davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

First he stroked the animals long ears
back over his head and tied them 1ast'
Next he took a thick, heavy wig OF curry
hair, and placed it across the animals
temples to give it the effect of human
hair. This wig was made fast under.
meath the ears, where it would be out OF
sight, and then the big stoVeplpe hat was
placed upon the head. TWAS tied under
the tied.down ears of the mule. Next
the manager put on Mr.. Mules forward
pair of trousers. They were put on not
without difficulty, however, for the mule
didn't seem to fancy being dressed up.
They were made fast over his shoulders
by means of a gigantic pair of suspenders,
and the animal was ready for the other
pair. These were soon adjusted so as to
cover his hind legs, and were secured to
a belt on his back. Then came the coat,
which was a marvel of workmanship ana
size. When it was put on and the AMI
NAL made to stand so as to face directly
toward the front with a curtain arrange
ment to conceal his quadruped construc-
ton, people who came in to see the mys-
terry saw him just as he is pictured IN
the first of the photographs taken o.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
Uses OfNAtton-Saad.

The history of eetdnsseed is in itself
interesting, and marks ZIP age Of Won
derful progress. For se92ooazears the
seed was despised as a nufgides; and
burned and dumped as garbage. fetaessk
was discovered to be the very food'ggo
which the soil was hungering, and re-
luctantly admitted to the rank Of utili-
ties, and began to be treated with re-
spect.
Cotton-seed was next found to be nu
tritious food for beasts, and then this
formerly despised product was discov-
cred to hold ~thirty-five gallons of pure
Oil to the ton, worth, in its crude state,
fourteen dollars a ton, which amounted
to forty million dollars for the whole
crop of seed. The refined oil is now
worth one dollar a gallon.
But a new wonder was yet to come.
Experience showed that the ton of cot
ton-seed was a better fertilizer and a bet
ter stock food after it had been robbed
of it's thirty-iye gallons of oil than it was
before; that the hulls of the seeds made
the best of fuel for feeding the oil-mill
engine; that the ashes of the hulls had
the highest commercial value as potash,
and that the ssrefuse' of the whole made
the purest and best soap stock, to carry
to the toilet the perfumes CT the best
manufacturers.
The history of eo~tton-seed has, per
haps, been paralleled by that of petro
leum, which, in its crude state, ill-look
ing and bad-smelIlng, has proved a min,
of wealth in the wonderful substance
that have been produced from it,
Youths Companion.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
A FAKE ON DREss PARADE.

The freak Congo is Il fake of the very
purest water, II fake among fakes, one
of the most amusing of all the fakes in
New York museums. The proprietors
of it are partially honest. They exhibit
it as a nondeseript, and do not say it
is a man, though the idea is conveyed that
it had human parents. This creature,
upon first glance, appears 70 be a mon
strous negro, with a most lepulsively de-
formed face. The under lip protrudes
and the goneral dress Of the imam
which it appears to be IS of the most
fashy description.
When a fair, front view of this crea-
IRE is had, the impression produced is
hat il is a tHo.legged animal and re-
embles a human being III shape and
orm. A silk hat. large enough to fit
he head Of a giant. a full dress coat and
vest, a Numbered collar of monstrous
size, a large pair Of patent leather shoes
and snuff colored overgaiters above them
and q pair Of pantaloons of the loudest
pattern complete his dress.
This stnondescript' is made up from
the simplest materials imaginable, as
may be seen from the second picture
taken Of him, which was taken Yesterday
morning before he was placed upon ex.
hlbition. It needs no description to tell
what it is. Simply an every-day-sort Of
q mule, black as coal and having a
slightly deformea mouth. II making
up the ssfake' his manager has d good
deal to do,
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
Effects Of Close Shaving.

Do you know what a close shave means9
I never did until I looked at a face the
other day, through a microscope, which
had been treated to this luxurious process.
Why, the skin resembled a piece of raw
beef. Tomake the face perfectly smooth,
requires not only the removal of the hair,
but also a portion of the cuticle, and a
close shave means the removal of a layer
of skin all around. The blood vessels
thus exposed are not visible to the eye,
but under the microscope each little
quivering mouth holding a minute blood
drop protests against such treatment.
The nerve tips are also uncovered and the
pores are left unprotected, which makes
the skin tender and unhealthy. This
sudden exposure of the inner layer of the
skin renders a person liable to have colds,
hoarseness and sore throat
Gsiqssics.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

American in features and speech. This
is one of the oldest museum ''fakes, and
is seen almost daily in this city.
The young lady who possessed the wig
had but little to say about the business.
There was a public demand for Circsssian
beauties. She was paid for her work and
that was all she cared about it.
The second photograph is one of a
genuine FIJI princess. She says she is
genuine and her mother says so, too, SO
there can be no question about it. The
South Sea Islanders are a race of very
black people, with short, coarse hair, in
clined to be kinky. This FIJI princess is
almost as white as the lovely Circassian,
her hair is rather light than otherwise,
and she has blue eyes. There is undoubt-
edly a strain of blood of some dark-skin-
ned race in her veins, and as she says she
is a genuine FIJI cannibal, Of course no
one can dispute her claim. But, her
appearance, color, hair, eyes and speech
seem to throw an air ofinconsistency about
her story. Her mother is q large, raw
boned woman with high, prominent
cheeks and Of a copper color. She does
not look unlike an American Indian.
The father of the girl is q white man
living in New York.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

me idea Of tho Eiael Tower, accord
~ the Engineering and Building Record,
acknowledged by NJ. Eifel to have
originated in this country at the time Of
ahe Philadelphia Centennial, in 1876.
he circular tower then proposed was to
have been 1000 feet high, $50 feet in di-
asuster 1T the base, and thirty feet at the
hop. II was designed by Clark, Reeves
ID CO., 81 PhcenixvilIe, Penn, and was
Inspected 10 cost $f, O0o, 900.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
WHAT THE vIoLETs SAID.
.sSe're all for love- the violet said.

'sye're all for love" the violet said.
Sidney Lanscr.
Do Ilove you? Do I love your
Ask the heavens that bend above you,
To find language and to prove you
If they lore the living sur.
Ask the burning, binding meadows
If they love the falling shadows,
If they hold the happy shadows
When the fervid day is done.
Ask the blue-bells and daisies,
Lost amid the hot field-mazes,
Lifting up their thirsty faces, Z
If they love the summer rains.
Ask the linrets and the plovers,
In the nest-life made for lovers
Ask the bees and ask the clover
Will they tell you for your pains?
Dol, darling, do I love you?
What, I pray, cen that behoove you?
How, in Loves names, can I move you?
When for Loves sake I am dumb?
If ! told you, if | told you,
Would that keep you, would that hold you
Here at last when I enfold you?
If it would-HushI darling, comet
e. S. Phelps, in Daughters of America.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
The BARRIERS Pole.

The barber formerly was u surgeon as
well as a barber, inasmuch as he practisea
blood-letting. The pole was used by the
barber-surgeon for the patient to grasp
while his blood was let; and a flIet or
bandage was used for tying the arm.
When the pole was notin use, the tape
was twisted around it, and it was hung
out as Q sign. A~fterward, instead Of
hanging out the actual pole used in
operating, a pole was painted with stripes
around it in imitation of the real pole
and its bandages; hence the BARRIERS
pole.-Lgpiaeon.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Massachusetts, machines make a pair OF
shoes in twenty minutes.
Mapleton, Me-, points with pride to a
local four-and-a-half-pou Irish potato
Buggy wheels of steel on the principle
of a bicycle wheel will be made by a Pitts
burg concern.
The mouth of Calumet River, emptying
into Lake Michigan, has moved east 2S0O
feet since 1886.
Ii cost the Inman Line $40, 900 to float
the City of New York while aground
in New York harbor.
A whale was driven ashore on the
coast of Labrador recently which had a
dozen wraps of chain around its body
and a big anchor to tote around with Ut.
J. G. Rich, of Bethel, Me-, a veteran
trapper, is engaged in the novel business
of catching wild hares tie ship to sports
men who wish to stock game preserves.
A plague of monkeys %affiicts Taniore,
in Southern India. The creatures do so
much mischief that an official monkey
catcher received a rupee for each monkey
captured.
Henry Apple owns a small mining
claim in Sierra County, New Mexico, that
has paid him SIS, 900 in five months,
He employs one man, and the ore is
crushed in a hand mortar.
Frederick Livingstone, aged eighty.
eight years, and the oldest man in Peter
boro, N. H., is President of the First
National Bank in that town and is found
daily at his post of duty.
The minimum height of the Russian
and the French conscript is five feet; In
most other European countries the mini
mum stature ranges from five feet one
inch to five feet three inches.
The country having the largest proper
ton of cultivated land is Denmark, Rus
sia having the smallest. The United
Kingdom has Twenty-Five per cent. of
land titled, against seyenty-one untitled.
A curious sssnow flower" is reported to
have been found in Siberia. It is said to
be a star-shaped blossom with three leaves,
covered, apparently, with snow crystals,
and appears suddenly on January L every
year, living three days only.
In Russia. when coffins are covered
with cloth, the color of the covering is,
to a certain extent, distinctive, pink be-
ing used when the deceased is a child or
a young person, crimson for women and
brown for widows, but black is in no case
employed.
A petrifed man found in New South
Wales, Australia, has caused constant
trouble. First, violent disputes ensued
over the g~enuineness of the petrifaction,
and now the two Scotchmen who made
the discovery are fighting for the posses
sion ct the treasure.
A few days since Sergeant Groo, of the
New York city police force, met five
brothers at his fathers house in the town
of Neversink. The total weight of the
six was 1925 pounds, and their aggregate
length thirty-fve feet. The father is a
sprightly old man of seventy-four years,
and can yet hold his own with any one of
his boys.
Thirty seven persons have succeeded in
reaching the summit of Mont Blanc dur
: ing the present season, and of these eleven
are classified under the head of English,
the remainda Dr. being made up of eight
Rians, sew n Frenchmen, six Germans
alhesxe Ahericans. Since 1886 some
2Oo0PesrtistIcave made the ascent, in
Guiding as-- 10 score ladies.
"a "a
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

A CIRcAssIAN BEAUTY IN PRIVATE LIFE.
were guided and coached by a man grown
gray in the dime museum business, and
an expert in the manufacture of freaks.
There are two kinds of attractions in q
museum-"freaks" and "fakes." The
"freaks" are sometimes genuine, but
many ''freaks2 are "fakes."
The first picture, for instance, shows
the ordinary Circassian girl. When the
Egening Suns young men entered the
Bowery museum, in which she earns Sl2
a week, she was seen sitting upon a plat
form, with her abundant crop Of sugar
stlffened hair standing on end all over her
head. She was lectured upon a short
time later, by the automaton who deals
out misinformation to the public, and de-
scribed as the only genuine Circassian
beauty in New York.
But it wasn't many minutes before n
of the reporters had her hair on his own
head. The young woman was seen in the
entry to the dressing rooms and as she
darted through a dingy door, which she
pushed open with one hand, she removed
her wig with the other. She was photo
graphed by the instantaneous cameras,
and here is her picture. She proved to
be a very pretty girl, but thoroughly
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
A Simple Remedy for Hiccough.

DIR. Loehl reports, in a Vienna medic0
Journal, the case of q man, aged fifty
four, who suffered for five days and
nights from a most obstinate hiccough.
After trying all the ordinary measures
without avail, he fell back upon q house
hold remedy as a last resort, andardered
a tablespoonful of ~pufverized sugar wet
with an equal volume of wine vinegar, to
be taken at one dose. The hiccough
stopped Immediately and did not return
for six hours, and then ceased again upon
a second dose OF the remedy.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
MUSEUM FREAKS.
HOW SOME OF THEM ARE MANI"
FACTURED TO ORDER.
instantaneous Photographs OF q
Circassian Beauty-A Can
nibal Princess, Etc, as
They Really Are.

The prosperity in the dime museum
business proves that a great many clt1-
zens find in freaks and determines the
sort of mental food which they require.
These pictures and explanatory words are
intended for the benefit of dime museum
patrons. Here they get an idea OF a
dime museum as it really is and at one
tenth the usual price of admission. Inc
pictures were taken by the Ecening Suns
instantaneous system of photography.
The Young men in charge Of the cameras
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

The San Francisco Chronicle considers
hat eths boldness Of Chinese pirates in
Penguin does not speak well for the
french administration. When these
NsShes make raids 81 villages and at
nell sysn Europeans il junks, it Is high
azas the home Government should do
nnaekhing to suppress the pest. It is a
dngalar commentary on the spread Of
voOd weapons that all the pirates in the
Orient ARE armed with the best breech-
hading rifles and know how to use them.
Etnne was when these fellows were dam
Ksrrsas only when at close quarters, be-
ssnss shsir antique weapons were more
ssep fatal 10 themselves than to their
1nsusiss. Now all this is changed and in
Ms Chinese seas as vel as among the
s5uEh Sea islands, nothing satisfies the
saeise but the most improved rifle
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
OPELOUSAS
Female Institute
oPELoUsAs, ST. LANDRY PARISH, Ia.

This Institutions IS ndenomiuational. prac..
tical and progressive. Discipline firm ana
based on sound principles ennohling aud @.
veloping character. Honor and self respecs
promoted. Methods Of training and cultuLs
thorough. Tee curriculum prepares W
pupil for University or practical lie. osa
tificates and Diplomas conf, rred. Bulla'nss
comfortable AMI om odious. Patronass
solicited. For further particulars apply y
MRS. NJ. NJ. HANE Els, Principal.
Feb .2h
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

Rev York i beginning To have a taste
y what San Francisco and Portland and
skher Pacific coast cities have passed
asrough within the last twenty years, ID
Eae upbuilding Of 4 Chinese quarter,
whefe these people Of i strange c@iviliza
acn, saiug . language unintelligible to
s eys and ear Of our race, herd to-
gesher and defy Caucasian rule and IN
aneacs. Having one planted themselves
b ! place IN this way it is almost inn
possible, declares the Washington STIR,
b root them out. They remodel a neigh
b0Fhood ID their own fashion. White
s0ple win not live among them, 50 that
rcper2g values and rentals thsreabout are
Fholly y the mercy Of the Chinese
asEAslyes ma, when means hare been
aseoYsred of forcing them u move,
y whites win nci ieAabif the same
sIlia sIesa,
4&H%&44&f 8EM
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

Naval authorities in England are
pnnic-stricken by the collapse of both
lie Hilton guns Of the warship Vic
soria while they we're being proved.
'sEhsy cost $95, 600 apiece, exclusive Of
41g0, 900 for carriages, mountings ano
n~schinery necessary to work them, ano
1hrsw ! projectile weighing 1900 pounds.
,THs result has somewhat dampened the
ardcr Of the advocates of big guns.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

One of the greatest drains from the
forests of this country would be checked
II the railroads could find a satisfactory
substitute for the wooden tie. There
are 200, 900 miles Of single track in the
United States resting on wooden ties,
which average $500 to the mile.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

I The bountiful crops in this country
Aaye inspired the farmers with the be-
asef that farming can be made to pay, and
liz u quite probable, says Dirie, that more
agricultural machinery Will be purchased
curing the ensuing winter and more
improvements in farming processes to be
leagpted than has been known before.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
Published ON Saturday by
LEONCE AND L. A. sANDOz,


1t is stated that only two pounds Of
tin have been discovered in Dakota, and
by reason Of this two pounds weight two
millions of capital have been raised for
the purpose of working the mines.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

The latest example of the folly of the
reckless destruction Of forests is afforded
by Scrvia, where droughts in summer
and foods in winter afaict large districts
which have been denuded of timber within
the last five years.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British
Minister, has returned to America with
-four beautiful daughters and beautiful
instructions from the Home Government
TO amicably adjust the fisheries question
with Canada.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

One result Of this years general exo-
&us of Americans to Europe has been the
sale, to the returned voyagers, of an i'm
mense edition .sBurke's Peerage." It is
wonderful how a trip abroad stirs up the
average mans interest in his ancestors
aud his name.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

DR.. Talmage's idea of a great peace
Jubilee the Brooklyn Times regards as TX
cellent. But, it says, some of the bloodi-
est wars in history have been fought since
the great peace jubilee of Prince Albert
On England.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
D., STEWART,

Co~NTEsefeK, CARPENTER AND BUILDER.
Will contract for the erection of buildings
of all kinds, furnishing all material il desired.
Work done promptly aud at reasonable rates.
Orders through the PFsSofIi ee given pronips
attention. Estimates and plans furnished.
Having special facilities for obtaining EUN
Der AT REDUCED RATES, l will give my
patrons the benefit OF tine am
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

The latest British annexation consists
of Humphrey and Rierson Islands, in the
Gouth Pacific. They form part of the
Manihiki group and lie north of Cooks
and the Society Islands, and to the north
east of Samoa.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

The year 1890 will be an interesting
one in the staff departments of the army,
for the Paymaster- General, the Quarter
master General. the Commissary-Gener
and the Surgeon General will all be re-
tired for age.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
NEW SHAVING SALOON

HAVING recently built and refurnlsnea
IL throughout, my Barber Shop, ! ~
now prepared, with increased facilities, 3
serve the public in first-elass style ID y.
new quarters between Brand and MoriaTisy
Shaving, Hair Cutting, S~hampoolng, t ~
lone in the highest style of the art: 80 m'
me q call. f. A BODEMULLEh
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
DRoPERFY TOR GA
J. OWN Z ROPERTY Z OR MALE

A CENTRALLY loeated and dasilass
business stand on Main street, opele asss
consisting of building suitable for ressas sso
and small store, beiag the properly nse saIa
the postoffice. This property VIII pe
very cheap for cash, or halt cash ana ra'sN rs
IN terms to suit purchaser. Apply
Edmund @. Dupra.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

lighted the wick, placed a chimney upon
the burner and a human lamp was the re-
suit. The lamp bowl is full of water.
There is no oil on that part of the wick
which the man stuffs into his mouth.
MANY more dime museum marvels might
be explained in this way, but these will
suffice to give an idea of the wholesale
squandering of dimes which goes on in
this country.-NeD York Sun. -
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18

THE AME XXI As HE REALLY IS.
him. This made-up curiosity has been
one of the most successful drawing cards
ever placed in any of the museums.
At another museum a man was found
who professionally drinks kerosene and
swallows lamp wicks when lighted. He
does this for a salary and earns his
money easily. He took a lamp, in the
presence of the reporters, unscrewed the
burner and removed it from a bowl
apparently filled with oil. He placed the
wick between his teeth and began
to swallow it. When he had swal-
lowed about a yard of it, an assistant
The Opelousas courier., 1890-01-18
0pelousas Courier.

SETIcrAL JOURNAL OF THE PARISH OF
ST. LANDRY.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-03-08
PersonaI-A Correction.

70 THE PUBLIc: There are re-
ports abroad that Barney Simpson
and w. B. Simpson are two differ
ent men. My card for school clerk
Is signed in my initials, w. b
Simpson, which Is my name in full,
tho | have beeu known to all our
people here for thirty years ns plain
Barney Simpson. Hence, this con.
fusion, which some opponents are
unfairly, MS my friends think, taking
advantage Of have for twelve
years been sexton of the Odd Fell
lows cemetery, and wish my friends
To understand, aud make no mis-
take about Il, that the only candi'
date OF my name who Is running
for school clerk il Barney" Re-
specially, w. Is. SIMPSON.
3-7-2t.
Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-03-08

Hon. Martin CbamberiIn is hons
from his trip Of week to Seattle,
Tacoma and the SQUAD country.
He declares It a fine region, but ic
invest, much money ie required, and
to make a safe investment man
should put money IN several differ
ent places. Business lots in Seattle
are $4,000 TO $4,000 each. He
comes bick thinking more Of the
Willamette valley than ever.
The choicest Butter Scotch and
French Nugate at Jones & Ber-
nardi's.
Grpat excitement prevails at Far
rar & Co.'S, over the low prices on
groceries.
Polk County Itemizer: Salem's
present school population is about
24OO. which would indicate a city
p jpulation the rise Of 1900. She
grows rapidly.
Try our 25 cent want column if il
need of anything to be had on this
earth around Salem.
The sidewalk just north Of the
Capital National bank is badly
needing attention. Water splashes
the clothes Of all passers. 1t i
wrong.
THE JOURNAL has an able article
on silver from u prominent man
will appear in a day or two.
BABY CARRIAGEs.-A new, large
and fine line Of baby carriages just
received at Buren's furniture store.
3-6tf
Dear hubby, we must have one of
those baby jumpers at Buren's fur
niture store for our little tootsy-
wo0tsy. 3-6tf
Have the DAILY JOURNAL left at
your door and get all the news, at
10 cents a week.
LosT.-A lady's diamond scarf
pin. Finder please leave at this
office. 3-6-3t
f. G. Beardsley, valley agent of
the Astoria Real Estate and Trust
Co., is IN Salem, at the Globe la nd
office.