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The Opelousas courier., 1885-12-26
4 oriental Rebuke.

InscriptiAupon Oriental ware, vases,
Jars, fans, s. Rns and textiles are often
examined vii an amused baff1ed c%uriosi-
". What cal they mean2 1t is certain!
that they meaR Eomething. Even on the.
cheap fans they IRE curious and grotesque-
faces which &C d not have been painted
for their beau Only those initiated
can read their i, nv, and even among the
Japanese probah% these specimens of pic
torial rebus 'reattrIIe classical knowledge
for their interprt fion. History and fas
BILE and myth m-be understood, and a
Japnese who ca Understand must be
equal in imaginat IL to a commentator of
Shakespeare. A mt travelar in Japan
gives the story Of e of these riddles.
1t is as good as ansTngptian hicroglyph.
A Japanese of Instantaneous is repre-
sented as washing hisATT% in a-waterfall:
No basin would ans and no placid
stream suffice. He lis ,have the full
force of a cataract to &c ssse the ear into
which an improper protGasal had been
spoken. At q pool below 191p9e fall a cow
is drinking; but the owner, 'I,tanding near
her, glowers with anger at II Sear-washer
who is communicating the ST NJ. If in
dividually people took to c ing their
ears from scandal and 9TH pleasant
impourings, no ''water-workss ohld suf-
fee. LADY Macbeth's' quetp 'yHSould be
in order: "Will all great NS}ptune's
ocean" do it? "A
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Child Marriage i'm India.

Christian missions are beginning to pro-
duce really practical moral fruit in India.
DIR. Morrison, for many years engaged in
mission work in that country in connec-
ton with the English Presbyterian Church
writes in a most encouraging mi
Touching child marriage and the mar
Eissge of widows, he says a great change
Of opinion has taken place. Public opin-
ion has by various means been tested on
the general question, and several leading
Hindoos have given opinions in favor of
legislative change. Five of the most
prominent leaders of the Hindoo faith
have expressed themselves in favor of the
remarrying of widows, hitherto disallow-
ed, and in favor also of some measuresto
check the multiplication of widows by
some mild Legislative enactments in the
directions of hindering child marriage.
As the Hindoo law now stands, there are
millions of females doomed to the fate OF
Jephtha's daughter from girlhood. 1t is
one Of the great curses of India.
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Only Temperance Bitters known.

Grateful Thousands proclaim VINEGAR
BTTTERs the most wonderful lnvigorantt that ever
sustained the sinking system. ]
Made from California roots and herbs, free
from Alcoholic Stimulants. A Purgatiye..
and Tonic. I.
This Bitters cures Female Complaints,
nflammatory and Chronic Rheunnattslll,
Gout, Bilious, Repnittent and Intermittent Fe-
vers, Blood, Liver and kidneyDiseases.
Dyspepsia or Kndig estfOn, Headache,
Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness OF the
Chest, Dizziness, Sour Stomach, Furred Tongue
Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, Pneu-
are cured by the use of the Bitters.
For Skin Diseases. Eruptions, Bo1ls,
Erysipelas, Scrofula, Discolorations, Hu1norSand
diseases of the Skin of whatever name or ma
ture, are literally dug up and carried out OF the
system in a short time by the use of the Bitters.
1t HnVigOraeeS tlse stomach and Stlm-
ulates the torpid Liver and Bowels, which rem
der it of unequaied efficiency in cleansing the
blood Of all impurities. and imparting new life
and vigor to the whole system.
Ne Person can take the Bitters and remain
long unweIl.
PIN. Tape and other Worms, are
destroyed and removed from the system.
lean the Initiated Blood whenever
it is foul your feelings will tell you when. Keep
the blood pure, and the health of the system
will follow.
I'm conclusion I: Give the Bitters atrial. Il
will speak for itself. One bottle will prove q bet
ter guarantee of its merits than q lengthy ad-
vertisement.
Es. H. Mcdonald Drug Co.. Proprietors,
San Francisco, Cal, and 52s, $50 Il 5g2 Washington Sc
Cor. Charlton ST., New York.
Sold nv all Dealers and Druggists
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Nj. S. M. Merrill writes to the
Chicago Inter Ocean respecting the
changes in General Grants name:
ssThe fact is that his name was Hiram
Ulysses, and the H., which stood for
Hiram. was dropped and S. inserted
by mistake when he entered West
Point. 1t is also true that while in
school. prior to graduation, he always
wrote it u. III. Grant. How came he
to write it thus if his proper initials
were Fl. u. G.? The reason is that
when he was a boy at school in George
town. Ohio, the boys gave him a
nickname spelled by his initials. and
not liking to be called Hug he trans
posed the order of his given name and
therefore of his initials, and this with
the consent of his parents for the pur-
pose of getting rid of the nickname.
When his name was given to Mr..
Hamar at the time of his nomination
as cadet it was given in this order,
and in the register the s. was substi-
tuted for the III. by mistake. He
signed his name u. Fl. Grant till after
he received his commission in the
army, which commission was made
out according to the register, with an
S. in place of the IT.. and then he
found it necessary to sign his name
officially to correspond with his COM
mission and of necessity began to
write 1t us. He never took the
name Simpson. That was the name
Of his younger brother, who was the
merchant in Galena for whom u. S.
kept the books, aid who died of con-
sumption in the Summer of 1861. All
these details came to me the first year
of the war from his father. his moth
or, his three sisters, and his brother
Simpson"
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a Sparyoss Story.

A Washington pedestrian reports q
curious incident of the effect Of the
warm weather upon the asphalt pave
ment. It was go o'clock when .
sparrow fisw down to catch q grass
hopper. The grassnopper didn't move,
for the good reason that its feet we're
stuck fast, and before the sparrow
was through eating the morsel t Was
IN q like condition. Its mate flew
over its head and about chipping pite-
ously. and few down to rescue It's
bstaer-hals. II. TOO, upon resting its
fest ID the tar was stuck fast. Ii
sparrows wera Like men all the feath-
cred tribe in that tree would have
flown away without hearing Of the
pltsous cries. of their kindred. But
they didn't, but one BY one they Jew
down 70 che rescue and d By nj
their tiny fest stuck fast in the tar.
ninth by $40 o'clock the reporter
counted seven zen spsrroWs stuck fast
u the c~Oncreta
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pesrsRcatsoass.

Petriied mummies' eyes are the lat
est craze for watch char
IA human body, buried in 9 Bristol
(N. H. cemetery nine years ago, was
removed and found to be petriied.
Al petrined snake vas recently dis
covered in q sandstone rock at Ports
mouth. Ohio.
IA petriied hickory LOG, four feet
long and nine inches In diameter, was
found lately about eleven feet below
the surface, By workmen making 40
excavation in Greenbor0, S. G.
Four petrifed sharks teeth, from
one-fourth to one-half an inch long,
we're brought up recently from the
Americas ga artesian well. which
Is down sorne nine hundred odd feet
and has not yet reached supply d
good water.
The petriaed wood found in ths
Rocky Mountain regions Is rapidly
becoming utilized. IN San francisco
there ii s factory for cutting and
polishing the ~petrifactions into man
tol pieces, tiles, tablets and either
architectural paris FOR which marble
OF slab i commonly used. Petrified
wood IL said to be susceptible q g
ansr polish than marble or even onyx,
the III II Of which II Is dEiving from
tha market
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Whence comes this epidemic of suicides and
murderss Recent discussions nave named
several causes. Hon. C. Ell. Reeve,of Indiana,
charges it to infidel notwithstanding that
hopelessness of a future state cripples fofti-
tude for bearing life's ills. Another declares
suffering from the universal business depres-
sion the cause. A third writer attributes it
10 increasing insanity, a physician thinks
much of the tendency is inherited, while tenn
perance advocates lay the responsibility upon
strong drink.
F~ree-thinkers have committed suicide, but
90 have orthodox churchmen. Financial
straits have beset many, but the wealthy
have also taken their life.
Insanity and dissipation have preceded
suicides and family murders.
One feature common to almost every such
crime challenges attention. Well nigh every
report of suicide and family murder mentions
the parpetrador as having "for some time
been subject to melancholy" Whence come
this? Ali recognized medical authorities tell
us that the fire which consumes the brain is
always kindled by arrangements of digestion:
that good digestion is impossible without
pure blood, and pure blood is never known
when the liver and kidneys are out of order.
Under such circumstances, q preventive
should be sought, and for this Warmers safe
cure is Sovereign fact conceded by the best
authorities in the land. and it is especially
commended by the celebrated DR.. Dio Lewis
Rochester Democrat.
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PEARLS OF
A slight wound satifes wound,

A slight wound satifes wounded
honor.
He who loses hope may then part
with anything.
Any truth, faith1ully faced, is
strength in itself.
The longest day in the year-The
one before pay day.
A precipitate choice makes way for
a long repentance.
A man knows no more to any pur-
pose than he practices.
Have a purpose in life, and having
1t. throw into your work such strength
of mind and muscle as God has given
you.
On the diffusion Of education among
the people rests the preservation and
p~erpetuation of our free institutions.
In the man whose childhood has
known caresses there is always a fibre
OF memory that can be touched to gen
tie issues.
Things look dim to old folks; they
need have some young eyes about 'em
to let 'em know the worlds the same
as it used to be.
There is q beautiful moral feelin Q
connected with everything in rural
life, which is not dreamed of in the
philosophy of the city.
Every man who rises above the com.
mon level receives two educations. The
first from his instructors. the second,
the most personal and important, from
himself.
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The Ennnoua Natre Dana.

On the 30th of last January, the Sisters
of the most noted Catholic ladies semi
nary in the United States, the famous No
tire Dame, at Govanstown, near Baltimore,
Nd, made public a card, certifying to the
beneficial results attending the use of Red
Star Cough Cure in that institution. They
state that they found it eficacious alike
for relieving coughs, expressions on the
chest and irritation of the throat. Officials
Of the Boards of Health of Brooklyn,
Baltimore and other cities have likewise
publicly proclaimed the virtues of this
new discovery, which is entirely free from
opiates, poisons and other objections.
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in "sunny France" 1 have daily
watched her bearing the heat and bur-
den Of the day in the fields of the
"Fatherland," and in Austria-H Hun
gary doing the work of man and beast
on the farm and in the mine. | have
seen women emerge from the coal pits
of "busy Belgium" where little girls
and young women graduate under
ground as heWers of coal and drawers
of carts, for it is no uncommon thing
in Europe to hitch women and dogs
together that manufacturing may be
done cheaply. Aged, bent ann sun
burned, | have seen women, with rope
over shoulders. toiling on the banks of
canals and dykes in picturesque Hol-
land. Having witnessed all this 1
was yet surprised to find in a city
so beautiful end seemingly SO
rich and prosperous as Stockholm,
woman still more debased. In Stock
holm she is almost exclusively en-
pioyed as hod-carrier and bricklaver's
assistant. She carries brick, mixes
mortar, and in short. does all the heavy
work about the building At the dinner
hour you see groups Of women sitting
on the piles of wood and stones eating
their frugal repast. They wear a
short gown, coming a trifie below the
knee, their home-knitted wooden stock
ings and wooden shoes. Over their
head a kerchief is tightly tied. Those
engaged in mixing mortar and tend
ing p~lasterers wear aprons. They are
paid>for a day Of hard work of this
toll, lasting twelve hours. the munif-
cent sum of one kroner equivalent to
26.8 cents). Women sweep the
streets, haul the rubbish, draw hand
carts up the hills and over the cobble
stones. unload bricks at the quays, at
tend to the parks, do the gardening
and row the ferries which
abound at Stockholm. The entire
dairy business of the city is in their
hands, and here they take the place of
horses and dogs, carrying on their
shoulders the heavy cans of milk from
door to door.
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shape of she Horses Back.

An English livestock paper. in an
article relating to the selection of a
horse for the work he is expected to
perform, after stating the result of
many observations on horses, remarks
that it is the arch of a bridge which.
from its structure, can bear weight
placed upon 1t. whereas. an inverted
arch would fall to pieces, or would.
withstand a far less pressure. It has
been observed that low backed, or
rather holloW-backed horses. working
In harness. kept their condition. while
those with high-backs lost flesh. Per
sons OF not very inquiring or observ-
ant dispositions would probably at
tribute this to the fact that the former
were of more hardy constitution than
the latter, but this would be a false
conclusion. Il isoWing entirely TO the
curvature of the back. for a horse
which car draw d weight is least able
to bear weight upon its back. while
the horse unable to bear the strain of
draft can beat the other any day in
carrying weight. The line OF the
vertebra indicates the sort of work
for which the horse is fitted. If it is
high the weight must be on top to
press it together: IL low, the pressure
must DO from below for the same rea-
son. A downward curvature is. there
fore, the best form Of spine for a draft
horse.
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-1ErE @EEEaGE n MEMB9
The unprecedented success and merit OF
Ely's Cream Balm-a real cure for catarrh.
hay-fever, and cold in the head-has induced
many adyentuFers to plsce cataTrh medicines
bearing some resemblance in appearance.
style or name upon the market, ia order to
trade upon the reputation Of Ely's Cream
Balm. Many in your immediate locality VIII
testify In highest commentator OF ik Don't
be deceived Buy only Ely's Cream Balm.
A particle IL applied into each nostril: no
pain agreeable 20 use. Price SIC. Druggists.
Hay-Fsver. I have been a great sufferer
from Hay-Feyer for is years. Tread Of the
many vondrous cures by Ely's Cream Balm
minutes after one application / was wonder.
fully helped. Two weeks ago ] commenced
using II ard now I feel entirely cured, It r
the greatest discovery ever known or heard
oe-uuHuHAL CLARK. Farmer, Lee, Mass.
Price 50 cents.
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wezaem IL swsdss.

a correspondent Of the Philadelphia
lss says: 10 complete the ecstacy
of hoa8 who believe ii the Degrade
lla III human labor need 4 say that
" Stockholm tho debasen1ent Of
ROME Is perhaps more thorough and
than ii any city Of northern
paS she here practically sup
I'LL beasts of burden. And !
AM aE altogether unfamiliar with
work Ii Europe. I hare
around the pic mouth, at the
ID b~are.footed II tho briek-
Il smAFEie England" filing
8le 8nd tending COKE oVsns
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IA New York letter relates how Mrs.
Vanderbilt Is able to see herself. in
one respect, at least. as others see her
I came across a Vanderbilt privilege
If wealth unexpectedly in the estab-
lishment of a tailor for women. 4
Mill stood in the centre Of a work room
while d male expert fitted q garment
% her upper figure. eThat is Mrs.
William X. Vanderbilt" said N
sNonsense,. l calculated. willie
Vanderbilt's wife hasn't red hair, nor
\ face at all like that" "What I
mean. was the explanation, lis that the
girl is posing as Mrs. Vanderbilt. The
two are exactly the same size and
SHAPE. This one is hired to serve in
Vie place Of the millionairess in the
labOrions matter of having costumes
htted. The garment nov being taken
10, let out and generally adapted is for
hrs. Vanderbilt, who is at her ease In
Newport, while the double endures
the hour or two of tiresome stand
lng. Mechanical forms are common
tor that purpose, and most of Dur rich
customers keep them with US. which
AN change position. walk about. sit
ioWRs and In other ways demonstrate
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LADIES DEPARTMENT.

re Longer q Woman, But u Eulphide.
IA celebrated Partisan belle, who
had acquired the habit Of whitewash-
ing herself, so to speak, from the soles
of her feet to the roots of her hair
with chemically prepared cosmetics,
one day took a medicated bath, and,
en- emerging from 1t, she was Mortified
TO find herself as black as an Ethio-
plan. The transformation was COM
plete; not a vestige of the supreme
Caucasian race" was left. Her physi-
clan was sent for In alarm and haste.
On his arrival he laughed immodel-
ately, and said: MADAM, you are not
III, you are a chemical product. You
are NJ longer a woman, but sulphide.
II is not a question of medical treat
ment, but Of simple chemical reaction.
/ shall subject you to a bath of sui
phuric acid diluted with water. The
acid will have the honor of combining
with you; it will take up the sulphur,
the metal will produce a sulphate, and
we shall find as a precipitate O very
pretty woman" The good-natured
physician went through with his re-
action. and the belle was restored to
her membership with the white race.
Young ladies who are ambitious of
snowy compilations should remember
this, and be careful what powders and
cosmetics they use il they use any at
M-Journdz Of Chemistry.
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lone Nail Drives Out Another,s
in the ! a sast d;sas ssaS viii 1;Ip5 s', hssap,ts,o itss1e
Tor another and graver one, in very many
cases. Liver disease, for instance, viii soon
induce blood disorders, throat ailments, skin
affections and eventually, because OF impov-
erished blood, consumption itself, unless, in
deed, it be treated in its incipiency and early
progress by Or. Pierce's ssGolden Medical
Discovery 2 which acts as q specific in these
ailments, accomplishing a rapid cure by its
powerful Alternative action upon the great or
eans Of the body.
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ALCOHOL WAS NOT INVENTED and min.
erals were never used incidentally in the
days Of old. Invigorating and Alternative
herbs were then the only curatives. Sick
animals, with unerring instinct, invaria'
bly, select strange herbs for their ailments.
VINEGAR Buffers is the greatest herb
antidote and tonic ever known.
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An or.eon snnaay sehool rsaeher.

An Oregon Sunday school Teacher.
IA writer on the Portland (Or.) Oh
sercer says that lie recently approached
o mansion situated on Poverty Flat,
and observed the daughter of the house
iii the front yard placing a mans sad
die on an Oregon horse that objected
to this proceeding. She was about the
age when standing with reluctant
feet womanhood and childhood meet"
offered my assistance as she was hop
ping around on her right foot. her left
foot in the stirrup, while she firmly
grasped the bride bit in her left hand.
The cayuse, meanwhile, was making
mad bounds, believing as only an Ore
gon horse car below, and standing
first on his hind feet, then on his fore.
"No, thanks; / can manage him."
she said, and Vaulted into the saddle,
not sidewise, but otherwise.
The instant the girl gained the sad
die, and the horse felt that she was
there, down went his head, an arch
sprung in his back, and away he went,
jumping, stiff legged. over sage brush
six feet high, until horse and rider dis
appeared in the d stance. After a
while she came back at D laundering
gallop. and refined up at the door. a
trifie excited but smiling.
OF course no corn-fed girl in the
State could hope to do SO well IS this
production of the bunch-grass hills.
But character goes for more than
trivial incident. and Of the gentler sex
II must be said that here, as elsewhere,
they teach in the Sunday schools, and
are the shining lights that point out
tho way onward and upward to the
weary and faltering feet Of the sons of
men.
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Did She Die 2

"Nol
She fingered and suffered along, pining
away all the time for years."
The doctors doing her no good"
"And at last was cured by this Hop Bitters
the papers say so much about" -
"Jndeed Indeed p
Chow thankful we should be for that med
icine."
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Young or middIe-aged men, suffering from
nervous debility and kindred weaknesses,
should send ten cents in stamps for large
treatise giving successful treatment. Worlds
,Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, NY.
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.YONr Fr9ends VIII NeVer TeII n OMs
but perhaps somebody, who isn't your friend,
will, that your presence is rendered offensive
by the foul, fetid smell of your breath. Ev-
echo of wisdom and poetry, disgusts your
hearers, and your laugh is productive of any
thing but mirth to them. 1t is a duty you
owe, not only to yourself, but to society, to
remove this cause of offense. Dr.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy viii heal the diseased mu-
eous membrane, will bring relief to yourself
and others. Do not hesitate to employ it
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An tim or 1NTEREsT.--tsBeeson's Aromat-
ic Alum Sulphur Soap prevents, cures and
heals skin diseases, softens and beautifies ace
and hand. 25c. by Druggists" or by mail.
Address Vim. Drydoppel, Philadelphia, Pa.
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Advertising Cheats u!

+" 1t has become so common to begin an
article in an elegant, interesting style,
"Then run it into some advertisement, that
we avoid all such,
And simply call attention TO the merits OF
Hop Ritters in as plain, honest terms as pos.
sible,
"To induce people
"To give them one trial, which so proves
their value that they will never use anything
else."
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CZE M a!

My wife has been sorely afflicted with Eczema or
Salt Rheqm from infancy, We tried every known
remedy, but to no avail. She was also afflicted with
a periodical nervous headache, sometimes followed
by an intermittent fever, SO that her life became a
She COMMENCED seven weeks ago. After the third
bottle the inflammation Disappeared, and sore spots
brushed them off in an ilnpalpable white powder re-
sembling pure salt. She is now taking the sixth bot
tie; every appearance of the disease is gone and her
flesh is soft and white as a child's. Her headaches
have disappeared and she ENJOYS the only good health
she has known in 20 years. No wonder she deems
every bottle of S. S. s. is worth a thousand times its
weight in gold. JOHN T.
Detroit, Mich, May Is, 1885. Al Griswold St
For sale by all druggists.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
N, ", 1877 W. sd st. Drawers 8, Atlanta, Ga.
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When you visit or leave New York city. save baggage
expFessage and @5 carriage hire, and stop at ths Grand
Union Hotel. opposite Grand Central Depot
6go elegant rooms. lifted up at q cost OF one million
vator. Restaurant supplied with the best. Horse cars,
stages and elevated railroad to all dspots. Families
can live better for less money OF the Grand. Union
Hotel than at any other fTskclass hotel In the city.
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-There is many a better sermon thought out
in the pew than is delivered in the pulpit.

PHosPHATE.--The Improved Plant Food,
manufactured only by C. T. & J. F. Marsden,
of Baltimore, Md, is made from the best ma
%terials, and formulated in such a way as to
get the best re suits ebtainable. The necessity
OF CONNER cial fertilizers is nc longer ques-
toned, the only object being to obtain a good
pure article. In this respect Phosphate is un-
rivaled, and wherever used is a deserved ia
vorvite.---The Practical Farmer, PhIa.
A well-regulated justice will find a true
bill against a man for uttering a false bill