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The herald., 1893-10-11
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New York, Oct. 10.--The Bar associ-
alton met tonight and passed resolutions
denouncing the nomination OF Isaac H..
MAYNARD for judge OF the court of ap-
peals as unfit TO be made, and calling
upon the citizens to oppose it.
The herald., 1893-10-11
LETTER BAG.
Mr.. sbasrer and tb. bad ne

1.-THE HKRALD under this heading prints com
municaticns, but does not assume RESPONSE
bility Tor the sentiments expressed
The herald., 1893-10-11

If You Need Truss
Call at Beckwitn's pharmacy, SOB North Mai
A fit guaranteed,
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-06-24
BURNING DIAMONDS,
Experiments to Ascertain the Amount of
Heat They Will Stand.

In France they are burning diamonds
as a sort of scientific amusement. It is
only fair to say, however, that the real
object is not to amuse the experiment.
ers and the public, but to learn some
thing of the properties of that marvel
Gus gem which puzzles the chemist as
much as it delights the jeweler.
If they have not yet discovered much
else about it they have, at any rate.
found out just how many degrees of
heat are required to destroy the gilt
tering bauble. Some deep-colored dia-
monds burst into brilliant flame at
various temperatures between $50 deg.
and 720 deg. while white Brazilian dia-
monds, according to the experiments of
Nj. Henri Moissan, do not begin to burn
below 760 deg. or no deg, and even
then they do not become incandescent.
Cape diamonds have been found to be
more refractory, and when heated in a
current of hydrogen up to 1900 deg.
they remained unchanged. Cut stones,
however, when thus treated sometimes
lost their transparency and brilliancy.
Metallic iron when heated to its
melting point combines of graphite are
deposited as the fused mass of iron and
diamond cools. 1t will be remembered
that graphite and diamond are two of
the forms in which native carbon oc-
ours.
1t is true that none of these expert
ments appears to give us m hint as to
how to make diamonds, but they tell
us interesting things about the precious
jewel whose secret nature guards SO
jealousy; and after all who would wish
that art of manufacturing diamonds
should ever be discovered?-Youth's
Companion.
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to prepare them for cutting is shown by
skilled workmen, and then the dia-
monds are polished after being cut. All
the processes are carried on in full
view of the audience, for whose es-
pecial benefit elevated platforms have
been erected about the machinery.
Thus the production of diamonds, from
the mining of the blue earth in which
the native gems lie imbedded to the last
touch given the polished crystal, will be
shown.
The gigantic Zulus who are constant
" on guard over the exhibit are in
themselves something wonderful to be-
hold. One of them, called big jim"
is a great chief who participated in the
late Zulu war. He is a man-killer, If
reports be true, and would most
likely make it interesting for any
night prowler who undertook to tres
pass upon his preserves. From the
waist up these natives of the cape are
clad only with bears claws, strung
about their necks, but the neither por
ton of their costumes is suggestive of
an acquaintance with some American
Cheap John" clothing establishment.
It does not take the rude. untutored
child of nature long to get into the
swim when he ONE to Chicago.
In a case hat is guarded by the Zu-
lus is a collection of what might be
taken for ordinary crystals, but which
in reality are diamonds in the rough,
a~ggregating in value somewhere near
one million dollars. The clay that is
to be worked is put up in strong sacks
and is as jealousy guarded as any
other portion Of the exhibit.
This is indeed a wonderful sight and
one hat will draw to the Mining
building a great many people who
have read all about the production of
diamonds but have never had an oppor-
tunity of witnessing the operation.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-06-24
How the Little Turks Behave.

There are ten little Turks in the
Turkish village of the worlds fair.
Yet if you could pay a visit to the
house where they are living. you would
refuse to believe that there is a child In
the neighborhood. All is perfectly
quiet, and you never hear a sound to
tell you that there are any fun-loving
boys and girls in this little T~urkey-in-
America. Now this is not because
Turkish children are stupid or do not
know how to enjoy themselves. 1t is
simply because their way of having a
good time is different from ours, as
well as their ways of playing. While
the little Turks play they sit all in a
semi-circle, with crossed legs, and then
they pass a nut from n to another,
like the Indian game Of hunt the nut
or they softly roll pebbles back and
forth, OF braid straw into baskets.
They are ever SO cunning, these little
Turks, and they obey their father and
mother better than American chilct er
do, SO visitors to the fsir declare.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-06-24

rate exhibits of ores and minerals. and
in some cases. the displays of agates
and crystals are extremely beautiful
and artistic. The facade of the Cali
fornia section is formed of ~variegated
onyx and is exceptionally fine. The
stone and marble exhibits of some of
the states are also entitled by their
beauty to o than a casual glance.
But the center of attraction just now
is the diamond exhibit of the Kimberly
mine of South Africa in the Mining
building. There is in the exhibit about
one hundred ON of diamondiferous
earth which is to be operated upon day
after day during the exposition season,
and the process of extracting the pre-
cious stones from the clay will be an
established feature of the fair. The
machinery used is the same as that
used at the mines in Cape Colony only
built on a much smaller scale the better
to demonstrate the process to the visit
OrS.
In the operation of washing the dirt
it is lifted into a great pan, where by
constant stirring it is worked into a
soft mud. 1t is then passed into a
cylinder with a spiral motion and holes
of different sizes. The smallest peb-
bles pass through the first aperture,
the next in size through the second and
so on until all have been dropped into
the sleeves. The stones are then passed
to a sorter who spreads them out on a
table and looks for the diamonds. The
exhibit is one of great interest, in that
the entire process of getting diamonds
is shown. First, there are shown pic
lures OF the mines and the methods of
getting out the "blue earth or dia-
mondiferous soil. Then begins the
practical part of the show. The ma
chimes for disintegrating the rock and
dirt, washing it and getting the dirt
away from the stones are shown.
The big machines are u by Zulus. who
are brought from the mines for the pur-
pose of demonstrating the workings.
These savages are dressed in short
trousers only. They refuse to wear
anything else, and under these they
have their native trousers, if such they
can be called.
The method of cleaving the diamonds
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-06-24
Thibodaux Stntincl.
ANCIENT DOG WORSHIP.

Veneration of the Canine Race in Old
Egypt.
The very first pages of human his
tory, the annals of the Egyptians,
record the fact hat the ~progenitors of
our race were worshipers of the dog.
Sirius (the Barker), the guardian of
the Nile, was one of the principal
deities in the country to the south of
the Mediterranean, at the time or be-
fore the building of the Great Pyramid.
This NEUROLOGICAL creature-Sirius-
which was supposed to give warnings
against the periodical foundations of
the Nile, and which finally became to
be regarded as the genius of the river,
was always figured as having the body
and intelligence of a man and the head
of a dog. This dog god was glorified
in all the chief cities of Egypt, and
Cynopolis-''The City of the Dog
was subsequently built in order to
more grandly honor his canine and god
like virtues.
From Egypt dog v~eneration spread in
all directions, and. after assuming va
rious forms, may be distinctly traced
Ahto III Ill ICIlS1ouS HUGS.
as well as those of other nations to the
north and east. Long before the so
called fire-worshipers had begun to
pay divine honOrs to their dog god. the
Romans and the enlightened (?l Greeks
had instituted sacrifices to their canine
deities, and were daily and hourly bow
ing before huge images of mongrel
ours, to which were imputed divine at
tributes. At Babylon and Nineveh the
religious taste was of the same order,
as is proven by the many beautiful
sculptures of dogs of all sizes that are
regularly brought to light by the ex-
cavators among the ruins of the cities
mentioned.
1t is related of Vulcan that he made
a brazen dog of gigantic size for Jupi-
ter, which could eat, run, bark and
play: in short. a dog animated by all
the functions and qualities of a living
one. Further than this. the gigantic
breed of dogs common in Epirus Niolo-
sia) at the time when I~Ierodotus wrote
were said to. be descendants from the
brass automaton fashioned at the forge
of the first great metal artiticer.
BY the time when Moses appeared as
the deliverer of his people the reputa-
ton of the dog had sadly degenerated:
this for several reasons. chief of which
was that he wa an ''unclean" animal.
BY reading Deuteronomy xiii, IS. we
find that the feeling against him was
such that even the price received for
the transferral of the ownership of a
dog from one to another was not to be
accepted as IN offering to God. How
this was to be determined without pry-
ing into peoples private affairs is not
stated; probably the high priests
had a right to ask the regular Sunday
contributor: SIS this dog money!" and
to refuse to accept it if the answer was
in the affirmative. However, we are
left in blissful ignorance as to how u
great many old-time hair-splitting cere-
monies were carried out.-St. Louis
Republic.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-06-24
JUNE'S FLORAL DISPLAY.
"Uncle John" Thorpe Provides a Fin
Programme for the Month.

"Uncle John" Thorpe Provides a Fine
Programme for the Month.
June is a fine month for flowers as
as well as for weddings and will not
be ignored by Uncle john Thorpe
and his assistants. During the latter
part of May the great flower beds about
the big greenhouses have blossomed
with a display of pansies and tulips
that have challenged the admiration OF
observers.
This month the pansies will be in all
their glory. Tulips will be about out,
but there are many other flowers to
take their place. Peonies will be out
in the greatest profusion. The big red
and white blossoms will make the
flower beds about the greenhouses look
like natural carpets. On the wooded
island all the hardy Towering plants
will be in bloom and that will be the
prettiest spot in the fair grounds.
Roses will not be forgotten. nor will
they be missed in the floral display for
the month. The great variety of the
flower affords ar opportunity for un-
commonly fine displays, and the chances
will be made the most of. Designs will
be worked put in them, and the display
will be literally acres of roses"
Rhododendrons are flowers of great
beauty and adaptibility for display
work, and they will be found by their
admirers in ~profusion. So will the
c~ampanulas, pretty, bell-shaped blue
flowers. So far no particular displays
have been arranged for special days,
but later such plans will be matured.
All in all, the floral features for the
month of June will be unexcelled dur
ing the time of the fair. 1t will be The
month par excellence for lovers OF
nature in flowers and foliage to go tx
Jackson park.
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plenty of lynx-eyed guards about. but
it seems strange that SO much loose
wealth does not attract more attention
than it does.
In the Montana section of the Mining
building the other day an oldish couple
paused before the silver statue of Jus
tice worth seventy-five thousand dol
lars on a pedestal of gold worth two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. and
after looking it over for a few moments
the woman said:
Il wonder what that fgger is made
out Of? suppose it's lead, amt it?"
Eyes, l guess So" said the man, care
lessly, Its lead or tin, mebby," and,
without deigning a look at the largest
block of gold in the whole country,
they passed on and became deeply in
terested in a pile of coal in an adjacent
exhibit.
Several of the mining states of the
west have made extensive and elabo-
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-06-24
HARD ON
The Electricity Building Is = Bad Place
for Valuable Timepieces.

- aAuaDte lliIeDlSStS.
When Franklin sent his kite aloft and
drew lightning from the clouds and
Morse harnessed it and madei it obedient
to the commands of mar they doubt
less had nc idea OF the mischief they
were making for succeeding genera
tions. But here the law of compensa-
ton comes in, for had natures greatest
force not been captured by these esti-
mable gentlemen it is doubtful if fric-
tional electricity would have been de-
veloped to its present perfection. If
nature makes the only genuine light
ming, man manufactures a very clever
imitation. Unlike lightning, it is not
referred to as a fluid" but as a .'force.''
Manufactures hall and Electricity build
ing are full of the machines by which
this subtle force is turned out in quan-
titles to suit, and in both of these great
buildings it is used for a multiplicity of
purposes. Transmitted from a dynamo
to a motor it furnishes motive power
to run machinery of all Imaginable
kinds, and taken direct from the ma
chine where it is made it heats the
filaments in the electric light bulbs up
to the incandescent point and makes
the exposition buildings blaze Of glory
three nights a week.
But the dynamos which perform this
excellent service also do a lot of dam
age. They ruin by magnetism a good
many valuable watches. Since the ex
position opened more than one costly
timepiece has been carried into Elec-
tricity building a thing of beauty and
usefulness and, after ever a brief stay,
has been brought out a total wreck so
far as its timekeeping qualities are con-
cerned.
The disturbing element works noise
lessly but in a most insidious manner
Whenever a dynamo is running an in
visible quantity known as the magnetic
fluid is reaching out after hairsprings,
and C the electric demon has fas-
tened its fangs on the delicate bit of
regulating medium. A magnetized
watch, like a dead man. tells no tales.
There are methods of demagnetizing,
but they are only partially effective.
The best method, if you wear an ex-
p~ensive watch, is to examine dynamos
when they are not running.
An electrical expert was asked the
other day as to the probable number of
watches which had been ruined in the
exposition grounds by being brought
into close proximity to active dynamos.
1T would be impossible to approxi-
mate the damage" he replied, but 1
have no doubt that it has been consider
able. And it is strange that in this
day of general information people are
not better posted on the evil effects of
inspecting these powerful dynamos at
too close range. The damage is done
before they know it."
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-06-24
Time to Leave.

Chicago is a fine city," said the man
who, according to the Washington Star,
had been to the worlds fair, but |
must say that you meet with some ex-
traordinary adventures there. One night
was ont rather late and lost my way.
My watch had run down. Imet a respect
ablc-looking man and said as politely
as l knew how: My friend, have you a
watch? If you have should like to
know the time" "And what did he
do?' HE blew a police whistle and ran
away as hard as he could go!''
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-06-24

Mining building and in the state build
ings of several of the western states
there are gold and silver bearing ores
enough to make a mountain of riches,
and nodded into various forms through
out the fair there is enough more of the
precious metals to make a great many
men Independently wealthy. Aside from
this there is among the multitude of ex-
hibits, in the form of watches, jewelry
and ornaments, an enormous amount OF
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-06-24

gold, silver and precious stones, sur
passing in quantity and richness any
thing of the kind ever before placed on
exhibition in this country.
People who have barely enough of
the ''needful' to keep them on a peace
footing with the butcher, the baker and
the rest stroll about among the golden
ores with as much unconcern as if they
were gazing on sc much worthless rock.
There, close to their hands. are riches
enough to enable them to retire per-
manently from active business pursuits,
and they pass it by with but little more
than a passing glance. OF course they
couldn't make away with any of it if
they wanted to, as there are always
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-06-24
Learn to Talk.

Among the destinations OF a beauti-
full woman none exceeds that of a cul-
tivated voice. Every woman can not
learn to sing but she can learn to
practice alluring intonations of the
voice. Good speech is tuneful though
it be not song. Meditation in talking
is a sort of harmony. Lack of a pretty
face may be entirely counteracted by a
w~eu-trained voice united with an ease
o. Eanner.-Chicago Mail.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-06-24
TREASURES OF EARTH.
Enormous Wealth in Gems and
Minerals at the Worlds Fair.
Piles of Precious Metals from the West
ern States and Diamonds in the Rough
from South Africa-Odd Notes
of Interest.
Especial Chicago Correspondence

There is in the various departments
of the worlds fair enough mineral
wealth exposed to the gaze of the thou
sands of visitors each day to furnish
ransoms for several kings, and high
priced kings at that. Piled up in gilt
tering profusion in the different state
exhibits in the mammoth Mines and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-26

Mrs. Greathead Explains How She Succeeded
In Marrying OF Six Daughters.


In Marrying OF Six Daughters.
Illustrated American.
II did it with the frying-pan, q coy fire
ana cushioned rocking chair. There now,
you have the whole story. confessed Mrs.
Greathead. driven into corner.
1t was at the last meeting of the sewing
circle whom irresistible pressure forced her
to explain how she had married of six
daughters In quick succession.
I'D have every one of those girls on my
hands this minute" she began. IF hadn't
found them husbands out of my cook book.
When my eldest girl was fun crown
hustled about right and left for some means
of marrying her. Mary Lou was neither
overly handsome not Overlv spry. so L knew
better than to trust to LUCK. | just set to
work and figured ont q plan that had never
miscarried with any one OF them.
'All my life." she continued. II have
taken right smart notice OF mems ways and
have heard big stories of the happy results
over the field and picked me out decent
thriving young fellow whose habits were
good and his heart whole. You see, my
anxiety never made me forget my manners
OF set traps for other folks game. l began
by asking him friendly like to call and led
the conversation around to hlo mother, the
way he'd been raised and what he most
cared to eat in general. never missed q
socially for Sunday night tea. Then you
may be sure got in some fine work, and
when the second meal was over knew the
yearnngs of that mans stomach better
than he did himself.
"My calculations" added Mrs. Great
head, lied me to believe 1t is best to start
your activities in the fall of the year.
Spring Is no good. A man loves oil woman
kind at that season; his appetite il slack
and it's hard lines to keep track of both of
them. In ms experience courtship triggers.
land In November lead. as a rule. to a we'd
ding in May. OF course my chief depend
ence is put in tempting food. but I'd always
advise backing MP the table with q big,
comfortable rocker drawn facing cheerful
fire. Speak of 1t os his chair and his fire.
and you won't make any mistake. Another
thing don't be too pressing. A steady eye
and light hand count for more than nag
glng. 1 was always careful not to gush,
but if had apple fritters Tuesday. apollo
gized for their poorness and begged him to
drop in Thursday and let Mary Lou redeem
her mothers reputation with back bone and
peach charlotte. In the evenings had her
trained to sit in low sowing chair under
the big lamp with some sewing In her lap.
This kind of thing kept up right along
till about the first of February. when my
gentleman began to feel easy and snug.
like one of the family. Then came the
techy moment. for just at this. point l
lugged in some silly dandy that
neither nor Mary Lou would have looked
at But coddled the youngster, had him
to tea on the same night the regular
and waited to see what would happen.
Well 1t always did. He and Mary Lou
would come blushing to ask il they might
have each other aud W bile they made love
in the parlor / studied ND my cook book to
see my way to another son-in-law."