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The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23
The DiYelss Armament.

II any one has seen a diver in his sub
marine suit, bobbing up from the water
with his g~listening, immense, round, cop
per helmet, with his square, clumsy, a
fsh-Iike canvass suit, usually stained by
use. iron rust and sea water to broWnish,
yellowish, gray something the color of a
devilfsh, he may at first have been some
what startled by the apparition. The being
who thus rises from the sea is not a mis-
chievous creature, but, on the contrary, a
very useful member of society, when his
services are required and brought in re-
auisition. A full description of bis dress
is something like this: From the helmet
projects a coil of snake like rubber hose,
a sort of antenna, which passes down
under his left arm and up through the
water, connecting with an air pump on a
6oat stage or in a boat. The pump is
manipulated by two men, and furnishes
compressed air for breathing when under
water, which exhausts into the water by a
valve into the helmet, enabling him to
breathe continually fresh air, while,
when he comes to the surface, the win
aows of his helmet can be opened and he
can breathe without the assistance of the
air pump. When he goes down into the
water he has two means of communiea-
ting with those above, the hose and tire
life line. Blythe latter he also descends
and comes up when necessary. By each
of these he gives and receives signals
mutually understood, three sharp pulls
On the life line indicating that he is ready
to ascend. In order to overcome the natu-
raj buoyancy of his body and make its
specific gravity such that he can walk
about on the bottom Of the sea he wears
shoes with soles heavily ballasted or
weighted with lead. The upper part of
his body is protected, as is also his lower
half, by heavy canvas covering, consist
ing of jacket with sleeves, and panta-
looms, with Examinations which fit closely
with elastic bands clinging to his flesh,
the jacket fitted closely to the helmet
with metallic bands bolted together, with
a rubber gasket between. No water or
air can get to him, except the latter by
the hose, unless he opens the glass win
dows of his helmet, which he is not
likely to do unless occasion requires. Ad-
ditional weight is placed at his chest and
back-sometimes a breast plate and q
shoulder plate of lead, sometimes a belt
heavily weighted, which can be thrown
on or off the shoulders and hang down
in front and behind when in use.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23
Fruit as a Medicine.

Fresh, ripe, perfect, raw fruit is SAT
and healthfuI at all seasons of the year.
Under proper restrictions as to quantity,
such fruits as named will cure diarrhga,
aid in removing a collie, cold, fever, or
any other disease whose treatment re-
quires the bowels to be kept freely open;
for this effect fresh ripe fruit is acknowl-
edged to have the requisite properties but
to be used adyantageously in health and
disease, the following rules are impera-
tive: Fruit should be eaten ripe, raw,
fresh and perfect. 1t should be eaten in
moderation. It should be eaten no later
than 4 o'clock III the afternoon. No
water or fluid of any description should
be swallowed within an hour after eating
fruit. To have it's full beneficial effect,
nothing else should be eaten at the time
fruit is taken. Tt is to the neglect of
these obseryances that erroneous impress
sions prevail in many families, and to an
extent too, in som instances, that the
most luscious peach or apple, or bunch
of grapes is regarded as that much en-
bodied cholera and death. -Jurnal Of
Health.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

cheeks accompany this, and the result IS
decidedly pleasing.
The men are well grown, but are not
so good looking as the women, and are
remarkable for their long waists and
short legs.
The churches usually consist of a little,
square-shaped, tar-eoVered barn, either
made out of planks or of earth, with two
small windows in the gable and a little
aperture in the roof. Externally, with
but very few exceptions, they are desti-
tute of any kind of adornment. The
churchyards are just as transformations,
for a tombstone is a rarity. A cross even
is scarcely to be found upon a grave in
Iceland, and the green mounds are soon
leveled to the ground.
The usual food with which the traveller
is entertained is smoked or dried NUT
ton, which, when not too old, is not an
unpleasant dish. The common bread con-
sists of thin, fiat cakes, but even this is
not an article of daily consumption, the
poorer classes eating dried fish instead,
plentifully smeared over with a our but.
ter, or v a mixture of tallow and oil.
On the coast the people eat a great guam
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

August Boorfried Is the name Of the
Minnesota -stone-naason who says he has
discovered 1 process bg which granite
marble cobblessones may be liquiied and
r1n into molas. Mr. Boorfried has gone
10 New York citYto interest wealthy cap
ttalists III his strange invention. He says
mankind ought to be able after a while
to live ID t~ranalu6ont houses, 50 that the
whole neighborhood sill know, by the
soft glow that will permeate the walls,
every time lamp III i gas JET il lighted.
He proposes ID provide this translucent
building material.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23
A Chinese Bank.

In the course of q few weeks it is ex-
pected that a Chinese banking house will
be opened in the heart Of Chinatown. The
originators Of the project include Mr..
Chu Fong, the most dressy Of Cinnamon
and cashier Of several importing firms and
many other Mott street firms. The in
stitution will be the first of its kind in
this country. 1t is the desire of Mr. Chu
Fong and his associates in the scheme to
run the bank upG tina, basis of a savings
institution. A sfaas4iiate of interest is to
We paid Il each regular depositor, and
the money is to be let out on q bigger in
terest to legitimate Chinese business
houses ia Mott street. The present rate
Of interest in Mott street Is between ten
and fifteen per cent for all small loans on
good security. Its q yerysingular thing,
and yet it is an undeniable fact, especial
ly in this city, that the more ignorant a
Chinaman Is in the English language and
Ways the more money he has. As a rule
those Cinnamon who know how to talk
and deal with the Americans are the poor
est.-NeW York Telegram.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

his crew to land, he returned to Green
land. His glowing descriptions of the
country implanted q desire for further in
vestigation in his countrymen, n of
whom named Leifr soon after set out for
it in a vessel manned by thirty
1--WE men. To the southwest of
Greenland he discovered land,
which, according to the descrip-
ton given, IS supposed to have been
Labrador, but farther to the south he
found the same wooded land which
Biarnj had discovered. Thereupon he
determined TO explore its coast for some
distance, and two days afterward he
came with a northwesterly wind to an
island that was separated from the main
land by a strait. After sailing through
this strait be came to a beautiful inland
sen, on the shores of which he erecteGla
dwelling. The sea teemed with splendid
salmon, and the grass retained Its fresh
appearance throughout the winter, The
DAYS here were not SO short as In Green
land and Iceland; for on the shortest
day the sun was nine hours above the
horizon. One of the crew, who was a
German, discovered that grapes grew
wild there. Leifr named the island
Yineland. Subsequently it was visited
by Leifr's brother, who was killed by the
natives, but d settlement which after a
little took root in the country continued
to trade with them for 200 years. 1t is,
perhaps, as we'll to add that Vineland is
supposed to have been Massachusetts in
the vicinity of Boston, the other parts of
this country in which the Mortimer are
supposed to have settled being near
Mount Hope Bay, Rhode Island, and as
far south as Cape May.
In the next place the country possesses
4 history Of almost unequaled antiquity
among modern European nations and q
rich and unique literature. AS has been
said above Iceland was settled in S74,
out many years before that it had been
visited by Norwegian vikings. The pro.
auctiveness Of the islands first attracted
the visitors, but what chiefly promoted
colonization was the oppressive rule
Of Harold, the fair-haired King
of Norwavs AT first Il patriar-
chal government prevailed, but
toward the year 92s the c~olonists estab-
lished i free republic, which remained In
e1issea coo years. The Norwegian
moaaac.ls had long looked GENEROUSLY
upon this sturdy community, however,
and at las. in 1852 King Haken succeeded
in bring as it under his sway, though
with TIE express reservation that Iceland
should retain its independence and be
governed by its own laws. That engage
mens has not been repealed, and II still
the basis of union with Denmark as it
was with Norway. At present the feel
inc between the two countries ICELAND
and Denmark) is not friendly as It
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23
Eastern Beggars,

Beggary throughout the East is .
thriving profession. There arc guilds OF
beggars, besides the numerous commu-
mites OF dervishes who are semi religious
mendieants. Many families have been
beggars for generations, and are mendi-
cants from choice. Some of these pro-
fessional beggars arc actually wealthy.
Four-and-twenty years ago the writer
well remembers q case. The Chief Beg
gar 1.-THE title was not conferred in deris-
ion) gave his daughter in marriage to q
substantial farmer. The girls doWry
consisted Of two freehold houses, the
rooms Of which were entirely filed with
dry pieces OF bread, and the sales of these
begged crusts subsequently realized q
considerable sun, being disposed of as
food for cattle. 1t must be remembered
that in the East there is no organized
charity, that most Mussulmans are ex-
ceedingly charitable, many giving away
q fifth and some even d third of their
income. Under such circumstances il ID
not be wondered at that the professional
beggar thriyes.-Good Words.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

The language has a great facility for
forming new words, but it does not adopt
the common foreign names of science and
new inventions. Thus a telegraph is
called ssfrettafeygir, bearer of news,
and a telegram ahradfrett, = quick news.
The Icelandie literature, which. with the
exception of a few unimportant Norwe-
gian productions, has been written
wholly in Iceland, consists generally of
songs Of victory or of praise, elegies, ep-
igrams and sagas and skalds, or fictitious
or historical romances. These works
really belong to the ancient period of
Icelandic literature, the second, or mod
ern, period dating from a revival of the
seventeenth century. History, homilies,
Jurisprudence, poetry were all taken up,
and with such spirit and fruit that during
the last hundred years no other nation
can show ) 0 large a proportion of literary
men.
Iceland is j n shape a good deal like
that of the heart, the greatest length be-
ing 325 miles and greatest breadth 200
miles. Its area. including the adjacent
islets, is 39,75S square miles, of which
16,243 are habitable. The population
in its most fourishing period exceeded
LOG, 900, recent censuses giving the fig
cures as follows 1864, 6S, 084; 1869, &c.
SOC; 1870, 1888. At present it is in
the neighborhood of 10000, but is again
on the decline, due to the gradual ex-
haustion of the fertility of the island
and the increasing severity of its win
tiers. The present project of moving
the nation is not the first. In 1885
starvation and disease had brought the
population down to something like
$4,000, and the proposition was seri-
ously entertained of removing the rem
nant Of the people from the country.
Prosperity, however, slowly returned
to the Icelander, and the project was
abandoned.
The coast line Of Iceland is deeply
indented with bays, iords-inIets ex-
tending far inland between lofty ter
raced mountains-and jutting promon-
tories. The western fiords are studded
with rocky inlets, and open, ike those
Of the northeast, to enormous ice drifts.
Iceland is of volcanic origin, the center
being an elevated band of tufa, from
1900 to 1000 feet above the sea and
forming a wilderness covered with vast
lava beds, barren heights, tracks of black
volcanic sand, hot springs and bog.
The mountains lie about the coast,
chiefly in the south, among which are
a number of fertile valleys extending
along the water courses. Some
of the l~oftiest mountains have an alti-
tude ranging from 1000 to 1000 feet,
while some few volcanic peaks attain
to a greater height. SnaefeIl, for in
stance, reaches $3.50 feet; Hecla, 1861
feet, Eyafjalla, 1892 feet, and Oracle,
GAL. These volcanoes form solitary
and barren erests, rising from the plains,
without any connection with a mount
ain ridge or plateau. Hundreds Of erup-
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23
ICELAND.
A FAR-oFF LAND OF MANY NAT
URAL WONDERS.
Antiquity OF Its PeopIe-Peculiarities
of Icelandic Domestic Life ana
Scenery-A Treeiess Land
of Volcanic Origin.

Apart from the interest that lies in the
proposed wholesale transfer of the Ice
landic nation to Alaska, the people of the
Denmark island dominion have other
claims upon the attention of Americans.
To Ieelanders the honor of being the
DISCOVERIES of America is claimed by
them to be due. Shortly after the first
colonization Of Iceland "a. .. S74) a
mariner named Gunnbjorn was driven by
d tempest to the shores of Greenland,
some 800 miles distant, and from that
time on settlements were founded and
q regular intercourse established. In
1901, one Bjarnj Herjulfssonur-it is well
that school children should remember
this name-while on a voyage from Ice
land to Greenland was driven by a storm
out into the Atlantic. After sailing fol
some days he discovered a beautiful
wooded country where plains and rising
grounds alternated with each other along
the coast, but as he could not prevail on
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

tity of fish, principally halibut, while In
some parts of the interior trout and sal
mon form a large part of the daily menu.
Corn brandy and coffee are the principal
drinks, vast quantities of both being
taken. Snuff taking and smoking are
also largely INDUCED in. There is no
deep sea fishing carried on, however, Tor,
strange though it may SEEM, the Iceland
ers, though they are brought up by the
sea, and though they derive a great part
of their ~sastenance from it, are not a
nation of sailors. In some parts of the
south coast of Iceland the people eat
horse flesh and thrive on it, saying
that il imparts good compilations, but the
animal is too expensive and useful to be
used as an article of food Dogs are
~farorite animals, every Icelander keeping
a p~rdGaigious quantity Of them. Whaling
is not very vigorously prosecuted, partly
because of the Icelander's poor seaman
ship and partly because the variety found
in these waters is not a valuable one.
Lastly come the sea birds, which are quite
an important article of diet.
Iceland, as has been remarked, is q
t~reeless country, although here and there
may be seen a plot containing trees.
But woods are not really missed in the
landscape. When, for instance, one
lands on some eminence, and looks
toward q mountain some miles distant
clad in its dark-blue summer dress, or
if nj gazes over q grassy plain, where no
defYing fences obstruct the view, but
where q river winds sinuously along, or a
lake reveals its shining surface, the senses
do not feel the want of forest land. Sew
eral beautiful and delicate kinds Of
grasses and plants, too, abound in Ice
land, while the flowers are numerous and
lovely.
To resume, Iceland is a land of mount
aims that reach far up into the sky, of
boundless sandy plains, of swift and
foaming rivers, of deserts of lava, snow.
ice, sand or stone, a land abounding with
legends and myths, of volcanoes, the in
exhaustible field for wonderment and
for inyestigation.-san Francisco Gayoas
ce,
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23
Defendants OF Bread Makers.

Our Bakers, says an English paper,
speaking of family names, may be readily
turned back TO their foury-handed am
c~esters, but the Baxters must be followed
for generations before we find they were
of the same family; being the defendants
of the Ragsters, who were the offspring
OF the Bagesters, who acknowledged that
they were the children of The Bakesters,
who were femenine bakers. Of the
bread making tribe were also the Pread-
ers and the Whitbreds, the latter perhaps
once priding themselves on the color of
their stock in trade, while nearly related
to them were Mills, the MiIlers and the
Mealers.
The large and respectable family of
Boulangers came from the French bakers,
who carried on their trade in England
during the age when family names were
growing, while Mr.. Lowe suggests that
the Bollingers and the BuIliners are Of
the same origin.
Few points in Great Britain are more
than a hundred miles from the sea, and
in all ages fish has formed one of the
staple articles Of British diet. Catching
the fish was, therefore, an important in
dustry, and Fish, Fisher and Fisherman,
doubtless had their originsin the occu-
patton the men who first assumed these
names, of which fact there il abundant
record. II is quite possible also, as Max
Muller suggests that men may have
made Q speciality Of taking or Of selling a
particular kind Of fish, and thus salmon.
from Robert le Salmoner; Herring, from
John le Heringer; aud Tlouter, from
Roger le TroWser, may have arisen with-
out violence 70 the laws Of philology,
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23
Nineteenth Century Rapidity.

d little incident sometimes serves to
emphasize the fact that we live in a won.
derful age, says the Kansas City Globe.
Along toward morning when the tele,
graph matter was coming in slowly some
one called for the time.
The nearest man id the Globe office
was IN the news room, about fifty feet
away. The telegraph operator clicked
bis instrument thus;
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

helmet, studded with gilt stars and en-
veloped in a white veil of tulle. The
bodice is of black cloth, richly hemmed
with gold or silver oak leaves. The
skirt, also of cloth, is embroidered with
silk and silver, while a gold belt of in
genious workmanship encircles the waist.
Over all is thrown a full cloak of black
cloth, with a cape of green velvet
trimmed with ermine. The Icelandie
women have very thick and beautiful
hair, which they arrange in graceful
plaits. Sometimes it is dark and curl
ing, but generally it is of scorn-golden'';
hue. Blue eyes and pink and white
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

Three herds Of what are claimed to be
the pure2bIooded wild cattle Of England
IRE still IN existence in that country and
ire great objects Of interest among stock
growers. These cattle are pure white
IN color and yet, notwithstanding there
has been no eross-breeding, calves are
frequently born Of other colors. These
sre always destroyed " is to maintain.
:he Distinguishing characteristics. These
cattle are said TO be great mixers, and
possess many points Of value to the
lairynan.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

"A single sheet-of paper six feet wide
and seven and three-quarter miles in
length has been made at the WATERFOWL
On. W Paper Works. It weighed 29o7
pounds and was made and rolled entire
without a single break.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

Theodore Kanensky, the Russian
sculptor, who was exiled from Russia by
the Gar in 1874 IS now a Professor at
the American Art School in New York
city. His offense consisted in putting
the lame Liberty q a toy locomotive
III one of his marble groups.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

The European powers, with SO much
to do watching each other, find time to
disapprove Of orr international congress.
They 40 not seem to enjoy the peaceable
we propose to get along with our
neighbors on this continent.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

The drowning If children in China be-
came 50 common lately that the Yiceroy
found II necessary to issue a proclamation
forbidding is practice. The penalty ofthis
heinoas offense is, however, slight, sixty
blows Of the bamboo and n years ban
ishnent being the small price demanded
BIZ the State.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

The Superintendent of the Census esti-
mates our population at $65, 600, 600.
He thinks there are SO, 000, 600 in the
cities and villages, and 100000 ne
Uroes
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

The assurance that the South has of
phezoraenally big crops is making busi-
ness more active in every department
where Southern interests slie. Marked
activity ii renewed among the investors
III Southern land companies.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

Bishop Fowler Rfnks that Prince Ii,
the Yicoroy Of China, is tone Of the
greatest statesmen the world has ever
produced General Grant used to say
that the two men who had impressed
him most during his travels around the
world were Prince Kung, formerly Re-
gent Of the Celestial Empire, and Prince
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23
deiphia.

Edwin Arnold, editor of the London
telegraph, the morning newspaper with
the largest circulation in England, has
been On 4 short visit to this country.
He praises American newspapers.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23
Back came the answer from Chicago

-
That is to say the operator asked
What time is it2'' and the reply was
80 It took just six seconds 10 get
the time Of day from Chicago, 600 miles
distant, whereas II would have consumed
ten times that time to step into the next
room and ask for it.
Verify electricity IS q great scheme.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23
TyO WIN DROPERTY TOR GALE
~ OWN u ROPERTY a. OR MALE

A CENTRALLY 10 ated and Desirable
business stand on Main street, Opelonsass
consisting &C building suitable for residence
and small store, being the property nexs g
the posSodlce, This property will pc sou
gegy cheap for cash, or half cash and haianca
IN surms to suit purchaser. Apply TO NILS
Eannnnd g. pHpEa.
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

Thomas A. Edison asserts that in a few
years the world will be n gigantic ear.
Nobody will then dare gossip, for fear Of
being overheard by a concealed phono-
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23
OREIOUSAS
Female Institute
oPRLoUsAs, ST. LANDRY PARISH, LA.

Thas Institution is undenominational, prac.@
deal and progressive. Discipline firm and
based on sound PRINCIPLES ennobling and de-
veloping character. Honor and self respeck
promoted. 1fcthods=ef training and culture
thorough. Ice curriculum prepares the
pupil for University ior practical life. yer;
sificntos and Diplomas conf rred. Bulldinga
comfortable aud comlr odious. Patronage
solicited For further particulars apply %
MRS. Nc M. HAYES, Principal.
Or Rev. II w. LEWIS. First Assistant,
Feb 2-tf
The Opelousas courier., 1890-08-23

There are four statues to Christopher
Columbus in the United States-one in
Baltimore, one ii New York, one in Boston.
and one IN Paramount Park, Phila-