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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-10-19
FUN.

Flies everywhere. Even time flies.
Dead reckoning-The undertaker's
bill.
Forced politeness-Bowing to neces-
sity.
A solid man-The ossifed African at
dime museum.-Mda and Express.
There is not much sentiment about
Chinese laundryman, yet he daily wrings
mems bosoms. York Journal.
He-"Come, now; let's kiss and make
up" She-''No, sir; / won't" He
"Well, let's kiss anyhow. "-Somercale
Journal.
"How can get ahead9" asked dull
boy of a pessimist. "By raising cab
bages," was the consoling reply.-Neo
York Journal.
"Have you cigar about you?" "No;
I don't buy any now" "What! and
why, them" because want to break
you of the habit of smoking. "-Fliegende
Bldetter.
1t is said that the hogs in this country
are double the value of the sheep. Is
that the reason why the railway hog
monopolizes two seats in a car while some
sheep-faced man is compelled to stand?
-SJtings.
Frank-"The deuce he did! And
what did the General sayl" Kate-''Pa-
pa said that if 1 married young Ellaby
he'd cut me off with shilling" Frank
"Bravo! Go it, Ellaby! And did you
mention me?" Kate-"Yes, Frank,
dear, 1 did. Papa said that if l married
you he'd cut me off without one."-
Time.
"Papa, said Amy, hesitatingly, "I-I
must confess something. Harry and l
had arranged to elope tonight, but my
conscience troubled me, and just had
to tell you, and spoiled it ALL" sit need
not spoil it," replied the fond parent !;
''go ahead and elope, but never tell |
knew it. 1t will save the expenses of a
wedding. "-Hdyper's Bazar.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-10-19
Syrian Villages.

The villages which dot ;hr plains of
Syria are built of sun dried brick, and
lack all eyidence OF the artistic sense.
There are no gardens, no plants. The
houses are jumblcd together without
any reference TO order, and crude in
construction and in furniture. A few
lars, few mats and rugs-,hat is about
all. They are one story high and have
fiat roofs. Ga each roof we noticed 4
roller, which is used after rains to com.
nact the mul. The chief article of fuel
is dung, which the women work up into
cakes and plaster against the houses to
dry. The towns axe usually located at
a fountain, but one we passed was a
mile away, and the people have been
contented for generations to carry their
water all that distance rather than build
again. The men do not concern them
selves with that part of the household
economy, and the women carry al the
water in great jars on their heads. In
this region. but especially further
south, black goat skins are uscd-the
legs as we'll as the body being sewed
up. We aw the women wade far into
the beautiful body of water wher. Gid
cons men Tapped, fill the goat skins,
bind them around their shoulders and
carry them off to the nearest village,
two miles away.
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Stranqe Things in Alaska.

"There are so many strange things in
Alaska" says the discoverer Of the Muir
glacier, 'that have not yet come to the
knowledge of the public that one who
has seen them hesitates where to begin.
Elephant remains are found all over the
great valley of the Yukon. As matter
of fact, they are found everywhere
throughout the great western slope Of
Alaska. Dana and Sir Charles Lyle
startled the world by announcing that
hairy frozen elephants were found
wedged among the Siberian icebergs.
But scarcely anybody knows that
throughout Alaska are the remains of
countless thousands of mastodons. You
can dig them out and find them on the
surface everywhere. l saw hundreds of
them, possibly, on my last trip, and am
now anxiously trying to get up there to
complete my investigations. So thick
are the elephant remains that the native
Indians, on finding them buried partially
in the ground, decided that there were
some kind of great mole that burrows in
the soil. This is the story given me. 1
collected lot of remains. The collect
ing of elephant tusks every summer is a
REGULAR business in Siberia, lust over
Behring Sea. We have just as many of
them on the Alaska side as they ever had
in Siberia. Ages ago great herds of ele-
plants roamed over these shores. Per-
haps they existed down to q comparative
ly recent date, too, for the hairy bodies
and well-preserved bones were evidences
of that"
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The garnet is mixture of silica and
1lumina.
The use of carbon brushes is said to be
of greatest value on railway motors.
The vampires of South America ex-
hibit an unusual appetite for blood.
A new fence is made of soft steel, cut
while in the plate and drawn out after
the fashion of paper love baskets.
Steam fire engines worked by cleo
tricity are proposed. They are light
enough to be drawn by one horse.
The electric lighting at the lighthouse
on Cape de la Heve in France is gener-
ated from o motor which is run by
wind.
Bats are usually known to be either
insect eaters, like our common species,
or fruit eaters, like the fox-bats Of India
and elsewhere.
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The Kinu of the SejaEqs.

"The King of the Sedangs" is being
made much of and making much of him
self in Paris. His title is ''Marie, Roi
DIES Sedangs." The Sedangs are an
Indo-C Chinese folk, who inhabit kind
of debatable land on the AMMAN Siamese
frontier, notable for nothing so much as
its swamps. A speculative Frenchman,
N. de Mayrena, affirms that the tribes
men elected him their King, though it
does not appear that they had any knowl-
edge of such an Office. As 'Roi DIES
sedangs" he appeared in Hanoi and
Hong Kong, with the object OF trying to
float a loan for the development of his
territories. Colonial capitalists knew
too much of Sedang. and so King Marie
is attempting to work off his Sedang
bonds in Paris.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1889-10-19
AMENDED GENEROSITY.

Itsthousands of cures are the best advertise
1nents for DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
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So confident are the manufacturers Of that
world famed remedy, DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery. that 1t will do all that they
represent, in the cure Of liver. blood and lung
diseases, that, after witnessing It's thousanos
of cures for many years past. they now reel
warranted in selling it las they are doing,
through druggists) under positive guarantee
of its giving satisfaction In every case, or
money paid for il will be refunded. No medi-
cine of ordinary merit could be sold under
such severe conditions with profit to It's pro-
prietors, and no other me ticine for the dis
eases for which it is recommended was ever
before sold under a guarantee of a cure or no
nav. In all blood taints and impurities or
whatever name or nature, II is most positive
in its curative effects. Pimples, blotches,
eruntions and all skin and scalp diseases arc
radically cured by his wonderful medicine.
Scrotulous disease may affect the glands
causing swellings or tunOrs; the bones caus-
ing ''fever-sores," white sweliings" or
"hip-jont disease" or the tissues Of the lungs.
causing pulmonary consumption. No matter
in which one of its myraid forms it crops out,
or rnanifests itself, Golden Medical Discov-
cry" will cure it If used perseveringly and in
time.
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Swift HOming Pigeons.

Six homing pigeons of the Hudson
Homing Club, of Brooklyn, were libcr-
ated on a recent Sunday morning in a
race from Newton, 5. c., air line dis
lance over 500 miles. The start was at
SO a. M, under favorable weather
and wind. The first and only return
the same day was to the loft of Joseph
Ivcrson, at 5.35 p. M, distance 5l1!
Miles, making an average specl Of 1922
wards pcr minute, breaking the best pre-
vious record of 1852 yards per minute,
made by a bird owned by Samue! Tay-
lor. CT Baltimore, Ml.-Ttmss- Democrat.
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mercantile Establishments, some of them
carrying $50, 900 worth of goods, all
owned and carried on by the Cherokces.
In Tahlequah, their capital, you will see
an elaborate state house and find a gov
eminent which contains legislature, OK
ecutive and judiciary. You may, if
you have taste that way, read thei:
code of laws or hear the two branches
of the Legislature discuss new measures
for the good of the nation. Or, if you
prefer, you may ride few miles out Of
town to their beautiful new seminary
for girls, costing round hundred thou.
sand dollars this last year, and paid fo-
out of the money coming from the Lease
of the Cherokee strip.
1t IS no savage people that educate,
its girls in such a building, teaching
them dead and living languages and ali
the "usual branches" as the catalogues
say, and not only builds the buildings a:
public expense, but educates the children
and even clothes them, if necessary, at
the cost of the state, doing the same
thing for itr boys in another school not
far away. And it might be interesting
10 in qui:c what other southern state or
community has established, at the ex-
pense of the state, a so, 900 high school
for colored children!
Such as these are the leaders of the
Cherokee Nation, with the training of
education and civilization, with a
shrcwdness that knows its interests and
sees how to defend them, with the hot
blood of the Indian race and the south
ern tradition, and with genius and 4
passion for politics; and behind them is
a people of the same sort in part, and in
part of the ruder, more savage sort, still
less likely to give up its rights, but
rather with the milan tenacity even to
the death. All of them know well that
the Cherokee strip is theirs; all of them
know that already they have been
offered large sums for it, and that in tho
national house of representatives last
year Congressman Warner advocated it
seizure on the very ground that it would
shortly be worth Sl2 an acre. 1t is fol
this land we have sent commissioner tc
treat with this people and to offer them
/ 81. % an acre,- Christian Union.
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Who the CherOkees Are.

The Chcrokces are educated and able
nen-yes, cultivated men and women.
Their life is the life Of civilization, and
asir country is governed well and
eaborately. They are perfectly aware
atheir own rights and best interests,
nd are rich enough to uphold them.
u Vinita, their principal business cen
" you may End twenty or thirty large
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Great Britain owns nearly half of the
North American continent and twenty of
the principal islands of the West Indies.
She also has colony in Central America,
another in South America, and her CAPT
talists have invested in railway and gov
ermental securities of the various nations
of South America at least eight hundred
million dollars.
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Smoke the best 'Tansill's Punch" Cigar.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. typhus il
raging in Brazil.
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Mr.. De Groot-"Everything I've got
in the world is yours, Alice, if you'll
only say the word"
Little Tommy (from outside)-''They',
one thing you won't get unless your
young man hurries. His boss just run
away"
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Discretion.

Customer Gin '25 cents T. meal" res
taurant. out West)--" Gimme a glass
O milk.
Waiter Cautiously" Got yer gun
wild yel"
Customer (disgustcdly)--"Naw! Dye
expect me ter 90 out an shoot COW for
ye1'
Waiter-"You've got coffee, an we
don't give milk an coffee too
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Thompsons Eye Water. Druggists sell a
25c per bottle.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-14

Los ANGELES. CAL November Ia, 1888.
This is to certify that had been afflicted
with asthma and emphysima of the lungs for
about "a years. My disease was contracted in
the army. 1 had tried almost every known
remedy, both here and in the East, but nothing
ever gave M ? permanent relief until had tried
Dr. Williams Compound Oxygen and other
remedies It is only about one month since 1
began the treatmen and already feel like an
other man. l was SO bad that for days could
put 40 ~ feel thaT
has been entirely removed, and feel as Well as
JOHN w. HoYT,
Employe City Water Works,
256 Bellevue avenue, Los Angeles, Cal.
Los ANGELES, November 16, 1888.
1t is source of qualification to me to be able
to testify to the very satisfactory cure Dr. M
Hilton Wi liams has effected in my case with
After suffering for several years with catarrh
of the head and throat, also bronchitis, which
caused very aggravating cough, applied to
just two months from the time 1 began the
treatment. I take pleasure in recommending
Dr. Williams as Christian gentleman and a
cures seem almost marvellous in cases of con-
sumption, asthma, bronchitis and catarrh.
MRS. L. A. THURSTON,
90 South Olive street, Los Angeles, Cal.
1 have seen so many cases of lung diseases
red that do not consider any case hopeless
unless both lungs are seriously involved Even
then the inhalations aid us in dissolving the
mucus and in contracting and healing the cav
tiles, which nothing else caa do with the same
success
The very best references from those already
cured.
CONSULTATION FREE.
Those who desire to consult with me In regard
to their cases had better call at my Office for
consultation and examination but II impos
sible to do 80, can write for a copy of my
Medical Treatise. containing a list OF questions
Address
VI. HILTON WILLIAMS, NJ. D.,
HOLLENBECK BLOCK,
Corner Second and Spring sts., Los Angeles.
jas 6m
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-14
The Hasa.Haaua Mines.

EDITORS HERALD-There is in the HER
AIDS local columns this morning piece
of information which believe to be a
mistake, and liable to disappoint others
as 1 have been lately disappointed. l
allude to the item headed, "The Hasa
Hauua Mines" and the information is
accredited to "an arrival on the Pacific
Overland" The statement is made that
the nearest point by which the Hasa
Haoua mining district can be reached is
the railroad station Sentinel, Southern
Pacific railroad sixty miles east of Yuma; !;
that is sixty miles from there to the
mountains; and that blackboard is in
full swing between the mines and the
railroad There must be mistake about
this. Week before last, by appointment,
met a gentleman at Sentinel, with
whom had engaged to visit the region OF
the new discovery, he to furnish transpor-
tation, supplies, etc. Hound him await
ing me at Sentinel, greatly disappointed.
All there is of Sentinel is the ordinary Sec
tion. house ,wretched quarters for Mexican
and Chinese laborers, a telegraph station,
pump and engine house, and an incipient
sssaloon." located in stockade built OF
old railroad ties set on end and rooted
over with canvass and mesquite branches.
There was not only no blackboard line
communicating with any other part OF
the world, but not even horse or burro
to be had for love or money, nor any kind
of supplies or outfit for a journey to the
mines. We considered ourselves fortu-
nate in being able to buy cheese and
crackers to appease our hunger.
We were also informed that we were
on the wrong (south) side of the Gila,
which was then bank full and still rising,
and that even if it were possible to cross
the river, the country on the north side
was for long distance so cut up by
deep sloughs setting back from the
stream that it would not be practi-
cable to 20 to the mountains by that
route. We we're told that other disap-
pointed parties had been there and to
various stations as far south as Gila
Bend d-wronyly informed as to the loca-
ton OF the "find," or how to get to it.
The information published in the
HERALD is about the same as that which
lured us to Sentinel, and am certain
that it is equally unreliable. l believe
that it would'be the cheapest and most
certain way for those who are inclined
to 90 to the district and make thorough
prospect of the region to 60 directly to
Phoenix. There are men there who know
the ground and the most practicable way
of getting to it, and at Phoenix the neces.
sary outfit can be obtained. l am told
on what ought to be and doubtless was
good authority, that the discovery of
placer gold, which has turned attention
to that region, was genuine and import
ant, but was all covered by one claim
OF course, the inference is that there
must be more near by; at least the prob
ability is strong enough to warrant the
| investment of few dollars and the
necessary time and labor in making the
investigation. GEORGE ID. BEERS.
Los ANGELES, January 15, 1889.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-14
WITH SKIN GLOVES.
Abe Nixon and Tom Ward to Fight
to q Finish.

Abe Nixon and Tom Ward to Fight
TO Finish.
Last evening select coterie of sports
assembled in the Anheuser Saloon, and
the gathering Of so many shining lights
in the local sporting world betokened
that something important was on the
tapis.
The result of a secret council was that
articles of agreement were drawn up, by
which Abe Nixon, middle-weight cham.
pion of Colorado, is matched to fight
Tommy Ward, of Portland, Oregon.
They are to fight to finish, catch
weight, with skin gloves, Marquis OF
Queensbury rules, tor $3.50 side, the
fight to take place within ten days and
within 100 miles of Los Angeles.
John Macdonald was appointed stake
holder and fifty dollars side was posted
as a forfeit, the balance of 5000 side to
be placed in his hands on or before 4 P.
NJ. Saturday, the 10th inst. The referee
is to be chosen at the ring side, and the
articles further stipulate that either party
shall be allowed twenty spectators and
no more, either of the contestants violat-
ing this clause to forfeit the stake money.
Both men are in the best possible con-
dition, Nixon tipping the beam at 154
pounds, whilst his opponent at present
weighs about $50 pounds, 80 that they
are evenly matched in this particular
The contest will doubtless be an exciting
one, and the sporting editor of the HER.
AID will be there to add to the annals oi
the local Fistiana.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-14

Mr.. A. ]. Ives, of Chicago, is at the
Nadeau.
Mrs. H. G. Fuller, Of Chicago, is at
the Nadeau.
Mr.. w. H. Bartlett, Of Chicago, is at
the Hollenbeck.
Mr.. Leslie E. Mcleod, Of New York,
is at the Hoffman.
Mr.. Leon We'll of San Francisco has
arrived in the city.
Mr.. B. W. Campbell, OF Cincinnati, is
at the Hollenbeck.
Mr.. F. M. Kimball, of Flagstaff, Ariz.,
is at the Hollenbeck.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. Cally, of New
York, are at the Hoffman.
Mr.. H. R. w. Hasting, Of st. Joseph,
Mo, is at the Hollenbeck.
]. P. Moran and H. H. Smith, OF
Albuquerque, are at the Hoffman.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Osterhouse, of
Livermore, CAL, are at the Nadeau.
Mr.. J. P. Allen, prominent mining
HAL VI Cdu I CIduCloCO, 10 dt 1uc aoAmdus
Mr.. J. g. Martin, city editor of the St.
Louis Globe Democrat, is in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. F. Holman and J. D..
Hammanse, of San Francisco, are at the
Nadeau.
Colonel M. Nudge, of Compton, a
prominent Grand Army man, is at the
Hoffman.
Messrs. E. B. Hyde and Henry E.
Hyde, of Spokane Falls, w. t., are at
the Nadeau.
Mrs. R. b. Hall and niece, of Bing.
hampton, N. Y, have taken rooms at
Bellevue Terrace.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. B. Lee, Miss Lee
and Miss Margaret Lee, of West Chester,
Pa, are at the Hoffman.
Mr.. Homer G. Katz. for long number
of years connected with the firm of Meyer
Lewis & Co., has severed his connection
with that firm to assume control of the
Philadelphia Boot and Shoe House, oil
Nos. 103 and los N. Main street.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-14
INDUS TRIAL DEVELOPMENT.
The Opening of the Sewer Pipe
Works.

The Opening of the Sewer Pipe
Works.
The California Sewer Pipe Company's
huge works will be opened tomorrow
afternoon at O'Clock, and the public in
general is invited to be present and see
the machinery set in motion. Mayor
Bryson will open the ceremonies, and
the Chamber of Commerce will be pres
ent. These works, which eventually
will cover twenty acres of land, are a
great addition to the industrial develop
ment of the city and will employ from
the start 200 workmen. 1t is the inten-
ton to construct additions Immediately
after the present works are in running
order, and not only manufacture sewer
pipe, but tiles, pressed brick, fire brick,
etc. Tomorrow the public will be given
chance to see how clay is turned into
pipe, and there will be large crowd of
people interested in the development of
Los Angeles present at the opening.
Conveyances for the visitors will be in
waiting at the corner of First and Los
Angeles streets.