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The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-11-15
A Freak of Plant Lifs.

A story of one of the most intcrest;n,
freaks of vegetable life is told by Eliwoo5
Cooper of Santa Barbara. As comma
from him the story cannot be anythino
but strictly in accordance with the facts
/ Through Mr.. Cooper's garden there ran
some years ago sewer made ofredwood
! timber. This sewer was again cased Inv
an outside sewer Across the sewer there
was built brick wall many feet high
and in such way that it was pierced b,
the inner sewer, which it inclOsed TIGHT.
", while the outside sewer ended abrunt.
ly against the wall. The outside sewe,
casing had in course of time dccayed
and eucalyptus tree standing some six.
ty feet away had taken advantage of thi,
and sent one of its roots to the coveted
spot in as direct line as possible. Here
the root entered the outside sewer and
followed its course as far as it could. At
last it came to the wall which shut off ita
course, and it could 90 no further. the
inside sewer being perfectly tight.
But on the other side of the wall the
sewer and its double casing continued.
and this eucalyptus tree evidently knew
how to sc: there. Some three feet high
in the brick wa y there was little hole
an inch or two in diameter, and this the
eucalyptus tree was aware of, as its big
root began to climb the dry wall and face
the sun and wind untilit found the hole,
through which it descended on the other
side and entered the sewer again and
followed it along as formerly. How did
the tree know of the hole in the walls
How did it know that the sewer was on
the other side: Did it smell, and if il
did how could it direct the root to 90
and find the place with such precision;
The roots of any plant grow always and
unerringly in the direction of its food
Just as the eucalyptus tree did.-lSan
Diego Gal sun.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-11-15

State Dairy Commissioner Newton.
of New Jersey, has issued his annual
report on food products Of the State.
A portion of it is devoted to adulter
ated food. He says that out of 2.507
samples of various kinds of food pur-
chased in stores and markets i'm the
State, 1,078 were found to be adulter-
ated. Bologna sausage was the most
susceptible of adulteration. Twelve
samples, purchased in stores in Jersey
City, were found to have been boiled
in coloring compound. This gave
them brown color. They had after
ward been coated with a varnish com.
pound of shellac, resin, oil, and aico-
hol. The report warns the people not
to purchase cheap jellies. Most of
them are made of starch, water, acetic
acid. currant favoring, extract glu-
cose, and bad coloring matter.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-11-15

very last morsel. l had but one GRAIN :.
consolation or revenge. 1t was cles, .s'
taste was exceedingly nasty. VIZ
Then he looked in my face and b,..,
into loud, discordant laugh. Tbs,
laugh was hideous. '
AHA" il said, in effect. $50 th.,.
all you've got, my fine fellow, after an
for all your pains, and care, and troublsa
l shut my eyes and waited. NV ,u,,
would come next. He would rcnd me =
his rage for the nastiness of the t,s,s
| stood still and shuddered. But Ala
ne meant only to ca. the moon:lower
When l opened my eyes again n.
brute had turacd his back without o..
word of apology, and was waking Of =,
leisurely pace in contemptuous truman
Struggling his shoulders as he went s,j
chuck ling low to himself in his yulo.,
dog in the manager JOY and malicuancv
1t was four days before | stracrleS
alone, half dead, into Tulamba. I nevs,
came across another of those orchids
And that is why at Kew they have sill
no moontlower.- New York Herald
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-11-15
PERNANENCE.

! wrote her name upon a rose
That spread its petals to the dawn:
But at the evenings troubled close
came, and 10, the rose was gone.
carved her name upon a tree,
The stately forests pride and mine,
olive there. sweet name. Long lease to thee
That night the tempest slew the pine.
cut her name deep in rock
That crowned the betting mountain-side,
Alas there came an earthquake shock.
And plunged the bowlder in the tide.
Then perceived that outward frame
Could no sure stead to love impart
And last of all I wrote her name
Warm on the tablets of my heart
flames Buckham, in Frank Leslies
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-11-15
Food Supplies in Alaska.

In counting upon, and rather boosting
Of, the abundant food supplies in Alaska,
the Alaskan says: In winter the natural
food supplies of the natives are herring
oil, venisOn tallow, venison, halibut,
dried salmon and dried sca-weed. A
plug of seawecd resembles a large plug
of tobacco. 1t is wholesome food, and
is eaten either raw or stcwed. Only one
or two kinds of food are used at meal.
Natives are not accustomed to baking
bread, and little bread is used. Pilot
bread, purchased at the stores, takes its
place. Springtime is the season OF fish.
eggs, an abundance of which are dried
for winter use. June is the time for ed.
ible greens from the woods. Bushels OF
cranberries and salmon berries are gath
cred in the summer and the fall. A
variety of wild berries grow in great pro.
fusion. Indications are that there will
be bountiful supply of salmon this sea-
son.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-11-15

A large number of towns and cities
continue to manifest an interest in the
question of owning their electric light
plants, chronicles the New York Post,
and the subject is one that is exciting
a great deal of heated and angry con-
troversy in electrical and civic circles.
1t was proposed TO spend S300,0 in
Philadelphia this year on city electric
light plant, but the experiment with
the gas works has proved too discour-
aging. and the plan has been aban-
doned. The city of Milwaukee now
has similar plan under consideration
which involves an expenditure of no
less sum than SG00,O0O, with which
1t is proposed to buy a plant capable
of maintaining 1,745 lamps of 1000
candle-power each.
One of the critics of munlcipal
ownership recently called attention to
the fact that at Bay City, Mich, dur
Ing thundcr-shower, the city was
left in darkness because the superin.
tendent of the station was afraid to
run the plant. Another popularity of
the practice there is to start up the light
at o'clock in the evening. One can
readily imagine what would be the
result if any company furnishing
lights under contract were to adopt
such measures for the sake of safety
and economy.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-11-15
Whaling Off Norway.

Whales of Norway are harpooned
with an instrument of peculiar construc.
ton. 1t consists of shank, into which
two barbs fold; these spring out and sit
fast in the animals flesh when a strain
comes on the line attached to the har.
pooh. The harpoon is fired from can
non mounted on a swivel carried in the
bow of the steamer. The head of the
harpoon carries an explosive shell, which
is fired by the breaking of glass tube
filled with sulphuric acid, and the tube
is broken the moment the animal strains
the line attached to the harpoon, in its
dash to escape after being struck.
The line attached consists of length
of chain next the harpOon, and then
stout cable, and the two are connected
by an accumulation spring, which breaks
the first strain of the animals dash. U.s.
ually the explosion of the shell is i'm
mediately fatal, but it does happen occa-
sionally that the explosion of the shell
fails to strike vital part, and in that
case the whale is apt to show fight.
The steamers employed are vessels built
of iron, about sixty to a hundred tons
register, with engines of twenty-five TO
forty horse power nominal. Such YES
sci, with its sails backed and engines
working full speed astern, and with
long length of cable dragging through
the water. presents very powerful OBJ
struction, but vet monster whales often
prove powerful enough to move the
steamer with considerable specd.-Chi'
cago Herald.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-11-15
Saws the Chicago Herald: q

Says the Chicago Herald: ga cen.
sus agent assigned TO the work of col
Letting the statistics of the fish and
fisheries of South Carolina would have
made failure of it had he not known
how to fiddle, At the town where he
expected to accomplish the largest part
of his task every one was as dumb as
an oyster. In despair of obtaining
any information he went into a store
to listen to man who was playing .
fiddle. When the man had finished
his tune he picked up the instrument
and sounded two or three notes with
the bow. The crowd insisted that he
should play. and he gave them two or
three lively airs in the style Of a mas
Ter. From that time he was the hero
of the community and everybody was
only too glad to fill him with figures
regarding the fish interests of the
place."
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-11-15

'1n luck when the children die" Ia
a saying which has become so terribly
common among the lower classes of
Great Britain, that bill has been in
troduced in the House of Lords re-
stricling the present system of
children's life insurance. For to this
system the appalling mortality among
the offspring of the poorer classes in
England is partially attributable. A
child's funeral costs five dollars, and a
drunken parent who has his little ones
life insured for $50, or &c, which is
the average amount, reaps a profit of
$2j by its death. The bill, which has
been drawn up and put forward in
Parliament by the Bishop of Peter.
borough, provides that the insurance
shall be limited to the burial expenses,
and paid directly by the company to
the undertaken, no payment of any
kind being made to the family. Col.
lusiOns between the latter and the un.
dcrtaker to be punishable as a misde.
mcanOr.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-11-15

The body of Mrs. Hannah Armstrong
Wilcox, who died in Iowa, was buried
recently at Petersburg, ILL.,, in the old
family lot. She was seventy-nine years
old, and was mother Of the young man
whom Abraham Lincoln saved from the
gallows by disproving statements of wit
ncsses through the introduction of an al
manac, which showed the moon was not
shining, as they had claimed.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-11-15
Che neekIp Alessenper
PUBLISHED wEEKLY
ALBERT RlENVENu.

Tho Chinese Empire, with a popu.
alton Of over 400, 900, 900 is in dept
only e1S, 900, 900.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-11-15

A bushel Of corn is worth only ten
Or fifteen cents in Kansas, but it costs
30 cents to have it landed in France.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-09
ADJUSTMENTS.
The Mystic Shrine Mobiles Enjoy the
Opera of "Erminie."

The Grand opera house was literally
crowded last night at the opening of the
Aronson company in Er7ninie. The in
terest of the occasion was heightened by
the attendance of an immense delega-
ton of the Mystic Shrine of the city,
with their ladies. A list of these gentle
men with their ladies, is as follows:
S. S. Salisbury, John Burns, Frank
House, John Haskell G. H. Heartt, H.
S. Parcels, Geo. G. Knox, Geo. Seip, w.
G. Bonynge, w. B. Scarborough, j. L.
Packard, f. Thomas Hewes, Geo. M.
Holton, Capt. Jones, G. V. Baldwin, Dr.
Edmunds, d. o. Miltimore, H. M. Sale,
Niles Pease, 0, j. Muchmore, L. Thorne,
G. j. Kirbach, G. II. Dunsmoor, r. III.
Ward, j. w. Francis, John McIlmoil,
John McMannis, L. II. Whitson,
Frank RAIDER, w. A. Morgan, II. A.
Smith, DR.. Burbank, A. G. Slocum, T.
]. Carron, H. u. Osborne, J. M. John
ston, L. H. Butler, f. German, F. G.
Woodbury., T. II. Walker, DIR. Fowler,
John S. Park, r. Il. Brown, A. G. Hub
bard, G. 0. Scott, f. G. Teed, Charles
Humphreys, A. G. Bartlett, DR.. Coch-
ran, 0. w. Baldwin, Hervey Lindley, G.
c. Allen, w. w. Howard, E. Hartup,
Theo. Reiser, d. w. Field, d. E. Bar
clay, J. D. Bicknell, j. s. Van Doren,
R. 7. Mullard, Walter Durgin, c. f. De
Camp, Tom j. Weldon, James Gunner,
f. l.. Jones, M. R. Higgins.
The audience was a very brilliant one,
all the boxes, loges and seats being filled
with gaily-dressed ladies and their
escorts. The opera was mounted in per-
feet style. All the scenery belongs to
the New York Casino, and it is beautiful
beyond the power Of expression. The
same is true of the costumes.
E,minie affords unusual scope in these
respects, and the best use was made of
the opportunities. Such charming
blending of colors and such gorgeous
effects are seldom seen on the stage.
The setting is all precisely the same as
may be seen in the New York Casino
where ErDainie has for so long been the
delight of the metropolis.
The company is decidedly a strong
one. For comedy, r. E. Graham,
high among American actors. As the
"Chevalier," Mr.. Clark was per-
haps little too grotesque at
times, treading rather closely
WI we ueSiS VI Del-dilSt NdutduN.
And what a beyy of beauties are the
ladies who take the principal roles.
Miss Emma Hanley as "Javotte," Miss
Laura Millard as ''Cerise," Miss Mamie
Cherbi as "DeI.auney," and Miss Helen
Lamont as ''Erminie," are all in their
parts as nearly perfect as anyone could
desire. Miss Lamont reminds one very
much OF Lillian Russell, and Miss Han
ley is as pretty as she can be.
These ladies all sing well, too. With
fine stage presence, they are much more
than .fgur0ates, for they have good
voices, well trained. The chorus, too,
contains no end of pretty girls, rare
feature in a comic opera company as
things go nowadays.
Tonight Nadiy will be produced with
all the Casino effects.
At the Los Angeles.
Miss Katie Emmett and her coadlutors
are giving good satisfaction in their pro-
duction of The Waits of New York at the
Los Angeles theater. 1t will be fol-
lowed next Monday night by Johnson's
Ministries.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-09
SYMPTOMS OF cArARRH.

Headache, obstruction of nose, discharges
and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious, mucous,
purulent, bloody and putrid; eyes weak ring
ing in ears, deafness, difficulty of clearing
throat. expectoration of offensive matter
and general debility. Only few of these
symptoms likely to be present at once. Thou
sands OF cases result in consumption, and end
in the grave.
By its mild, soothing, antiseptic, cleansing
and healing properties, DR., Sage,s Remedy
cures the worst cases. "COld in the
Head - is cured with q few applications.
Catarrhal Headache is relieved and cured
as if by magic. 1t removes offensive breath,
loss or impairment of the sense of taste,
smell, or hearing, watering or weak eyes, and
impaired memory, when caused by the vio-
lence of Catarrh, as they all frequently are.
Sold by druggists, at fifty cents. Manufact-
ured by WORLDS DISPENSARY MEDICAL As
ISOLATION, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, NY.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-09
THEY FALL IN LINE!!
An Enthusiastic Meeting of the Iroquois
Club.

After the unparalleled success of the
principles of Democracy, throughout the
Eastern States at the late elections, it is
not at all surprising that the leading
local Democratic institutions should re-
alize the sense OF the responsibility which
rests upon them, and respond to the
call made upon them for thorough organ
ization. In view of this sentiment the
meeting of the Iroquois Club last evening
was large and enthusiastic. The follow
ing gentlemen submitted their names
for membership: Joseph Schreiber, n.
G. Bledsoe, George f. Willig, B. L.
Vickery, Jr., John +. Humphreys,
Herman Hellman, Charles Hayden, John
I. Gaffey, j. Kuhrts, r. N. Ganeth, O.
A. Vickory, j. w. Hardwick, Robert
Rudolph, j. B. Maquire. Messrs. J. f.
Frick, w. A. Frick and j. C. Cunning
ham were then inducted into the
sacred rites and mysteries OF the order.
Col. J. j. Ayers, chairman of commit
tee consisting of j. j. Ayers, Thomas B.
Brown and G. r. Redick ap-
pointed for the purpose OF
comforting with the leading Democrats
of the city and county, reported that the
committee had met with the most fat
terlng success in response to their call,
and that large number of the most in
fiuential and prominent Democratic citi-
zens had expressed their approval OF the
movements, and their intention to unite
with the organization and give it all the
encouragement and support in their
power. A large number of communica-
tions were received from leading Demo-
Gratis throughout the county, signifying
their hearty endorsement OF the action
taken by the Iroquois Club, promising
their earnest cooperation and support,
and stating that they believed that or
ganization and success were synonymous
terms this year. The club then adj
Journed until Tuesday next.
The Opera Restaurant sells twenty-one 15c
meals for $3.50 III South Main street.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-09

The Opera Restaurant sells twenty-one I5C
meals for $3.50. III South Main street.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-09
UndeIivered TeleCrams,

The following kilograms remain un-
called for at the Western Union telegraph
office, corner Court and Main streets.
April 8, 1890: Miss David Campbell,
Mrs. j. L. Ruggles, Gereld Fennell,
Chas. A. Gardner, George McCullah.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-08-16

1t is not generally known that the
United States possesses nearly one-half OF
the total railway mileage of the world t;
and when it is considered that fOur-ffths
of the present gigantic system of rail-
ways has been constructed since the close
of the war this fact is the more significant.
The United States has outstripped other
nations in many things, but more than
all in the matter of its railways, which
have become the greatest of all other en-.
tcrpriscs or industries, and its magnitude
greater than any other interest in the
world.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-08-16
A Great Indian Chief Dead.

Crowfoot, the great Chief of the Black.
feet Indians, died recently at Gleichen,
AssinabOa, Manitoba, of inflammation Of
the lungs after few days illness. In his
will he named Three Bulls as his success
sor. Crowfoot, or Sapomaxiho, was one
of the leading characters in the Canadian
Northwest. The history of the region
for the past half century has been largely
determined by him. His influence over
the Indians was supreme. He was tho
closest embodiment possible of the myth
ical noble red man. Dauntless in battle,
imbued with all the instincts of the In
dian, he at the same time possessed many
traits of character which commanded tho
admiration of all with whom he was
brought in contact.
In early pioneer days he was the arbi-
traitor between the Indian and the white
man. His diplomacy extricated the
Canadian Pacific Railroad Company from
a serious difficulty with the Blackfeet.
He was ever the friend of the missionary.
His refusal to join the rebels in the Last
Northwest rebellion prevented whss
would otherwise undoubtedly have been
a long and bloody contiict.-[New YORK
Times
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-08-16

The New York Press says: "We have
had another unhappy exhibition, this
time in Philadelphia, of the misfortune
attending American Eeiresses who marry
foreigners for their titles. The shame
less little Count di Montercole, who mar
ried Miss Knox, of Pittsburg; who chokeo
his bride in Paris because she would not
give him money; and who has turned out
about as worthless specimen or human
ity as can anywhere be found, placed
himself on street corner in the Quaker
City and distributed circulars assailine
his wife and her friends. There was for
tunateiy law to reach the Count, and he
was hauled before the police court and
fined $50 for misdcmeanor. The NORTH
cation of the Countess over the reveal
ton of the utter absence of manly quail.
tiles in the man she married for a title
must be deep and painful. We should
not alludc 10 it but for the warning her
sad case contains to other American heir.
esses not to go and do likewise"
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-08-16
The Worlds Favorite Food.

Rice is, no doubt, the most extensively
used article of food the world over.
Hundrens of millions of people subslss
on it, and its consumption is increasing
1t is the principal diet of at least one
third of the human race, forming inc
chief food of the native population Of
India, China, Japan, Madagascar, man!
parts of Africa. and, in fact, of alnoss
all Eastern nations. The Burmese anu
Siamese are the greatest consumers Oh y.
A Malay laborer gets through filty-aA
pounds month; a Burmese and Slamcs'
forty-six pounds in the same perioa:.
The Eastern nations chiefly obtain tneli
beverages from rice, which is the prin,'
cipal grain distilled in Siam, Japan sna
China. Saki, or rice beer, is produces
in Japan to the extent of $50, 0Oo,w
gallons annually. Although rice is ssca
a universal article of food, it is not =
nourishing as wheat and some otc1
grains More than nine-tenths Oh ~
substance consists of starch and Ws.el..
Consequently it forms more tat W
muscic.-LNew York Dispatch.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-08-16
The New Postage Stamps.

The portraits and colors OF the new
issue are is follows
One cent-Franklin; ultramarine blue.
Two cent-Washington; carmine.
Three cent-Jackson; purple.
Four cent-Lincoln; chocolate.
Five ccnt-Grant; light brown.
Six cent-Gariield; not decided.
Ten cent-Webs:er; milori green.
Fifteen ccnt-Hcnry Clay; deep blue.
Thirty cent-Jofferson; black.
Ninety cent Commodore Perry.
orange.
The number OF stamps ordered before
ready for use aggregated nearly A, 000.-
600, representing S7S4,32
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-08-16

According to'a recent publication Of
the statistical bureau at Berlin, four
fifths of the steam machinery in the
world has been constructed within the
last twenty-five years. France has 49,
500 stationary boilers, 1000 locomotives,
and 100 ship boilers; Austria Hungary,
$4,000 stationary boilers, and 2400 loco,
motives. In the United States the steam
machinery, exclusive of locomotives, has
$500, 900 III. p; in Great Britain,
1000, 900 II. P; Germany, 4,500,O 00
H. p; in France, 5000, 900 II. p, and
in Austria Hungary, 100000 H. P,
There are some 105, 900 locomotives il
the world, of which 29,39S are in the
United States.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-08-16
Women's Shoes.

1t is safe to say that ninety-nine out Of
every hundred women wear shoes
that arc too large in the instep. Shoes
that are too large in the instep allow the
feet to crowd forward onto the toes, and
the result is there IS a deformity of some
sort. When wOman's foot hurts her,
nine times out of ten She will have the
buttons of her shoes set so they will be
made larger in the instep, and if her toes
are troubling her the mischief is only
increased. The button should be reset
SOFAS to make the instep smaller and the
shoe fit the better. The slovenly- fitted
shoe is the cause OF most of the trouble.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-08-16
Looked Mt by His Bait.

A Florida fisherman recently baited
his set hooks with small green frogs. He
left his hooks in the water all nicely
distinguishing been told that this was
the best OF bait-cxpect:3g TO return
next morning and find fish by the dozen.
He returned, and to his surprise all of his
baitcd hooks were sitting out on tie
banks looking at him, as he came closeto
them they would jump back into the
watc, ..kerciunk."