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The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09
Einety Miles an Hour.

When "Abe" Smith at the lever o.
engine 225, of the Pennsylvania RalIs
road, pulled out of the Baltimore and
Potomac depot at 1925 O'Clock on
Wednesday afternoon last it vas with
the avowed intention Of putting on
her mettle the immense mass Of mechs
anism.
Attached to the iron horse was the
private car of E. F. Brooks, superln'
tendent of the Maryland division, IN
which were seated that gentleman and
several supervisors aad train masters.
The car was equipped with a speed
indicator which, between this city and
Baltimore, recorded a speed Of sixty
miles an hour. Not until after Perry"
vile was passed did the big machine
give evidence of its possibilities Bee
tween that point and Wilmington she
fairly few over the rails, and for q
distance Of twenty miles ran at a rate
of ninety miles an hour. Then 'Abe"
closed the throttle and put on the air.
brakes, but 1t was only after three
miles had been gone over that she was
brought t. a standstll
No. 225 is one Of three engines desc
tined to revolutionize the passenger
traffic of the Pennsylvania system.
They were recently built at the COM
pany's shops in Juniata. Penn. They
are known among railroad men as class
P, and are expected to de7elope a
speed of 100 miles an hour. After the
remarkable performance OF 225, the
officials of the road are sanguine that
this can easily be accomplished
WASHINGTON Post.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09
SELECT sTFTNGSs

Aresident of Chicopee, Mass, g1ories
in the name Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
The first English laws against coun-
tsrfeiting Eere issued in HOS by
Henry1.
Eight shootings in the Scottish high.
lands pay S139, 900 rental for q five
weeks season.
Tailors and lawyers build up their
business by care in taking measures
for winning suits.
The climate of the Southern Polar
regions is much more severe than
that Of corresponding regions to the
north.
An apple tree which was blown down
during the recent storm ct Cheshire,
Conn, is known to have been nearly a
century and half old.
The total gold production of Central
Queensland for the last year was 160,-
900 ounces, with ore averaging n
ounce thirteen pennyweight to the
ton.
An English lady cured herself OF
somnambulism after trying every
known remedy in vain, by sewing up
her night-dress at the bottom and at
the sleeves.
The oldest dress in the world be.
Ionged to an Empress of Japan, who
lived in the thirteenth century, and it
has been kept ell these centuries in a
temple ear Yokohama.
The theatres and other places of en-.
tertainment in London are large
enough to provide sittings at one time
for all the inhabitants of Edinburgh,
and even then there would be 20, 600
sittings to spare.
The Rarens Of Burmah have their
marriages at D funeral feast. When a
villager dies his remains are temper
arily disposed of until one or more
marriages can be arranged, when they
are disinterred, a great feast made and
the funeral services properly per-
formed.
The rarest American coin is the dol
lar Of 1904. There are bell aved to be
not more than ten in existence. AS
much as $1,000 has been offered and
refused for an 1904 dollar. Many ex-
plantations have been given Of the
scarcity of this coinage. One is that
in the year 1905 a China-bound vessel
was lost containing almost the entire
mintage Of 1904.
The donkey in Algeria rarely has a
saddle. He has q pad very similar to
the pad on which the bespangled
queens Of the sawdust ring dance their
short hour to delighted boys. The
pad has no slLcrups and is SO wide as
to make a seat on it extremely firing
to the uninitiated. The Arab sits
astride or sidewise. and as the pad is
rarely girthed or at best by q slender
rope, it is like walking a tight rope OF
managing a birch bark canoe to sit
on it.
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corn than from any other feed, while
for fattening young steers there is no
better food. A steers mouth at three
years of age is but partially provided
with grinders, and it is difficult for
him to tnesticate whole ears OF corn or
parts OF ears broken crosswise of the
cob. He will eat strips Of ear length
wise the cob and fatten as rapidly as
at four years old, although at the
latter age he is provided with a full
set of mature grinders. Many feeders
do not try to fatten steers till they are
four years old for this reason. Cattle
Of any ege can eat split corr without
any soreness Of mouth. which is fire..
quently the case when fed On whole
ears of corn.
While there has been some differ
snce of opinion among feeders as to
the value of cob as a feed, ali agree
that cob when prepared go cattle will
Eat it readily is an aid to digestion not
acquired from any other roughness.
Cattle can be fed all the split corr
they will eat without the least DANCE:
Of overlooking. AS the fiber of the
cob is broken SO that they will mastiy
cate the strips Of ears like chewing q
rud, without any wastage By slabber-
ing grains of corn from the mouth, ali
The saliva is retained and mixed thor
ough1y with the food, insuring q iii.
gestion 80 perfect that no whole grams
of corn are passed.
According to the analysis OF the
Government chemist, there is a gain
Of twenty-five per cent. in nutriment
by splitting the corn. This means
that seventy-fve bushels of split corn
will do the work of one hundred
bushels of whole ears. Of course I
would not pay to do the work by hand,
but with & machine which will SILT
from 300 to 500 bushels per day the
is obvious. Farm, Field and
Firegide.
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The Calm Il feLlom.rassenger.

Lily Berries, the juvenile eoubrette.
had been spending her holidays on
the Lake of Geneva. When about to
return 70 Paris she was aecosted at the
railway station by a young gentleman,
He handed her q large basket of gold
straw, filed with the choicest flowers.
and said: II am also going to Paria,
and these flowers shall serve to intro
duce us to each other"
When, on their arrival in Paris,
Mile. Lily stepped into q cab, the
stranger said to her: s'Lf you will wait
q moment I will have the basket filled
with sweets in place Of the flowers, as
the latter are faded"
On. receiving the basket five min
ties aafterward the soubrette was as.
tonished at its lightnesgy and told her
companion SO.
"No wonder" said the gentleman,
''youl little hands have conveyed
duty.free across the frontier eighteen
zevless watches, which lay concealed
n the moss" So saying, he lifted his
nat and disappeared. lie Figaro.
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
The adult human heart Is five inch.

The adult human heart is five inches
long.
The Dorio col mn vas eve less
than fonr and raAely more than six
diameters high, hd the diameter at
the top was three-fourths that at the
bottom.
A German has invented a paper from
which any sort of ink may be erased
by the use of a moist sponge, but the
Government has refused to grant him
c patent on it,
The last annual circle of wood leaves
an accumulation Of living cells upon
it's surface, and toward midsummer
thess cells produce an abundance of
new ones until the aggregate is stuff.
cienS to form q new annual layer. This
process on common trees requires
about six weeks.
Among the products which science
has put to valuable servics is the net
tie, q weed which is now being cult.
waited in some parts of Europe, its
fber proving useful for a variety of
textile fabrics. In Dresden q thread
is produced from it SO fine that q
length of sixty miles weighs only two
and a half pounds.
An official notice has been issued in
Russia that physicians shall have the
right to make use of %hypnotism in the
treatment Of their patients. In every
case of the application they must in
form the administrative authorities, al
the same time giving the names of the
physicians in whose presence the pa.
tient was hypnotized.
A man fifty years old has, according
to a French stat stefan, worked $500
days, slept 5000, amused himself 1000,
walked $4,000 miles, been i'll 500
days, has partaken of $4,000 meals,
eaten 16. 200 pounds of meat and 1000
pounds of Ash, eggs and vegetables,
and drunk 1000 gallons of fluid, which
would make q lake Of 800 feet surface
if three feet deep.
An attempt is being made in Eng.
land to utilize the power absorbed in
the application of the brakes to tram
cars SO as to render aid in Restraining
the car. A spring is charged which
a be released and will start the cal
without the aid Of the horses. A for
ward and not a recoil movement is at
once given to the wheels, but it's action
can be reversed in case of need-sucb
as to overrunning joints at functions.
Electrical progress has been very
rapid in Switzerland on account of the
abundance Of cheap power from water.
falls. Professor Dezlsr. of the Zurich
Polytechnic School, states that at the
close Of 1892 there were in operation
$50 electric light installations, fifty.
two plants for the electrical transmits.
sion Of power, 121 batteries 0f aocum.
ulators and 1865 dynamos and electro.
motors. The number Of incandeseent
lamps was 115, 926 and Of lamps 9746.
There are several simple methods Of
distinguishing between mushrooms
and toadstools, and any person who
has seen the two together would not
be likely to mistake n for the other.
The mushroom has the neck solid.
with a color or frill midway between
the earth and Che head, whereas thu
stem OF the toadstool is hollow; the
mushroom has a thick kid.like cover.
which tbs toadstool lacks, and
salt has no effect on the mushroom
where it turns ths snadstool black.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09
HARVESTING APPLES AND FEARS.

A late writer says that he has lost a
hundred barrels of choice apples in the
course of his experience by not pick
ing them in the right season, often de-
ferring the work for his corn cutting
or potato digging. There is no doubt
that many ~orchardists lose a great deal
by not gathering their apples in sea.
son, or else, on the other hand, by
picking them too soon.
II the orchard and its crop are valu.
able many kinds of fruit are worth two
seasons of picking. The first hal. Is
when they begin to drop from the tree !;
but there is another half or more, with
some Varieties which adhere firmly and
remain. It the gathering of these is
deferred about two weeks they will
keep longer and be better in quality.
Il is not difficult to select the most
mature first by their color, and they
will readily loosen at the stem, while
the others strongly adhere.
The well known rule for gathering
pears, when the fruit will readily sepa-
rate from the tree when lifted half way
up, ia an excellent rule, but there 10
usually less difference in tie tune OF
ripening than with apples. Pears
which ripen early and in a medium sea-
son should always be gathered some
days before ripe.
Choice varieties may be packed IN
drawers or boxes, and will become
more delicious at maturity than if
ripened in the open air and on the
tree. This is particularly important
with early pears, and wrapped in fan.
mel and allowed to remain some days
they will be greatly improved, and
those which have a slight blush natur-
ally will redden into real beauty When
matured. Late autumn or winter
varieties require rather less care and
may be treated more like winter APP
pies, but at the same time they should
be carefully andsvell secured in q cool
and uniform temperature. -Cultiyator
and Country Gentleman.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09
To Mend Tortoise Shell.


Two broken pieces OF tortoise shell
can be fixed together by fling the
edges down with q rasp till each piece
has an edge like o chisel. These two
edges are then made to overlap one
another, and after softening in boiling
water, are tightly held together in q
clamp or vice. The heating must DO
very carefully done, sc as to avoid
.warping or otherwise damaging the
rest of the article. BE sure thai it 10
tortoise shell. A vast snaonnt OF tor
totss she'll il in reality only cslluloid,
OF gylonite, and the application OF
hest 10 this will distoFt ID al; also, it
Is intiammable, not to say explosive.
imitation tortoise shell can be connects
ed with aeetone.-New York Jouraats
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UNR1rE SEED Will GROW,

1t does not need that fruit of\anY
kind shall be thoroughly rips to make
it grow. The same is true Of corn.
We have seen corn planted the laet Of
June, and only getting into the milk
stage saved for seed and growing per-
fectly. In fact, it grew faster AMI
ripened earlier the following season
than did cor that was fully raatured,
That may, however, have been due to
extra care taken with the green seed
corn. It was partly stripped Of its
husks and hung up to dry. Owing to
immaturity there was less substance or
starch in the grain, and when we'll
dried it was SO shriveled that it looked
as if there were little beside the germ
enclosed in the grain, but every seed
grew. If this soft corn had been left
in the field, exposed to rains and to
repeated freezing while damp, proba-
bly, nota grain of it would have grown.
It Injuries any seed to freeze it while
damp, and with those naturally tender
it entirely destroys their vitality. -
American Cultiyator.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09
70 CLEAN COOKING VESSELS.

Sometimes the most careful wash.
ing will not wholly remove the favor
or odor of food from the utensil in
which it was cooked. This Is FREE
quently the case with fish, onions,
cabbage, ETC., but there is e remedy
which may be g little trouble, and yet
is we'll worth trying.
After any Of these articles have
been cooked wash the utensil carefully
with soap and water. Now nearly fill
it with cold water. and for each quart
Of water add about a tablespoonful OF
dissolved washing soda. Place on the
fire and let the water get boiling hot.
Now turn this water into the sink.
Rinse the utensil with clean, warm
water, and, on wiping it dry, it will
be found perfectly sweet.
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TO CLEAN CARPETS Ar home.

Il is often the case that accidents
happen when one is far away from a
cleaners, or when perchance the
carpet may not be worth the expense
of the professionals service, but would
be extremely useful if put in good
order.
A simple and efectual means of
cleaning is to rip the breadths apart.
if the carpet is large take one breadth
at a time owe q common kitchen table
or wide board and scour with pre-
pared soapsuds, if necessary, or
naphtha. If that substance is to be
used, scrub the carpet thoroughly
with an ordinary sorub.brush. If the
washing is done with eoapsuds, it is
we'll to rinse the carpet thoroughly,
which may be done by throwing on
pailfuls of water and scrubbing it out
with the brush to rid the fabric Of the
suds as nearly as may be. II the
carpet shows symptoms of fading, u
if the colors threaten to run, it is
quits worth while to go owe it again
and again with the brush and with
soft cloths and remove the water as
rapidly as possible, meanwhile having
the board or table tipped at an angle
SO as to allow all surplus water to
drain away as quickly as 1t can. This
is rather slow work and hard work;
but if we'll done, the result will be a
carpet entirely cleaned, perfectly
wholesome and quite good enough for
an upper room or for the rugs and
pieces that are required in every
house New York Ledger.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09
HOUSEHOLD
USE FOR AN OLD MIRROR.

Have an old mirror or q panel Of
looking glass framed in o. fat, wide
pine frame. Let this be mounted on
claw feet, as for screen, with marrow,
zinc-lined box, with the outside Of
pine across the bottom. Enamel the
frame ivory white, paint the box dull
bronze-green and fill with ferns. Paint
sprays of ferns here and there across
the frame and you will have a lasting
and charming summer fireplace screen
that Gan be reflled with ferns summer
after summer. In winter place it in
some corner. and put two or three
smallsword palms in the box, always
filing it with fresh earth.-Nev York
World.
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PICKLES.

Onion Pickles-Scald large silver
skinned onions in boiling salt water,
let stand t~wenty-four hours. pour of
the brine and scald in strong vinegar,
drain, put in a jar, cover with strong,
spiced vinegar. cover and set in cool
place.
Small Cucumber Pickles-Wash and
wipe $50 small cucumbers of uniform
size, put in a large jar. Cover with
boiling brine, let stand for twenty
four hours. Drain, wipe, put in clean
jars, with a sliced onion, two dozen
cloves, one ounce Of mustard seed,
half dozen blades Of mace, a root Of
ginger and a dozen whole pepper
cones.
Red Cabbage Pickle-Quarter fine
head of red cabbage, sprinkle with
salt and let stand eight hours. Chop
half a dozen onions and add to the
cabbage. Put iqgs kettle, v with
spiced vinegar d set on the fire to
scald. Take M put in a jar, pour
fresh vinegar ove1 cove and set aside
two weeks before using.
Ripe Tomato Pickles - Puncture
large ripe tomatoes with q darning
needle. Put a LAYER of tomatoes with
chopped onions and a sprinkle of salt
in a jar, put in more tomatoes and
season, let stand four days, take from
the jar, squeeze each tomato gently,
put in a clean jar, cover with strong
vinegar, seasoned with red pepper,
horse radish and mustard seed.
Green .Pickles-Take small, fresh
cucumbers, salt them down dry and
let stand for ten days, take up and
soak in fresh water for one day. Put
in a porcelain kettle, cover with weak
vinegar, add a teaspoonful of pulver.
ized alum, set on the back of stove,
let heat, but not boil. Drain, put in
a jar with cloves, allspice, pepper,
horseradish and garlic. Heat strong
vinegar and pour over, set aside for
ten days, and the pickles will be ready
for use. These pickles are always fresh
and crisp.
A Plain Beef stew--Take four or five
pounds of the round of beef and put it
into water enough to cover it. When
the water has been thoroughly skinned
add two turnips, two carrots and two
onions, chopped small, half a dozex.
cloves, and salt and pepper to taste.
Cover close and boil very gently four
or five hours. A short time before
dinner add a teaspoonful Of sweets
msiorum, half a cup of tomato ketchup
and q tablespoonful of -four wet
smooth in cold water. This is g very
economical dish. The beef is very
good cold and the soup is excellent.
Creole piokles-Tc7s five dozen
large ~oucumbers, two dozen fulPgrown
green tomatoes, a dozen large white
ones, two dozen small onions, three
heads of cabbage, pint OF grated
horseradish, q quarter OF a pound OF
mustard seed, half a teacup of ground
pepper, half q pint of salad oil one
ounce of celery seed and ground Gin
nsmon each, with two ounces OF tur-
meric. Quarter the eueumbers, to-
matoeg, large onions and cabbage, put
in q Jar with the small onions whole;
sprinkle with salt, let stand twenty
four hours. drain, pour over a gallon
OF strong vinegar and let stand two
days. Strain the vinegar of, and
press the pickles as dry as possible.
nix the spices and seasoning WELL add
to o gallon and q half Of fresh vinsgaE,
pour boiling hot YER the pickles.
Mix in the oil. Cover and set ina
cool dry place. -0ourier.Journal.
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Catarrh Cannot he Cured

With local applications. as they cannot reach
constitutional disease. and in order to oure
It you must take internal remedies. Halls
Catarrh cure is taken internally, and acts d.
Catarrh Cure is not aquaok medicine. 1t was
prescribed BY one Of the best physicians in this
country for years. and is regular prescription.
It Is composed Of the best tonies known, com
rectly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect
combination, of the two ingredients Is what
produces such wonderful results in curing ca
F. J. CHENEY q Co, Props, Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, price 76e.
EXPORTS of breadstuf9, provisions and
cotton for the past nine months show a fall
ing of as compared with 1892.
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German
Syrup"

Two. bottles Of German Syrup
cured me Of Hemorrhage of the
Lungs when other remedies failed.
! am a married man and, thirty-six
years of age, and live with my wife
and two little girls at Durham, Mo.
! have stated this brief and plain SO
that all may understand. My case
was a bad one, and I shall be glad
to tell anyone about it who will
write me. PHILIP L. SCIENCE, P.
Q. Box45, April IS, 1890. No man
could ask a more honorable, bust
ness-like statement. g
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IAN16EMH 6T6SKl
THE FARM WE'LL,

Too often no precaution is taken to
prevent the ~polluting of the farm wells
by the drainage from tbs barnyard,
pigpen and other equally dangerous
sources. More disease ana sickness is
caused by the drinking Of impure
water than by any other one thing,
and too much care cannot be taken in
locating e well or protecting the ones
already dug from pollution by surfacs
or under drainage. American Farmer.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09
A Eeekt,e Of RattIesnase Skin.

A former Delawarean, now living in
Chicago, YEA a uecktie made of q
rattlesnake's skin. He slew the reptile
in Florida, just as it was about to
from its coil and strike him. a
taxidermist cured the skin in such
fashion that it should serve for q tie,
and made up part Of the rattles into s
scarfpin. This the owner wears as ar
ornament to his remarkable tie.
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se17r coaN FOR 3 d

II pays to split corr for fodder.
1~hsr.yand practice havs demonstrated
that fact beyond q shadow Of a
doubt. From various stabs ag1iculs
tural experiment stations re are as.
sured that mich COWS viii yisld D
great Tor Of milk when fed on split
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09
In Olden Times

People overlooked the Importance of perna-
nently beneficial effects and were satisfied
with transient action, but now that it is gener-
ely known that syrupo of Figs will permanent
" cure habitual constipation, well-informed
people will not buy other laxatives, which act
for a time, but finally injure the system
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09

ons OF the choicest articles IN the
collection of the late F. L. Ames. OF
Boston, is what's said TO be the largest
crystal known to exist. It Is seven
inches in diameter. and Mr.. Ames 10
belieYed to have paid s24, 900 for it,
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In most churches Of England e. ring
is kept so that embarrassment may be
spared in case Of forgetIplness of the
parties Concerned.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09

A white pelican that measured eight
feet ten inches cross the wings and
five feet ten inches from bill to tail was
captured recently at Coupville, Wash
ington,
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For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and stomach dis.
orders, use Browns Iron Bitters-the Best
Tonic. 1t rebuilds the B god and strengthens
and debilitated persons.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09

MORE thar $500, 600 of damage was done
to the Louisville and Nashville lines by the
late Southern storms.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09

Malaria cured and eradicated from the sys-
tenn by Browns Iron Bitters. which. enr ches
the blood, tones the ner.e s, aids digest on.
Acts like g. charm on persons H. general ill
health, giving new energy and strength.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09

IRE coal war in England ia practically
ended AMI the price Of coal has fallen nearly
SO atom.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09

APPLES are scarce and high in price this
year.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09

A NEW course, that OF physical %cultura. is
to Yale seniors this year.
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09

Beecham's Pills cure Indigestion and constr
patton. Beecham's-no others. Is cts. q box
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09

It afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thoms
sons Eye-water.D Druggists sell at 25c.per bottle
The Opelousas courier., 1893-12-09

mEA~PAYING thiny for agents Is our PHOTO
AE GRAPH AMtLY ItECoRDS, other Pic.
BaS y lures and Frames. Address, Dept. "a.
C. r. C0ry 81 Co.. IL to +5JaTerson St, Chicago.
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TngIeside -:- EetFeat.

F. Dtsessrs az Women. Scientific treatment aud
cures guaranteed. Elegan; apartments for ladieg be
fore and during confinement. Address Tue heSI-
dent Physician. d-ta Baxter Coart. nasnnl-L eoD