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The Springdale news., 1888-09-28

STANLEY's syrian interpreter arrived in London on the 24th. He confirms Bar tellots brutality to the natives, but brings no late news from the great explorer.
 A MONUMENT was unvafled by NJ. Goblet at Paris, on the 23d, to Captain Vogel, of Amiens, who was killed wLile defending the capitol i'll 1870.
 IT was the intention of the House com mittee on appropriations to take action, on the 2ith, on bill making appropria- ton for yellow fever sufferers, but Sur geon- General Hamilton, of the Marine Hospital Service, who was expected to ad- dress the committee on the needs of the service, did not appear, and action was postponed.
 Ex-MARsHAL BAZAINE, the selfexile d French General, was buried in Madrid, Spain, on the 24th, with scant ceremony. It is reported that a party of Frenehmen, who stood by as the little cortege passed, ], refused to remove their hats, though they stood uncovered few moments later while another funeral passed. , ON the 9th Alexander Blake was lib- erated from Londonderry jail upon five minutes notice by telegram from Dub- lin Castle.
 TIE President and Colonel Lem ant re- turned to Washington from Philadelphia on the o4th where they spent Sunday.
The Springdale news., 1888-09-28
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.

The Of Conveying the Electoral Vote or the
 the Country to the National Capital-An
 Appropriation Needed.
 WASHINGTON, Sept, 25.-The acting Sec retary os the Treasury sent to the Senate yesterday a communication calling at- rention to the necessity for an appropria- tion to pay the expense of conveying to the seat of government the electoral vote of the various States. Enclosed was a statement showing that the expense for four years ago was Ss,95l. The statute allows the messengers of each State twenty-f five cents mile from the capital of the State. The expenses of the Cali fornia messenger four years ago were S155 75, those of the messenger from Maryland ten dollars.
 The acting Secretary of the Treasury also sent to the Sen ate 6 letter stating ln response to Senate resolution, that the amount due the State of California under the act of June 27, 1882, is $l1, 723.6i.
The Springdale news., 1888-09-28
CHtEF-JUSTICE-F FER.
The Banquet to the New Chief-Justice at the Palmer House. Chicago-A Notable Gathering Of Bench, Bar and I;usiuess.


 CHICAGO, Sept. 25-The banquet ten aeved to Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller by the members of the bar of Cook County took place at the Palmer House last evening. Three hundred and sev- enty-f five guests sat down to the banquet, which was presided over by Judge Thomas Drummond, who made the opan- ing address. The toast, Our Guest,o was responded to by the Cuief-Justice- elect, who spoke at some length anl evoked the mosty hearty expressions of qualification. Other toasts were: ''The Bench, ," responded to by Judge Gresham and Moran; "The Bar," responded to by N. C, Goudy, and "Commeree," re- sponded to by Chas. l. Hutchinson, pre,i dent of the Board of Trade. Tee gather ing comprised twenty three judges of Ssate and Federal courts and the most prominet lawyers and business men of the city.
The Springdale news., 1888-09-28
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

EMPEROR N ILLIAM Of Germany has confirmed the election of Prof. Harraek to the chair of church history ct tha Brit ish University in Berlin This action is regarded as a blow to the extreme church pGrty.
 SENATOR SAWYER, of Wisconsin, states most positively that when his present term of office expires he will not be a candidate for reelection.
 IT Is stated by a prominent New York Democrat that the registration in New York City this year will be over 25o,0o0 and that fully 240, 900 votes will be boiled on election day.
 HE death of William Warren, the CO., median, occurred at Boston, on the 21st.
 ON the 23d the Princess of Wales left Vienna for London.
 ON the 22i the Secretary of the Treas ury ordered the Collector of Customs of New York to hold Oscar Tallem, who was to have been returned to Belgium as convict, pending the production of proof that he is political offender and not Q criminal, as alleged.
 WHILE riding in pony carriage near Gmuuden, Austria, on tue % |, the Princess of Wales and her children had q narrow escape from passing train. They were saved by the prompt heroism Of Colonel Clark, who attended them.
 IS a speech at Mary yboro. Ireland, on the 23i, Mir. William O'Brien said that Ireland's arm had proved long enough to reach Lord Lansdowne in Canada. and it would reach him in India.
 TEN THOUSAND Democrats took part in the grand and brilliant torch light pro- cessiou in Indianapolis on the night of the 22 l.
 THE Fertilization and Army Appropri- ation bills were signed by the President cn the 22l.
 ON the 23rd ex-Marshal Francls Achille Bazaine, of France, died of heart disease at Madrid Spain, aged seventy-seven years.
 IT is reported in Berlin that additional extracts from the diary of Emperor Fred erick will shortly appear.
 IT was reported on the 23a that General Solomon, ex- President of Hayti, wes dy- ing in Haris.
 TIE Republicans Of the Twenty first Ohio district on the '22d, nominate The odore F. Burton. The district is nomj- nally Republican, but has been carried three times in succession by NJ. A. Foran, Democrat
 ON the 22l uniformed organizations from all parts of tine State of California participated in the big Republican cam paign demonstration at San Francisco Tie procession numbered IL GOO.
 THE King of Greece, accompanied by his son, the Duke of Sparta, visited the Kaiser and kaiserine at Pottsdam, on the 23d and afterward started for Vienna
 PRINCE BISMARCK has pronounced the alleged excerpts from the diary of tho late Emperor Frederick, recently pub- lished, apochryphal.
 SENATOR CHANDLER has introduced resolution authorizing the committee on privileges and elections to continue the investigation Of the Louisiana election outrages throughout the vacation.
 THE father-in- law of Robert Garrett Mr. ". F. Prick, on the 24th, declared that Mir. Garreu's condition was better than at any time since he went to Kirk wood.
 MR. ANDREW CARNEGIE, the American iron king addressed q large audience in Glasgow, Scotland, on the q Il.
 IT was thought that Chief Justice Fuller would be il W Washington about the 2).h-
The Springdale news., 1888-09-28
To Defeat the Cotton Ring.

LONDON. Sept. 25-In order to defeat the AmericaG- English cotton ring, one million spindles in Lancashire have commenced running on short time.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-01-07
snow.sheds" in ths ountains.

There is nothing peculiar in the con
struction of these sheds, which have
to support only tie burden of the
snow. But on the line of the Canadian
Pacific Road, where the road crosses
the Rocky Mountains, sheds of a diff
ferent construction are needed. Be-
fore the road was completed observa.
tions in the mountains showed that
ayalanches must be provided against.
A single avalanche covered the track
for o distance of 1900 feeS and to the
depth of fifty feet. The result of these
observations was that the company
constructed four and a half miles of
snow-sheds at al enormous expense.
The sheds are constructed as follows:
On the high side of the mountain slope
O timber crib, filled with stone, is con-
structed. Along the entire length of
the shed, and on the opposite side of
the track, a timber trestle is erected;
strong timber beams are laid from the
top of the crib-work to the top OF the
t~restIe, four feet apart and at an angle
representing the slope OF the mount
ain as nearly as possible.
These arc covered with four-inch
planking, and the beams are braced
on either side from the trestle and
from the crib, The covering is placed
at such a height as to give twenty-one
feet headway from the under side OF
the beambto the center of the track.
The longest of these sheds is $500
feet.-Touth's Companion.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-01-07
EXTRAVAGANZA IN DRESS.
BY ANNIE Z. E

To is to be hoped they will some time
tire of ringing the changes abort wom-
ems extrayagances and follies. It is as
WORKOUT a subject as the terrible
mother-in-law. There is just abou, as
much basis of truth in the one as The
other. One paragrapher holds up his
hands and walls his eyes over the ruin
GUS cost of the average woman's dress,
walls that her jewels would bankrupt
any man, groans over her laces and is
positively lachrymose over her gloves
and SHOES. One has gone 50 far as to
say: "Show me his wife's wardrobe
and I'll tell you how much he is q de-
faulter."
All nonsense! Show me IL mans wine
bill; let me know what brand of cigars
he uses, if he is under suspicion.
The cost Of all the trinkets and drap-
cries with which an honest wife de-
lights to environ herself will never
cause him embarrassment. The man
who loves his wife well enough to wish
her to shine and excel among their So
cial surroundings is not going to black
en- her fame hopelessly by making her
husband a thief. @
A pretty woman gloves pretty clothes
as naturally as a flower blooms OF a
bird sings, and the man who can not
hold up that end of the contract has
40 right to make matrimonial engage
ments with them. There are plenty of
good, homely women who will be
thankful for smaller fayors to make
such men happy.
Most men start out in double har-
ness with this idea, but are spoiled in
the running, and the wives are to
blame. TIE wise woman recognizes
= this and doesn't allow it. If she needs
a new riding habit, one of those hand
some but plain short skirt ones, she
asks him for the money to buy it. She
does not scrape and skimp herself OF
other necessarles to surprise hin by
ridinmout with him looking trim and
neat in a gown that cost i'll his eyes
nothing. Any man with q mathe-
NAUTICAL mind will soon do his figuring
from such premises in about this way
If one gown cost no dollars, how many
| gowns can she get for no dollars more ?
Answer: All her gowns. Thus many
best intentioned men are spoiled by
the best intentioned wives.
In the meantime he finds himself
with all the more money to spend on
his own adornment, and INDUCES in all
| the latest masculine fads thrown on
the market. His Yachting fanncls and
silk hosiery are the envy of his brother
! boatmen. His trousers show just the
proper looseness, while the fit of his
cut-away .frock coat viii only yield the
palm to the jaunty perfection of his
business sack-coat. The next thing to
agitate the American mind will be an
effort to reinstate man in his natural
right of exerting himself to provide
handsomely for his wife.
| In arranging your winter wardrobe,
don't be afraid of bright colors. Scar
let cloaks or raglans will be often seen,
and the richest, warmest co,ors will be
used in the haudsomest millinery.
"The Choker" is the latest collar. II
is fastened behind.
Large, long and loose are character
istics of winter cloaks.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-01-07
Icebergs.

The vessel which travcrses the Allan
tic by the ordinary route between New
York or Boston a1d the British and
French ports runs a chance of meeting, in
the open sea, a craft which carries no
lights, which makes no signal, and
which tur.is neither to the right nor
to the left for approaching ships. These
craft constitute a great danger for
Transatlantic n~svlgatioa. Tney are the
icebergs, floating down from the Polar
regions.
So serious has become the danger
from icebergs that al int eraational con-
ference has been hell at London to
consider certain schemes of interlatioa-
al legislation looking toward some
means of preventing collisions with tho
iceberg. which are most numerous in
the neighborhooi of forty degrees
north lattitu le AMI ii ty d.
grecs west longitu le. Iceoarg,. so
Solenty in that neighhorhool, are never
seen along the Atlantic coast below
Newfoundland. The reason for this is
plain. The great blocks of ice de-
scending from Bafiias Bay do not find
water enough to f,lt then when they
reach the banks OF Newfoundland,
which extend-far int3 ths Atlantic. Ac-
49, E
cording.y they drift seawarl, turning,
twisting, pluaging ~ they do 50 aad
are borne on by the Polar carreat until
passing into tn, Gulf Stream they grad
ually melt in its warmer waters.
An English steamer has counted
three hundred aud fifty-one of these ice
bergs, whoss height above the water
varied from several feet to thres hum
drcd feet. Some Of these mountains OF
ice were seven miles loag. Only one
sixth of an iceberg ordinarily projects
above the watcr-a fact which goes TO
prove that tbs largest Of these masses
reached a depth of M thousand to n
thousand i've hundred feet below the
surface.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-01-07
Buddhd. D

In Anam the French conquerors have
found one custom which they have, in
some measure, fallen in with, since it is
so universal among the people that it is
almost impossible to get along with
them without some use of it. It is the
custom of "Chin-Ch Buddha," or
homage to Buddha, which the Anamites
repeat in a thousand forms.
Hanging upon the walls of their
rooms, the French have panels of ak
ornamented with inscriptions which are
at once pious and decorative-pious
from the Auamite's point of view, and
decorative from the F~renchman's.
These panels are ''Chin-Ch Buddhas. "
The term .sChin-Cnin Buddhan means
ssHail, Buddha!" but it has come to be
applied not only to every sort of re-
ligious homage, but to personal homage
and p%ollteness as well. All prayers,
obeisances, offerings, acts of ceremonial
dHlSECLCE, aIiil CfCL1 Vi OEA1LNi JSAoOAaA
| ro.iteness, are accompanied with the
utteraace of this phrase, "Chin-C Chin
Buddha;' and objects which are to be
sacrificed gs well as decorative objects
bearing pious inscriptions, bear the same
name.
When a French lady, the wife of a
commander, sailed up the Red river to
the town of Hlnoi, allo the children of
the town came crowding to the shore,
making s%alutes, clipping their hands
and shouting, ''Chin- Chin Budiha."
The beggars in the streets utter
plaintive cries of "Chin-Chia Buddha''
as they follow tho passer by, always
speaking the last name very r%everentiy.
The French in AMMAN have fallen into
the use of the term and even use it in
their own relations. THERE'S certainly
no formal expression in any European
language which has anything like SC
wide o use.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-01-07
THE DYNAMOGRAPH,
A Formidable Rival of the Tele-
phone Described.
wonderful Things it is Expect
ed to Accomplish.

A Washington communication to the
Baltimore Sun says: There is consider
able talk in the Patent Office just now
concerning an invention patented re-
Gently, which, in the opinion of some,
will be a formidable rival of the tele.
phone. The invention is an electric
typewriter. The instrument in up.
pearance somewhat resembles an
ordinary mechanical typewriter.
1t has a keyboard, and the types
are placed on steel bars, which play
upon a common centre, as is the case
~ the typewriter. The motive power
used is electricity, by means of which
of action is insured. No matter
how heavily or how lightly the keys are
struck the impression Oh the paper is the
same. A remarkable feature of the in
vention used as a typewriter is that the
carraige moves automatically both for
ward and backward. When the end Of
the line is reached the carriage returns
to the starting point without the aid of
the operator, and the popor bar moves
one notch, 50 that all that is required Of
the operator is to deprcss the keys.
The most important field for the new
invention Is said to be in connection
with the telegraph. 1t is said at the
patent Office that the instrument can be
used both as q transmitter and receiver
Of intelligence over a single wire, no
matter how great the distance may be.
The receiving instrument does not re-
quire the atten lance of al operator, but
prints the dispatch autom ltically. The
instruments at both ends of the line
print the dispatch sent, and so a safe
guard against mistakes is provided.
1t it claimed that the electric type.
writer will be valuable as o local aid to
business, and offers many advantages
over the telephone. One advantage
claimed for it is hat no matter whether
a person called, up is at his place of
business or no;, the m,ssage can be
printed through the medium of his
typewriter, and will be there for his
| perusal on his return. The dispatches
are printed in letter form, and not an
endless tape. The instrument, which
has been christened the d5namograph,
is considered by Patent Office officials
to be one of the greatest Inventions
upon which patents have been issued.
The electricians do not stint their praisr,
and are positive that the machine will
greatly simplify business iatercommuni-
cation. Some of the electricians of this
city who have seen the instrument,
notably Professor Berlinger of the Bell
Telephone company, state that the dyna-
mograph is destined to take its place as
a powerful adjunct to telegraphy, and
will be by no means a rival that the tele-
phone can afford to scorl. John Russell
Young, ex-minister to China, has taken
i hold OF the new invention, and il presi-
dent of the conp,ny which is to put it
in practical operation.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-01-07
ASSES.
The Lily Gives Place to the Rose-Stage
Fri Is nd Tri al mn nha.

The Lily Gives Place to the R0se-Stage
Trials and
There may have beeHia time, perhaps, when
the pallid lily was the type of female beauty.
II is not so to-day.
On the stage the most charming actresses
are women of robust health.
Mrs. Langtry is the best matinee attrac-
ton on the stage, so managers say, because
she is attractive to women as we'll as to men.
She is a famous walker ard an accomplished
athlete.
Two generations have ragged over the beauty
of Rose Coghlan. She is not pretty, bnt she
has the yigor of rude health.
Fanny Davenport was always fascinating,
and is still a great favorite. As Lady Cay
Sprinkler she would catch her Dolly in q rap
furious embrace and swing him three times
around her, his feet never touching the floor.
Great surprise is often expressed hat &C
tresses are able to preserve their health and
beauty in view of the terrible strain of their
exacting duties upon physical and mental
force. 20
Jennie Kimball, The ff5ther of charming
Little Corinne,n who has delighted lovers of
comic opera for many years, says, under
date MAY 2Sth, 1887: 81 was exhausted with
nv severe work and theNdortors told me to
| give up the stage. Warmers safe cure re-
| stored me. | have never had better health
in nv life, and whenever bad feeling returns
| | Immediately resort to that remedy"
! Grace hawthorne, the American actress,
now playing Taeodora with great success in
] ondon, Eng, in a recent interview said:
81 know how to remain in perfect health,
Notwithstanding the nervous strain | have
nightly to endure while playing. l use War
ner's safe cure, and it controls life and health
as nothing else will"
The really great actresses in emotional
parts are those who utterly abandon their
own personality in the assumption of the
character portrayed. The strain they under
go is one that few, outside Of the profession
can understand.
Maude Granger was obliged to abandon thu
sage temporarily by re asoa of it. She says:
The suffering | then endured, and the ter
rible condition | was in, can only be appre-
ciated by those women who have undergone
the slne experience. 1t was while still suf-
fering that 1 learned of Warmers safe cure
and began its use. | have taken it faithfully.
and am happy to state that | am now com
pletely restored to health and my usua.
vigor."
Many bleak down under the strain and.
Ike Sarah Jewett, totally give out. Physi
ciuns prescribe opiates which. perhaps, give
temporary relief, only to make the final
collapse more certain and complete. Others
are more fortunate and find in that great
remedy an influence which controls life and
health;'' and they are thus enabled to sue
coed in their highest ambitions.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-01-07
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

Otto von Guericke constructed the
first electrical machine, a globe of
sulphur, about 1s47. Humphrey Davy
produced electric light with carbon
points in 1902.
Professor Elisha Gray has invented
what he calls "The Telautograph,"
which will transmit "fac smile" auto
graphs to any distance over ordinary
telegraph wires.
It has been proven through a series of
experiments, that a large ocean steamer
going nineteen knots an hour will move
over two miles after its engines are
stopped and reversed; and no authority
gives less than q mile or a mile and o
half as the required space to stop its
progress.
1t is a singular fact a photograph of a
sun OF star taken through the big tele-
scope recently constructed at Cleveland
for the Lick Observatory gives a view
Of the heavenly object much clearer and
more distinct than that seen by the
eye in looking through the
powerful instrument.
DR.. Guillotin did not invent the neat
decapitating machine that bears his
name. An old print has just been given
the town museum Of Halifax, England,
which shows that the guillotine wa,
used there two hundred years ago. A
criminal was guillotinel at Naples in
1868, an the machine was used in Per-
STA long before that date.
1t is universally conceded that the
plant referred to in the Scriptures and
translated ''Rose of Sharon was not the
rose as we now understand it. Many at
tcmpts have been made to Identify the
plant to which this name has been giverp
Atraveler recently from the Plain of Sha-
ron notes in a scientific periodical that
whatever may have been originally in
tended, the Anemone coronaria is pointed
out by the jewellers on these plains as
the plant referred to.
In some parts of Germany and Austria
natural pumice stone has been super
seded by an artificial stone,sto which a
suitable shape can be given and different
degrees of f~ineness of grain obtained,
which allows the stone to be used in all
the industries where natural pumice
stone was formerly used. The ingredi-
ents are white sand, feldspar and fire
clay, mix,d in suitable proportions to
obtain the desired composition, and the
paste is poured into plaster moulds,
being finally placed in fre-clay recepta.
Giles and baked in ovens.
NatureGs full of odd things. There
is no end of them. AS an illustration,
take water. You can freeze it and melt
it back to just the same amount of wa
ter. Sand tncre Is camphor; you can
bury it and bring it to life. Put ar
ounce of camphor gum in alcohol and
let if dissolve, then pour water into this
until all the ~canphor returns in flakes
Put these in the scales and they will
weigh an ounce. Burn q log, weigh
the ashes, the ciuders and the gases; all
these will weigh just what the log did
In a word, change is not destruction.
The Opelousas courier., 1888-01-07
Useful Hints.

Clothcs-pins should be kept clean and
dry. 8
A strong tea of common hay will pre-
serve the color Of French linen.
In preparing walls for papering nd
one-fourth pound glue to a gallon of
water.
Do not be so painfully orderly as to
make tho family wish to escape from the
house for a little freedom.
A pinch of salt added to eggs when
beating them to a froth, will aid the
work and not injure the eggs
If SCOT il dropped on. the carpet,
cover thickly with salt and it may be
swept up without injury to the carpet.
The taste Of fish may be removed very
cffectualls from knives and FORKS by
rubbing them with fresh orange OF lemon
peel.
Paste for scrar-books is best made
from faundry starch, as it remains clear,
while gum arabic a:ld t%ragaeanth may
discolor the paper.
Before using new earthenwaro place
ii d boiler with cod water, and heat
gradually till it boils; then let remaia
until the water il cold. It will not be
liable to crack il treated in this manner.