davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-13
for infants and Children.

"Castoriais Isl SO well adapted to children that
recommend itas superior to any prescription
nov TO me" Fl. a. ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So, Oxford ST., Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Opelousas courier., 1891-06-13

1rayaux fypographiaues On fans
COURIER, ~
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07
ODDS AND ENDS.

In 1886 there were 1885 paper mills
in the world.
On July the earth is farther away
from the sun than at any other time
Mrs. Seward Webb, of New York, is
the possessor of a superb diamond
crown.
A cherry stone, lodging in the in.
testines of Scranton merchant, caused
his death.
In Ireland a belt made of woman's
hair is placed about a child to keep
harm away.
The people Of Rhode Island are
thrifty. Their savings in the banks
average $40 for each inhabitant.
If strange dog smiles at you, it Is
policy to smile back, and if he runs at
you, the best thing is to run back.
1t is understood that new convert
to the tenets of Buddhism is Justin
Huntley Mccarthy, the son of the Irish
leader.
The dumb cane" is SO called be-
cause its tieshy, canelike stems render
speechless any one who may happen to
bite them.
Police judges in New York receive
So, 900 a year There are fifteen of them,
so their combined salary amounts year
ly to $4,000
Oscar Wilde says: Anybody can
write three volume novel. 1t merely
requires absolute ignorance of both life
and literature.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07

In the rear of the National bank of
Chester county large pole was raised
yesterday afternoon, on the top of
which was martens box. The mar
tens soon gathered and flew around the
box as it rose. 1t appeared they were
inspecting it. Feeling perfectly salts
fled with the affair they signed the lease
and took possession. "At home" cards
will be issued in day or two, as soon
as Mr.. and Mrs. Marten have arranged
their apartments.
Upholstering and wall papering is
now the order of the day there. On
the occasion Of the house warming it
is stated that the Robin family, from
Wawa; the Humming family, from
Oakbourne, and Mr.. and Mrs. Balti-
timore Oriole will be present, as well as
the Misses Catbird and Blackbird.
Owing, it is said, to the fact of fam
lily feud which has existed since the
days of Brian Boru, the English spar
rows will be given the cold shoulder
and viii be rigidly excluded from the
drawing rooms Mr.. American Eagle
will be stationed at the door to receive
the cards, which will be issued for the
event. West Chester pa News.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07
A Duty for Every Young Mother


A most serious fault with MANY
mothers, and one accountable for a
terrible waste Of life is that of failing
to properly discipline their children to
take medicine when offered them and
patiently submit to any other treat
ment to bear which little or no forti-
tude is required,
Every young mother should distinct.
ly understand that there are many oc.
casions in child life when the chances
OF recovery depend almost entirely
upon the early training. If child Is
pampered and petted and hired to take
medicine, there is sure to come a time
when all persuasion is utterly useless
and force must be resorted to.
In diphtheria, for instance, II he has
always had his own way, little or moth.
ing need be expected from medical,
treatment, and before the disease has
reached Its most dangerous point
brides and articles will have long since
been exhausted, and medicine or food
can be administered only by main
strength" Force must now be used,
for it would never do to permit child
to go without treatment, and yet in not
a few instances it must do more harm
than good.
All this trouble and much of the
danger might easily be obviated by
mothers. At a very early age they
should fix in their little ones the habit
of taking, without hesitation, every
thing offered them in a spoon or cup
Boston Herald.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07

Saturday morning a young girl dressed
in gray gown leaned over the railing
on the Main street canal bridge. She
leaned backward and whether she was
weary of life or weary of standing no
one knows, for Immediately there was
a rotation of patent leather boot, gray
gown, with white skirts and down,
down, over and over rolled the girl.
a gallant was near her and Jumped
over the railing after her. BY mir
acle the girl had lodged six feet down
on iuttiDg ledge of the canal wall
dozen feet above the canal level 1t
was full tide in the canal and a swift
current under the dark bridge
Rain was falling and splashing into
the disGal depths end there the girl
lay, three inches from the brink, either
partially stunned or partially indiffer-
emit A strong hand was on her arm in
a moment, and she was pulled back up
to the street level. She stood mo-
ment or two by the railing before she
climbed back TO the sidewalk, and as
she finally dragged herself over she
dropped her hand into the coat pocket
of the young man, and with a curious
look said, II guess I'll go home with
you. Il guess You better, was the
reply, and off they went. Lewiston
(Me.) Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07

| The other day man who is so fond
of mathematics that he is never so
happy as when setting himself hard
sums, tried to give some sort of an av-
erage of the amount of work and time
and strength and health and patience
and good nature that could be saved if
everybody opened and closed the doors
of all the houses by means of the door
knobs. Of course he had to give it up.
But think of it one moment. Think
of how many doors there are in one
house, and how much time it takes
every week to scrub off the dirt which
need not be there if the fingers closed
upon the doorknob instead of the door
Watch yourself, and watch your friends
as they let themselves in and out They
turn the knob if there is no other way
of entering, and then transfer the
hand to the door, feel of the wood for
awhile, and then push it to with the
fingers upon the paint instead of the
knob.
"Show me human" said the wife
of Thomas Carlyle, "who can open
and close a door without slamming it,
and without leaving mark upon it,
and | will show you some one whose
acquaintance you would do well to cul-
tivate."
Mrs. Carlyle evidently understood
the use of doorknobs. -Harper's Young
People.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07
WHERE MOTHERS BUILD HOUSES.
Woman In Zululand Il the Architect and
Constructor of the Domictle

Constructor of the Domicile.
The Zulu woman is the architect and
builder of the Zulu house, and the style
of architecture is known in the colonies
as 'wattle and daub." 1t looks like an
exaggerated beehive, for the Zulu mind
has this popularity, that 1t cannot
grasp the idea of anything that is not
round or eliptical in form. There are
no squares in nature. To build her
house the woman traces a circle on the
ground, fourteen feet in diameter, and
and getting a number of long, timber
branches, she sticks them firmly into
the ground, and then bends the tops
over and ties them with fiber obtained
from the numerous creepers or ''mon-
key ropes"
Then she twines thicker creepers in
and out of these sticks all around the
circle of these spaces about twelve
inches apart, and then taking waffle Ia
kind of coarse grass or reed) she matches
the edifice, leaving small hole at the
top for chimney and another hole
three feet square for door In front
of this she builds covered way extend
ing outward about three feet, and the
exterior of the house is finished by a
coat of "daub," or mud.
She then seeks a nest of the white
ant, and, digging it up, obtains a
quantity of white clay, which she beats
to powder, dries and then, mixing it
with water kneads it until it is quite
smooth. This she spreads over the
ground inside the hut, and beats it
carefully until it is quite hard and free
from cracks. This floor a good house
wife will scour twice day, with smooth
stones, until it is like piece of polished
marble.
The fireplace is near the door, and is
simply a ring of this clay to confine the
embers in one place. The other neces-
saries found in hut are bundle of
spear shafts, some drying tobacco and
several punches of millet hanging from
the roof Grouped around the walls
are the three amasti "a species of sour
milk jars, the native beer jars and
open jars for holding grain.
Of course the dense wood smoke ris- !
ing coats the roof, millet and tobacco
with SCOT, and long fingers" of it hang
in every direction; but the floor will be
clean enough to eat on, and as long as |
that is SO the social Mrs Grundy of the
Zulu is satisfied. Sheffield Telegraph.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07
Prepare to Surrender You. Neckties.

The young man of the period must not
be surprised if, when he is off on his va
cation and sitting on the hotel piazza
with his best summer girl, she should
suddenly inform him that the necktie he
has on is very pretty and quite the
thing for my rug. Just give it to me
when you are done with it, please" OF
course he meekly hands it over without
so much as asking why, but the reason
is soon given and the astonished man
finds that She is saying the same thing
to all the other fellows She must need
quite collection.
But what this girl does with them is
this: She cuts them into strips about an
inch wide and sews them together, form
ing long strips of varied colors This is
pleasant work for a summer afternoon
and the maiden makes a pretty picture
seated with large box overlooking with
daintily colored silks. and while she chat
ters away and easily sews them together
her attendant cavalier winds the long
strips into good sized balls Not very
different picture from that her grand
mother made while being assisted to
wind skein of worsted At the end of
the season there will be several large
balls and then these are sent to be woven
INTO soft pretty rug that will grace the
hardwood floor of our maiden's ROOM
New York Sun.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07
River Problems.

Should the rank of river be meas
ured by its length or by its average
volume of water9 is a question on which
geographers have apparently failed to
agree. On the first named principle
the Mississippi would be only the chief
northern tributary of the Missouri On
the second, the Mississippi and Missouri
combined would be mere brooks, COM
pared with the giant streams of the
American tropics. Near their junction
with the Amazon, both the Rio Negro
and the Toncantins are at least three
times broader and deeper than the
Mississippi at New Orleans. -Philadei.
phia Times.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07
Crimes Traced Hereditary Influence.

In general way it has been found
that criminals customarily exhibit alb
normalities of physical structure, which
it is sought to classify for the purpose
of studying to better advantage the
natural history of the wicked. Hitherto
it has been supposed that the bad man
was r:ade such chiefly by his unfortu-
nate environment in youth, with posi-
bly, tinge Of influence, innate and in
herited; but science seeks to prove that
the criminal is born such, though
doubtless matured by unhealthy moral
conditions.
Criminal anthropology" therefore is
the study of the being who, in conse-
quence of physical conformation, hered-
itary faint and surroundings of vice
yields to temptation and begins career
of crime. As for the influence of hered-
ity in this matter better reference can
not be made than to the case of the
Jukes, SO infamous in history.
In seventy five years the descendants
of single pair-1, 200 persons-all be-
came devoted to a life of crime 1t has
been estimated that over ST., $50, 900 of
loss was caused by them, without tax
ing into account the entailment of pau
perism and crime upon subsequent gen.
erations. Washington Star
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07

The best trunk ever made, or that
ever will be made, was that old time
horsehair covered trunk. 1t would
defy any baggage smasher of the pres
ent age. Why it went out of style
never knew. 1t was a good seller and
seldom came back for repairs Next
to it the best trunk now made is the
cloth covered one They are much
better than the tin covered ones, and
yet it is almost impossible to convince
a customer of that. | do not know
whether you are aware of it, but most
English travellers to this country buy
their trunks over here Our trunks are
no better than the English trunks, but
the English think so. There are a few
things in this country to which an En-
glishman will take off his hat. Inter
view in Chicago Tribune.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07
A Poets Good AppetjtS.

Heinrich Heine, when a student at
Gottingen, was invited with a fellow
student to take supper with Professor
Hugo and his hospitable wife. The
fare was simple and not too plentiful,
but one dish was viewed with conscious
pride by the hostess, who evidently
felt that nothing could be better for the
occasion; this was small plate con-
tanning four fat sausages, with tempt
ing gravy and furnishings of green.
The choice dish was passed first to
Heine, who was in the full tide of a
long and animated discourse. setting
forth his opinions on some question
which had been started by the profes-
sor.
Instead of serving himself to one sau-
sage, and allowing the dish to proceed
on its way to the others who were eager
ly expecting it, he seized the plate,
placed it before him, and proceeded to
dispose of one sausage after another,
not neglecting the gravy either, until
the garnishings alone remained to show
the havoc he had made.
Coming to the end of his speech at
about the same time that he finished the
last sausage, he looked at the gloomy
faces about him, then at the empty
dish, discovered what had been the
meaning of certain spasmodic attempts
on the part of Professor Hugo and his
distracted spouse to interrupt his flow
OF language, and of course made pro-
fuse apologies.
But he was never invited to that
house for supper again-the chance of
being left supperless themselves was too
great for his hosts to risk it a second
time Youths Companion.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07

This
Is fine
type
but like the SITTER
it "gits thar
every time,
and
read it through,
and
only to learn that the SITTER Office
is
the
place
to get your job Printing.
Tbar'5 ALI
And
whats
tie use Of
spinE.as out great Long yarn about IT.
Anything
from an
address card
toa
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07

running over Oh, you cleaners, to
the field And il there be In your
household All aged one or sick res.
tive tilat Is not strong enough to come
forth and toll Ia this field, then lot
Ruth take home to feeble Naomi this
sheaf of cleaning, HE that goeth forth
and weepeth, bearing precious seed,
shall doubtless come again with rejoic-
ing, bringing his sheaves with him."
May the Lord God of Ruth and Naomi
be our portion forever
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-08-07
hat we might all be gleanersl
WE ARE ALL CLEANERS.

Elihu Burritt learned MANY things
while toiling in blacksmith's shop.
Abercrombie, the world renowned phil
osopher, was n physician In Scotland,
and he got his philosopy, or the chief
part oft, while, as physician, he was
waiting for the door of the sickroom
to open. Yet how many there are in
this day who say they are so busy they
have no time formental or spiritual i'm
provement; the great duties of life
cross the field like strong reapers and
carry off all the hours, and there is
only here and there fragment left
that IS not worth cleaning All. my
friends, you could go into the busiest
day and busiest week of your life and
ind golden opportunities, which gath
cred might at last make whole sheaf
for the Lords garner. 1t is the stray
opportunities and the stray privileges
which, taken up and bound together
and beaten out, will at last fill you
with much joy.
There are few moments left worth
the cleaning Now, Ruth, to the field
May each one have measure full and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-06

street line. G. propositions are simnlv
..uiouious and luggest crankiness more
'nan anything else. 1t is also oc-
casionally asserted that somebody's
sVore building is few inches in the
s'reet; and last year we actually
heard discussed the probability of nroceed-
ings being taken to compel the removal of
d costly building which was said to have
encroached on the street few inches, al
'nough the structure was erected on lines
gwen Dy the previous city surveyor.
Judge ANDERSON says the original surveys
must stand, and he is right in law and in
reason. If another rule were to prevail
ana corners and measurements which had
sGooo Tor twenty thirty or forty years
were made TO conform to stakes driven
Dy the present surveyor. what a plight
everybody would be in! Next year new
city surveyor will be installed and he NAV
take 1t into his head to undo the work of
MS predecessor and change lines few in
ches, requiring buildings and fences to be
moved about to "ft' the new plan. The
property-owners generally will be pleased
with the Judges ruling, and we fail to un-
derstand how anybody can be iniuriously
affected by it, unless it be some engineer
VINO takes his instrument to ascertain that
the street has encroached upon somebody's
lot few inches, or that line runs few
seconds further to the right or left than it
should to be in harmony with the SUM-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-06
THE SURVEYS.

Judge ANDERsoN's statement of the law
the other day in the matter of the boundary
lines of lots seems to have been correct so
far as the authorities are concerned. and il
is certainly good common sense. He holds
that the original surveys cannot be changed
at this late day. To permit changes in
boundaries now would subject property
owners to interminable trouble and meal
culable expense, to say nothing af the liti-
cation that would follow. The CITY streets
and lots were laid out and staked off manv
years ago, and while the SURVEYS and
measurements may not have been abso-
lutey correct they were so nearly so
that it requires q finely adjusted instru-
ment and an expert surveyor to discover
the errors; and when found the errors are
not of such a character as to iniure any,
body unless it be some finnicky, fault
finding person who is eternally searching
for something over which he can be miser
able. Suppose street is six inches too
narrow, or as much too wide, who is hurt
by it? We have been told that certain
streets of the proper width are eighteen
inches too far north or south, and it has
been proposed in these cases that valuable
fences shall be moved to conform to the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-06
KINGLY POWER A FICTION.

Emperor WILLIAM is pleased TO state.
and the German nation is amused to hear
from their monarch, 81 alone am master in
this country, and nobody elsen
IL he should endeavor to put that foolish
BOAST to the test of trial, WILLIAM would
speedily learn just how small he is and Just
now great the German nation is, in the
matter OF ruling the country
With the Germans of today the empire
Is convenient form of government through
winch the people manage to have a good
deal OF their own way. Whatever of lib
erty IS not secured by the practice
OF letting ''a piece of history heraldry''
rule over them, is mostly compensated by
the stability of affairs and the apparent
permanence and security Of their govern
mental system.
The power of the German emperor con-
slsts mostly in doing what the people order
him to do, and in performing few duties
that have come to be regarded as customary
imperial functions. The power behind the
throne is the people. Modern monarchies
are largely democratic governments with
the addition of little extra kingly or
governmental machinery.
WILLIAM either forgot himself or in
tended merely to bluff BISMARCK.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-06
THE DAY FOR BUNTING.

The mayor has issued proper request
in regard to the coming visit of the Presi.
dent, and of course there will be a ready
generous and universal response on the
part Of all our citizens. His honor requests
that commercial business be suspend ed
next Saturday, while the President is in
the city, and that business houses be
suitably decorated. We trust that the
decorations will be carried further and in
clude private residences along the streets
traversed by the visitors, and we hope thar
all our people will give up the day to doing
honor to themselves 10y honoring the chief
magistrate of the nation. This will be one of
the occasions when all patriotic people can
forget politics and partisanship and
meet on the common ground of
American citizenship. 1t is respect for the
great Office, the greatest on earth. which
we show in giving hearty and JOYOUS
welcome to the incumbent.
1t is to be regretted that the President
cannot remain with US longer; yet, in the
few hours that he will be here we NAV be
able to impress upon his mind the fact. for
it is fact, that out here in the mountains
there dwell people as loyal, as patriotic.
as progressive, as highly civilized, as well
educated and as truly and proudly Ameri-
can as any he has seen in his tour of the
continent
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-06
STATE CONTROL OF THE TELEGRAPH.

Inose people who want the government
to assume control of the telegraphs in this
country should read the complaints from
Germany, where the government has a
monopoly of the telegraph business. These
complaints are loud and deep, and have re-
suited in the preparation of bill by the
Liberal members of the reichstag permitting
the construction OF private telegraph and
telephone lines, and declaring the govern
ment financially liable for the damages
caused by the illegal withholding of or the
failure to transmit dispatches. The OPP
orators are state employees and they exer-
else censorship over the dispatches, both
private and press, frequently refusing to
send reports which censure the govern
ment. Of course this censorship is author
lied and directed by the powers that be-,
and as the lines are owned by the govern
ment the protests of the individual do not
avail
The evil would not be less in this country
than tits In Germany, were the govern
ment to take control of the telegraph
Indeed, we are not certain that it would
not be worse, inasmuch as partisanism
runs higher here than with the Ger
mans. But an evil quite as bad as
the censorship would be the great
increase of voting power which would
be placed in the hands of the administration
If this change were made. Every one Of
the thousands of operators and other en-
ployers would be required to vote the ad-
ministration ticket or accept discharge
However, until the American people lose
their senses they will not consent to the
government management and control of
the telegraph