St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1894-05-26

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NEW OFFICERS.
Miss Belle Dupre, President;
Mr.. f. Mudd, President;
Miss Ida Gullom, Secretary;
] Miss II. Mckinney, Treasurer;
/ DIR. V. h. Irion, Critic;
! Miss Eva Griffith, Editor.
David D. Field, the celebrated jurist,
died few days since.
DANIEL BOONE.
| Daniel Boone, was plain yeoman,
with the tastes and spirit of a pioneer.
| He was living on the yadkin, in North
/ Carolina, when the insurrection OF the
regulators broke out. He started from
home to explore the Wilds of Kentucky.
/ He was taken prisoner by the Indians,
but escaped. He continued his journey,
reached the Ohio, and explored the
Yadkin, he sold his little property, and
set out with his own and other fani-
| lies, for "the dark and bloody land"
the meaning of the Indian word Kahn
| tuck-ee. He was detained on the Clinch
river, as the Indians were rayaging the
frontier. When the Shawanee war was
over he proceeded on his route, and
built fort on the Kentucky river,
! where Roonesborough now stands.
| lie was again captured by the Indians
and again made his escape. He accom-
panied General Clarke in his expedi-
tions against the tribes on the Ohio.
/ The loss of his land, the love of advent
ure, and the long habit of rowing life
| tempted him further westward. lie
| settled on the Little Usage in the heart
of Missouri, and at eighty years of age
accompanied a hunting party to the
/ Great Usage. He was nearly ninety
when he died-having seen many states
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ries which he had traversed in advance
4 of the settlements. He was notable
/ example of those daring and resolute
men, who have pushed the domain and
the civilization of the United States
from Massachusetts bay and the Chesa-
peake to the Golden gate and the Pacific
slope.
A HOUSE OF BUTTONS.
| Chapisson, the French musical e,le
brity is building chateau composed en-
/ tirefy of buttons. The walls, the cell
| ing, the doors, the exterior, the interior,
are all ornamcnted with buttons. But
tons of every description, from the very
origin of their invention up to those of
the present day, have been employed in
j the arabesques and ornamentation OF
the walls. Every country has been ran
sacked, and some very curious speci-
mems have been brought to light. Those
dating from the lower Greek Empire
are of the most curious manufacture.
WISCONSIN SCENERY.
Wisconsin river is noted for its beau
tiful scenery, and it is nowhere more
romantic and picturesque than near
Kilburn City, some fifty miles above
/ Madison. Thousands of RATS float from
the pineries Of the North every year.
There are many curious formations
lalong the river, among them are the
Inkstand, Steamboat Book, the Dells,
etc. The place called Narrows is, per-
haps, the most interesting. Here the
river, like wedge of water, is driven
| through channel barely fifty feet wide,
but deep and swift. The water has never
been fathomed, and as the river, sweep
ing down from the North, turns the alb
rupt angle, it sends its dashing foam in
a dizzy whirl of eddying sprays for
4 twenty feet or more, At this point
across the river, from cliff to cliff, was
i stretched bridge years ago; but when
the pale face (as the whites were called1
robbed the Indian Of his home, it was
DESTROYED. Traces of it still remain,
and just below it, in the western cliff, is
the entrance of q cave, where, SO fradi-
ton says, an Indian, pursued by his
4 dusky brother for some offense, hid and
escaped his vigilance.
The Legislature met yesterday, and
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has been elected, on the first ballot, to
the u. S. Senate, to fill the place Of Gen.
!. Gibson.
4 We have heard of the wind blowing
through young mans whiskers, but
we have never heard of it blowing him
out of his room. The other night one
of the members of the High School, af-
ter having busted himself with his
studies for about six hours, became sud-
denly alarmed by having the light ex-
tinguished. lie jumped up and ran, not
toward the one whom he thought had
put out his light, but to the door, and in
his excitement he encountered chair,
the result of which almost proved dis
II location of his jaw-bone. He receives
our full sympathies.
PAPER FIRST MADE FROM RAGS.
You know that the paper you write
upon is made from rags? 1t is said that
this invention was first known In l417,
but not brought into England till many
years afterwards. DO you know what
was used to write upon before? We
learn that the ancients first wrote upon
the leaves of the palm tree; next on the
inside of the bark (from which we get
the word libeg, or book1; after that upon
tables covered with wax, on which the
characters were impressed with an in
strument called stylus, sharp pointed al
one end to write with, and fiat at the
other to efface, when necessary, what
had been written. AT last, the bark oi
the papyrus, a plant abundant in Egypt
was brought into use. The bark was
taken and split into thin fakes, or leaves
which were called paper from papyrus
The thin leaves We're glued together
I with the waters of the Nile, pressed
and dried in the sun. Thus sheets oi
} various sizes and thickness could be
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