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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-07-06
CRESTS AND THEIR ORIGIN.

They Were Used Far Back In Ancient
Times-Sone of tho More Notable.
Crests are ascribed to the Carians and
they are of very ancient origin. They
are mentioned by Homer and Virgil
and described as in use among the
heather gods and goddesses. Thus the
crest to Minerals helmet was an owl.
Mars bore lion or tiger and Jupiter
Ammon a rams head. These symbols
were formerly placed on the helmet
and were great marks of honor, only
worn by heroes of great valor or by
those who were advanced to some SUI
perior military command. Richard |.
had crest on his helmet resembling q
plume of feathers; Richard H. wore o
lion on cap of dignity above the
crown on his helmet; Alexander I'LL, of
Scotland, had plume of feathers, and
James l. wore lion. In the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries, according to
the Brooklyn Eagle. the crest was de-
scribed as being figure placed upon .
wreath, coronet or cap of maintenance
above the helmet or shield. A crest
was anciently worn on the heads of
commanders in the field, and then only
in order to distinguish them from their
followers. After the institution of the
order of the garter, and in imitation Of
Edward iii. all knights companions OF
the order began to wear crests- This
practice soon became more general, and
they were assumed by all who consid-
themselves entitled to bear arms. 4.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-07-06
ODD WAYS OF OSTRICHEs.
The Males Brood Over the Young and
Capture Each Others Families

The Males Brood over the Young and
Capture Each Others Families
The ostrich has many strange ways,
and l was particularly interested in
studying them, says a writer in Forest
and Stream. They go in flocks 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 q
thinner shell, and when fresh laid are
of a 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
The favor is excellent, and one egg
would satisfy very hungry man.
As soon as the ostriches decide upon
2 suitable place for a nest, the male
bird scratches away the grass and
slightly hollows out the ground for a
space of about three feet in diameter
All the hens of the flock lay in the
same nest until there are from twenty
five to thirty-hve eggs laid. The male
birds then take possession and sit on
the eggs until they are Matched. As
soon as the flock can leave the 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 a
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 off as
proud as peacock. / have seen old
male ostriches with three broods, each
of a different size, two of which they
had captured.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-07-06
He Was Not . Kicker.

II don't mind your daughters pr.e-
ticing ten hours day in the next fat"
said the tenant in the apartment house,
''even If she does keep the piano cover
up and the forte pedal down. But
would like family to suggest that three
thousand six hundred and fifty hours
year of Chopin's second nocturne has
made 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
a different kind of headache by way Of
relief?"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-07-06
ADtiuuity Of Tobacco.

Tobacco was noted by Columbus ON
his very first voyage. 1t was first cul-
tivated by John Rolfe in 1919. and as
early as 1919 lot of 10000 pounds was
shipped to England. In 1882 a tobacco
factory was started on the Rappahan-
mock river, and about 1869 the first
south of the James river was built in
Mecklenburg county. In 1745 the ex-
ports from Virginia amounted TO 1854
hogsheads of about LOCO pounds each,
and increased till 1888, after which
there was a decline antil after the
revolution It is now grown in most
of the southern states with Kentucky
IN the lsad
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-07-06
oOlNGS OF A VOODOQ
a Negro Doctress In Louisiana Swallow
Snakes for Pastime.

- NOBfO DOctroeB ID LOuki8na SWBuoWw
Snakes for Pastime.
An aged negress Of great repute as .
"voodoo," on 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 variety unknown in this
section. They are of the dusky color,
nearly black, pied with dull green at
the fat head, and of 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 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 is
so cleverly done that there is no detect
ing the performance.
The witch presents a most extraor-
binary and hideous appearance sitting
with the snakes darting their fat heads
in and out of her toothless mouth, with
their little bead-like eyes swapping as
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 a size and
color that they cannot be identified
They are probably of a harmless ma
ture, though old Nance declares they
are highly poisonous and no one wishes
10 experiment with them.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-07-06
Cremation in Oiden Times.

The Smithsonian institution has
printed paper by DIR. J. +. Snyder de-
scribing an urn containing incinerated
human bones which was dug out of an
ancient mound in Georgia. The urn,
or vase, is nearly conical, eleven and .
half inches high, aud was covered by
an inverted bcll-shaqed vessel fifteen
and tlree-four: rs inches in height
The ashes nearly half filed the vase,
and mingled with them were calcined
human teeth and fragments of bones
Lying on the surface of these remains
were quantity of wampum and sew
eral small pearls that had been pierced
for stringing.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-07-06
THE BOWER BIRD.
One of the Queer Denizens of Austraiia'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-
scribes one of these bower birds as
taking shell alternately from each
side of the bower and carrying il
through in its beak.
Lunholz 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 are 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 a play
ground of what would appear to be a
different species of the bird, showing
even a greater esthetic taste. He says:
ION the top of the mountain heard
In the dense scrubs the loud and un.
ceasing voice of bird. / carefully ap-
preached it, sat on the ground and
shot it. 1t was one of the bower birds,
with gray and very modest plumage
and of the size of 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 a
square yard each way, the ground
having been cleared of leaves and rub
Dish.
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, 1894-07-06
AN ODD PROFESSION.
Good Incomes Are Earned by Fin ding
Lost Articles I'm Shops.

Good Incomes Are Earned by Fin ding
Lost Articles In Shops.
Few women shoppers in their rush
for bargains stop to think of the num-
Der of things that are lost by that
great army of bargain hunters every
day Pushing and pulling at each other
~ they do in their attempts to get near
come special bargain, the unnoticed
dropping of q handkerchief, pocket
book or fan il common occurrence. &C
eording to the New York World
The manager Of big store on Sixth
sveuuA says there is a regular company
of women who do nothing else but pa
troll the stores on the lookout for arti-
cles and money lost by shoppers.
Most of these women, he says, arc
well known to the foor-wallers and de-
teetives. bat as they break no laws and
occasionally make small purchases they
ere not molested
At ak o'clock each night. according
70 his story, or when they meet at their
coffee" and make q general division of
Sheir spoils, to the unique band 1t is no
uncommon thing.to divide one hundred
dollar's worth Of goods as the proceeds
of . days persistent search
OF course they closely examine tho
psznonal columns Of the papers. and Il
= large enough reward b offered the
Dmuons Who loss things stand . pretty
- sAnnss q haSing thsarstzns4
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-07-06
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 a boarding house in
this city had an eight-year-old son who
is remarkably precocious. Not long
ago he went up to town and had his head
shaved. Among the boarders is gen.
tleman whose hair long ago babe him
forewen- This gentleman came to the
table the next day. and said:
why, Charley, you haven't any moro
hair now than / have"
"Yes, SIR" said Charley, "that's 20;
but I have . lot more roots than Jon
have"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-07-06
AN ENGLISH JUNE.
The Delights of an Early Summer Even
ing In Cambridge.

The Delights of an Early Summer Even
ing In Cambridge.
In a recent paper in the Atlantic on
the English Cambridge, Albert Gillette
Hyde gives this pleasant picture of .
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-
larry 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 at 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
''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 dilapidatlon, 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 ruddy, but at
the worst of a healthy paleness.
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
~ so striking in appearance as is COM
the virility Of these young Englishmen
short walk or row with one of them
will quickly convince him of his error.
Zone very pleasant feature of the
streets is the decorum usually prevail
ing among the 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 are said to contract soon after
coming up.
Singing, loud talking, or shouting
among them is rarely heard out of
doors, though sounds of a mildly Bsc-
chanalian type sometimes issue from
college or lodging-house windows.
This creditable street behavior is doubt
less due to Cambridge tone as much "a
to vigilant proctorizing; yet even in the
cricket field and among the boating
crews Except the musical Well rowedr
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, 1894-07-06
Curiosity shops In China.

There are two kinds Of curiosity shops
in the Flowery kingdom One is in
tended for guileless globe trotters and
the nouveaux riches, the other for col
lsctors 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
u satisfied with anything between
twmty.f1ve and om hundred per cent.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-07-06
AlMANACS IN RUSSIA.
They Play . Prominent Part in the Daily
Life of the People.

Life of the People.
"What prominent part the almanac
plays in Russian household. And such
almanacs! There is a recipe for dinner
for every day in the year; there are in-
fallible cures for burns and teething
and commissions, for toothache, corns
and bald heads. You are told all about
the imperial family, and there are por-
traits of its members-vile caricatures
surely.
The count gravely consulted its
Vaccinations in his eolloquy with the
steward to learn when the weather
would best suit for sowing mangel,"
says a writer in the Christian World.
81 saw the countess hunting in it for
an Interpretation of a dream she had.
Beyond the almanac no one ever reads
anything. exclude, of course, the
young count and his tutor.
There are, however, few books in
the house. In the drawing or sitting
room, one of the few articles of furni-
ture there is an old-fashioned book
case, from which the glass has long
since vanished. had the curiosity to
examine its contents. There were ten
bound volumes of an illustrated weekly
paper, few old-fashioned books on az
riculture, two volumes of Nekrasoff's
pastoral poems, a number of incomplete
works of French bellies lettres of Vol
taire's time, a Russian translation of
SCOTS 'Kenilworth,' much bethumbed
and greasy. This was all oiden-time
stuff, and represented the taste of some
bygone ancestor of the count
II looked for anything that might
denote the taste of the rising genera
ton, and found in a corner a Russian
version of Robinson Crdsoe,' and q
well-hidden novel of Zola's. Do these
latter books signify the beginning of a
renaissance in the house of Borisoff!
To whom did the lola belong? To the
countess, ] suspect We HAD pleasant
evening in the drawing-room-the only
comfortable room in the house. There
were few easy chairs, a capacious
sofa, grand piano and lots of cane
bottomed chairs. Over the sofa hung
portrait of the emperor; opposite the
emperor picture of the count when ne
was gay dog in the guards. But there
was hardly sign of female occupancy
anywhere"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-07-06

Blanks of every description
for Magistrates, Constables
and other Officials kept con-
stantly on hand,
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-07-06
THE

HE
.:-TENSAS GAZETTE
A weekly newspaper pup,
lished at
ST. JOSEPH, LA.
Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-05-17
EDITOR HOLoMUA:
AMERICAN CITIZEN.

A sailor on Board H. B. NJ. S.
Champion INDUCED in the luxury
of a battle in the briny. Notwith-
standing his inability to swim
properly, he manfully struck out
escorted by two of his obliging
messmates. and eventually reach
ed the gangway of the japanese
man-of-war, where, somewhat ex-
hausted, be awaited himself of
the opportunity of catching hold
of the steps, thus resting himself;
and being rather incompetent
this short rest was than fully
accepted, and in great measure
helped him considerably to regain
his own ship.
For this awful crime he is
punished, and in spite of his plea,
that necessity compelled him to
rest, he has ANONYMOUSLY to
parade on the Quarter Deck for
fourteen days, both morning and
evening whilst the remainder of
his shipmates enjoy their salt
water dip. vast community Is for
the encouragement of swimming
and more especially to those
whose duty and livelihood it is to
follow the sea.
Apparently this is not the case
on Board II. B. NJ. S. Champion,
for this sailor prefers to remain
and Indifferent swimmer to being
punished so unjustly, SO unfairly
We all know the great loss of life
incurred. but recently. when II.
B. Nj. S. Victoria sank beneath
the waves; it is to be hoped none
of these poor fellows lost their
precious lives through the same
sort of encouragement, and
through the want of a little
human consideration.
VASE Tub.
Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-05-17
----~--
A Kind Act.

A few days ago a feeling OF
indignation swept over the town
by a report-only too true-tbat
some contemplate scoundrel had
burglarized the English Sisters
School and distracted the few
dollars saved by the girls for the
purpose of erecting tombstone
over the grave of q departed
school-mate aud friend. The
mites of the children we're ruth
lessly robbed, and the good work
of the little ones came to naught.
Fortunately, for the peace of the
children, who had carefully saved
their nickels and dimes, benevo-
lent gentleman, in the shape of
Consul Z. A. Schaefer, stepped
forward and generously filled tie
empty bank with nickels and
dimes corresponding with the
amount stolen, and happiness
prevails once more in Saint
Andrews Priory. and kind ex-
pressions are sent to The consid-
crate friends of the school and of
the youngsters,
Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-05-17
were possessed By sAe -.aesosei

were possessed By the -aesosesi
Queen.
Thirteen men-not chosen else-
tors not representatives, clothed
with no functions by law--some
OF them not even citizens of the
country, clapped a popular title
on his name and a scepter In his
hands Not a public meeting
outside of one city of the Island
group had been held; the people
nowhere else had been consulted;
a central power, whose backbone
was borrowed and whose claws
were furnished by the United
States. made him its president.
The present government of
Hawaii Is nondescript. 1t had
10 founding in the voice of the
people. 1t is shaped after moth
ing that is republican known
upon the earth, or the waters
under the earth, or in the heavens
above the earth. 1t is simply
sort of directory, like that revo-
lutionary body which directed
the affairs of the French revolu-
ton. (and that was a commu-
nistic mob.
Ere long Mr.. Hatch will dis
cover to his sorrow that there are
honest men looking at the Ha-
waiian Provisional Government
and Its representatives abroad
through unpreiudiced spectacles.
No wonder then that the Legation
Is clamoring that they cannot get
the ear of influential persons and
that other means have to be
brought to bear to reach the des-
ired end; the Advertiser suggests
on the point of entertainments. |
luau's etc. Entertain the Sena-
tors-invite them to champagne
suppers-make them hilariously
full, and by this method you will
win them over to your side, and |
make them willing tools to your |
nefarious schemes. But could |
such a course be called a fair and |
honorable one? The American |
people would look at such actions
as bribery, and bribery is classed
as felony-the briber as we'll as
the bribed are felons.
Now. would Mr.. Hatch still
vote for more money to this Leg
alton in order to support and
foster bribery?
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-05-17
The =" Eagle House y
Tor SALE-
The Lease and the Good
VIII Of this FaU0rite
Family Hotel

THERE ARE FOUR DETA-
CHED Cottages annexed to the
dotel suitable forprivate families.
The main building contains 20
Bed Rooms large Dining Room.
Parior, etc. The furniture Is all
elegant and in good condition.
The Grounds are beautifully laid
out in Trees, Flowers, Ferns, ard
other Plants.
This business can be brought at
a bargain on easy terms IS 70 ray
ment.
~ Apply 70
T. T. KROUSE.
Arlington Hotel Office.
may 9-lwk.
Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-05-17
Vessels in Port.

NAVAL VESSELS.
IS Philadelphia, Barker.
III VI Takachiho, Nomura. Yokohama.
M 5 Champion, Rookie, Esquimalt.
MERCHANTMEN.
4 sch Holmes, Johnson, PIT Blakely.
{. lea VIM Bowden, Fjerem, San Francisco
s. b. r ? Rithet. Morrison, S F.
q Miss stmr Morning Star, Garland.
81 Occidental, Morse. Comax, b G.
d schr Golden Shore; Bernholm, \ S w.
s. bktue Jane L Stanford, Newcastle.
IS c Allen, Thompson, San Francisco.
liz Mary Winkleman, Nissen, San F.
az bz Leahi, Nelson, NanaimO, B G.
y schr Salvador, n 5 W.
& Newsboy.
h Robert Sudden.
6bkt 5 \ Castle, S F.
4 schr Helen n Kimball, Eureka.
BIZ C D Bryant, Jorgansen. San F.