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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
ODD WAYS OF OSTRICHES.

The Males r., d over the Young and
Capture E.rh Others Families
The ostrich has many strange ways,
and | was particularly interested In
studying them. says writer in Forest
and Stream. They 80 IN focks Of three
or four females and one male about
their nesting time. and for several
weeks before locating their nests the
hens drop their eggs all about the pam
pas These are called haucho eggs
pronounced "watcho''), and are much
more delicate in flavor than the eggs
taken from the nests. They have =
thinner shell, and when fresh laid are
of beautiful golden color. We
cooked them by roasting them before
the fire. We would first break hole
in the small end of the egg,
large enough to insert teaspoon. The
egg would be set up among some hot
ashes, pinch Of salt and pepper put in
to it. and the contents kept stirred with
a stick SO that all would be done alike.
The flavor is excellent, and one egg
would satisfy very hungry man.
As soon as the ostriches decide upon
O suitable place for q nest, the male
bird scratches away the grass and
slightly hollows out the ground for .
space of about three feet in diameter
All the hens of the flock lay in the
same nest until there are from twenty
Eve to thirty-five eggs laid. The male
birds then take possession and sit ON
the eggs until they are Matched As
soon as the flock can leave tho nest,
the old fellow leads them away to feed
on flies and small insects. and every
thing is lovely until he espies another
male bird with brood.
As soon as the Old birds see each
other they make a peculiar booming
sound. and every little ostrich disap-
pears in the grass. The old ones then
approach each other and engage In q
most deadly conflict. They fight until
one or the other is killed or runs away.
The remaining one will then utter an
other peculiar sound, and both broods
will spring up from their hiding places
and follow the victor. who struts of as
proud rs peacock. I have seen old
male ostr, hes with three broods. each
of different size, two Of which they
had captured.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
o. SOILS THE WOMEN.
That IL Why the Bachelor Won't 0ts

That IL Why the bachelor Won't tatvv
Up lila seat on the Cars.
why don't get up and give my seat
In a car TO n woman whom I happen TO
see standing after ] am scated2" said q
broker the other day whose reputation
Tor good breeding, according to the
New York Herald, is beyond reproach.
Well. I'll tell you frankly that it is
due to the women They become more
il-brcd ard boider every year They
demand a courtesy as right They
never think Of looking at q car as 1t APP
proaches N see whether it is full or not
or as to whether it would be better to
wait for the next They Just board the
first to como along and look at the men
deprecatingly II they do not rise at
once.
Personally ! have often waited for
four cars to End a seat. Then hang
on to it. except in the case of a woman
with babies or an elderly lady II ON q
bachelor and propose to remain so nm
til woman thanks Inc for giving her
my seat in either an elevated train or n
horse ca- To such a one I think ia
ytOp''S~ iusC az OUCe. then
I'm going to be careful to whom | give
up my scat. Pretty soon we men will
have to surrender our seats in the the
alter TO the woman who buys an en-.
trance ticket
And why not? Your seat in the
theater costs perhaps one dollar and
fifty cents and your scat in the car costs
only five cents. Still the principle is
the same, and no woman with a proper
sense Of delicacy ought to accept any
thing from stranger which costs
money.
what would a woman think at the
postage stamp window in the post Of
fee II man ahead Of her in the line
turned around and said: Pardon me,
madam. won't you take my stampr
Yet stamp is only two cents"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
Not America nisms.

An English correspondent Of the Dos
ton Herald has found in Dictionary
Of the Isle Of Wight Dialect" a number
OF words which English writers usually
class rs American provincialismA
Among them are cute" and 'piert,s
found also in one OF George Eliot's nov
els: backed up" call" in the sense Of
reason or necessity; ''chipper," darn"
- o mild oath; fall" for autumn;
'.galluses. theft" hunk" Jaw"
meaning to scold: "jiffcy." get out OF
kilter," rare" in the sense of under
tone: ''thich," for intimate; ''gumption,"
tan" meaning to thrash; spells" of
weather. put to rights" etc. The sub
ject Is a most interesting one and de-
serves more attention from philologists
than It has thus far received. The
compiler OF the dictionary in question
says that many Of the provincialisms In
the Isle of Wight are identical with
those current In the adjoining counties
of Hampshire. Willis and Dorset, once
forming q part Of the Saxon Kingdom
Of Wessex, and that the basis of the
dialect of this region is purely Anglo
Saxon
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
Love ~ Anims,s tor Drink.

Close observers have noticed that hies
will G.. lcr upon a half-drunken.
sleepy s0t. w6i:c a dozec sober men in
the sam ronri arc not molestcd by
them 1hc flies wi bu-: around their
subjec, with great delight, frequently
alighting upon his perspirirg face or
they 60, and return again and again,
quafiing the alcoholic nectar issuing
from his pores After awhile their
fight becomes uncertain and eccentric,
and sometime they come in collision.
L ,cen.ly a drunken man raised his
hand and brushed tacm from his face.
Some fell to the for and lay there par
alyzed After awhile they got ON their
feet and YEARLY Gov of. half dazed.
Many animals yield to the seduction of
rum drinking, especially elephants,
horses. cows and swine. Poultry, es-
pecially turkeys. viii absorb the tempt
ing drinl. till they tuinble over in q
leaden sleep. lying around as if dead,
and utterly ignoring their accustomed
roosts. On a,yai inc they stagger for q
few moments aud s. on recover, but il is
hours before they renew their cheerful
cackling
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
pOiNGS OF A vOODOo
4 Negro Doctrsss d, Louisiana swallow
Snakes for Ias.ime.

4 Negro Doctrsss In Louisiana swallow
Snakes for Pas.ime.
An aged negress Of great repute as .
''voodoo," or witch doctress, among the
negroes of this section, is attracting
much attention. not only from those
Of her own color. but from the more in
telligent portion Of the community, and
the way in which she does this is to ap-
parently swallow a number OF small
snakes Of q variety unknown In this
section. They are of the dusky color,
nearly black, pied with dull green At
the fat head, and of a dirty white In
the belly, says a Louisiana correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
These reptiles remain secreted about
old Nance's cabin until she gives q Pc
culiar whistling call, when they will
come to her, wriggling in great haste
over the floor, up her dress, and run
into her open mouth, kissing hideously.
They disappear and remain hidden
sometimes for minutes. She asserts
that they are concealed in her stomach
until she recalls them, when they Will
come pouring out to writhe about her
scraggy neck and coil in her bosom.
Where the snakes really go when
they vanish in her mouth is a mystery,
and has puzzled all the physicians
about, many having come from New
Orleans to witness the phenomenon
Some really believe that the snakes do
go down into the stomach, while Others
are convinced that the witch is simply
playing Some sleight-of-hand trick on
them: but if the latter is the case it Ia
so cleverly done that there is no detect
ing the performance.
The witch presents a most extraor-
binary and hide,uS appearance sitting
with the snakes darling their fiat heads
In and out of her toothless mouth, with
their little bead-like eyes swapping a.
If in fury at all about their mistress
As nearly as can be counted there are
six or seven of these reptiles, though
old Nance says there are as many more,
but they are all so much of q size and
color that they cannot be identified.
They are probably Of harmless ma
ture, though old Nance declares they
are highly poisonous and no one wishes
to experiment with them
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
AN ENGLISH JUNE.
The Delights Of an Early summer Even.
Ing In Cambridge.

The Delight. Of an Early summer Even.
ing In Cambridge.
In a recent paper in the Atlantic on
the English Cam bridge. Albert Gillette
Hyde gives this pleasant picture of a
June evening there:
Indeed, it is hard to imagine a sight
more interesting in it's kind than that
which the winding, narrow thorough
fares of this ancient academic city pre-
sent on fine evening in June, particu-
larly on Saturdays, the Cambridge
market day.
"A continuous stream of townsmen.
gownsmen and sturdy country folk.
with the usual proportion OF woman
kind, passes and repasses with quick,
echoing tread. many Of them walking
in the middle of the clean asphalt
streets The shops are lighted up bril-
liantly. as in most provincial towns,
though twilight ut this season lasts
nearly all night. In either of the main
arteries of travel-Trumpington street.
with its clear rivulets flowing at either
curb, which becomes Kings parade,
Trinity street and ST. Johns before
uniting with the other. Regent street,
st. Andrews, Sidney street, etc.-and
in the narrow crossway. the Petty Curry,
one meets this tide at the full.
1.-THE undergraduate is necessarily
conspicuous, walking alone, or two and
two. or three or four abreast, the toga
virilis lightly depending from his
shoulders, sometimes in the last stage
of dilapidation, and streaming from his
person In tags and ribbons Mostly he
is slight, good looking, youthful and
beardless. or perhaps with an incipient
mustache; seldom very rudy, but at
the worst of a healthy psleness.
Naturally it is among the lightly
clad groups striding in from the boats
or the cricket fields that one sees the
best specimens of physique. These, in.
deed, are often admirable, though hard
~ 50 striking in appearance as Is COM
monty supposed; yet IL anyone doubts
the virility of these young Englishmer
a short walk or row with ono Of them
will quickly convince him Of his error.
''One very pleasant feature Of the
streets Is the decorum usually prevail
ing among tho students, in former
times land in some quarters Of the
world even now) an unruly and turbu-
lent element of the community. They
walk together, conversing almost in
sudibly in the dulcet Cambridge tone,
which men from all parts of the is
land arc said to contract soon after
coming up.
Singing, loud talking, or shouting
among them Is rarely heard out Of
doors, though sounds Of q mildly Bac-
chanalian type sometimes issue from
college or lodging-house windows.
This creditable street behavior Is doubt
less due to Cambridge tone rs much a.
to vigilant proctorizing; yet even in the
cricket field and among the boating
crews Except the musical Well rowed!'
at the races) the undergraduate is rare
ly vociferous. The English still take
their sports sadly and silently"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
THE BOWER BIRD.
One Of the Queer Denizens Of Auseralia's
Forests.

One Of the Queer Denizens Of Auseralia's
Forests.
The most remarkable instance of
estheticism among the birds is that
exhibited by the Australian bower
birds, who build long galleries in
which to play, adjoining them with
shells, feathers, leaves, bones or any
colored or glittering object which
comes in their way. Capt. Stokes de.
seribes one of these bower birds as
taking shell alternately from each
side of the bower and carrying 1t
through in its beak
Lumholz describes several of these
playhOuses of the bower birds He
says they are always to be found ''in
small brushwood, never in the open
field; and in their immediate vicinity
the birds collect a mass of different
kinds of objects, especially snail shells,
which sre laid in two heaps, one at
each entrance-the one being much
larger than the other. There are fire.
quently hundreds of shells. about three
hundred in one heap and thirty in the
other. There is usually handful Of
green berries, partly inside and partly
outside the bower"
In his interesting book, Among
Cannibals," Lumholz describes q play
ground of what would appear to be .
different species of the bird, showing
even a greater esthetic taste. He says:
''On the top of the mountain heard
in the dense scrubs the loud and un-
ceasing voice of a bird. carefully ap-
preached it, sat on the ground and
shot it. 1t was one of the bower birds,
with a gray and very modest plumage
and of the size of q thrush. As
picked up the bird my attention was
drawn to a fresh covering Of green
leaves on the black soil. This was the
birds place of amusement, which, be-
meath the dense scrubs, formed q
square yard each way, the ground
having been cleared Of leaves and rub
bish.
ION this neatly-cleared spot the bird
had laid large, fresh leaves, one by the
side of the other, with considerable
regularity, and close by he sat singing,
apparently extremely happy over his
work. As soon as the leaves decay
they are replaced by new ones"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
Radically Different.

Two things may look very similar on
the surface, but be entirely unlike at
bottom, as in this case reported by the
Memphis Appeal-Avalanche:
The landlady of boarding house In
this city had an eight-year-old son who
is remarkably precocious. Not long
ago he we Mt up to town and had his head
shaved. Among the boarders is gen.
tleman whose hair long ago babe him
forewell This gentleman came to the
table the next day, and said:
why, Charley, you haven't any more
hair now than have"
"Yes. SIR" said Charley, "that's 20:
but have . lot more roots than you
hSv~"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
The Smallest island.

The smallest sea island on record 10
nine feet across, and is reported by
Capt John Richards, of the British ship
Cambrian Monarch. to have been sight
ed by him in latitude 20 degrees. .
minutes north, longitude iS7 degrees. 50
minutes west The sea was smooth
around it. and it was clearly an island.
t.pering upward in a pyramidal shape
frum below the surface of the water.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
He Was Not . Kicker.

II don't mind your daughters prac-
ticing ten hours day in the next hat, /"
said the tenant in the apartment house,
'even If she does keep the piano cover
up and the forte pedal down. But I
would like family to suggest that three
thousand six hundred and fifty hours q
year of Chopin's second nocturne has
made q slight change seem desirable.
Would you mind asking her to play the
third or fourth nocturne on Tuesdays
and Fridays, so that my wife can have
q different kind of headache by way of
relieff"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
Crern; on IN % d,n T;mcs.
An, inuifY Of T .hacc0.

Tobacco was not. by Columbus on
his very fir / wac II wa, FIRST cul
tivated by Joan 4. in lj.3. and a,
early as 1919 lot % .J,;.J pounds was
shipped to England In 80 tobacco
factory was started ~ the Eappahan-
mock river AID .plt 100 the first
sorth Of Ia" .s.n, ~,-cr was built in
Ne, -';.- .AGt. q Is the ex-
por; ..ulu ........a amounted to 42.S4
hogshca'.s ~ aboat l.JoJ pounds each.
and increased tn i,d:, after which
there was a decline until after the
revo!u''on II il uow grown in most
Of 'ie ~p'lt1~ru state, W., Kentucky
in the lead
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
Curiosity shops in China.

There are two kinds of curiosity shops
in the Flowtry kingdom. One is in
tended for guileless globe trotters and
the nouveaux riches, the other for col.
lectors and persons Of taste. In the
former the proprietor asks from two
hundred to two thousand per cent
profit on his goods, and in the latter he
is satisfied with anything between
twenty-five and one hundred Ter cont
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
Didn't Know 1t Was There.

A photographed in the Tyrol made q
nc ..ative Of ten tourists against back
ground of pine woods. When he de.
~eloped the plate faithful present
ment of large bear in the act of max
ing for the denser timber appeared in
the edge of the forest Neither the
man with the camera nor any of thoss
In the group had known that tho hrut<
Wss near.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13
THE INDIANS SUGAR.
How It Was Extracted from tho Trees 4
Vermont.

Vermont.
Ever since the Indians in the section
now known as Fletcher discovered
honey" in the maple trees, that dis
trict has been known far and wide a.
the heart of the Vermont maple sugar
country. The way the red man ex-
tracted the delicious compound was
somewhat slow as compared with the
present process. He used to cut q
slanting cash in the bark and insert in
the lower end q gauge-shaped piece OF
wood, from which the sap ran and
dropped into q poplar or Eastwood
trough. At the END Of the season these
troughs would be set up against the
trees and left until the following sea-
son, by which time the troughs would
be thoroughly widowed. This ma
terially added to the flavor of the abb
original sugar. but can hardly be said
to have improved it. The evaporator
of those times consisted of an iron ket-
tie swung from a sapling bent over q
stump. By slow and tedious process
the sap was first heated and then
boiled in this kettle. often taking two
or three days boiling before it could
be sugared off. This was the way in
which the redskins and the early Yer.
monitors eked out a "sweetnin'" to
their tea and johnny cake.
In the best Fletcher groves of to-day
a long pipe or trough line runs from
some central spot in the grove down
to the big storage tanks in the sugar
house. Here the per eected evaporator.
when under full hca lway. VIII convert
the first sap into sirup III half an hour.
consuming about ooe cord OF wood to
produce a hundred pounds of sugar.
There are in the town of fletcher. at a
moderate estimate. TRY thousand
trees, this being probably within the
real number.
A D.~o- .i-.c ~,ne.
A PhilGt ,H... ii, wife werg
dropped Ole nc. .:I.;..er cay at the
tiny post village o, ount Pleasant.
on the Delaware ri lroad. and as they
gazed over a fiat country. whose differ
ences of level are carcely pcrceptible
save by the aid of :; rvcy orr instru-
ment. a native ASSET them what thcy
were loo ling for. hcn the Philadel.
phian explained that the Eame of the
place had called up such Vi -ons of an
airy eminencc thai ne id his wife had
come down to 50 vacation
They learned FIR t.. awe tina,
summer board w., not oJtainablc
there, and he obl;giI " explained
that the place re .-, deceptive
name "a common, .... of the fax
that 4. vas siSaated - GAG watershed
between Delaware ia ,c apea..e
bays. the backbone .e PENN ula
Is it is locally callc,l.
CreIn, on IN % d,n T;mcs.
The SIN / MAJ Cd .,.i-. on has
printed p~qsr oy der dc
.criJing IN urn co .acinerated
human bones win -, ia out of an
IA, ext 4)cnl in .cot a The urn.
or vase, 10 nearly co -. eleven and q
half inches h.,n, AMI wa, covered by
an inverted BELLS lapai vessel fifteen
and three-fod. Is ,l-.ic5 in height.
The ashes nearly :ilf Tiled the vase
and mingled wi.I IN we're calcined
human t. I'll AM rlyments of boxes
Lying on the sure of these remains
were quantity of wanpum and sew
eral small pearls that had been pierced
for stringing.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13

who desire the business Of
this section.
DE u &C Il 4 TIC
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13

in principles, it will ever ad
vocate what seems to IT is t.
the best interests IF State
generally, and the Parish
particularly.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13

Blanks Of every description
for Magistrates, Constables
and other Officials kept con-
stantly on hand
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13

Reaching every home in
thc parish, it Is an excelIen
medium for
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-13

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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-02-06
s.. Augustine.

The city of st. Augustine, on the east
ern coast OF Florida, stands in one respect
pre-eminent among all the cities of the
United States-it is truly an old city. 1t
has many other claims To- consideration,
but these are shared with other cities
But in regard to age it is the one member
of its class.
Compared with the cities OF She old
world, ST. Augustine would be called
young, but i'm the United States city
whose buildings and monuments connect
the middle ages with the present time may
be considered to have good claim to be
called ancient.
After visiting some of our great towns
where the noise and hustle of traffic, the
fire and din of manufactures, the long lines
of buildings stretching out in every direc-
tion, with all the other evidences of active
enterprise, proclaim these cities creations
of the present day and hour, il is refresh
ing and restful to go down to quiet ST.
Augustine, where one may gaze into the
dry moat OF fort of medieval architec-
ture, walk over it's drawbridges, pass un-
der its portcullis and go down into its
dungeons, and where in soft semitropicat
air the visitor may wander through mar
row streets resembling those of Spain aud
Italy, where the houses on each side lean
over toward one another so that neighbors
might almost shake hands from their upper
windows and are surrounded by orange
groves and rose gardens which blossom all
the year.--Frank II. Stockton in st. Mich
olas.