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The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-22
A sharp-ssgated Enofneer.

keep a sharp lookout while on the
run? 2" echoed an engineer. SHOULD
say we did. The man that tries to
run an engine without keeping his
eyes peeled gets left sooner or later.
I've heard about fellows out West that
would start out on a run with a board
reaching across from the drivers seat
TO the ireman's, and a deck of cards,
but 1 never tried that. just to show
you how necessary it is for a ma to
keep his eye on the rails ahead of him
let me tell you a little story.
IL was running along one night in
Ohio some years ago. 1t was a blowy.
rainy. nasty night. and in times like
that a man is doubtly watol.sul. For
hours I never took my eyes from the
wet, glistening rails ahead Of me, ex-
cept, of course, when we stopped at
stations. AL at once | saw in front
of mellow far ahead | couldn't tell
"a gllmmer of light. 1t was just q
spark. I barely saw IL before it dis,
appeared. Was 1t a lightning bug?
I hadn't seen any that night. What
was it? That / couldn't answer. But
my instinct told me to stop the train,
and stop I did. 1t was mighty lucky
1 looked at it that way. for that glim.
mel Of light commenced in the oldest
way. You couldn't guess it in a week
"a farmer was walking along the
track when he discovered a short
bridge SO badly washed out by the
freshet that to run upon it with 6
train meant a wreck. He tried tc
start a fire with paper and his clothing
but couldn't do it. He had one match
left. He kept that till | got close. to
him, his plan being to strike that
match. hold it in his hat, and wave il
across the track as he had seen the
brakeman do when they wanted to
signal stop. Il was his hope that ]
would see the blaze before it was
blown out.
HE no sooner struck the match
than out went the blaze. It was
merely a flash, but / saw it, and the
farmer had saved the train. What ii
I hadn't made it a rule to keep my
eyes peeled along the rails every min.
ute while running?-chicago Hera1d.
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A Zereba.

The zereba is a native light barri-
cade constructed in the form of a
square, and, by the Arabs, made of
mimosa brush, piled with the prickly
branches outward, and built high
enough to make the offer to oyerleap
them impracticable. The sharp, jag
ged branches present a forbidding as
pect to the Arabs and blacks, who
have no taste for dinging their naked
bodies against them. The great tao
tics of the Arabs is to attack by "rush-
ing in the hope to overwhelm, by the
very impetus Of the assault, the wait
ing enemy. As a means Of checking
this crush" the zereba has been found
very effective, and the English adopt
ed the native example as q very excel
lent provision against d decisive
charge from the enemy in open aght-
ing. But any sort of superficial forth
cation flung up to meet a temporary
requirement ID now referred to In the
dispatches as . zereba. T. corresponds.
IN fact, TO the ~fence-rail breastWorks
and the light earthworks thrown up
By troops in the civil wal. The prin-
ciple Of construction is q very old one,
and Id q very good one in primitive
warfare where the serious fighting is
III hand-tO-hand encounters.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-22
SCRAPS

Experiments show that the heating
value of wet coal is Is per cent less
than of that which is dry.
p From experiments made French SCI
entists conclude that in fine weather
the last rays of light are dissipated in
the Mediterranean at a depth of about
1900 feet.
In the last volume issued by the &C.
illogical Survey in India Is an account
of a fiery eruption from one of the
mud ~yolcanes on Cheduba Island. A
body of flame 600 feet in circumfer-
ence is said to have at one time reach
ed an elevation of 2400 feet, petroleum
being the cause.
1t 10 maintained by certain astrono-
mers that the apparent diameter Of
the sun varies periodically, and DR.. j.
Hilfker Of Neufchatel contends that
the periodicity comedies with that Of
the sun-spot minimum, and vice
versa.
The trade winds ON the northern side
of the equator blow from the north
east, and south of the equator from
the southeast. In some places they
vary, and blow alternately SIX months
from one direction and six months
from the other. The namo comes from
the Anglo-Saxon "trcdde wind" which
means a wind that blows in % specific
"tread' Or direction. 1t has no con
nection with our word trade.
1t appears that an alloy Of copper.
platinum and tin has been extensively
used in Great Britain for jewelry with
the object of deceiving pawnbrokers.
The fraud has been very successful, as
the compound resfsts the usual nitric
acid test for gold. The alloy has ven
been used Cor counterfeiting English
coins.
DIR. Koch of Berlin is reported to
have succeeded in producing genuine
cholera in rabbits by mean of the ba-
cilli which he has regarded as the cause
Of the disease. Two Swiss physicians,
Nicati and Ritsch, claim to have met
with earlier success in this important
experiment shan DR.. Koch.
The Labor Tribune of Pittsburg does
not seem to think much of the natural
gas as a rival for coal. In a leading
article on the subject it says: accord
ing to the test made by engineers, 1000
cubic feet is equal in heating power to
one bushel of Pittsburg coal. From
inquiry among householders who are
using the gas, we learn that it costs
from two to three times as much as
coal. 1t is evident, then, that gas will
not supplant coal for domestic pur-
poses except with those householders
to whom additional expense will be no
objection"
The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-22
"But I never dreamed how things
were going to turn outl' said Dorothy.
Ruth Ransom.


Dyeing is always a hand process, as
the color of a dyer's hand suggests,
and here machinery does not attempt
to interfere. Long troughs fill the
sloppy and steamy room, in which thu
great skeins of silk yarn are dipped
from cross-sticks, by ~party-colored hui
man beings, who nov them occasion
ally to and fro to make sure all parts
have a fair chance. The muddy hue
suggests a little Of the brilliancy of
color that is to be the glory of the
completed fabric, and we will not en-
ter into any trade secrets of their com.
position. But there is good dyeing
and bad dyeing, honest dyeing and
false dyeing, and a silk maker who has
intent to deceive can make his yarn
take 800 per cent. of extra weight by
the use of metallic substances in the
dye pot. This accounts for some OF
the cheapness as well as the bad wear
of certain foreign fabrics which look
as well at first sight as goods at a
much higher price. Some of the for
eign black silks are so highly "ioaded'
with nitrate Of iron as to give color to
the belief in Spontaneous combus-
tion' in silk which caused the North
German Steamship Company in 1879
to refuse the weightier foreign silks.
The carbon of the silk and the nitrate
make a compound closely parallel to
gun cotton, which is simply cotton
fibre soaked with nitric acid. Ameri-
a manufacturers challenge onsum
ers to test the purity of their fabrics,
which may be done by raVelling the
silks into threads. IL heavily loaded
they will break easily, feel rough to
the touch because of the particles of
dye, taste inky to the tongue, and
burn smoulderingly into a yellow,
greasy ash instead of crisply into
almost nothing. These are tests lady
buyers of a silk dress should not for
get. The range of tint in colored silks
is remarkable, and the variety of shade
required from year to year by fashion
makes a curious pictorial history of the
times. One dealer at the Centennial
showed a rainbow in silk threads
Harper's Magazine.
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A6res'fiSinO.

The Chicago Lithographer prefaces
some pertinent remarks on advertis-
ing with the text, There is that scat
tereth, and yet %inereaseth; and there is
that w%itholdeth more than is meet.
but it tendsth to poverty" These
thoughts came to our mind the other
day when noticing a report Of some
huge advertising that had been done.
We pondered over the question:
Does advertising pay, and if so, what
kind of advertising pays best? What
eve may be said of the beauty Of
modesty it cannot he denied that in
the line of business he of the retiring
nature is, in nine times out of ten,
badly out-distanced. As in many
other things; what is true in the ab-
stract loses by being put INTO prac-
tice. Men of the present day are too
much occupied to III about in order
to find what they desire. They want
to have their attention attracted and
directed without expense of time and
labor on their part. Of this the COM
petent business manager will take
notice. If he has something to sell
to the community at large he will
strive TO have his commodities hrouuht
before a wide circle. If he, on the
contrary, furnishes some speciality
needed by a few, and those few in a
distinctly circumscribed vocation, he
will endeavor to get permanently
before those particular ones. Adver-
Using in all its varieties has become
an absolute neces ity, and to secure
the best advertising is the root and
branch of a true commercial science.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-22
LOcsgsfs.

A correspondent to the Cleveland
Leader writes: 1.-THE word locust is in
the United States applied to two kinds
of insects which differ from each
other more than wasps differ from
bees. The real locusts are commonly
called grasshoppers. They live only
one year, are above ground from the
beginning, eating green things aud
in those states which lie near the great
Chippewan plateau they are some
times as terribly destructive as those
described by the prophet Joel. But
what are commonly called locusts are
longer lived they pass several years
under ground, sucking sap from the
roots of the trees, and are
above ground only a few weeks, dur
ing which time they apparently eat
nothing. They simply lay their eggs
and die. The exact length of the life
is known only in one species, which
comes, in any particular locality, out
of the ground in immense numbers
once in seventeen years. During
those seventeen years they have been
weakening the trees on whose roots
they have lived. But during the few
weeks in May and June of the seven
teenth year. when they are above
ground, they do no harm, except to
bore holes in the tender twigs of trees.
In these holes they lay their eggs, and
the little twigs die. The eggs hatch
in July the young insect drops to the
ground and begins at once sucking
sap. first from roots of weeds, and at
length getting hold of the roots of
trees"
The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-22
Impeachment Of q Supreme Court
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The impeachment of Samuel Chase,
a Justice of the United States Supreme
Court, in 1904, was for many years
afterward a favorite topic of converse
tion among the old employees at the
Capitol. He vas n of the signers OF
the Declaration of independence. and
an upright judge, but he must, ut
times, if the stories about him we're
correct, have been irascible and over
bearing. the prosecution was set on
foot and managed by John Randolph
of Virginia. Eight distinct charges
were preferred, which alleged unjust.
tyrannical and arbitrary conduct at
certain trials over which he had pre-
sided. Judge Chase, it appeared, had
at the close of several political trials
taken occasion in his charge to the
jury to vent his political opinions with
rather more force than the case would
seem to warrant. The Democratic
party determined to get rid of him,
and an impeachment was resolved
upon. The Federalists of the country,
and especially those in Congress, de
nounced the proceedings as without
Just foundation and as an outburst Of
party spite and malice.
On the 4th of February, 1906, the
court opened. Judge Chase appeared
for himself in person, assisted by
Charles Lee, the late Acknowledgement,
Robert Goodloe Harper, the former
distinguished Federal leader in the
House, Luther Martin and Francis
Hopkinson. The case was opened by
Randolph in q speech characterized
more by inyectiyes than argument.
An immense number of witnesses
were examined on both sides, seven
teen days being occupied by the testi-
mony. The arguments of the counsel
and the summing up took seven days.
and on the LIST of March the vote was
taken on each of the charges separate
ly. There was a majority in favor o
the accused on five of the charges, and
a majority against him on the remain
ing three. but not the required. two
thirds necessary to convict.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-22
Angels Ope CasfOrs.

A Western paper speaks of girls at
the rink as angels on castors." Quite
poetical. Still it rather takes the
poetry out Of the thing when it is re-
membered that before the average girl
becomes an angel on castors she has a
course OF training to pursue that
brings her many a mishap. In the
words of the poet:
She's frowned upon by pastors,
She meets with sad disasters,
Needs arnica and plasters
Before the art she masters
OF gliding on the castors.
Boston Courier.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-22
Seven Ways OF Marrying.

There re seven seperate and dis
tinct ways in which the nup ial knot
may be tied, the attending expense OF
the differnt modes varyins from 81 to
$1,000. The least expensive, and the
n seldom adopted, except in cases of
elopement, is that afforded by the
Justices office. There a couple can lie
firmly united in the space Of o
Minute for a Small sum. It is Gus
tomary for a groom to Or ,ss as he
may please when the marriage is to
be performed by a justice, and a dress
suit would be sadly out of place in d
. musty law office. The one great ad-
vantage of the justice.shop marriage
is its cheapness.
AS some people object to being
married by a justice Of the peace, pre-
ferring the sanction of the church in
addition to that of the law, the young
people may visit a parsonage instead
of a Justices Office with the same pre-
paration. The ceremony may be fully
as informal when performed at the
minister's home, the only difference
being that not less than SO, and better
still SIS or so should be paid for the
service, although there is no fixed
sum charged. The most popular Ger
emony among people who do not class
themselves as in society" and also
among many who do. is a quiet home
wedding, where the bride is attired in
a suit of plain white or a travelling
dress. and the groom in a plain black
or brown business suit, and where
only a few friends and relatives are
present. The affair is informal, per-
haps a modest supper or lunch being
served after the ceremony is perform
ed, and the entire expense TO the
groom being covered by a $40 bill, or
even less. This is the most popular
wedding ceremony, and this is the way
in which fully IS per cent. of young
people are married.
Next in point of favor and inexpen-
siveness is the informal church wed
ding, being similar in all things ex-
cept that the service is performed
within the portals of the church. If
the affair is strictly private, the bride
and groom may be unsupported, or
have bridesmaids and groomsmen, as
they please. In the latter case full
dress suits should be worn, increasing
the expense. The. ''full dress we'd
ding" as it may be called when the
ceremony Is peri rmed at home. is
next in favor. Elaborate trousseau.
full dress suits, bridesmaids and
groomsmen, flowers In abundance, and
a host of invited guests are the re-
quisltes, followed by a reception, feast,
or lunch, as the contracting parties
may desire.
The seventh and last, and most pop
nlar Is the full dress affair, performed
in caurch. Among people who desire
to create a stir in society, this is the
.fayorite. It is expensive. and in
many cases neutrality-suspicious.
lee Journal
The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-22
nigh Days and Holidays.

High Days and HOEtdGyss
Olong and tagging hours of time,
How heavily the hope you mock,
How slow you creep across the cloek,
When the child waits for you to chime
The year returning in its primo
Yet all so glad. yet all so gladg
o hurrying hours, when ago is nigh,
So breathlessly you sweep along,
So fast your flashing circles throNS
BY failing sense and dazzled eye,
we scarcely see them as they fly
And NIL SO sad! and all SO sad.
-Harriet Spoford, in iiarper's.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-22

Iowa ranks the highest Of all the
States in the number of cattle to the
square mile. She has 2,0l4,484 head,
or 35.9 to the square mile. Illinois
has 20. Ohio q, Pennsylvania 19.
New York 13, and Texas Is head to
the square mile. The number of cat
tie 10 Texas Is 1924. 923.
The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-22
Haa seem the Perf,,.,,,c.a.

care them real Gambia Is ?" inquired
a countryman as he gazed on the won
ders of a Milwaukee dime museum
real cannibals2 well, dye know
what I'd do with EN- if this was my
show?"
NO ; what2s
I'D starye chi for three or four
days an then turn EN- loose on tho
rest OF the actors. / just saw the
stage performance. Chicago Herald,
The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-22

TSOFFERED by the Central st. Landry Protective
L Live Stock Association, for evideuea that will ieaa
to the apprehension and conviction nf any persons
guilty OF steaiing horses or cattle belonging to any
member of said 4 ssoeiation.. A record of the BRANDS
of members of the Association may be seen at the
house of tho Secretary. Juo. NJ. Ware, in Bellows,
or at tn, Clerks office in Ope1ousns.
INC nj. WARE. Sec'y...
.JRo. E. PELToN, Pres't. OF
The Opelousas courier., 1885-08-22
Opelousas, Sept. 6, 1888
OPELOUSlS r. ALE INSTITUTE.

UI hA5VO a. ne AAS
OpeIousas, st. Landry Parish, La.
rVNTIS Institution will resume duties Monday, Ssp
te nber 7th, 1885, under the inmsd, ,te supervision
of Mrs, NJ, IL. HIVES and Mrs. u. A. Da7is, witheom.
petent assistants. The scholastic year consists offNty
weeks.
TERMS OF TUITION;
Prepa'at Dry Department. per N NTH, ,...."."..8 30
Academic ..'-. .-. an
Music. with use of piano, ...-.- SOD
Ro, riding, including washing, light and fuel, -. 1870
Embroidery. wax flowers, printing. drawing,
Incidental fss, t@
DISCIPLINE:
The government OF this school IS strict but parental.
M hari tas{s or restrictions are imp 1sed, hut every
At, d mt mnst comply with the rules, and must prePlEa
n to the me .sure of her ability, the lessons assigned.
Our course of study and and mode OF instructions are
to train the MN tn HABITS of correct, GhinEias nd
thFou b invec tig ltion. N student Win % anoNedte
enter higher classes without thorough prepataIon@Ps
rents and guardians may rest assured that IN msnnes.
hea tn and morals of the chiliren ana warts shatl re
ceive due attention. oo
M deduction for absence. unless IN case OF prdtfact.
ed I'ness, The location of the town IS healtltul and
EASY OF access. Thu boarding depttthSht Y undsf
the Immediate ch4rye of Mrs. HaVei. Pm lars VIII
Drovide themselves with blankets and towers For par
ticulars address
,,Iy ss's nov sT7e. Prin;ipll,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-11-10
Notice of InCnrnorati0n.

PAIATkA GAS LIGHT AND FUEL COMPANY
The undersigned have formed and organized
themselves in company or incorporation TO
be known a. the Palatka Gas Light and Fuel
Company end The general nature of the
business to be transacted shall he the manu-
facturc Of 80 and the sale of gas and coal for
lights and tuet-
3rd. The amount OF capital stock anthor-
lied is fifty Thousand dO'lnrS. ten per cent of
which shall be paid in IT the commencement
OF TINS organization, TIE remainder shall be
paid as tue Dy-laVs may direct end as it shall
De called by the directors. under the by laws.
4th. Tile time Of the commencement of this
organization is of same date herewith. and the
corporation sh" II expire by limitation twenty
years thereafter. unless continued by legal
means.
5th. The business Of the company shall he
conducted by President end Board of five
Directors. 4 Secretary and Treasurer. and
suce other officers as may 3e provided for in
the bylaws.
9Th The highest amount of Indebtedness
or liability to which the company can at any
time subjecl itself is fixed at ten thousand
dollars. This June 9th, 1855.
VI. :. CARTER
COOK CARLETON.
WM. j. WINNFGA AR,
ELAN DEW ESTON.
". j. WEBB.
Pslatka, Fla. July 9Th. lsc5-
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-11-10
PisO3EINE.Nr PEEpLEc.

Mamie Dickens, eldest daughter Of the
novelist, has written a biography Of her
father
Actor john T. Owens, who was so
near to death, was sufficiently Improved
on Wednesday 10 take ride.
Count Bismarck, who has just been
placed in charge Of the German Foreign
office. is not yet So years old.
NJ. dc Lessep's daughter is his conf
dental secretary; 10 matter how fa~
he may travel. she always accompanies
him.
1ir. Glads me has written an an .icle
on the Dawn Of r. tier and Of Wor-
, lip fo- le Nov,en1Cr number Of the
Nineteenth Cent? V.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-11-10
Masters Sale.

Under and by virtue of decree rendered
on the end day of November n. D., 1855, by
Hon. Thomas T. King. judge of 5th Judicial
~cuit, of the safe of Florida, in the cause
IsuSSell s. Edwards, complainant W. Va leE-
, he l.. Lombard and Mary E. Lombard, his
wife, defendants, shall proceed to sell at pub
lie Outcry at the Court House door in the city
of Palatka, Putnam County. Florida, on Mon
day the eth day of December, A. d, 1885, be-
-wCen the legal hOurs for sale. to the highesG
D'ider for cash the following described prop
e..y: that ceI ain tract of land described IN
a deed dated April 18th. 1873, from w. L. Rem
bcrt anC his wife to II. W. Towle, and on rec
ord in the Clicks office of Putnam County
III book e. on pages 4 }, 451, 452, and known
end described as Lot eight (S). conveyed in
deed the l2,h day of May. \. D., 1873, by
Richard and w. IOwle and wife TO George
Van Sindreh and recorded in Clerks Office of
said County in deed book L." pages l0I or
I3t the said lot of land being three ~ chains
wide. or iGS f o.. lrOntinG on Lake George,
and rtIuniu- tl. on; 1 to he back line of the
al Ores&id tract of land and being two chains
and fifty links, or I65 feet thereon and con-
tliding ten acres, more or less according TO
plat OF Iid lots Of land recorded in Clerks Of
flee OF said county.
PaIatka. Nov. 9TH, lSS5.
C. {. COCHE ANE,
Spec ii Master in Chancery
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-11-10
Notice for Publication.
Land Once ut Gainesville. Fla.

Land Once ut Gainesville Fla.
Nov. : 1855.
Notice is hereby SivGQ that -.Ie following
named settler has fled no, ;ce oS his intention
to na',e final p 90 IN srpDort of h's ciaim.
apd l1t - Il 'I"CCt q eDe fOCc Reg :"
apd dRece verat ia ~ lie, E'a. .od WED ne sday
Dec. p. 1885, viz: "a " L. Tgsod, of PuJram
Hal. F'a.. nd No. 1S- FOR Tue 5 W Il Of mex
and dw1 u of Il, secs. to. sr24e He
names Ire follow . = witnesses TO prove his
coat uoUs res ldence upo ,. aut, coli ;VatIon O.,
"a id land. Va: j. G. SCricEtanh. of Etonian,
Fi9.: j. W. e. reep- :. Z. TaipmonS, II. :. Mo-
iteNsf Putnam Halt. F'a.
Il. :. BaRSFs, Res ister.