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The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24

The working OF the compulsory ac-
cident insurance in Germany is aptly
illustrated, says the Literary Digest,
by the case of the widows and orphans
of the miners who persisted in conse-
Iaence of the explosion in the Kleo-
phas pit, in upper Silesia. The state
guarantees each widow twenty per-
cent OF her late husbands income.
She further receives fifteen percent
for each child, until the maximum of
sixty percent is reached. As the COM
pany which owns the mine agrees to
pay half as much again widows with
three u more children receive ninety
percent of their late husbands earn
ings. Childless widows must content
themselves with thirty percent
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
Butter in Plaster OF Paris.

There seems to be no limit to the in.
genuity bestowed upon the devising
of mean for accomplishing the trans
port of the perlshable produce OF dis
tant chimes to the English market. A
new method, described in the Austria
lasian, is that of packing butter in a
box made of six sheets of ordinary
glass, all the edges being covered over
with gummed paper. The glass box
is enveloped in d layer of plaster of
Paris, a quarter Of en- inch thick, and
this is covered with specially prepared
paper. The plaster being a bad con.
ducSor of heat, the temperature inside
the Theoretically sealed receptacle re.
mains constant, icing unaffected by
external changes. The cost of pack
ing is about two cents per pound.
Butter PACK ID in the way. described at
Melbourne has been sent across the
sea to s. 4th Africa, and when the case
was opened ut Kimberley, 700 miles
from Cape Town, the butter was found
to be as sound as when it left the fac
tory at Victoria. Cases are now made
to hold a s much IS two hundred weight
OF butter, and forty, hands, mostly
boys and girls, are occupied in making
the glass receptacles and covering
them with plaster. The top, or lid,
however, is put on by a simple
mechanical arrangement, and is
removed by the purchaser equally
easily. A saving Of twenty-five per
cent. on freight and packing is claimed
in comparison with the cost of frozen
butter carried in the usual way
Scientific American.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24

A wonderful book has just been
Issued by the Office of public works Of
Paris, giving statistics Of the industry
for which that city is without any
doubt or rival the most important
place in the world-clothes. There
are $500 dressmakers in Paris EN-.
ploying about 30, 900 workpeople. No
one can even remotely calculate how
much money is made by these artists ;
butthe three first houses in Paris .sturn
over" about 81, ooO, 900 agar each.
Their profit on this is about ten per-.
cent, or about 81, 900, 900 a year each.
In reality they make more than this.
for in calculating the net profit, all
personal expenses are deducted. On
the other hand, an enormous number
OF bad debts have to be reckoned
with. One dressmaker alone has
$500. 900 worth Of debts on his books
which be considers to be iryecoyersble.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
A Rats Tendness for Sparroys.

A rat that catches and eats birds is
the latest novelty on the west side:
Under a sidewalk at Twelfth and
Loomis streets lives g rat. From the
size of the rodent and his gray hair
whiskers it is evidently an old resident
in the neighborhood. Unlike some
other rat it does not depend on cheese
and bread for its living, but prefers a
nice, juicy sparrow.
On the orner stands a building oc-
cnp1ed as q saloon, and in front of the
saloon is a watering trough, where
Transfers allow their horses to Stake
their thirst. The transfers also find
the place a very convenient one to
feed their horses while they sample
the proprietor's free lunch and lager
beer. AS a result the pavement is
thlckly strewn with oats pushed out of
the feeding sacks by the hungry
horses.
An army of sparrows has been at
tracted to the place, and each morning
the pavement is covered with the little
fellows eating their breakfast.
Ihe rat, having cultivated a taste
for sparrows, now has one for break
fast every day. Hangers-on around
the place have come to watch the ma.
neuvers of the rat every morning.
Soon after daylight the sparrows make
their appearance, and the rat slyly
crawls out of its hole. After looking
around to see that the coast is clear.
the rat selects a plump sparrow, and
while the bird is busy filling its crop
the rat makes a spring and secures it's
prey.
p1he bird is dragged under the side
walk and nothing more is seen OF the
rat until the following morning, when
he comes out for a fresh victim. So
expert has the rat become that those
who have seen it say it can catch end
kill a bird as cleverly as a cat.-Chi.
rago Chronicle.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24

Taking advantage of the opportun.
ity offered by a long season of peace,
France is getting ready for a display
in 1900 which will surpass any pre-.
vlous exposition ever held on Euro
pean soil. The real purpose which
France has in view, however, in hold.
ing this proposed exposition, the At.
ianta Constitution believes, is not to
outstrip her European neighbors, but
surpass, if possible, the Worlds Fair
OF 1893. Ever since the Chicago ex.
position. France has been eager for
another chance. Her spirit of rivalry
has been fully aroused. Until the
gates OF the Chicago exposition were
thrown open to the world in 1898,
france enjoyed the distinction of hay-
ing produced the greatest exposition
OF the century. The achievement of
American pluck and enterprise at
Chicago, however was such that the
efforts Of France in this direction
have ceased to be miraculous. Tn
reality, therefore, the obiectr Of
France is to snatch from AmeriM the
palm which she thinks rightfa1ly be.
longs to her. The plan to which she
has resorted for the purpose of raising
the necessary funds is both unique and
original. Ponds OF. twenty francs
-four dollars) each will be issued dur.
ing the next few days to the amount
OF 65,ooO,O 600 francs, equivalent in our
money to $13, 600, 600. These bonds
are not interest paying moi will they
be paid ct maturity except insomuch
as the holder may feel himself COM
pensated in being ablaI Il attend the
exposition free of chaRg In other
words, b epurphase Of sieh bonds SIM
ply amounts to the pdfcha of SO many
season tickets from the management
four years in advaffScssf OF the exposition.
In order to encourage the purchase OF
these bonds and to arouse an Interest,"
IN the exposition among the masses of
the French people, it is proposed to
award a number Of prizes. This ia
nothing more or less than a lottery.
but it will doubtless insure the suo.
cess Of the bond issue, and that is the
end at which France is aiming at this
time. With $4,000, 900 cash in hand
the success of tRA exposition will be
we'll nigh assuredse Frauce is fertile
in speculative resous fss and her en-.
terprise is som Ching marvellous.
Having committed herself to this
mammoth undertaking. she will doubt.
less persevere in her efforts until the
goal is finally achieved. If she sue
ceeds in her undertaking, the people
Of this country will be the first to con.
gratulate her. America is not the
too but the friend Of competition
&& A I
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24

Apropos OF the scandal over dueA
ing in Germany, an English paper re-
lates that, a few days ago, a Judge,
trying a case of cowardly assault,
stigmatized the conduct of one of the
prisoners, who was brother reserve
officer. as "ungentlemanly," where.
upon the culprit challenged him to a
a duel. Naturally, he promptly re-
fused, and for refusing to fight with a
prisoner whom he had tried the Mill.
tary Court of Honor has removed the
judges name from the roll of off.
GERS.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
UyDnOtiZed the Bears.

J. E. Newsome is a Port Arthur
Canadian and Alex Anderson comes
from Pearl River. An E%nglishman
named Atwell wanted to get g bear,
and Anderson tried to crafty his de-
sire. Atwell was the kind of a man
who would like to kill a bear in a trap,
so Anderson took two bear traps and
a lot of bait up a gully near Ouimet,
looking for a sign. The E%nglishman
went looking for bears, and left An.
derson to set the traps.
All OF o sudden q big she bear ap-
pearel before Anderson at the foot Of
& tree between a couple OF whose roots
one trap was to have been set. Not
having any gun Anderson. SO Newsome
says, determined that hypnotic force
had to be used and that suddenly. An
derson looked the bear in the eyesand
the bear paused; then Anderson
made three passes with his hands. The
bear leaned its head forward and its
eyes bulged out. Having satisfied
himself that the bear was properly
Influenced, Anderson yelled for AT.
well, but Atwell was a good way off,
and before he could arrive the bears
~two-year-old and yearling cub came
ont Of the tree at the same time. A
yearling cub alone would be a pretty
bad fighter at close quarters, espec.
tally with a %bypnotized mother bear
near by liable to come to at any mo-
men, but a t~wo-year-old cub and q
yearling both at once made a mighty
serious matter.
But Anderson was fully equal to
the emergency. He managed to look
at the bears four eyes at once, and
soon had them subjugated. Newsome
says he would not have believed An
derson's tale only Anderson is now
cross.eyed, which he wasn't before,
owing to his looking both bears in the
eyes at once.-Forest and Stresm.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
Until q flower has PLAYED an

Until flower has played an i'm
portant part in some great historical
event, as did the thistle of Scotland
and the shamrock of Ireland, or until
it has been surrounded by overwhelm-
ing sentiment through close and con-
tinued association with some distin-
guished and widely beloved man or
woman, as was the case with the corn
flower Of Germany and the violet of
France, it is idle to propose any
flower as q National emblem.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24

The Empress Dowager of China, re-
Gently dead, was purchased of her
parents in childhood, after the Chin.
ese manner, and probably represented
to her first owner a money investment
about equal to the cost here of q
Thanksgiving turkey, remarks the
New York Tribune. Destiny directed
her way first as servitor and hand.
maid to the royal household, and Aer
own cleyerness and talent did the rest.
For a generation before her death she
was n of the most influential per-
sonages in China; not so much the
power behind the throne as in
front of it, for there was no
c%oncealment of the influence which
she exerted in affairs of administra.
ton and policy. She was generally,
but not always, an ally of Ii Hung
Chang, in sympathy with his ideas of
progress aud social reform, and had
brains enough to appreciate his value.
Nor was he undmindful of her own
unusual qualities and endowments.
With her death On important figure in
Chinese politics passes from the stage
and i%ntof,istory. 1t will declare of
her that she was all extremely clever
woman who, under equally propitious
conditions, might have been as great
. ruler as Elizabeth or Catherine,
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
railroad man has compiled statistics

A railroad man has compiled statistics
which show that there is only one rail-
road passenger killed out of every
1885, 1853 carried on the railways, and
that for every 183, 1922 carried, only
one is likely to be injured. He bases
his calculations on the fatalities and
casualties on railroads during the last
twelve years. His figures show that a
mans chances are such that he would
have to travel 4, 406, $50 miles before
getting hurt, and go Al, 58S, 966 miles
before being killed.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24

Thus far the use of the wheel by
sound or fairly sound persons has
chiefly been considered. Future
papers from the same pen will deal
with the uses of the wheel for invalids,
as adjuvative to the surgeons and the
physicians cara These will, no doubt,
be of at least equal interest, though
inevitably they will trench upon more
contentious ground.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
Cattle for Three Centuries.

About the close of the sixteenth cen.
fury the usual weight, gross, OF the
average four-year-oldbullock, fattened
and ready for slaughter, was less than
eight hundred pounds. The figures
! given are based on the custom of guess
ing gross weights which was a neces.
sity of those times. The "critter' i'll
those days simply "2rowed" as a rule.
No intelligence was exercised IN selec'
ton CT the best of the animals for pro-
bagation Of their species. In the wild
state the strongest sires predominated,
and the cows were the survivors OF the
rigors Of storms and the ravaGes ct
wild beasts. Working for their living
left little time or energy for storing
up surplus flesh or fat. The COW was
IS much noted for her fighting quail
ties and agility and feetness as for
any disposition to provide for the
human wants in supplying meat, milk,
butter, etc.
Only rs civilization advances do
people give the proper attention to
development of the full quota OF do
nestle traits. 1t took centuries to
teach men that cattle could he i'm
proved by care and food. Just as the
horse has degeueratel by neglect into
the hardy miniature specimen OF his
kind nov surviving as a pony, so, on
the other hand, has the mighty bullock
Of the nineteenth century been de-
veIopei at the age Of four years into q
toms weight, by kindly thought and
generous food OF the intelligent people
who has given the world the best Of
everything.
The time hos come among the beef
consumers when the mammoth blocks
Of tallow are considered out of keeping
with present needs. The average table
prefers q juicy, tender steak or roast
taken from the carcass Of the young
ster when ripaned and fattened at
fifteen to eighteen months of age. 1t
is found to be economy in feeding to
stop the slow manufacture Of the after
growth of flesh beyond the limit OF
twelve to fourteen hundred pounds.
It costs about 81 per hundred pounds
more to grow the beef on the three
year-o!d, than on the short two.year-
old. Money can be made by limiting
work and feeling to the yearllngs
where grain is the principal food, pro-
vided one has pure breeding in the
calves. The sire and dam have q part.
Farm, Field and Fireside.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
Forms of Animal Life.

Humboldt estimates that the mum.
Der OF animals of the mammalia kind
chose that suckle their vorn.) is
about 500; of birds, 1000; OF insects,
$1,000; of reptiles, 700; or in ali
about $4,000. To Europe belong 50
of the mammalia, 100 birds an 80
reptiles. In the Southern Hemis.
phere, more particularly in South
America and Africa, birds are Eve
times more numerous that HE nam.
malta. In all countries it i:.j been
noticed Shat BIRDS and r1p1i Is in.
crease in number toward the equator.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
Japan's New Fleet,

A London correspondent of the
Chicago Chronicle says: Out Of four
teen new vessels Excluding torpedo.
boats to be added to the Japanese
feet, twelve of them are to be con-
strueted in England ard two in the
United States. The twelve include
four ironclads and four first and two
second-class cruisers. The torpedo
boats SO far ordered go to French and
German yards, while the vessels or
derea in the United States are second.
class cruisers
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24

Under the new constitution OF
Mexico, which has just gone into eff
feet, the CentrM Government alone
will have the brfOwer to issue money.
collect custoLs and regulate COM
merce. The Mexican States are learn.
ing how to strengthen themselves by
pulling together.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24

Missouri is said to be the greatest
,urkey-raising State in the Union.
The annual holiday crop is estimated
at between 1000, 900 and 5000, 600
turkeys, showing what o great interest
is taken in this useful and noble
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
THE SHIP AND THE SONG,

The ship was launched at midnight,
Without a parting cheer:
But, bringing wealth from lands afar,
Through seas where calms Or tempests are
While doomed barks miss the lighthouse star.
She sails for many Il year.
The song was wrought in silence.
Through ~starless night Of pain.
To darkened homes the words are light,
And faint souls feel the masters might;
While poet on fame's sunlit height
May sing a song in vain.
-GeorgeT I. Packard, in Youths Companion.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24

Nuckolls County. Nebraska, offers a
bounty for wo''etcalps. The other
day some baasKansss mar caught a
litter of YOUNG wolves, took them
across the line and killed them in front
OF the Nuckolls Courthouse. As the
wolves were 5jslearly '' sllno4 in the
county, t'pS bounty wal paid on them.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24

Interesting from an ethical point of
view are the recently published statis-
tics of India, which show one con.
victed criminal out of every 274 Euro
peans, one to 500 Asiatics, one to 7O9
native Christians, one to 1861 Brah
mans, and one to 3, 1877 Buddhists.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24

In Scotland the proportion between
fishermen and the rest of the popula.
ton is one in GH seventy-six; in
Ireland, one in every ZIG: in England
and Wales, one in every 6l2.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
A Gne.Day Peerage.

Lord LeightoD's peerage was the
shortest lived in the history Of England.
He died on the day following that upon
which the patent Of nobility Vas is.
sued, and as he lett no heir the title
died with him.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA

If the armies of Europe should
march at an eight-mile gait, five
abreast, fifteen inches apart, it would
require nine and one-haif days foI
them to pass q given point.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
May See the Fifth tieueration.

1t is expected that the Princess Eco
dora, who is the eldest great-grand.
child of Queen Victoria, will be be-.
trothed this year. The Queen may
therefore live to see another genera.
ton of her descendants.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24

There was recently a considerable
stock OF coins sold by auction in
Brussels. A number of thrifty Bel
gians, who realized that such another
chance might not occur, bought cot.
fins for themselves and put them away
until needed.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24

Arizona is the sixth largest political
division in the United States, embrac.
ing an area of 113, 900 square miles, or
~, 800, 900 acres.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
OpelOuSaS Courier

OpelOuSaS Courier
Is the advocate of Democratic
principles and the friend Of the
people.
Their welfare is its welfare, and
it will ever be found defending
their rights with all of Its
ability.
The value of a newspaper as al,
advertising medium consists III
its circulation.
When you can secure the COM
bined circulation Of two papers
for the price OF one, it is money
saved!
"mThe St. Landry Democrat"
WAS consolidated on the Sd OK
March, 1894, with THE Opelou-
sas Courier" The advertising
rates have not been increased
while the price of subscription
has been reduced to 81 a year.
TIE COURIER being by odds
the best paper in the empire Par
ish Of St. Landry is therefore tAt
cheapest.
The Opelousas courier., 1896-10-24
By the Tie of a Bootlace.

. doubt you have had
O great many interest
ing experiencences? l
remarked to an ex-de-
tective, now a great
friend of mine.
Yes, he replied, I
may say that I have
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-10-11
the ISSUE AND TnE PIArFoRM

II the Republican party was sincere
when IL declared in it's platform that
it was in favor Of both gold and silver
as standard money. and in favor Of
bimetallism through an international
agreement or otherwise. it's newspapers
and campaign orators in defending
the gold standard are advocating
policy which the party has declared to
be pernicious. All parties have agreed
that the existing gold standard is in.
furious. They agree that bimetallism
is the correct financial theory. The
only difference in theory between the
parties is, that Democrats and Popu-
lists believe that the United States
alone can bring about bimetallism
through free coinage of silver, while
Repu publicans believe that bimetallsm
cannot be brought about except with
the help Of European nations. II the
Republican party is sincere in its dec
larations in favor OF bimetallism, why
do not Republican papers and orators
devote some attention to the real
issue? Why do not they attempt TO
show that the silver is too large 20 be
utilized by the United States, instead
Of defending the monometallic gold
standard? II the single gold standard
Is bad thing as the Republican
party says 1t is, why seek to fasteu it
more firmly on the people2 II, as has
been said, factions speak louder than
words" the Republican party is in
favor Of the single gold standard and
against bimetallism through interna-
tional agreement or otherwise II the
Republican purity is in favor Of the
single gold standard, its platform is a
lie and mockery II II Is in favor OF
international bimetallism, its news.
papers and campaign orators are liars
and Knockers.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-10-11
TERRITORIAL POLITICAL
POURRI.

IONEHl.
Shawnee Daily Capital Its dollars
TO doughnuts that Joe Wisby and Col.
johnson will aid Judge Keaton mater
ia.ly in making up his mind who
should be deputy clerk in this county.
The Perry Democrat changed hands
and heads last week. T. M Miller
aud j Roy Williams have leased il
from Fred ) Wilson. Both are enter.
pristog aud active young Democrats
and will make the Democrat a success.
Manchester journal; Dennis Flynn
spoke at Hawley last Wednesday. The
meeting had been we'll advertised but
they only succeeded in getting to-
gether fair audience, mostly Popu-
lists, who went to hear him mostly out
Of n ere curiosity TO hear what he had
to say. His speech was made up of
abuse Of Callahan and his friends, an
effort to show how great was Dennis
Flynn and most abject plea for
votes.
Kingfsher Free Press lRepublican):
THE tour OF the Generals" in Pull
man cars, dining and waiting car at.
tachment, all free for nothing, was a
political mistake. The boys" no
longer recognize their authority. The
war business is over on both sides
Blaine was beaten by accepting at the
last moment an invation to a mill
ionaire dinner at which Jay Gould and
other unpopular public and private
thieves were also guests The Tour
of the Generals" should now be supple
mented 10y Tour of the High Pri.
Yates In the Rear Ranks"
Perry Democrat: That immortal ele-
ment Of the Republican party that has
married itself to ID. I. Flynn. is cam.
paigning for the interest of Flynn &
Co with special stress on the com
panyl, without regard or interest in
the welfare Of the claim holder The
Republican party, which has held
power in Oklahoma, has displayed a
capacity for wrong doing-for the be-
trayal OF principle and the acceptance
Of support Of corporations and party
favorites- and have reveled in the
mire Of partisan debauchery ana pollu-
tion, until the citizens of every party
have demanded fusion against com
mon enemy.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-10-11

ST. Louis, Mo, Oct i0-The ST.
Louis and Kirkwood electric railway
has bit upon a novel method oi pay
ing the claimants who have damages
against the road because Of the big
accident near Kirkwood last spring
when several people were killed and
many more injured. President l. d.
Housman called a meeting Of the
creditors and proposed to build a sec
ond track and increase the capital
stock 5000 900. OF this 500, 600 is to
be used to build the track and the
other $780, 600 is TO be divided among
the creditors. II the creditors accep pt.
the arrangement IS to be settled by
arbitration.