The Opelousas courier., 1895-02-16

General Notes.
Cleveland money like Cleveland
democracy is fast contracting.

Cleveland money like Cleveland
democracy is fast contracting.
An appeal has been made for aid for
1880 starving settlers on the Sioux
reservation in South Dakota.
Peters pence ia France used to
amount to 5000, 900 francs a year, but
IN 1893 the sum contributed was only
100000 and last year it fell to less than
1,000, 900 francs.
Whenever you run across a man in
business who don't advertise you can
safely conclude that he will not offer
any particular inducement to cur
your trade.-Crowley Signal.
So far, no one in the State has been
80 bold as to deny or defend the cleo
ton frauds in this State. The crime,
shame and horror that follow in the
wake of the ballot box suffer cannot find
a champion-not yet.-Monroe Bulletin.
The main pipe which takes the
natural gas to Shelby Vile, Ind, from
the natural gas fields near Fountain
town, Ind, burst early on Sunday norm
ing and for nearly sixteen hours six
thousand people were without fire in a
temperature but q few degrees above
zero.
Rev. Irl r. Hicks, the st. Louis
weather prophet, is growing over the
weather bureau because he succeeded
much better in predicting the two alb
normally cold waves that have recently
swept W the South than did the gov
eminent oficials.-Lake Charles Pa
triOt.
The Committee on Military Affairs
has prepared and presented to the
House Of Representatives a bill for the
reorganization OF the army. The bill
proposes to increase the strength of the
enlisted force to 10000, and to re-
organize all three branches Of the ser
vice. The increase of the cost is esti-
mated $780, 600 per year..
The Rayne Tribune thus comments
upon the death of the Acadia Herald,
which was published at Rayne by A.
Lapeyre: "The books and material of
our cOnfrere were seized yesterday morn
ing for debt aud the paper closed out.
The liabilities are small but the assets
are very much smaller. Thus it is that
our neighReor has turned its toes to the
daises.' Re
According to the chronology which is
now generally accepted by students of
dates, Jesus was thirty-three years old
in the year 80 of our era. In other
words, there was a mistake of four
years in the original computation of the
date of His birth. The present year is
not, therefore, 1895, but 1899 years after
the birth of Christ.-N. Y. Weekly
Witness
F. L. Maxwell, of Madison Parish,
planted a field of cabbages last August
and gathered them and Grated them in
January and shipped to New Orleans,
making a net profit of $500 per acre.
These cabbages were beautiful and per-
feet up to the last of January. There
are thousands of people in the North
and some in the South that don't know
that such things can be done.-Monroe
Bulletin.
A Western editor says: elf men are
the salt of the earth, the women are
undoubtedly the sugar. Salt is a neces
sity, sugar a luxury. Vicious men are
saltpetre, Indifferent men are the rock
salt, and nice men are table salt. Old
maids are the brown sugar, good
natured matrons are the loaf sugar, and
the pretty girls the fine pulverized white
clarified sugar. Pass the pulverized
sugar, please.
Secretary Carlisle estimates, and
treasury experts say his figures are con-
servatlve, that at the end Of the present
year there will be a surplus of $22, 00O,-
600. The Republicans have all along
been predicting that the new tariff bill
would produce a deficit and plunge the
country into bankruptcy and ruin, but
the increase of the treasury receipts has
had the effect of dampenirg the ardor
of the calamity howlers.-N. O. States.
A newspaper published in Pekin,
China, is said to have been started 200
years prior to the Norman conquest of
England or about 868 A. D. This would
without much doubt establish it as the
Oldest newspaper ia the world. That
it's course has been marked by many
vicissitudes may be readily believed
from the statement which recently ap-
peared in its columns that during the
1000 years Of its existence 1900 of its
editors bad been beheaded.
The benefits of the free wool para
graphs OF the new law have already
been felt in a considerable degree by
the public, says q happy Boston editor.
Never before in the life of this genera
ton has clothing been 50 good and SO
cheap. Never before have warmer
blankets been obtained at the prices
now prevailing. The reduction 10 the
rates upon foreign manufactured WOOL
ems will undoubtedly have the effect of
still further advantaging the public.
1t is in the interest of the people. And
the best of it is that the manufacture of
woolens has increased and advanced
under the operation Of the free wool
schedule and the prospect of reduced
protection" on the manufactured pro-
duct has not been a detriment to this