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The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29

ing or salient parts Of the plaster figure,
and each ssscale stone" is also covered on
it's front with a number of points, which
are the same on each stone. By means
of an ingenious continuance the marble
is drilled full of holes corresponding to
the marks made on the model. The in
strument used for this purpose is what is
known as a ''pointing machine" which
is provided with arms that end In metal
s'needles," and which is placed between
the two "scale stones" In using it, one
of the arms, which move in ball-and-
Socket joints, is set to touch q point on
the scale stone, while the Upper one is
pointed upon a mark on the figure. The
arms are then fixed in this position by
means of a screw, and the instrument is
swung around to the other scale stone.
Here a corresponding point is touched
by the lower needle, while the upper
one, of course, strikes upon the marble
block. This upper needle is made 70
slide backward and at the point it marks
o hole is drilled into the marble. The
hole is continued to such a depth that
when the needle is protruded again to
its full length and touches the bottom
of the hole it marks a spot that corre-
exactly to the place on which it
was set on the plaster cast. This oper-
alton is repeated until the marble is
with a large number of holes,
The ''scarpellino," Or chiselman, then
cuts away the marble as far as the bot
tom of all the holes. After the statue is
thus roughly blocked out it passes into
The hands of a more skilful scarpellino.
The latter completes the marble statue
entirely, being constantly aided
BY the pointing machine in making meas
urements. The sculptor then has little
TO do more than to add the finishing
5ouches.-NeW York Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29
CHANGING EGGS.

One of the practices among farmers is
changing eggs with each other in order
to avoid in-breeding. In the first place,
the eggs themselves are a risk, as no one
can tell what they may produce, perhaps
no two chicks from them being alike
and no breeding of value in the stock.
In the next place, the changing of eggs
makes the iocks in a community all of
one blood, so that really nothing can be
gained by the practice after it has been
persisted in for a while. Get pure-b bred
males from some source, or eggs from
some breeder of pure breeds. If you
must cross, do it correctly. Do not
waste time in the attempt to better your,
flock by changing eggs for some nonde-i
script stock that has no merit nor pos.
sesses any advantage. To lprove d
flock, one should know the kind of stock
he is using, and what can be expected
from it. The changing of eggs is a
practice usually pursued by those who do
not know the value of the breeds, and
such persons should not be encouraged.
Form and Frssids.
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side. I then put up another, The cross
piece of which was made of good tim
Der, but five-eighths of an inch thick
where it came in contact with her back
about six or eight inches behind the
shoulders. 1t was placed about an inch
above her back when standing in her
natural position, and was firmly braced
in its place. It accomplished the pur-
pose most efectually. She was later on
given much more freedom of action in
her place, and from being always soiled
on legs, flank and udder, became as neat
and clearly as could be desired. The eff
feet was in no wise harmful. She wal
simply compelled either to abandon the
bad habit of doubling herself up or to
back away from under tie sharp edge of
timber and step dowS from the plat
form. She tried botSs and eventually
accepted the first, and aas since been all
right. 1t should be added that she is
fastened in her stall beside another COW
the opposite<side by a strap around
her neck with a running ring upon an
upright stanchion at her shoulder.--NeO
York Tribune.
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WIEN TO SELL HOGS.

Sell your hogs when you can get the
most money for them at the least outlay.
The ups and downs of prices we cannot
readily control, but by careful attention.
to feeding and the use of the scales we
can tell closely whether we are making
corn into pork at a profit or not. If not,
there ought to be a change of ration or,
an immediate sale of marketable stock.
1t does not pay to hold beyond the time
of profitable growth and fattening. Most
successful feeders believe it pays best one
year with another to sell the pork when
the highest point in gain has been
reach, letting the question of probable
higher prices alone. Corn used in keep
ing overwhelmed hogs will make twice
as mueh pork if given to other animals.
Il is a losing game to hold for an in.
crease of price as a rule. Make all the
pork you can out of your corn in just
as little time as possible. - Western
8wineherd.
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Lieutenant Wilson, who was with
Commodore Farragut during the war,
has 3 history that is like q romance from
the "Arabian Nights" If imagination
may be allowed to I'LL in the rounded
periods. About eighteen or nineteen
years ago he left this country for an ex-
ploration Of Europe and Africa. He
reached Zanzibar in the course of time,
and BIZ some chance learned of an island
called Johnna, lying off the coast of
Southern Africa, . considerable distance
below Zanzibar which could be pur-
chased for a small sum of money. He
visited the island and found it 10 be In d
delightful climate, with q soil especially
adapted to raising sugar cane. It is
absut twenty-five by thirty miles in size,
and, having bought it, he proceeded to
turn II into . vast sugar plantation, La
Dor i cheap, the cost of living next to
nothing, and the sugar commands high
prices It Bombay. He has several hun
bred employees, has made the island d
vsritably ISissle kingdom, and has become
immensely wealthy.
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WISE WORDS.
Stand behind the truth.

Stand behind the truth.
No man lives any higher that he looks.
Whenever you find a cross, die on tito
self.
Contentment is q full brother to hap
piness.
Be a worker! 4 loafer is never happy
anywhere.
The surest way to a mans pocket is
through his heart.
The days are always too short for the
man who loves his work.
To have a big head and a small heart
is a very great misfortune.
Pray that you may not think evil, and
then you will not speak it.
One of the saddest conditions in life is
to have nothing good to live for.
The man who looks at everything
through money can not see very far.
1t is a great misfort me to be born SO
that all the laugh has to stay inside of
you.
There are not many poor men who
would do a rich mans work for the pay
he gets.
The time to be pleasant and make it
count, is when everybody else is un-
pleasant.
One way to drive the boys to the bad
Is to shut up the parlor and live in the
kitchen.
All that is needed to make a man hate
himself is for him to get a good square
look at. himself.
One of the commonest of mistakes is
to look at people through the wrong end
of the telescope.
The greatest wrongs people commit
against each other are those of which
they are not conscious.
Every time the soldier handles his
musket in drill it has something to do
with the way he viii handle it in battle.
There are people who-suld a good
deal rather be the whistle or the bell on
a steam engine than to be n of the
driving wheels.
When an engineer wants to stop an EN-
CINE he doesn't put a break on the bal
ance wheel, but shuts off the power that
makes it run. When you want to quit
your meanness the work must begin on
the inside.-Andsanapolis (Ind.) RAMS
Horn.
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Il of Fac noetry appearing j

Most of the poetry appearing in cur
rent periodicals is written by women, as
serts the Boston TFaoeller. The sex has
IN easier knack of versiication than man,
Is well as q more sentimental cast of
mind, and these are the qualities mostly
distinguishing the poetry Of tie day.
Even in literature as in everything else
is more practical than ever before,
and COW tabs to prose in preference to
poetry, because it pays better. But
woman is not a whit behind him in this
line Of writing, and, generally reviewing
the field, may be said to be more than
holding her own in literary work.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29
Queen Victoria's Household.

It is not generally known, says a CORE
spondent, that at the end of every year
the English Queens household expenses
are audited and checked, and that copies
Of them are printed with a view to
future reference. One of these having
fallen into my hands, / herewith append
d few facts and items which may interest
more humble people. The royal tea,
which is always bought at a quaint, old
fashioned shop in Pail Nal, and has been
during her five predecessors reigns,
costs $1.35 per pound, and was for a long
time known as Earl Gray's mixture, he
having recommended the present blend
to Her Majesty. When she gives q
dinner, fiah to the extent of $3.50 is
ordered, but for an ordinary dinner three
kinds of fish are put on the table, whit
ing being almost invariably one of them.
A sirloin of beef is cooked every night,
and is put onllhe sideboard cold for the
next days luffh-the Queen seems, in
this instance, much like ourselves-and
the cheese, Of which there are always six
or W. kinds, is invariably obtained
from M particular firm. The Queen
takes, after her dinner, one water biscuit
and n piece of cheddar; the Prince Of
Wales eats a piece of gorgonzola with a
crust Of household bread. The tea. as
we'll as the cheese and the royal bed, are in
Eariably taken with the Queen wherever
she goes. Her Majesty's wine. which is
well known to be incompatible, is ALWAYS
kept in the cellars of st. James Palace.
and is sent in basketfuls of three dozen
to wherever she may be, though this is
more for the guests and the household
than herself, as Her Majesty, when alone,
drinks very weak whisky and water with
her meals by the doctors orders. At
banquets, however, she takes two glasses
OF burgundy. The clerk of the kitchen.
who always carves, receives $500 per
annum, the chef the same, and the two
confectioners, who attend to all the
@jellies, fruits, ETC., get $500
and SlS50 respectively.-Boston Tran
script.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29
Indian Ideas Of Future Life.

The Iroquois and Hurona believed in q
country for the souls of the dead, which
they called the "country of ancestors"
This country lies to the west, from which
direction their traditions told them they
had migrated. Spirits must go there
after death by a very long and painful
journey; climb many mountains and
cross many rivers; and, just as the long
sought haven appears in the distance,
the spirit must cross a long, narrow
bridge and fight with a monster dog
which stands guard, at the west end.
Weak souls are not equal to this task,
and many of them are pushed over the
narrow edges Of the bridge into the rush
ing waters below, to be swept through
dark canyons and over immenss preci-
pieces for yer This road, according to
the ideas of the two tribes mentioned
above, is all on earth; but several of the
Indian tribes consider the light band
across the heavens which the astronomers
call the 'Milky Way to be the path of
the soul. The main body of the stars in
this milky path they suppose to be hui
man souls on their journey to heaven;
the smaller n to be the souls of dogs
and other pet animals which are accom-.
panying their masters to the land Of
bliss. It is curious and interesting to
note that the British Columbian tribe of
the Shanakons have a soul belief which is
al almost exact counterpart of that cher
ished by the old Israelites. They be-
lieve that every being has its double Oh
shadow, a thin, pale figure, seldom or
never seen by mortal eyes, which after
death descends to an abode beneath the
earth and there leads a sad and gloomy
existence. The Israelites called this
place Sheol; the Shanakons know it as
s'Eotea."
Some Arizona and old Mexican tribes
believe that the spirit is carried to the
moon by d coal black, monkey-faced
owl; that upon arriving there i, is met
by its thousands of ancestors, who come
with a long train of white donkeys; that
the spirit is then escorted to a large av-
ern in the centre of the moon, where joy
supreme.-@. Louis Republic.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29
cows CLEAN BY coMpuLs1nr

To ssboard up managers SO high that
stock cannot reach forward far enough
to soil the platform on which they
stand" is well. but it does not always ef-
feet the purpose, writes @. S. Bliss. 1
have had cows that no shortening Of
their stalls, before or behind, whether III
Sanctions or otherwise held, would re-
strain from not only soiling the platform,
but themselves. One which was rs val
liable that very much disliked to part
with her tried my patience for b long
while and ! adopted various expedients,
only to DO beaten every time. She would
arch her back and crowd her hind feet
almost 70 the fore ones, ii spite of every
thing IA front Of her. I finally, as 4 last
resort, with . view I'd turn her out ii she
Jailed, hung . frame doyxLSm fhe cell
Ing = her hack. The plank across
aer back was six inches wide. This she
'ontriyed to get down by vigorous Ilft-
and sWaying herself from side to
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29

Mrs. Carrie Williams, a silk culturist,
Of San Francisco, says the industry will
be brought into prominence at the
Worlds Fair. Over $500, ooo, 900 is
employed in the business annually, and
Americans have not taken enough in
terest in it. A company Of japanese,
direct from Toxic, has purchased a tract
of land in San Diego County, Cal. and
viii engage in the industry. San Fran
cisco has a Ladies' Silk Culture Society,
the only n in the United States.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29
That electric light has an uncar

That electric light has an uncanny
way of showing up Unmatched colors
most women, affirms the Boston Tran
script, have learned to their cost, while
some there are who have even found their
compilations scarcely able to bear the
strong, fierce light; but now the doctors
are taking up the tale, and are utteriug
grim warnings. It seems that, under GER
tain conditions, the electric light will
cause an illness almost precisely similar
TO sunstroke.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29

The New York Court of Appeals has
decided that a lady, who lost a cloak
while trying on suits in a cloak store, il
entitled to recover the value of the gar
ment and $50 damages for the trouh'e
and irritation to which she has been put.
She laid the cloak on the counter in
eight Of the clerks, but when she needed
it it was gone. The court ruled that the
garment was temporarily in the care of
the clerks.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29
EALING Hay.

The baling of hay does not add to its
feeding value in any way, and would not
pay for mere ease of storing it. But for
transportation it is indispensable. The
best machines are those presses known as
continuous-that is, they take in hay at
one end and turn out bales at the other
without stopping. A press worked with
two horses and costing about $40 will
turn out ten tons or 100 bales, in ten
hours, with three men. No. Is wire of
soft iron, made specially for this purpose,
is used. The fastenings are hooks and
eyes, which are purchased ready made.
-NeW York Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29

One q appreciate the perfection at
tanned by the modern science of Wall
street rumor-mongering, ~soliloquizes the
New York Commercial Advertiser, when
he learns that the leading railroad
manipulation of Wall street was Swallowed
on his recent Southern trip by a spy in
the pay Of the stbear' combination, whose
duty it was to telegraph his employers
any unfavorable news about the health of
the tourist.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29
Mighty Small Bat Mighty Expensive.


"What do you suppose is the most ex-
pensive part of those incandescent cleo
trio lamps which we see burning in that
| shop Window" asked an electrician.
"You would naturally suppose it
would be the glass bulb, Or perhaps the
brass fittings for screwing it into the
socket, but you would be wrong. Those
two little pieces of platinum wirejso fine
that you can hardly perceive them, which
pass through the glass stem up in the
base of the lamp, to which the fine car
bon filament is attached, enter more
greatly into the cost than any other part
of these now almost indispensable cleo
trio lamps"
"Why don't they use some other metal
than platinum for this wire2a
"Because platinum is the only metalin
which the expansion and contraction are
the anne as in glass, and a great fortune
awaits the man who can produce a cheap
metal or alloy IN which this valuable
property of platinum can be preserved.
"'The cost of platinum at the present
market price in London is $50 per ounce,
or about the same as gold, and the
amount used for this purpose alone has
grown to be enormous. This demand,
together with the increased cost Of
production, has caused the price to ad
vance about $50 per cent. in eighteen
months. In each sixteen candle-power
lamp there are from four to eight grains
of platinum. If six grains are taken as
an average, one ounce will be used in
eighty lamps. Based on the increased
use of incandescent lights within the
last two years, it is safe to state that the
demand for sixteen-candle power lamps,
or their equivalent, in the year 1891 will
be 10000, 900. This means a demand
for LIE, 900 ounces of platinum, which,
at the present price, will amount to con-
siderably over So, ZOO. 900 for this item
alone."- Washington Post.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29
fMpoRrANca IF GIN HusKs.

Doubtless to most farmers the husk on
corn as well as the chaf of grain seems q
useless appendage though apparently un-
avoidable. But when all corr and other
grain grew wild the husk was q very neces-
sary part of the plant, to preserve the seed
from vicissitudes of weather until the
time came for it to grow again. Corn in
the husk and on the stalk dries out be-
fore its vitality can be injured by severe
freezing. The lightest frost nips the
husk. which thereafter dries up and
forms q dry covering over the grain. It
is for this reason, rather than from mere
shiftlessness and laziness, that man
Western farmers who grow Dent corn
leave it until nearly spring before they
husk it. If they threw bushels OF wet
ears in a heap they would either rot
down IL the weather was warm or freeze
30 as 10 kill the germ during weather
when the thermometer went down to
zero. But the husk in cultivated corn
each year grows Of less Importance as
better ear are devised for drying o
artifcially. It is likely that improved
corn may be bred with very few husks,
making the work Of clearing them of
much less dificult.-Boston U~ultieator.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29
III FARM AM GARDEN.
pREpARrN SHEEP SKINS.

Make a paste with fresh lime in water,
thicker than whitewash. and spread it
over the flesh side of the skin, and then
fold it together so as to leave the wool
out. In a day or two, or more, it will
be ready to pull; try it by examining
Sometimes fresh wood-ashes is added to
the lime in making the paste, and some
persons use wood-ashes wholly. This is
the old method Country Gentleman.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29

The Chicago Herald observes: a news
paper writer notices and deplores the
lack Of good masculine carvers of fowl.
Laziness Of men ID assigned as the reason
for this state of affairs. Formerly the
art Of carving was considered part Of the
education Of every head of d family.
pateE familias occupied the seat of honor
1t table. In front Of him was placed d
pile Of plates and the odoriferous body
Of the goose, duck or turkey about to
BE- devouyed. There never was any hest
tation On the part Of the master Of cere.
monies. AS the proper moment be
whetted his knife with a CHEEKY sound
ard plunged bis huge fork boldly into
She bird. Proudly and with assurance
be worked. He knew where to cut TO
extract The oyster dressing, how to saw
on . leg and just how thick to slice the
white meat. That carving ii fast becom-
ing y lost art among men is shown BY
she faet that 50 few young men of the
present dsy know how 70 cut up i bird.
Nothing eGnbarrasses q modern beau SO
much 81 TO ask him to carve. 1T lie nm
dertakes the task Ut all he does well If he
kseps his subject on the dissectinr table.
Y3iN State nf 4hs1-
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29
oPELoUsAs, LoUIsIANl

Russia's Minister OF the Interior has is
sued an order for the expulsion of all
Hebrews in the Terek regions of the
Caucasus.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29
nEEEcr or rannau1An SHEEP

EFFECT OF IRREGULAR SHEEP FEEDING.
One OF the defects of a large quantity
OF wool which finds its way to our mar
kets is an uneYenness in the size and
strength of its fibre. This greatly re-
duces the value of the wool for manufac-
turing purposes, and necessarily dimin-
ishes the price which ii will command.
The cause of this defect is usually to be
found in irregular feeding, or in undue
exposure Of the animals, with consequent
injury to their health. If the sheep are
well fed part Of the time and poorly fed
at other periods, the fibre Of their wool
will certainly be uneven Anything
which Injuries the health or reduces the
strength Of the animal will have the same
effect. Not q few farmers who have
been obliged to sell their wool at low
prices have blamed the purchasers for
paying 70 little, but the latter have been
merely acting for self-protection. The
sheep from which the wool was taken
had been badly kept, and the wool was
OF an inferior quality because Of this
want Of skill in feeding and caring for
the flock. No way has yet been discov-
cred by which sheep, or any other ami
mails, which are neglected can be made
TO return as large q profit as those which
are well fed and properly tended
american De5gYn1an.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29

The dolphin is said to be the fastest
swimmer in the seas; it has been OBJ
served to dart through the waters at a
rate decidedly greater than twenty miles
an hour, and 1t is often seen swimming
round and round a vessel which is sailing
at its highest speed.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29

A compilation of statistics on the
growth of the Southern States from 1880
to 1890, shows an increase of population
of 1873 per cent. of actual wealth, 62.5
per cent, and of capital invested in
manufacturing, 20.7 per cent.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-08-29
OPELOUSAS
Female Institute
oPEEoUsAs, ST. LANDRY PARISH "a

This Institution is undenominational. n-se.
tlcal and progressive. Discipline firm IN
based On sound principles ennoblingsand M
veloping character. Honor and self resnass
promoted. Methods of training and cult,Iss
thorough. Tee curriculum prepares ~
pupil for University OF practical life. CA.
~tificates and Diplomas conferred, Bi,;,d;nss
comfortable and comm odious. Pgfrnnssa
solicited. For further particulars anSlv D.
MRS. NJ. NJ. HAYES. Prfncffsi.
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DANCING AcADENY.

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sas,oa nail. 1875 sixth street; edvaneed
iasY Mohday and Friday evenings; bevsnnerSf
s.Ass Ihars,,ay evening; private lessons: wa,sa =
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