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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-09-16
BLAINE'S STRENGTH.

The result. of the Name election
where Republican majority Of H.
0)) was rolled uo is a surprise to
everybody. The Democrats were
making hard fight and the Repub-
licans would have been content
with majority Of 5000. In fact
their most careful estimates did
not warrant him more,
The result shows that the Repub-
licaus secured the vote Of class
who say very little about what they
propose to do On election day.
Blaine went personally into the
campaign and moving from point
to point made some rousing speech
es, which put new life into the Re
pubiicans.
The result showed that Blaine is
more popular leader than ever and
that good many Democrats have
grown already weary Of the two
years of Democratic rule and are
anxious to see the country back in
lis old prosperous condition The
vote is boom plimcnt 70 both Blaine
aad the Republican party and be
now stands the most formidable
candidate of all for the nomination
OF 1879.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-09-16
The SUPREME JUDGEsHIp.

From present appearances there
will be more candidates for the
District Judgeship than is neces
sary to fill the Offices. Yet strangely
enough there is no candidate for
the Supreme Court Judgeship. The
APPEAL would suggest that Orms
by County present the name of
Judge Edwards as candidate for
Judge of the Supreme Court to run
against Belknap. Judge Edwards
has had long experience as lawyer
and Judge, and during the term Of
his incumbency in this county has
gwen general satisfaction to lit
gants.
Another feature which cemmends
his selection for that position is
his expeditions manner Of transact
ing business. If his name were
presented.by the Ormsby deiega-
tion it would also receive the solid
support of douglass where he has
also held Court.
We understand that Judge Ed
wards is not a candidate for that
position although his friends have
urged him to become one. If pom
mated the APPEAL has no doubt
that he would be willing to accept.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-09-16

The question Of original and
distinctive brands for cattle is as
Stunning perplexing proportions
among stockmen in Colorado. The
Egbery Tribune says: There are
over 5000 brands in use in Colo
rado. Since August last the law
has prohibited the duplication Of
brands. 1t keeps the force in the
Secretary Of States Office busy sug-
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-09-16

costing new brand. to meet the re-
quircments of applicants for brands.
Since August 1st. 1881, 2,303 varia-
t,ons have been placed on the
books, running all the way from a
plain saw-horse to lop-sided water
lug.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-09-16

All leading Daily ane wss&iy PsA-
licn,ions, East and West, xuE Pised Ay
Nail or Carrier, At Loves; RAssa
Our two stores ara TGrGtee' RS 11He
RinckeI and Exchange Bank EBesAs.
Carpcn street, Carsen City. av. MA
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
RLa1raa into Ennte.

q. B. Lewis DIETER known as seM.
Quad") is perhaps the most unique and
genuine humorist tins country has pro-
dueed, excepting only Artemus Ward
and Hosea Biglow. It is not generally
known when or where he was born, nor
is it a matter Of much consequence, since
his career did not begin till he was blown
up, some Is years ago. on an Ohio river
steamboat. He is, perhaps, the only ex-
ample of q man who has been lifted into
fame by being tossed 100 feet into the
the air, aud coming down, Q dead
than alive, to tell the story. He did
this. Standing at his printers case,
when he was so far recovered as to limp
about, he putNinto type ssHow i feels tO
be blown up, 7 and the whole west burst
into laughter. That laughter made IN.
GUAR famous. He was then transferred
from the composing 70 70 the editorial
department, and ever since s~hortextFacts
from the Free Press have been copied
INTO every Journal throughout the coun.
frH.-HMrps1.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
Sagaeity.

Instances of the sagacity of dogs are
gnite innumerablc. A Massachusetts
paper adds one to the list, exhibiting
this intelligent animal in a new capacity,
that of a newspaper carrier. Passengers
or the afternoon ''scoot" tram from
Springfield may daily witness in West
field an instance of canine intelligence
worthy to go on record.
Soon after the train passes the trap
rock quarry on the outside of the track
used by eastward bound trains, a dog can
be seen racing along with the cars until
a paper IS thrown off by the baggage
master. The dog instantly seizes it, and,
after giving o bark of acknowledgement,
trots down the embankment to the house
Of his owner not far away. The sagacious
animal is apparently of Newfoundland
and st. Bernard breed, and for three or
four years has acted as news-carrier In
the way described. Every day except
Sunday, summer and winter, he goes to
his post on the track at about the time
the train is due, and there awaits the
throwing of the paper. It is said that
he not only knows the hour when the
train should come along, but that on one
day in seven there is no need for his
services. Apparently the dog has learned
to know the whistle of his train from any
other, for if in the road or yard when the
whistle is sounded, half q mile down the
track, he rushes for his station.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
The Rule of Success.

It is astonishing how many of our
successful business men attribute their
good fortune neither to luck or general
excellence of judgement, but will tell
you how a strict adherence to some
single rule has done it all for them. Com
modore Vanderbi1ts receipt for making
millions with certainty and celebrity, was
TO never sign a note; William 3. Dodge
would not hold any pecuniary interest in
any enterprise that was at all active on
Sunday, and he firmly believed that his
wealth was a reward for conscientiously
observing the Sabbath day; the first
John Jacob Astor's charm lay in invest
ing nothing aside from his regular
business except in real estate; and
Alexander T. Stewart would have
anticipated misfortune if he had wantonly
broken the smallest personal engagement.
Men of success can afford to practice
their theories, and wen become slaves te
them. Men of failure cannot indulge il
such luxnries of conduct.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
Chinese Burglary.


It is a custom ameng the Chinese to
give several dollars to the man who is
first to report to a family the fact that
their son has received the degree of Ku
Yam. A number of men determined to
avail themselves of the opportunity of
making money which such a custom pre-
sented. These men armed themselves
with knives and pistols, which they con-
cealed under their clothing. Others of
them held leaflets, which are regularly
sold in the streets during an examina.
ton, These leaflets contain the names
of the successful candidates. Thus pre-
pared they proceeded to the house of a
man named Ho. The foremost man
went to the door to congratulate the
family on its good fortune The second
report was close at his heels, and then
followed the men with leaflets. The men
marched inside, and then revealed their
true mission. They then robbed the
house of some thousand dollars in money
and clothing. On coming out their con-
gratulations were loud and long. At
the door they fred off their crackers,
thus thoroughly deluding the neighbors,
and amid the noise and uproar of a pre-
tended family rejoicing got away. The
hard part of the luck is the fact that no
member of the Ho family had got a
degree.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
Nilton's Abstinence and Melancholy.

.1#.-- -.H #-
Milton was evidently one of those
natures who learned very early by a kind
of fatidious instinct the high pleasure of
abstinence; not by tampering with in
diligence and finding his mistake, a
course which may lower the succeeding
temperance from the realm of pleasure to
that of a distasteful and curative
necessity. He had evidently discovered
that spare diet, short slumbers and
rigorous restraint, leave, when the first
tremors and cravings of the discontinued
body are over, the mind pure and free and
vigorous with great spring and plentitudc
of animal spirits, and not dulled or cloud
ed by any of the fumes and humors that
haunt the brain Of the full blooded, easy
liver. On the other hand, he no doubt,
suffered from the vague and delicious
melancholy common to a~stere souls
and eremitic frames; it is q common mis-
take to speak of music as solacing or
charming slch melancholy-it is not so;
music is potent to lift the black clouds,
the gloomy horrors of morbid mel
ancholy, resulting on mental exhaustion
OF physical prostration, but the dreamy,
pensiye mood, a condition of high and
exalted delight, needs no curing; 1t is
fed by music, strcnuously bruising the
sweetness out Of it., the harmony and
rhythm working up the soul to a puri-
fed ecstacy far different from the blind
and animal rapture induced on merely
nsuou natures.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
Rfa Old Globes Trade.

A New York old clo' man thus des-
cants on his trade: "There amt any
fortune in the business, but it pays when
q man has a second hand store to get 'em
off. We prosper, and have . musical
soiree every Sunday. ! nm q Frenchman
aud enjoy life. There are no secrets in
the business. If q young man smokes, ]
give him a genuine Havana, and talk
business to him. He feels good, brings
ont his old clothes and piles them up.
I make an offer on the lump. He refuses.
I tell q joke, compliment him, and raise
my bid q dollar. The advance generally
fetches him. Perhaps there are several
suits that cost $40 o $40 in the pile.
Some OF them may be soiled rather than
badly worn. / take them home and have
two tailors to go vcr them and bring out
what ii left Of usefulness and looks.
Well, that $50 suit, that cost me SO, and
oftentimes les, I hang up in the store,
with a 81 label on it. The $40 suit i
offered at IS. The profits are big, but
the business IS not rushing. ! buy mort
old clothes from young men at boarding
houses and hotels than from those WIKI
reside at home.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
Parrots In India,

We went to India, and I was COM
pletely fascinated by the crowds of green
parrots we saw on the plains. It was a
never-failing source of delight to me to
see them flying in t1ocks, often hundreds
at q time, with the rays of the descend
ing sur ~giistenlng on their emerald green
plumage; or to see a tree destitute of
leaves made green treason of the null
titude of parrots that had settled on its
branches; or again, at sunset, to see the
green parrots flying about the white
marble minarets of the glorious Taj-Me-
hal, or darling about, frolicking in the
expiring rays. To me they were the
most lovely of India's birds. One scene
connected with parrots is, from its per-
feet beauty, often present in my mind.
At a certain residence, n of the finest
in Northern India, there is a fountain
constantly playing, and in the early
morning the parrots gather together in
vast numbers to drink and battle in its
: running waters and basin. TO see their
graceful curves and upward flights be-
fore dashing through and just Swimming
the surface of the water, with their un.
bounded JOY and delight in SO doing,
was a picture of ccstatic, ideal, living
happiness difficult to surpass. The par
rots at this residency are almost tame,
for every morning four or five Gagged
ones are let loose to be fed, and dowr
come oil the wild ones to share theil
feast. The early morning is the time t.
see these birds at their brightest an6
best. At the first glimpse of the~risine
sun they forsake their nights resting
places, and fly shrieking forth in searcl
of food, and on many a tree they may b
seen pulling off the precious berries AM
fruits. Alasl the madhi's gardeners
heart does not warm to parrots, for thei
nature is to work destruction whereye
they go. and they pick off and dcstro
far more than they eat-as the uDrip
mangoes lying at the foot of a mangg
tree will testify orehiW.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
Baby Was Hungry.

A physician was called out of a sound
slumber the other night to answer the
telephone.
'Hello! What is it," he asked, little
pleased at the idea of leaving his com
Portable bed.
"Baby is crying, doctor; what shall ]
do?" came across the wires.
Oh, perhaps it's a pin," suggested the
doctor, recognizing the voice of a young
mother n of his patients.
"No," came the reply; II am sure it
can not be that"
"Perhaps he has the %colic," returned
the doctor, with we'll stimulated
solicitude.
mo, 1 don't think So" replied the
anxious mother; che doesn't act that
way"
Then perhaps he's hungry" replied
the doctor, as a last resort.
"Oh, I'll see cam across the wires
then all was silent.
The doctor went to bed, and was soor
fast asleep again. About half an houl
afterward he was again awakened by 9
violent ringing of his telephone bell,
Jumping out Of bed and placing the re-
ceiver to his ear, he was cheered by the
following MESSAGE
"You were right, doctor; baby wa:
hungry"
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
LonafsgEoac,s First Poem,


An orator may feel a sense of satisfac-
lion in the Grafton which makes him the
voice of a nati6n, but his success does
+ not thrill him as did the defamation
when he was a boy which first made him
the hero of the little red schoolhouse at
the crossroads. Even the poets latest
ve4ume, though the publisher announces
Its tenth edition, does not SO stir his
soul as did the sight of his first poem in
the country newspaper.
The poet Longfellow had this thrill
ing experience in his thirteenth year.
Near the farm of his maternal grand
father was a small lake, known as Low
elfs Pond. It was the scene of a famous
event in New England history, "Lovel's
Fight" with the Indians. The story
made such a deep impression on the boys
Imagination that he wrote o poem of four
stanzas, entitled, "The Battle of Lovell's
Pond"
With a trembling heart he ran down
to the printing office where the Port
land Gazette was published, and dropped
the manuscript into the letter-box. The
evening ON which the paper was printed
he went again, and stood shivering while
watching the working of the press, and
wondering if his poem would appear
next morning.
His sister shared his confidence, and
they watched their father when he picked
up the paper and dried it before the
wood fire. He read 1t slowly, laid it
aside, and said nothing. They picked
it up, and lol the poem was there in the
poets corner.
The delighted boy read it over and
over, and again and again, and each
time he felt the thrill of pleasure intensi-
fed. In the evening he went TO visit hi:
friend Frederick, the son of Judge Mel
len, his fathers intimate friend. The
conversation turned upon poetry, and
the judge, taking up tho mornings
Gazette, asked:
"Did you, see the piece in to-day's pa.
peri Very stiff; remarkably stiff. More.
over, it is all borrowed; every word Of
it,
It was the boys first encounter with 8
critic, and that night his pillow was
sprinkied with tears. The judge was
correct in his criticism; but poor "a
were tho verses, they gave the boy hi
first sensation of the pleasure OF. seeing
oneself in print. Youths Companion.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
Lostna q Post-ORce.

In the early days of Michigan, when
many of the p~ost-offices were carried in
the hats of the postmasters, a postmaster
in Livingston County was out in the
woods one day and lost several letters
from the hat. A day or two after that a
pioneer named B eiley came to his house
and inquired if there was any mail for
him.
tsThcre wal a letter for you, Bill, but
I've lost it," was the reply.
"Whcn ~
H'Tother day in the woods"
aWell, ! want that i~etterg'
stBut yc can't git it. I'm sorry I lost
it, but that's all I can do"
.sThen I'll have you removed from of
feel
"Look a-herc, Bill Bailey" said thu
ofic al, as he began to skin off his coat,
II was appointed to hold this post office,
and Pm bound to do it. AS a private
citizen | have no hard feelings agin you;
as postmaster | lost a letter writ to yot
by your sister in York State; as a repre-.
sentative Of this great and awful govern
mcnt, / want to say to you that If | heal
two more words of sass from your throa
I'll suppress the i%nsurrectioa by hanging
you to the nearest tree, so help me God
sirl"
Mr.. Bailey was, however, permitted +
make a hunt in the woods for his letter
and he found it and the instruction wa
unprecedented Free Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
] ~ eE,z0sanbEe MastGke.

He had been to the city and went
home brimful Of news.
nYou member the smiths2a he asked
bis wife. 9Th Silver erik Smiths, them
4 at rich Oh Their ggran'feyther's
money
va she remembered them.
q seen lem. They're way mp; live in
] 0ran, house On i street they call 'thave-
moo, they ride II 4 double kerriage
and hare no end Of money!
she said she s'posed = much
s.But. dumb sakesl Mandy, you
wa,,ldn,t want Ter change places with
ber. Isee her 1 minnit ar Ididn'e hes
tl,e heart to speak z her"
she said she'd like to Know WY
stuck up taingl
mo, she ain't, Mandy, not now.
she's bin huznbled rite down e Q
Ara. she's b blind q q bet.
BIindi she guessed not.
ssBut she ii. Fast, she didn't kne
ne--ms thass ia down hill and played
eae Nth hsr when she warn't knee-hlgi
4 J t,srkev. Then, Mandy, tho' he1
90 sraro wide open, she went rlte al0nl
al streets iii dressed up II ane close
a,,d ! leatle mite of I dogg was lsaalnt
81. wyaa fiad ID q stEeeng
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
Cannon Made Of Silk.

That ingenious but incrednlous and
obstinate people, the Chinese, cannot be
induced to believe that we make car
wheels and other things requiring the
~tenacity and durability of steel out of
paper. But they ask us to believe that
they have made cannon out Of silk and that
it is efficient artillery, OF which a single
camel can carry . dozen batteries.
Thackeray's spinster, who thought there
were few things which could not be done
with cut flowers, would hardly have
deemed sthem suitable ~projectiles; YET
such q claim wonld hardly seem more
surprising than that advanced by thu
inventive pigtails concerning theil
artillery.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
SCRAPS

A French botanist has enumerated 87S
species of plants growing in Greenland.
and he finds that they resemble those of
Lapland more than those of the American
continent.
A lately deceased French doctor spent
his life in studying distorted mankind,
and made a large collection Of skeletons
OF deformed persons. This unique
museum is about to be sold in Paris. and
is expected 10 realize the sum of So, 600.
The active principle of cod-liver oil, of
which it forms from one and a half to six
per cent, has been obtained by DIR.
Lafarge of Paris, and is said to have
given excellent results when used in place
of the crude oil. The substance is called
morrhuol, and contains twelve times as
much iodine, bromine and phosphorus as
the original oil, with none of the fat.
A history of herbaria has been written
by DR.. Saint Lager of Lyons. From this
it appears that the oldest collections Of
pressed plants nov extant, or partially
so, are those of Aldrovandi, begun about
1864, and containing at least &, 900
specimens; Of Girault, of Lyons, dated
1868, andof Cesalpin, dated 1868. The
collections are now in Bologna, Paris and
Florence.
In orderto settle the question as to the
proper treatment for persons who have
been frozen, DR.. Laptchinski has made a
series of very careful experiments upon
dogs. He found that of 90 animals
treated blythe method of gradual resusci-
tation in a cold room IA persisted; OF
90 placed at once in a warm room, eight
died, while 90 put Immediately into q
hot bath recovered quickly and without
accident.
Mr.. E. Yung has been ascertaining the
nature of the influence Of salt water or
the development OF the larve Of the frog.
The tadpole perishes in from three to
twenty minutes in the water of the Med.
iterranean, containing four per cent. Of
salts, and in a few hours in a solution of
marine salts in tho proportion Of one
per cent. But it may be adapted to or
existence in salt water by a gradual pre-
paration through q series of solutions OF
from two to eight per !, 900.
Why have Yellow Fevcra Singularly
1attcring reports continue to be mad'
concerning DR.. Domlngos Freire's sys-
tenn of preventive incubation in yellow
fever. A late one to the Paris Biograph
ical Society states that during the thre'
hot months in Brazil ending with Feb
ruary last, 3,051 subjects were ~inoculat
ed in Rio dc Janeiro, and not n hat
the fever, whereas, in tho same district
and houses 278 non-vaccinated sue
cumbcd to the disease. What is NOR
remarkable is that severe cases wer
%inoculated in tho second stage of th
disease. and all recovered.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
N~rilestones ON the Road 70 He.lth.

I The recovery OF digestion, and the resimp-
ton of activity by the liver, bowels and kid
neys, are milestones which mark our progress
on the road to health. They speedily become
Is used by the invalid. Nothing SO surely and
expeditiously consumes the distance to the de-
sired goal. AS no bodily function can suffer
interruption without impairing the the general
health of the system, so the system can never
acquire perfect vigor, health's synonym, until
that function be actively resumed. Take, for
instance, digestion, a suspension of (which is
invariably rectified by the Bitters. If the or
gans upon which it devolves grow weak. bill
iousness, constipation, headache, poverty of
the blood, and a hundred other symptoms SUI
pervene, which indicate unmis.akabIy the
baneful general influence of dyspepsia. Tho
disappearance of all these symptoms through
the use OF the Bitters, show with what thor
ouehness it removes their cause.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18

John Kuhn. of Lafayette, Ind, had a very
narrow escape from death. This is his OWE
story: "One year ago / was in the last stages
of Consumption. Our best physicians gave
my case up. / finally got SO low that our doc
tor said / could not live twenty-four hours
My friend then purchased a bottle of Dr.. WIN
HALLS BALsAM FOR THE LUNGS, which bone
flied me- / continued until / am now in per
feet health, having used no other medicine"
The Opelousas courier., 1886-09-18
LADLES DEPARTMENE.
1l-neamsmemt asiaaea.

Ill an article on engagement rings. d
French writer says:-Do not choose the
ruby; IL ID too snowy. loud, and indis-
erect Good taste i~nclines toward the
sapphire and the diamond, Of which the
one does not go we'll without the other.
DO not choose a large sapphire, sur
rounded by diamonds, but ask your
level artist TO interIace, in happy com
bination, the sapphire aud the diamond.
Theturquoise j. also a tasteful stone, but
when it is constantly worn it has the
immense disadvantage to change color,
and to this change most women attach a
sad and sentimental superstition. 1t
should not, therefore, be chosen for the
Arst present which is to be worn and
cherished while life lasts, and which re-
mains from the days of youth, while
everything else changes
seyash Husbands and Exactfng Wives.
There have been selfish husbands and
exacting wives ever since there were hus.
bands and wives at all, and there have
also been and will continue to be, coup
les who are truly one; where, whether
the wife earns money or not, whatever
they may possess belongs as much to one
Is to the other. Probably neither hus.
band nor wife is perfect. He has long
ago learned that she has her little tenn.
pers aud ~petulances; that her opinion,
% many subjects differ radically from
his own; that she is very likely gov
ericd by her feelings rather than by he
reason, but he loves her through all
And on her part she has found out thai
many things which enlist her Warmes
feelings, do not appeal to him ut all
that he does not care a fig for he
favorito poem, and characterizes a
abosh'' the story over which she ha
shed tears. Aud yet she knows that n
one else could make him so happy, ant
II making his happines she finds he
own. And they love each other to
well 70 ever truly cIash.-Good House
ksspiag.