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The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09

that would do him harm, or lay a hand
upon anything that belonged to him,
without permission. 1 love that man,
and everybody loves him. Come, let's
be going. It's getting dark"
There was a bright tear in the eye Of
Mr.. Watts, as he turned to look upon his
companion.
"Frank Grey!" murmured Green,
while his face showed the modification
he felt.
The lesson that had thus been given
to the farmer was not lost upon him. It
had struck him too forcibly, too keenly,
to be forgotten, that kindness could only
be secured by kindness and forbearance
and a generous hospitality commensurate
with his means.- Yankee Blade.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
Mysterious Tricks of Steam.

Notwithstanding the many years the
steam boiler has been under observation,
there are conditions of steam making
which play strange tricks, as indicated
by the steam gauge, the pressure, with
out any discoverable cause, at times in
creasing forty or fifty degrees in as many
seconds, and not infrequently leading to
disaster. In a big electrical light station
IN Philadelphia there has recently &C.
CURED a series of mishaps to the boilers
extending over a period of twelve or
fourteen months, the strongest bolts be-
ing inadequate to keep the bends and
headers intact. Experts have examined
and studied, but without being able to
agree upon the cause, and though a coro-
ner's jury, made up of boiler makers and
engineers, called toinquire into the ause
of an explosion which killed one man
and frightfuliy scalded two others,
brought in a verdict against the ~electri-
cal company, it was unable to explain
wherein there had been want of precau-
ton or point out the safeguards required
to prevent a similar occurrence.-ScaeD-
tiihfc american.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
SETTING N POSTS.

When the other farm work will per-
NIT, early in the spring, just as soon as
possible after the frost comes out of the
ground is a good time to set fence posts.
They should be well sharpened first, as
they can be driven faster and easier than
they can be set in any other way. A rap
id plan of work is to take a spade and
dig out a cpadeful of soil first, then with
a sharpened steel bar make a hole the
proper depth; set in the post and maui
it to the proper depth. This will be
found easier and faster than attempting
to drive the pits in all the distance.
Stretch a line where it is desired to run
the fence, and set a stake yyhere each
post is to be set. A maui Weighing six
teen pounds will be heavy enough to
drive the posts. Two men can work to
good advantage together, one to make
the holes and the other to drive the
posts. A box, cart or platform will
be needed to stand upon while driving
the posts.
The work must be done while the
ground is soft, as after it becomes dry
the labor will be very materially in
creased. Usually the work can be done
at a time when the soil is too wet for
planting.-St. Louis Republic.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09

"Over one hundred tools and pro.
cesses, which are maryeIs of ingenuity
and scientific knowledge" says the Roch-
ester On. " Democrat, shave been in,
vented by safe burglars. A recent bur
glars outfit, captured by the police, IN
sisted of a little giant knob.breaker, a
diamond drill and a high explosive of
the nature of dynamite, but put up in
the form of a powder. It would open
the strongest bank safe in a half hour,
and without noise enough to disturb peo-
pie in the next house, while the entire
outfit could be carried in the pockets OF
an ordinary coat
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
The Ideal Safe.

a new safe has been devised which is
said to be proof against any unauthorized
opener, even if he be provided with the
proper key. The keyhole cover is made
with a catch inside which engages with
mechanism within the door and is held
fast. This mechanism connects with the
pointers of four dials. and the cover can.
not be removed to allow the door to be
opened until the pointers have been set
at the figures of a predetermined cipher.
When the cipher is indicated, the handle
on the right is turned and the key-hole
thus uncovered. Should the cipher be
forgotten the v can be cut open and
a duplicate, supplied with the safe, sub
stituted. The safe is freproof and adj
mits of 160, 900 cipher combinations
Times Democrat.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
A GOOD GRATING WAX.

The usual method of making grating
wax is as follows: Two pounds of COM
mon resin, one and a half pounds of
beeswax and one pound of tallow are
melted, the resin separately, and then
thoroughly mixed by stirring over the
fire. The mixture is then poured into
lukewarm water and worked up with the
hands into rolls for use 1t will be
found very convenient to steep some
strips of cotton cloth in the melted wax
and wind them into a ball or balls for
use in binding over the gratis. Liquid
grating wax is made by adding one
of turpentine to a pound of resin
melted with one ounce of tallow, stirring
the mixture and then adding seven
ounces of warm alcohol. The alcohol
should be warmed in a hot-water bath,
and not over a fire. This may be applied
with a brush, and becomes very hard
NeW York Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09

The big guns of modern men-of-war
are likely, as appears from recent expert
nnents, to do quite as much damage to
friends, opines the New Orleans Times
Democrat, as enemies. A naval officer
has been describing the firing Of a sixty
seven ton gun on the new battle ship
Trafalgar, considered one of the three or
four finest vessels in the British navy.
He says: 4s'The gun was pointed directly
ahead and fired with q charge of $50
pounds Of slow-burning powder and d
125O-pound pojectile. The blast pro-
duced BY the rush of the powder gas and
the shot was so tremendous that the plates
OF the forecastle were forced in and the
deck beams bent out of shape, while al
most every round carried away some frag-
ment Of the projecting portions Of the
ship, eve when the training wa to the
right OF the left. II is estimated that
the vessel would be reduced to something
very like . wreck were twenty-five rounds
to be fred either directly ahead or direct
~ astern. This interferes with, or rem
ders impossible, firing when either in
fight or chase, and has caused our naval
constructors to modify the plans for the
projected battle-slaips, as it is not deemed
desirable to have them sink from the dis
charge Of their own guns
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09

Experiments are being made by the
United States Government, . said Herbert
w. Hotchkiss, of Michigan, to the New
York Telegram, stas to which spot in this
country is the healthiest. That is, they
are trying TO find out by certain belts and
prescribed areas which part of the coun.
try has the lowest death rate. I am told
that tho long-life circle includes Grand
Traverse Bay il Michigan, near Charlie
roix, and I can saysthat it is a place of
perpetual youth. I went there to die
some years ago and am now enjoying
perfect health. There is no better place
to build up in than there. The hospi-
tality Of luunbermen is proverbial and
any man who spends three months up
there and does not come out a new man
had better die at once
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL:

Aluminium at $1.25 per pound is in
the market.
By the milestone automatic system
800 words are telegraphed a minute.
A boiler alarm that keeps automatic
watch at all valves is a new invention.
One of the most admirable uses to
which rubber has been put is for horse
shoes.
The running of steam from mills to
the has been prohibited at st.
Louis.
American inventors still hold the lead
in the use of compressed air for firing
large masses of dynamite.
An Australian photographer is re-
ported to get excellent pictures of objects
| at a distance Of sixteen miles.
In Scotland many small vessels are
now propelled by water jets, and some of
the Clyde steam terryboats are thus
driven.
Seaweed is now made into a tough
paper, which takes the place of window
glass. When colored the effect is similar
to stained or painted glass.
The newest boiler presents a large
heating surface and takes up little room.
It is made of tubes. Things seem to run
to tubes and tubercles these times.
Chicago has underground and success
fully working 404 miles of electric light
cables, $50 miles of telegraph wires and
$3.50 miles of telephone wires and cables.
The Royal Meteorological Society Of
London has received an account of q
lightning stroke in Ireland which shat
tered the shells of SOME eggs without
breaking the inner membrane.
The sheep shearing machines run by
electric motors are increasing in favor
among Australian feckmasters. It is
claimed that they pay for themselves in
one season in the increased value of the
clip.
DR.. Goropins, of the French Academy,
once made a professional examination of
d thirteen-year old girl who was ten feet
four inches in height. She was probably
the tallest woman of her age that ever
lived.
A gigantic pendulum-a bronze wire,
a hundred and fifteen metres long, with
a steel globe weighing ninety kilo-
grammes at the end-has been suspended
in the Eiffel Tower, for the purpose of
demonstrating visibly the motion of the
earth.
DR.. Broadbent tells the British Medi-
cal Association that a mark oil q weak
medical man is the indiscriminate use OF
stimulants in fevers, a ready resort to
narcotics and sedatives, treatment di-
rected to symptoms only, and a fondness
for new drugs of high-sounding names.
4 portable boat has been devised by
Colonel Apostoloff, of the Russian army,
which may be constructed instantly by
making a framework with the lances of
the Cossacks and covering with a tarred
cloth. Two boats are capable of carry
ing thirty-six men, with their baggage
and arms.
A leprosy commission has been dis.
patched from England to India; which,
after an investigation of one year, is ex-
pected to report concerning the desirable.
ity or otherwise of encouraging the vol
untary partial withdrawal of lepers from
among the non-leprous population; oil
enforcing the complete isolation of all
lepers; and of enforcing the isolation of
certain lepers. It will also report on the
best methods of accomplishing whatever
may be decided upon.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09

Nine men out of ten boast that they
t'never forget a face" but scarcely one
mar cut of ten will say that he 'snever
forgets a name" The two qualities are
rarely combined in one individual. Two of
the best examples in New York are in all
probabilityJohn L. Hill, room clerk at the
st. james Hotel, who never forgets the
name or face of a guest, even after a
lapse of years, and Robert Pinkerton,
the head of Pinkerton's Detective
Agency, who knows the name and face
of every 'tcrook" of prominence in
America. Each man has trained his
memory in the same groove for different
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
LIVING AND LOVING.

It isn't life's purple and gold, dear,
s: That makes it best worth living;
Not always the very c~ostliest gifts
Are dearest and best worth giving;
The heart that beats II truest time
With the music of creation,
Is happier far than his whose will
Can make or mar a nation.
The little sunny CLEANS that prove
Our dark clouds hopeful lining
Are brighter, dear, thar if we had
Walked always in the shining.
I do not think God loves us less,
Or frowns on us hereafter
Because we cover up a sigh
With s~ingle-hearted laughter.
There is no heart SO poor but gives,
If it but will, a treasure
Richer than any kings may own,
Greater than time can measure.
No life can Ger be poor and cold,
Orcraying some new blessing,
That hath and holdeth fairy gold,
Loves gracious self possessing.
Love soundeth depths that none may reach
With any common plummet,
1tleadeth up to heights beyond
This woTk-a-day life's summit.
A little tender, human love,
Just at the right time given,
Goes far to make this sad old earth
Seem like a piece of heaven.
H. SU01as, IN Detroit Free Press.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09

According to the Chicago Herald
New York's Board Of Education is con
sideriug a proposal to Danish the teach
Ing Of French and German in the public
schools of the city. At present French
and tlesInan are taught in five grades of
the schools to about 25, 900 children,
100 minutes per week being devoted to
these languages. French and German
are optional at present with the trustees
Of the various schools, and the system
has heretofore given satisfaction. The
principle Of giving instruction in branches
demanded BY . majority Of the parents
y, however, 7 confesses the Herald, tone
that needs 70 be carefully restricted.
Most OF our public schools already ST.
temptfar too much. and the result is that
instead Of turning out graduates thor
oughly well drilled in the rudiments Of
English education In too many instances
they are contributions to swell the tide
q ~nediccrity BY attempting to give iii
asrucslOn i too many branches. Thor
ough work ID the essentials first ana
after that the extras, L there is time and
money tor them, should be the aim 81
public school work.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09

Onion-One ounce sows 200 feet of
row.
Okra-One ounce sows 200 feet of
row.
Parsley-One ounce COWS 200 feet of
row.
Parsnip-One ounce sows $50 feet of
row.
Peppers-One ounce gives $500 plants.
Peas-One quart sows 100 feet of row.
Pumpkin-One ounce to $50 hills.
Radish-One ounce to 100 feet.
Salsifg-One ounce to fifty feet of row.
S~pinach-One ounc to 200 feet of row.
squash--One ounce to seventy-five
hills.
Tomato--One ounce gives $500 plants
requiring seed bed of eighty feet.
Turnip--One ounce to 5000 feet,
Watermelon---Cne ounce to fifty hills
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
SCATTER A1R.sLAcKEp LIME.

Intimately mix a gill of crude earbolic
acid with a quart of dry, air-slacked
lime; then mix this quart with two pecks
of lime. Dust the dry lime over every
part of the poultry house, on the walls,
in the nests, over the roosts and over the
yards. It will be found an excellent dis
infectant, and will do more to destroy
the germs of disease, and with as little
cost, than anything else that a be
tried.-Fd1m and Fireside.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
COMPOST THE COW MANURE.

Horse manure ferments so quickly and
easily that Under almost any circum-
stances in the soil it soon gets into avail
able condition for use of crops. But
COW manure is less active. 1t should
therefore either have some horse manure
mixed with it or be piled up loosely in
sufficient bulk to start a vigorous Ter
mentation. 1t is not likely to firefang,
as horse manure will if lett in even small
heaps.-B98ton Cu1tigator.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09

The Sunday collections in Trinity
Church, New York City, often amount to
SIC, 1000, but the record was eclipsed on
a recent Sunday in the church of the
Vanderbilt family's attendance, when.
81, 500 was taken.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09

English society, according to the Lon
don Star, has decided that the word
''lady' is to be ~expunged from its lexi-
con of polite conversation and the good,
old-fashioned ttwoman'' is to take its
place.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
@. .. STEWART.
CONTRACTOR, CARPENTER s. BUILDER.

CONTRACTOR, CARPENTER 81 BUILDER.
Will contract for the erection of build
ings of all kinds, furnishing all material
If desired. Work done promptly and at
reasonable rates. Orders through the
p~ostofice given prompt attention. e.
Inmates and plans furnished. Having
special facilities for obtaining Lumber
at Reduced Rates, | will give my pat
rons the benefit of the same.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09

excepting up appearances" is defined
Dy n authority upon modern manners
to mean "a frugal diet in order to give
an occasional dinner oarty.n
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
New Shaving Saloon.

HAVING recently built and refurnished
Ii throughout, my Barber Shop, I am
now prepared, with increased facilities,
to serve the public in First-Clas Style
in my new quarters between Brand and
Meriarlty's. Shaving, Hair Cutting,
Shampcoing, etc, done in the highest
style of the art. Give me a call.
E. A. BODEMULLER.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09

The Chicago News is convinced that a
very large proportion Of the Canadian
people are victims of American fever.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
OPELOUSAS
Female Institute
oPELoUsAs, ST. LANDRY PARISH, La.

This Institution is undenomiuational, prae.
tical and progressive. Discipline firm ana
based on sound principles ennohting> and de-
yeloping character. Honor and self resnect
promoted. Methods of tr~ainingSsnd culturs
pupil for University Or practical fife' e me
t~ifcates and Diplomas conferred. Buildtne.
comfortable and commo dious. Patronass5
solicited. For further particulars apply N,
MRS. NJ. n. HAYES. PRINCIPAL.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-05-09
MAKING SORGHUM MoLAssEs.

The Department of Agriculture has just
issued circulars giving brief directions
for making sorghum molasses. The first
step after the canes are stripped of leaves
and the seed tops removed is to pass
them through a roller mill. As there
are manufacturers who make a speciality
of these mills and accompanying evapo-
rators, and in addition furnish rnstruc-
ton for their management, and as it re-
quires considerable experience to make a
good article of molasses, the directions
of the circular. which are wholly of a
general nature, need only a brief men
ton. Generally the canes should be
worked as soon as possible after harvest
ing. As soon as expressed the juice
should be treated with cream of lime.
Blue litmus paper may be used to deter
mine the proper point of neutrality.
When this paper is placed in the natural
Juice it turns red. When it becomes
distinctly purple it shows eAough lime
has been added. A good article for bak-
ing purposes can also be made without
adding lime.
The juice after treatment with the lime
should at once be placed in a tank and
brought to the boiling point, but should
not be allowed to boil. When the scum
formed over the top shows signs of break
ing, the heat should be Withdrawn and
the scum carefully removed. The heat
may be again applied until all the green
scums have been entirely separated. The
purified juice should now be reduced as
rapidly as possible to the consistency of
molasses. This is best done in some
form of continuous evaporator, based on
the old-fashioned Cook evaporation, in
which the purified juice constantly runs
in at n end of the, evaporation, passes
back and forth aeroI ii, land the finished
molasses runs out at the other end. The
quicker the evaporation can be accom-
plished the better for the molasses.-
NeD Yo1b World.
SEED REQUIRED Fol- THE SPACES GIVEN.
Asparagus-One ounc produces 1000
plants and requires o bed twelve feet
square.
Asparagus Roots-l000 plants, a bed
four feet wide and 225 feet long.
English Dwarf Beans-One quart
plants from 100 to $50 feet of row.
French Dwarf Beans-One quart
plants $50 to $50 feet of row.
Beans, Pole, Large-one quart plants
100 hills.
Beans, Pole, small-one quart plants
thirty nine hills, or $50 feet OF low.
Beets-Ten pounds to the acre; n
n $50 feet of row.
Broccoli and Kale-One ounce plants
$500 plants, and requires forty square
feet of ground.
Cabbage-Early sorts, same as broccoli,
and requires sixty square feet of ground.
Cauliaower-The same as cabbage.
Carrot-One ounce to $50 feet OF
row.
Celery-One ounce gives 1000 plants,
and requires eight square feet of ground.
Cucumber-One ounce for $50 hills.
Cress-One ounce sows a bed sixteen
feet square.
Egg Plant-one ounces gives 1000
Endive-one gives 5000 plants,
and requires eighty feet of ground.
Leek-One ounce gives 1000 plants,
and requires sixty feet of ground.
Lettuce-0ne ounce gives 1000 plants,
and requires seed bed of 100 feet.
Melon-One ounce for 100 hills.
Nasturtium-0ne ounce sows twenty
five feet of row.
New-York tribune., 1891-09-25
corRr CALENDARS FOR TO-DAY.

uprems COurt-GenePal Tern-Recess continued
Suireme Court-C hambers-Before lngrShem, y'-Coufs
ouens at 10 80 q. III. Motion csienaAfi NOS 10 70
called az IL O'clock. 80 ~, M. = "a TT A
jouFned until October D. - ,rx ~, 4,
jourltd until october o. ann, -, r.. nj,
John A. Meaning, David Metzger, NioAoaus Stefens ana
Lane Perfis 10 ~ IL. franz Birk, 10 :S0 ~. N.
Superior Court-Spccial Itril-seiore McAuAn' j.
Court opens at IL o. IN. Motions. ~
Superior Court-Trlal TeTm-Parts /. ii and lll-Ad-
Common PicGs-Specla Term-Before Pryor J.-COurt
opens I'd II a. ~. MOAOns. - -
Common Pleas--Tria Ierm-PaTts l. IL ana Ill-Ad'
iourned until october o. ,-,,,, ~
Court opens at 10 a. m Motions. ,.., r,,,.s,,,o,.
short cS4sas Nos $40 5S72 55sS 55l5, 52s2 1856
5633 54Ct, 49i, 555l, 6639, $500 $3.50, 6524, o4oo
.d9 567G 5Gjj $3.50, 5Gj, 0724, 5T61, 5oO2.
CITY C0urt-T1ial Torm-PaPt II-3efOre NewbuPger, j.
Shot causes Nos 46l4, 552J, 1913 56l2 $3.50. 2Zo9
9 54io $3.50 J4IO 541G. 55Ij olSS o4S3, o3oI 06fo,
55gS 4853 55j1 $40 1857. 5T20, 54Be
Cty Court-Trla forn-Part uI-BefoEe MeCarthI,
E6ort causes Nos. $3.50, 54e2. 5455 $780, 559S 9lS9
$500 4s62,. 1868 a742 6Cas ts2s slIJ Si57 SaSo
CITY Court-Trial Term-Part IV-Adjonmed for the
Court of General Sessions-Parb I-Before Fitzgerald,
j. and Assistant DistrIctA Attorney Wauhope Lynn-Nos
0oYrt Of General Sessons-Psrt II-Bfore Cowing, J.,
end Assistant District Attorney Dav1s-Nos. tolS in
CoTr. ~ General Sesslons-Part III-Before Smyth R.,
and Assistant DistictAttomey Sta9ler.
New-York tribune., 1891-09-25
4 COLD WAVE COMING EAST.

One good thing about New YOrk's climate. ami
one which even those who decry It the most. aLHt Is
tina. the hot waves seldom last for any proiFacied
peried. and though often aggravated by high per
centsge of humidity, are invariably followed oy de-
lgtully cool waves which doubly refreshing after
the hot weather which precedes them. The last two
or three days in this cJ have been about as disagree
ae as New-York ever boosted OF. With an unusually
nigh temperature within one degree Of breaking a
record of twenty Years combined with 80 per cent Of
humidity in the early part OF the day New Workers eA
perenced some Of the most dsagrecable weather OF
the year and If tie escaping gas and dust caused by
the construction of the cable road are added to the
dscomfors of the weather, ii can truly be SAID that
Wednesday and Thursday were the most uncomfortable
days of the season.
As is usually the case, however. when New-1ork IS N
her worst throes the Signal service Office. on top Of
the Equitable Bnllding, holds out refreshing prede-
lions OF fair weather and lower temperature The
highest register of the thermometer at the signal
service station Yesterday ~ degrees, which was
at > .. m. while the lowest nj =. m. wac %
degrees or about degrees less than the highest OF
Wednesday. The humidity of the atmosphere yester-
day also was much les than The day preceding, being
about 10 per cent lower.
cold wave has started in the extreme North
west. with temperature varying from 3s to IL
degrees II has ALREADY spread over Montana. part
of wyoming and Colorado ard is expected 10 reach
the Atlantic by to morrow the day after In Tie
meantime the mercury IN New York will continue To
fail while fair weather. with lnuch lower percentage
OF humidity. is promised