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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
STRANGE ADOPTiONS.
The Strength of the Maternal Instinct In
Animals.

lately met some friends who had
with them a little dog called "Vic"
which had adopted the family Of a
cat in the house, and while in pos
session would not let the mother come
near her kitten, says a writer in the
London Spectator. The kittens were
kept in a very tall basket, and "Vic"
would take them one by one and then
carry them into the garden and watch
over them, carrying them back IN the
same way after time, at other times
lying contentedly with them in the
basket. OF course. "Vic" had to be
for.ibly removed when the adopted
family required their mothers atten-
ton for their sustenance. ! also have
met a friend who saw a hen hawk,
which was in a cage, mothering young
starting. Three young, unledgcd
starlinSs were given the hawk to eat.
She ate two and then broo1el the other
and took the utmost care Of it. Unhap-
PLY the young staring died, and from
that MON, 1t the hawk vvould touch no
food. bit died herself in few days.
The same frisNl was on n mountain one
day when a sheep came up to him and
Enthusiastically begged hin 10 follow
her, going just in front and continually
looking around to see il he was follow
ing. The sheep leo him 1T last to some
rocks. where he found lamb fast
wedged in between two pieces of rock.
He was able to libeTa.e the lamb, TO the
evident joy of the mother. myself
once saw cat ''brooding" and taking
care Of u very small chicken, which,
being Matched first Of a brood. had been
brought into a cottage and placed in a
basket near the fire. 1t managed 20 get
out of the basket and hoped up near
the cat, which Immediately adopted it
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
A Lawyers STORY.
The Peculiar Mistake Mads By . reIee-
rSpher.


rspher.
A party of newspaper men and law
yers were discussing amusing typo
graphical errors, when a veteran New
York attorney tod Of a peculiar mis-
take that had come under his notice,
made by telegraph operator.
81 was a young man at that Sime."
said the lawyer, "aad had small Office
across the hall from u successful attor-
ney who once in awhile befriended me-
One day / was sitting in my Office with
my legs on the table and chair tilted
back, waiting for clients and dreaming
of sweet girl known to me as Ella,
who had been the sweetheart of my col
lege days the year before. I was
startled from my revcrie by boy with
o message directed to me 1t was from
my friend across the way and dated Chi
cago, but its contents made my brain
whiri. With telegraphic brevity it said:
Ella is sweet. Don't delay. Take il
up and try it ! was just considering
the advisability of proposal. and my
astonishment can be imagined. NV
first impressions were that was either
asleep or the Windy City had driven
my friend insane. But there was the
messenger boy, so ! read the telegram
upside down, sideways. and everyway
could see it, and the light finally
dawned on me. took up court calen-
dar. There it was: Ella vs. Sweet
and my friend was named as the de
fendant's attorney"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
BAD HABIT OF EXERCISE
A London Critic SAYS o ie May Become .
Slave to It for Life.

Some persons get on perfectly well
without exercise. ] ain one Of them,
says the editor Of London Truth, be-
cause ! never fell into the engrossing
habit of exercise when young man.
Naturally person who passes his youth
In violent exercise finds later on that
he cannot do without it. The habit Is
as easily acquired as that of drinking or
opium smoking. and. once acquired, .
person becomes slave to it for the rest
of his life.
Most people. however, est far too
much. and then often fird themselves
incsnmoded. if they do not work of
this excess of food It is easy to get up
an artificial appetite remember Mr..
Bright once explained this to me- He
said the stomach is artifcially Gistend.
ed. the void which is created owing to
this artificial distension produces per
petnal craving for food. and this il
termed being hungry. Gradually re-
dtfce the an cunt Of food. and the stom-
ach becomes normal. with the result
that half the amount of food is satisfy
ing. The world is divided between thoss
who eat too much and those who do not
hive enough 70 eat
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
GROWTH OF THE HAIR.
How II IL Fro noted or Retarded BY Ger
tain Kinds Of Diet.

AAoW ~ ~ or kkSt3rOtu Dy Ger.
tain Kinds of Diet.
The influence of diet upon the growth
of hair is the subject of a paper in
which, according to the Washington
Star. the writer SAYS Several cases Of
shedding of hair after influenza has con-
frmed my opinion that diet has much
to do with the production and with the
cure of sympathetic alopecia Hair
contains five per cent. of sulphur. and
its ash twenty per cent of silicon and
ten per cent. Of iron and manganese.
Solution of beef Tor. rather. part Of
it,, starchy raiytrres and even milk.
which const nc diet of patients
with in1uenZI and other fevers, cannot
supply these elenclt3 and atrophy at
the roots and falling out VI hair result
The color and strength of hair in
young mammals is nof attained so long
as milk is the sole food. AS to drugs,
iron has prompt influence. The foods
which most abundantly contain the
above-named elements are the various
albumenoids and the oat. the ash of the
grain yielding twenty-five per cent Of
silicon.
have often found dietary largely
composed of oatmeal and brown bread
to greatly promote the growth of hair.
when the badness was pre-
coded by constipation and sluggish
capillary circulation. Those races Of
men who consume most meat are the
most hirsute
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
An ODD PROFESSION.
Good Incomes Are Earned By Fla DIN,
L0st Articles In Shops.

0sod Incomes Are Earned By Ffnding
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
some special bargain. the unnotioed
dropping Of q handkerchief, pocket
book or fan b q common occurrence, &C
0ording to the New York World
The manager Of . big store on Sixth
avenue says there is q regular company
of women who do nothing else but pa
troll the stores on the lookout for arti-
cies and money lost BY shoppers.
Most Of these women, he says. ara
veil known 10 the loor-walkers and de-
t<,stives, but Is they break no laws and
OCCASIONALLY make small purchases they
are not molested
At six o'clock each night according
10 his story, or when they meet at their
~ofsce" aud make general division Of
their spoils, to the unique band it Is no
uncommon thing to divide one hundred
dollars worth Of goods a. the proceeds
- days persistent search
~ oourse they closely examine the
per.onsl columns of the papers. and II
: lnFge enough reward Is offered the
Doss0ns Who lose things stshd pretty
g1Dd chance Of having thcmrcturncd.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
THIS EARTH OF OURS.
Iss Ago According - the Researches Of
Geologists.

Is Ago According - the Researches Of
Geoiogists
biologists have ascertained that the
rate ut which erosion takes place can
be measured, by applying their scale to
the sedimoEtaYy rocl,s they have formed
q hypothesis as to the time which has
elapsed since erosion began.
The stratifisd rochs attain an average
thickness of 100000 feet. The material
Of which they consist was all washed
down iron high planes, deposited and
left to stratify. by the inspection Of
river banks it is found that in places
the surface of the land which has been
carried down as sediment in rivers has
been reduced at the rate of a foot in
$50 years, while in other places. where
the land was more stubborn or less
flexible, it had taken $500 years to
lower the surface one foot The de-
post must be equal to the denudation.
We find that while some of the sedi-
mentary rocks have grown foot in 7s0
years others nave taken $500 years to
rise that height Thus the period Of
time that was required to build up l00,.
600 feet of sedimentary rock has varied
according to locality from $4,000, 600
to ESQ. 900, 900 years 1t follows that tho
active work Of creation lasted for q
cycle intermediate between these two
figures. The cycle varied with endless
succession Of periods of disturbance by
volcanic force and glacial action. and
the frequent submersion of dry land,
alternating with the emerging of CONT
nents out of the seas. These may have
retarded the growth Of sediraentary
rocks, but they cannot have accelerated
it.
A study of fossils teaches the steady
uniformity with which the work of Gre
alton proceeded. Since man began to
observe there has been no change in the
forms of animal and vegetable life. A few
species have Misrepresentation one new
species has been evolved. Not only do
we find the fauna and flora Of ancient
Egypt as depicted on monuments which
are probably 5000 or 10000 years old
identical with those which are found in
that country to-day, but shells which
inhabited our seas before the ice age
and grew in an ocean whose bed overlap
the Rocky mountains are precisely the
same species that are found in the bay
Of Monterey and the waters of the
Chesapeake. 1t is evident that there
has been no essential change in the con-
ditions of life since these animals and
these vegetables we've first created, yet
how vast the shortest period which we
can assign to the gap that divides US
from that remote epoch!
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
HE LIKED FISH.
Sam Wanted . Whale and Nothing
Short of 1t.

Sam Wanted q Whale and Nothing
Short of 1t.
A party of young men who were ON
a fishing excursion on the Ohio river
some years ago were joined by an co
centric man, skilled as fisherman,
known in that region as ''Barefooted
Sam" He was a good cook. and made
himself useful in so many ways that
his presence. though unlimited, was
tolerated by the amateur sportsmen-
Que morning two members of the
party returned to camp with their ap-
petites well sharpened for breakfast,
and were greeted enthusiastically by a
third man. who said: "Iou Just come
along and see the finest baked perch
you ever laid eyes on"
They hurried to the table, but saw
only a rick OF bones, from which every
fiber Of meat had been "a .en. Sam was
no comments were made upon the cir
cUInstance; but in the afternoon, when
the company were lounging ON the
bank. sam drawled out:
II i like to have all the fish could
eat, jest onst. Amt had a mess sence
Pete Toilet ketched that big catfish,
three years back"
Sam" remarked one Of the group,
dryly, 81 thought you had quite fair
mess this morning. That perch weighed
about ten pounds, I've been informed"
''Oh. yes" replied Sam, with no sign
of embarrassment on his placid coun-
tenGnce, 81 ate that; but what mean
is a reel, eg'iar mess.''
The company pondered on this re-
markable statement in absolute silence
for some moments. until at last the man
who had caught the perch calculated:
well, snum!'' and nothing more was
said
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
A HOTEL INCIDENT.
The Traveller Who Was Mistaken for .
Dead Man.

The Traveller Who Was Mistaken for .
Dead Man.
THE m ost singular thing that ever
happened to me at hotel" said the
travelling member of the club, accord
ing to the Detroit Free Press, twas
this: l was stopping over night at a
large hotel in Chicago, and retiring
late I left word TO be called in the
morning. intended getting up in time
for late breakfast
81 was awakened by knocking at
the door of the room next to mine,
mysterious whisperings and orders
given in suppressed voice. l lay
still, wondering what time it was, and
whether | should get up or not, when
there came a loud racket against my
door, and a sound of the transom NOV
ing. l sat up-my bed being close by
the dOor-in time to see a small boy
backing in over the transom. Hanging
full length, he held by his hands and
then dropped to the floor. AS he gained
his feet he turned toward the bed. and,
seeing me sitting up and looking at
him, he gave q yell that made my blood
thrill
"'Open the door, commanded q mans
voice on the outside.
"'He's alive, yelled the boy,
sprawling on the floor in abject ter
ror.
al thought everybody was crazy as I
heard the noise outside, and, unlock
ing my door, asked what was the mat
ter. The hall was full of chamber
maids, bell boys and porters, all Of
whom took to their heels as soon as
they saw me, and ran as if possessed
with demons.
THE landlord and one Of the clerks
came up to explain matters, which they
did quite smilingly. 1t was a slight
mistake, that was all; they had mis-
taken my room for the one next door,
where a man had killed himself the
previous night. They had looked in at
his transom, and seen that he was dead,
but when the boy came up with step
ladder to climb in and unlock the door
they had helped him into my room by
mistake. That was all"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
HIGH.PRICEp FOOD.
Tobacco and Gold on = Par on the Upper
Yukon River, Alaska.


Tobacco and Gold on Par on the Upper
Yukon River, Alaska.
R. D. Miles, q recent visitor in San
Francisco, gives the Call graphic ac-
count of the prices current for ordinary
commodities on the upper Yukon river,
Alaska.
he has, according to the Call. just re-
turned from that country, where. he
states, there were over one hundred
men at work during the last summer
washing gold from the river bars and
riffs. Tho majority of them win winter
IN that country.
well, I'll tell you. am glad to get
back to civilization again." he said.
Gold is plentiful; in fact it is an ordi-
nary trick for a man to wash out from
twenty to sixty dollars a day, but u
man needs all that 70 live anyway com
Portable in that country, and he has but
little to show after . season of hard
work
when I left that country a trader
with small stock of goods was making
his way up ths river from some of the
coast trading points in q canoe. In
fact he had several of them loaded with
provisions He was assisted in his JOUR
ney by half dozen Indiana
''Well, when he left, after selling out
his cargoes, he had about all the gold
dust the miners had washed out in four
or five months of steady work.
Eve ran short of provisions, and had
subsisted on bear meat and othor game
SO long that we willingly parted with
nearly all we had to get some civilized
eatables.
well this trader-his name WAS En-
mons-sold the several sacks Of spuds
he had with him at the rate of from
thirty to fifty cents per potato.
His -four sold for twenty dollars .
sack, and we We're just glad enough to
pay five dollars a pound for the very
poorest quality of tea he had with him.
HE had several sides of bacon in his
stock, which he disposed Of at about
one dollar a slice. A few sacks of the
despised bean brought one dollar .
pound
1--WE had been out Of tobacco for near
~ two months, and had drawn but lit
tie solace out of pipefuls of dried leaves
and moss. When this fellow appeared
on the scene We took him to our hearts
Is benefactor and gave him ounces Of
gold for plugs of tobacco. An ounce of
gold brings sixteen dollars In Alaska
and nineteen dollars at the mint here.
1--WE bought hundredweight of on
ions, for which we were assessed six
ounces of gold
II tell you what, we poured out tho
dust upon that fellow Emmons, and he
had 30 much of it don't think would
like to take the contract to peck it from
here to the city hall
You must not think from this ap-
polliny price list that we were starving
70 death We had plenty Of game and
fsh. but that kind of grub pals on the
appetite"
The boys" however, appear to have
made money on the YUKON river bars
Mr.. Miles states that all of them have
Stakes" and he came down to Victoria
with several Of them who had cleaned
up" from twelve thousand dollars 70
twenty-eight thousand dollsrs apiece.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
ECHO RIVER.
Peculiar Acoustic Qualities Of This Vault
ed Stream.

Peculiar Acoustic Qualities of This Vault.
ed Stream.
One Of the famous curiosities of tho
Mammoth cave is the Echo river, u body
of water estimated To be some three
fourths of a mile in length, and from
twenty to two hundred feet in breadth
It's depth at ordinary times is from ten
to forty feet DIR. FL. C. Hovey, in q
paper read before the American Geo
graphical society. gives vivid descrip-
ton of the peculiar acoustic qualities
of the vault by which the river Is
arched
party of four persons, no Others being
on the river at the time, we tried the
effect of rocking the boat as violently
as we dared to do. also striking the sur
face of the water with our paddles, and
in other ways making as much agita-
ton of the body of the stream as posi-.
bic, and then awaiting the result m
silence.
timed the concert thus created, and
found it's duration TO be exactly half an
hour First came sounds like the tink-
ling of silver bells. Then larger and
heavier bells took up the melody as the
waves sought out the cavities in the
walls. Then it was as if all chimes of
all cathedrals had conspired to raise Q
tempest of sweet sounds.
For a momenL there was utter silence,
soon broken by low mutterings, ghostly
whispers, sudden shriel1s, as if of men
in agony. Then silence again. We
motioned to rs to remain quiet; when,
10! as from some deep recess, hitherto
forgotten, came a tone tender and pro-
found; after which. like gentle MEM
cries, all the mellow and mysterious
sounds that had gone before were re-
awakened, until the hall rang again
with the wondrous harmony.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
4 Valuable Dog.

1t is told in IN English religious jour
nal that a clergyman recently dictated
for brother clergy Being anxious
to know what impression he had made.
he asked the clerk: WAS ny dis
course pitched in too high a key?
hope / did not shoot over the heads of
the people" mo. you didn't do that,
SIR" Was it n suitable theme?" asked
the clergyman Yes, it was about
right" WAS 1t too long?" NO. but
It was long enough" II am glad Of
that, for.-to tell you the truth. the
other day. as was getting this sermon
ready my dog destroyed four or five
pages, and that has made it much short
or" oh. sir" said the clerk, ''couid
You LEI our vicar have . pup O. that ere
6c1:s
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
Spry Old Maine People.

Maine is noted for her hale and spry
old people. Ex-Gov. Garcelon, in Lew
iston, eighty-five years old, Is an active
rider and driver Of fast horses, of which
his stables contain twenty-threo fine
animals. Mrs. Jonathan Dow, Of Deer
Isle, eighty years old, has knitted forty
pairs Of stockings and woven two hun
dred yards of rag Competing and one
hundred yards of cloth during the past
season in odd moments snatched from
her general housework and the care of
a flock Of hens Mrs. Joanna Bunker,
of West Trenton, eighty-seven years
old. has just finished a waistcoat which
she cut and made without the use of
glasses. Dir. Robbins, also of Deer
Isle, is seventy-six, and. last year,
besides doing much repairing to
vehicles. he made all the woodwork for
four carts, one jigger, a doubie-seated
wagon and horse sled.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06
rERRE BONNE's SALAMANCA.

Wsaderral Sake Charming by IN O.a
Nsgro vood,o Womao In Lou .sisps.
An sged negroes of G eat re3ute &c .
''voodoo," or witch doctress, among the
negroes Of this section. writes . ccrru-
epondent from Terrc Bonne. La, NO
sordi,g to The Chicago Times, IL attract
ing Esu$h attention. not only from
s:aOse If acr own color, bat from the
more Intelligent portion Of the com.
munity, and the way in which she docs
this IL to apparently swallow a num-
Der Of small snakes Of a variety I'M
known in this section. They are Of Q
dusky color, nearly blnclf, pied with Q
dull green about the fat head, and Of 0
dirty white in the belly. These rep
tiles remain secroted about old Nance's
cabin until she gives a peculiar whis-
Ting call, when they will come to her.
wriggiing in great haste over the floor,
up her dress, and run into her open
mouth, kissing hideously. They dlssp-
pear and remain hidden sometimes for
minutes. She asserts that they are con-
cealed in her stomach until she recalls
them, when they will come pouring out
10 writhe about her scraggy neck and
coil in her bosom.
Where the snakes really 60 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
20 down into the stomach, while others
are convinced the witch is simply play
ing some sleight-of-hand trick on them.
but if the latter il the case IL is 30 Glow
srly done that there is no detecting the
performance.
The witch presents a most extrnordi-
nary and hideous appearance sitting
with the snakes darling their fiat heads
in and out of her toothless mouth, with
their little bead-tike eyes swapping a. if
In fury all about their mistress. As
nearly as they can be counted there
are six or seven of these reptiles,
though old Nance says there are many
more, but they are all SO much of a size
and color that they cannot be identified.
They are probably of harmless
nature, though old Nance declares they
are highly poisonous and no one wish
G. to experiment with them.
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Fifth Dist. Levee Board

Reaching every home in
the parish, it is an vxcellen
medium for
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1894-04-06

who desire the business Of
this section.
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COMPETITION AVOIDED.
Shops in France Not Allowed to Crowd
EaCa Other.

In France two shops selling the same
thing are rot allowed To exist within
certain area. u provisions this absence
of competition 4, rally increases the
price. but says woman who has
large experience in hou excepting in
France. yoar taxes are less, and you
have in return clean reefs. good gas.
constant water supply and perfect
leverage. In aGC-..1a. by virtue of
state supervision you never receive
short weight or inferior goods. There
lis no quantity so 81. i that the grocer
will not sell it. And in doing this and
in delivering It he is as scrupulously
polite and careful - in buying larger
amounts. I lie but, her is the cooks
friend and VIII trim the meat and take
out the bones with loving care. Meat
thirty-seven cents 70. ffty cents
pound Fish Is very expensive, but
poultry is reasonable and good and
comparatively cheap. A good deal of
cooking in small households is done
with gas, and gas stoves are loaned by
the gas companies for this purpose.
Sugar, matches and all imported arti-
cles are dear, owing to the high tariff.
The lowest price for servants is ten
dollars q month. Charworaen ask six
cents by the hour Englishwomen say
that lie on the continent is much
more agreeable for Americans than
for themselves. owing to the fact that
in each consular town the consul and
his family make a nucleus for a colony,
which soon gathers about them.
Glass Eyes Worn Secretly.
A New York opticiar. was relating
to party of friends the other day some
of the peculiar features of his trade.
"iou would lie surprised he said. "a,
the lar number of loc"mo-ive en-
gileers and hremen MO nave glass
eye II COURSE. ar e. 2 leer could moi
hold place on railroad an hour Ii
The fact that he had a glass eye
was known to his superior officers
Consequently men in that line of bust
nees e@erc II the utmost secrecy with
regar! to their iniirraitv When they
come into my store ~ Guy new
.,lass eye or have some law in their old
one atten4si to they beg the privilege
- trensact.1g their business in my
private oLice and they usually slip in
aad ont OF the store when no other
cussr<ncr is around"
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OF TEE

Board Of School Di'tOrs
AND OF THE
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in principles, it will ever ad
vOcate what seems to 1T is to
the best interests of State
generally, and the Parish
particularly.