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The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-07
The Lady Next Door.

Mr.. W. tuvied the lady next door because
lie always scented SO we'll anti happy. "She
g, lows life end don't, It said the di content d
w.snaU. How ] would like to change places
vi l. tf,r' All last she made the acquaintance
# the ct,iect OF her envy, aud this is what
The Iady told Ter: "Happya OF course [ am,
f"r / tpjvy perfect health. My dear Mrs,
", your face tells me why you are not hap
pL, YOU are suffering from functional de
rsngenents. wasa martyr to female weak
uess3s fer years, but DR.. Pitrce's Fayoiiie
Prescription cured me. Hs it will yolt II y"U
viii try il. 1t Is guaranteed 10 give sht's
tunnel.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-07

It is hoped to erect a Temperance temple
for Kansas Women Christian Temperance
Union on the Ottawa Assembly Grounds.
Steamer bars are 10 be abolished in Onta-
rio. Canada, as they should be wherever
transportation companies value human life.
The arrests for drunkenness III Great
Britain for the past ten years are SAID to
have reached a total OF nearly two millions.
OF $40 persons who entered five saloons in
CoIumbus, Ohio, within an nOur one Satur-
day evening, 554 were found to be young
men.
A sample Of W. C. T. U. activity is the
fact that one Illinois woman alone has estab-
lished twenty five new local unions within
the last five months.
New York vi, .e-ribbCner suggests that
coffee stands be placed close to every saloon,
each person to receive a piece OF bread OF a
cracker, with coffee or tea, at u penny a
cup.
There are 5000 bands of hope and juven-
lie temperance societies in the United King
dom. with nearly 1000, 900 members. The
Scottish Union includes G0 societies and
$50, COS members.
This is how an exchange figures it out
From Il busheL OF corn a distitter gets foul
pall3ns of whiskey, which retailS at Sl6. The
Government gets $3.50, the farmer who
raised the corn gets forty cents, the raiiroac
get. ST. the manufacturer gets 81, the re-
taller gets s. and the consumer gets drunk
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Bacteria.

The nature Of bacteria wal for q long
time doubtful, but it has recently been
determined that they are vegetable rather
than animal, occurring in four forms
spheroidal, oyoidal, ~rod-shaped ana
sniral. ST. minute are they that LOW OF
hem placed end to end would only
over i space equivalent to one-quartei
# the head of It pin. They are com,
,osed Of a. ~granuia, watery mass, SUI
soundea by thickened walls. A drop o.
sateI IS the OCEAN in which they live.
sleong their various functions IS u
s.uded 4 marvellous power Of Tepreduc
aon ii ssenty-foar hours q bacteFiuH
VIII uroJgcf oyer sixteen millions.
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TEMPERANCE.
OR TWO.

A OR TWO.
Have you heard Of a-something twe'll call
it a bird
That's abroad like the Wandering Jew?
1t sweeps here and vonder on ocean and
shore,
And turns the whole universe blue.
The laws Of the lands are its perches; the
earth
Moves NOT till the creature shall nod;
1t cries for d legion and legions arise;
Each claw is the sword of a god.
IT'S stronger than death tand how cruelD,
and Kings
Bow low at its movable court:
lis the rival of Atlas; for spheres cannot
whiri
Till it gives them its noble support.
The world is too small for its nest, so it
build,
On 1t singular, terrible plan;
In order 10 fully develop its wings
IT muSt hide III the BRAIN Of a man.
Alb, then the astonishing plunges and fights
Describe IFS manpuvTes who can
The rnan may imagine he swallows the bird.
It's the bird, though, that swallows the
man.
Jessie AacytegoJ, in National Adrocate.
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nitlt insanity thus rapidly increasing in
france. anil vita forty-one per cent. OF the
ri,,aas IA, Germany last year committed by
.,tosieatsd persons. Bacchi,s and Gambrinus
4ttl have no apology Tor existing longer
:Gics.
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r..n1rx ,x,,sEAslna IS FRANCO.

Frlnce is developing some facts on the
Iiq Tor question that so not harmoni2e with
the cain Of the liquor men that liquor drink
II . Is entirely l.araltass in Europe. The
.'.,ris correspondent OF the London Times
states that tile number Of persons admitted
mt, tie specia' mfirmAry for the criminal
9 ssss aud vAgabonas of the capita5is rap
aly increasing. aud gives these figures from
. ? ...... - - v, IL. ~
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An Ohio business man IS afflicted with
PARALYSIS of a very singular kind. HIS
legs are powerless from dark to dayilgn''
when he RECEIVERS the use of them.
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Coiumendabie.

All claims not consistent with tie high char
ac.er OF Syrup Of Figs are purposely avoided
by the California Fig Syrup Company. 1t acts
gently On the kidneys, liver and boWels.tleans
ing the system effectually, but ii is net a cure,
all and makes 10 pretens ems that every bottle
will not substantiate.
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Are YOU fond OF orchids, Miss
L.aker?' asked Miss Gotham OF her
Chicago visitor. "Really, was the re-
ply, II don't believe I ever ct any
Muassy's Weekly.
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F., ], CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o., Props
Of Halls Catarrh Cure, offer SftO reward lol
any case Of catarlh that can not be cured ng
taEinp Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for testi
moniels. free. Sold by Druggists, i5c.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-07

The first Swedish female physician to-
engage in regular practice is DR.. Caroline
Wilderstrom, who has just opened aa1
Office in Stockholm.
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One Reason

Why nearly everybody should take a good medicine
In the spring is because at this season the system is
especially susceptible to the benefit to be derived
from a reliable preparation like Hoods Sarsaparilla.
In the winter various impurities in the
blood, the effect of which is most felt when spriug
comes on, in general weakness and ~languor. The
system Graves assistance to maintain the health
tone and expei impurities, which Hoods sarsapa-
rilia readily gives. Try it.
."For five years was sick every spring, but last
year began in February to take Hoods sarsaparilla.
/ used five bottles and have not seen a sick day
since."~-G. W SLOAN. Milton, Mass.
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FITS stopped free by Dr.. KtINEs eREAI
NERye Ne Fits after first day
use, Marvellous cures. Treatise AMI - trla
bottle free. DR.. Kline,9 3l Arch St, Phila' IA
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The Mothers Friend, used a few weeks
bof1ra confinement, lessons the pain snd
makes labor quick AMI comparatively easy
SOLD by all Druggists.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-07

The unmarried ladies of Massachu'
sets have s29, 900, 900 on deposit in the
savinos banks Of that Star.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-07

If afflicted with sore eyes use Er. itenE
cons Eve water. Druggist sell at "@5c pei botti
The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-07

The toner's motto is olive for bo-tay'
bat he eaaploys Two ds.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-07

The man who never smiles is a centre
of gravity.-Roehester Post Express.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-07

The aut sor OF "Olj O2kea Bucket ay'
,tsntly did not believe In iatting "ais ehonS1
sians
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A|''TID NIL 0.IuBRS FAIL

60 .sLIr Ha. ,.uEE, 80 NORTH Eliiesnin
@t;,xt. Rhilaieiph!a Twenty seers esperlencs
Ia .,,Ft.,at disc. ssr; cures me :. 0Tst eases 81 HeTFous
cc6s i,airis, 81 o: Poisoning, hletesss, EFa apa :
p;tt.I. Ca.air!, Ulcers, Sures, Impaired memory
-, ,.t.It,r Isu.n-sa Ni isiau, Lang, Liver,
.t4aoash. ki,g1yot;. t2it's hisrase,' eoiiiari,'i@I
kS Iali ~ nfTTc i"t question list aho BOOK.
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We recommend "Tansill's Punch" Cigar
The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-07

pr. tirrce's Pellets, a doe. Cure head
: constipation and indigestion.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-07
Tf,upEPAvcE NEWS AND NOTES.

'esSte Adcyrpyor, in National Advocate.
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agreed in prescribing strict temperance to
their employees while on duty. They lave TO
be THUS careful, for strong drink is the cause
OF moreaeciaenis than any other one cause.
On many roads an employe who is found to
frequent drinking places when OF duty soon
gets q discharge. 80 many such have been
he'd Off that it i snow known thai drink is
the cause of THEN discharge. 1t is becoming
tx same in lesser degree in other employ
mants where skill, nerve aud character ara
needed for siltcess. Inside of fifty years no
mar without capital Will be ati4 10 earn q
LIVING e~e4r: as + day iatoler II he has drink
ing hahlts.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-06-07

a,nta tha safety of trusting upon Christ have
49, nrasanted wara-it not the figure of a
80 49, Hoa1 conld the eiaadening effect OF
H. ,sosnai hsva been sci forth, had hot
Zseaarias thought Of the daW OF the morn
ing. exclaiming, THE day spring from On
high hath visited us to give hgnt 10 thsin
that sit lii darkness How could the Souls
intense longing for Christ have been pre-,
sented SO well as by the emblem OF natural
hnnger and natural thirst As the iake
"a FBsTs info ia bosom the shadow of hills
sronnd. and the CLEAN of stars above. So in
these Great deeps OF divine truth. all eeJects
/. ~ natsra are grandly reflected. We walk
.nrTn in me spring time, and everything
49, 80 - tha Rass,rraetion Bright bios
snm and SWINGING Grass speak to us of the
con;ng m Of these whom we have loved,
when n the white robes Of their Joy and cor
onation they shall appear.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28

The Maories of New Zealand and the ad-
joining islands have a strange belief CON
corning the cause of the ebb and flow OF
the tides. These phenomena, it seems, they
attribute to huge water breathing dragon
which they call Parata, who is said to do
his work by powerful and regular respira.
tions, or ingurgitations and regurgitations
of water. With one tribe in Australia and
another in the Sandwich Islands it is Gus.
tomary to speak of drowned person as
having fallen into the great throat of Pa
rata, superstition which proves a connec.
tion between these widely separated isl
ands at remote period of their history.
The New Zealanders have myth which
tells them that their island was populated
by Parata bringing loaded canoe in his
mouth from some far away land. A cum
ming priest confined in the monsters
mouth with the others in the canoe recited
charm which caused the dragon to dis
gorge his load in time for those imprisoned
to safely steer to the coast of what is now
New Zealand. The words Of this charm
are still preserved and recited in time OF
extreme peril. -St. Louis Republic,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28
why the Doctor Cried.

DR. Hills autocratic bearing in the sick
room gave strangers no hint of the deep
sympathy which he felt for the humblest
of his patients. A gentleman entering his
office unannounced was surprised to find
the doctor with his head bowed over his
desk and sobbing convulsively. The in.
truder was about to withdraw in silence
when the doctor wheeled around in his
chair, and with tears streaming down his
furrowed cheeks said:
"Take seat. There's no occasion for
privacy. / was thinking of little Willie
M, who has been sick with scarlet
fever. 1t was severe case, but had it
under control. In fact the boy was out OF
danger when his aunt, moved by hiAaen.
treaties, gave him hot doughnut to eat.
He's nearer deaths door now than he was
in the first place, and there isn't one chance
in hundred of saving him."
The gentleman was expressing regret at
tbisu.ad turn of affairs when the doctor, as
If ashamed of his unwonted display of feel
ing, exclaimed impatiently:
II don't particularly care for the boy,
what am sorry for is that Il can't kill his
aunt before she has chance to murder an
other sick person with her COMPOUNDED
doughnuts. Lewiston Journal
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28
A Grant Mans Conrtesv.

There are several stories ahoat about the
late Fletcher Harper which reflect great
credit upon his memory, He was one of
the most courteous gentlemen in New
York, gentlemanly by instinct, training
and intellectual purpose. When he was on
his deathbed he had much difficulty in
speaking so rs to make his wants known,
but he never failed to say, "Please do this"
or "Please do that" to his nurse, who was
an experienced and kind hearted woman
Once she said to him: please, Mr.. Harper,
tell me when you want anything without
attempting to say please. | know how
difficult it is for you to speak, and it pains
me that you always use extra exertion
to say please when it is unnecessary"
There was smile on his face as he re-
sponded: 81 must always say please. 1t is
courteous, and it is my habit. Courtesy
costs so little, you know, but it makes life
pleasanter. New York Press.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28

One night "A lawyer sat in his Office,
troubled over a case, the keystone of which
was bit of testimony locked in the breast
of certain witness, whose present place
of residence was unknown. The lawyer
had been doing a good deal of work and
was worn out. He folded his arms on the
table, laid his head upon them and went
to sleep 1t was only for moment, but in
that moment he saw his witness standing
at the shaft of lead mine and asking for
work That was all, and the lawyer awoke
and went on with his preparations for
trial. But that trivial dream, which he
had at first forgotten, came back again
with a curious persistency, and he at last
gave it attention. That man at a lead
mine-whereS Somehow Joplin, Mo-, sug
gested itself to him. He concluded to
waste dollar in telegraphing, and found
in five hours time that his much wanted
witness was there, working in a lead mine.
Now, what led to that dream2-Chicago
Herald
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28
Some ODD Books.

At Warsenstein, in Germany, there is
perhaps one of the most curiously original
collections of books in the world. 1t is
really a botanical collection. Outwardly
each volume presents the appearance of a
block of wood, and that is what it actually
is; but minute examination reveals the
fact that it is also complete history of
the particular tree which it represents.
At the back of the book the bark has
been removed from space which allows
the scientific and the common name of the
tree to be placed as title for the book.
One side is formed from the split wood of
the tree, showing its grain and natural
fracture; the other side shows the wood
when worked smooth and vanished. One
end shows the grain as left by the saw and
the other the finely polished wood.
On opening the book it is found to con-
tain the fruit, seeds, leaves and other prod
ucts of the tree, the moss which usually
grows upon its trunk and the insects which
feed upon the different parts of the tree
These are supplemented by well printed
description of the habits, usual location
and manner Of growth Of the tree. In fact,
everything which has a bearing upon that
particular tree secures place in this won
derful useful and valuable collection
Youths Companion.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28

Unlike the common marmoset, which
destroys everything it touches, he Is natu-
rally gentle A white moth which was
once given him to eiit he took in his dainty
fingers, examined it closely on all sides
and then let it go without hurting it in the
least
Sleepy time comes as early as O'Clock,
and he requires no coaxing to go to bed.
Of he starts on gallop, but on reaching
his box he pauses, stands upright, raises
the blanket cover with one little hand,
leans over and peers in, with comical air
of looking under the bed for a burglar.
Finding things all right he glances around
the room to see that all is safe there, then
dives under the blanket, resting his feet
Tor hinder hands, on the edge of the box a
moment, while his long tail curls itself up
from the tip like watch spring and
passes in under the body. when he instant
ly drops under the cover. Often as we have
seen this performance it never ceases to be
extremely funny.
Once inside his bed with his cherished
tail he sits down with this member stand
ing up before him on edge, like wheel,
thrusts his head down between his knees
beside it, and thus arranged in compact
bundle, almost as round as a ball, he
sleeps, the top of his head on the floor and
his nose buried in his fur How he can
breathe is problem. Soon after he is in
bed we hear the most tender, sweet and
birdlike calls and cries, which are really
touching, for they seem like lamentations
for his mates or dreams of home.-Olive
Thorne Miller in Home Maker.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28
A Voracious Pike.

A female pike weighing twenty-nine
pounds has been found in the lake at
Ewhurst park, Basingstoke, the seat of
Lord Alexander Russell. It had appar-
emily met its death in the vain attempt to
swallow one of it's own species weighing
nine pounds. The two fish, in the position
in which they were found, are being stuffed
at Winchester Pike have died in this
manner before, and it is doubtful whether
or not these should be regarded as in
stances of voracity or pure accidents. Pike,
like many other fish, frequently do battle,
and it has been suggested that when two
savage fish rush headlong at one another
the smaller one might easily enter the jaws
of the larger. Once in there would be no
getting out again, for the pixies mouth is
lined with hundreds of sharp teeth, which,
like those of the shark, point throatward.
AS an undoubted instance of pikish voraci-
ty there is an unusually we'll authenticated
record of II pike of two pounds first swal-
lowing trout of one pound, and shortly
afterward, while the tail of the trout was
still in its throat, Selling an artificial bait
three and half inches in length.-Pall
Mall Gazette.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28
A Big Phantom Ship.

The largest phantom of the deep ever
heard of was that of the old Frsians. This
was the Mannigfual, which was so large
that the captain had to gallop about on
horseback to give his orders, and whose
p1asts were so high that boys going aloft
to attend to the sails came down gray
headed men. 1t was in trying to pass the
Strait of Dover that this huge vessel
scraped the rocks, and so made the white
cliffs of Albion. And yet, perhaps, she
was not so large after all as the French
phantom Chasse-Foudre. This vessel was
SO long that she took seven years to tack
and her cables were the circumference of
St. Peters dome. Twenty thousand men
could maneuver on her maintop, and in
order to provision the crew when sent aloft
each block was fitted up as Il tavern. But
this phantcm ship was manned by good
and deserving mariners, who found little
to do and plenty of meat and drink on
board of her.-Chambers' Journal.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28
Dictionary Study,

make practice of marking with a col
ored pencil such words in my dictionary
as, from lack of full knowledge of their
meaning, / am obliged to look up. | do
this by placing mark something like an
inverted caret at the top of the column in
which the word appears and another ad-
joining the word itself. ! find this plan help
full in fixing new words-new in the sense
of my unfamiliarity with them-as well as
their meanings, inmy mind, for in turning
leaves make it point to look at such as
are marked, giving those already mastered
the merest glance, but pausing to read the
definitions of the others.-Cor. Author and
Writer
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28

Twas born as free as the silvefy light
That laughs in a southern fountain;
Free as the sea fed bird that nests
On Scandinavian mountain;
Free as the wind that mocl1s at the sway
And pinioning clasp of another
Yet In the slave they scourged today
saw, and knew-my brotherl-
Vested in purple sat apart,
But the cord that sgrnate him bruised me;
Closed my ears, but the sob that broke
From his savage breast accused me;
No phrase of reasoning Judgment just
The plant of my soul could smother,
A creature vile, abased TO the dust,
knew him stll-my brother.
And the autumn day that had smiled so fair
Seemed suddenly Overcrowded;
A gloom, more dreadful than nature owns,
My human mind enshrouded;
Thought of the power benign that made
And bound men one to the other,
And felt in my brothers fear afraid,
And ashamed in the shame of my brother.
Florence Earle Coates.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28

Rev. David p. Lindsey, the author of
"Takigraphy," says that $50 English words
make about GO per cent. of all ordinary
forms of literature or oral speech; that
twenty words-'the," "and." "of," ITO"
81, that, " "in," "it," "you," "a, ;" sis, I"
mot, "be, " for" "have," "but, " they"
SHALL" 'as," "he'-make one-third of
our common literary language, and the
first ten of these about one-fourth SO
that with the use of only 1856 word signs
the labor of writing is diminished about
half, even when all other words are
written in long hand; while the use of
from ten to twenty such signs would re-
duce the labor of writing little over one
fourth.-Author and Writer
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28

In Paris the thousands Of sardine and
other tin boxes that are thrown away every
month form the basis for an industry
which the entire youth of the country are
interested These refuse cans are stamped
into tin soldiers by suitable machines, and
sold so cheaply that the poorest children
can possess them; yet the manufacturer
makes p lair profit, which he could not do
if he used new material. Chatter
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28

The most interesting figure in the intel
lectual world Of France is probably Ernest
Renan. The famous author of the "Vie de
Jesun has recently published a work he
wrote some years ago, entitled "L'Avenir
dc Ia Science" Remains mental attitude
is somewhat akin to that of Lots wife; he
seems to be petrifying on his h>lf way foot
ing between the two doxies. Pc chaps his
increasing bulk has clogged tbt agility OF
his brain, for he has become no less pom.
derous as a pedestrian than he is az 3
thinker This latest portrait has special
interest Is showing how he is aging.-Cor.
Chicaeo NswA
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28
TRUE HEROlSM.

Who IS the hero in the field Of life'
Is't he who stands begrimed and battle SCARED
Flushed with his nonarch's praise and breath
Ing hard
Amid the scenes OF q victorious strife,
Or rather he VII ISIS athes his dripping knife
Mid bright hopes shattered and fair prospects
married.
And wounded bodies OF his valiant guard
Vet makes 40 sign-nay, though the air be rife
with groans and curses, turns him 70 his tent
Resolved that ere again the sun has set
His nobler ca,iss shah wini within my soul
can but deem him, though distressed and rent
With sore defeat. the grander cOpquernr yet:
He hath mans truest power-self control
,--Rnstan 49,. nanrtst-
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28

George T. Nicholson, general passenger
agent of the Santa Fe railroad, is very
youthful in appearance, and recently, while
riding over the line in Kansas when the
conductor took up his pass, he looked at
Mr.. Nicholson very skeptically, and at the
next stop he got off and sent the following
telegram to headquarters: young Mich
olson is riding on the old mans pass.
What must do about iti"
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28

A Delaware justice OF the peace sent q
man to Jail for sixty days for saying to q
shoemaker: "Old man, ] will yet live to
spit upon your grave" A lawyer got the
man liberated, and the justice paid $500 to
settle the case. He said he supposed the
Delaware statutes included everything on
earth.-Detroit Free Press.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-06-28

The project of Savoy has recently prohib-
tied the gathering of the cyclamen in the
woods of the department. Notwithstand-
ing its abundance in the locality, this beau
tiful plant has been threatened with total
extinction from the enormous numbers
gathered each year for sale in the markets
of Chambery and Aix-les-Bains.