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The Opelousas courier., 1885-06-27
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Behold upon the frozen foam,
A little vessel far from home
The yacht Jeanette.
The polar star above her lies,
A sward of light set in the skiess
The Arctic wave is on her deck,
And hope has left the broken wreck.
Bereft Of all things else but Fate,
And sinking, sinking, sinking yet.
Behold her lying desolate,
The lost Jeanette!
The Opelousas courier., 1885-06-27

have secured the services of Mr. Walton
AISandoz. a competent and experienced
druggist, and will be prepared to fill all ORE.
scriptions at any time, and give PROMPT
attention to all matters in my line of busi.
ness. l respectfully solicit a share of the
public patronage.
R. NJ. LITTELL,
Proprietor.
Opelcusas, Sept. 6, 1881.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-06-27

ranch every year and he finds the
$4,000 he loaned Goodnight has quad
rupled under the influence of Texas at
mosphere.
The ranch occupied by the former
banker and present cattleman is situa-
ted at the head waters of the Pecos
River in the Panhandle, and contains
100000 acres of excellent grazing land,
surrounded by $50 miles of barbed
wire fence. Colonel Richard King, of
Corpus Christi, down in the corner of
the State next to he gulf, has more
cattle than Mr.. GSodnighk but North
Texas men insist that the latter has
the best grass.
The ranch will carry three times az
many cattle as are noW pastured upon
it-some 60,000-and the herd is being
increased each year. When it is con-
sidered that the State of Rhode Island
contains only $4,000 acres, it will be
realized that the former Coloradoan
owns what the ranchmen call quite a
spot Of land The cattle on hisranch
are all finely bred, Is Goodnight has
graded them up BY introducing the
best foreign breeds, and ii the market
these bring IS tos 20 per cent more
than those from other ranches His
100000 acres af land were bought h
ATTY cents 70 one dollar on acre within
the past three or four years, but could
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16
GA token ~ eycIained the fail

ga token!" exclaimed the father
and daughter in a breath.
eyes, my friends, and here it is. :"
And the major handed the ring to the
old gentleman.
whats the meaning of this,
naura?" exclaimed the colo1el. This
ring I gave you last week.
Laura uttered faint cry, and turn,
ed deadly pale.
1.-The mystery is easily explained, .
said the major. THE young Lady is
a sleep walker. she came into my
room before | had retired, utterly un-
conscious of her actions. [ took the
ring from her hand, that I might be
able to convince you and her OF the
reality Of what [ had Witnessed
The majors business was not press
ing, and he readily yielded to the
colOnel's urgent request to pass a few
days with him. Their mutual liking
increased upon better acquaintance,
and in a few weeks the White Phan-
toms ring. inscribed with the names
CT Merritt Hill and Laura Lawrence,
served as the sacred symbol of their
union for life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16
Founding a Town.
Wall Street News


The founding of western town is a
very simple matter when one under
stands it. A New Yorker, who was
in Kansas when a town was founded,
says that two men drove out on the
prairie and stuck some stakes, and
took a drink of whisky, and called
the town "Pawnee City" Then they
organized a city government, and
granted themselves charters for a
street railway and gas company, ess
tablished couple of banks, donated
twenty lots toward building court
house, aud rushed the following
through the Common Council:
Resolved, That eastern capitalists
have their attention called to Pawnee
City as a place offering superior ad-
vantages for manufacturing.
Only twenty-five minutes were con-
sumed in the whole business, and half
a pint of cheap whisky constituted the
sum total of expenses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16
But How About the Dust!

1t is popular superstition that the
center Of the car is not only the safest
part, but it is also much the easier
riding, says The Elmira Railroad
News. One of the greatest trials Of
a Pullman conductors life is the fact
that every passenger asks for a lower
center berth the first thing, and is
frequently indignant because it cannot
be had. If the center of a car rides
any easier than the end, then our cars,
built as solid and as strong as they
are, spring up and down In the mid
die precisely as does blackboard. If
they do not why should it ride easier?
As for safety, if you are in the rear of
the last car on the train and
another train runs into the rear you
are liable to get hurt. In all other
accidents you can conjure up
as liable to occur t is the safest
In head collision there is nothing
back of you to add force to the blow.
If the car leaves the track and collideS
with bridge or any obstruction Or
side track 1t will not be in your end.
If the train is thrown down an en-
bankment there is nothing to land on
top OF you. Then this location is the
most, pleasant. From it you can
watch all the movements of your fell
low passengers, often d good way of
passing the hours of long, tedious
journey If your eye happens to
catch particularly fine view you can,
by turning in your seat or stepping to
the door, take it all in. If there is a
safest part of a train it is in the last
seat in the last car
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16
A True Lover,

A Washington correspondent gives
the following as the origin Of q once
popular song:
l heard curious story yesterday in
regard to the well-known song.
No one to love, none to caress,
Travelling alone through LIES wilderness, etc.
The author Of this song lives here in
Washington, and he boards in hotel
within a square or SO Of the White
House. He is now man Of perhaps
80, and he wrote the song many years
ago. He was in love with beautiful
girl and the day was fixed for their
marriage. In the interval between
the engagement ard this day the war
broke out and the young man enlisted.
He was on the field when the time ap-
preached for his wedding. 1t was on
the eve of a great battle, and the first
in which the young man was to take
part. He wrote to his sweetheart ask
ing her to postpone the day of the
marriage until after the fight This
she refused to do, and said if he did
not return and keep his part Of tle
agreement she would consider;the en-
gagement off. The young man pre-
ferred to trust to luck in regard to the
engagement to being considered a
coward in running away from his first
battle. and remained on the field.
His lady love, however, was so piqued
at the refusal that she persisted in the
rejection of his suit and married an
other man. Inspired with the feeling
of the desertion, the rejected wrote
the song which has had such wide
run. He not only wrote the song, but
he remained true to his first love, and
for some time the story goes, he has
been living here with his mother.
Not long ago, however, his loves hus-
band died, and since that time he has
renewed the acquaintance of the wild
ow, who though older than when he
went to the war, is still charming.
The old fame has, it is said, revived
in the fair widows breast, and their is
a fair prospect of a match.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16

| woman, his domIneerlng ways being
| un bearable. Dickens was poor hus
band, as were also Bulwer, Byron,
Greeley, and scores of others whose
names are familiar lie woman de-
sires happy home, she Will not find
among men like these-rather in the
cottage of the man whose work is
done away from home, and who can
give his evenings to her and his chill
dren. A good character goes farther
than good education, and good nature
is more desirable than correct spelling.
DO you shadow persons 10 learn
their vices9"
VERY seldom. II it is a good Gus
toner who is compelled to depend on
us we Ge it to accommodate, but it is
unpleasant, to say the least, and l of
ten wish I could avoid that parU of
it."
"Of what, then, does the major part
advice on general points, adapta-
bility of the characters of the persons
temperament; the business capacity
Of the proposed husband; the extent
of his mind, and like information
that will give the lady a proper idea OF
what sort of man he is"
You could, then, be properly term
ed match rmaker?"
Yes" he answered, laughin Civ,
''but we try to avoid the birthstone and
the explosive ingredients, saying
which, he bowed the visitor out.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16
THINGS THAT NEVER DIE.

The pure, the bright, the beautiful,
That stirred our hearts in youth:
The impulse to q wordleSS prayer,
The dreams of love and truth;
The longing after something lost,
The spirits yearning cry,
The striving after better hopes
These things can never die.
One timid hand stretched forth to aid
A brother in his need;
The kindly word in grief'S dark hour
That proves friend indeed
The plea for mercy, softly breathed,
When justice threatened high,
The sorrow of a coBtrite heart
These things shall never die.
The memory Of a clasping hand,
The pressure of a kiss
And all the trifies sweet and frai
That make up life's pure bliss;
Ii with a firm, unchanging faith,
And holy trust and high.
Those hands have clasped and lips have met
These things shall never die.
The cruel and the bitter word
That wounded as it fell,
The chilling wants of sympathy
We feel but never tell
The hard repulse that chillS the heart
Whose hopes were bouncing high,
In an unfading record kept
These things shall never die
Let nothing pass, for every hand
Must find some work to do;
Lose not chance to waken love
Be firm and just and true
So shall a light that cannot fade
Beam on thee from on high
And angels voices say to thee,
These things shall never die.
Chicago Ledger
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16
The Perfumery Buslness.
New York Commercial Advertiser.

There are many Laboratories in the
United States which produce excellent
perfumery, but the business is rela,
lively new in this country when com.
pared with the old establishments of
the sort on the Riviera, where the in
habitants for the most part live upon
the products which that blessed cli~
mate affords them in sWeet-smelling
flowers and shrubs. | was reading
only the other day something about
the perfumery manufacturers of Nice
and Cannes, and a friend, who has a
happy faculty of collecting useful
knowledge, has since given me the
latest statistics of one gIeat establish
ment at the latter city which are
worth relating, if only to show the
enormous scale on which operations
are there conducted. Ia this factory
are annually used-only think of it
no fewer than $4,000 pounds OF
orange blossoms, 1920 pounds of
acacia blossoms, 154, 00G pounds of
rose leaves, 200 pounds of jasmine
blossoms, 22,0 pounds of violets,
5000 pounds Of tuberoses, and rela-
lively large amount of Spanish lIlacs,
rosemary, mint, lime and lemon bios
SONS, thyme, and numbers of other
plants and leaves and flowers
Nice and Cannes together raise yearly
$4,000 pounds of violets, which
thrive there better, perhaps, than in
any other part Of the world, to say
nothing of 440, 900 pounds of orange
blossoms which Nice alone produces,
and which are more than doubled in
quantity by the neighboring villages.
Acacia blossoms are the speciality Of
Cannes, where 50, 500 pounds are OBJ
tained yearly, and where jasmine,
tu5eroses and roses also flourish. The
total annual production of perfumery
in the Riviera towns is said to be 342,
900 pounds of pomades and sweet
scented oils
The area Of land devoted to the
growth of trees and plants in ques-
ton may be imagined when it is con.
sidered that to obtain one ton of bios
sons it is necessary to strip 10000
jasmine plants, 5000 rose bushes, 10C
orange trees, 800 geraniums and 70, 00C
tuberoses of their wealth Of bloom.
| Violets needs most space. and next
orange trees, roses and jasmine re
quire one-third less space than the
orange trees, and tuberoses one fifth
less. From these various perfumes
in combination are made pomade,
salve, hair~oil, toilet water, sachet
powder, incense, balsam and essences.
The name Of the perfumes which
are offered for sale is legion, although
the best known and the most agree
able of them all is eau de cologne.
It's preparation is naturally a secret.
preserved with the greatest strictness.
The name FarIna, connected with this
perfume, is known throughout the
civilized world, and if one wishes to
get an idea of the real benefit which
an article is supposed to derive from a
single name, it is only necessary, as
many of my readers know, to visit
the holy" city of Cologne, wander
about in the vicinity of the Julichs
Platz and study firm names on the
signs. All the Farinas Ia the world
seem to be here assembled, and every
one Of them manufactures eau de
cologne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16

was growed to mighty river, roarin'
an rushin' an gurglin' over the piles.
Boys, didn't feel skeered then, but
somehow [ couldn't STAN up. Ny
legs felt weak and give way under me
an | set down on the track IN the
pourin' rain. II didn't 60 to sleep;
| couldn't ha' done that, but my fire
man said he had to shake me purity
hard to get me up. Ma, boys, I didn't
run ole Six. 1t was Dave an' me to-
gether that's always pulled her
through -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16

A local naturalist IN Brsokfeld,
Conn, has discovered that the stone
which village boys have been play
ing with for some time. and which
they called 1.-The Birds Wash Stone, y
is an Indian stone n.ill and relic of
the stone age 1t is two feet long and
one loot and a half wide and deep.
1t has been for many years in the
Episcopal Church wall as a part of
its foundation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16

President McCosh of Princeton
declares that, as a rule, the leading
athletes ia college are the poorest
scholars. People who are not college
presidents are aware of that fact
Scholarship comes Of hard study, and
not from the development of muscle
Young men who want to become
famous athletes go to the college these
days, while those who are ambitious
to acquire scholastic attainments have
to seek more quiet places, where their
studies will not be disturbed by the
constant paddle of the oar or the
whacking sound of tae baseball oat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16

''They can talk as they please about
bad luck out in the west" said a pas
senger from Kansas, "but [ can speak
from experience and tell you honestly
that the west is a great country-a
fine country. Never had such good
luck in my life as l had there. Just
to show you how nature helps a man
out there who is willing to help him
self, one day last fall [ bought barn
of neighbor-got it dirt cheap, too,
because it was SO difficult to move
and that night a cyclone came along
and bowed that harm over onto my
place, dropped her right where [
wanted her, and never loosened a
board. That's what I call good luck
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16
Didn't Know,

cold man Pipps would make a
poor stagger at driving hogs, wouldn't
he?"
II don't know. Why?"
Because he's so bow~lesged he
never could head them. 1t ice tongs
had never been invented, one look at
him would give any man the idea"
Gle is dreadfully bow-legged, isn't
he. Do you know how he got that
way?"
''No; but I think could guess"
How, do you say?'
81 think more than likely he under
took to shoulder a saw+log when he
was young"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16
SPORADIC CHOLERA.

WASHINGTON, July 10.-A few days
ago dispatch was received at the
Office of the supervising surgeon ge1-
eral of the marine hospital service
saying that several cases of sporadic
cholera had occurred at Toledo, OHIO.
DR.. Hamilton, supervising surgeon
general, Immediately telegraphed for
a report to the medical inspector. No
reply has as yet been received.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-07-16
EpidennicS.
SMALL POX.

BURLINGTON, Iowa, July 10.-Com-
plant comes from the smoll pox in
fected district near Creston that it is
impossible to get conveyances to carry
the dead TO the cemetery. The people
are panic stricken. The dead lay
unburied several days. Much indig-
nation is expressed.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-30
1t Fetches Him.

The mother of young man who would a
wooiug go, hit upon a novel way of calling
him homeward at ten o'clock every evening
She lives on a farm in a village not quite a
hundred miles from the Hub of the universe.
and the young mans beloved resides on a
ne;ghboring farm. As soon as ten O'Clock
came it was her wont to blow a conch-sheli
horn, an instrument made by saving off the
end Of a conch-shell and much ia use among
farmers in calling their help at dinner time
The other evening when sonny wanted to stay
out later than usual, he filled up the horn
with paper. When ten o'clock came the
nei0hbors were all surprised at not hearing
the tootte-toot, and the young man and his
girl were laughing about how neatly the old
lady's plans had been defeated. All at once
there WAS deafening blast from the conch
horn, while somebody, presumably the old
gentleman, furnished an accompaniment on
4 fourth-of-July trumpet, and the cause Of
all this music few home a. quickly - DOS
sible. They have kept the duet up every
evening since. much to the chagrin Of the
youthful parties concerned. At Arst the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-30
Cotton Seed Oil Manufacture.

The Baltimore Manufactures Record
has collected some interesting statistics
on the growth of the cotton seed industry
from which it appears that since 1880 this
Southern industry has made wonderful
progress. From 40 mills, employing 49,.
504. 800. the business has increased to lac
mills, having a capital of $40, 1872. 450, or
in other words. it is now more than three
times as great as it was in 1880. The
number of mills shows slightly larger
rate of increase than the amount OF CAPT
tai, the average capital per mill in 1886
being SS7.6l2. and at present S74.947
This is probably due to the erection of a
number of small mills, costing from SIS,
000 to $4,000. during the last few years
The largest capital of any one company
is $500 $50, and the next largest $500, 900
both of which are fully paid up. Ir
Florida. Georgia. and North and South
Carolina, this industry has been created
since 1880. neither of these States having
a single cotton seed mill in that wear
The greatest increase has been in Texas
where % mills and 1896, 900 have been
added. Arkansas is second in the in.
crease in capital. but Alabama anc
Georgia are ahead OF that State in the in
crease in the number of mills. The az
gregate increase in the business has beer
LOG mills, and 81 ,2S7, $50.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-30
Fattening Pigs on Soft Corn.

Some enormously suppose that old corn
is better for fattening than new corn. If
weight for weight of corn only is consid.
cred, this would be true, but that is not
the question. On which will pigs fatten
the fastest? When will an acre OF corn,
of any certain yield, make the most pork P
Will so bushels, harvested last year, and
now thoroughly dry. make more pork than
the same corn would have done when in
the milk or dough state? Many. perhaps,
would answer yes. but the answer would
be wrong. When corn is in the thick
milk it is certainly more easily digested.
and a greater PERCENTAGE will be digested
and consequently an acre of coin in that
condition will make more pork than after
wards, when the corn becomes fully ripe
and cured. This has been proved by ex-
pertinent, and this is quite reasonable, for
the more completely it is digested the
more pork it should make. The argument
tor cooking is, that this process renders it
more soluble, and thus more digestible !;
but corn in the thick milk is quite as solu-
BILE as when well cooked, and must be
equally digestible. When in this condi-
ton, the cob is soft, and the pigs will eat
much of the cob with the grain. When
pig feeders have tested this way of feed
ing they will never require an argument
in its favor afterward. Thisis also saving
of labor to those who get corn ground, tor in
this succulent state it is more digestible
than any meal. Judgment must be used
not to Over-feed, for pigs are very fond of
the green corn. Commence moderately
and watch the effect upon the pigs. giving
only. what they can properly use. Cattle
will also fatten faster upon corn in the
milk than when it is ripe National
Lire Stock Journal, Chicago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-30
Orchard and Garden.

Mulch the strawberries.
Subsoil or trench the garden.
Sorting should precede storing.
Lift some parsnips for winter use.
Vegetable roots keep we'll in coal
ashes.
Lettuce under glass needs plenty of air
in all mild weather.
The Long Island cabbage seed growers
report short crop.
Plenty of manure makes tender and
delicious vegetables. Try free fall ma
nuring in the garden.
1t is claimed by high authority tina,
there are 100 acres adapted to grape cul-
ture in the United States to every one in
France.
Root cuttings afford the means of prop.
agating blackberries and raspberries. For
this purpose the roots may be taken up
and be prepared any time before winter.
Roots the size of pencil and smaller, ARE
cut into pieces two or three inches long.
These are placed in layers alternately
with earth in box, which then IS buried
in dry place until spring. In the spring
the cuttings are planted in drills. several
inches deep. in well prepared earth, and
the young plants soon shoot up. Perhaps
YOU know of wild bush which is remark
able for large or fine favored fruit. In
such case the same might be increased
many told for planting in the garden by
the simple process described.