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The Opelousas courier., 1886-10-02
SCRAPS.

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Thermometer tubes require seasoning
for a year or two, Is lie new glass
expands, contracts and warps like green
wood.
The Belgian government has made a
series of successful experiments, proving
that sawdust may be made into a power
full explosion.
The source of an offensive odor was
lately traced by watching two blue-bot-
Ne flies, which pointed out the locality
decomposing rat by settling on the
Above it.
beets esderable gain in the weight of
electric cSunder the influence of an
German cxPS has been obtained in
gain in the propsats, with a smaller
A German sciss%o Of sugar.
singular fact in relation announces the
action of the solar rays Gthe chemical
trees growing in hothouses ~chlnchona
develop no quinine in their barn europe
Take any saw running constanS
any one direction, and after havSR
made say ten million revolutions, exam.
inc its particles at a newly broken sur
face with a microscope, and it will b.
found that every molecule of iron com
posing that saw has been displaced.
There are only two kinds of progress
in space. One is that of matter, the 9th
er is that of form. An arrow discharged
from a bow, or a bullet from a gun, rep
fesents the former of these, while the
overwhelming circles which follow the
plunge of a stone into q pool of water
represent the latter.
A new description of shell, charged
with rolls of gun cotton, has beer
brought out at Berlin. 1t produces ex-
traordinary results. No kind of defen.
sive works, it is said, are capable of re.
resting the projectile. The German
government has ordered rs, 900 of these
destructive missiles.
A botanical curiosity in garden at Eal
ing, Eng. is arose tree who's blossoms are
entirely green, the flowers, in fact, being
composed of similar leaves to the ordin-
airy foliage. This is evidently a rever.
sionto the earlier stage of terrestrial plant,
life, in which flowers had not vet become
specialized organs.
The long-sought microbe or germ OF
hydrophobia has been discovered by Mr..
G. F. Dowdeswell, F. l.. S., in the nerv.
Gus tissues of rab:d animals. 1t is not
very minute, but has evidently escaped
detection on account of the difficulty of
straining it so as to make it visible un-
der the microscope. Previous observers
have affirmed finding this microbe,
but their reports have not been accept
ed.
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No Mere Passfno Evhis.

hiss Birdie McGinnis is oneof the most
confirmed firts IN Austin. She has been
engaged 70 half ! dozen men, and thus
Tar has mover married any Of them.
Of late, Tom Anjerry, q dissipated
student Of the University Of Texas, has
bean paying Miss Birdie marked atten-
lion. A few evenings ago, being in !
secluded place with her, he Topped
down on bis knees and remarked in an
agonized tone Iof voice:
Miss Birdie, / adore you.n
q can't believe you.n replied Birdie
you men ore 20 tickle and unreliable.
Tour so-cailed leva u ! mere passing
whim.n
&c. 10" said Tom, my loYs for you
Is greater than that Of your last four tel.
lows put together. agsas 6vaaas
KMA EA#
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A SacindEi,tn Deyice

We are indebted to q friend who has
been nipped for I'M explanation of a trick
which has been successfully employed for
swindling several banks In various East
ern cities. A check, say for SO, is OBJ.
tanned from a depositor of a bank, and a
blank check exactly like the flled-in
check is secured. The two checks are
laid n upon the other, so that the edges
are exactly ven Both checks are then
torn irregularly across, and in such a way
that the signature on the filed check ap.
pears on one place and the amount and
name of payee on the other. The checks
having been held together while being
torn, of course n piece of the bank
check will exactly fit the other piece Of
the filed check. The swindler then fills
In one piece of the blank with the name
Of the payee and an amount to suit HIM
self, say $4,000, takes it with q piece
of the genuine check containing the
signature to the bank, and explains that
the check was accidentally torn. The
teller can put the pieces together, and as
will fit exactly, the chances are that
he will think that the pieces are parts Of
the same check and become a victim of
swindle. The trick, of course, sug-
gests its " remedy. The teller should
refuse TO pay any check that is mutilated.
Reporter.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-10-02
Seepers IN NeW York. City Hall Park

Steepe9'S IN NeW York City Hall Park.
A New York letter to the Inter Ocean
says: A walk around the City Hall Park
in even the quietest hour of the night
will convince the stranger that all Gotta
am has not stepped out. That famous
old cheap clearinghouse still retains its
wonted popularity with the impecunious.
All day there is q curious kind of ma
neuvering going on among gentlemen in
all degrees of seediness for its shady
seats, and every night sees every inch o
Its accommodations tested to the utter
most. New York has no greater bless
ing for the poor. The seats are hard, but
not uncomfortable, and the practiced
easily managed to secure a fair amount
of sleep on them. Every blessing has its
drawback, however, and the drawback
that goes with New York's City Hall
Park is New York's police. Twice every
night, at II and 8 o'clock,
they insist on visiting and dis
turbing the %slumberers' rest. The in
genuity of tho guests, however.
has reduced this annoyance to the mini
mum. Faithful sentinels are placed on
guard. When the police are seen ap-
preaching, the word is passed along, the
sleepers are aroused, and the entire line
arises, and passes silently and solemnly
around the postofice. BY the time they
have got back the police have gone, and
the weary may again have rest.
AS the sun comes up the guests of this
favorite caravansary begin to bestir them
selves, and make their toilet. One after
another, then, you can see them in the
fresh sunlight fling up to the big iron
fountain between the City Hall and the
postofice, and plunging their faces in
the cooling water. Then they scrub and
wipe with old rags or their coat-sleeyes.
and the Park Commissioners guest.
slept and arisen refreshed. is
ready for his days work as a solicitor of
cold v~ictuals. More than two hundred
men find rest in the benches OF tho park
every night. They are tolerated by the
police, whose interference is only at the
hours named, and then is pe~rfunctory
and Intellectual.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-10-02
IdLeness.

EaE2ZEz&AaE2 LE
Never be idle. Idieness means ruin
just as stagnation means decay. You
can catch better things than early
worms BY rising early in tho morning
something that viii paint your cheek,
quicken your pulse, brighten your eye,
and give you such an appetite as will
make breakfast apleasure, dinner a treat,
tea . delight, and-no room for supper.
Besides, it's only one early bird that
catches the worm. Every early boy can
catch the benefit speak Of. And what
the boy learns to love the man will turn
to deeper account, while his hay will be
better and more abundant than an
idler's, his corn, his carrots and his Gu
cumbers will be finer, better and more
abundant too; and just when the idle
man is thinking that he ought to have i
fortune, the early one will be wrapping
his up and running Off 10 bank with Il.
The boy who says its music to hear the
nilk-nana and chinney-swesp from be-
tween the sheets viii most likely take to
bis bed to escape his creditors by-and.
BIZ.
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A cats Toes.

show many toes has a cat?' This
was n of the questions asked of a Ger.
tain class during examining week; and.
simple as the question appears to be,
none could answer it. In the erner.
gency the principal was applied to for a
solution, and, he also, with a good
natured smile, gave it up, when one Of
the teachers, determined not to be
beaten BY 50 simple q question, hit on
the idea Of sending out a delegation of
BOYS to scour the neighborhood for a cat.
When this idea was announced the whole
class wanted to join in the hunt. Sew
cral boys went out and soon returned
successful. A returning board was at
G appointed, and the toes counted.
when, to the relief of all it was learned
that a cat possesses eighteen toes. ten
on the front and eight on the hind feet.
-AstDaqkee, Niseoasm.
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VINES Graast acas Moved.

In the course of a chat with your core.
spondent an old army officer, who was OF
Grants staff during the war, said that
during all the negotiations between
Grant and Lee, Grant never once showed
the slightest trace of excitement or exul-
tation. He had the most remarkable
tontrol over himself of any man / ever
saw. Neverb but on two occasions have
] seen him give way to his feelings. The
hrst occasion was the greeting of the
public school children of San Francisco
upon the occasion of his arrival from his
tour around the world. Grant was
~passionately fond of children. Their
welcome touched his heart, and tho tears
flowed down over his face. He made no
effort to conceal his agitation. The
other occasion Was when he was notified
that an old cdmradc who had served with
him during The WA had been killed
in q railroad accident In New York.
This was after his first nomination for
the Presidency and before his election.
He was in his headquarters on the corner
of Seventeenth and F streets, Washing
ton, when the dispatch containing the
sad news was brought to him. He read
il slowly and carefully. Then he leaned
bis desk with head III his hands and
cried like j child Iraeeler.
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IN, York,s Beggars.

novertv to a-e generally persons whose
themselves. AffEss extent, is due to
these render many olPIightfall some Of
ed streets of the city @st unsafe to
single pedestrians. You can # mass the
City Hall, Union or Madison POS" ~
the evening without being accossF hr
men and women with piteous appeals,
a few pennies ''to buy a cup of warm
coffee or to pay for a nights lodging"
In summer, in most cases, a ten-cent
meal furnishes the pretended basis for
the supplication. Upper Broadway,
Fourteenth street, Sixth avenue, and
Twenty-third street are equally infested
after dusk. Nearly all of these beggars
are paupers-not all, for some OCCASION
ally beg who cannot otherwise relieve
their poverty, but probably ninety-nine
out of every hundred beggars prefer beg
gary to work, to even such work as they
could perform. The worthy poor seldom
beg. Out of every hundred beggars in
testing the streets and visiting the
houses of the city, probably not more
than one is a proper subject for aims.
Downright beggary to the professional
is a winter trade. Most vagabonds in
the city never resort to it in summer,
and only on suitable days in winter.
They wait for a bitterly cold day, with a
northwest wind driving snow or sleet be-
fore it. Then they sally forth in the
most ragged garments they can pick up.
On such days, at about 8 o'clock in the
morning, they post themselves at such
places down town where business men
and clerks are hurrying to their offices
and stores. There they assume the
proper begging %pose-lower their heads
bend their shoulders, contract their
breasts, and shiver along, g1ancing
neither to the right nor to the left, but
keeping theireyes fixed to the ground and
chatting their fingers as they limp past.
In appearance they are the incarnation
of all that is furlorn. They seldom get
to the end of a block without being
stopped by some n who thrusts some
thing into their hands. Most give
pennies; some, however, give five or ten
cent coins.
Towards noon the professional bcggars
quit the down town districts and
traverse the busy streets in the neighbor-
hood of the principal dry goods estab-
Ishments up town, always taking good
care to direct their course against the |
living stream of pedestrians. They con- /
tlnue their stroll, never asking but
always receiving, until about 4 o'clock in
the afternoon. Then they go back down
town again to catch the business people
streaming home from their offices and
stores. BY Z o'clock their days work is
done, and for the most part, well done.
A skillful beggar seldom makes less than
81 on such day, and often very much
more.-New YORK. Sun.
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a,,e HIS Memory NatIed.

AA l
an oiu tand,n said Col. Yerger to
70 h'sss ssance whom he happened
veston' sue he was down to Gal
Tor dases. Ave a great memory
ooh, yes" saidS
tered by the Coloneps quite fat
were a hobby with him. for dates
dates of many important vesnow the
perhaps you could tell me
exander the Great was bornW sasAl-
| Colonel with a half-quizzical smile.
"Certainly. He was born in the yea
356 B. c. and died $685."
"And when did King Arthur of Eng
land die"
"a. D. 9O1."
"Quite wonderful" exclaimed the
Colonel. Sand would you oblige me
by givingthe year of the massacre of st.
Bartholomew in PARISH
"1572. You bet I'm pat on dates. Do
you know that the painters Vandyke ant
VeIasquez were born in the same year
1892 Yes, and Cromwell, too, was born
that year, one year before Charles /,
whose head he cut off"
"What a head for dates you havel'
exclaimed the Colonel.
"And John Milton, Corneille, and
Rembrandt were all born in 1906"
"When was Waterloo fought?"
"June IL, 1916. tell you, Colonel,
when you corner me on dates, you will
have to get up very early in the morn
ing"
SIT certainly looks that way" said the
Colonel, ''but there's n date thatI am a
good deal puzzled about; perhaps you
can clear it up"
"What is it about, Colonel2"
'tIt is about two years ago when I waa
in Galveston the last time, you borrowed
So of me and promised to send it to me
in a letter. Idon't remember the exact
date when I was to get it, but / think
you said next week. Now can you tell
me what date next week will be?'
The Galveston man turned red as a boiled
lobster, mumbled some words about his
poor memory of recent affairs, and, giving
the Colonel another promise to liquidate,
he skunk away.-Tesas Syitings.
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The Czaa. and the Plan.

It is related that Peter the Great,
strolling incognIo through the camp,
came upon a party of non-commissioned
officers and grenadiers enacting a come.
dy. All at once his brow became
clouded. In the piece a soldier, in the
uniform of his guard, commits at a GER
tain moment a robbery. Nevertheless he
allowed the play to proceed; the court
martial was summoned on the stage, and
the thief is sentenced to death. The
spectators, composed of officers and men,
showed the most lively concern in the
performance, and laughed at the gro
tesoue contortions of the condemned
culprit. The amateur actor played his
part very we'll. Here came the squad
that is to execute him. tFire," orders
the lieutenant; and the amateur dropped
down dead, his heart pierced by seven
bullets. No make-believe; but dead
indeed. Whereupon the emperor drop
ped his incognito, and addressed those
"A soldier of my guard who
a robbery must die. If he
did not steal, why did he boast Of it and
SOIL his uniforma It is I who ordered the
rifles TO be given to the men. ]
forbid my soldiers to ply the
trade OF mummers, Or. The Gar
did not complete his sentence, but the
drift Of it was understood by ALL.
Gl0be.
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Did Washingeon Lau0h ?

In reply to an observation by tho
writer's father that Washington was said
never to have laughed Gen. Blake (who
had been a captain in the revolutionary
army replied: THAT isa mistake, for
saw him laugh heartily at Valley
Forge. When the trees were first cut
down for that encampment tho stumps
were left the usual height. To clear
them from the parade ground an order
was issued that every officer or private
who got drunk should bo
punished by cutting away a
stump; thus they did not last long. One
morning while making his usual per-
sonal tour Of the camp, accompanied by
several officers, of whom I was one.
Washington came upon a soldier cutting
at the only remaining stump, and said to
him: We'll, my good fellow, ron have
found the last stump Yes, replied tho
man, without looking up or stopping his
work. Now, when an officer gets drunk
therc'll be.no stump for him 10 cutp
The Immortal George laughed heartily.
and some of the officers felt. a sensation
great relief n-Maga-ine u Asssricau
History.
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FsE6 N0W

Worldly mamma-Clara, yon should
learn something Of Mr. de Vincent's IN,
come before you encourage him too far.
Willie UIara's small brothsr)I know
All about Il, and his outgo, too.
Ciara-Willie, what are you talking
abouta
Willie-Weils ! do. Last night bib
income rs about I O'clock, and BIZ
0utea sitter 4 o'olaok B.
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ST MARY,S ACADEMY,

OPELOUSASs LA.
r.. oo,ra IF instruction in this Institution embraces
English. French. Latin. Greek. A sG;ages:. 1 Hissorg.
Geometry. bookkeeping. Natural sca zen ~ behaved
on Christian Instruction. .uortb s15. Day
Sa tI ner month. So, SO or 81. according 10 eilss'
masses are resumed on Wednesday. S,ptemoer l''n'
Aoo' REV, +. j. NJ
HENRY 6. LEWIS,
Aug, 20, 1885. n. BLANC
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IS by the Central st, Landry Protective
IL Live Stock Ass ~,ciation, for evidence that will lead
to the apprehension aud conviction of any persons
guilty of cutting wire fences or stealing horses or cat
tie belonging to any member of said Association. A
record of the brands of members Of the Association
may be seen at the house of the Secretary, Jno. III.
Ware. in Bellows. or at the Clerks office IN Opelousas.
/. Z. SHUTE, JNO. M. WARE, Sec'y.
pres'k. ~ a tie
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Suryival of the Flttest.

For some time past the question OF pur-
ity in baking powders has formed quite a
feature of newspaper discussions, and en-
inent doctors of philosophy have given
opinions as to the ingredients which con =
pose many Of the articles sold under that
name. The Investigations have narrowed
down to the limits which awards the Royal
Baking Powder the palm of purity, and
several of the most distinguished scientists
have testified to their conviction that no
extraneous matter enters into its compost
ton. The Royal Baking Powder company
have achieved a worldwide reputation for
the success which has marked their prepa-
tion of cream of tartar for baking purposes.
1t is indisputably shown that they have
eliminated all elements of tartrate of lime,
alum or other impurities, and present to
the public healthful and chemically pure
article. Such widely known chemists as
Henry Morton, +. G. Love, II. A. Mott,
VIM. McEurtrie and others have verified its
superiority over other manufactures, and
testified, through practical experience, to
its excellence. 1t is well for families to
observe the fact that it costs more to man
ufacture the Royal Baking Powder than
any other, but 1t is, as shown by chemical
analysis, the one absolutely pure" baking
powder made.
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WASHINGTON LETTER.


[From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON. d. c.. July 10, 1886.
The Republicans in Congress are trying
very hard to make political capital against
the President on account of his pension We
toes. But the vetoes are too well support
ed by facts and common sense to furnish
material for partisan appeals. 1t was to be
expected, however, that the private pension
gift Senators would grow wrathy as the
kind of work they were engaged in was
brought to light. The failure OF their lit
tie schemes, together with their exposure
melted them to reckless pitch of deter
mination to secure the adoption of these
bills anyhow, though there is little prospect
of their success.
The Democratic leaders ere resolved to
stay here all Summer as one Of them said,
before abandoning their position in the
matter. But the Republicans have pro-
posed compromise which will probably
be accepted. Under its terms two hours
will be allowed debate upon such of the
vetoed bills as may be selected, and at the
expiration of the time an aye and nay vote
| will be taken, the result of which is to be
regarded final as to the other vetoes.
The report of the Senate Pension Com
mittee upon the vetoed bills, was little MOI C
than long and ill-concealed howl of baf-
| fled rage. 1t even accused the President
of casting a slnr on the chastity of wo-
man and of sneering at wounds received
in the service Of the country. But so
| many of these private measures are obvi-
| iously without merit, and mere attempts to
bestow gratuities npon favored persons
who have no real claim upon the bounty
of the Government that the Presidents
action will be more applauded the more at
tention is called to the grounds upon
which IL is based
The Republicans Of the House of Repre-
| sentatives made speeches upon this issue
that were intended to be very severe upon
| the President, but they were more plainly
bids for political support than evidence of
patriotism. They proceeded upon the
assumption that the vetoes of private pen
sion bills are unpopular and will not be
sustained by public sentiment. One an
swer made by representative Matsom TO
some OF their complaints was interesting.
| He called attention to the fact that many
of the cases rejected by Mr. Cleveland had
already been vetoed by Republican Com
missioner Of Pensions. 1ne rejection by the
Senate of Mr.. Goode to be Solcitor-Gen-
erel was the subject of much discussion at
the Capitol on Saturday. The unanimous
verdict was that the opposition all centered
in Senator Malone, and the vote of the
| Republican Eenators was their way of
| helping the thwarted, schem'ng little poll
tician to assert himself in Virginia AS no
Democrat opposed the nomination, many
Congressman may think the proper thing
| for the President to do would be to renom-
mate Mr. Goode. He might have done
this if the Senate had merely neglected to
confirm, but since the Senate had rejected,
he will not be likely to renominate.
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The wife of John Holt, li> ing in Browns
vile, Pa, gave birth to female child
which is without arms. The child Is per
feet in every other particular, and seems
to be entirely healthy. The clavicle and
scapula bones are well developed, but at
this point the work Of nature has practi.
cally ceased although to the shoulders
something resembling fingers Is attached.
There is one small protuturance at the
point of the right shoulder and two attach
ed to the left. The mother of the child
has had three children previous to this
one, all of whom were perfectly developed.
AS far as can be known, no malformations
have appeared In the ancestry of either the
father or mother of the child. DR.. y. p.
Dearth, the attending physician, states the
child is perfectly developed except in the
one particular mentioned. The case has
excited great interest and is considered a
very peculiar freak of nature.-Monroe
Democrat
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We have always on hand a full line OF
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have large stock of the very best of bind
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are respectfully HARaAS 81 HAssERT.