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The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-15
no pHYLr1s I'M HER aARpEN.
rrom the pomestio Monthly.

the Domestic Monthly.
Sweet Phyllis! For your lovely sake
weave these rambling numbers,
Because the morn is just awake,
And keeps me from my SAUNDERS.
Because | see your dainty dress
Among the c~linging grasses,
Because you claim a soft Caress
From every breeze that passes.
Because we've passed some joyous days,
A thousand charming hours,
Among your may garden ways,
Embowered with your flowers;
Because whene'er l hear your words
Some pleasant feeling fingers,
Because ! think your heart has chords
That vibrats to your fingers.
Because you've got those long soft curls,
I've sworn should deck my goddess,
Because you're not like other girls,
All rustic, blush, and bodice.
Because / think you'd scarce refuse
To sew one on n button;
Because l know you'd sometimes choose
To dine on simple NATION.
Because your tiny little o
Turns up so pert and funny;
Because | know you choose your beauX
More for their mirth than money;
Because l think you'd rather twirl
a waltz, with me to guide you,
Than talk small nonsense to n Churl,
With countless wealth beside you.
Because / think I'm just SO weak
As, some of these fine mOrrOws,
To seek your garden there to speak
My story-and my sorrows.
Because the rests a simple thing,
A matter quickly over,
A church, a priest, a sigh, a ring,
And a lifetime spent in clover.
The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-15
DANGERS OF THE SEA.

washington Evening Star.
Ariadne had been on the Nereid a
whole day, but owing to seasickness,
she had not so much as glanced at the
passenger list. Having, however,
found her way upon deck, the morn
ing of the second day, she felt equal to
no greater literary effort, than read
ing it over, and ponderingupon identi-
ties.
upon my word Selma" she said,
presently, looking up with a gasp,
There's a real, live lord, on board.
/ wonder how we shall find out which
one he is? Lord Kingsbury! Itsounds
sweetly; the title is always a kind of
spell that evokes memories of manor
ial estates and a large rent-roll. see
a fine path and noble trees, and stat
uary and fountains,-and-oh dear
do you suppose we shall get acquaint-
ed with him? Come, Lena, can't you
take an INTEREST,""
1.-THE rank is but the guinea's
stamp" said Lena, looking up from
her novel. II think your noble lord
is that old gentleman in the sealskin
o~vercoat, who limps; lords r railways
equity, you know. Hedoesn't appeal
TO me-"
How discouraging you are, Lena.
Now, / suspect"-just then a young
man who had been doing In a deck
chair a little way behind them, threw
OF his rugand began to pace the deck,
alter the manner of those who would
assure themselves and the world of
the trustWorthiness Of their sea legs.
be had a fine carriage; and his bright
chestnut hair blew across his white
brow IN heavy rings, while he gave a
passing glance at Ariadne and Selma
as he walked, from a pair of killing
brown eyes, al Ariadne expressed it; a
halt Indifferent, LorGly glance, temper
ed wItha souchsof amusement.
Nov, that's my idea of a lord
whispered Ariadne.
But a lord is not always Young"
AAO; but If he isn'tLord Kingsbury,
his lOrdship Is a myth. Nowthe ques-
ti3nals how shall we get acquainted
with him?''
speak In tine singular, please. If
he wants to know you he will manage
Il, without your lifting a finger. He
looks as If he were laughing at u.s.
let those laugh who win. Where
has the bird flown? | hoped he was
on q Malking-match across che deck?''
HHG went into fha card-r0om r
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04
Hadn't Had A~nythina LAteLu.

5+ AAsttS - OsVGft8 1NkGOtBs -HE
The lecturer had penetrated into the
the interior of Missouri, where entertai n
ments Of any kind were rarely known.
He had some doubt about securing an
audience in one town, and he commune
Gated his fears to the hall proprietor.
Don't be alarmed" said the latter
s.youH have q crowded house, cause,
you see, We hain't had anything here IN
a long time.n
Thus encouraged, the lecturer sent out
his bills. But his fears were realized.
the audience being Of the thinnest kind.
though it wasn't half as thin as the lee
ture was.
g am disappointed, /" said the lecturer,
as be reluctantly counted out five dollars
for hall rent that didn't haul.
80 am replied the hall man, dry
".
4 thought I would have a full house. y
Il too.n
"'Cause You said you hadn't had any
thing here In . good while
sThat's just It, said the hall man,
examining the five dollars into his wal
LET and pocketing il, land we hain't had
anything yetl'
The explanation was suffeient.-Tspa
sgsings.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04
N. ID GAMERnN-

Whenever he writes his name on the
Fifth Avenue Hotel register, which is a
wide book, he uses the double dash. A
gentleman gives this explanation:
81 have lived in Washington; know
Senator Cameron well, and the reason he
uses a dash before his name. He never
uses a dash except on a hotel register.
At the capital nearly every man has a
handle to his name. When a senator or
general registers at a hotel, the clerk
politely adds the prefix, whatever it may
be, and it appears that General so-and-so
has deliberately written his enttle. Sem
ator Cameron, instead of being a vain
man, is very modest and unassuming.
The polite CLERKS put the prefix, Senator,
TO his name frequently on the registers,
which was exceedingly repugnant to
him. His simple request to leave off all
appcndages to his signature did not have
the desired effect, aud he hit upon the
happy idea of the dash to keep anything
from being written in front of his name.
The front dash worked for a time on
narrow registers. but finally the ingeni-
Gus clerk wrote the word Senator after
his name. This required double vigil
ence, 50 the retiring and genial Senator
added the afix dash. - Washington Re.
publican. q
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04
A Spa,.ssh Pto,c.


The latest novelty in plows is at pre-
sent being used in Spain. 1t works the
land to a depth Of 80 inches, and turns
q furroW 2 feet wide. It is drawn by
two Is horsepower engines. The instru-
mentis constructed on the patent balance
plow principle, but of very strong pro.
portions. Il is n furrow pillow, but
lifted with two sixties, the first turning q
furrow Is inches wide and ID inches
deep, the second following to q depth
OF 80 inches and turning over a furrow
q inches wide, leaving the land CON-
pIetely loosened to a depth of . feet s
anches. Drawn BY the steam engines,
the account in a foreign exchange says it
Is possible with this pow to turn g
four acres per day. In cases where it is
not necessary to turn up the land to this
great depth, but simply to stir up the
under-soil, all that is required is to take
OIL the last skife and in its place fix a
subsoil tyne, which will go to the depth
of "a or SO inches.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04
VSrtues Of Cold Coffee,

A good mark for Gen. Boulangerl In
the instructions sent to the officers COM
handing the regular army and the mill
tia reserves engaged in the autumn
man@uvres they were told to prevent, as
much as possible, soldiers drinking at
the first well they meet, and if the
weather was hot, to make each man take
with him before setting out on q long
march a provision of filtered water. II
he had said, ga provision of cold cof-
Fee" it would have been better. There
is no such safe and sustaining drink as
coffee for the marching soldier, tourist
or sportsman. It prevents, in places
where food is scarce and bad, typhus
fever, by counteracting rapid waste of
the tissues. The internal waste caused
by fatigue is the most dangerous of any,
inasmuch as the vitality is too low to
throw it off, and SO all the dead stuff in
the body poisons what is living. I have
seen persons, after walks greater than
their strength could bear, suffer as if
from violent poison. In point Of fact,
they were poisoned, but merely through
inability to get rid of tho detritus of
wasted tissue in themselves. Tourists
should, no more than Gen. Boulanger's
soldiers, when out on holiday excur-
sions, drink water out of the first we'll
they meet, and to prevent the rapid using
up of their own bodies they ought to FIJI
up their TASKS, before starting on long
walks, with coffee, which is, perhaps,
nicer to drink cold than hot.-Paris
Letter.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04
IN Asin Minor Csatosttu.

The recent destruction OF the beauti-
full white pink terraces al Tarawera, New
Zealand, has drawn from q traveller ia
Asia Minor an account Of an ancient
white terrace which he saw near the
ruins Of Hierapolis, called BY the Turks
Pambouk Kalessi, or hot springs, il stu
ated on 4 low branch Of the Misougis
mountains overlooking the Lycus plain
and the ruins Of Laodiceia, Immediately
opposite to Coloss@, which vas built Oh
fhealope Of che Khonos mountains, and
e Denizli Diospolis) on Mount cadmus..
First seen from the opposite mountains,
some twenty niles of. Il looked ike i
br~easkplate of silver or 4 great mountain
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04


Virgins, who knows all about it, says
that earthquakes are caused BY the shift
ing Of the planets center of gravity.
Virgins is the Canadian weather prophet
-or, to speak with precision, he is one Of
the Canadian weather prophets. He dis
covered, q year ago last March, that the
vsplanet vas about to shift its center of
gravity. Forthwith, he set his prophetic
faculty TO determine what the consequent
ces Of the performance would be. Start
ing upon the self-evident fact that a move-
nent Of the center of gravity one mile
fromthe normal eenterof volume would
cause 1.-THE parts Of the surface at the end
of the longer axis to be heavier, and the
parts at the end of the shorter aFA to be
lighter, than normally he discerned at
.once that ssthese disks would grind upon
each ofher, " generating heat and lava that
would produce N earthquake in South
Carolina when Jupiter should be near his
inferiF conjunction, at the end of
August, 1885. Which settles the question
Of the South Carolina earthquake. with
out any help Of the disagreeing seismolo-
gistss tothe satisfaction Of everybody.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04
The Trees of japan.

The trees of j .paif are a wonder.
Here is the ''mookungi," with its purple
b~elE-shaped flowers; also the magnolia,
with lis Itch white and purple clusters.
Queen among the trees towers the ca
melia. Some of these are sixty feet high
and are covered with blossoms from
January to May, of many varieties, from
the large pure white, resembling a double
rose, to various shades of pink and red.
The cherry and plum trees are cultivated
solely for their blossoms and are trees OF
rare beauty. The former grows thirty
feet high and as many broad, its branches
covered with red and white flowers two
inches in diameter and pertaining the
air at a great distance. It's petals of
snow and cream, falling in showers,
spread many a carpet for the. feet on the
stone paths leading to the temples, veri-
tying the native poet when he says
There are snow-showers which do not
descend from the skies" The plum tree
is par excellence the poets tree. Often
it is seen standing leafess in the snow,
yet adorned with blossoms like a bride.
The tree bursts into soft clouds of bloom
and fragrance in February.
Along the hillsides naples and pines
are covered with vines of exquisite love-
illness, trailing and INTERVENING with be-
wildering intricacy among these are the
wistaria and thumbergia, with their
purple stars and tufts. From the YER
dant valleys to the tops of the mountains
are seen lilies, pinks and roses of endless
variety. The grass is studded, and flow
ers spring even from the quaint, artistic
matched roofs Of the tea-houses, asking
leave only to grow and bless, the light.
These tea-houses seem idyllic. They are
a national institution, for they are every
where, as the people are everywhere;
along the city streets. by the roadside. in
the groves, woods, parks, valleys, and
up the mountain side.-Brookzyn Mage
zine.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04
Horseshoes OF Shepshorn.

Various trials Of the new French horse
shoe, which Is made entirely of sleeps
horn, are said TO show its particular
adaptness for horses employed In towns
and known not to have a steady foot on
the pavement. The results Of the expert
mer,fs arc, therefore. regarded as very
satisfactory horses thus shod have been
driven at rapid pace on such pave
ment without slipping. Besides this adj
vantage, the new shoe IS spoken Of as
moredurable, and, though d little more
expensive than the ordinary kind, seems
destined sooner Or later to replace the
iron shoe-4mericrn Register.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04

Our consul at Chemnitz, Germany,
writes the Department of State: "Horse
meat is extensively consumed by the
laboring classes, the prices ranging from
four to five cents per pound. / a also
vouch for the fact that u large number of
dogs are annually killed for consump-
ton. Dog meat is publicly exposed for
sale in the markets, and am informed
that many well-to-do people frequently
eat it in preference to mutton; and the
fact that it is sold from one to three
cents per pound more than horse meat,
would seem to bear out this assertion,
Roast dog and dumplings, is frequently
advertised in the papers by keepers of
restaurants, and the Chemnitz papers
contain a weekly statistical account of
all the horses and dogs Killed for con
sumption in that city. Dog meat is
supposed to possess q curative power in
cases of pulmonary complaints, and to
Judge by the number annually killed in
this neighborhood, The disease must be
widespread
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04
a Cruel

at 1 street corner il Naples will be
POUNDS subject for Mr.. Bergh. There Is
q bird shopthere with nightingale, gold
flnches and robins. Sometimes a crowd
of gamins i collected to witness A little
surgical operation. somecharcoa burns
Ia + bfasiero, and the operator thrusts
into 1t q needle withR wooden handle.
He then takes from y cage 4 recently
caught blackbird, and with q red hot
needle puts out his eyes. It needs much
skill-skiIl that only comes from practice
Ito do shis successfully. An unsteady
band would p~ermaturely kill the bird.
e most instances where the operation
is successful, The birds do die, but that Is
cnly after d couple of drys III agony.
You will sec the patients IN cages hang
Ing round the shop With the sightless
Eyes swollen to the size of 4 pea, but il
the rare cases Of recovery the bird sings
briskly through the twenty-four hours,
day and night being the same to IT,
407N Star
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04
FtaheIuu ANTS.

The j%olliest sport among the juvenile
Renoites i fighting ants. They scrape
Up 4 shoyelfnl Of these busy insects from
one colony and carry them to the next
nearest colony, dumping them together.
The result is Immediately q pitched
battle. which is fought most ~vIeiously,
the little warriors literally tearing each
other to pieces, until the last of the in
terlopers i dead. They fight in pairs,
Or IN threes, fours, and lunches, as it
happens 70 ono handiest, but it IS
always tight 70 finish, and no quarter
asked 81 shown.-sm Fraaciseo Cal.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04
Spires.


The tall spire, conveying to the mind
an idea of Undesirable height, and
seeming to fade away in a point, is, per
haps, the most perfectly beautiful exter-
nal feature of the pointed or Christian
styles of architecture to which it prop
erly belongs. In all ages and countries
there has been an apparent tendency to
carry buildings to as great a height as
possible, and hence have originated the
various architectural forms of pyramids
and obelisks, towers in endless variety,
domes of various shapes-classic, Byzan-
tine and Saracenic-the minarets of the
east and tall monumental pillars; but
the spire, obvious as its form seems in it
pure simplicity, was unknown in archi-
lecture till toward the end of the 18th
century. There have been many dis
cussions, somewhat Improbable, though
interesting, as to the source whence the
medieval builders drew their first ideas
of the pointed arch and spire, and gen.
eral opinion has apparently settled to the
conclusion that the pointed arch was
simultaneously suggested to the various
nations of Europe by the sight of the
saracenic arch during the crusades. If
this were really so, it must be added
that the Christian builders improved SO
vastly upon any hints they may have re-
ceived from the cast that all traces of
such origin rapidly disappeared. The
spire, however, IS a purely self-envolved
feature, which originated in the general
tendency of pointed architecture, com
pleteiy Independent of external hints or
examples. Among other suggestions it
has.been said that the form of the spire
might have been suggested by the pyra-
mids or obelisks of Egypt; but there are
SO many points of dissimilarity between
these objects and the true spire that it is
extremely unlikely Arcbt-
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04

riant. A ne arer investigation showed
that it was fol- med byhot springs of sui
phur and lime, which descended from a
great elevation in dazzling white catar'
! acts, and formed in their passage down
ward by their purifying power ice-ike
cliffs and seemingly frozen waterfalls,
running into natural basins Of beautiful
and varied geometFical shapes, all stalac-
e~tiescovered petrifcations of fantastic
forms. On the high plateau whence the
springs descend are the ruins of a temple
once appropriately dedicated to Pluto.
The holy hot bath which stood in the
temple courtyard, surrounded by a col
onnade, is. still in fine preservation, and
beneath its deep, clear, blue waters can
still lie seen many a futed column and
inely-carved c%ornice. Gas is continually
bubbling up from the bottom, of the
bath. The chief source of the sulphur
springs (the ancient ptutonium) is a cave,
from which a vapor issues fatal to ami
NAL life. This was considered a short
cut to Pluto's internal realms. Not faE
off is a ruined fountain and %cistern, near
to a cave of sweet water which supplied
the whole town with that necessary of
life. The writer adds, as interesting to
the Christian arch@ologist, that on a
ruined Intel near Pluto's temple he saw
these words sculptured: "Js. Cs. nika-
Jesus Christ Conquers. london Iele-
oTapk. Sf
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04

Reports of two cases of recent out
RACES. on Americans in China have been
forwarded to the Secretary of State.
The Presbyterian mission house at Kwa'
Ping was looted and destroyed, and the
Rev. A. A. Fulton and wife and Miss
Mary A. Fulton were forced to flee for
their lives. A lady missionary at the
Methodist hospital ut Chung King was
stoned by a mob and quite seriously in.
,jHred. Tn neither of these two cases
1 could the authorities be induced to pun
ISL the sffenders or give protection to
the missionaries or their property.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04

According TO the Overland China Moi
a method of suicide of an original char
acter has been invented and carried in
to successful effect in Hong Kong by a
Chinese servant of the name of Young
Yan-Hing. In the first place he attempted
To pass out Of life by the commonplace
method Of a dose of opium. He was,
howeye, ! brought round by prompt mea
ures taken by a Chinese doctor, who re-
sided in the same house. But he was
not to be baked in his intention, and
two days later he procured a heavy ham
mer and a long nail, and with the for
mer he drove the latter so deeply into
his skull that, although every effort was
made at the government civil hospital to
save his life, he expired the next day.
A man must, indeed, be bent upon SELF
destruction who will hammer a nail into
his head. It would be difficult to
imagine any form of suicide demanding
greater nerve and resolution.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04
Nor1ceatan Hospit0LtkV.

In no land is hospitality more open
handed and more unaffected than In
Norway, and though these features are
naturally becoming blunted along the
beaten lines o trayel, the genuine good
ness of heart, fine 's~gentlemanly" feel.
ing, and entire absence of that soTdid-
ness which is so often seen even in prim-
alive regions, cannot fail to strike the
u~nprcjudiced observer. Nor is etiquette
ignored by even the rudest of the people.
In the cities the stranger is apt to make
many b,unders. In the country, how
ever, this is not less marked, though
perhaps the visitor will be less conscious
of its presence. One of the peculiarities
of the Norwegian farmer is that, when
visiting a friend, he must ignore all the
preparations made for his entertainment.
He will sec the coffee roasted, and the
cups set out, and the1, just when the
good wife is about to offer him her hos :
pitality, he gets up, bids the family
good-by, and is only persuaded to re-
main after some resistance. Every cup
must be filled to overlooking, otherwise
the host would be thought stingy. When
milk, brandy or beer is offered, the guest
invariably begs that it will not 'be
wasted on him. AMI then, after empty
ing the cup, declares that 'it is too
much"-going through the same formal
tiles, it may be, three or four times. In
the farmhouscs, or upland ''saeters" the
guest is left to eat alone, silver forks and
spoons being often substituted for the
carved wooden ones used by the family,
and a fine white cloth for the bare boards
which serves well enough on ordinary
occasions. To q punctilious guest this
may not be a drawback, for at the
family table, as, indeed, among the
peasants in Scandinavia everywhere, the
different individuals dip their spoons
into the same dishes of "grod' and sour
milk; but for any one DESTROYS of study
ing a people a load of foreign prejudice
is a grievous burden to carry about.
When a child is born the wife of every
neighbor cooks u dish of sedodegrod"
(porridge made with cream instead of
milk, and brings it to the convalescent,
there being a good deal of rivalry among
the matrons to outdo each other in the
and size of the dish. When any
one has taken fool il a Scandinavian
house he shakes hands with the host and
in rising from the table, and
says: "Tak for mad" C'ThaRks for
to which they reply: "Vell
Dekomme" ('sMay it agree with your.
In many parts of Scandinavia all the
guests shake hands with each other and
, peat the latter formula; AMI in Nor
way, at least, it is the fashion for a
guest to call on the hostess a few days
and when she appears to gravely
ay: "'Tak for sidst" ('Thanks for last
ime"), great gravity on this formal
1isit being a mark of good breeding
of the Ford.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-12-04
4 Fasiner's To0ls sss I,sdfa.

81 India i farmers tools are 81 the
simplest kind, Tho pow ii / triangular
piece Of board, Is inches long md six
inches vide at the base, and simply
roots the ground. The Joke for tie
bullocks Isl straight stick and Ii at-
tAnhsd 70 khc bsam Of the nlow BIZ i
grass cord. The cattle are tie Brahmini
spseewhite slender bodie,i. long.
legged and very lean. The only food DC
ths eattle for months II choosa, 4 which
II khe wheat straw and chaf from sha
thsasBing aocr. Taey eost about 81 teI
WA pef paig. md SID plow cost si.
HID laaa plowed II as { times,
sza frequently thirty u Tie ploW
|srfHsehssxhe I'LL osly The aFraw Il
1a oE wood I'd 8 fest long,
dkaNn aeWes acEoss the dalda te
scratch hsspmp.