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The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

An amount of blood equal to the
whole quantity in the human body passes
through the heart n c every minute.
Automatic machines for making base
balls have been SO successfully contrived
that their introduction is likely to con-
stitutc an important practical industry.
Sea sand is often unfit for building,
even though perfectly deprived of 1T
salt, the reason being that the particles
have been worn and polished until they
are without binding power.
The most recent researches of Pro-
fessor s. P. Langley, indicates that the
mean temperature of the sunlit lunar soil
is probably not greater than zero Cent?
grade, or thirty-two degrees Fab.
Brick paving, according to an original
and simple plan, is being resorted to,
the bricks thus employed being made
from the refuse clay not suitable to be
used in the production of regular fire
bricks.
To the perfumes of flowers a we'll
known scientist ascribes the power Of
protecting against and wen arrestins
consumption. In the perfume.distilling
town of La Grasse lung troubles are but
little known.
Another textile, known as kanaff, has
been discovered in Russia, on the Cas-
plan Sea, the plant attaining a height of
some ten feet. From it a chemist has
obtained a textile substance which is
soft, elastic, and silky, gives a thread
which is very tough, and can be bleached
without injury.
A constantly increasing variety Of
goods are being produced from asbestos.
Among these are several kinds of pack.
ing, yarn, sheeting, expansion rings,
tape, paper, millboard, joint rings,
cordage, cloth, flooring and wall felt,
paint, cement, putty, boiler p~reservative,
non-conducting composition, lubrica-
tors, etc.
One of the latest methods resorted to
for hardening copper is that of melting
together and stirring until thoroughly
Incorporated copper and from n to six
per cent. of manganese oxide; the other
ingredients for bronze and other alloys
may then be added. By this means the
copper becomes homogeneous, harder
and tougher.
A very pretty industry has arisen in
Colorado, where the slags obtained from
the gold, silver and copper smelling
works are smelted and poured into
molds. The result is a peculiar kind OF
metallic glass, very light and very strong,
which lends itself to inrumerable de-
signs, and out of which extremely beautl-
full vessels are made.
Photography has attained a recognized
position in medicine. There are amateur
photographers on the staff of nearly
every hospital, and the extensions now
being carried on at the English Royal
College of Surgeons comprehend a
ssphotograph-room." Before long the
surgeon will think no more about carry.
ing his camera than he does now of car
rying his ~stethoscope.
A new vessel, in which hydraulic
power is to be used instead of a pro-
peller, has recently been launched from
Lennox's' dock-yard in Brooklyn. The
system of hydraulic propulsion was in
vented by DR.. W. NJ. Jackson. The
idea Is to send the.vessel along by forcing
VEejets of water out of pipes projecting
from4ke1atern. The vessel is intended
purely as aas experimental craft, and cost
5000, 600.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01
RECIPES,

Corn Cake-Two eggs, one-half cup
sugar, one-half cup butter, one pint sour
milk, one teaspoon soda, andma little
more than one pint of corn meas%
Cabbage salad-Take one pintof finely
chopped cabbage, and turn over it a
dressing of three tablespoons lemon juice,
two tablespoons sugar, one-half cup
whipped cream, thoroughly beaten to-
gether.
Roast Shoat-Put a quarter of a shoat
on a dripping pan without water, sprin-
ahle with pefher and salt, haste with but
&ALet COD 1.-TWO or three hours; when
doneY sar in teacup of walnut cat
sup. Sess Sssaked apples.
Baked e. 1.-THE eng dish with
the whites beaee Ne a hollow in the
center, and put in rabeaten yelk;
scatter over the top a IN alt and
pepper, and lay a small piece otter
near the yelk. Bake about two miha
Breakfast Puffs-Take two quarts q
-four, a teaspoonful of salt, half a teacup
of sugar, two tablespoonfuls of melted
butter, four eggs, and one quart of
boiled milk; stir well, fill creased puff
bowls two-thirds full, and bake in a hot
oven.
Sweet Potatoes-Wash and boil ten
der, peel and slice. Cover the bottom of
a baking dish with a layer of slices,
spread thickly with butter ana sugar,
then more potatoes, butter and sugar,
filing the dish. Set in the oven until
the top is brown.
Roast Turkey lump Or turkey by
plunging in boilihsaeer. Prepare a
dressing Of bread crumbs, butter, pepper
and salt. Place the turkey on a dripping
pan, spread with bits of butter, turn
and haste often. When nearly done
glaze with the white of an egg. Make.
gravy and serve with wild plum jelly.
Economical Pudding-Four cups of
-four, n of suet, two Of dried cherries,
one of dried raspberries, half a cup each
of finely chopped dried apples and.
peaches, n and half cups Of molasses,
and two. well beaten eggs: mix all to-
gether, add two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder and mixed spices. Serve with
hard sauce. !
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01
OLD-TIME WHALING.
PURSUIT OF THE DEEP-SEA LIE
VIATHANS DESCRIBED.
Graphic Account of a Voyage i'm a
Whaier-KiIIing a Whale-Cut-
ting In and Trying Out
the Carcass.

tsThar' she blows!"
"Sperm, too, at that"
"Thar' She breaches!"
Such was the cry all of us aboard the
old bark Abijah Adams, of New Bed
ford, heard one morning in 1854 from
5he lookout in the crows nest. Precious
good news it was, too, for we had been
cruising the Pacific Ocean many weary
weeks and never a whale had we sighted.
The Abijah Adams was as staunch a
vessel as ever hoisted sail. She was
thirty-fivc years old, and no worm had
ever worked his way into her solid live
oak planks and timbers. She smelt
sweet of whale oil, every foot of timber
in her being saturated with that odorifer-
Gus and money making product. Petro-
leum hadn't been discovered in any guam
titles in the days / am telling you of and
the whaling men were looked up to and
respected.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01
Nearly Buried Alive.

In view of the many strange nervous,
cataleptic and kindred conditions which
are so common nowadays, it is not un-
reasonable to call attention to the posi-
bilities, which would seem occasionally
to occur, of premature burial. Anarrow
escape of this was recently communicated
direct to the writer.
The lady was the wife of the medical
officer attached to the -th regiment. She
was stationed at - Island, where, at
at the age of twenty eight, she was safely
confined. Shortly after this she was
walking out with an attendant when she
was taken suddenly i'll with a painful
spasm of the heart-what appears to
have been an attack of angina pectoris-
and was conveyed indoors and propped
up with pillows, suffering great pain,
and, although medical attendance was
summoned, nothing was of avail, and
she died-at least, in the opinion of those
around her. Tt was the custom there to
bury at shutdown any one who died dur
ing the day.
She would never have lived to tell the
story but for an accident, which happened
in this way: Her nurse, who was much
attached to her, was stroking her face
and the muscles of her jaw, and presently
declared she heard a sound of breathing.
Medical attendance was. summoned and
the mirror test applied, but the surface
was undimmed. Then, to make sure, they
opened q vein in each arm. but no blood
flowed. No limb responded to stimulus,
and they declared that the nurse was
mistaken, and that the lady was dead
beyond doubt.
But the nurse persisted in her belief
and in her attentions, aud did succeed in
establishing a sign Of life. Then mustard
~Dplicat.ons to her feet and to the back
her neck, and burnt feathers applied
to her nostrils, which she remembers
burning her nose, completed her return
to consciousness.-Iocs5n.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01
Ths new State Of Washington include

Tia new State Of Washington includes
q region almost as little known as the
interior Of Africa. The country inclosed
BY the Olympic Mountains, comprising
an area OF about $500 square miles i.
not known to have been explored by any
n 9 These mountains rise within ten OF
Fifteen miles of the Straits of San JuaE
Dc Fuca in the north, the Pacific Oceai
inthe west, Hoods Canal in the east.
and the basin Of the Quinault Lake ii
the south, and are from six to eight thou
sand feet hight. Although the Indians
have never penetrated this region, their
traditions say that it is inhabited by a
very fierce tribe, which none OF the
others dare modest.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01
The Value of Old Coins.

Old coins now form the basis of one of
the most pronounced crazes in this coun-
try. These coins, in both silver and
copper American issues, occasionally APP
pear in a general trading or are purchased
at very low prices from persons in press
ing need of more than their face value.
It seems, says the St. Louis Post Dispatch,
like finding money to realize on such
coins, or like getting a $5 gold piece in
change as a nickle. The prices in some
instances are very good. Half cents, for
instance, may run up to So, while cents
are valued as high as S.. A certain sill
yer quarter dollar is valued as high as
$50. Dimes are lower, the best price
being $3.50. Half dollars come up to
$40, and dollars to $3.50. Half dimes do
much better than dimes, and run up to
$25.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01
A Confused Dog.

Not long ago two men who live nea,
staufer's Mills, Penn, took a beagle
hound and went over to Red Ridge to
hunt rabbits. A large bulldog followed
them and stayed near them while the
beagle scared the rabbits out of the brush.
All at once a big rabbit scampered out OF
the underbrush and dashed down the
slope past the men. Its appearance ex.
cited the bulldog, and he gave chase at
the top of his speed. When he was with.
in a few feet of the rabbit the dog got
tripped in some running vines and wac
turned end for end like a flash. He
didn't realize that he had been reversed.
and in his eagerness to get at the rabbit
ne ran straight up the hill the moment he
got out of the tangle. By that time the
rabbit was well toward the foot of the
slope, and after the confused dog had run
several rods he stopped all of q sudden,
sat upon his launches and howled for q
minute or so, much to the amusement OF
the hunters.-Meao Kor5 Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01

One of the two Chinese commissioners
now in this country to purchase electric
light plants for China was asked in New
York if he wasn't afraid that the electric
light would kill his people. The bland
face of the good-natured agent was
wreathed in smiles as he answered:
seChina can afford to lose twice as many
lnen as America for the sake of light and
other products of Western science"
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01

One thing that has added immensely to
the power of the earth to feed its in
habitants is the aralof preserving food.
Would it be out of the way to guess,
queries the New York Tribune, that one
quarter of all we eat is preserved in one
way or another that was either unknown
Or not practised half q century ago2 If
not, it seems likely that steam transport,
the telegraph and the tin can have doubled
the food power of the world.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01

In the fifteen years from 1874 to 1889,
the number of postofices increased from
"a, 300 to $4,000; the gross revenue
doubled the total pay increased from S.
500, 900 to $13, 16s, 900; stamps issued
from 632, 600, 600 to 1851, $50, $40; the
number of postal cards from 81, 600, 600
to 1856, sos, 500; money orders from $74,-
4oo, 900 to Sis, os1, s45. The employees
in the entire postal service number $780,
935.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01

About eleven of the Lightweight
United States Senators are ~millionaires,
Mfr. Stanford, of California, leading with
$50, DOC, 900. Mr.. Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania, is credited with SIS, 900, 900, and
Mr.. Sawyer, of Wisconsin, with $40, 000,.
!. 900. The others range between five
millions and one million.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01
The Length Of the Dar.

At London, England, and Bremen
Prussia, the longest day has 164 hours.
At Stockholm, Sweden, it is 1S4 hours
in length. At Hamburg in Germany,
and Dantzic in Prussia, the longest day
has II hours. AT ST. Petersburg, Rus.
STA, and Tobolsk, Siberia, the longest is
10 hours and the shortest 5 hours. At
Tornea, Finland, June 81 brings d day
nearly ~ hours long, and Christmas one
less than 3 hours in length. At Ward
bury, Norway, the longest day lasts from
May 81 to July ~, without interruption
and in spitzbergen the longest day Is
three and half months. At ST. Louis
the longest day is somewhat less than Is
hours, and Montreal, Canada, it Is IT,
81. Loaie 1Rzpu5!ic-
Vermont has 7128 pensioners accord.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
PROPER USE OF VEGETABLES.

Potatoes are the proper vegetable to
cconpan fish. All kinds of vegetables
NAV be served with beef, although green
peas are more appropriate for VEAL NUT
ton or poultry. Corn should never &C
company game or poultry. With venlson'
currant jelly. Cabbage, apple sauce
parsnips, carrots and turnips should DC
served with pork. Macaroni with cheese
should always accompany wooocock'
Green peas and watercresses, wild ducks
Apple sauce, turnips, cabbage, wild or
tame geese.-Ta6h Talk.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01

There are, says ar authority in such
matters, 500, 900, 900 of gun wads manu-
featured and shot out in this country
every year. The Winchester Arms Com
pany recently let one contract for 300,-
O00, 600 of gun wads. This means an
expenditure of 800, 600 a year by one
firm for felt gun wads alone, most of
which are used by sportsmen in shooting
clay pigeons, or in the field or on the
water,
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01

Female Institute
oPELoUsAs, ST. LANDRY PARISH, La

This Institution is undenominational, prao.
tical and progressive. Discipline firm anu
based on sound principles e%nnobiing and "
velorfng character. Honor and self respecs
promoted. Methods of training and cultaLs
thorough. Tee curriculum prepares ,s1s
pupil for University on practical Life. 20
tiflcates and Diplomas conf rred. BulialD5s
comfortable and CONNIE dious. Patronass
solicited. For further particulars apply
MRS. M. M. HAYES, Principal
Feb !2-tf
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01

A somewhat new departure in building
practice has been successfully made in
Germany. Mortar of the best quality,
which is manufactured wholesale, is sold
to small builders and private individuals.
In bad weather especially, this system
has distinct advantages, and it obviates
the necessity of making the mortar on
the ground.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01
D~PELoUsAs, LOUISIANA

Statistics compiled from the reports
of the Treasures of every State and Ter
Iritory show the wealth of the United
States to be $61, 459, 600, 600 outside Of
the public property.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01
TOWN DRoPERTY ToR Gall
OWN ROPERTY ID OR Phi

A CENTRALLY 10, ated and desirable
business stand on Main street, Opelousas
consisting of building suitable for resadsase
and small store, being the property. neSssgg
the postofiee. This property viii De son
very cheap for cash, or half cash and basasys@
On terms g suit purchaser. Apply 70 Asn
Edmund g. Dupre.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01
\ G. D.. STEWART,

CONTRACTOR, CARPENTER AND BUILDER
viii contract for the erection of buildings
Of all kinds, furnishing all material if desired.
Work done promptly nda at reasonable rates
Orders through the postofIice given prompt
Having special facilities for obtaining LgAs
BIER Al REDUCED RATES, / will give hy
patrons the benefit Of the same.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01
NEW SHAVING SALOON

HAVING recently built and refurnisheo
u throughout, my Barber Shop, am.
now prepared, with increased facilities. Y
serve the public in frst-class style III ~
oew quarters between Brand and Moriari1A
Shaving, Hair Cutting, Shampooing, So
done in the highest style of the art. CAV
che arcal. Il. a BODEMULLEk.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01

Mrs. Levi P. Morton teaches her
daughters l~etter-writing by giving them
her own notes to 8 Ell. If the effort
pleases her it is stamped and posted. II
not corrections are made and the sscopy''
returned. 80
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01

The real estate value or Boston
Sa76. 0QQ. 600.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-03-01

Vermont has 7128 pensioners accord.
ing to the latest statistics.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-06-19
SCISSORS SAUCE.

John Maston, a Norwegian pearl
seeker camping near Gratiot, has
had 70 years experience in the busi-
ness. He claims that only one GER
tain variety of clam contains valua-
bic pearls and that this variety can
be recognized at a glance by pro
fessioual.-Darliagtoa Democrat
and Register.
Some misoreant threw box of
rough on rats in Ed. Daley's whey
barrel Sunday evening, poisoning
eight calves, thirty turkeys and
about the same number of chickens
with fatal results, and it seemed TO
be through almost a Proyidentlal
interference that he did not feed it
to his hogs.-Argyle -Attas.
L. Blanden, the LeMars banker
who is president of the Grant-Gale-
ma company, and who was here last
week looking over the ground,
writes that he is ready to begin
WOlk on the 0ticuA AAfti Ath fl w G
ment as soon as the bill TO that effect
has passed the Senate, and says
he hopes that body will not delay
action. Mr.. Blauden has expressed
his readiness to put $4,000 of his
individual capital into the improve
ment. As his statements are to be
relied ON, no reason remains TO
doubt that the project will SO
through as couceiyed.-Gaksna GI-
-ette.
The extensive lead mines Of la.
Fayette county are at present being
worked with more vim ana energy
than for many years, and We are
pleased to state that don. Hugh
Campbell, Of this city, VINO for sew
eral years past has expended both
time and money in developing his
diggiugs two miles east of the city
Of ShulIsburg, has At last struck
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-06-19
Prehistoric skeletons.

The pretty little village of Auyernier
lies on the lake of Neufchatel, and not
far from the town Of the same name;
and here it was that some workmen re-
Gently discovered tombs Of the ancient
lake dwellers. The dead were neither
thrown into the lake nor burned. but
were buried, something i'm the fashion
of other people, on dry land and in
tombs close to their lake villages. This
tomb at auvernIur was found about
six feet underground in a hard gravel
and clay of the lake shore 1t was
built of heavy slabs of granite set on
edge, and covered with slabs of the
same character. There was no stone
in the bottom of the yault-simply
gravel The tomb was nearly six feet
deep. a little over three and half feet
wide, and only five feet three inches in
length There were twenty skeletons
in it and how so many bodies could
have been buried in so small place is
il mystery The shortuess of the tomb
must have made il necessary. unless
the people were dwarfS. to double the
bodies together, or else stand them on
their feet. One ct the slabs composing
this old tomb was of Mont Blanc
granite, and although a foot thick, fell
TO pieces on being uncovered. There
was also an entrance to this sepuchre.
built Of rock slabs similar to the tomb
itself The relies found with these
bodies consist of necklace of boars
tuskS, beads of bears and wolves teeth.
a celt or Ratchet of serpentine, and two
or three bronze rings pins, and beads.
This was probably the burial-place Of
one of the iirst families of the lake
dwellers, for certainly not every one
could bring great granite slabs from
far-of Mont Blanc to build tomb with.
The antiquarianS place the building Of
this dcad-house at the close OF the stone
age, when bronze was Just beginning
TO be known as an article Of luxury.
Recently still other tombs of the lake
jewellers have been discovered at Mon
treux and elsewhere but, aside from the
methods of burial they throw no new
light on the life and times of their oc-
cupants. The only safe conclusion to
arrive at is that nearly the whole Of
Switzerland, for centuries and centuries,
and at time of which history takes no
account was settled bv a numerous,
industrious, and partly civilized people
who for their own protection adopted
the practice Of building their homes in
the waters of the lakes. This sort OF
life lasted almost to the time of Julius
Caesar, when it was gradually given up,
the people of the Alps changing their
abodes from the water to tae dry land
on the advance OF civilization. From
"Tbe Lake Drel'erS' jy 5. H. w. Byeys,
~ Hlrpcr's H1g1gue.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-06-19
7 PATtFlELD, Attorney
Notice 10 Creditors,

~TATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY COURT fJ"
> Iowa Couuty-Iu Probate
I'm the matter Of the estate OF George Nicholson.
deceased.
Letters teStamentary on the estate Of Ge9.ss
Nicholson, deceased, having been ISSUED %
Hauuah Nicholson.
Aouce is hereby given. that the creditors 7.
said George Nicholson, deceased, are a.lohei
and limited Uy order o this court uniA en-
including the first tuesday OF January, ~.
being the 9th day of said month, 90 pre't.
their claims and demands agains. said Ig'.,.
Nichols IN, deceased % The county ce-I. u"
examination, adjustment and allowance ..,
Notice is also hereby given, that tne e.A-
and demands OF all persons against saia ue.'sj
Nicholson, deceased, viii be received, exam.
and adjusted By this court, az the once % .- -
County Judge, at the court house, IN me ~.
OF Dodgeyle, in said county, on lAs LIZ
Tuesday OF October, A. ID. $50, AND oA .--
said first Tuesday of January, 1881
Dated this 81 day of june, 1880. 1--WE
By the Court
JOHN 4. JONES, County Judge
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-06-19
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-06-19
Legal Notices.

>,TATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY COURT FOR
= Iowa CUunty-In Probate.
Notice is hereby given that at a regular tern
OF the Iowa County Court to be held in and 10,
said county, at the court house, In the city
OF DOdgeWlle, ia said county, on the ,st day %
July, A. d. 1890, being the first Tuesday Of
said month, at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon q
said day, the following matters viii be heard
and considered
The application OF Jane ClOwucy admin.
istraTiX OF the estate OF John Cl0wuey. late %
said county, deceased for the examination and
allowance OF her administration account aud
The assignment of the residue Of said estate 20
such persons as are by law entitled to the sane.
And 10 is further ordered, that public notice
thereof be given to all persons interested By
publishing copy Of this notice for three weeks
successiyely prior TO said day Of hearing iu 90.
Mineral Point Tribune, a weekly ueWspape. pub
lished in said county,
BY order OF the Court.
JOHN J.. JONES Judge.
Dated Dodgeville, Wis, June 81, 800 >
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-06-19

For SALE.-One of tho
sirable general purpose mar.
Iowa county. She is well -
single or double; would nro,..
good family horse, or just the n.. :
for a farmer for brood purpose, :
she is well bred, having two srr,;a :
of trotting blood in her Va.
Color brown; weight from I175
1900; thoroughly sound and pa,,
Any person wishing to purchase 4
mare should apply at this otf..
to Genoa Zollinger.