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Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-04-10
CURIOUS FACTS.
Odd Things That Came Under the Observa
finn of a canadian EdiInr.

Odd Things That Came Under the Observn
tion ola Canadian Editor.
In 1880 an adult black parrot from
Madagascar was placed in the zoolog-
zeal collection of Regents Park, Lon
don, whore il remained tifty-four years.
On its death il was spoken of as the
Oldest inhabitant of the gardens.
To keep postage stamps in the
pocket or memorandum book without
sticking, New Orleans post-ollice
clerk advises people TO rub the sticky
side over the hair two or three times.
The oil of the hair coats the mucilage
and prevents il from sticking.
II is said that the oak is creeping out
into the praries and covering unoccu-
pied grounds in the West wherever it
is not too wet or sandy for it to grow
Thousands of acres are now covered
with young oaks where they did not
grow forty years ago.
II is Allegheny in Pennsylvania, Al
leghany in Virginia, and Allegany in
New York. Recently the Post-ollicc
Department being in doubt as to how
The name should bc spelled IN Mary
land, applied TO the historical society
of that State, which recommended AL
legany, because that spelling accorded
with the statute creating Allcgany
County, Maryland.
A lady Cf our acquaintance is en-
gagged in rather peculiar work of de-
stroying every picture of herself that
has ever been made. She thinks she
secured them all but one photograph,
and she has just written distance of
nearly one thousand miles for that
Ugly, did you sayP Not at all, 1t is
only a woman's S whim, and who would
undertake to explain thatP
Prof. j. A. Harrison. of Virginia,
saws that the fertility of the negro dia-
lcct is really wonderful, not only in
the ingenious distortion of words, by
which new and startling significance is
given 20 common ENGLISH words, but
more especially in the imitation of ami
NAL utteranccs. 1t is an ear language
The only wonder i.-how
the negro could have so truly caught
the swiftly uttered sounds about him
A natural bow that is on exhibition
at the Brownsville (Ore. post-oilice is
described by the San Francisco Eram-
iner. 1t is a vine maple about eight
feet in length, has the curves of an
ordinary Indian bow, and, strange TO
say, is already strung with slender
limb that grows out of one end into the
other so perfectly that at first sight it
would be quite difficult for one to de-
tcct at which end the limb began. The
bow is about three inches thick, and
the string part is about one-lifth of that
thickness, and is strong enough to shoot
an arrow two hundred yards. Montreal
star.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-04-10
.lMEklLN CLUB.
Judge Smith IL Treated to IA Coffee Mili
and Some Phiiosophie Advice.

| Judge Smith IL Treated to Coffee-Mili
and Some Phiiosophlc Advice.
"Will Judge Consecutive Smith
please step dis wayP' asked Brother
Gardner as the meeting opened with
sixteen kerosene lamps shedding their
radiance over the hall.
The Judge advanced intwo-four time,
and the president continued:
Judge Smith, you am about to leave
us an take up your home in Il distant
State. You will not only carry wild
YOU de bes' wishes of ebery member of
dis society, but you will still preserve
your membership wild us In gwine
OFF among strangers, dar' am some
rules an maXims dat it would be well
to obSarvc:
"While it am fashnabul to eat wild
fork, doan let good piece of bacon
slip away fur want of usin' yer knife.
''When YOU has foun' butcher who
will give you credit, you has foun' 10
enemy.
at amt de amount of wages You
airn, but ii am de number of days you
am idle.
"lloncst an industrious men needn't
worry about de number of patent jail
locks
'De man who lights two candles TO
think by am suah' to want fur light to
work by.
"pe time spent in buildin air cas-
ties would purvidc de world wild tatcrs
at cent bushcl.
Honesty am good policy, but it
am wise to wait an see what de odder
feller am intendin' to do.
"You can't cotch pork in dicN-boN,
nor pay your taxes wild lottery tickets
dat didn't draw.
Nov. Brudder Smith, on behalf of
dc members of dis club | shall present
you wild dis coffee mill. Its intrinsick
value am not great only fifty cents
but YOU will prize dc sentiment which
acktuatcd de giNers. De ole woman
kin use it to grind coffee or popcorn.
an de children kin play hoss wild il an
hurt nobody's fcelin's. Ii am allus
wound up. 1t am prepar'd fur ebery
change of weather Ii nebber needs
tunin', an de bellows nehber gifts outer
order. Take it, Brudder Smith, an
may luck an prosperity attend you.
The judge attempted to voice his
feelings, but it was failure. His
chin quivered, lump gathered in his
throat, and scalding tears fell into the
hopper of the mill. Detroit Free Press.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-04-10
A Titled Hangman.

The Office Of cAecutionef Is one which
we can hardly imagine any man of or
dinary human feelings would voluntary
assume. But this is just wha1 an En-
glish baronet is said to have done recent
". The story is that he assisted the
hangman in inilicting the death penalty
upon three burglars who killed a police
officer after celebrated robbery in
England few months ago. He ex-
planned his conduct by saying that he
desired The experience in case he
should bc called upon in the future, as
sheriff of his county, to supcrintend a
hanging. 1t strikes Us that this is
rather an insufficient reason for a man
to volunteer to act the part OF hang
mann T. Leaqcr
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-04-10
A HOTEL. DINNER.


has SuHsred Long MA fatieh'iS'
Parties who live AZ ONE in opulenee
and luxury with thrr leals n day can
not appreciate the so5 .css that sweeps
over the hotel boarlocs heart when he
sits down to a dhApsr that has grown
cold waiting for t!in
lie first orders soup, and the waiter
brings ont bowl of pale consumptiye
fluid the sight of which makes his
heart ache. II is composed entirely of
water. save when it is labeled vcge-
table soup; you may then peralycn-
turc find a turnip pecling or an onion
skin in the bottom of the bowl. Hotel
oyster soup is the biitercst calumny on
the whole oyster race that could be de-
yised. II is a luxury To which board
ers are treated on sunday, and one
oyster is compelled to flavor the soup
for twenty boardtrs. II is no wonder
that both the boardcr and the oyster
feel inclined TO murmur and repine.
When the meat is brought the board
er's anguish becomes greater, for he
has no saw to cut il with and life is too
short to spend its best years irving TO
chop n hole through a slice of mutton
with table knife. The only thing
that will successfully rend piece of
hotel mutton is nitro-glycerine, and it
is too demonstrative.
The side-dishes are also discourage
ing. In one of them there are six or
seven peas which are not quite so soft
rs marbles another has three or four
beans which have contracted consump-
ton by exposure to the weather, and
another dish has n potato If the
boardcrs give up the Job of cutting the
kotato, il is taken back by the waiter.
crushed with pile driver and looms
up at the next meal in the shape of
hash.
A biscuit generally accompanies the
meal which awaits the boarlers on
slaught with stony indifference that
is painful TO see.
| once knew IA boarder to tly in a
rage and hit the waiter with one Of
these biscuits, killing him instantly. |
He was arrested, and the Judge told |
him that hencrforth he should throw |
gridirons or clock-woights ut the wait
crs, or something less hard than hotel
blScullS.
The butter is difficult to overpower.
and when most wanted Is generally
found swinging Indian clubs, or prae-
ticing on the horizontal bar
Ilomcr's description of hotel butter
is perhaps the most worthy of any yet
Ulysses, powerful though he was,
Was thrown into the gutter,
While Ger Il IN stood II 8 stranger foe,
The dark, triumphant huttcr"
81 Louis WHIP.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-04-10

ITALIAN PEASANTS.
The Dcpiorabic Condition of Common La
borers In Italy,

bortT~ IN italfs
II would be difficult to exaggerate
the miserable condition of the agricul-
tural population in Italy, the wretched
dwellings, the unwhoesome food, the
amount of disease, the low wages, the
want of morality and of education.
The diseases induced by unsanitary
conditions are fearful. In the 'pel-
lagra, which is akin to leprosy, tho
body dries up and wastes away, the
skin grows yellow and black, and is
covered with scales it loses all feeling,
so that prick or cut is scarcely per-
ceived; finally, the patient, inert, apa-
thetic, motionless, half dead, with
sunken eyes, becomes mere mummy,
unconsciously awaiting the opening of
his grave 1t is sometimes said to
arise from excessive poverty and star
walton, but, says the report, ''why
are there SO many villages where the
country people are almost dying of
hunger without single case. while it
is found in others not worse lodged
and fed?' The probable cause is the
use of putrid and mouldy maize, often
exchanged by the millers for better
corn, but also brought in from abroad;
the bread is made into enormous
loaycs, baked thus TO save firing, the
inside of which grows putrid before
the week 5 end which they are intended
to last. "Other diseases, though loss
heard Of are quite as numerous -scrof-
ula, chest complaints, and in some
valleys cretinism. II sounds strange
in our ears to talk of consumption as
one of the seourges which dcsolate
Italy, of which we have considered the
north to have sad monopoly. Malaria
and fevers of different kinds are eN-
tromely common in Latium. Lombardy
and other parts Tcrtan fevcrs are MS
dangerous as the pelagra in the
Roman Campagna and the irrigated
country in Lombardy. "Where marshes
exist man can not live. If he does not
destroy the marsh the marsh destroys
him. The excessively divided proper
ty in parts of Italy is such as to reduce
it to mere proletariate of owners,
lodged and i'll nourished,
who could not possibly carry out any
improvements, even If decreed
by the law. Health and morality are
bound up together; for IN
stance, about Rome there is zone of
small properties amounting TO about
twenty thousand acres, Here the want
of water, Of proper houses and the
total absence of roads at the very gates
Of the Eternal City, greatly diminishes
he val ne of the soil Wages are from
70 to % cents day, but there are
nearly hundred festival days. Farm
servants who are clothed and fed, have
81 to ~ 80. the women from % to 70
.ents month. Il Nineteenth Century,
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-04-10
MY MOTHER.

4 simple parsonage-plaln and brown
where lVics ramhlcd IN ana down
NIth sweet hrier roses.
\ place the earliest Suuhcams kist,
Nor lett, I u shadow cd by the mot
The Night uncloses
Twas here she wrought with patient care
NE whose incense filled the air
With gladness tuiy
Mere heard her call to enter rest,
Ana icit the home, "A broken nest,
BcrcIt and lonely.
To children's hearts, and hearts grown
strong
win angu sh. I II lesson long,
And sad the learning,
ihAl PRAY Ners nor tears can ccr restore
The loved ones dr.fted to that shore
BeAond returning
We've learned farewell Oft through these
wears,
Shc-Wt Cmne--whcrc there are no tears,
But ioy~ supcrnal.
Aud CLOSELY tuids earths lous ming bands
W thn the house not made with hands,
secure, eternal.
o Mother, with the SOFT thrown eyes,
IN 10y inr home beyond the skies,
Am cNpcctcdY
Ldh 81 thou not tell me that al last
"hen cross thai threshold nli have passed,
shan nor he reicCtedY
--imdlida l.. Bdth 'iOnieW, IA current.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-04-10
Rivers as Cholera Sources.

The Lasott has made up Its mind
that rivers have much to do with the
spread of cholera. Paper-makers will be
interested to know that the severity of
the last cholera epidemic at Grenada
has been rraced to water contamination,
due to paper mill. The rags used at
this mill were washed in the stream
from which Grtnada City draws its
water supply. The rags thus washed
came from Valencia and other cholera
centers. No cholera cases had occurred
in Grenada up to the time when these
rags were imported. Afterward the
cholera spread over the province. fol-
lowing in every case the course Of the
infected stream. Only one town thus
situated escaped infection, and this be-
cause its twelve thousand people drank
no river water.-Cor. N I, Telegram.
1t is said that leprosy has appeared
at various places in Canada West, the
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-04-10

A clergyman who married foui
couples in one hour the other evening
remarked to a friend that IL was fast
work. - Not very, responded his
friend; "only four knots an hour. y
Chicago Ledger.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-04-10

1t is said that leprosy has appeared
at various places in Canada West. the
result of Chinese immigration.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-04-10
=. Ii. Moss.

NJ My mark and
F@@S& brand used on cat
Ef/A y tie and horses; cat
III w 49, lie branded on right
III y hip. horses on left
IL a ~ shoulder. Some cat
LkH Tie branded thus
FhA III "A" on left hip.
.skSszzzs.M L. o. address,:
A&zA NE Grafton, n N.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-04-10

The above Is also one of our brands for
stock on the left side.
h. II. Hopper. General Manager.
s. :. jackson, Ranch Manager
p. O. address: Kingston, N. NJ.
Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1886-04-10

False standard of existence what
IS he worthP True standard what
good does he do?- Chicago Ledger,
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-07-24

Capt. Coulon, the worthy and able
representative from Lafourche. was
among the legislators who tarried un-
iii 3 O'Clock p. M. train to depart from
the cen of their labo.s. Capt. Cou-
Ion has been one of the most palnstak.
ing and clear-headed members of the
House, and, we believe has carried
safely every measure in which he
took an interest. BY his uniform ur
banity he has made many warm
friends among his colleagues and
among our citizens. Capt Coulon has
proved himself we'll fitted to look after
the interests Of his wealthy parish,
and we doubt not that his course will,
az 1t should, receive the hearty appro-
baton of his constituents.
Capirolian- Advocate.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-07-24
AN ACT.
No. %.

To prescribe tax mortgages and privi
leges. aud to regulate the duties of
Recorders cancellation OF the m
Sec. /. Be it enacted by the Gener
al Assembly of the the State of Louisi
ana, That all tax privileges granted by
law to secure the payment of taxes
hereafter becoming dne. whether State.
parish or municipal shall be prescribed
In three years after the 3lst day of De
cenbor of the year in which said taxes
are assessed provided. That the said
prescription shlll be interrupted by
any suit which prevents the collection
of said taxes, and the time of such in
%terruption shlll be excluded from the
computation of the said three years.
Sec. ,. Be it further enacted, ETC.,
That it shall be the duty of the clerks
aud ex-oticio recorders and of the Re
colder OF Mortgages for the parish OF
Orleans, respectively Oh the application
OF my party in interest who has paid
his taxes in full to cancel and erase al,
inscriptions of tax privileges and tax
mortgages prescribed by the terms of
the first section of this Act on the paw
ment OF ten ceuts for each cancellation
provided. That if the application be
made by the taxpayer, Or by any party
IN interest who has paid the said taxes
before they become delinquent, the
cancellation shall be free to him.
Sec. .. Be it further enacted. etc.
That all laws contrary or inconsi.ten
with this Act are hereby repealed.
H. W. OGDEN.
Speaker of the House of Represent
atiyes.
CLAY kNOBLOCU,
Lieut.. Governor and President OF the
Senate.
Approved this 23rd of June, 1886.
S. d. McENERY,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy from the original.
OSCAR ARROYO,
Secretary of State.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-07-24
The Eighth Missouri.

THE Eighth Missouri were good
fighters" said Theodore r. Davis as he
stopped making the smoke Of war with
his brush long enough to Whit the
smoke Of p ace out of an attenuated
cigarette, land what they wouldn't
steal, except my colors and pipe, was
not down in the articles of War. Why.
once at Vicksburg they stole a grave.
There was really no good place there
to bury a body, except on the levee,
and the ground was so hard that the
grave diggers had a tough time of it,
Well, it happened one day that one of
the Eighth died Il natural death. and
while the boys were wondering what
they should do with him. a detail from
an Ohio regiment filed out to dig a
grave tor one of their number that had
passed over. The Eighth looked on
to some purpose, and when the Ono
boys came out uext day with their
dead they fou:d the grave filed up
and Il cracker box lid at the head.
with Sacred to the emol Of, If
the Eighth Mo- Bat they were good
lighters
Minneapolis Journal.
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An End to Bone Scraping.

Edward Shepherd, Of Harrisburg.
H.. says :"Hnving received so much
benefit from Electric Bitters, I feel it
my duty to let suffering humanity
know it. Have had a running sore on
my leg for eight years; my doctors told
HE l would have to have the bone
scraped or leg amputated. l used, in
stead, three bottles of Electric Bitters
and seven boxes of Bncklen's Arnica
Salwe. and my leg is now sound and
well.' Electric Bitters are sold at fl.
ty cents a bottle, and Bucklen's Arnica
Salve at Csc. per box at Thibodaax
Drug Store.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-07-24

Hundreds of lives have been saved BY
the timely use of Creole Female Tonic.
which is the greatest remedy known for
all womb troubles and female diseases.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-07-24
A Fashionable Misfortune.

He had been to the city and went
home brimful of news.
"You member the Smiths 2" he ask
ed his wife, 9TH Silver erik Smiths,
as got rich ou Their g~ra'feyther's mon
ney,"
Yes. she remembered them.
II seen EN-. They're way up; live
in a gran house on Il street they call
%thavenoo. They ride in Il double ker
riase and have no end of money"
She said she s'posed as much.
But, dumb sak-s! Mandy, you
wouldn't want to change places with
her. l see her a minnit anil didn't hev
the heart to speak t her
She said she'd like to know why /;
stuck up thing!
mo, she amt Mandy not now.
She's bin humbled right down to the
dust. She's as blind as a bat
Blind ! She guessed not.
But she is. Fust she didn't kno'
me-me that's rid down hill and play
ed tag with her when she warn't knee
high to a tu,ky. Then. Mandy, tho
her eyes was wide open, ,he went rite
along the streets all dressed up in her
fine close, and q leetle mite Of a dog
was leading her along, He was tied
to q streeng, and she had hold of 10th
er end of the streeng. Now, Mandy.
how'd you like to he her 7"
Detroit Free Press.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-07-24

On July l, the new mail contract
went into effect, and consequently we
now have a Sunday mail. We ven
ture to state that our friend Max will
make a success of this as of everything
else he undertakes.
y Sunday mail is a ''step towards
civilization. and our two greatest
needs at the presen: are a bridge at
Napoleonvilie and a railroad along the
bayou, and why can't we get them =?
Pioneer of Assumption.
Well, the way ito build a bridge
over the Bayou is--to build it.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-07-24

Tat terrible scourse, charbon, is &C
tually i'll Pointe-a-laHache. Two
males, the property of Mrs. Shields of
Bohemia Plantation have DC bee u at
tackled with this ma.ady, which APP
pears to be the external or carbuncular
type OF Charlton. 1t is not SO violent
as the internal or mauiacal type. The
former can be readily cured by means
of various liniments and blistering ap-
plications combined with internal
remedies. While the latter type when
fully developed, is;beycnd human con-
troll.
Mrs. Shields has kept the mules 10
close confinement, in an isolated sta
bic on her plantation and has been
treating the animals with Pasteur's
vaccln charboneux, obtained from Rep.
resentative F. S. Shields of New Or
leans. The mules are being %inocula-
ted with this vaccin virus prepared by
Pasteur himself. \ hypodermic sy-
ringe graduated for the purpose is
used to administer the virns.
The cost of this vaccin does not ex-
coed s. for so mules. and the gradua-
ted syringe costs Sc. The animals
have so far recovered, as to prove this
treatment by inoculation a complete
success. Planters should provide them
selves with this virus which is known
over the whole woGld and which can
be had at such a small cost.
Plaquemines Observer.
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PERFECT SIGHT PRESERyERS.
NOTICE.

Having purchased the eligibly situated boil
er shop of Z. Hogan. in this town. l am now
prepared to take contracts for making new
Boilers and repairing old ones. Full ~satistac
ton guaranteed. work will he done at the low
est figures. Ihave secured the services of Mr..
p. Hogan, as foreman and manager who has
had long experience ia this business. Parties
will find it to their interest to call on me be.
fore making contracts elsewhere.
WN. IL. Raglan.
Thibodaux, Aprll 6th, 1888.
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Che Thibodaux Sentinel,
SATURDAY, JULY "a, 1856.
Old Rye's Speech.

was made to be eaten,
- And not to be drank
To be threehed in a barn,
Not soaked in a tank.
| come as a blessing
When put through a mill
As a blight and curse
When run through a still.
Make me into loves,
And Your children a e fed {;
But if into drink.
| will starve them instead.
In bread, I'm a Servant.
The eater shall rule;
In drink | am ii master,
The drinker a fool.
Then remember the warning
My strength I'll employ.
II eaten to strengthen.
If drank to destroy.
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Secretary of State.

Call at Dansereau & Bourgeois Drug
Store for Creole Female Tonic woman S
best friend.
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Creole Female Tonic remove suppress
sion. cures p%rolapsus uteri or fall Of the
womb, and invigorates the female organs
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-07-24

Creole Female Tonic. the great regula
tor and ~invigorator, is sold by Roth &
Fleetwood.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-06-01

The Methodist Sunday school will give
its annual picnic on Thursday next.
when they will 80 out TO Browns land
ing, about five miles south Of the city.
This Is one Of the prett.est spots IN Flor
ida, and is admirably suited for picnic
ground. the broad branches Il the
oaks furnishing abundant shade. The
school children are requested to meet at
the church at 80 o'clock Thursday
morning. All the members Of the church
and sabbath school. and their friends.
are invited 10 attend. All are ais, r,.-
'luestel not to forget To provide we'll
tiile,! baskets, as the crowd is expected
to H. hungry az noon time.