadness of losses. memories of bri
dals and III graves. ana y rapid ap'
proach u those silent ehurchyard gates
through whiCh Ne must all walk. whe
ther ws VIII or not.
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20
Fashion Notes

Irish poplins are again in the
market.
Plaid costumes are threatened for
summer wear.
China crepe is out in both embroid-
cred and printed patterns.
French lace continues in favor, and
win appear on summer dresses.
4 new material for summer dresses
bears a close resemblance to scrim.
Ladies in Paris are dressing their
hair 80 that II lies quito close to the
head.
d new material stimulating silk
yelled with lace j. called chantilly
taffeta.
Cashmere is much used in place Of
silk to wear under white lace over
dresses.
Gloves, shoes, stockings, and under
garments show nc symptoms Of
change.
I'll ii not now necessary that the
bonnet be all Of one color. IS contrasts
are very stylish.
For young ladies' evening dresses
they are using flounoes OF Valen.
clsnnes lace. Some have them deep
and aome are narrow, to suit the taste
/ Of the Wearer.
Linen collars for both boys and
girls are worn deeper. The Smyrna
The Opelousas courier., 1884-09-20

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