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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-08-04

I knew enc colored minister in the
Bahamas who had quite a reputation
for leaning, because in his sermons he
used alternately the phrases "ipse dixit"
and Tex nihilo nihil fit"
/ noticed that whenever any of his
congregation showed signs of losing in
terest in his discourse or an inclination
to slumber he would throw cut at them
a long, hooked foretinger and exclaim:
How do | know this, do you ask? Be-
cause 'ipse dixit!'" II that would not
bring them to their senses, he would let
his chest swell, stretch both arms to
their full length and cry, lex nihilo
nihil it!' Then eyes would bulge as if
about to start from their sockets, mouths
open indefinitely, and the congregation
would stare and wonder how lone small
head could carry all he knew" Cicero
with his elegant Latin never made SO
profound an impression.-Rev. Bernard
J. Reilly in Donahoe's Magazine.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-08-04
70 1rnosJ Of UOGS.
They Knew just What to Do When q Big
One Came After Them.

iney knew just what TO DO Wnen q BIG
One Came After Them.
was standing on the railroad plat
form of a small country town a few
evenings ago. There were four men
grouped apart from where l was stand
ing conversing among themselves. just
beside tho edge Of the platform were
the grounds OF some private residence,
fenced in. by an iron fence only 3 feet
high. Inside the fence, held by a heavy
chain. was a dog of the deerhound breed.
He was impatiently chafng against the
restraint imposed upon him and pulled
ana tugced It his Chain # a GREAT rate.
The four men were standing looking at
him and making comments.
4 don't know why it is" said one,
that | never have the least sensation Of
fear of dogs. Why, if that log was 10
break loose and Ju141zA2 1aa1e. ltin5sht
be dangerous, but "a be just IS cool as
[ am now
I've had several narrow escapes with
ferocious dogs, said another, and I've
trained myself to instantly crush them
by looking them in the eye steadily.
Notice my eye?' The other three peered
into it. We'll, gentlemen, that eye has
cowed dogs that would take a leg off
You at a bite"
The third man, who had been for
some time trying to interrupt No. 2 in
order to get off his little tale, seized the
opportunity and struck in. Il simply
kick 'em," he said. I've had dogs
come at me at lightning speed, gentle
men, jaws wide open and their eyes red
with e All I've done is to calmly
step aside and plant n tremendous
kick in their ribs as they went by. It
took courage, but | was always there.
l never had one to come back at me
yet
The fourth man was Just opening his
mouth to tell his little lie when the
d~eerhound over the fence got loose, and
probably not thinking of the four men at
all bounded over the fence to make good
his liberty. | watched to see the la
with the wonderful eye get in his work.
and the kicker do his great kicking act,
and the man with the iron nerve stand
coolly with his arms folded, but none of
them was doing his speciality that day.
Instead the whole one horse quartet
turned and jostled and bumped and
trod ON each others toes in a wild en-
deavor to get out Of the way OF that
deerhound. The head Of the iron nerved
man bumped into the man with the
mesmeric eye and damned his hat down
SO that the luster of the eye was dim
med, and I suppose that's why it didn't
work. The man who always kicked
vicious dogs did get in his kick. bat il
was on my right shin accidentally, as
he rushed by me to save his life. Blu,
the ~deerhound rushed over the fields
without looking at any of the heroes
Mount Holly Dispatch.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-08-04
QhiboNoux 9entluel.
BE MY S'WE1TtfGan..

The first love song ever written by ar. Field.]
Sweetheart, be my sweetheart
When birds are on the wing,
When bee and bud and babb4iag food
Bespeak the birth of spring.
Come, sweetheart, be my sweetheart
And wear this posy ring!
Sweetheart, be my sweetheart
In the mellow golden glow
OF earth aiush with the gracious blush
Which the ripening fields foreshow.
Dear s"eetheart, be my sweetheart
As into he moon we go!
Sra +tart, be Tay Sweetheart
When falls the bounteous year,
When fruit and wine of tree and vine
Give Us their harvest cheer.
Oh, sweetheart, be my sweetheart,
For winter it draweth near!
SveutbeGrt, be my sweetheart
#1Hea / year is white and old.
F#4snt ae fire of youth is speat, forsooth
Aa0 tie Land Of age is cold.
Ut, @aatheart, be my sweetheart
Ii5.tae year of our love be told!
s-.c Field i'll Ladies Home Journal.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-08-04
Temporary Change of Lodgings.

AT Monte Carlo a gambler had won
the maximum at rouge ct noir three
times in succession.
There's a fellow running off with a
splendid haul of bank notes!' said a
spectator.
"Oh," carelessly INTERCEPTED the crou-
pier, THAT makes no difference to the
bank. 1t is merely a bit of our money
sleeping out for the night!''-Paris Petit
Nicois.
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he was a wealthy soprano, and at the
frt sang, "Oh, For the Wings of a
tc' yet an hour later at supper she
brhe wings, legs end most of the
plat a turkey and then passed her
more stuf6n9." :
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-08-04
Obeyed Orders.

Employer to new Office boy)-If any
one calls, James, be sure and remember
that l am not in. half an hour later.)
Didn't you hear me call, you young ras-
cal?
James-Yes, sir, but | fought yer
wasn't in--London Punch.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-08-04

All of j. NJ. Barrie's stories are said
to have grown out of his everyday life,
and in the young men who are pictured
walking knee deep in the heather of
Thrums and vicinity one can find the
boyhood and the present life of the bril-
ant young Scotchman.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-08-04

The descriptions given by Strabo of
the osier houses of the Gauls and Brit
ons might be applied to human habita-
tons Ia central Africa today.
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Shade Too Yielding,

Binks-Why SO gloomy?
Jinks-My wife LET me have the last
word in an argument this morning. ,
What of that?"
"That shows that she is going to do
as she pleases anyhow. New York
Weekly,
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1894-08-04

For an example of pure and unalloyed
contempt take a BARRIERS opinion of the
young man who is growing a full beard.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-05
GHOSTS OF THE MAoRIs.

They Scratch on Walls and Make Their
Presence Known by WhIstling.
The Maoris, it appears, have a rooted
belief in ghosts, which they called
''Kehuas," and in, various manifesto
tions from the spirit world. They do
not profess to hear the raps by which
European spiritualists suppose that the
presence of spookS is manifested, for
the reason that Maori houses, being of
reeds, rushes or grass, raps would not
be heard; but the ghosts ingeniously
accommodate themselves to circum-
stances by scratching instead of rap
ping, which is, of course, very thought
full of them. Maoris believe that
ghosts speak in shrill, whistling voices,
and a recent traveller states that for
that reason the Maoris hate to hear
anyone whistle. The Kehua, accord
ing to native tradition, is generally
found lying across path, and to step
over him is to die. If the traveller
goes round by another path that leads
to the place for which he is aiming he
will find that the Kehua is on the new
path before him. The one way to
avoid disaster is to turn back and go
home, or, at least, to the place last left.
A chief. described as :'very intelligent -
assured Mr.. Tregear, who, according
to the New York Advertiser, has lately
been investigating Maori superstitions,
that he saw the spirits of two of his
uncles on each occasion before they
died. His father, mother, brothers or
sisters did not see, and it is not stated
why he supposed that his uncles
specially desired to visit him in this
fashion. The explanation of this and
the rest probably is that the Maoris
are a remarkably superstitious and
imaginative people, who can make
ghosts out of nothing = or nothing
more substantial than dreams-as cas-
lily as an old Scotch wife of the last
century.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-05
SHERIFFs SALE.

Pursuant to the command of writ of execu-
ton issued out of the Circuit Court OF the State
of Oregon for Wasco County in a suit therein
pending wherein L. L. Mccartney is plaintiff
and John Adams and C. E. Haight are defend
ants dated August ID, 1894, commanding me to
sell all the right, title and interest of said de-
fendants and each of them in and to the south
east quarter of section nine, township two south,
of range fourteen east, W. NJ, to satisfy the sum
1894, at the rate of ten per cent per annum and
the further sum of 5000 attorneys fees and the
sum of $26.25 costs and disbursements, due to
said plaintiff from said defendant John Adams,
and to apply the surplus if any in payment of
the sum of $S13.55 and interest thereon at the
rate of ten per cent per annum from said June
26th, 1884, and $4,000 attorneys fee, due from the
defendant John Adams to the defendant G.. E.
Haight, will, on. Saturday the Sth day of Sept
ember 1894, at the hour of O'Clock in the after
OREGON. sell ali of said above described real
property at public sale to the highest bidder for
casn snran5 n nano' sheriff of Wasco COUNTY. Or.
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1t Needed irving.

Judge Shipp, of the North Carolina
bench, was presiding over trial which
had been protracted till midnight, and,
as a consequence, everybody was tired.
The plaintiffs lawyer was addressing
the jury, and suddenly said: Gentle
men, will tell you an anecdote.'' In
stantly the judge, the jury and the few
spectators were all attention, as the
lawyer was an admirable story teller
But this time he proceeded to tell one
of the dullest, prosiest and most point
less jokes possible. Everybody looked
disappointed. The judge, leaning
over, said in an unmistakable tone of
disappointment: ST don't see the point
to that JOKE Neither do To- replied
the witty counsel, sbut your honor
told it to me on our way down here,
and, thought the lack of apprecia-
tion must be due to my obtuseness,
concluded to give the joke trial by
jury"
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-05
sHERIFF's SALE.

By virtue of an execution issued out of the
Circuit Court OF the State of Oregon for Wasco
County, in a suit therin pending wherein z. L.
Smith is plaintiff and NJ. Y. Harrison, Sophia 81.
Harrison, James w. Smith, John Klosterman,
E. S. Larsen, doing business under the name of
L. S. Larsen d. Co., John G. Miller, Emanuel
Miller and James B. Watt, partners doing bust
ness under the firm name of John G. Miller q
Co.. John Murphy, Adam Grant, J. D. Grant and
]. T. Ford, partners doing business under the
firm name of Murphy, Grant ds Co., Garretson,
Woodruff, Pratt Company, corporation: c. NJ.
Henderson d Co., a.corPoration; A. S. Bennett
and Z. A. Bartmes are defendants, on the 25th
day of July, 1894 will sell at Public Auction to
the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the Court
House door in Dalles City, Oregon, on the first
day of September, 1894, at the hour of o'clock
in the afternoon of said day, all of the right,
title and interest of each and all of the above
named defendants III and to the following de
scribed real property lying and situate in Wasco
County, Oregon, to Wit:
All of lots one, two, three four, twenty five,
twenty-six, twenty y-seven and twenty-eight in
block four of Waucoma Addition to the town of
Hood River; also lots one and two of block four
in Winans Addition to the town OF Hood River;
also block two and lot one in block four in the
town of ParkhuIst. T. J. DRIVER,
jy28 st Sheriff of Wasco County, Or.
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mI sPY STRANGERS. 2
A Cry That VIM Clear the Galleries In
the House of Commons.


the House of Commons.
As is well known it is only through
courtesy, and in violation of strict
rules, that anyone is allowed to wit
ness the proceedings of the English
parliament. If an ill-natured member
chooses to call out at any time, 81 spy
strangers the galleries must be inn
mediately cleared. This custom, of
course has become obsolete, and of
late the ladies, who can go anywhere
else in Westminster where visitors are
allowed, through their especial
champion, Mr.. Byles, have endeavored
to secure the same privileges relative
to admission to the members gallery as
those accorded to men.
In recent declaration before the
house of parliament, says the New
York Advertiser, Mr.. Herbert Glad
stone stated that the exclusion of
ladies from this place was based on
the rule enforced by successive speak
ers that women cannot obtain admission
to the house SIN former times" he
said, between 1879 and 177s, the occa-
sional presence of women in the
gallery below the bar was permitted.
Notice having, on February 2, 177S,
been taken that strangers were pres
ent, the strangers, who were men,
withdrew in obedience to the sergeant
alarms. The ladies who filed the
gallery exhibited such perseyering re-
luctance to comply with the order that
they interrupted the business of the
house for two hours. Since that ladies
have never been allowed to sit within
that part of the house" Mr.. Herbert
Gladstone's statement has filed the
English newspapers with columns of
letters on the subject, the general
trend of which goes to show that the
British maid and matron propose to
assert that they have equal rights to
witness the doings of the lawmakers
with their husbands and sweethearts.
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Japanese soldiers.

A British officer, who apparently
knows, says that it would be as rea-
sonable to charge brave men armed
with pitchforks against brave men
armed with rifles as to pit, man for
man, the Chinese in their present con-
dition against the Japanese. OF all
native and colonial troops have seen,
and have seen most of them, says he,
81 would, next to Goorkhas, prefer a
regiment of Japanese. They are brave.
temperate, patient and energetic, and
at this moment the Chinese, whatever
might be done with them, are two
hundred years behind There is a
gymnasium in every japanese bar
racks
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THEY YsLEEP THROUGH SUMNER.
Animals That Lie Dormant During the
Heated Term.

Animals That Lie Dormant During the
Heated Term.
When the heat of tropical or semi
tropical summer dries up every pool
and parches the ground to such an ex-
tent that it is difficult for animals not
endowed with great powers of locomo-
ton to obtain water, they compromise
with nature by sleeping off the season
of heat and scarcity. The winter
sleepers, says the Brooklyn Eagle, are
pretty well known, but, owing to the
summer sleepers being for the most
part inhabitants of tropical countries,
far removed from the path of trained
observers, we are less acquainted with
the species practicing that means of
escaping the heat and drought of sum
mer. Indeed, at present only one
mammal, the tenec, a hedgehog-lil<e
beast of Madagascar, is known to do
so. In South America and Africa va
rious reptiles estivate. In the plains
of Venezuela the alligator, the land
and fresh water tortoise, the boa con-
strictor and several sorts of the smaller
kinds of serpent lie motionless during
the hottest period of the tropical sum
mer. But their dormancy is not so
perfect as that of some hibernators In
Brazil, Australia and Cape Colony liz
ards, frogs, tortoises and insects pass
months of the rainless season inclosed
in hard earth, and in India many spe-
cies of fishes live during the hot season
in a torpid condition, embedded in the
hardened clay.
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sLEEPING m CHURCH.
1t Is 3 Sign, for One Thing, of the Al
preaching Old Age.

It Is 3 Sign, for One Thing, of the APP
preaching Old Age.
DIR. Chalmers went to preach for Ed
ward Irving, the erratic genius who
asked the privilege of making a few
preliminary remarks and spoke an houl
or so in crowded building, says tho
Christian Advocate. Chalmers, refer
ring to it afterward; said: what could
/ do in an exhausted receiver?n There
are many cases justifying sleeping in
church; the mother who has been
watching two or three nights with a
sick child; the father who has been
thoroughly overworked, and invalids,
are not to be condemned if they doze
in the sanctuary unwillingly. The car
bonic acid gas resulting from crowds,
and especially from gas jets, old air
heated by steampipes, the effects of
furnaces with red hot firepots, through
which not only carbonic acid gas, but
far more dangerous gas, can perco-
late, make the most devout and atten-
tive drowsy.
Sometimes the first signs of old age
are tendency to sleep in church. The
philosophy of the nod and of the atti-
tudes of the head>is this: Unconscious
ly we hold our heads in position by an
l.
that is relaxed; gravity takes charge of
the head and also of the under jaw,
but as the head slips back it produces
an uncomfortable feeling that slightly
awakens the sleeper, who spasmodical-
ly exercises his will and straightens
himself up, and relaxes it Immediately
afterward. This may continue in some
cases, putting the man in the attitude
apparently of bowling assent to
every succeeding sentence. No wom-
an will voluntarily sleep in church
if she has the ordinary desire
to appear well. It must, however,
be conceded that in many instances
the minister is to blame. If he sue
cumbs to depressing influences, and es-
pecially if he drones or is prolix, or
breaches only words, words, words, -
or has canting tone, so that on what
ever he says the same stress is laid
at regular intervals; if he turns his
face to the wall and does not look
at the audience, or fixes his eye upon a
point and never removes it, or is very
long, or makes the same gestures fre-
quently, he may lull the people. Some
preachers have to preach half an hour
or so to become interesting. 1t was
well said to one of them: IF you had
delivered the first thirty minutes of
your discourse in the adjoining grave
yard before entering the church the
effect upon the living would have been
greater"
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1894-09-05
origin of the Word Honeymoon.

1t was formerly a custom among
Teutonic nations to drink liquor made
of honey, and called hydromel, for a
moving age Ia month"; after the we'd
ding feast. Hence the name honey
moon" The Teutons knew very little
about treacle, as we learn that the name
Teutoni was given, 23O B. c., to a race
of people who had long been settled
in the country, and in the provinces
which are now known respectively as
Denmark and Schleswig-H -Holstein, but
which were then known collectively as
the Chersonesus Cimbrica. The Teu-
tons may even have brought the custom
to England with them when they came
over the Zimmerman Bosphorus about
$40 r G.
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BY local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure Deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an infamed con-
6ition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets
infamed you have a rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely
closed Deafness is the result. and unless
the Inflammation can be taken out and
this tube restored to its normal condi-
lion, hearing will be destroyed forever; !;
nine cases out of ten are caused by
catarrh. which is nothing but an in
famed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness tcaused by catar1 h)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
F. ]. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
E Sold by Druggists, 75c.
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NAPoLEoN's DAINTY TOILET.

After His Morning Shave His Valet Secured
Him with Eau De Cologne.
One of the most interesting articles
found among the recent numerous es-
says upon the private life of Napoleon
is on the toilet of the emperor, which,
it appears, was a most important mat
ter and regulated down to the smallest
details with mathem atical precision.
When awakened it was Ma poleon's Gus
tom to glance over the paper while the
fires were lit. He was sensitive to cold,
and fire was prepared in every room
even in midsummer. Then of distin-
guished people awaiting an audience
he would designate those whom he
wished to see, after which he would
rise and take hot bath, lasting about
an hour. The daily shaving was the
next duty. Ordinarily his physician,
Corvisart. would be present, chatting
and securing favors for his friends.
Napoleon's greeting was usually some
badinage, such as: s'Ah, eharlatanl
How many patients have you killed this
morning?" And the physician would
reply in kind. Two Wallets were neces-
sary for shaving, one holding the basin
and another the mirror. The emperor,
in flannel robe, de chamber. then
covered his face with soap and began
to shave. Throwing off his robe, No
poleon was next deluged with eau de
cologne and subjected to thorough
scrubbing with a rough brush. The
valet then rubbed the whole body with
linen rolls saturated with eau de col
ogne-a custom that Napoleon had &C
quired in the east. The scrubbing was
none of the lightest, either, for he
would call out from time to time:
'Harder-rub harder When the
scrubbing was over the emperor
dressed himself. A curious detail of
his custom was the religious care with
which he kept hung around his neck
the little leather envelope, shaped like
a heart, which contained the poison
that was to iberate him in case of ire
trievable reverses of fortune. This poi
son was prepared after a recipe that
Cabanis had given to Corvisart, and
after the year 1908 the emperor never
undertook a campaign without having
his little packet of poison.
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Notice Of Administrators Final Account.

Notice is hereby given that ]. w. Condor, ad-
ministrator of the estate of Harrison Corum, de-
ceased hes filed his final account of the admins
tration of said estate with the clerk of the County
Court of the State of Oregon, for Wasco County,
and that said Court has appointed 10 O'Clock a M
of the regular September term OF said Court for
the year 1894, at the County Court House in
Dalles City, Oregon, as the time and place for
the hearing of objections to such final account
and the settlement thereof.
County Court made and enteIed July 27th, 1894.
J. w. CONDON,
Administrators.
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For every case of Catarrh which
ahey cannot cure, the proprietors of
DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy agree
20 pay $500 in cash. You're cured
by its mild, soothing, cleansing, and
healing properties, or you're paid.