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The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20
Panama q GraYeIard.

More men have died and are buried on
the Isthmus of Panama, alone the line of
the proposed canal, than IN any equal
amounAof territory in the world.
It was in 1877, the year before the
final collapse of the canal scheme came,
that chance took me to "the isthmus,"
as it is more usually described. How
many people are buried out in Monkey
Hill2 Certainly 5000 or 5000; probably
IL, 900 or Is, 900, but it's IL matter OF
guesswork as to the exact umber. But
the ground about Aspinwall only holds a
small percentage of the men who have
died ON the isthmus. The city of Pana-
anna, of course, lays claim to the largest
number of burials, but I can say without
exaggeration that the entire line of the
railroad and canal from the Atlantic to
the Pacific is a continuous graveyard. At
Matochin alone over $500 Chinaman met
their death in one day. That was twen-
ty-lve or thirty years ago, while the Pan
m Railroad was being built, and long
before work on the canal was begun.
Ten thousand Chinaman had been
brought from China to work on the
canal. Over one-half of them were
camped at what is now Matochin. Small
pox broke out among them, and the NOR.
tally became SO great that the China
men, always easily excited, became panic
stricken, and, prefe1ring to die by
drowning, ran down the steep sides of
the hills near their camp and threw
themselves into the Chagres3i8er. AS
/ have said, $500 of them drowned. It
was BECAUSE of this that the name of the
camp was changed to Muertechino,
muerte meaning s'dead" in Spanish and
Chino signifying Chinaman. The name
has siace become perverted to Matochin.
Tt is a common saying, believed by many
on the isthmus, that every tie on the Pan
anna Railroad represents a dead man.
Chicago Post.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20
A Falling Machine.

A bold device, which will also furnish
! new source of excitement, is suggested
BY M. Aristide Berges, a French engi-
neer, in the shape Of an elevator-car to
TALL, with its passengers, through a thou
land feet, or the height of the Eiffel
Tower. During its fall the machine will
acquire a velocity of about $50 feet per
second, or more than twice that of the
swiftest express train. The car will be
built in the form of a long cone, strength
sned by inner cones which will act to pre-
rent the sudden compression of the air
within the chamber, and will be about
thirty feet high. To break its fall, a
we'll of water will be provided, 100 feet
aeep, into which the machine will de-
lcend, and sink SO gradually as to re-
move the sensation of shock. A picture
8 published by the designer showing the
jar carrying fifteen people in its headlong
Iourney.-Popuzar Science Monthly.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20

According to a censu bulletin, the
ratio Of land and water surface is 98.16
md 1.84 per cent. respectively. This
bulletin also gives the area of the States
and Territories by counties, and the
classification Of the latter by sizes. The
average number of persons to each square
mile Of the land surface of the Union is
2I.0S. rs illustrative of the sustaining
capacity of the United States, the bulletin
says that If Texas, the largest State in
The Union, was as thickly populated as
the State Of Rhode Island, it would have
So, 523, 62S inhabitants, while il the
United States had a density of popula.
tion equal to that OF Rhode Island, tho
population Of the Union, instead Of being
G2, 622, $50, would reach the
sum Of 945 ,766, 800, Or nearly two
thirds Of the present population of the
world.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20
Fresh Wafer Commerce.

Probably there are few people whose
attention has not been specially directed
70 the subject, who are aware Of ttl&
magnitude of the commerce upon the
2reat Lakes.
It has been asserted chat more tons Of
reight pass through the Detroit River
n a year than the total imports and ex-
sorts of the United States for the same
period.
The commerce Of the Great Lakes IS
carried upon more than two thousand
vessels, of which more than half are Dro-
PEELED by steam.
About six hundred ~schooners, some Of
them great four-masted craft, ply on the
lakes during the five or six mouths when
the straits and ports are not closed by
ice. Many more are small s%chooners;
and of these a large number, on the up
per lakes, are owned and manned by
hardy Norwegian sailors who have emf
grated to this country.
Steam is gradually disp!acing the wind
as the motive power of the lake traffic,
and steel is displacing wood as a mater
ial. The steam vessels, too, are con
stantly increasing in size. In 1856,
there were but six steel vessels on the
Great Lakes; in 1890 there were sixty
eight.
At the same time that these changes
in the size and material of vessels are
taking place, a change is going on in
their ownership. There is q smaller pro
portion of vessels owned by individuals
or small partnerships. The traffic of the
lakes is rapidly coming under control of
corporations possessing large capital.
The two great items of freight in the
vast traffic of the Great Lakes are ore and
grain. Many millions of tons of ore are
yearly brought through the Sault Ste.
Marie canal down the lakes. Seventy
million bushels of wheat and four million
bushels of -four go annually by water to
Buffalo. The corn tonnage is still
larger.
Yet the Great Lakes are closed to
navigation during as least six months a
gear, and winters have been known when
Lakes Superior and Michigan were frozen
from shore to shore.-Yontb's ConpGn
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Japan may be said to beat the world in

Japan may be said TO beat the world In
the actual power of her heavy Canet guns.
They have recently been subjected to the
severest tests at Havre, and no expense
has been spared to render them sure and
effective. Each round fired cost $4,000,
and $40,0 900 in all was spent for the pur-
pose. These guns weigh sixty-six tons;
they are twelve and a half inches bore,
f~orty-one feet eight inches long, and they
throw a projectile whose maximum weight
y 1884 pounds. The powder charge is
1922 pounds; muzzle~ velocity, 1852 feet
per second; penetration Of wrought iron,
45.16 inches; maximum range, thirteen
and a half miles.
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SELECT SETTINGS.
F1or;d. claims q meershaum mine.

Florida claims a meershaum mine
New York was incorporated a city in
1864.
An Indiana girl sneezed 1000 times in
four hours.
Alaska is now the roomiest of our
Territories.
A Frenchman is going to walk on stills
from Paris to Moscow.
The German cavalry at PRESENTS armed
with lance, saber ard carbine.
The condition of the poorer classes OF
Italy continues to be deplorable.
The CHILEAN insurgents have war ship
bearing the name of "o'Higgins."
A teg is a sheep or doe in its secona
year. The term is used in England.
Old age is something beautiful, some
times pitiful, but it is never desirable.
Jean Nicot, who introduced tobacco
into France, is to have a monument In
that country.
Two deaf mutes were marrIeu at
Marion, Ind. A typewriter was used IL
propounding the questions.
A green tree frog in the London Zoo
logical Gardens prefers wasps to other
food, despite oc ,asional stings.
Kansas City's Chief of Police is look
ing for an embezzler who Is only fifteen
years old, six feet three inches tall, and
weighs 100 pounds.
Crickets are an article of commerce in
some parts Of Africa, and people make a
business of rearing them. The natives
are very fond of their music, thinking
that it induces sleep.
While W. K. VanderbiIt's Alva was
steaming through a Mediterranean storm
on her way to Villefranca, an enormous
wave deposited a seventy-pound turtle on
the deck. It was good to eat, and there
fore was eaten.
The other day a Windsor (Vt,) farmer
on going out to his sheep pen noticed a
bunch on one of his long wool sheep, and
upon examination found a rat which had
got his tail woven into the wool and was
unable to get away.
The doctors of Berlin have agreed that
| in future their coachmen shall wear white
hats, so that a doctors carriage may be
always Immediately distinguishable and
| the public enabled to summon medical
aid from the streets in urgent cases.
The water works of Savannah, Ga,
consists of twenty five artesian wells two
miles out on the Savannah River, which
yield about 5000, 900 gallons in twenty
four hours. The wells are arranged in
two rows about 100 yards apart, and are
from $50 to 500 feet deep. The water
has to be pumped to the surface. From
various indications it is evident that it
comes from the mountains of Northwest
Georgia.
Mount Pilatus has heretofore been
saved from having a railway built up its
side by TIE perpetual cloud that rests on
its top. It has been discovered that this
cloud is never more than ninety feet high,
SO now the company is ready to build
the railroad and raise an Eitfel tower 300
feet in diameter at its base, $40 feet in
height, with a platform at the top 12O
feet square. Krupp is to supply the steel,
and the building is hoped for in 1895.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20

The author of ttThe Brazen Android,"
h a recent number of the Atlantic
Monthly, sent it to that magazine thirty
years ago. The editor at that time re-
turned it, and suggested that it should
be rewritten. The writer would not do
it, but sent the same manuscript back a
short time ago, when it was promptly
accepted. "That's the way to treat the
magazine editors when they reject an
article" exclaims the Atlanta GonstitU-
tion. "Just lock it up for a generation
aud then send it in again"
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20
Righthandeaness.

There is evidently something in the
structure of the human body that makes
a person naturally right. handed. If this
were not SO the fashion of using mainly
the right hand or the left would change
from generation to generation instead of
remaining the same as it seems to have
done from the earliest times of which we
have any account. The two sides of the
body are rarely the same. The left foot
is generally smaller than the right, the
two sides of a mans head do not curve
in the same way, and the brain structure
is not exactly the same on both Sides
st. LOUIS Republic.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20

The condition of rural France has some
resemblance to that OF rural New Eng
land. The EyOmiste Francois gives d
digest Of a number 81 recent documents
relating to the condition Of the agricul-
tural laborer there. Wages Of farm hands
have quadrupled during the present
century, and the greatest increase has
been in the lowest form of labor. The
nan Of all work, who was paid only $40
per year, In addition to his board III 1884,
nov gets $50, while the shepherd, ssthe
aristocrat Of the farm" who received
then $62 and board, now gets only $120.
His wages have not doubled, while those
of tho humber workman have moro than
quadrupled. The increase Of wages OF
farm hands il ascribed in part to the de-
inand for labor In factories and on rail-
roads, and In part to the military service,
which takes young men from the farms
u the period when their habits are form
ing, and gives than q taste Of town life
from which they are never wholly
wsaned. When their term Of service
expires, they begin to look for situations
In tho towns and to worry the public men
10 find places for them. These drafts
upon the rural population, tending to
lessen The number of farm Iaborers, raise
the wages Of those who remain. The re-
suit i smaller profits to the farmer and q
sort Of agricultural crisis. still another
feet IN the matter Of rural depopulation
y noticed, namely, d ~dimlnution in Tie
number IF children. Several cantons
are named il which there has been a
marked decrease of population since
1858. u two Of these the ascertained
reason for diminution Of the number If
births waa 1.-THE desire 81 The parents to
irnprovs thalr own condition. and It Is
addsd that this eject has followed.
Hsse v $40 rel aelthuslapism u prao.
fl.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20

A confidential agent of the Peruvian
Government has been negotiating with
Chill for the return of public documents
and official archives carried away by the
Chilian troops in 1882. He has just
yucceeded in obtaining an order for the
restoration of the records of the Minis
tries of Finance, the Interior and Foreign
Relations The municipality of Lima
has recently erected a monument to the
soldiers who fell in defense of the nation
Ut the battle of Mirafores.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20
Thu Strongest Race.

.'The Irish is the strongest race in the
world" said one of them. ttWe have
the breadth, the chest. Anew years ago
two regiments of the British army were
lined up, the one in front of the other.
There were 1000 EngIishmen of the
Royal Guard in one line, and 1000 Irish
men Of the Connaught Rangers in the
other. The lines began at the same
place, but the line of Irishmen stretched
thirty-six feet further than the other.
4 was caused by the difference in width
Of chest, for the men in both regiments
touched elbows.n-&. Louis Republic.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20

Grain farming, as such, according to
the New Jersey State Board OF Agricul-
lures report for 1895, must be ADAM
loned, the State being destined to be-
come agricalturallY a market garden.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20

The only onyx polishing works in this
country, located in Rutland, VT, will be
removed to Missouri and engage in pre-
pairing for market the vast quantities Of
onyx mined in Crawford and Pulaski
cnunties.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20

4 concession las been granted an
English syndicate for the building of an
elevated railroad in Buenos Ayres, Argen.
tine Republic.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20
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-Class Style
in my new quarters between Brand and
Moriarlty's. Shaving, Hair Cutting,
shampeoiDg, ETC., done in the highest
style of the art. Give nae a call.
E. A. BODEMULLER.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20

Large silver mines have been found o.
the Kuban sources il Russia.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20
c.. ..

CONTRACTOR, CARPENTER u 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. Es-
Inmates and plans furnished. Having
special facilities for obtaining Lumber
at Reduced Rates, I will give my pat
ron o the benefit of the same.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-20

Female Institute
oPELoUsAs, ST. LANDRY PARSE Ia.

This Institution is undenominational, nrs..
tical and progressive. Discipline Arm ana
based on sound principles ennobling> and da
yeloping character. Honor and self resnecA
promoted. Methods of training and cuItnrs
thorough. Toe curriculum prepares ths
pupil for University or practical life. Ger.
Mflcates and Diplomas conferred. Builiinc~
comfortable and comm odious. Patronaes
solicited. For further particulars apnlv e
MRS. M. NJ. HAYES. PRINCIPAL "
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to listen for among all others.
ooh, just a child, was ita" rejoined
the other. II thought possibly that it
might develop into an affair that would
be interesting to Mademoselle Amy, when
she hears Of it."
well. hardly replied the other
Iaughingiy, "If you've found that pa
per, Jennings, lets 60 down.
The voices died away, but the faint
odor of a cigar fingered on the air long
after, and the lightly spoken words left
their sting for many a day.
Sally sat motionless. So it was all a
mistake, then. There was some one else,
and be did not care for her. He would
never come. And yet he had saved her
life. Oh, why had he done it, when it
could never be the same again! Then
the music commenced again. She threw
herself across the bed, and pulled the
pillows over her ears to shut out the
sound; now and then a sob shook her
from head to foot; then she lay still.
Hours after, when the lights were all
out, the gay voices gone, and the wide
halls deserted, she got up and CROPPED
her way across the room. Then she Lit
the gas, and took the letter still un-
opened from her pocket. While she
read q beetle doomed into the room and
circled around the gas.
lyon poor, silly thing" said Sally,
looking up. aYou shan't be burned;
SO back where you belong As she
spoke she fauned il through the window
with her handkerchief and closed the
blind. Coming back she caught sight
u reflection Id the mirror, sssome-
bosy had better say that to me- Z she
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-02-24
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Queen Natilie, of Servia, has in
sured her life for 100000 for the
benefit of her son.
A new steamship company is be-
ing formed at Athens, with q capital
of $5,0O0,0O0.
A great Socialistic demonstration
Is expected about May LIST in every
capital city in Europe west Of Russia.
There is talk of an international
, exhibition in Berlin in 1896, appar-
emily with the approval of Emperor
William.
Gladstone has declared emphatic
ally that as long as his health and
strength shall last he will keep on
fighting for Home Rule.
A merchant In Brazil writes to the
Bureau of American Republics at
Washington, saying that almost
everything made in America is want
ed there.
Treasures valued at 100000 lire
have been stolen from the sacristy of
the Cathedral at Placenza.
The coal-fields of Tonquin are
turning out so we'll that it is thought
that M. Ferry may be restored to
popular favor upon that issue alone.
Deposits of mica have been dis
covered in the northern part of
South Australia, and q shipment
OF about one ton has been made to
Port Adelaide.
A recent survey has established
the number of glaciers in the Alps
at 1.155, Of which 249 have length
OF more than four and three-fourths
miles. The French Alps contain
LA glaciers, those of Italy 78, Swift
zerland All and Austria 462.
Some one has summed up the
Stanley exhibition as follows: The
distance travelled by him in the in
terror is estimated at 5,4OO miles, of
which all but ], 900 were on foot. The
expedition occupied three years, and
rescued 300 persons, at q cost of less
than 100000.
at an open-air meeting of the un-
employed in the East End speaker,
who had worked in General Booths
work shops, denounced the General
as sweater" pure and simple.
He had discharged men earning
IT pence an hour to make room for
those who would work for 3 pence an
hour.
The late Duke of Bedford sat in
the House OF Commons for twenty
five years, and in the House of Lords
for eighteen years, in all a Parlia-
mentary career of forty-three years,
without opening his lips. His estate
covered 118 acres in London, with
about 5000 residences or shops.
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Warehouse-Mutual Telephone No. 121.
Office-At q. L. Gulick's, No. 38 Mer-
chant street.
Office elephones-Mutual No. 1879; Bell
No. 348. I345 a5-o
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Notice of Election.

A T THE ADJOURNED MEETING OF
"a the Waihee Sugar Co., held this day,
the following officers were elected for the
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advertisements.
THE ARLINGTON.

Hot and cold water baths,
S6-ly
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-27
pokLYs PER KITTEN
WHIST Bright Little Girl Bought with
Her Pennies.

whist q bright Lit lie Girl Bought with
Her Pennies.
One day Alice was going out to do
some shopping. Dolly asked to go with
her.
ssYou know, Alice, have my runa-
way penny, and ever so many more,
and I'm afraid they might not like to
stay much longer"
ssWhat would you like to buy, Dolly?
You have So many toys; and you do
not need to bny fruit, for we have near
" every kind in the garden"
ssOf course, don't know until see.
But guess there is something for little
girls"
Dolly looked at great many things
that she did not want, and she saw
some she would like to have, but they
cost too much money.
So she carried her little purse tightly
in her hand, and danced alongside of
Alice.
They met friend, who gave Dolly
some delicious candy, and Alice bought
her plate of ice cream.
AS they came out of the store, two
little boys stood near the entrance. One
of them had been crying and the tears
were still on his cheeks.
Alice asked him what was the matter.
He held up a small basket, and said
his mother sent him out to drown the
kitten, and the great tears rolled down
his cheeks.
Dolly felt so sorry for the boy as well
rs for the kitten and asked Alice If she
could not have It instead of its being
drowned. ..... --r
They looked in the basket at the kit
ten, and found it was very pretty, with
soft, gray fur and white feet. ~%@
The little boy said they were so poor
they could not afford to buy milk for
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-27

me. In the midst of all the excitement
the editor of the Leader got an idea.
He began to search old newspaper files
in musty garrets, and at last unearthed
the lines which had been the cause Of
all the trouble. With this proof in his
hand, he had no hesitation in publishing
to the world, through the columns Of
the Leader, the full story of the ''piracy,
disgrace and fight Of Rev. Harold
Henderson,
Poor fellow, / have learned that he
has entered the foreign missionary field
and has departed for the scene of his
labors. It is SO far away that, although
Mr.. Henderson is very large, strong
man, have felt that could unburden
my conscience by confession. His sad
story affects me even more deeply be.
cause learned from late issue of the
Leader that Miss Martha has fully re.
covered. HOWARD FIELDING.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-05-27

length her condition became so serious
that old Mr.. Higgins, her father, called
upon Mr.. Henderson and with tears in
his eyes warned the pastor that another
obituary poem would be expected in
about q week. s.
Mr.. Henderson perceived that he was
in tight place. Laurels won from the
muses. by fraud turn to chaplets OF
thorns. Hewas no more of a poet than
I am and he was too honest to take
my path cut of the difficulty. He could
only hope more earnestly that Miss
Martha would recover. On the con-
,trary, she grew worse steadily, and
the physicians gave no encourage
ment. On the second evening after
Mr.. Higgins call, his daughters
associates in the choir went
to the pastors house to suggest
that his verses should be made of such
a meterthat they could be sung to the
tune of Miss Martha's favorite hymn.
When they had gone Mr.. Henderson
seized hand mirror, and was surprised
to find that his hair was not gray. He
had attempted denial once more, but
had been met by smiling confidence
in his genius which had fairly rendered
him speechless.
All that night he paced the floor OF
his study, vainly trying to think of two
words in the entire language that
rhymed with each other. Early in the
morning he called at the Higgins house
and learned with two-fold sorrow that
Miss Martha was still failing. He wan
dered up into the cemetery in the after
noon and tried to get inspiration from
solemn contemplation of the epitaphs,
but they did not cheer him up. He
passed another sleepless night in his
study, without getting an idea, except
hat he should like to write an obituary
for the unknown FL. T. in hard, metal
lie prose.
The next day he received call from
the editor of the Leader, who simply
wished to say that he went to press at
one p, m. every Thursday and couldn't
hold the forms more than an hour even
for poem by a. f. Mr.. Henderson felt
that his mind was breaking down under
the strain. About five o'clock in the
afternoon he learned that Miss Martha
was not expected to survive the night;
and at nine in the evening he had
packed up his small possessions and
quietly fed the town.
| There was tremendous sensation
when this news had percolated through
the channels of Peusionville gossip.
Israel Bridges, the only man who knew
the reason, had to fasten his lips with a
clothespins in order to keep his VOW tc