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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-11-06
What Can Be Done.

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asr many ,hlny- seemingly Impossible
may be attained. iIanirrds of hope
less cases of Kidney ANA Liver Com
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t"'>. after every thing else had been
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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-11-06

Call at Danstreau l. Bourgeois Drug
Store for Creole Female Tonic woman S
best friend.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-11-06
A Hog in the Composing Room.

The hog in human shape, who makes
2 trough, OF his g,lley, who smear> the
passage way with streams Of obacco
saliva. regardless Of the feelings or
comfort OF those with whom h.. i
brought IN contact, is not only worthy
OF contempt, but mas M ri.lt'to work
n the snme establishment with men
who value decency, who desire to main
ain their self respect. or believe that
cleanilnessi> next to yodliness. Unfor
tnnately, however, in this case As in
others Of a similar character. the rufian
ism. the vnlgarity, the filthy habits of
II individual will do more to demora
lie an Office than the efforts of half 4
dozen good men can couuteract. He
should be W. eded out ms unceremoni
ously as an obnoxious plant is plucked
from a flower patch.
If w%oIkingmen desire t. be respect
ed they must respect themselves. Love
oeSets rove. RESPECT begets respect.
Men who make ! practice Of leaving
their manner and manhood outside the
Workro'm have little reason to com
p'aln II they are measured accordingly,
ana valued at their own estimate. Civ
ility costs nothing, aud it is ii duty em
Pioyes as much to themselves as
to those with whom they are brought
into contact, TO obs- ve it, whether
their transactions are viii, an GRAND
boy Of an employer.
Printers Circular.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-11-06

Girls OF a mairiageahle age do not
like to tell how old they are. but YOU
can find out by following the subjoined
instructions the lady doing tile tignr-
ing: Tell her to put down the mum
Der of the month in which she was
born then ito multiply it by two
then to add five : then to multiply by
fifty then to add her age then to
substract 31o ; then to add us then
tell her tell you the amount she has
left. The two figures TO right vii. lie
note her age. and the remainder the
month Of her birth. For example the
amount is SD. she is twenty two years
old. and was born in the eight month
(Aasns'). Try it.
Exchange.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-11-06

The Illustrated Graphic News
ms secured ,he services of John
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ship Of The Current t,take The edI
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tIalts iii prove a vat.aule posses
Sion 70 any subs. rber.
Call ut Dans'rcau Il Bourgeois Drug
Store for Creole Female Tonic woman 5
best friend.
A bpa>tful gentleman from tn south
of France was present when thu CONVEX
satlon turned on ii"nS-amopo> If the
-ecert marriage in Paris of a male and
female lion tanner:
oh. lions don't tr,nbl- me much
remarked this colras Gus Frenrhman
Il met Que once in h desert, IA splen
did fellow and what do You think
did! Simply whipped ont my pen
knife and cut off his tail
and why not his head T. a.ked
some one.
oh I, hunter had saved me that
trouble by doing it the day before.
lid Bits.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-11-06
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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-11-06

Creole Female Tonic remove suppress
SION cures p~rnlarsns nteri or fall of the
wsmb. and inviyorates the female organs
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-11-06

Hundreds of lives have been saved b,
the timely use of Creole Female Tonic
winch 10 the greatest remedy known 70,
all womb troubles and female diseases.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04
TO BE CONTINUED.

The Virginia election campaign OF NO
vember, 1885, was one of the most exciting
that that State ever passed through. AL
though the gubernatorial position was os,
tensibly the bone of contention, the real
struggle was for the United States Senator
ship, and to gain this position ex-senator
Malone bent all his energies. Fitz Hugh
Lee, the Democratic candidate for governor,
had the sympathies of the people and ne
with the entire Legislature was elected by
a majority approXimating 10000. The two
most prominent men mentioned to succeed
Malone were John w. Daniel and John 5.
Barbour On December 7th, 1885, the Dem
ocratic caucus nominated John w. Daniel
for senator. This virtually ended the con-
test and Daniel was elected Z. S. Senator
to succeed Malone.
John w. Daniel was born in Lynchburg,
Virginia, September 5th, 1912. At the age
of 19 he entered the Confederate Army as
second lieutenant and was assigned to
Stonewall Jackson's brigade. HeWas three
times wounded at the battle of the Henry
House and soon after was promoted to ad-
iutant. In the battle of the Wilderness
his thigh was crushed by MIME ball.
When he retired from the service itwas with
the rank of major. He has served in both
branches of the Legislature and was twice
defeated for the nomination for governor OF
Virginia. He is an able lawyer and has no
superior in his State, as an orator and de-
batter. His oration at the Kings Mountain
centennial celebration, in 1880, was a mas
terly effort, adding much to his reputation
as an eloquent and effective speaker. In
view of these qualities and his life long de-
votion to the Democratic party his selec-
ton as United States Senator is peculiarly
fitting
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04
TREED WHILE ASLEEP.

"Speaking of snow," said Dick Sellers to
Denver, COL, reporter, "reminds me Of a
trip in May, 1880, when and my friend, the
''doctor," were going over Marshall Pass
from South Arkansas to Gunnison City.
early one evening, after long days
journey through the snow, we selected a
place to pitch our tent among a lot of sage
brush, as a convenience for fuel, not having
seen any trees since we left the top OF the
range. We tied the tent ropes securely to
the brush set up our sheet-irOn stove in one
corner and lay out our blankets in the other.
"During the day it had been unusually
warm, and shortly after supper began rain
ing, so that we retired early and were soon
dreaming of the pies and cakes we had
when boys far away back in Ohio.
$50 fatigued were we that we neither
awOke until late next morning, when l
became sensitive to cramping sensation
in my neck. On opening my eyes the
tent seemed to be six or eight feet above
me. My feet were propped up at an angle
of about forty degrees, while my neck was
lodged between the limbs of huge tree.
l eXtricated myself the best / could, and,
straddling a limb, fully realized for the
first time just where l was. An immense
sisted by the heavy rains, had gradually
melted the snow and left us forty feet above
terra firma, in the top branches of tree,
which we had the evening before mistaken
for sage brush. How to wake the ''doctor'
was a conundrum. He was suspended a
little to my left, still holding the blanket
close to his chin. A limb had fortunately
caught under each arm, leaving his feet
hanging straight down. Our stove. sat
smoking in the tent directly over us on the
very top branches. Crawling out to the
"doctor'' l awoke him, assisted him to a
stouter limb, and, taking a bird's-eye view
of the situation, began to draw conclusions
as to the best way of getting our things
down, fearing to 60 any higher up the tree.
We finally slid down to the ground, where
we fortunately found our axe, which had
fallen through. With this we chopped
down the tree, secured our things, some
what damaged by the fall, and continued
our journey without encountering any
more snow.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04

in fact, rendered herself indispensable to the
invalid, whose side she rarely left; and yet
Burton fancied that this constant attendance
was irksome to his cousin, and that she felt
relieved when it was temporarily with
drawn. She was certainly more silent in
Magdalen's presence than at other times,
seeming constrained even with Burton.
The latter had not been with them many
days before he began to distrust the girl,
though he had no reasonable cause for doing
so. And yet notwithstanding this feeling,
she possessed the art of attracting and even
fascinating him at her pleasure. :,
1t was on the Goth of July that he had
arrived at the Baths. August came and
went, and found him still lingering there;
on the 3rd of September he received letter
demanding his presence at
home.
TO BE CONTINUED.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04
LIFE BEHIND THE BARS.

There is no State prison in the United
States that contains among its convicts so
many defaulters and embezzers of trusts as
the old stone prison down along the canal
bank in Trenton, writes a correspondent to
the st. Louis Globe-Democrat. The default
ers and embezzlers that have defied the law
in New Jersey are not common villains as
men who had previously been guilty of
crime. They all came from respectable
families. They were nearly all hard-Work-
ing, self-made men. They all stood high
in their communities, and were implicitly
trusted by hundreds of people. The knowl-
edge Of their crime came like thunder
clap out of cloudess sky-nobody suspect
ed such thing, and everybody was loath
to believe the report when it was first an
nounced. Neither are these men coarse
or repulsive in appearance. There is moth
ing of the criminal in their features or forms.
On the contrary they all bear the marks Of
virtue and gentility, of refinement and the
utmost culture. Watching them to-day as
they 90 about their allotted tasks in the
prison, any one would suppose them to be
men of business ability and honest pur-
pose. They look like kind fathers and .ov-
ing husbands. Take from them the striped
convict garb andthey would pass anywhere
for the best in the land. There are eigh-
teen of these defaulters at present in the
prison. The stories of their evil-doings
were the sensations of the day. Out of all
their number there are less than half
dozen whose history and character are not
fit themes for the novelists pen. While it
was pretty much the same temptation that
caused them all to fall, each downfall had
peculiar feature of its own that rendered it
particularly interesting and decidedly start
ling. For some months ten of these em-
bezzlers of banks and public trusts have
been confined in cells adjoining and on
the same tier in one Of the corridors. Be-
cause of this arrangement the corridor has
been known as the Bankers Row. But
lately these prominent convicts have been
separated and removed to different corri-
dors: This was done by Prison Keeper
Laverty because he found these men, by
their shrewdness and power over others,
were ruling the rest of the prisoners COM
pletely-none of the other convicts dare
refuse any requestmade by any of the men,
bers of Bankers Row. AS there was no
telling when this rule might work ruin,
Mr.. Laverty concluded to keep the ex-
bankers apart for while and show them
less privileges. The effect will doubtless
be beneficial.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04

of air. The operation may be described by
that of fish's mouth in water. TO those
who have never learned it, it will be sur
prising to what an extent the lungs may be
packed. Caution at first is needful, but
later practice will warrant large use of the
treatment. The whole thoracic and alb
dominal cavities will receive immediate
benefit, and continuance, with temperance
in eating, good air and right exercise, will
bring welcome improvement.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04

A YoUNG WIFE's Young
-"There's a gentleman in the parlor,
dear, who wishes to see YOU" He-"Do
YOU know who it isw Y. W.-"You must
forgive me- dear, but that cough of yours
has worried me so of late, and you take
such poor care of your health, and-and,
YOU don't know how anxious pve been,
and-and oh, if were to lose you, my
darling" Bursts into tears.) He-"There,
there, dear, Your fondness for ME has in
spired foolish and unnecessary fears. Pm
all right you mustn't be alarmed. But I'll
see the physician, of course, just to satisfy
YOU. Is it DIR. Pellet?" Y. W.-"N-no,
it is not doctor, it is not doctor, it's "a
a-life insurance agent."-Lje.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04

CURIOUS NAMEs.-"What name that
man has," said clergyman recently to a
Ne,cs gatherer as the person indicated left
his presence:
"What is it"
"E p. Baxter, he writes it. Nothing re-
remarkable about that, but what an amount
of foolish patriotism is concealed in those
initials. The young man was born on jan
uary 3, 1868, and his parents named him
Emancipation Proclamation Baxter, in
honor of the OCCASION"
'"That's pretty bad"
eyes, but there are some parents with
cranky ideas on the subject of naming
children. One boy l christened Persever-
ance Jones. l endeavored to dissuade the
father, but he said the child's mother was
called Patience, and he saw no reason why
the boy should not be called Perseverance,
because the two always went together.
Within few PAGES of the grave of Benja-
min and Deborah Franklin, in the old GEM
etery at Fifth and Arch streets, there is a
headstone bearing the inscription Sacred
to the memory of S. l.. L. Lloyd If the
owner Of the name were living now his
friends would probably call him 'Celuloid.'
l had a colored man named Alexander do
ing some work around here once. / used
to hear the other workmen call him 'Trib'
and Hole and it struck me one day to
ask him what his name was.
'Tribulation Wholesome Alexander,
sab, he replied.
ut may have been some relative of his
who came to me with twins to have bap-
tiZed
"What names will you call them?'
asked.
"'Cherubim and Seraphim,' replied the
mother.
"'Why" asked in astonisment.
"tBecause,' she replied, de pra'r book
SAYS "de cherubim and seraphm continual
ly do cry" and desc yere chil'en do muffin
else -
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04

PACKING THE LUNGS WITH AIR.-Deep
breathing and holding the breath is an
item of Importance. Persons of week vi
tality find an uninterrupted succession of
deep and rapid respiration so distressing
that they are discouraged from persevering
in the exercise. Let such persons take into
the lungs as much air as they can at q
breath and hold it as long as they can, they
will find a grateful sense of relief in the
whole abdominal region. Practice will in
crease the ability to hold the breath and
the capacity of the lungs.
After time the art may be learned of
packing the lungs. This is done by taking
and holding the long breath and then fore
ing more air down the trachea by swallows
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04

HOTTEST PART OF THE CoUNTRY.-Ex-
Guiding Key West, where southern Florida
reaches into the tropics, the hottest part Of
the United States is the lower Rio Grande
valley. The hottest point where regular
data are kept is Fort Ringgold, which has
a mean annual temperature of ia degrees.
Next to Riggold comes Laredo with 72.6
Fort Yuma, at the mouth of the Rio Colo
RADIO, 72.3 degrees.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04
FANCY SHOOTING ON THE STAGE.

A noted professional shot, who, with his
wife travelled with wild west show, thus
explained to party of acquaintances how
the fancy rifie-shoOting is done on the stage.
One of the oldest is the bell trick. This
is done by having target placed on the
stage with very small quarter inch hole as
a centre, through which the marksman is
supposed to put his bullet. Surrounding
this is q piece of black cloth, and back of
the cloth saw plate. If the marksman hits
within eight or twelve inches of the centre,
the bell, or rather the plate, which Is set
loosely, will ring, and the audience will
naturally suppose the bullet or bullets pen
etrated the bull's-eye. This explains how
stage shots placed from twenty to twenty
five shots in the bull's-eye C) in so many
seconds.
The next trick is the match trick. This
is done by placing number OF parlor
matches in a circle, with the heads OF the
same pointing inwardly. If the marksman
hits, or rather puts his bullet, which is not
difficult to do, any place in the circle, he
must light one of the matches, and thus
lighting the circle. This trick is always
done at the back of the stage, and the audi
ence cannot see any of the matches, and
suppose, naturally, it is but a single match,
Another is to fasten single match on an
iron plate, and if the marksman shoots any
reasonable distance near it, it will light
from the splash of the lead on the solid
plate.
In the cigar trick, the marksman is sup
posed to shoot the ashes off cigar held in
the mouth of an assistant. This trick is
generally bona-fide one, but can be done
by having wire run through the cigar to
the ashes, and at the report of the gun have
the assistant touch the wire with his
tongue, and so knock the ashes off. Shoot
ing silver dime from the mouth, and be-
tween the teeth, of an assistant is done by
having one marked with bullet, and show
ing one not marked to the audience; the
assitant changes at the report of the gun
and spits out the marked one and shows it
to the audience.
The thimble trick is done by placing a
thimble on the assistants head with thin
string attached, and at thereport Of the gun
it is pulled off by another assistant behind
the scenes. Shooting through the ring of a
watch is done by shooting over the ring,
and then, before showing to the audience,
placing the ring of the watch over the hole
made, and on a nail placed there before
hand.
Shutting the candle, which looks so diff
cult, is done by having the candle close to
solid block of wood. The conclusion of the
bullet hits within three inches of the candle
proper. The professional gave an exhibit
tion at one time in a Pennsylvania town
where the authorities strictly forbade the
firing of solid bullets, and gave as good sat-
isfaction as though he were firing and doing
the tricks bona fide. So much for stage
rifle shooting. Cincinnati COn1ercidt Gazette.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04

A MERRY FUNERAL.-The grandfather
of Lord Brougham died in Brougham, in
Westmoreland, when the future great re-
former and statesman was only five years
of age. The funeral feast which preceded
the carrying of the corpse to the grave was
presided over by a neighbor, the Duke of
Norfolk. This Duke was witty and con-
vivial, could make a joke and tell story
with the best. At the close of the funeral
banquet his grace rose and delivered him
self after this fashion: "Friends and neigh
bors-before give you the toast of the oc-
casion, 'The memory of the deceased
ask you to drink the health of the family.
physician, DR.. Harrison, the founder of
the FEAST" Such hard drinking followed
this facetious toast that when the mourn
ers reached the grave the coffin was missing.
1t was ultimately found at the bottom of
river over which the cortege had passed.
Into this stream it had been jolted out of
the hearse, without the drunken driver or
merry mourners becoming aware of the ac-
cident
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-02-04

A BANDIT DoG.-Dogs may be trained
by rogues or honest men, and in either case
they obey their training, and with equal
readiness. They know nothing OF the right
or wrong, but only follow orders. Here is
a case of dog taught to be very cunning
by brigands: A troop of soldiers, under the
command OF the Neapolitan Government,
was marching at night toward little wood,
which was supposed to be the lurking place
of horde. of banditti. Just at daybreak,
when the soldiers had almost reached the
wood, they saw little dog, who had been
lying down and keeping watch, rise and
begin to bark at the top of his voice. The
soldiers followed him thinking that he
would give the ALARM and indeed, when
they had reached the middle of the wood,
they found that the brigands had fled. The
officer in command, in his anger, shot the
dog who had just made him lose his prey.
The animal howled fearfully, and fell, to
all appearances dead. The soldiers went
on their way, but in few minutes saw the
very dog who had just been "killed' steal
ing behind the trees, tacking like ship,
and intently watching the direction which
they had taken. They ran after him, and
caught him, and saw that he had not been
in the least hurt. His instinct had taught
him to feign death, that he might be able
to keep at his sentinel's post. His remark
able intelligence and cunning air won the
love of the soldiers, who adopted him and
trained him to hunt the banditti, for whom
he had been so faithful Watchman.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-01-17
The AIikado Hop

The people who gave Us Gilbert and
Sullivan's Japanese opera came TO-
gether in a sort OF social musical re-
union on Wednesday evening last at
Emporium Hall. and dancing. singing
and refreshments were INDUCED in
freely till past midnight The guests
outside of the company we're not nu-
merous, but were sufficiently strong to
institute anu carry q movement for 2
revival of some of the Mikado gems
Mr.. Spencer rendered Taken From the
County Jail, " and Mr.. Piper rendered
"a Wandering Minstrel l, both being
aided by the male chorus, Mr.. Careless
waiYing the batou and the quadrille band
accompanying. The music was quite
like meeting with beloved old friend,
and expressions were numerous that,
old as the Mikado was, it would yet
draw another good house at the Thea
tire. Much of the dance music was
specially arranged for the occasion; the
spread was presided over by Arbogast,
and over 100 people were accommodated
during the night.