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or GENERAL INTEREST.

The Russian peasantry have long
been accustomed to dress flesh wounds
with thick layer OF ashes prepared by
burning cotton or linen stun.
Ancient fans had long handles, SO
that ladies' used their fans for walking
sticks, and it was by no means unusual
for testy danes to chastise unruly chill
4dfen by heating them with their fan
sticks.
Woodland, Mich, claims the largest
and smallest boys in the State. ages
considered. Clark Mack, aged nineteen
years, weighs 2s5 pounds, and Johnnie
Landir. aged seven years, registers ~
pounds.
The cod fisheries Of Alaska are said
to be worth more than the whole Terri
tory cost the Government The popula-
ton is between 40, 900 and 10000, and
the four principal exports. furs, gold,
fish and lumber, amounted in value to
nearly $40, 600, 600 last year.
"A ten-year-old Florida boy ran away
from home and went a=fishing. In
throwing his line he stuck the hook
through his nose, when he ran to doc
tors Office and had the hook fled in two
and taken out asking the doctor to say
nothing about it The boy did not mem
ton the incident at home until ques-
toned.
THE beautiful women of the world"
are requested in circular to send their
photographs to the Baroness Clara Won
der Decker at Tifiis. These will be ex-
amineds by a committee of artists and
those selected will be put in an album
with the title TYPES of Female Beauty
Of the Last Years of the Nineteenth
Century" Then the album will be sent
to the Moscow museum.
The prize Of 40, 900 francs offered BY
the French Academy for some test of
death, looking to the prevention OF
being buried alive, was given to ply
stefan, who announces that on holding
the hand Of the supposed dead person
to strong light II living a scarlet tinge
is seen where the fingers touch, show
ing that the blood continues to circulate,
there being no scarlet when the sub
ject is really dead.
"A poor workman Of Keenville, N.
Y, lately made lucky find. The path
from his house to the gate had worn
down SO that some stones in 1t became
troublesome. One morning he took q
crowbar and began prying them up He
found that they were cobblestones that
had been driven into the ground, form
ing circle. Beneath them was large
fiat stone. His curiosity was excited
and he pried up the latter, when he dis
covered beneath It brass kettle full Of
money.
"A freak Of lightning recently oc-
Cured at Forsyth, Ga During the
passage of small cloud which became
fully charged with electricity, bolt Of
the same entered the Western Union
telegraph wires, and continued along
them for about 1000 yards destroying
twenty-one telegraph poles. Every
post save four, which were split open,
was literally shivered into splinters and
broken into two pieces At one point
in its passage along the wires the cleo
tricity jumped over thirty feet to good
sized pine tree and streaked the bark Of
it from top to bottom, and at another
point 1t jumped about the same distance
to an oak tree two or more feet in diam
eter, splitting the tree through the GEN.
ter and foosening the bark more than
half round il
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The fact Is that about the only Ropub-

The fact b that about the only Ropub-
lican papers Of any importance which
indorse the Mckinley bill are such -
the indianapolis Journal. whose editors
hold fat offices under the Adminsstra-
ton and are ready to suppors any meas
ure, however outrageous, which the
party bosses at Washington may decree.
The Republican newspapers which op
pose the Mckinley bill are the ablest
and most respectable in fue country,
and there can be no doubt that they
represent great body Of Republican
opinion, which will make itself heard
still more effectually at the pollsynext
Novem her. Indianapolis Sentinel.
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REEDS DIRTY WORK.
The Dlssracsfui Method. Of the Accident


- from Maine 9
To retain his grasp upon his sceptes
Mr.. Reed, Speaker of the National
House, may find it necessary to unseat
= few more Democrats. He can ask
nothing from the Democracy, the minor
ity whom he has steadily treated as an
snemy to be punished, and. it is clear
now that he can not depend for support
in his arbitrary proceedings upon the
loyalty Of an unbroken majority recruit
ed as it has been by the displacement of
duly elected Democrats. Reed stands
with the President and the Secretary Of
the Treasury against radical enact
ment regarding unlimited silver coin
age. and was potent in shaping the Leg
islation of the House on that measure
When the drastic Senate bill reached
tho Speakers desk he quietly referred
it of his own motion to committee So
lected by himself, q proceeding not at
all in accordance with the practice Of
the House. The object was to gain time,
and glide, If possible, past the present
point fraught with peril to the party.
II the point Of concurrence or non-con-
currence in the Senate measure were
urged the House might concur and the
Republicans would be in pretty pickle,
the President being compelled to the
embarrassment Of meeting the silver
question squarely. He and Reed would
rather dodge. When the journal of the
House was read showing-the Speakers
action on the silver bill, attempt was
made by Mckinley, the Republican
leader on the floor, to carry approval
without debate. Therein, much to the
CONSERVATION of the party, he was
beaten. So
Regardless wholly of the merits of
the silver controversy the conduct OF
Reed in this matter is inexcusable. But
It is of a piece with his proceedings
from the day on which he assumed the
gavel. servant he-has
assumed to be the master of the House,
substituting his own will whenever II
suited his purpose for the rules, Gus
toms and traditions of the House. Tho
rights of the minority have been re-
spected only when the interests Of his
own party or his own plans would not
be injured thereby. He has taken q
| narrow view. however. An appeal lies
this very fall from his desk to the votes
of 70, 600, 900 electors who can have lit
tie sympathy with his course. I'VE
must be successful" he said, on re-
cent occasion, but he has taken the very
worst way to succeed. Laterin the ses-
sion the National election law, which he
approves, designed to place the count in
Republican hands with as little scru-
pie as Reeds cwn, may become a law,
but the present appearance is that
neither force nor fraud will be- able to
defeat the overwhelming sentiment that
the Republican party shall not organize
the next House. Like the Presidency
of Mr.. Harrison the Speakership of Mr..
Reed is for single term. Chicago
Times
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btF lb bu6 pfOpcT-
esi kind, but it hain't sca'cely knee
high, b gosh, to the one killed wunst
in the Sugar Swamp deestric', when l
we're young an full O. pisen. 'Tain't
likely th't tn ever were a cattymount
lived afore or sence th't were ez big ez
that un, an / knaw none want ever
took in -ez silk es he were. / want
huntin' cattymounts, neither. l we're
jes' trampin the woods lookin' for bar,
but bar didn't seemed to want to be
looked at that day, an l hadn't run
ag'n any luck at all. Wen / got over
ahind the Dark Ridge sotdown on log
to rest, an ez l sot thar smokin' my
pipe an wonderful wat in Sam Hill had
come o all the bar, wat should / see
but a big red fox come trottin' along
-oAier the bushes an slide by me like q
streak O grease. not twenty foot
from me. The impydent fox stopped on
the fur side of big chestnut tree. l
pulled up my gun an waited fer the fox
to tome in sight ag'in, thinkin' th't II !
coudn'tdo no better I'd knock him
over an lug his ginger-colored hide hum
Nth me, anyhow But the fox didn't
come out, an bime by sneaked up to
the tree to take look an see wat the
cunnin' cuss mowt be doin'. Ez l
-Peked around the tree see the fox's
tail jst disappearin' round t'other side.
J followed it on my tiptoes, an it KEEP
soin' on, an to save my pesky gizzard ]
co1tldn't git higher to the fox thin to
jist git a glimpse O. that tail O. his'n
whiskin' on round the circle. / broke
into stiff run, but that didn't make no
ahead o me jist the same. Then ]
slowed down to snaiPs pace, thinkin'
that the fox'd hef to ov ertake me then,
sure, but the sly Of chap war SO cute
~tfl't he sized his gait right down to
mine, an KEEP that consumed tail jist
ahead O. my nose, with not another durn
speck O his carcass to be seen. These
=a.egrayatin' doin's o the fox got my dam
DIR up poorly soon an t begun to grit
my teeth anssw'ar a little .
- m goin'ter git that fox's hide l
Saws, if | hef to stay here an chase 1T
re,nd this tree, bgosht 'lmighty, till
it, toe nails is wore Off
AFTER findin' th't / couldn't git a
siehta at nuthin' but the fox's tail by
fo grin, of it that way, all of a sud-
de!f stopped squar' in my tracks,
an, turnin' round, started back
TONER way thinkin', 20 course,
NV | could sarcumvent the
STUART OF chicken stealer,-an' no mis-
take, by doin' that, an d come ag'in
HIM face to face But didn't, I've
.alluz thort tht tn must ha' ben
: ano'her- long headed fox layin' of
soac'rs in the brush watchin' me an
th'4in caperin' round that tree, an a
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ANDREW JACKSON,
EVER DREADFUL.
1915.

This unique painting is further orna-
mented with the name, Erred Schnotti,
1s15,' presumably the artist. Its owner,
Mr.. Baptist DeBat, purchased It eight
years ago at an auction sale for five
dollars, and though he has been offered
handsome sums for it, declines to part
with the oddity 1t Is certainly a
curious bitof canvas, and antiquarians
years to come will look on it with
yenerationfand reverence as picture Of
historical importance.-N. O. New
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VILLAINS lN FICTION.

Tho Thin FLOODED NovelIsts OF tho Day
Have No Use For Them.
Amid the universal grayness that has
settled mistily down upon English fic-
ton, amid the delicate drab-colored
standings and flashlights which require,
we are told, SO fine skill in handling,
the old-fashioned reader misses, now
and then, the vivid colorings of his
youth. He misses the slow unfolding
of quite impossible plots, the thrilling
incidents that were won't pleasantly to
arouse his apprehension, and, most OF
all, two characters once deemed essen
tial to every NOVELETTE, hero and the
villain. The heroine is left us still,
and her functions are far more compli-
GATED than in the simple days OF yore,
when little was required Of her save to
be beautiful as the stars. She faces
now the most intricate problems OF life;
and she faces them with conscious self
Importance, q dismal power of analysis,
and robust candor in discussing their
.equivocal aspects that would have sent
her buried sister blushing to the wall.
There was sometimes lamentable lack
of solid virtue in this fair dead sister,
pitiful human weakness that led to her
'undoing; but she never talked SO glibly
about sin. As for the hero, he owes his
Punishment to the riotous manner in
which hismasters handled him. Bulwer
strained our endurance and our credu-
4ity to the utmost; Disraeli took a step
further, and Lothian, the last Of his
race, persisted amid the cruel laughter
of mankind
But the villainl Remember what we
owe to him in the past Think how
dear he has become to every rightly
constituted mind. And now we are told,
soberly and coldIy, by the thin-blocded
novelists Of the day, that his absence is
one Of the browning triumphs Of modern
genius, that we have all grown too dis
eliminating to tolerate in fiction a
character whom we feel does not exist
in life. Man, we are reminded is COM
pick, subtle, unfathomable, made up of
good and evil SO dexterously intermin-
gled that no one element predominates
coarseiy over the rest He is to be
studied warily and with misgivings, not
classified with brutal ease into the yir-
tuous and bad. 1t is useless to explain
to these analysts that the pleasure we
take in meeting character in book
does not always depend on our having
known him in the family circle, or en-
countered him in our morning paper;
though, judged even by this stringent
law, the villain holds his own. Accept
Balzac's rule, and exclude from fiction
not only all which might not really
happen, but all which has not really
happened in truth, and we would still
have studies enough in total deprav .ty
to darken' all the novels in Christendom.
Agnes Ripplier, in Atlantic.
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sseepln of it posted ez to wat we're
T9'n,+so it could eucner me in ev'ry play
maze Anyhow, wen turned an took
NY 'aeN tack, 'spectin' to fool the fox
"a meet him fore he had any idee
"ua' vas up to, all could see wen !
s"fh"a tne circle we're that same OF
Sssi{ rail trailin' along, an jist
rounaln' The corner ahead o. me, as
eselr +'lhe fox had took the back
ssaeS; TOO, an IL anybody could ha'
:. , ~ 3rasiist then I'll bate the rum
~ ~ t@ey'd ha' ketched him laughin'
~, ~ oyer T. Wall, kin tell ye th't
". 10y ~onldn't ha' ketched me q laughin'
&c. oser NY lace, not by. . joyful. I'd
NIL. e'rc2atin' tho GRIT . that big
'Vs nas tree fer the bsttsr part o. half
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When you are attempting to argue
with young woman--as very young
men sometimes willard she begins to
answer with well. Tdon't care. ( you
might just as we'll give It up then and
there. --Terre Haute Express.
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-Out Of every thousand inhabitants
Of Russia twenty-one are blind but th<
blindest Of all y ths cssr
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Tramp-"Beg pardin, sir; can you
'elp pore man? I've lost my voice,
and now I'm out o. workln Old gentle
man-"Out Of work because you lost
your voice! Are you vocalist?" Tramp
No, sir; ! sells fishr'-San Francisco
WASH.
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-An ordinary passenger train of
eight cars, including three Pullmans
and locomotive, is valued ct about sI20,-
600.
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STORY OF A CATAMOUNT.
A Big Wildcat Starts the Old Set
tier to Talking.
J
. The Animal the Boys Killed Not n Cir
cumstsncs to the One He Neatly
===Bagge In sugar swamp
Years Ago.
HATS about the

HATS about the
biggest c atty
mount Eve see
in many . day, =
said the Old Set
tier, referring to
a whopping big
wildcat one of
the boys h . d
kille ID
brought in from
back o I t h Q
knob. ''''''
Its a shorter,
G a b Q an Wv
put the slugs in
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Rates Of Advertising.

Advertisements Inserted 81 q Per ino6
for irst insertion, and 800, for each sub-
scquent insertion. for any lees time thar
three months
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-05
pEPEw SEES La SCALA
And Successfully Exercises Els Per-
suasive Elcquence.
From the Neg York Tribune

From the Nep York Tribune
left Verona at 10 o'clock in the morning,
gobbled a chicken in tbs restaurant, de-
voursd it on the train, reached Venice at 2,
where I had telegraphed ahead for gon-
dola, did every canal. place Of Interest.
ancient thing and modern shop there was by
z. then spent two hours in the evening in
the main canal listening to the serenades
and looking at the beauties hangiog out
Of the balconits. l took the train
at 1880 for Milan and got there
graphed ahead for q cab and cup Of cof-
fee, did the Grand Cathedral, did every
thing there was in the town that was to be
seen-that was open-and opened the places
that were not. [Laughter.l was anxious
to see La Scala. the great opera house Of
Milan. to know how it compared with our
own Metropolitan Opera House.
The guardian e.: the door said: ia
Scala opens It neither prince nor peasant
until IL o'clock"
| said: 81 am neither [I4aughter.l 81
am a sovereign" [ReneweI lnughterI
''Well," he said, ''it is utterly impossible"
/ held up to him an Italian coin that looked
as large as a cart wheel to his eye at that
hour in the morning, and / said; "Do you
think you could find man who has more
authority than youT [Laughter.] He
thought he could. [Laughter.] That man
appeared.
Said he: my dear sir, this is utterly inn
possible l held up q gold coin.
Well" said he. there are circum-
stances" Laughter And l saw ell there
was Of La Scala, in which more regulations
have been made and more lost among the
artists of the world than in all the other
theaters and opera houses put together and
after studying it carefully, and after listen
ing to my CONDUCTOR. who kept repeating:
Nothing in the world like La Scala moth
ing SO large; nothing that will seat so many
people as La Scala; nothing which gives
such full resonance to the voice, such oppor-
tunities to tho artist as La Scala" l sti |
thought that if l had my choice to make,
and if had the money, l would inv the
Metropolitan opera house rather than La
Scala
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FOR AUGUSTA AND WAY LANDINGS
STEAMER PROGRESS,
j. L. MULLIG N. Master.

WILL leave every TUESDAY, at IL O'Clock
w NJ. from foot of East Broad street
steamer katie's old wharf, For freight apply
10 Capt. Mulligan on board or To
D. B. HULL, Agent.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1890-05-03

Speaker Reed lately delivered an
after dinner speech in Pittsburg, in
which he outlined the policy of the
Republican party, to be not to bother
their brains about the tariff, but to
double themselves up in their bloody
shirts, and take the control of the
presidential and congressional cleo
tons out Of the hands of the people
and manage it themselves, and thus
return anybody to congress that they
see proper to elect.
The honesty of the leaders of that
party in counting elections was tested
in 1876 in Louisiana and Florida when
they stole the votes of those states
from Tildcn and gave them to the
Ohio fraud.
That is a great party, the Republi-
a party, and honesty is not its God.
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E. cambridge Munday, Esq, County
Atty, Clay Co, Tex says: "Have used
Electric Bitters with most happy re-
suits. Ny brother also was very low
with Malarial Fever and Jaundice, but
was cured by timely use of this medi-
cine. Am satisfied Electric Bitters
saved his life.r
Mr.. D. I. Wilcoxson, of Horse Cave,
KY, adds a like testimony saying: He
positively believes he would have died,
had it not been for Electric Bitters.
This great remedy will ward of, as
we'll as cure Dengue and all Malarial
Diseases, and for all Kidney, Liver
and Stomach Disorders stands unequal
ed. Price SOC. and 81 at Thibodaux
Drug Store.
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THE STATE OF LOUISIANA.
10Th judicial District Court Par.
ISL of Lafourche,
Simon Abraham %. Bernard Penouih.
tutor. No. 1904.

TAKE NOTICE. THAT ACTING UNDER
L and by virtue of an order of Seiznra aaa
Sale ernanatihg from the above entitled and
numbered case l have seized and will offer for
safe at public auction, pursuant to law to the
last ard highest bidder. ut the Corrt House
i'll the town of Thibodaux, on
SATURDAY. MAY 81. 1890.
between the hours of II o'clock q. in. .,s 4
O'clock p. m., the following described pre-
perty to wit
The undivided three %ei.hths Of the said
minors Zellka penouilh, Bernari PenouiIh-
Jr.. and Eugene Peuouilh in the followino
described property to-wif:
a certain sugar plantation situated in the
parish oil i.afonrcfo on the left hank Of tI,s
Bayou Lafourche at about Twenty-two mile,
below the town If Thibodaux, measuring i27 |
Iwenty-Seven arpents more or less front nv
Forty arpepts in depth. bounded above by
lands of Lyall g. Leblanc and below by tbe
Baritaria canal together with the undivided
three eishtls OF all the buildings and int
pi"vfehrnts thereon
i" pay and satisfy the sum of Twelve Hun.
dted and Thirf y-six ] olIars and sixty cents
ts216.bhJ with eigh' PEI cent Interest per am
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mum thereon from the Nth day Of 49,
until paid. Together with Az, IN Nay, 1854,
the aggregate thereof in p%rincinalp 1T cent on|
est as attorneys fees aud all cos,s ana inter
proceedings IN cash ON the day ~ % tsese
for the balance of said iudebisdnsa SAFE and
the sum Of Two Thousand, Fonr Hn so;.it
and Seventy-Three Dollars ana nraodrsd
Cents l$2473.-0l with eight DER cau. lwsnty|
mum interest thereon from th. l7.h psr an
May. 1888, the said sale to De mali Jay OF
following terms of credit to meet On shc1
Is to say Twelve Hundred and T TS'ne that
Dollars and Sixty Cents with sight my OK
interest thereon from Nav l7th' ,sSsssss cent
able on the l2th of September. lion 1oao 2 pay
sum OF Twelve Hundred and Thirtv.Sin1& sAeD
lars and Sixty Cents with eight p.r osn, pol
annun interest thereon from Nav III, ~ PEI
until paid. Payable op the l2tS A. Iosl
Der, 1891. the adjudicatee IA ..peHlnI
tine SAID credit lnstallnents IN m
and stead efsaid minors as well a. neu
obiigstions nader said act of mortga % .neI
shich the said minors are toward nls J;sass
lAct OF mortgage passed before Tho. a 1'AI D 1
deaux, notary public of date Nav II. isas ~
April %. 1890. "