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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1889-02-16

NOTICE TO TRESPASSERS.
All persons hunting or otherwise trespass-
ing upon my property, known as the GAIOSA
PLANTATION, will be prosecuted to the full
extent OF the law.
Jan. 5, 1889. y. f.. LEP1NE.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13
Photographs Of Hands.

For six months photographs of a
very pretty and very unusual kind have
been multiplying in the shop windows,
says New York letter. The subject
is woman's hand. In the first that
appeared the hand held glass of
champagne, but the simple idea OF
photographing woman's hands seems
to have filled long-felt want, and it
has become quite craze. OF course,
mice people" keep the champagne out
of sight, but other things more absurd
have taken its place. One girl, on
becoming engaged, had photographs
of her hand wearing the engagement
ring, and sent pictures to her "most
intimate friends" by way of announce
ment.
Commonly the hand is suspended in
the air, in graceful curves, as if the
owner were saying "ta-ta," and some
times it lies spread upon a pillow.
The idea should be adopted by matri-
monial agencies, for there is hardly a
better guar anty OF female beauty Eek
cept for the complexion than q shapely
hand. 1t used to be said that we'll
Known actress, who was very proud of
her foot, used to have it photographed.
At oil events she appeared on the stage
in bare feet whenever there was pos
sible excuse for it, and the first time
that she did it there was pretty stir.
True, she wore sandals, but the little
that they covered would have been COW
cred by the floor. Estelle Clayton did
the same.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13
Walter scott,s Manuscripts.

The manuscript page of one of the
Waverly novels is ofquarto size, evenly
written in free and open hand, with
out dotted 81" or a crossed It," A
short dash alone indicates the place
for punctuation mark, but the mark
itself is left for the printer to insert.
The writing is SO uniform as to sug-
gest that it might almost have been
projected against the paper by single
effort rather than penned line by line.
Indeed, the handwriting was so regular
that Scott could from the amount of
copy calculate to page the length of
volume; this he has done on the mar
gin of roof sheet of "Peveril of the
Peak" Each of these pages of copy
contained about 800 words. At the
time of the composition of "Ivanhoe'
three such pages, equal to fifteen or
sixteen of the original impression, were
considered days work, although later
he often exceeded that number. He
records the result of one day work at
six manuscript pages, or about twenty
four pages OF print; another day he
wrote copy enough for thirty pages of
print; and one day of hard work on
"The Fair Maid of Perth" supplied the
printer with manuscript for forty pages
Of print. Oocas 'onally the bottom of
a manuscript page shows the flourish
used by lawyers to prevent the inser-
ton of forged additions certainly an
unnecessary scroll for Waverly novel.
IF. FL. Woodruff, IN Sca'5b9aer's.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13

had S., 900 year Of her own, and no
social position, as her first husband
was saloonkeeper. got her into
refined and fashionable society. How
did she repay me, think you? Well,
she insisted upon spending all her own
coin upon herself, and then demanded
half Of my little income. Wasn't that
pretty cheeky? She paid me nothing
for my social position. She got every
thing and gave nothing save the
$1,000 year when she died to q TWEEN
ty-sacond cousin near Prince Bis
marck's home in Pomerania. MY sec
ond wife was in her second widow
hood, bat not bit softer about money
matters than when she was maiden
fair. Everything settled upon herself.
/ paid for the wedding breakfast. She
had large income and she never gave
me cigar. She went to heaven and
left her money to sister. The sister
would marry me, but I got nice little
woman with four children, who had
buried three husbands and was as
merry as a butterfly. She is alive
now and is the hardest nut of all. She
doesn't take half my moneys she takes
,e whole Of it, pays my bills, and al
lows me SO cents day for spending
money. No, sir; marriage was no fail
ure-for the three women who had the
good fortune to marry me. - Chicago
Journal.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13

ers. He rolled them up carefully and
SHE'D them far, far out over the gum
vale Of the boat near the bow. As
they sped through the air they un-
furled with soul-piercing plunk.
They filed with air and looked as
they struck on the crest Of the waves
Ikea man STOPPING over to reer down
into the depths Of the tide. Anervous
woman about midships heard the inn
pact Of the abandoned pantaloons and
looking down with shudder said !:
Me Gawd, human being has went to
his account" She then became the
author of loud ye1p and all hands
rushed to the guards with the cry Of
"Man overheard, that awful cry which
once heard can never be forgotten. A
hundred hands with boat hooks and
catfish openers ran to the lower decks,
and amid the cries Of women and the
quick drawn breath Of pale men, tall
roustabout iabbed the drowning man
in the vitals with a jabber. and, while
fainting passengers looked the other.
way, he pulled out the now collapsed
trousers and found on the inside of the
waistband the name of the owner, also
the leg and waist measurement. to-
gether with the name Of st. Louis
tailor. Then they began to hunt over
the boat and in the dregs of the river
for the man who had occupied the
trousers aforetime, and that shy young
mans name was in every mouth and
he didn't dare to come down for his
breakfast, and his jet black mustache,
which could be distinctly seen when he
left st. Louis, from fright turned
around and went back again.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13

contras'-how would blue seeds look !?
Dey would look like de blue ribbon
an de red roses on de po' white trash's
Sunday bonnet. OATS good huff rea-
son, but dat ain de bigges' one yit
De fust million dat growed wuz riz
in Africa, an ebryt'ing dat comes from
dat Ian mus hab de sign OBJ 'rigina-
ton, an OATS always black. Oats de
lam whar de possum an de cullud gin'l-
men an watermillions comes to perfec-
ton; de hot sun draws UNI out. In dis
life we meets wild possibilities sometimes
an sometimes wild inpossibilities, but
when meets de cullud pusson dat dom
love watermillions I seq, he am one OBJ
de impossibilities. When de white
man wants to know eff million is ripe
he twis his head on one side an look
powerful KNOWN; den he stoop hissef
an thump de million; dat ain no way !;
ak de cullud man-he's de one dat
knows how; he jis' run his eye long
dat slim, tel he comes to de little curl
mex to de million, an eff dat's kinked
up tight like his own wool den he
knows dat watermillion done spen' his
las day on dat vine.
Onct dar wuz po' white man come
from de piney woods, I spec, an he
planted hisse'f big million patch.
One day dat man SEE to me, he seq !:
II gwine fix my millions SO dat de
niger dat 'propriates one is dead
niger" 1 knowed right den dat
Providence gwine punish dat man.
Mex day seed him projickin roun'
wild little yaller box down in de
patch, an de mex mornin' de worms
or sumpin done cut ebry million often
dem vines; an dat's how Providence
ebened up.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13

means Of the scruF of your neck,
through O hooting and madding crowd,
but the policeman who has. arrested
Won sends in signal from the nearest
box, and directly, as the English put
it, or right away, as the American has
it, beautiful silver-mounted droska,
or Rise-up- William Riley and come
along -with-me phaeton, drawn by gayly
caparisoned and neighing steeds,
dashes up to the curb, driven by an
Olive street gondolier. You bound
lightly into the beautifully fecked
chariot, tiny silver gong about the
size OF railroad timetable tinkles
gayly, and away you 60, arousing the
envy and admiration of those who have
never been under arrest.
But how, asks the keen and pungent
reader, can st. Louis afford to do this,
while IN o city like New York the
criminal must either walk to the sta
ton house or forego the joys of arrest
entirely. The answer is simple. Here
the criminal pays $3.50 for an arrest
which he used to get at 30. This pays
his d1oska hire and makes his arrest
something to look back to with pleas
ure. People who yield to the police
and become arrested from time to time
do not care for the expense. Mostly
they reter the expense to a place which
should be alluded to sparingly in a
Sunday paper. And SO the sum Of 80. 80
doesn't bother them at all. They pay it
if they have it, and il they do NOLAN OPP
portunity is given them to earn it later
on at some skilled labor like pounding
sand. This makes the arrest an orna-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13
An OId WARRIOR on MarrIage.

Walking along Lake Shore with an
old soldier who had married thrice,
and for money every time, I had some
new and valuable light shed upon the
question, as Marriage Failure ?"
The warrior takes an easy view Of life.
He is inclined to think that women are
aot as bad as they are painted, but
that they require strong handling.
aThe marriage laws are much too easy
on women Now, look herei I'm a
man OF family-I mean social position.
$ have an income Of between 50, 500
and So, 900. 'Tisnt much, but. as
Shakespeare says, It's mine own. ]
married widow TOR my first wife. She
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13

L u
hurry it is no trifing task to send out
to the store for such small articles as
sugar, tea and eggs, when you know
your next-door neighbor, Mrs. W., al
ways has goodly supply, and you can
easily borrow what you are in need of.
To be sure, you sent over and bor-
rowed some starch of her only this
morning, and you are conscious of the
fact that Mrs. w. has never borrowed
so much as pin of you; but no mat
ter, run right over and get cup of
sugar. Take the largest cup you have
in the house, and when you return the
sugar - if you ever do-select the
smallest cup you can find, and don't
fill it very full, for fear you will spill
ome.
Then, while you are getting the SUI
gar, don't forget to ask for her fat
irons, for you know you will want to
iron tomorrow and will need them.
OF course, you have fatirons of your
own, but you like Mrs. WIS the best,
for they are much larger and conse-
quentlv will hold the heat longer. And
while there, if you think of anything
else you want, don't have any con-
scientious scruples about asking for it.
Mrs. w. is such pleasant woman,
and SO obliging.. No doubt she con-
siders it a great privilege to lend you
her things, and when they are worn
out she can easily replace them, pro-
viding, of course, she has money
enough to do so, and if she hasn't-she
ought to have.
You forget that you have only
known her three weeks, and you are so
glad she moved next door, for she is
such an accommodating soul.
You will be utterly dumfounded
when you look out of the window one
of these fine mornings and find Mrs.
w. is moving out. What can be the
matter? You rush right over and ask
her why she is going away, and tell
her how dreadfully you will miss her,
etc. Perhaps she will tell you there is
sewer-gas in the house.
This sounds rather improbable, il
you take into consideration the fact
that the houses in your block have all
been built within the past year, but
you don't.
Six months later you are convinced
that there must be sewer-gas in that
house, or something equally as disas-
trous; for, although many families have
moved into it, none have remained
more than few weeks, and the place
is always to rent; likewise the one on
the other side of you. So, being fully
impressed with the idea that it is
"sewer-gas," you Immediately move
yourself.
Let me tell you, my friend, sewer-gas
had nothing to do with these houses
being empty; it was because But
what is the use? You would not be-
ieve me; SO, rather than get into
trouble, refuse to explain further.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13
Aphorisms from the Study.

Some one should preach sermon
on the bad taste of pursuing good taste
too exclusively.
The philosophers trouble is that
while he can give fifty years to eval-
uating life impartially, life has spent
several thousand years in shaping his
prejudices.
In moments of decision there is dam
ger of installing the exhaustion OF
long spiritual struggle r res. gnation
to fate.
We talk of Immortality, but we even
do not know what time is Perhaps
time has possibilities that dwarf inn
mortality. and we are fooliDg ourselves
with the poorer choice. Let Us have
the very best
II heaven should grant one more gift
TO this country, the mistake would not
be great were it more sacred observ-
ance OF parentage.
Faith. ke any virtue, must have its
test, and probably the reason for mex
pIicabIe evil
An optiniist is an nnrefectiye in
diyidual with nerves ut concert pitch.
-Cepf7ts7.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13

PRESIDENT HARRISON travelled all
the way to Washington in a palace
car, sumptuously adorned and proyid-
ed with all the appliances and COM
forts of bed and board to be found in
the most luxuriant home. At every
stage of his journey he had the advan-
tage of telephone and telegraph, and
the trip occupied only few hours.
His grandfather had to make one stage
of his journey by river boats and the
remainder in a numbering stage coach.
The telegraph and telephone were un-
known. 1t took several days in one
section of the country to learn what
was going on in the other. Not mile
of railroad had been laid at that time,
unless it were some little local affair in
New England. Fourteen long days he
was upon the journey which his grand
son made in almost as many hours.
Even the news Of his illness did not
reach the wife, who was left behind to
arrange some matters at the old home
stead, until he was dead.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13

PIE OF cane, are Su tAIlAly Aitsuc Us W
ferment easily, causing extreme acidity
Of digestion the worst thing for
health, looks or temper. Thin, pale
children, with watery-blue eyes. must
be kept from this pernicious state of
things by taking charcoal lozenges or
carbonate of ammonia, or the old do
nestle drink OF ash water, which, as q
cure for indigestion or dyspepsia. is
far too good to be lost. It is made by
pouring quart of boiling water on
five heaping spoonfuls of clean wood
ashes. allowing it to settle, and taking
half cupful of the water after meals,
or when acidity is felt
To acquire suppleness, which is the
beauty and useful grace OF women,
training must begin in childhood mot
by gymnasium practice, which gives q
mechanical air, but by use of every
muscle for some purpose. Let a girl
swing from trapeze, not to acquire o
difficult feat, but for the fun of it, pure
and simple.
Running makes trim ankle and
shapely leg, and girls should be en-
couraged to run as often as possible in
O1u-lHSulouSU Shuec VI Ud41 VI pI1o-
oner's base, which, as it used to be
played, left few fibers of the body with
out stretch and refreshment. The
lodging, the feints, and sudden dashes
for base were good practice in tactics,
giving quick eye and foot and 1.-the
body. The old-time village games
were the best survival of Greek tradi-
ton, and the best physical training we
shall ever know. When girls went out
to play with their brothers and neigh
bors' children in runs around an acre
field, game of ball-not degenerate
baseball or throwing stones at a
mark, the good effects survived in mind
and body. Among such girls it was I
knew one, trained to all sorts of house
keeping, too, whose hand was so hexi-
BILE she could turn her fingers back to
touch her wrist; another let her brace
let's slip over her slender hand without
unclasping; another, who never knew
a corset, and was elegantly tall, had a
seventeen-inch waist, and fourth was
complimented by New York artists and
doctors as having an absolutely perfect
figure, so that exercise in its rudest
form is no bar to extreme refinements
of person.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13

, ment to the city, and the gentlemanly
criminal or misdemeanor obligato pays
for it, thus contributing to his own
comfort and making his arrest deli
! cate tribute to himself which the pa
pers can use, and which will read we'll
in scrap-book when forked over to
future generations.
st. Louis points with pride to her
police system and methods of arrest.
A New York man who comes to st.
Louis and gets arrested is treated just
as well as if he had been born here !;
whereas st. Louis man who goes to
New York, when arrested, is at once
looked upon with suspicion.
The people of st. Louis love to
compare their police and arrest system
with those of other cities, and to speak
of Chicago with quiet scorn. They
love to point with pardonab1e pride to
their five mayors, neither one of whom
dared for some time to leave town for
fear one of the others would be sole
mayor when he got back. They also
speak with some acrimony of the old
time Chicago justice of the peace, who
used to have his shrine over a gilded
hell. He had deaf and dumb waiter
built in back of the bench, also q
speaking tube, by means of which he
could refer difficult points of law to a
low-browed chemist in his shirt sleeves
down stairs, and 30, as we say in the
Rue de Bowery, he would ever and
anon "roll the rock" And it fell out
that in his court justice was not only
blind, but she had bad hiccough as
the day wore on, while now and
then the hoarse overruling power
of the justice mingled it's accents with
the whistle of the speaking tube and
the low moan of the tipless dumb
waiter.
Thus it happened that in the records
of the office the stenographer has erro-
neously embodied in the Justices rul-
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13

VINCENT Copy has recently sent S.
to the Parnell fund through the New
York Tribune He is a life prisoner
at Sing Sing, where he has been incar-
cerated for twenty two years for killing
John r. Livingston in 1867. The
money sent by Cody to the Parnell
fund was from few dollars which he
put in the bank after his sentence to
pay his funeral expenses when he dies,
and from the accumulated interest he
has contributed to worthy objects from
time to time.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13

JOHN SMITH murdered q man near
Louisville July IA, 1867, and was SEN
fenced to be hanged June 3, 1870. He
escaped from jail and went to Austria
liza, where he went into the sheep bust
ness and became wealthy. Recently
his desire to revisit his native land
overcame his fear of punishment and
LIE stea1thily returned. He has been
located in Arkansas and will probably
yet be called upon to pay the long de-
ferred penalty of his crime.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13

ings such irrelevant remarks as IAN
other hot whiskee for the coort," and
other holdings and findings of the
court which have been used in Chicago
and other cities as precedents in cases
of like character, to the great elevation
of the bench and bar.
He was Justice who introduced into
his administration style of fine which
has been frequently adopted by young
and struggling Justices of the Peace
elsewhere. For instance, two offend
ers are up before him for assault and
battery, or something of that kind, and
the court is trying to discover which is
the offending party. After hearing the
testimony and overriding most Of it,,
referring from time to time to his tin
source of information, he looks up at
the ventilator and says: aThe court
finds you guilty and assesses you tin
dollars and trimmins, together with
the remark that you will stand COM
mitted until the whole thing is fully
paid"
Then one of the men says timidly :
"But, your Honor, have no money.
aSit down. sit down, you red-eyed
study in rum,s said the court, sand
shut up your chaotic face. I'm talking
to the other man."
On board steamboat the other even
ing strange thing occurred. It has
nothing to do with anything else, and
do not put it in here in order to teach
valuable lesson. 1t Is just q simple
unchronicled fact.
A ~, ..g,,,,ss ,ax dao;dad II, o1,a,, dos,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13

A WOMAN near Ventura, CAL, recent
ly made 100000 in land speculation.
This fired her with ambition to get up
special @boom" and make a million,
if possible. So she chartered train
from San Francisco, 600 miles away,
gave free ride, a free lunch, and free
music to all who would come, and held
big sale. But, though the train was
crowded from San Francisco, no one
would buy, and instead of making a
fortune she lost $4,000.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13
Nothing but a Rich American.

Mrs. Robinson Brown-Jones when
the last wedding guest had departed y
Well, it's all over, and it is such a re
lief to have Jeanne so fortunately mar
ried.
Mr.. Robinson Brown-Jones I'm
glad the fuss is through at last, and
I'm agreeably disappointed that Jane,
with all the nonsense you have put in
her head, has married so fine fellow
even if he is an Englishman.
Mrs. Robinson Brown Jones An
Englishman, forsoothi You seem to
forget your daughter has married the
youngest son of duke.
Mr.. Robinson Brown-Jones-Io ought
not to, indeed, for have had that fact
served with every meal for the last
three months.
A fortnight later: Jeanne (the bride,
bursting into her parents homs)-Oh,
ma, and pa, too, take me home again !!
I'm ruined I'm ruined!
Mr. and Mss. Robinson Brown Jones
lin great alarm What!
Jeanne-That man has betrayed me
under false pretensesl (Wceps wildly
Mr. Robinson Brown Jones (purple
with excitement The scoundrel! He
shall answer for this with his life.
Speak, Jane has he confessed to have
been married before?
Mrs Robinson Brown-Jones (recov-
ering herself oh, calm yourself, Oba-
diah, it may be morganatic marriage
You know kings make them and
probably dukes-they don't count at
all.
Jeanne (stiaing her sobs) Oh, if it
were merely bigamy, it would be moth
ing. could go on the stage, you know,
but it is SO much worse than that
Falls to weeping again.
Mrs. Robinson Brown-Jones - Oh,
what is it, Jeanne?
Mr.. Robinson Brown-J Jones Tell MS
the truth. girl, how has he deceived
you?
Jeanne (gasping) He is not (sob),
(sob) dukes son (sob) he is not even
(sob), (sob) an Englishman (sob), (sob),
(sob). He is nothing (sob) but rich
American Sob, bound to win me.
(Sobs ad minimum.
Mrs. Robinson Brown-Jones fopen-
ing her arms Ny stricken dove. come
to me. You are indeed ruined and 50
are we. Duet Of stormy grief.
Mr.. Robinson Brown Jones latter q
moments contemplatige pause) And
this is my vie and my daughterl-
Epoch.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-13

hit can grow as big as hit pleases wild
out limitations; hit knows dat de bush
would snap in de middle TO hit was
half grown, den down hit come kerr
lump an buss wide open, SO hit SEE to
hitse'f, "Dis vine good 'nough fer me, "
an dar hit lays flat on de back an
grows poun' ebry night. I waz set
tim in de sun outside de cabin Sunday
afternoon, cogitatin on speritul an
sexuala subiicks, when / spied big
million coolin' in de mule trough; I
SEE to myself: How do all dat water
git inside dat million?" Pears like de
po-es mus 'spand deyse'fs in de moon
light an de dew soaks in; dat would
take mighty big po'es an mighty
heap O. dew to fill up dat million. Dat
dom SCUM like rational logickin. Den
on student I recommembers dat onc't
I hearn ole mars say dat de watermill-
ion wuz de mos suclint vegetable dat
growed. Den I knowed right off dat
in course he meant de million sucks
dat water through de slim. Any fool
could reason dat out. De slim is 80
little an de million has to suck SO
hard dat it turns de whole insides red
wild assertion. De mex question dat
agitates hitsef to de t'inkin' mind is
what makes de seeds black. Oar is
two reasons fer dat. One is, fer de