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The Opelousas courier., 1893-09-30
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

Mr.. AND MRS. GLADSTONE have been mar
ried for flfty-four years.
The Poe has received an autograph letter
from President Cleveland extending jubilee
congratulations.
COMMODORE G. ". MELVILLE, United States
| Navy, was chosen to preside at the Congress
Of Engineering, in Chicago.
THE Queen of Italy has founded a society
for the reforming of street children by teach-
ing them some useful trade.
P. D. ARMOUR, the millionaire Chicago
packer, has been compelled for some time,
because of ill-health, to restrict himself to a
diet of bread and milk and baked apples.
The venerable Rev. William G. Crawford
of Alvarado, Texas. is the sole survivor OF
those Texan patriots who, on the I'd day of
March, 1886, signed the Declaration of Texan
Independence.
ANNE PRATT, a distinguished botanist, has
lust died in England at the age of eighty
eight. Her first book was published nearly
seventy years ago. Her "Flowering Plants
and Ferns of Great Britain is a standard
work.
CARROLL D. WooD, who has been nominal
ed for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
OF Arkansas supported himself while attend
ing the Industrial University in that State
by waiting on table in a private boarding
house.
THE prince of all Hungarian gvpsies, Ignaz
Erdelyi. committed suicide a few days ago in
Buda-Pesth. He was one of the most amous
violinists of his race, and in his lifetime ap-
peared In every country of Europe and in the
United States.
CHAPLAIN M1LBURN charmed his hearers
by his address at the Chicago congress OF
educators of the blind. He speaks slowly,
in mellow and resonant tones, and his diction
is eloquent. Though the sightless preacher
is seventy years old, heis an active self-reliant
man.
MAJOR WILLIAM MCKINLEY, JR., of Ohio,
will drop che "Jr." as soon as he ends his
present tenn next fall. He did not discard
It on the ueath of his father, because he was
elected as civilian Mckinley, Jr., " and he
feared complications should he make the
change.
PHILIP A. BRUCE, of Richmond, Secretary
of the Virginia Historical Society, is in re-
ceipt of a letter from ex-President Harrison
expressing the desire that his name shall be
proposed as a member of that organization.
This will be done at the next meeting of the
committee Cd membership.
DURING the fall Mrs. Grant, widow of the
illustrious soldier Colonel Fred Grant and
family and Mrs. Sartoris will visit all places
wherethere are monuments of General Grant.
Ulysses, son of Colonel Fred Grant, will
probably be a West Pointer, as that is under
stood to be his ~grandmother's wish.
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Power of the Eye.

Michael Angelo from his infancy
showed a strong inclination for paint
ing, and made such rapid progress in
il that he is said to have been able at
the age of fourteen to correct the
drawings of his master, Dominica
GrilIandai.
When he was an old man, one of these
drawings being shown to him, he
modestly said:
I'm my youth I was a better artist
than ] am now
His quickness Of eye was wonderful.
He used to say that a sculptor should
carry his compass in his eye.
.fThe hands, indeed, said he, ssdo
the work, but the eye judges"
The artists power of the eye was SO
certain that, having once ordered a
block of marble to be brought to him,
he told the ~stonecutter to cut away
some particular parts of the marble
and to polish others. Very soon an
exquisitely fine figure started out from
the block. The stonecutter, surprised,
beheld it with admiration.
well, my friend, said Michael An
gelo. what do you think of til"
II hardly know what to think OF
it, answered the astonished mechanic ;
seit is a very fine figure TO me. ! have
infinite obligations TO you, sir, for
thus making me discover in myself q
talent which, never knew I possessed.
-Sala's journal.
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never before attained. In March,
1898, the office Of the exhibit was
moved from Washington to Chicago,
and the installation of the collection
was actively begun.
The exhibit illustrating scientific
inquiry was prepared under the d1rec-
ton of Mr.. Richard Rathbun, and that
Of fish culture by Mr.. W. ID. c. Raven
ell, with the cooperation OF the com
missioner. In the scientific inquiry
section are to be found illustrations Of
the marine library and fish culture
station at Woods Holl, models and IL
Illustrations of the vessels Of the com
mission, specimens Of the seines, trolls,
nets, dredges End other collecting ap-
paratus, together with wire rope used
in dredging operations and the other
accessories for scraping the ocean bot
tom. The apparatus used IN sorting
and preserving collections IS also
shown. There is a model of the sound
ing machine used il deep sea work and
there are examples of the various Their
mometers used in physical observa-
lions. The results of scientific ex-
plorations of the commission appear
in the form of charts and models of
the areas over which the vessels have
made their III designations. In the
cases preserved in alcohol or in q dry
state are many curious animals, both
from the deep sea and from the sur.
face--the crsnoids, %corals, crabs, sea
pen, starfsh, sea robins. the various
invertebrate animals that form
the food Of fishes and foram1nl-
fera, sponges, cores and mollusks.
In this latter class extensive series of
oysters are exhibited, which show the
rate Of growth on different kinds of
bottoms, the method Of attachment of
the spat, the injuries brought about
by star fish, grills anu other enemies
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wise WORDS.

There is more shame in silk than in
cotton.
Money is the best slave and the worst
master.
A broken heart will always show in
the face.
Splendid misery is the most difficult
TO cure.
Three's a crowd except when Cupid
ts the third.
Men of motley minds often have
motley morals.
Most of the most beautiful things in
nature are silent.
A dollar will go a long way if you
only encourage it.
The worst people in the world are
the richest and the poorest.
What you do, take q hearty interest
In it, or be assured you will certainly
fail.
Garner up pleasant thoughts in your
mind; for pleasant thoughts make
pleasant lives.
The most delicate, the most sensible
TO all pleasures consists in promoting
fhe pleasures of others.
A sound discretion is not SO much
indicated by nev making a mistake
as by lever repeating it.
Men of the noblest disposition think
themselves happiest when others share
their happiness with them.
The best teachers are those who learn
something new themselves every day,
and are not ashamed to own it.
Keep your eye on that young man
who would rather wear q $50 suit Of
clothes with SO in his pocket than to
wear a $40 suit of clothes with $50 in
the pocket.
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A o OF SEA LIONS.

of the oyster. When it is considered
that collections have been made in
depths greater than three miles it will
be evident hat the apparatus success
fully used i'll such operations is of
great public interest. This division is
rounded out by a collection of about
$50 flexible casts of fishes pointed from
the fresh or living specimens and re.
produced with exceeding faithfulness
and skill.
The apparatus used Ill the fisheries
is we'll illustrated by means of models
and full sized specimens of vessels,
boats and canoes, together with many
Of the fittings and instruments asso.
ciated with them, the pounds, seines,
weirs, pot %seines, casting nets, dip
nets. trolls and dredges used for tax
ing fish, oysters, clans and other OBJ
iects.
The lines used by commercial fish
ermen are to be found in great variety,
from the sinew and grass lines of the
Indians and Esquimaux to the best
quality of silk lines for the capture of
salmon trout, bass and other game
fish. They are supplemented by large
exhibits OF rods, reels, hooks, etc,
many of which have been lent to the
commission by prominent manufac-
turers. The collection of artificial
flies made by Chas. F. Orvis, of Man
chester, Vt, numbers nearly 1000
specimens, and is associated with pho
tographs of fishing waters and angling
scenes arranged by Mrs. Mary Oryis
Marbury. Two striking features of
this exhibit are the boats fully equipped
for the pelagic capture of the fur seal
and for the whale fisheries. For this
portion of the exhibit also Mr.. Henry
W. Elliott lent the commission his ex-
tensive series of water color pictures
of seal life and Alaskan scenery, and
from DR.. G. Brown Goode was OBJ
tanned a fine series OF pictures of game
fish, accompanying his work published
by the Scribners in 1890.
One principal object in this portion
of the exhibit has been to show the va
riations in fishing apparatus from the
crudest forms in use among primitive
people to the most recent devices of
scientific anglers. The subject is like
wise further illustrated by means of
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Clean up the garden and SOW tur.
nips.
To grow fine Strawberries keep Of
the runners.
Many a colt is ruined by an impa-
tent driver.
Soil and location will change the APP
pearance of fruit.
Radishes for winter may be sown III
the late summer.
It has been proved many times over
that speed follows blood lines.
An unsound stallion is a menace to
the breed to which he belongs.
No poor maR can afford to buy a
poor horse, and no rich man will.
Put on your best nature and your
most gentle name when doing the
milking.
Turn the work horses out into a lot
on hot nights rather than confine in
hot stalls.
Whenever water is given to plants
enough should be used to wet the soil
thoroughly.
If seed are gathered, care should be
taken to dry them thoroughly before
storing away.
Don't run COWS during hot weather.
Let them go to and from the pasture
at their own gait.
Horses have dispositions like men.
Some are good, but more are spoiled
in the bringing up.
Sheet zinc cut into wedge-shaped
strips make the best and most con.
venient labels for fruit trees.
The cleaner and heater the fruit, the
quicker they will catch the eye of the
buyer and the reader the sale.
With all kinds of fruit trees it is
better to have one strong limb or
branch than several weak ones.
It is generally admitted to be easier
to change the pacing gait to the trot.
ting than the trotting to the pacing.
Cultivation Of all young trees, at
least for some years after planting out,
is essential to their vigorous growth.
It costs but little to make o start
with grapes. They come into bearing
early and are productive and easily
managed.
Do not wait till the oil is all gone
from the jug, then stop the mower
half a day while you Ego to town to
have it filed.
It is better to remove, with a rub of
the hand. sprouts and suckers while
young and tender than to wait till O
knife or saw is needed.
A few carriage bolts costing a few
cents may save a trip to town in the
midst of haying. Have some Of various
and lengths in the tool box.
Green stuff from the garden or Or
ehard that cannot be fed to the pigs or
COWS to advantage should be gathered
up and added to the compost heap.
Several Western agricultural socie-
ties have set apart liberal sums as pre-
NUNS for the best exhibits at the
fairs by farmers boys. This is a step
in the right direction.
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A Strange Accident,

] OF oil the curious accidents that
ever cost man his life the s~trangest
was one which occurred in the Madras
india Presidency some twenty years
sgo. A large party were out shooting
and had mortally wounded o tigress.
She was, however, still able to charge,
and had hold of one Of the sportsmen
before he could fire. When the others
got him away he was still alive, but Sc
yerely mauled. One of his friends
Was bending over him when there was
aloud report, a bullet whizzed past his
ear, and the wounded man ,sprang to
bis feet, and crying I'm shot" fell
down dead.
He had been killed by his own rife,
which some n had placed undis-
charged against q bank. It had fallen
over, and in SO doing been somehow
discharged and shot it's unlucky owner,
who, SO far as subsequent examination
could determine, would probably have
survived the injuries inflicted by the
tigress. Manchester Times.
Cattle were introduced into Virginia
IN 1900 int, Naw FnrIln in ii2E
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disease. New varieties are contlnu-
ally being introduced-not because
they are much shetter han the va
rieties that have preceded them
but on account of the older varieties
going back in fact, no n will con-
tend that the strawberries of to-day,
as q rule, are even as good as they
were in former times. It is thought
that the old method of cultivation,
which moderns have laughed at, might
not have been such bad practice after
all. The practice was to grow the
strawberries in beds; as soon as the
crop was gathered the leaves were
mown off with the soythe and burnt.
and q new crop of leaves came up be-
fore winter, With the progress of
vegetable physiology this was thought
TO be very bad practice. The argu.
merit was that leaves make food, and
the more leaves the better. This
Ssould be true if the leaves were
healthy leaves but diseased leaves are
worse than no leaves at all. No one
yer thought of the strawberry spoti n
those days: IN fact a specimen OF this
disease was rarely seen. It is now be-
Lieved that the practice of moving and
burning the leaves was advantageous
in this, that it destroyed all attempts
of this fungus to propagate itself and
was therefore beneficial rather than
otherwise. It is an illustration of q
point frequently made that though our
forefathers were not able to philoso.
phize on their garden practices as
closely as we may, they were able to
find out a great deal from nothing at
ell but practical experience. One thing
our strawberry amateurs might do,
which is not done now, and that is to
cut off during the season and burn
every leaf which shows a spot as soon
as it is observed. This probably would
preserve their favorite varieties from
Monthly.
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august
Flower"

My wife suffered with indigestion
and dyspepsia for years. Life be-
came a burden to her. Physicians
failed to give relief. After reading
Il of your books, I purchased a
bottle of August Flower. It worked
like a charm. Mywife received i'm
mediate relief after taking the first
dose, She was completely cured
now weighs 1o5 pounds, and can eat
anything she desires without any
deleterious results as was formerly
the case. c. H. Dear, Prop'r Wash
ington House, Washington, Va. o
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He-A wife, at any rate, ought to be
domesticated
She-That's just it. If YOU were
hiring servants for an establishment you
would get a separate person for the
cooking, washing and sewing depart
ments- But you men expect a wife to be
proficient in all these branches. Truth.
CONCLUSIVE PROOF.
Bulinch-I met your old friend Grey
neck the other day.
Wooden-I want to know Is he
married yet?
Bulinch-Well, yes. I guess he is.
He said I'd find him in the Office almost
every evening Boston Courier.
PROBABLY NOT.
Tom-When you promised to be a
"sister" to me, did you mean it in a
Scriptural sense
Ethel-How would that be
Tom-To love your brother as your
self.-[Truth.
THEY DO NOT SPEAK n NOR
She yawned, looked at the clock, pre-
tended she was sleepy, and III other ways
had given him to understand that it was
time to 60. He felt nettled on observing
these signs of her desire to get rid of
him, and determined to have revenge.
"Won't you sing something for me?'
he asked.
"Sing at this time of night! Why
didn't you ask me before? Why do you
want me to sing nova
"Well-er-the fact is | want to be
t~econciled to leaving you."-LNew York
Press.
FOR A RAINY DAY.
Little Tot-Mamma, let US do out and
spend u money.
Mamma-No, dear; It's raining.
Little Tot--But didn't YOU say We
should a up for a rainy day2-LCIoak
To,,rpol
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aAAAk@& EM
AXLE GREASE

Pure palm oil is as good grease for
axles of heavy wagons as anything
else. If this cannot be procured and
tallow is to be used, this mixture will
be good The tallow is melted and
mixed with al equal quantity of COM
mon castor oil. Some fnely-pow-
dered black lead is then well mixed
IN by stirring while it is warm
and until it cools. This is excellent
for heavy and light vehicles. For
light buggies castor oil isKthe best
grease. New York Times. \
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{
ScOtland's Precious Belt.

The belt of the sword of state of
Scotland has been restored to its place
in the regalia of Scotlandin Edinburgh
Castle by the Marquise of Breadal-
bane, the Lord High Commissioner to
the General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland. After the battle of Dunbar
it became necessary to place the
regalia of Scotland in q place Of
greater safety than Edinburgh Castle,
and it WAS removed to the strong
Castle of Dunnottar, where Sir G.
Ogilvy defended it. He had, how
ever, only forty men and could not
hold out, and he allowed his wife to
remove the regelia from the castle. It
wns then buried underneath the stones
in Kinneff Church, where it lay for
several years. When it was restored
Sir G. Ogilyy, for some cause not
explained, retained the sword belt.
1t was discovered in 100 built into
the garden wall of the house of Barras,
near Stonehaven, and since then it
had been handed down from father to
gon as a precious relic. Picayune.
France has $780, 900 farm owners,
L.. II 7O1 0nO lohnrara
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BEST RESULTS FROM TOMATOES.

When pfuned and staked tomato
plants will bear much closer planting
in the field than if left to themselves.
Two feet by four is about the proper
distance. AS soon as set in the field
the plants ought to be tied. Set strong
stakes at each end of every row and
brace carefully. Smaller stakes may
be set at intervals of two rods along
the rows. These stakes should be
about three and O half feet high. Next
stretch two wires of about the size
used in baling hay along the tops
of the stakes in each row. Take
ordinary laths or small sticks of any
kind, of the same length as lath and
stick one just at the side Of the place
that each plant is to occupy. The
upper ends of the stakes are held in
place by weaving the wires around
the tops of the stakes or laths. This
makes a neat and substantial t%rellis.
The plants are trained to single stems
and tied to lath supports.
Of course, tying must be done at
successive intervals as the plants in
crease in height until the top of the
trellis is reached, after which nothing
further need be done in the way Of
training. All side roots near the ground
and suckers must be pinched of, as
the object to be gained in stalking
would be lost otherwise. None of the
blossoms are to be removed, but
simply the leafy shoots and suckers,
which bear no blossoms and come out
near the ground and ct intervals along
the main stock. Pruning away these
surplus shoots and tying the plants to
supports exposes the fruit to the SIN
light and fayors early development to
q marked degree, Tomatoes thus
trained ripen about two weeks in adj
vance of those which are allowed to lie
on the ground, are freer from root and
larger. The crop per plant is less
than by the ordinary method, but be-
cause Of the higher prices obtainedfor
the fruit the profits are larger.-New
England Homestead.
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RYE IN THE ooRNr1ELp.

There is one plan that, if generally
adopted by the dairymen, would add
measurably to the pasturage of the
farm and at the same time be a benefit
TO the soil itself, and this is the prac-
tice of sowing rye in the corndeld
either at the last working or as soon
as the corn is cut up. In the spring,
long before the pastures are 'tht" for
turning the stock upon them, the rye
field is a wealth of fine feed and excel
lent. BY this plan there is no winter
washing of the land, which is, as a rule,
equal in exhaustion to a growing crop,
and by the middle of May this rye sod
can be turned under for corn and is
next to clover sod in value. For sev.
eral years the writer has as nearly as
possible carried out thisplan and finds
that, with what manure and clover sod
comes in In rotation, his fields r get
ting better all the time. Two ways
present themselves to put in the rye
sowing broadcast and c~ultivating in
with a light c~ultivator, setting teeth as
shallow as good work will allow, SO as
TO disturb the corn roots as little as
possible; and the other is to cut up the
corn, having the shocks regular, and
then sowing one and a-ha1f bushels of
rye on broadcast and narrowing it in
with q harrow or disc, the loosening
up of the ground covering the seed eff
eectually without blowing. There is
nothing equal to keeping the land at
work, filing the soil with a mass of
roots to decay and furnish food for the
following crop, and if it can be done
between crops, as this plan with rye
offers, q great gain has been made not
only in the supplying of food to the
but feeding the land as we'll
Practical Farmer.
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assistant in charge of the division of
fish culture, was nominated as repre-
sentative and approved by the Presi.
dent. Through thea admirable and
painstaking supervision Of DR.. Bean,
and the intelligent cooperation of his
assistants, the exhibit at the Fair has
been brought to a state of perfection
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CARE OF THE COLTS FOOT.

If a colt shows q tendency to walk
on the heel or frog, rasp the sole
towards the toe to take away the
thickness. If the foot is worn at the
toe and the heels have become too
high, they should be lowered with the
rasp. When the edges or rim of the
hoof has grown leaving the frog and
center hollow, the edges should be
rssped. The more frequently the foot
is put in proper shape the more likely
it is to grow into that shape New
York World.
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An aerial electric railway, invented
by Albert Leslie Widdis, of Detroit, is
expected to perform wonders. The own.
or claims that it will send cars whizzing
through space at the rate of 500 miles
an hour Think of it, exclaims the New
York Ledger, a letter mailed in Chi.
cago will reach New York in two
hours!
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just to show what he could do,
Tommy Flagley, of Bucyrus, Ohio,
orawled into q twelve-inch drain pipe,
and there he stuck. The pipe and
Tommy were then soaked in oil, and in
= little while both were slippery enough
for Tommy To- be drawn out.
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are ornamented by aquatic plants. The
aquaria are in two series, with a wide
passage way between. The pool. is
twenty-six feet in diameter, and,
although not deep is large enough to
maintain q great number of fishes, in
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o1IrryAr1Na arRAwnERRrEs.

The strawberry leaf disease, known
as the spot, has been much more iniu-
rieus during the last quarter of q CEN
tury than ii was IN former times; and
growers are looking about for some
explanation of the spread Of this trou-
bic. In almost all cases d new va
riety runs out, as it is called, and
chiefly through the operation Of this
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The first horse cars in New York
were run along the Bowery in 1888.
Now there are nineteen street railroads
in this city, using 1000 cars and 20, 900
horses. and carrying 225, 900, 900 pas
sengers yearly.
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end Of the building: It is located be
tween the exhibits of the Departments
of the Interior and Agriculture. In
addition to this space the commission
maintains a live fish exhibit in the
aquarium annex of the Fisheries Build
ing, the annex being circular and hav-
ing a diameter of 1875 feet. The total
water capacity of the tanks is 10, 900
gallons, of which 40, 900 are devoted to
the exhibit of marine animals and
plants. The surface of the glass i'll
the front of the aquaria aggregates
about 5000 square feet. In the center
of the aquarium building is a large
pool containing a mass of rocks, over
which water is conveyed, and which
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fenlsrgel photographs AMI cartoons as
twell as statistical charts.
The exhibited the United States Fish
Commission was the first department
ready for the inspection Of TIE public.
and is certainly proving t. be ons of
the most popular. - Washington Star.
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The world contains about 1000, 900
Hebrews, about 3,40O, 900 of whom
dwell in Russia and /, 700, 900 in Aus
tria.