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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-05-16

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can make great pay all the time
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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-05-16
AURINDE2- -VoUS DEs HA1IfANls
No. ll3 Roe de Charercs.
NoUyELLE-ORLEANs' 50.

Mr.. !. BOSIO, prsyient ses nombreux smls
do Ia campagne quis trouver.nt a An Ia e
dex.voas des HAbitaat~. No; us rue
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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-05-16
ThibodauA Foundry!
L: kEEFE, PROPRIETOR.

~ AAAA1A AIS l. AsOA AsAALAONs
Thibodaax. La.
"AVlNG purchased the above and well
II known establishment, takes great pleas
ure in announcing to the planters that be
has refitted the Foundry and Machine
Shop, and is now prepared to do any work
in his line. with neatness and dispatch.
STEAM ENGINES,
SUGAR MILLS,
ORA MING WHEELS.
SH.4F TING aud GEARING.
-AND-
CASTINGS
of ell descriptions made to order
Agent for KMOacles Steam Pumps
and Judson Governors,
-ALLK KINDS or
Brass Castings,
-sUCH As
GUAGE COCKS.
CYLINDER and PUMP COCKS,
GLOBE VAL YES, etc., etc.,
made toorder and furnished at tho shorteet
notice.
Having refitted the blacksmith shop,
Re can do all kinds of work in that line,
in tho best manner and with dispatch.
He respecttully solicits a continuance of
the former patronage extended to this es
ablishment.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-05-16
NEW ARRANGEMENTS.
STKANl. + Hrs HOTEL.

Mr.. Thomas Alberti informs his friends
nd the travelling public that he has made
acme new arrangements which will enable
him satisfy all those who will honor him
with their custom.
Meals furnished at all hours Of the day
Breakfast at 10 o'clock A. N. and Dinner
It 4 o clock p. NJ.
Commodlous and we'll furnished rooms,
MODERATE PRICES.
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DR.. j. n. FLEETWOOD
and SOW.

Have opened their Office at the
coruer of St. Philip and Thibodaux
Streets. Consultation at all hours
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1885-05-16
EDWARD BADEAUx.
HDwARD CURTIS.
CURTIS & RADEAUX.
Corner Main and Focus Streets,
THlBoDAgx, La,

II EEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND A COM.
IA plete assortment Of Dry Goods, Notions,
ing Goods, Groceries. Choice Liquors and
Provisions. dec-3O82.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-01

The reason we know so much about
the horses of the cave period is, 1 am
bound to admit, simply and solely be-
cause the man Of the period ate them.
Hippophagy has always been popular
in France; it was practiced by pre-
glacial man in the caves of Perigord and
revived with immense enthusiasm by
the gourmands of the boulevards after
the seige OF Paris aud the hunger of
the Commune The cave men hunted
and killed the wild horse of their own
times, and one of their remaining works
OF art represents naked hunter attack
ing two horses, while huge snake
winds itself unperceiyed behind close to
his heels, In this rough prehistoric
sketch one seems 10 catch some faint
antique foreshadowing of the rude humor
of the Petit Journal pour .Rire" Some
archmologists even believe that the
horse was domesticatei by the cave men
as n source of food, and argue that the
familiarity with its form shown in the
drawings could only have been acquired
10y people who knew the animal in its
domesticated state and they declare that
the cave man was obviously horsy. But
all the indications seem to me to show
that tame animals were quite unknown
| in the age Of the cave men.
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Close to the station at Devon and well
known in person TO most of the summer
residents Mt that famous suburban re-
sort lives Adoniran Latch In the old
gray house of his mother, whose place
he FARMS is very ancient corner clock,
with which is associated one of those
singular and romantic revolutionary
traditions that this region of country
around Valley Forge abounds in. When
Howe's army was in Philadelphia,
among the officers who came out on
sorties in this direction was Col. Norton,
a handsome English officer There
lived in the old house with Farmer
Howell his beautiful daughter, the
widow Jarrett whom the colonel no
sooner saw than he fell in love with her
and she with him. Farmer Howell did not
like it. and did all in his power to dis
courage his daughters infatuation, but
without avail There was high wall
about the house with steps going down,
and here the farmer stood until late in
the evening absorbed in thought.
The night he proposed to her as they
came out, drum was suddenly heard
in the distance. All three stood still,
the colonel trembling in every limb. 1t
drew nearer and nearer, until the sound
appeared to be right under them, when
it seemed to pass by aud then gradually
die away. Nothing could be seen,
though the rattle Of the drumsticks
seemed to have been just by their
sides.
Curses upon it, the colonel ex-
claimed, moving in the direction the
sound had taken, must have it
always at my heels?"
The night they were married the
"Phantom Drummer" as the family
have always called him, marched by
again, beating the same tattoo They
settled down. Col. Norton deserted his
regiment, and while hidden away amused
himself in making the clock already
mentioned. He was very ingenious,
and had mechanical turn of mind.
Some of his descendants were buried in
the old Baptist graveyard hard by. 1t
was learned many years afterward that
Col Norton was the younger son of
nobleman, and before coming to this
country had been acquainted with the
wife of drummer whom he killed.
Every year. about the time Of the phan-
tom drummers march, the old clock
behaves strangely and cannot be made
to go.
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SWORDsMEN OF THE DEEH.

Imagine whales fencing with one
another for amusement 1t seems as if
such thing could not be; and yet there
are whales of certain species which
not only fence with one another, but
use their teeth for swords,
1t is the narwhnl that fences. One Of
the teeth of the male narwhal always
grows through the upper lip and stands
out like spear, straight in front of the
animal
1t seems as if all the material that
should have gone to fill the mar whals
mouth with teeth had gone to the one
tooth that grows out through the lip, for
sometimes this tooth is eight feet long
The animal itself, from head to tail, is
seldom more than sixteen feet in
length.
OF what use such an enormous tooth
is to the whale no one knows.
Some persons say it is used for spear
ing fish; others, that its use is to stir up
the mud i'll .the bottom of the ocean in
order to scare out the fish that may be
hiding there; and one man says the
tooth is for the purpose of breaking
holes in the ice in winter; for the mar.
whal. like all whales, is obliged to come
to the surface at intervals to breathe.
Whatever the tooth is intended to be
used for it is certain that when the
narwhal wishes to play it finds another
narwhal of like mind, and away they
| charge at each other till the long tooth
swords clash together, They are active
MS Well as frolicsome, and sailors tell o.
seeing them crossing swords in this way
thrusting and paiTying, and rolling anc
darting about with marvellous agility
and grace,
The narwhal is light gray in color
and covered with black spots For 1
great many reasons it is valued by tn,
Greenlanders. 1t furnishes n very fin,
| quality of Gil its flesh is used for food
and its skin, made into a Jelly an(
called nattdk, is considered 4 dainty to,
choice for ordinary ocoa lions.
This "sworlsman of the deep" as
have called him is a warm-blo ode,
animal, and must not be coufouude,
with the saw-tish or the swordnsn, buil
of which are entirely dilferen, from .h
nsrwhfl
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THE LOCOMOTIVE IN WINTER.

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NIachinist and Builder.

NIachinist and Builder.
~ have been troubled years with kidney and
bladder difficulty After using four bottles Of
HuNT's kidney and Liverl REMEDY have been
completely cured. .n-william c. Clark, Mason and
Builder, Auburn, NY.
Health is better than wealth"
nIachinist.
Mr.. George Karg Machinist, ll3s Ridge Ave,
Philadelphia, Pa, says;-"My disease startedwhen
was quite young lad by having weak kidneys.
/ have used Just six bottles of HUNTs Kidney and
Livorl REMEDY and solemnly proclaim, feel
like new man."
"Good counsel has no price, obey IT,"
Mechanic.
MIR. Henry Williams Mechanic East Bridge.
port, Conn, says:-"About two months ago l
caught heavy cold, which settled in my kidneys.
l got bottle Of HuNT's kidney and Liverl
REMEDY and with the first dose began to getwell."
Light suppers makes long lives" =
Railroad Man.
Frank D. Lee, office N. Y. G. & H. r. r. Little
Falls, N. Y, June 8, 1888, says: my father, 62
years old, had severe kidney and bladder disease
for 20 years, urination causing acute pain. The
weakness was so great he was obliged to wear
rubber bag. Twelve bottles Of HUNTS Kidney
REMEDY completely cured him, and we consider 1t
remarkable. We cheerfully recommend It,"
"Deeds are better than words" .
HUST's kidney and Lverl REMEDY has stood
the test of time. 1t has been before the public for
twenty years, and has cured every year thousands
of people suffering from various diseases of the
Kidneys and Liver, and kindred disorders, who had
failed to get relief from doctors and who expected
never to be cured. Thousands of testimonials
from such persons attest its value. Send for book.
"Als we'll that ends we'll"
Sold by all druggists. Price S1.25 Q
HUNTS REMEDY CO., Providence, RI.
N. CRITTENT0N, General Agent, N. Y.
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BuDDHA's TOOTH.

A writer in Cag8elS Famay Magazine
gives the following account of the
sacred tooth Of Buddha, which is pre-
served in temple at Handy, India:
The Palace OF the Sacred Tooth is
meagre erection to have such Dig
nitied title. The building is small, has
no pretensions to architecture, and is
so dilapidated that the rain comes
through the roof. The Wihara, or
champer, i'll which the relic is kept, is
small room about twelve feet square
AT the entrance are two sentry-box-look-
ing constructions with glass windows.
These are lamps kept perpetually lighted,
the fame not havlug been let die out
for many years. The sanctum is very
splendid. the roof and walls being
lined with gold brocade and the frames
of the door inlaid with carved ivory.
The air is oppressive with the perfume
of flowers and spices. Flowers especially
are favorite Offering ut Buddhas
shrine, and are always present in a
great profusion. On one occasion no
less than 6, 4So,320 flowers We're counted
at the shrine, and it is recorded that in
the fifteenth century royal devotee
Tent 100000 flowers day for con-
siderable time, and each day the flowers
were of different kind. The karundua,
or vessel containing the tooth, stands
covered on a table of massive silver,
richly chased, in the midst of pro-
fusion of valuable articles of iewelry,
which are either relics OF offerings.
The most beautiful in the collection is
a bird with wings spread. 1t is formed
entirely of diamonds, rubies, blue
sapphires, etc., set in gold which is hid
by profusion of gems. While we wero
all admiring this magnificent offering
the priests or monks removed the
several folds of muslin from the karun-
dua, and discovered sort of dome of
gilded silver, about five feet high, stud
ded with q few gems. When this was
removed another was found underneath,
made of beautiful carved gold, This
was festooned with jewellel chains, and
literally encrusted with all the glitteriug
gems for which Ceylon is so celebrated
--sapphires and emeralds of extraordin-
ary size, cats'eyes (much plized), rubies
amethysts and per,ls. Another similar
covering, and still another, We're taken
| off, when at last was reached small
case of gold, covered entirely with
rubies, emeralds and diamonds, in
which, resting on the leaves of a gold
lotus, was the tooth itself The Prince
of Wales was about to take up the
relic when he was stopped by the Dewa
Nilleme (who is associated with the
priests as guardian of the tooth), and
informed it was too sacred to be touched
| by human hands.
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ALTAR OF ROSE.

The oil yielded by roses is very little:
hence it is said that twenty thousand
blossoms are required to. yield rupee
weight of the altar, which sells for ten
pounds sterling, little fact which may
suggest to the lady that the "real
Oriental altar" which she bought in the
Stamboul Bazaar for ten shillings the
ounce was not quite what the Moslem
merchant so loudly swore by the prophet
it was. In reality, the true altar is
almost invariable adulterated with
sandle-wood oil, or diluted with sweet
salad oil. even in the Indian bazaars
close to the far. famed rose gardens of
Ghazapore. This seems almost pardon
able when we remember that, during
unfavorable seasons, it will take as many
as one thousand roses to yield two
grains of the oil. In the forenoon the
red blooms are collected by hand and
distilled into clay stills with twice their
weight of water the water which comes
over being set to cool all night and
throwing up the thin film of oil which
covers it i'll the morning like cream on
new milk This is the affair." which
must be carefully swept off with a
feather and transferred to small phial.
After repeating this operation night
after night, and morning after morning,
nearly the whole of the oil has been ex-
tracted, the little which it is impossible
to separate so favoring the liquid that
it is sold as "rose water" just as the
minute particles left in the course of
distilling lavender or peppermint are
known as the waters of their
essences.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-01

AS in America, so in Japan, the post
man wears his uniform. 1t consists of
suit of green cloth, a wide butter-bowl
hat and straw shoes. The mail bag
swings under his arm, or is bushed
along in little two wheeled cart He
is always running or trotting along.
You know that in Japan men do nearly all
the work that We make no rses do here, so
you see the japanese postman carry, has
ten along from station, to station travel
ling on a quick run mile after mile, up
hill, down dale, never stopping until he
reaches the place where another p ost-
man is waiting to receive the mail and
run on with it in his turn. So the mail
is carried in the greater part of the
Empire, To few places reached by
steamers it travels as in the United
States
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FREAKS OF WATCHES.

A lady school-teacher had delicately
made little Swiss watch set in a bracelet
The face of it is about The size of dime,
and the works are protected by thin
disc of glass about the same size on the
under side of the bracelet next to the
arm. In fact, it sets right over the
young ladys pulse, and the watch is the
wonder and admiration of all her friends
But the little watch never did keep
time, though it cost five hundred francs
in Paris. The jeweler to whom it was
carried, told the lady that she ought not
to expect watch the size of a peanut to
keep time. One workman said such
small watches had to be bought on the
principal of chance in grab-bag, as
they sometimes turned out good time
pieces, and at others We're wholly unre-
liable. The young lady noticed, how
ever, that whenever she loaned her FIVE
hundred francs bracelet to her sister, the
watch kept much better time and when
she kept it locked up in her jewel-case
it kept the time almost as well as any
ordinary time-piece \ well known
physician had his attention called to the
matter by the young lady's mother and
explained it in minute, from q
physiological standpoint He explained
that the springs and enginery of the
watch We're so delicate they were affected
by change of temperature and feeling in
the young lady's body. When she
Al.
fast, and in her calmer moments it went
slower. Upon investigation this hypo-
thesis was verified, and the phenomena
scited so much curiosity that the young
lady gave an exhibition to few friends
of the manner in which the watch was
compelled to answer to the effect of the
change in her various moods.
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BLOOMSBURY, PA, FRIDAY. MAY |. 1886

self ior the journey
At midnight she stepped from the
train into the confusion of crowded New
York depot. A hand took hers, a voice
said gently
This way, Cousin Genevieve" And
the next moment she was shut up in a
carriage with Victor Joyce driving with
all speed toward his luxurious home
There is not amoment to lose, he said
as they alighted, speaking for the first
time. "Will you come to her at once
Night and day her cry had been for
you"
They could hear it as they assembled
the staircase but oh, how weak and
changed, how thin and far away, were
the tones of poor Isabel's voice, inces-
sanity saying
'Genevievel Will no one send for
Genevieve? ] cannot, dare not, die till
L have seen herl"
Every one left the room in obedience
to Capt. Joyce's sign, as Geneveve
entered. But when he would have
followed them his wife cried out, and
clutched him with her weak hands
mot you! You must stay and hear it
too, Victorl"
Then she told story of the past.
eff you had gone to the ball, wear
ing the flower as he asked you to, |
should not be lying here to-day and
you two would have had years of happi-
ness together that can never come to you
now. Don't you hate me? Can you
ever forgive me? And then L had not
even the excuse of my love for Victor to
bear me blameless! she went on. II
married him because he was rich and
influential, and partly that you should
not be his wife, Geneyieve-for 1 must
tell you the whole truth here on my dy-
ing bed. But oh, how 1 have been
punished AS his wife | learned how
noble and good he was learned to love
a torment beyond loving your husband
with your whole heart and soul, and
knowing that he never has loved, and
never will love you-if there is tor
ment that can exceed that in bitterness,
in keenness, tell me where tell me
where!" she cried wildly, throwing her
wasted arms above her head. 1T has
been SO dreadful that 1, who have loved
life so well, am glad to die!
MY dear Isabel" began her husband
gently
She interrupted him, seizing his hand
and Genevieves in burning clasp.
II know you have tried to love me,
Victor she said half bitterly, half ten
derly. And 1 am sure you will both
forgive me when 1 am dead. 1 join your
hands now. l, who have been the
obstacle to your happiness on earth. 1t
is not yet too late Kiss me once, nv
husband, and then all will be over with
me, and you will belong to each other
here and in heaven, while 1 walk, a
lonely and desolate spirit, by myself
With these strange words she died,
just as her husband left his parting kiss
upon her lips
1t was cruel and terrible scene.
But in time its memory and effect passed
away.
Genevieve is the happiest of wives
| and mothers, Victor the proudest of
fathers, in their beautiful suburban
home. And a white rose, rendered by
careful hands blooms yearly on poor
Isabels grave.
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THE RUBY AND THE DIAMOND.

1t is perhaps not generally known
that large ruby is of more value than
large diamond Mr. Streeter, who
wrote book about jewels, states that
"the ruby ranks for price and beauty,
above all other stones. When a perfect
ruby of five carats is brought into the
market sum will be offered for it
ten times the price given for diamond
of the same weight but should it reach
the weight of ten carats it is almost in
valuable. With respect to the romance
Of precious stones, the author just
quoted tells a curious story about sap
phises A native of India loaded 100
goats with these gems, aud reached
Simla after ten days journey. Airiv-
ing at Simla, he tried to dispose of
them, but the yaluenot being recognized
he could not even obtain rupee toiia
for them, which he would gladly have
taken, being in state of semi-starva-
tion. He then proceeded to Delhi,
where the jewelers. knowing them to be
sapphires, gave them their full value
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SELECT POETRY.


pe "a WOluhu
Oft I've heard a gentle mother,
As the twilight hours began,
Pleading with son on duty,
Urging him to be man.
But unto her blw eyed daughter,
Though with loves words quite as ready
Points she out the other duty
"Strive, my dear, to be lady"
What's lady? Is II something
Made of hoops, and silks and airs
Used to decorate the parlor.
Like the fancy rings and chairs
Is II one that wastes on novels
Every feeling that is human ?"
II It's this to be lady,
'Tls not this to be a woman.
Mother, then. unto your daughter
Speak of something higher far
Than to be mere fashions lady
woman is the brightest star.
If you in your strong affection,
Urge your son to be a true man,
Urge your daughter no less strongly
To arise and be woman.
Yes, a woman ! Brightest model
or that high and perfect beauty,
Where the mind and soul and body
Blend to work out lfe's great duty.
Be woman naught is higher
On the gilded crest Of time
On the catalogue of virtue
THERE'S no hriuhtpr hniinr mama
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-01

1t was great mistake to suppose that
men can be made rich only by making
others correspondingly poor If one
manages to make himself rich by taking
advantage of his neighbors necessities,
by giving scant wages, and demanding
excessive returns, or by boarding up
his gains, and expending nothing, he is
an incumberance to the earth. But a
man may keep his wealth in such living
contact with society as to make it
quicken the public pulse and increase
the flow # general prosperity.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

I Z EVANS, NJ. D., Surgeon and
- Physic ru office ana Residence on Third
street.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-05-01

When a notorious punster committed
suicide by hanging himself, one of his
friends remarked that he had polpe-
trated his last choke.