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The herald., 1897-05-12
Letter of Inquiry

Mayor Snyder yesterday received u
letter from G. Kaelber No. 33 Walnut
street st. Louis. making inquiries about
one Jacob Kaelber a baker. aged 80
years. The letter states that the wife
OF Kaelber says that he died of sunstroke
in this city last year, but on inquiry 1t
has been ascertained that there are no
sunstrokes in California, for which rea-
son the story of his death is disbelieved
The herald., 1897-05-12
CALLED THEM HEATHEN
But He Used the Word Etymologi-
callv Onlv

SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.-Another sis
ter of advanced women is ''all wrought up"
and this time il is not Hlndoo who has
raised the disturbance. but a Berkeley
professor-Do other than Professor Howl
son, the theologian. He informed the la
dies of the Philomath Club, who had Sc
cured as the Noman's Congress did, the
Brahmacharin-as a star attraction-that
they were not Christians, they were
heathens In order to make assurance
The herald., 1897-05-12
San Francisco's Census

SAN FRANCISCO. May 1.-THE school
census was completed last night 1t shows
that there are in San Francisco 7<.Sl0 chil.
dren OF school age, an increase Of 301S over
the number shown by the last census. The
increase insures for the city an increase
of about $4,000 of the state appropriation.
The herald., 1897-05-12
When Nature

Needs assistance 1t may be best to rem.
der it promptly, but one should remem-
Der to use even the most perfect RENE.
dies when needed. The best and most
simple and gentle remedy is the Syrup
of Figs. manufactured py the Caltfors
MIA Fig Syrup company.
The herald., 1897-05-12
Her Injuries Fatal

HUDSON. N. r.. May 11.-Mrs. Da-
vld Oppenheim Of Vancouver. B. c., who
Jumped from the Atlantic Express near
this city Monday while deranged. died
today. The remains will be taken to
The herald., 1897-05-12

Married ladies, single ladies and ladies'
about to be married. il you want to make
your husbands, prospective husbands, etc..
happy, buy the most perfect range In the
world, namely, the Glenwood. Furrey Co.,
159 North Spring street.
The herald., 1897-05-12
THE THIRD RAIL
Electricity Applied to Long and
Heavy Hauling

NEW HAVEN, Conn, May 11.-An ex-
pertinent was made yesterday between
Hartford and New Britain on the New
England, that according to the testimony
of the experts who witnessed 1t, will revo-
lutionize the motive power In railroading
The herald., 1897-05-12

BOSTON, May 11.--Kidder, Peabody q
Company will ship 500. 900 in gold from New
York by the steamer Columbia Thursday.
The herald., 1897-05-12
Gold Shipments

Glenwood ranges. Furrey Co.. I6e North
Spring.
The herald., 1897-05-12
1rnchinist o11j,rp

vsncouvet 81 heF hu10GAd. tn fuFmss
Mayor of that city.
The herald., 1897-05-12

Drink Glen Rock water Address +. L.
Smith. PIG South Spring street. Tel. 26.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26
LIFTING Il SKIRT.
How 1t May he Done Easily, Grnc,
fully and MOdestly.

How 1t May he Done Easily, Grnce~
fully and MOdestly.
While it is considered bad form for
a woman to carry her skirts while walk.
ing, there are conditions and circum.
stances when she must do so. In the
first place, unless one is a woman of lux
ury, with those in her service with Moth
ing but her wardrobe to look after, one
is o excusable for wearing skirts that
in consequence of their all-round exag-
gerated length are veritable street
sweepers. For women who are not
thus luxuriously conditioned, walking
skirts should be made just to escape
the ground, and then they should be al.
lowed to hang free unless the side.
walks or crossings are too damp OF
otherwise dirty, when it would, OF
course, be most %uncleanly not to lift the
skirts. The way to lift them most eff
f~ectually and conveniently is to throw
the extra back fullness of the skirt oveF
the back of'the hand, which should be
closed and placed as a handle at one
side of the body, and slightly bend the
forearm forward. The fullness of the
skirt will be found to remain in place,
and will not cause the fatigue to the
hand and wrist that one experiences in
the old way of holding SO much weight
of material in the hand. This is a de-
cided saving on gloves, since it does not
stretch them or soil them or cause the
hand to become overheated, and skirts
lifted in this way look more graceful
than when they are held in the hand.
Ones anatomy is less liable to be en-
phasized, and it gives an ease and GER
tainty that all the fullness is properly
looked after, while at the same time
petticoat, ankles and shoes are more be-
comingly exposed.-Ohicago Chronicle.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26

Denve P~hyslclRn Suggests n New
Treatment for Tuberculosis.
DR.. A. Mansfield Holmes, of Denver,
delivered a very interesting address at
the pan-American medical congress, in
which he spoke of the possibilities of
diagnosing tuberculosis in u stage early
enough.to permit a eur being effected.
"In the so-cnlled active stage of tuber-
culosis there are disintegrating and
wasting Of tissues.
IF we trace tuberculosis backward
from the stage of visible disintegration,
we shall sooner or later reach a period
in its development in which the Cvi-
dence of disintegration disappears from
the patient. In the active stage of the
disease we were studying the patient.
Now we are studying his leucocytes Tor
white corpuscles)." Dr.. Mansfield pre-
pares the blood films, fixes, stains,
mounts and studies them. The finger
of the patient is cleaned antisepticaliy
and pricked with a sterilized needle.
The drop of blood should be used i'm
mediately, a dropfor each film. Cell It's
sues, as well as almost all other animal
tissues, possess great affinity for stains.
By long study, the shade that a stain
ing solution communicates to cell it's
sues in a normal state may be fixed In
ones mind. Then abnormal conditions
may be easily recognized by a varia-
ton in the staining reaction of these
tissues. The doctors careful study of
100 t~uberculous cases in all stages OF
the disease shows that the law that
causes disintegration in a t~uberculous
patient brings about the same process
at an earlier date in t~uberculous leu
cocytes. He believes it possible to esti-
mate the degre of tuberculous condi-
ton, and also of recuperative power;
that a diagnosis based upon the funda-
mental principles of biology" may be
made.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26
HIGH HEELS IN Y
Slippers Seem to Hold heir Own
with h Cairo Women.

Slippers Seem to Hold Their Own
with the Cairo Women.
It is hard to find a neat, violating
shoe in Cairo, because the woman of
the fella class goes barefooted and the
woman of the harem wears slippers.
Egypt has no middle class of q size
to count for anything. The shoe, when
one discovers it, is too broad for the
foot of a European. 1t is round-toed
and without an instep, for the use of
a splay-footed generation. 1t has either
no heel or else one that puts the 'com-
nonsense. models to shame. It is a
a clumsy adaptation of it's European
prototype, useful, probably, but GER
tainly not ornamental.
The slipper is a different thing. In
it's lowest estate it is bright colored.
1t is a thing of the soil, and seems q
part of the foot hat has shufled along
in it for centuries. The cheaper Slip
pers worn by the women of Cairo are
a vivid red or yellow. They are very
loose, but are too flexible to be alto.
gether awkward. They have soles al
most as thin as paper, and no heels.
To walk in them is an art that can't
be learned in one generation, but needs
to be developed through heredity, for
they are always trodden down at the
back, and it takes toes as clever as
fingers to hold them in position.
But Egyptian women can jump as
nimbly as others from extreme to ex-
treme, and every mothers daughter
of them who a afford it wears stilt-
like Louis Quinze heels. The women
of the w%ealthier class are odd sights in
their batlike, black cloaks and white
yackmacks, fitting through the streets
with a liberal display of pink silk stock
ings and blue satin slippers that look
filter for q ballroom. Feet are all that
a yelled woman can display, aud she
makes the most of them. In the mar
row streets that lead from the Muski
one may see in a ten minutes walk
any morning stockings and slippers of
all the hues of the rainbow. The shape
less silk cloaks that are universal for
outdoor wear are cut conveniently short
to display black slippers embroidered
with gold, white slippers beaded with
blue, yellow satin slippers with white
lace r~osettes, and dozens of red silk slip
pers with black beading. In MatariHh,
Helouan and other suburban villages,
where many Of the pashas keep their
harems so that their wives may not buy
out the jewelers. bazars of Cairo, the
display of footgear is even more strik-
ing.
The women who have the largest for
tunes invested in stockings and slip
pers are not apparently young and are
ofener than not of unwieldy figures.
The feet of Egyptian ONE are not
small, and these gay slippers are apt
tc be in big sizes. They are frequently
soiled and spotted, for the streets of
Cairo are dirty; but they add to the
picturesqueness of outdoor life and to
ones appreciation of the ingenuity OF
women.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26

be hard boiled or the contents blown
from the shells. Color 16 red, gid eight
and leave one white. Now for the ar
rangement. Make two circles, one Of
the 16 red eggs and within this a circle
of the eight gilded eggs. The eggs
must be placed at equal distances apart,
the outer circle measuring about eight
feet in diameter and the inner one four
feet, and the white egg must be placed
in the center of the inner circle. The
eggs having been arranged the COM
peny is divided into couples and each in
turn try the dance. I
The first couple take position within
outer circle-that is, between the red
eggs and the gilded ones, and waltz
around the circle three times, keeping
within the space between the two
circles. Entering the inner circle they
waltz three times around the central
egg, and all this must be done without
breaking or greatly disturbing any OF
the eggs. J
When an egg is broken or knocked
more than 10 inches from its position
the dancers give place to the next
couple. The broken ones are not re-
placed, but the displaced ones r set
in order. When each couple has had a
turn and none has accomplished the
feat of dancing without breaking an
egg. all change partners and the trial
begins again.
The first couple who go through the
dance without breaking or disturbing
the circles win each a first prize, posi-
bly, a dainty bonbon box shaped like an
egg; the second successful couple re
ceive second prizes and also the third.
The prizes may take the form of eggs
Dresden china, perhaps-flled with
bonbons or any charming trife. Il
appropriate to the season so much the
better.-American Queen.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26
Took 1t Literally.

'Yes," said the teacher, with realistic
enthusiasm, ''the world is a very big
place, and the human race countless.
Death constantly depletes the races,
but birth, on the other hand, constant
ly recruits them. To give you an idea
how many people there are in the
world, let me tell you that every time
you take a breath there are no less than
three babies born into the world"
A sigh Of wonder ran around the
class.
Jimmy JONAH" called out the teach-
ed to a lad at the end of the class, "what
are you holding your breath till you
are blue in the face for?"
"Tm goin' to stop breathin' alto
gether," mumbled Jimmy. "We've got
more babies at our house now than we
know what to do wild, and when anud-
der one turns up Tm dead sure I don't
want dad to lay it to my breathin'.
betcherlifei"-N. Y. Journal.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26

formed into an oblong globe, just the
size and shape of the human eye.
Next it passes into the coloring room.
A piece of colored enamel is placed On
the summit of the globe, and this is
gently heated in a small fame and con
tinuously rotated. Gradually this takes
the form of the iris, and then a spot of
darker enamel is added to represent
the pupil. Then this is covered by a
thick layer of crystal to form the cor
nea.
At this stage the eye is detached from
the blowpipe and cooled and then sent
to the cutting room, and from it
energies shaped into a small hollow
oval with irregular edges.
The edges r fred and the eye is
allowed to cool slowly, this being the
%unnealing or tempering process, which
tougnens the ENAMEL and renders it less
liable to break. The final work is the
polishing, and then it is ready for the
owner.
The coloring work is the most deli
cate of all, as sometimes eight or nine
colors are worked in to give the correct
| shadA.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26
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"A Skeptie.-"Help the poor" said
the vagrant, pointing to the card he
carried. NO" replied Binks. "Idon't
believe in signs.'-Philadelphia North
American.
-Hicks-"speaking Of Pullen, he Is
a man who really enjoys a t~oothaehe."
Wicks-'What is he, a Mark Tapley?"
Hicks-"No; he's a dentist."-Boston
Transcript.
How It Works Out in Practice.-Jess
-"The rain falls alike on the just and
UNJUST" Joke-True, but the unjust
man is gerally provided with the just
mans umbrella."-Truth.
When She Imbibed Skill.-sThat
Miss Wood, the bicycle rider, is a The
osophist, isn't she?" Eyes, she says
she used to walk a treadmill in the time
Of Sesostris. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
-Incompatibility.- "I knew that
couple would finally get a divorce"
"Why2" HE wanted their first baby
named Martha Maria, and she named it
Euphemia Observation-Disclosures Rec
ord.
-Lady-"But 1t seems to me you ask
very high wages, when you acknowl-
edge that you haven't had much expert
ence.p Bridget-"Sure, marin, amt it
harder for me when l don't know how?'
-Tit-Bits.
-Sand-Woman-"Why, I verify be-
lieve you are the same man 1 fed an
hour ago. He had a sandy complexion
like yours, anyway" Tourist ION FOOT
-"0h, that's wot anybody gets wot
comes acrostI ndianny, mum."-Detroit
Journal.
Professor Occurring Oxygen
gentlemen, is essential to all animal ex,
~istence; there could be no life without
it. Strange to say, it was not discov
cred until a century ago, when
Student-"What did they do before il
was discovered, professor ?"-Tit-Bits
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26
WOMAN AND HOME
cRAPEs ANp cREPoN.
Methods Of weaving to Secure a
Mueh-Eateemed Surface.

Methods Of Weaving 60 Secure q
Mueh-Esteemed Surface.
The fabric most generally known as
Grape is mourning Grape, but properly
the name belongs to any fabric Of silk,
cotton or wool that has a wrinkled sur
face. Crepon is the French name for q
thick Grape, but it has come to be APP
piled to any weave with an uneve face
which gives a Grape effect, whether
woven like Grape or in plaits thrown
up by dropping certain welt threads at
definite intervals and tightening them
by twisting.
The wrinkle of Grape is produced by
making the welt, and sometimes the
warp also, of twisted threads, every al
ternatc group of threads being twisted
in the reverse direction. The threads
SO arranged are loose, that is, with
space between them-and when the fab
ric is completed they untwist, each in
it's W direction, which gives a sur
face of uniform irregularity. Twisting
warp and weft makes the most perfect
Grape. If the welt only be twisted and
the warp straight, the welt threads will
push up and down the warp, making a
less durable fabric. When the twist is
in the welt only there is elasticityacross
the goods, and when twisted both ways
it is elastic both ways.
The result of this weave is a sur
face of broken lights and shadows, Q
surface that reflects less light than II
smooth, and absorbs much. Such 9
surface permits color to be seen to ad
vantage, and grapes are especially beau
tiful in rich colors suited to them, a.
vivid red.
Oriental grapes, the most beautiful il
the world, are of silk, or mixed silk anC
cotton. When of part cotton they are
cheaper, but there is no vulgar attempt
to conceal the cotton. but it is KEEP
frankly on the surface, and its owl
good qualities are made to appear. Cot
ton has less power of reflection thar
silk, and, therefore, lends itself to in
crease the absorption of light, which i!
an object in Grape weave. Also, tn,
crimYed surface enhances the beauty o
cotton thread.
What is known as mourning Grape Il
not a Grape weave. Its wrinkled sur
face is made by stiffening gauze ant
pressing it on a matrix.-N. Y. Herald
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26
POPULAR SCIENCE.
MAKING [ a EYES.

requires Great Skill Both in Cast
ing and COlOring.
The glass eye making industry is
larger than most people have any idea
of, the trade being stimulated by the
fact that the life of usefulness of a
glass eye is from six months to n
year, rarely longer. The salts con-
tanned in the tears have a disastrous ac-
ton on the enameled glass, and eat it
away to such an extent that the tiny
spheres become so much smaller in
size that they can be worm only with
great discomfort. In New York there
is a factory turning out 500 glass eyes
in the course Of a single week.
In its initial stage the eye, says the
New York Herald, is a long, slender
stick of enamel, made of perfectly
transparent and fusible hintglass. This
is placed in a crucible and exposed to
great heat. The globemaker places the
enamel over a blowpipe supplied with
wind, which is pumped by engine
power.
Under the careful manipulation of
the workman the enamel tube is
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26
THE euREAu TRuNK.

the wall before being opened, so that
both the wall and the carpet are saved
much scraping and tearing. These adj
vantages are possessed by no other
trunk. Everything Ear be packed the
same as if in ones own bureau at
home.
Nothing is ever disturbed, everything
is in place on arrival at destination, and
in the small quarters usually at the dis
posal of a traveller in a hotel room ii
certainly is a great relief not to be
obliged to unpack and pack up again
to save the dresses from being mussec
and crushed and wrinkled.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26

Experiments show that the straight
tube express boiler may be in case of
emergency run with salt water. The
Yarrow boiler has tubes 1h inches in
diameter as compared to the 4A or s.
inch tubes of the boilers used in the
English royal navy for battle ships and
large cruisers. It has been feared that
the tubes of the small boilers would be
quickly stoppedinca case salt water should
gain access to them. Recently a vessel
with a Yarrow boiler was steamed off
the mouth of the Thames five consecu-
tive days for eight to ten hours a day.
Sea water only was used for feeding the
boiler. 1t was found that the vessel
could easily be run at three-quarters
speed without any difficulty.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26
NEW PORTABLE BUREAU.
Trunk with Drawer and COmpart-
ments of n Dressing Case.

Trunk with Drawers and COmpaPt-
ments of n Dressing Case.
The most convenient trunk in the
world is an English trunk which com
Dimes all the advantages of a dressing
case and bureau with that of a trunk
in fact, a portable dressing-case. 1t is
fitted with sliding drawers, and so the
bottom Of the trunk is as accessible as
the top. This arrangement entirely
avoids tumbling over the contents of
the whole trunk, and also from crush
ing whatever is in the bottom of the
trunk. This has been for a long time
the chief attraction of a tray trunk for
dresses, ETC., but this new arrangement.
opening the trunk from the front up
ward, does away with the necessity OF
taking out all the trays to get at the
lower one.
Nothing need be removed. The trunk
does not need to be moved away from
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26
The Colors Of Animals.

It seems to be the result of long-con-
tinued natural selection that the colors
of animals at night seem to blend with
their surroundings, and thus afford
protection. Dark brown, gray and
black animals appear SO much like shad-
cws as to be nearly invisible. Patches
of white often appear like moonlight
effects. While the brilliant coloring of
butterflies serves to render them con-
spicuous in the daytime, when perched
upon g%olden-rod or other bright flowers
at night they T nearly invisible. The
stripes on the tiger and zebra help
to conceal them among the stalks and
reeds; and fishes which rest at night
among eel grass have longitudinal dark
stripes,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26
a woMAN.s plscovERY.
TRANSMISSION OF Vital Energy Through
Electric Impulse.

TRANSMISSION of Vital Energy Through
Electric Impulse.
Although a genuine elixir vitae has
never been discovered. to satisfy the
many seekers who have desired to out
live their generation, DR.. Augusta
Brown Girard, of New York, believes
that the results of her years of expert
menting have proved very gratifying.
Her theory is simple, and she is willing
that all may benefit by her discovery,
which she calls TRANSMISSION of vital
energy through electric impulse" She
has been able to demonstrate that vital
ity may be transmitted to a patient
from a healthy man or woman, or even
from animals. Man is a veritable hui
man battery, and may generate vitality
in any part of his organism when he
knows what nerves are involved and
how to manipulate them" DR.. Brown
said:
81 sought first to locate the seat OF
Vitality. 1t may be called the 'germinal
spot or the fountain of life.' believe
this spot to be the pineal gland, located
at the base Of the brain, just above the
pons varolii. 1 call that the positive
pole. The negative pole / locate at the
medulla ~spinalis, which is a short dis
lance from the extreme end Of tho
spinal column"
She made many experiments, and has
obtained astonishing results. An cleo
trode is fastened upon the head and
back of the person or animal from
which magnetism is to be drawn and
connected, by wire, with a band around
the head of the patient, in proximity to
the pineal gland. He rests one hand
upon the electrode at the back of the
animal. A current is passed from a bat
terry through the vital parts of the ami
NAL and is received by the patient. A
healthy OK is considered most satisfuc-
tory, although astonishing results lave
been obtained from Newfoundland
dogs. A German woman of seemingly
i~nexhaustible vitality has been en-
ployed many times. DIR. Brown grad
uated from the Woman's Medical col
lege, in Chicago, in 1873, and has stud
led for several years abroad.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-06-26

It is said that musicians who play
entirely upon the piano preserve, if
they do not acquire, o luxuriant growth
of hair. On the other hand, wind instru-
ments, especially the cornet and the
trombone, are fatal to hirsute adorn-
ment. The violoncello and the harp are
favorable to the preservation of the
hair, but the flute cannot be depended
on after the fftieth year. Paderewski
is cited as an example of what the vibra-
tions of a piano viii do in this direction.
1t has been admitted for a long time
that music possesses a certain thera-
peutic worth.