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Telegram-herald., 1890-08-19
EnE CHICAGO-GRAND RAPIDS SHORT
EESE


The OnIy Through Train Service Between
Grand Rapids, Traverse City aud Chi
caso Is Via. the Chicago a west
Michigan ~. TO New Buffalo,
Thence via. Michigan Cent
raj Railroad.
Traverse City and Grand Rapids 10
Chicago
Leave Traverse City a. NJ, f6;l5
p. II.
Leave Grand Rap.ds-ss:Oo a. M,
sl:00 p. M, fll:S5 p. N.
Arrive Chicago-~4:l5 P. M, $3.50 p.
m, T3:05 a. IA.
Except sunday. fDaly.
Except saturday, train leaving Ira
verse Civ 6:l5 p. ni., has through
sleeper TO Chicago, connecting 4. Grand
Rapids with combination sleeping and
char car, arriving Indianapolis 1890
a. m.
At Chicago connections made with
diyerglng Inesafor all points west,
southwest and northwest; at Grand
Rapids with D., l.. q X. X. X. Tor Lam
sing, Detroit and all points east.
Chicago TO Grand Rapids and Traverse
City:
Leave Chicago-s9:OO a. m, *i.4O D.
M, fll15 p. m.
Arrive Grand Rapids-4S:55 p. M,
+l0:l5 p. m, $3.50 a. IN.
Arrive Traverse Clty-*ll:05 p. M,
1000 a. m, fl:O0 p. III.
Except Sunday. fDaily.
The 4:40 p. m. train has a through
sleeper Chicago to Traverse City, con-
meeting with palace steamers, arriving
Charlevoix 1870 a. m; Petoskey, l:3O
p. M; Harbor Springs, 200 p. M
Mackinac Island, 7:l5 p. M; st. lgnace,
500 p. N.
The il:l5 p. m. train has through
sleeper to Grand Rapids, connecting
with train arriving Traverse City loo
p. m. WM. 4. GAYETr,
u Acting Cen PAS Apaut
Telegram-herald., 1890-08-19

Ihs dress las deal roore 70 - uith
tae 1aalzlHz q tae To1nT lady taan tha
youns lady hzs . 30 vita tas making
O. tie lress
Telegram-herald., 1890-08-19
Piiss'. PileslI Tlles.'

L0ose's Red Clover Pie Remedy. Is
& positive specific for al forms Of the
disease. BIND, Bleeding, Itching,
SOC. FoI sale by al druggists.
Telegram-herald., 1890-08-19

The soft glow OF the tes rose = ac-
eulred by ladies WAo use Iozonnrs
Complexion Powder. Try d.
Telegram-herald., 1890-08-19

Van Houten's Coooa-Izggest sac n
tae wcs,e.
Telegram-herald., 1890-08-19

Beeehams Pills cure bilious and
nervous lis.
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TRE DELIGHTFUL
SUMMER RESORTS!!
i
NORTHERN MICHIGAN.
KeacAe- by tie
Grand Rapids { indiana Railroad
.rAE EIeLsLnl LLME. -
THE DELIGHTFUL


aACKlNkc ISLAND sae ,ss many Resorts
eaUls fie Marie. Mar
luelIr. Lts lheueauA
-aee. eir.
Petoskey & Bay View , -ra'rsgras, .,b5 aaseef s
tA.. .eNnIA C.. locaf.
40 Sd lle mmco ate
ue.E1botl looo-
TRAVERSE clTYsas Hs.Fhesr;Pss s.ils z g Re Re
Aoa. Llk Aap!as, etc.
The many axes and sfreaps aford tie IN
esf of fishing he hrock .rout fnf ccirb AtTd
Crawling. black iass, aL4 oineI varieties OK
game nsl.
Tie train service q tle Grand hapids IN
diana Raj f0t t-t season ~ lh', VII H
complete IA every pariicu al-
Through Sleeping Cars VIA he run between
Cincinnati. letoskey and hecAlnSw Also be
tween Caicago ana fetosk y and NacklnaTs
via TIC Michigan Central kaAEoad sld haia
m2zoo-
Tourist Tickets can be purchased % any o.
the above points % reduced yates.
Tor descriptive matter time cards and fun
Information. address
G. /. LOCKWOOD,
Genl Pass and Ticket Agent
Grand Rapids. Mich
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
Taught the Dog TO Steal.

Contracting Agent Smith, of the Omaha
Railroad, claims to have discovered the
plan by which agang of boy paper thieves
have been SO successfully operating in up
per town. Annoyed by the repeated loss
of his Pioneer Press, which the carrier
was accustomed to leave on the doorstep
of his residence on Walnut street, Mr..
Smith recently arose in time to get the
paper when the carrier arrived. He
marked it on the inside with a blue pen.
Gil: 4sThis paper was stolen from -n
left In the usual place on the step and
went back into the house to await the ap-
preach of the thief. Ten minutes later,
having heard no sound of any one ap.
preaching, he looked out and was dumb
founded to find the paper missing. He
laid q similar trap the next morning, and
sat in the parlor window to watch. The
carrier had not been gone two minutes
before a big Newfoundland dog trotted
into his dooryard, took the paper In his
mouth and ran off. The gentleman fol-
lowed the dog around the corner and saw
three boys meet the animal there, take
the paper, and direct the dog to another
dooryard. After collecting the paperi
the boys took them home to their mother,
had the creases ironed out, and sold them
q the streets downtown.-Sts Paul
Pionser Rsss.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22

The passion for heavy ordnance in Eng.
land, at the best little more than a fad,
has, 50 the 1fues-Denocrat thinks, lied
that country to 60 to extremes in the
making Of guns, and its costly and disas.
trous failure should Be 4 timely lesson to
other powers. Seven guns we're made,
weighing each 40 tons, sixteen inches ID
caliber and calculated to throw d projec-
tile weighing 1900 pounds fifteen miles
with 500 pounds Of powder. The cost
of each Of these guns was $50, 900, and
with only test and practice use four 81
them are already permanently useless, al.
though none had ever been subjected tc
half an hour Of steady firing. II is said
BY experts that under the best conditions
the life Of q gun Of this kind could moi
extend beyond the seventy-hfth shot.
This would make the expense Of each dis.
charge II least $1,000, plus the cost oi
600 pounds IF powder and III 1900 pound
projectile. The guns are Also condemned
W p0aderoua ana awkward, aisd hereafter
Y y ualilely that M gan Il more thap
sixt five cons viii be made.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22

In reply to questions Senator Hawley
gave me some facts and suggestions about
big guns, and added. "But go down to
the gun factory at the navy yard, you can
there learn more in an hour than I can
tell you in q week"
So ! went, and at the very doors of the
largest of the half dozen tremendous
buildings, old and new, in the navy yard,
which constitute the gun factory, / was
fortunate enough to meet Lieutenant j.
Fremont, a son of the Pathfinder who
marked passes across the Rockies, and
who, by the way, is now once more So
iourning here. Young Fremont is study
ing the stately art of gun making, and he
kindly showed our party about, making
Ineligible what would otherwise have
been obscure.
Everywhere throughout these bue1-
ings are manifestations of tremendous
activity and energy. Throngs of work
men are busy with lathe; drill and forge,
plane and triphammer. The process has
gone steadily forward which was begun
in 1885, when Hawley's committee re-
ported in favor of the Washington Navy
Yard as the most eligible site for a ma
tional gun plant, and no change of adj
ministration has imperilled the appropria-
tons. Congress has begun to take a
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
Spots ON the Noon.

All over the eastern part of Asia the
spots in the moons disc are believed to
be a rabbit or a hare the Chinese in par
ticular look upon them as a hare sitting
up and pounding rice in a mortar. Most
of the Siamese take the same view; some
few, however, see in the moon a man and
a woman working in a field. Curiously
enough, the North American Indians
have almost the same superstitions as the
Chinese; and on old monuments in Cen
trail America the moon appears as a jug
or vessel out of which an animal like o
rabbit is Jumping. The South American
Indians, on the other hand. believe that
a girl who had fallen in love with the
moon sprang upward to it, was caught
and kept by it, and that it is her figure
which is seen on the moons face. The
Esquimanx have an original superstition.
They say that n day Amiga, the moon,
chased his sister, the sun, in wrath. just
as he was about to catch her, however,
she suddenly turned round and threw a
great handful of SCOT In his face, and
thus escaped him; and Of that SCOT he
bear the traces TO this dag.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22

at the little fellows bedside, and about
the only other living creature so con-
stantly in the room was a cat. The young
King before his sickness, had begun to
tire of the baby ~playthings that had been
at his command, and seeking other toys,
let his fancy light upon a Maltese cat
that he saw somewhere about the palace.
The animal at once became a creature of
distinguished consideration in the royal
household. It answered to the nalne of
Perico. The ribbon upon its neck was
tied there by the King himself, and
when he was taken sick the King insisted
that pussy should be in the room with
him. So, for a full month the faithful
cat was constantly in the sick chamber.
Naturally the animal became a great
favorite, and one of the high ladies at the
court made for it an embroidered cushion.
Another story from the sick room, and
one that has more of the flavor usually
found in stories of royal infants, George
Washington and other lofty personages,
deals with a little crippled girl whom
the King had met on one of his walks or
rides about with his nurse before he was
taken sick, and to whom, seeing often
again, he had taken a fancy. Tt came
to be that whenever the King in his out
ings saw the little cripple he would make
one of the ladies of honor descend from
the carriage and carry some little gift to
her. When be had been sick for a while
be said to his mother one day:
"What will become of my little cripple
and what will she eat, now that / go out
no more!!o
"Bread," said the Queen, ''like all
the poor people; that is, if she can get it. "
AZ am too little to command" said
the King.
Gas it is to do good" replied the
Queen, 81 will permit you to give
orders"
The King, at this, said nothing, but
the next day he had taken to the little
beggar the bon hons some n had sent
to himself.-New YORK. Sun.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
BIG NAVAL GUNS.
LEyIATHAN ARMAMENT FOR
OUR MEN-OF-WAH.
A Walk Through the Great Gun
Factory at the Navy Yard
in Washington - Process
of Gun Making.

I have been down to the navy yard and
looked over the leviathan machinery
which finishes u largest and finest guns,
says a Washington correspondent OF the
New York Press.
Henceforth, for many years, the navy
is to be the fashionable and favorite arm
of cur service, because it will have no
more to do than the army and will be as
sisted in doing nothing by being toted all
around the terrestrial seas on the hand
soonest and largest ships of war that ever
foated. We are considerably behind in
these marine vehicles yet, but we are
rapidly catching up.
Already we have on the sea a feet of
admirable cruisers, and the Cushing, just
launched, promises to be the fastest war
vessel afoat. Besides these naval crick-
cts, some Of which are by NJ means con
temptible, We have three big ships com
ing into the water soon-the Maine, 5000
tons; the Texas, $500 tons, and the Mon
terey $500 tons. The last two will each
carry in its principal turret two twelve
inch guns, capable of throwing q bolt as
| large as a man twelve miles,
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22

When we study the progress of agri-
culture we find, says the New York
Times, most conspicuous illustrations Of
The tendency Of production to exceed the
demands Of consumers. Corn, for in
stance, has increased In quantity far
ahead Of the increase III population. IN
1874 the area ii this crop was Al, 600,
600 acres; in 1886 ii had grown 10 more
than 75, 600, 600 acres, an increase Of IS
per cent. During these twelve years the
population increased only Sc per cent.
The same excess mas OCCURRED in the pro-
duction of cattle and hogs and the sala-
Die products of these staple agricultural
products. It is not difficult to discover
the cause Of this great and dispropor-
tionate increase. The extension Of rail-
roads III the great corn and cattle grow
ing regions has forced 4 vast increase il
The population, and has led to the Guilt
vati9n OF enormous areas and the pro.
duction Of enormous crops and herds of
cattle with the inevitable result Of de.
pressed values.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
This is the only great gun factory in
the country, though they are threatening

to put in plants at Nateryliet, N. u
Bethlehem, Penn, and some point west
of The Rockies. Already the original
steel casting of the guns finished here
are made at Bethlehem, where they are
welded by the open hearth process from
native ore. A year ago we depended on
England for these huge Jumps OF steel,
but Mr.. Fremont voiced the general
opinion that the Bethlehem steel now
furnished Is the best made Id the world.
Here the rough pieces are turned in the
immense lathes to q true and symmetrical
exterior, and are then conveyed to the
machines, where. at a rate of
revolutions . minute, they are
gradually converted into tubes.
After the bore has received its finish
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22

While Europe, with five times our popu'
lation and four times our wealth, has ad.
ded il twenty years over eight billionst to
dts national debts me United States have
reduced their national debt by nearly two
billion dollars. Europe spends annually
1897, 000, 900 for military expenditures,
including pensions, whereas we says,
!stthis is the lesson of liberty, these are
the fruits of freedom, and the great r 9.
public, without debt, without an army,
without a navy, goes on in the great race
Of prosperity and industrial supremacy,
distancing those heavily-loaded COMPETE
tors.n 1t cannot be many decades before
this lesson will be learned by the vast
population Of Europe, who will throw Of
the incubus that is getting too heavy to
be borne BY people who do not forget
chat they were once free under their tri-
bal chieftains before the rise of the splen-
did monarehies of to-day.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
Stories of SPANS Youthful King.

The young King of Spain, as is well
known, has been brought up in a strictly
family way, and very much as any other
young person of good birth in his king
dom. His mother has very sensibly for
hidden the lugging in of the royal feat
ures of his life any more frequently than
the absolute necessities of the strict rules
OF Spanish court etiquette required, and
except on the occasion of State cere-
monials young Alphonso has been at
tended almost entirely by his mother and
by the stalwart peasant nurse who has
been his companion from his earliest
pabyhood to his present comparatively
mature age. of four years. During his
illness she and the Queen were constantly
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22

proved To be o subterranean cave com
pletely filed with mummy cats, each
one being separately embalmed and
wrapped up after the usual fashion Of
Egyptian mummies. Pussy Of B. G. 1000
was q sacred object to q section Of the
ancient Egyptians, and when a cat died
las even o cat eventually must-it was
buried with as much honor as any human
being. The finder, having reported his
discovery, laborers were soon at work
and turned out tens of thousands of the
munnmies. Some were taken by the
farmers of me place, others went to q
merchant III Alexandria, who shipped
them to Liverpool, where another mer-
chant, d local dealer in fertilizers, bought
HE consignment III about $40 4 ton. The
auctioneer, adding insult To injury,
knocked down the lot of $780, 900 cats
with the head Of i of them as hammer.
TO such base uses may the gods Of Egypt
comel
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
An Indian Snake Yarn.

a remarkable snake story current
throughout British India is thus summed
up in anfarticle on "The Naja-Kallu, or
Cobrs Stone" which. Professor Fl. Hen
soldt, Ph.D., of Coy5fnbia College, New
York, has written for Haaper's Magazine.
ssSome cobras-perhaps one in twenty
are in possession of a precious stone
which shines in the dark. This stone
the snake is in the habit of carrying
about in its mouth, regarding it as a
treasure, which it carefully preserves and
defends with its life. At night the
cobra deposits the stone in the grass and
watches its, as if fascinated, for hours
and woe to him who then approaches,
for the cobra is never more dangerous
than when occupied in this manner
The Professor tells how he secured one
of these precious stones by tricking its
serpent owner; and how he accounts sci.
e%ntiically for tie seeming marvel Of
ssThe Naja-K allu.n
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22


pride in it, and if two Of three hundred
members who have never yet seen a big
modern gun would visit the factory it
would be an invaluable object lesson in
patriotism.
The antique building Of mammoth
proportions and grotesque form, which a
year ago was a dismantlcd anchor
foundry, is now crowded with the colos-
sal lathes and elephantine hammers. Old
tools hitherto thought effective have been
superseded By those Of latest design.
Lathes, with the cradle larger than the
hull of Columbus's Pinta, stretch them
selves across the shop, and in them will
shortly be rocked the great ten and
twelve inch guns, twenty-five and thirty
feet long. The yard has now more than
a thousand employees, and the number
will be doubled as soon as the ponderous
machinery comes that has been ordered.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22

/ In a recent work on ssTne Physiology
Of Bodily Exercise DR.. r. Lagrange
says that fencing, apparatus gymnastics
and riding school lessons may be safely
prescribed for the idle person whose
brain languishes for want of work" But
for ga child overworked at school, for
9 person whose nerve centers are con-
gested owing to a persistent mental eff
fort in preparing for an examination, for
such We must prescribe long walks, the
easily learned exercise of rowing, and
feeling better, the old game of leap frog
and prisoners base, running games, any
thing in fact, rather than difficult exer-
cises and acrobatic gymnastics
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22

( Russia is at present in the throes Of
. temperance campaign, which the CEN
trail Government does not seem to be Sec
to any extent, if n may judge
by the Jews from the department Of
Kiev. In that section thirty-six villages
sent petitions to St. Petersburg demand
ing the abolition of all liquor selling es-
Establishments within their boundaries.
Thirty-fve of these petitions were re
ljected, but the thirty-sixth being accept
ed the inhabitants of the village thus
deprived of It's drink turned out and beat
TO death the man who had drawn up the
petition. They said he had been alto
Igether too eloquent.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
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FAD / MY WISH.

Had I nv wish, the world should hold
One nook entranced in fancy's mold;
One little spot where bad and vine -
Made nature drunk with beauty's winA
Where happy love could ne'er grow old. !
And here in simple ways grown bold
We'd laugh at fame, nor sigh for gold;
Our lives should be q song divine,
Had / my wish.
And when each days delights were told
And twilight came across the void
I'd look into your face benign
And feel your lips pressed soft on mine,
While on and on the big earth rolled,
Had I my wish.
Chicago Mail.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22

The Washington Star thinks ''there is
much to sustain the contention that the
greatest cause of dissatisfaction in the
army and the consequent desertions from
the service is the mental employment at
which the men are frequently is,t and
their treatment while 81 en-. ~ the
subordinate officers in chargo. -sdiers
are not dogs, and even dogs will desert if
too many indignities are heaped upon
them"
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
Mummy Cats.

There arrived recently at Liverpool
$50, 900 mummy cats which, after having
lain in their sacred burial place at Benz
Hassan in Egypt for 5000 years or SO,
are now about to I'LL their final and prob
ably most useful function of fertilizing
English land. We give below sketches
Of four Of the heads of these extraordi-
nary objects. Farmers are indebted for
this excellent lot OF twenty tons OF ferti-
lizer TO the lucky accident which befel
an Egyptian who fell into a pit which
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22

In the New Hebrides there is o babel
of tongues, but the Presbyterian mission.
aries have reduced twelve of them to
writing. The seventeen missionaries la
boring on the group are all busy with
the work of translation.
The statue of Rev. Mr.. Beecher, which
is to be placed in Prospect Park, Brook
lyn, is now being cast in bronze. 1t is
to be of colossal proportions, nine feet
high, and representing the preacher in
soft felt hat and cape
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
ToWN DRoPERTY ToR GALE
loWN Z ROPERTY u OR 0ALE

A CENTRALLY 10 ated and desirable
business stand on Main street, Opelousas,
consisting Of building suitable for residence
and small store, bel e the property next to
the postofice. This property will be sold
very cheap for cash, or half cash and balance
IN terms TO suit purchaser. Apply to Mrs
Edmund g. Dupre.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22

American clans are being planted
llong the English coast. Thus, facetious-
~ observes an exchange, the New World
7ursues its glorious mission of r~ejuvenat-
ING the old.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
NEW SHAVING SALOON

HAVING recently built and ~refurnished
u throughout, my Barber Shop, / am
aow prepared, with increased facilittS, TO
serve the public 10 first-class style in my
new quarters between Brand and Moriar tvs.
Shaving, Hair Cutting, Shampooing, &C.,
lone in the highest style Of the art. Give
tue a call. +. A BODEMULLER.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
LOUISIANA
D~PELOUsAs,

One Of the keepers IN Bushey Park,
England, lately discovered two fine bucks
lying dead in a ditch with their horns
locked together. Both animals had re-
Lcaiyed severe body wounds.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22

Ing touches II il again placed il the
for i final turning, after which It is
III the riding machine, (which cuts
the spiral grooves ii its interior with the
utmost precision. The i now needs
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
OPELOUSAS
Female Institute
opE1oUsAs, ST. LANDRY PARISH, LA

THIS Institution is undenominational, prac.
tical and progressive. Discipline firm and
based on sound principles ennobling and de-
veloping character. Honor and self respect
promoted. Methods Of training and culture
thorough. Toe curriculum prepares the
pupil for University on practical life. Ger.
t~ifcates and Diplomas conf rred. Buildings
comfortable and comm odious. Patronage
solicited. For further particulars apply "a
MRS. M. NJ. HAYES, Principal.
Or Rev. F. w. LEWIS, First Assistant.
Feb !att
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
C. D. STEWART.

CONTRACTOR, CARPENTER AND BUILDER
viii contract for the erection of buildings
Of all kinds, furnishing all material If desired.
Work done promptly and at reasonable rates.
Orders through the postofice given prompt
attention. Estimates and plans furnished.
Having special facilities for obtaining LuM
BIER AT REDUCED RATES, I win give my
patrons the benefit OF the same.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-11-22
A. 2. Mcneil,
ARCHITECT AND BUILuER,
0PET, 0ITSAS T5,TTTS AN

UPELUUSAS, LOUIS AN 4.
Plans, Specifications and Estimates fur
nished for all manner of buildings, on the
most reasonable teru $. Contracts taken for
all kinds Of work, in trick, IRON, st ne and
wood. NJ aterial furnished for repairs and
construction II desired. Plantation and
country work attended to with dispatch. Al.
work first class and sat sfaction guaranteed
Orders directed to F. o. Box 81 will receiv
prompt attention. ia5tf