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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-11-06
FEEDING IN AQUARiUMS.

Some Curious Methods Employed For the
Greater Comfort of the Fishes.
All fishes, including even the dnllest
and comnonest, are likely to be shy
when first brought into captivity, as in
aquarlums, and they are very apt at
first to refuse food. Sometimes fish re-
fuse persistently week after week, tax
ing none at all and growing thinner and
thinner and weaker, until finally they
die. Usually, however, tie fishes, with
proper care, come to feed, though many
OF them may need TO be pampered and
nursed along at first. Finally many of
the fishes, as they become accustomed
to captivity, get very tame, SO that they
will take food from the hand Some Of
the fishes that will do this are fishes
that might not be thought Of as feeding
In this manner. The Goldfish, for in
stance, will come to the surface after it
has become used to captivity and take a
strip OF fish held down TO it in the fin
gers, at the same time gulping in with
1t nolslly a great mouthful of air and
water.
While there is at first necessary for
their welfare not only the greatest care,
but such food only as they have been
accustomed to ia nature or as they like
best, 1t IS in most cases possible later to
switch the fishes off to other things,
with occasional return to their natural
food. Some fishes, however, will eat
only live fcod, and this must always be
provided for them. Not infrequently the
food, whatever it may be, must be fed
In some special way to meet the require
ments of individual fishes, and some Of
the methods employed are curious and
interesting.
Fishes In captivity have fewer op-
~portunltles, oftener they have none
whatever, of lying IN ambush for their
prey, and they have far lass room for
sweep and action in pursuit. Killies
placed II 4 pool CT tank as food for
larger fishes evade pursuit If thew can
and seek the edges OF tie water, by the
walls Or the s~urface, whittier they are
less likely to be followed. Killias will
live fer days out of water in pranerI7
dampened moss or seaWeed. When first
put back into the water, they are slug
gish in movement. but they soon re-
cover their natural activity.
In feeding live kiIlies it is not unusa-
al to keep them out of water for d time,
20 that they may be more easily rap
tured BY the fishes they are to be fed to,
which might otherwise be unable to
capture them at all, or which might
get them only at the risk OF doing IN
jury to themselves BIZ running into the
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-11-06
A SMALL MANS REVENGE.
lie rnG.es the Dignity Of Two vvoznen m
6 Cable Car.

The small sized, Er~ebtrGsiye n:aI.
gets revenge now and then, as was ex-
emplified yesterday in a Broadway
cable car bo,Ed aoWn town. He got on
at Twenty -.srd street and saw only
u vacant sLat. Other passengers who
stood NJ weie cli.ging to the straps in
q semi nnol.c condition and did not
observe the vacant place. Two women,
strangers to each other. richly clad and
wearing diamond earrings, were the
guardians Of the vacant space, which
was hardly wide enough to even admit
the small man to a comfortable seat
Either OF the women, by moving a lit
tie, could have made a larger space,
but they cFose to sit as impassive as
statues while the diminntiye man
crowded into the place. He exhibited
all the signs of being uncomfortable,
but these implacable c~osmopolitans
moved not. At Tenth street d large
woman, weighing about 200 pounds,
boarded the car. With the air of a
Chesterfield the small man lifted his
hat and said:
pray, take my seat"
'Thank you, sir, she replied as she
started to sit down. CONSERVATION was
depicted upon the faces of the two rich
ly clad women as they tried to edge
away to make the space wider. It was
too late. for the heavy woman crushed
into the seat and came in contact with
the other women. There were the noise
OF crumpling cloth and the swish of
skirts as the two women tried to move
from the weight pinning part OF their
dresses down. It was a scramble to give
the heavy woman enough room, and all
dignity was lost. The passengers smiled.
and none more so than the small man,
who had had his revenge.-New York
Commercial.
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walls Ct tie tank. Som times among
the fishes brought to an aquarium there
may be one that has lost III eye. Such
a fish is particularly liable to injury in
pursuit by running ike N.lls on its
blind side, and to such L.siEes there are
always fed slow killles. and they are
put into the water Oh the Size Ga which
the fish can sec.
There IS at the aquarium \ fas.tsbill
turtle from tie Yowl i If the
coast of New GuiEca. tI. Inv s,ill
eats CLAIMS cut up into pieces tt..5 it can
handle. 1t likes killies, bet 1t could not
begin to catch a live killie II. the GUAR
tiers which it occupies, :..ll 1t first it
was difficult for it TO pick up ..aal onas.
So the killies were fed to ii cn the naint
Of a stick. It is doubtful whether fishes
suffer pain from any injury, but it
WCaid have seemed like cr1eIty to i'm
pale a live killie, and 50 the killies
were killed BY the very simple bat ef-
fectiye method Of throwing them upon
the floor. The greater weight Of the
fish is toward the head. That end nat
urally reaches the floor first. The fish is
most sensitive at the nose. The shock
killed tile killie, and the freshly killed
food was then conveyed to tie hawks
bills mouth ~ ala Ct tie pointed stick,
which was withdrawn when the turtle
had set it, heak il the food. Nov the
haWhsbill has become more accustomed
to its quarters, and it eats well and Is
able to pick up the killed killios cut of
the water.
Sometimes fish are cut into strirs.
which. floating down through the wa
ter, may he mistaken for live fish. Sonic
times such strips are carried down into
g tank upon the tip Of q rod and moved
about III the water to attract slow feed
ing fish BIZ their semblsaee ID live small
fish. There are many fishes that can
swallow i fish as big or nearly as big as
themselves. The sculrin and the sea
raven are such fishes. They have very
large heads and proroltionately large
mouths. When they are feeling well.
they will, like many other fishes. rise
to the top to get the food as soon as it is
dropped into the water. i one sees q
sea raven or a sculpin rising straight
uD through the water ii this manner.
with its big mouth wide open, he can
begin to understand how it could swal-
low a fish as big as itself, for it seems
as if Il could see inside Of it clear to
it's tail.
There are some fishes that have a par
ticular fancy for worms. For these, if
there is not q supply at hand, fresh beef
is cut into strips resembling worms
New York Sun.
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A CRACK SHOT.
The Excellent craftsmanship of q Hunter
Who Had Experience.

Who Had Experience.
An old member Of the South Noun
tain Rod and Gun club was talking of
q few solemn and inspiring truths for
the benefit Ct several younger members.
when was 4 hoy,' he was saying.
y was about like ether boys, | III !,
only | think had better notions than
some lave kroH CT now. Now, tleele j
my som
"Oh," Interrupted one CT the E-.ru-
ers, Yen dcn't want Il take a boy h1aa-
lcapEtd lis iaat.'
Don't yol worry about me- re-
tozted the veteran. "That boy will Id
oil the greater fer winning with tt
hsadlcap. Let me tell yen abogt his
craftsmanship. Ono cay lest winter lie
Wen cut with mo to hunt rabbits, ara
the luck VS. Icor. We had beer Il
alGat four hours, and Ill CT d sudden j
great big 1abblt like a calf jumped up
tight ct his teet-the boys feet, / mean
and the toy kicked him one III tie
Ilfs and inocked him out in a minute.
Well, we We're three or four miles from
hGme, and we thought we might az
well take Up our game and tote it III
aud come cut again when there was
something iaere il sight. Ee icreea
along, The boy carrying TIE rabbit in
his aaIae Lag, TIL somehow it kind Of
came % alu waa aEoat TO act away,
vixen | noticed it.
here. said /, thinking Of some
thing, it won't ever do to take that
home ara tell the felix's yen Liclcd it to
death. It's got to be shot, ard we
might IS well do it now as any other
time.
80 ! gets out a string and ties it to
the rabbits hind leg, and / hangs him
on the limb OF Il tree, and the boy gets
off about 90 yards with a rifle to make
1t KIND OF sporty, and, after sighting a
long time, bang! goes the gun, down
comes the rabbit, and the way he skin
ned out for the short timber was q eau
tlon to winged fowls, for he fairly flew.
| looked at the rabbit for about q sec
ond, and then I gazed on that boy.
What in thunder I began, when
he interrupted me.
".Oh. ! say, pop he said, did you
see my craftsmanship? That string to
the rabbits hind leg wasn't thicker
than a darning needle, and blamed if I
didn't cut it off clean at so yards with
a rifle. Have you got a record like that,
guv'nor?'
Had T. Of course I hadn't, and that
10y had just gone to work and missed
saat rabbit and by a chance cut the
string and let the cottontail get away,
that was all. But what could I say
after that craftsmanship snap he
dropped Oh me- Nothing, and I had to
let it 90 at that. Now, what have ',
got 70 say Z that boys handicap? Say,"
Washington Star.
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Bees, says Horbis, can embalm al
successfully as could the ancient Egyp-
tians. 1t often happens in damp weather
that a slug or snail will enter a bee
hive. This is, Of course, to the unpro-
tected slug a case of sudden death. The
bees fall upon him and sting him to
death at once. But what to do with the
carcass becomes vital question. IL left
where it is, it will breed a regular
pestllence. Now comes in the clever
ness OF the insects. They set TO work
and cover it with wax, and there Won
may see it lying embalmed just az the
nations of old embalmed their dead
When it is a snail that is the intruder.
ne IS, OF course, impenetrable to their
sting, SO they calmly cement his she'll
with wax to the bottom OF the hive
imprisonment for life, with no hope Of
pardon.
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sf,uoaux 5entlNel.
TRAINING B~LOODHOUNDS.
An Incident That Was Thrilling to the
Spel!bound Spectator.

h1kSaAcoNAa A5ESSsAsok
1.-THE docsi The doas!"
The cry of agoniztd apprehension was
simultaneous with the appearance Of q
man with disheyeIed Lair, distorted
features and the texture Of fear III his
eyes. who leapGd from the arroyo ard
dashed PAST with the speed Ct the wind.
The ieGfes e the situation struck ne
dumb and Ealsied my nerves. The yelps
Of the swift approaching dogs beat on
my ears like the roar Of cannon, and
the pressure on nay brain was like that
Of q man tTowE}Gg III 40 fatl.oms Of
water. | tried to run, and Il million
pains s3.ot through my limbs as though
| ] had been stoeted by q powerful cleo
trio battery. was only conscious Of
Il fact, ard .hat was that | stood d.
feetly i'll the path Of a pack ct blood
bounds, taught by instinct and train
irg toteae human hinats to pieces. The
knowledge that they wcGld cnly attack
the man they were delegated to hunt
down did Eet occur to ME. 1t only came
to mt when the pack dashed past i'll fall
cry The 9ogs paid no more attention
TO me than If | had been one Of the
s~aaehrushes Ct the plains.
Strength :nd sensibility came back as
quickly az they had deserted NE. aud I
followed the Gcgs at tcp speed to learn
tie fate CT the fleeing convict. A hun
dred yard dash brought me in sight Of
the race track stables and within hear
ing OF Il Chorus that made my blood run
cold. The dogs had caught sight of
their gan and were yelping like 4 PACK
Of k~alIh6aGds. a Gcz2E LClsemen and
stake LSys we're shouting lit the dogs
End trying to turn them from the fugi-
tivess mack. Tut terribly clear and dis
tInct "3.oye these sounds came the mad
dened shIiek Ct the convict. who was
plungips il teadlong fashion toward
the open door of one CT the stables. It
was evident his strength was almost
gene, tut e dashed through the stable
deer. ard ! heard tie key turn in the
rusty lock while the dogs were still sew
eral yards away.
TIE hGrTcr vas still upon me when
the head Of tie convict appeared at the
open window ten feet above the ground.
aud, to my amazement, he greeted the
people and dogs below with a ieering
laugh. THAT was q dead easy one," he
said, still laughing. Il could have
been here ten minutes ago, but I want
ed to give you fellows a scare" The
dogs recognized the mar they had been
pursuing and made frantic efforts to
reach him. They jumped toward the
window, striking against the side of
the barn ard falling back, while they
yelped and howled in iInrotent rage
until the foam streaned from their red
chops. | appealed to the stableman for
an explanation, but all | could get out
OF him was, They re irving the dogs,
| reckon. Cripple Creek Guide.
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Carrying Out Instructions.

lneTe Was o young man whose social
education bad been somewhat neglected,
and it CHANGED that be received an inyi-
tation to o church wedding.
The morning Of the ceremony found
him quite excited, and he started for tie
church some tim, before, as he would
have said, 1.-THE show was billed to come
off"
Under his arm he carried a small
bundle, and before he had proceeded far
he met a friend.
Hello, said the friend, .'and where
are you going III dressed up at this
time in the mornings:''
Wedding, answered the young man
briefly and proudly.
Indeed Going to do some errands
on the way"
Certainly not"
But you're not going to a wedding
with a bundle under Toer arIa:''
"Of course 7 am. That'smy present.
Present! But yeu don't take your
present with yen, man. You send it be-
~forehand.n
That's all you know about it. I've
got a card right here IN my pocket. and
the card says, Present at the church,
Boston Budget.
Gave Her . Good Chance.
Sne-Ihe thing thar sl4pH a. nle il
that ! didn't dise1f4r L8W homeless d
fool you were before EFa were married.
He-WeIl, yoa have only yourself to
hI..,1 -. ~ Y ZI
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Hot STUFF.

The Cosmopolitan publishes q anew
rendering Of the Rubaiyat of Omar
KhayyaIl" and declares, referring to
Richard Le Gallienne as the responsible
party. that these quatrains will assure
to him q leading place among living
English poets,1 What the literary world
has been furnished for, what it has
2fayed with intense craving, is a new
version of the Rubaiyat, and what
Wouid represent its widest dreams is a
version prepared by the distinguished
oriental scholar, Richard LIE Caffeine,
who has already given to the world some
ecstatic prose fancies and possesses the
finest shock of hair in Great Britain. r
IS true that the Rnbaiyat has been
done into English by several gentle
men Of literary ability and respectable
scholarship. There was, for example, q
Mr.. Fitzgerald, who has obtained a lit
tie temporary notoriety through some
very pretty jingles Gu Omar's wine cup
and roses, but the result was not salts
factory either to Mr.. LIE Gallienne or to
the editors Of The Cosmopolitan, and to
this fact we are indebted for such lines
Is these:
Like to a maid who e~quisitely turns
A promising face to him who, waiting, burns
II hell 70 hear Ecr answer, Sc the world
Tricks all and hints what no r.an ever learns.
We believe that we are justified in
saying that a man who is burning in
he'll while a maid is exqnisitely turning
@ promising face is what is known col
loqnial,y as "hot stuff" considerably
warmer than anything Mrs. Wilcox has
elshed up III late years. We congratu-
late The Cosmopolitan en- its success in
securing Mr.. LIE Gallienne's quatrains.
aad we have only words Of admiration
for Mr.. LIE Gallienne's brilliant idea.
We hope that be may feel encouraged
" the eager applause Of the literary
public TO persevere on present lines and
give Us other amended version of the
ancient poets. Chicago Pest.
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The air il so clear in the arctic re-
glons that conversation can be carried
on easily by persons two miles apart. 1t
has also been asserted on good autLcri-
~ that at Gibraltar the human voice
has been distinctly heard at d distance
81 tcn ..iIaa.
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No Pushing.

Apropos Of an alleged ratification aft.
er majority Ct a debt contracted during
infancy by admitting that it was d iust
debt and promising to pay if the debtor
ever got 81 that he could without i'll.
convenience. the court in q late North
Carolina case says this recalled to the
minds ct ON members OF the court i
settlement Of accounts which NAV with
proprietE be preserved al history in the
Judicial annals of the state. A debtor
named Higgins, when solicited to close
90 CID open account BY note, agreed To
% 50 provided he should be allowed ia
draft the instrument and accordingly
presented the creditor the following:
l., John Higgins, agree to CIV
James James $50 whenever eouTefs.
lent. bnt j h understood that Haaais
y net to be pushed. Witness lny Ls1a
and seal this the - day Of - John
Hueelns. fsea1. )''-Case and Comment.
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a Friendly Suggestion.

He {dreamily)-By Joye, her teeth
are like starsi
she - Because they come d at
night, you mean?-Scribner's Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1897-01-31

1t: but he lacked honest criticism This is a sort OF
commodity whch cocks and hens and many others
always clamorng for till they get 1t. Then the
criticised has new grievance and the critic new
enemy.
highly pleasant manner, and he received Christ
present in the shape of new wife. she came
In a hamper, and the harem, forgetting the season
of the year the claims of hospitality and the COM
mon poteness due TO fellow hen who had trav-
ali show of cord.ality on the occasion OF her arrival
Possessing. it seemed nor style. nor inteliect.
PROSPECTS, po a@t appeared slightly dismal She kept
nerve. however. helped herself demurey to drink
self up generally before the Sultan came round the
corner Needless to say MS natural gaan,y h mr. oy
friendship: he welcomed his new wife with Sutanic
dignity. The new wife showed proper gratitude for
Sultan. and in unlucky moment for her &C, I,
ceded to his first request. IT was that she should
testimony to- character is so refreshing
and so rare" said the Sultan,
aecaed M awaSs hs Ssw
herself at the warmth OF her RECEPTION: 1t
the critical faculty abnormally deS Seloped. and ap-
ment He said You are right ,o.Is "hapPy H sSsr OBJ
modified his method Of life in certain small par
ercise it until now. the wife began to tread on
mar. ssng oen dos The
Sultan felt that his rev wife was getting on ms
nerves He passed through varietyof novel not
wholly pleasing experiences the iye turned from rom
him with cold glances and indifference Ihey t9id 9id
him rather extensively to keep to his dear, candid
friend and comforter. and let them 20 on tneir SIM
nle uncritical way. The Sultan stihed the volcano
Of Indignation which had now been bubbling In his
heart for the space of three weeks. and merely said
with simulated indifference that no wise cock ever
vet objected to disnterested and honest criticism
but the student of gallinaceous nature will perceive
that condition of affairs so exasperat!ng could oy
no means continue. . ,,.
There came in fact, day when the Sultan was
nrovoked into retort and the eyes OF the unhappy
new wife were opened to her error. The Sultan
said a thing or two which he would have been the
first regret in cooler moment and and when when the
nartee he pecked her head and lost his temper and
threw over his better nature. and gave himself
willingy into the hand of the evil one. So the new
wife died. and the five walked her handsomely. and
the farmer thought it his dog had slain her,
being ignorant Of the circumstance AS for the tne
sultan he was down in the beak about II. ana SAID
Sard things against himself for some days. and
seemed off his food. But the five got around him.
and everybody knows what tactfu hen can do II
she only gives her mind to it. OF course. he be-
ieved II all: and he was probably right to do SO,
for nraise is like tonic to some simple natures.
whereas the truth merely crushes life and hope out
tIavV,
New-York tribune., 1897-01-31
A RUNAWAY PRINCESS.
From st. PauPs.

From st. Paurs
How the runaway Princesse de Chmay looks and
rbat shn saws and does seems TO be at present the
rincnal tonic of conversation In Paris society. Al
RHndonesr the late Miss Ward and her gypsy lover
have been submitted to the mercies OF one lntet
Viewer after the other. A propos OF the eccentric
conduct for which the Princess has always oeen
famous since her marriage with tWo-iegged an.
thess in the shape OF one OF he stnr anu os
been told of how. during her so1ourn IN brusse,s
Che once checked" the King himself at one or the
balls Feeling rather IN roa S ow sne o
one Of the primary reasons tne frlnCess slVes lor
having fallen head over ears In love with her much-
cherished Rigo is the fact OF ms navins iooheu 80
81 his hody as he welded his violin bow. I'll. faut
Sire Yankee to find poetry in the sway!rg to and
fro of a swarthy-sknned Bohem,an;;, n;,a o. ala, oil
L,nds of dodges to escape the unwecome attentions
~ Tho gaming Budapest crowd. One evening there
were at least two thousand people congrega,ea OUT
otiantic beauty and her lover would leave their
den So as to get rid of the cureux and serve them
smart little trick, the prncesse de Jnimay M % or
clerks in some of her own rich attire, ana nahu the
make believe Princess into carriage at tne door
AS instructions were then given LOT tne coacnmana
course concluded that the exquistely frocked lady
was no other than the heroine Of the hour, and
rushed after the conveyance. Anqther amusing -n; m
cident Is the concerning the Princesse de chi
mays boots. that were placed outslde ner aoor 70
he duly cleaned. One Of the walters appropriated
the dainty bottines. taking them down into the res
iieorsy admired by the public. who at least found
some consolation in being able to gaze at the shoe
leather Of Rigs lady love Ihe pars'ans an ,h are 1y
proprietor. who offered his distinguished runaway
Visitors board lodging and service for nothing II
the truants would only consent 10 take theIr S re-
have been crammed to overfiowing under tnose con-
ditions.
New-York tribune., 1897-01-31
PENALIZING CRAFTSMANSHIP.

A BARBER WHO WANTS TO TAX WHISPERS
Anderson Gnd) correspondence OF The Pittsburg
Dispatch.
An embargo Is threatened on Indiana whisker-
cites and wind breakers by Jim Reeves, an
Anderson barber. who has prepared bill and
is endeayoring 10 get some Representative or
Senator in the present Assembly. to father it,
Reeves is quite In earnest about IT. and gives as MS
prosperity to BARRIERS and would at the same time
he a means OF raising the public debt The bill
orovides a fax OF $40 a year on every man wearing
cbin whiskers or "side-sluggers." II also provides
a tax on goatees. Mustaches are freed from all
taxation a. L., o., =.
heard OF trampling upon mans rights Reeves
defends his bill elo9uently. and points out where
beaufified by the enactment OF such law. he Is
backed by quite forcible array OF BARRIERS all
over the State.