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The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01
The First Teacuna.

Even after tea was introduced into
Europe and had come into general use
teacups were scarce, says the Jewel
er's Circular. At the same time coffee
was introduced but, apart from Con-
stantinople, the first coffee cups in
Europe date back only as far as 1915 in
Venice, 1859 in Paris, 1882 in London
and 1894 in Leipsic. From the first,
however, the conventional Oriental COT.
fee cup without stem or handle was
little used and in Germany not at all.
The Chinese teacup was used for tea,
coffee and chocolate. Specimens Of
porcelain were undoubtedly intro.
duced into Europe in the middle ages,
yet not till the sixteenth century were
cups imported from China in anygreat
quantities, and even then it was as
articles of yirtu. Most of these
found their way back to China again,
as collecting porcelain is a lasting fad
there, and highprices are paid for good
specimens. The collection of Chin
csc porcelain, if only the genuine spe.
cimens are desired, requires immense
study and knowledge, as the Chinese
are skillful imitators and put numer-
GUS falsifcations on the market.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01
ACE, II; WEIGHT, 2o3; HEIGHT, 5, 5.

The TAT Boy of Maine Can Do Anything
Except Ride a Bicycle.
A few days ago pedestrians al
Auburn, Me-, were startled by the
appearance Of the biggest and fattest
boy hat ever trod the streets-a giant
in knickerbockers, a rosy-cheeked,
r~oly-poly, 12-year-old, who could lift
a barrel of -four as easily as you can
lift a pail Of water, and who weighs
203 pounds tn o bathing suit.
The boy was named Lamont Leavitt,
son of O. N. Leavitt. Young Leavitt
was induced to submit to the tape line
and yardstick, and here are his
measurements, the figures being v
his regular suit Of corduroy: Age, II;
weight, 203 pounds; height in walking
shoes, s feet s inches; chest, 3 feet I
inches; waist, 3 feet 8 inches; arms,
l foot 4 inches; thigh, 2 feet / inchI
calf, l foot 6 inches. His fathers
weight, 145 pounds, and his mothers,
40. A brother of Master Lamont
weighs $50. At birth Master Lamont
weighed 10 pounds. He has always
been in perfect health, and today he
is q redcheeked, good-natured boy.
He has a roguish twinkle in his pretty
blue eyes, and he smiles when he says
that he had just as soon be fat as lean.
From childhood he has had a keen
liking for books. It was feared at one
time that he was reading and study
ing too much, and at the suggestion
OF the family physician he was re-
strained in that direction. When he
was seven years old he could lift his
father easily. They have prohibited
his lifting all along, but and then
he has broken the rules and demon
strated his strength. At the time In
Dictated he would run up behind his
father and in play grab him by the
legs and lift him off his feet before the
father could shake the lively young
chap off. When he was Elk years old
he helped his father build a barbed
wire fence, and he found it an easy
matter holding up his end of the iron
bar which ran through the coil OF
wire. These coils weigh from fifty to
pounds.
Master Lamont says that just nov
there is only n thing in the wide
world that he would like, and that is q
bicycle. He wants it as bad as any
body ever wanted q bow-wow or any
thing else He reckons that a twenty
pound wheel would be about the |
only he wants q full-fedged
mans wheel. boston Advertiser.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01

again busily, for her boy, she told me,
content to bear some further separa-
ton, as he was gaining greatly by the
German treatment. But the desoiate
| yearning was gone from the large,
dark eyes, and health came back slowly
in the winter months, when my. advice
was followed, and Susan guarded my
patient against overwork. The piano
ceased to wall and sob, and the
slender fingers found tasks in wsav-
ing gladder strains.
A year passed, and n evening, just
before the Christmas time, l opened
the cottage door. Upon my startled
ears fell the sounds of song. Never
had 1 heard Mrs. Raynor's rich, melo-
dious voice in song before, and l
paused, astonished, as Susan whisper
ed:
"Her boy is coming home for
Christmas. Mr.. Duchesne is bringing
him, and we expect them any day.
And Harold Is perfectly cured"
I did not go in. Such Joy as that 1
felt should have hoSwitness.
They came, these eagerly expected
travellers, just before the Christmas
bells rang out tleir joyful peals. The
slender hand(pme boy had his
E~ntAs<wsface, and was evidently
cufed and on the way to a noble man
hood.
And Of his companion / con only
say that / have no truer OF more
valued friend than Frank Duchesne,
who comes every summer with his
beautiful wife and pretty children to
spend the hot months at Fern Cot
tage.-New York Ledger.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01
DAISIES AND CLOVER.

Little girl upon the street,
Laughing eyes and tripping feet,
With your hands all running over,
Daisy blooms and flowers Of clover
You to me q picture bring,
Of a long, long sunny Spring
Waving woods and sunset skies,
ThEong like dreams Of Paradise.
Little girl, when coming days
Hold for you their memories
When in womanhood's white land
You shall, happy. one day stand
Keep your childish faiths as sweet
AS the blossoms at your feet
Tho your hands no more run over
With the daisies and the clover.
Some day, little maiden fair,
With the wind-tossed sunny hair,
Shall you flush at loves sweet praises,
That are sweeter than the daistes2
Woman's hopes and woman's love,
Sweetness sent from heaven above
With these shall your hands run over,
Dropping daisy blooms and clover.
Lillian Whiting, in the Housewife.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01
Broke His Rib With His Own Fist.

The Herald yesterday briefly re.
ferred to a curious accident that befel
Major William Heimke, second secre
tary Of legation, last week at Chihua.
hua. While walking along one of the
streets of that city he slipped and fell
His right hand was close at his side
at the time, and his full weigh,
struck his hand and actually broke
one of his ribs Herewith. It was S
unique accident, for it seems scarcely
credible that a n,an could break onl
of his own ribs with his hand.-Mexi
can Herald.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01

According to the Argonaut the
union of private coachmen which was
formed in New York recently under
The auspices Of the Knights of Labor
proposes to right certain grievances of
long standing. The private coachman
holds himself about two degrees
higher in the social scale than the
night-hawk cabman, but his liberty is
less, A night-hawk cab-driver may
wear long whiskers all we his face,
or he may trim them to flowing side
whiskers, O. wen to a pointed beard
II he chooses; and, as for his hair, he
may wear it long and do it up in curl
ing-irons every night, if he likes to
wear 1t curled. Not SO with the
private coachman. His hair must be
neatly trimmed and his face smoothly
shaver. His livery may be of finer
material and better cut than that Of
the night-hawk, but when it comes to
whiskers, the night-hawk has the ad-
vantage. A meeting of the private
coachmen was held to protest against
the ways in which they were compelled
to shave. "Waiters, and private
coachmen, and convicts," said one Of
the speakers, ''are the only men who
are compelled to wear smoothly
shaven faces in this country, and it Is
an outrage. Let US protest, fellow
coachman." With q regularly elected
master-workman at its head, the
Private Coachmen's Union is going to
make a desperate fight for whiskers.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01

North Carolina is experimenting on
! large scale with convict labor at road
building. The results have been even
more satisfactory than the advocates
Of the policy claimed or expected It
has been found, states the Atlanta
Journal, that the cost of maintaining an
Lble-bodied convict at work on the
public roads is less by six cents a day
Than the cost Of maintaining the same
,onvict in Jail. This is demonstrated
by returns from eighty counties.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01
Easy Down East Stump Grabbing,

This is the way one of Caribou's
progressive farmers clears land: He
has a portable fence which he can
move around without much inconven.
fence, and he encircles a stump With
it, placing within the %inclosure two OF
his biggest hogs. Then he goes tc
work with a crowbar and makes some
holes around the stump, filling the
holes with corn, or oats, or buck
wheat, whatever he has handy, and
the animals get in their work. In the
course Of a few days the hogs have Sc
rooted the dirt from the stump that il
is an easy job to tip it over and take i
away-Daily Kennebec journal.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01

lilly Haynes, a successful business
man who has owned and managed the
Broadway Central Hotel, New York
City, for the past five years, on the
first of July established the big bust
ness on a pr~oft-sharing basis. Few
if any other big hotels in America have
heretofore been run on this principle.
In addition to their regular salaries
the heads Of departments, beginning
with July l, divide among them one.
third Of the profits of the house. There
is no partnership or contract between
the parties, nor does any beneficiary
Of this new plan contribute any capital
or assume any added responsibility.
Ten persons, including the head
waiter, the housekeeper, and most OF
those in the hotel Office, enter into this
division Of profits. Reckoning on the
business Of the hotel in the past. il
appears that each of these persons
will receive something more than $500
yearly, and in a very good year as
high, perhaps, a $1,000. The paw.
ments will be made twice a year, and
any n of the ten employees resign.
ing or being discharged will receive o
pro rata share for the time he has
worked. In the letters on the sub.
Jet which were sent to the employees
Mr.. Haynes says that his idea is to re.
ieve himself Of the details OF the bust.
9 9 as far as possible, anf he feels
that with this indncement tie heads
@ departments will be more than
yer ALERT n tho performance Of theh
9uisI.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01

The value of a newspaper as an
advertising medium consists in
its circulation.
When you can secure the COM
6ined circulation of two papers
for the price Of one, it is money
saved!
"TThe st. Landry Democrat
was consolidated on the Sd of
March, 1894, with j" The Opelou.
Bas Courier" The advertising
rates have not been increased
while the price of subscription
has been reduced to 81 a year.
TILE COURIER being BY odds
the best paper In the empire Par.
lsh Of St. Landry Is therefore ths
eAes1sst.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01

It is reported, according to Life,
that the resident mathematicians of
Harvard have undertaken to compute
how large a hemispherical vessel it
would take to hold the total of consol-
Ing beverages which have been con
Sumed, during the last decade, by
Harvard men in drinking to 'better
luck next time" It is a big job, but
the computers are able, and have the
aid Of ingenious mechanical appliances.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01

The good showing of the Philadel.
phia cricket team in their match with
Yorkshire has prompted a resident OF
the city of Brotherly Love to predict
that a team will be raised in that cen
Ter of the game, which will be cham
pion of the world. There are, how
sver, the elements of o glorious uncer-
sainty connected with the game.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01

The drop in the price of bicycles
was bound to come, maintains the San
Francisco Chronicle, as it did in the
price Of sewing machines, parlor Or
gans and breech-loading shotguns.
Eventually the best wheels will be
within the reach of most people of
moderate circumstances and will find
in them the readiest buyers.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01
ACADEMY
OF THE
IMMACULATE ; CONCEPTION,

LA.
Under the Direction Of the Sisters Marianites
Of Holy Cross.
Offers to young ladies every facility
for acquiring q thorough christian ed
ucation. Constant attention is paid to
home and social CULTURE. Lessons are
given in music, pal ting and other
useful arts. The tisters also have
charge of the boys akhool. The course
Of instruction is two Pld-Preparatory
and Commercial. Frde bob is taught IN
the two courses. For particulars, ad-
dress SISTER SUPERIOR
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01
OPELOUSAs. LOUISIANA.

Egypt's grandchildren were can
,ibals, according to Mr.. Flinders
Petrie's assertion. He has found bones,
picked clean and separately wrapped
Up, in many tombs.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01

The jaded phrase, Turkey and the
Powers" may have to be changed
into England, France, Germany, Aus
ria, Italy and the Power, suggests
The New York Tribune.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01
MONEY TO LOAN.

OFFICE Oh 81. LANDRY HOMESTEAD ANDY
LOAN ASSOCIATION,
OPELoUsAs. Sept. 18th. 1eoS.
The undersigned Is authorized by the
Board OF Directors OF the st. Landry
Homestead and Loan Association to
eder to it's members loans at eight per
esnAan. For particulars apply to
E. D EsTILETTE,
President st. Landry II. & L. Assn.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01

It is estimated that American heir.
asses pay annually to foreign titled
!ortune hunters the aggregate sum Of
thirty millions of dollars.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01

J. A. R. Nelson, the wealthy banke.
Of Montreal, has given $l55, 900 IS
Canadian charities
The Opelousas courier., 1898-01-01

Opelousas Courier
ID 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 It's
ability.
The Portland daily press., 1898-11-25
BRIEF JoTTINos.

Yesterday was threatening, raw and
cold in early morning then splits of rain
and mild.
There were services at Williston church
Yesterday morning and at the Friends
church in the afternoon.
There were numbers of social parties
last evening and Thanksgiving dinner
parties
1t was very quiet all day yesterday
and the police reported the day at the
station quieter than ordinary.
The inmates of the public institutions
all enjoyed good Thanksgiving fare yes
terday.
Tie last meeting of the series conduct
ed by Rev. L p. Wooton at Friends
church, Oak street, will be held this eve
ming at 7.30 o'clock. All are invited. :
The Portland daily press., 1898-11-25
PERSONAL.

mr. Alfonso O'Donoghue, pharmacist
in the o. S. navy, spent Thanksgiving
with his parents on Emery street.
Mr.. Joseph Lawlor of the Western
Union Telegraph company, Broadway,
New York, spent Thanksgiving with
his parents on Warren street.
Bishop Healy dedicated the new Catho-
lie church at Rumford Falls on Thanks
giving day. He was assisted by the pas
tor, Rev. N. j. Koran and Rev. M. C..
McDonough of the Cathedral.
Miss Minnie Burke, leading soprano at
the Cathedral of the Immaculate Concep-
lion, has returned from Fort Fairfield,
wnere she sang to delighted audiences
at the Bazaar recently held in aid of
the church of which the Rev. J. P. Man.
ming is pastor.
Mir. and Mrs. Wallace NJ. Golf and wife
of SomerviIIe, Mass, are visiting Mrs.
Goff's parents, Mr.. and Mrs Thomas j.
Feeney, lib Congress street.
The Portland daily press., 1898-11-25
THANKSGIVING ON MuNJoY.
Union Service at the Congress st. M. Il.
Church.

In the absence of the pastor, Rev. w.
B. Berry. the meeting of the churches
on Munjoy Hill was conducted by Rev.
Mr.. Wright of the ST. Lawrence Congre-
gational church. A goodly number were
present, and the meeting proved to be
enthusiastic and inspiring.
MT. Wright made a brief opening adj
dress on the special call for thanksgiving,
in view of the notable events of the past
year in their bearing upon the life and
growth of this nation.
He spoke of the manifestations of God S
presence with the nation in the prosecu-
tion of the late war, its remarkable vic
tories and its complete success. We have
reason to thank God for our heroic COM
manders, for the power of our navy and
the efficiency of our army, but above all
for the wonder working providence of
Cod. We have been successful because
God has been with us. The recognition
of this fact is our supreme duty today.
Again we have to thank God for the en-
larged opportunities and responsibilities
peace has brought to our nation. We are
a greater nation than we were six months
ago. in the eyes of the world and in our
own national consciousness. We have a
larger place among the world nations,
and a grander work to do for humanity.
We are larger. not because we have
acquired new realms, but because we are
brought into responsible relations of
obligation and service to 10, 600 600 more
of humanity. Our mission is not to add
to our dominion, but to bring to These
delivered people the blessings of free
government. 1t is our mission to inspire
them with the spirit of liberty and inn
bue their minds with the principles and
aims of republican institutions. Let us
show the world that we are equal to the
work; that our aim is not to the enlarge.
ment of our political domain, but the
betterment of the millions we have freed
from the tyranny of Spain.
Mr.. Wright's remarks were followed by
spirited addresses from dozen or more
of the citizens present. The meeting re-
vealed strong unity of thought and
feeling in reference tosthe great problen
of the hour. 1t was in every respect
successful Thanksgiving service.
The Portland daily press., 1898-11-25
HARBoR NOTES.
Items of Interest Picked Up Along the
Water Front.

1t was very quiet day along the
wharyes and CommercialLstrest, yester-
dsy. Stores were all closed and the
threatening weather drove in large
feet of coasters.
The Sheikh. Capt. Jones of the Ley
land line, sailed for, Liverpool direct.
She took no passengers, but she had l5o,-
600 bushels of grain, besides large
mixed cargo of oatmeal, barley, pork,
canned goods. flour, 1000 barrels of ap-
uIss In all she carried between seven
and eight thousand tons.
The steamer Sarmatian, Capt. johnson,
of the Allan line, arrived from Liverpool
early Yesterday. She had nine cattlemeu
and one stowaway, an American. she
had an ordinary passage and brought
about 900 tons of general cargo ana o0t
tons of coal
qbe Georgian of the Leyland line, viii
sail November S0th.
The st. Croix arrived at p. M, pouno
to St. John.
The Eva and Mildred and Amy Wixon
brought in large cargoes of fish.
Tug Taurus arrived with three oarge'
from Lake Ontario, of about 1000 toni
zach. the 81. A. Hawgood, Iron City ano
CHARLES Foster, to load coal from south
ern ports
schooner Rosemeath, from Northeast
barhor. arrived with pine lumber anc
.sh. the latter for Portland and the form
er for Boston
Tug Carbonero arrived Win parge'
Minion, Glendrear and Indian ridge
loaded with coal.
Tug L. A. Belknap that towed the BARI
Normandy to Boston, returned towing
the barge franklin, coal laden.
The Portland daily press., 1898-11-25
sERWcEs-A AT Y. M. c. A. HALL.
A Doctor. Lawyer, Business Man and
Clergyman Tell Why We should Be
Thankful.

There were services yesterday afternoon
at 4. 80 o'clock in the lecture room of the
Y. NJ. G. A. building and the secretary
of the association, Mr. Garland, after the
usual devotional exercises, said it might
d well to hear something about Thanks
wing from the lips of persons in differ
ent business and professional walks of
life, and first introduced DR.. Swasey to
speak from the standpoint Of the ply
stefan.
DR.. Swasey saw causes for thanksgiy-
ing in the completion of the Y. MIC.
A. building as 1t afforded opportunities
for physical exercise. The mind gets
plenty of exercise, but tho body is too
often neglected, crowded as many people
now are, in cities, shut up in offices with
out sufficient air and living under condi-
lions quite different from those engaged
in agricultural pursuits which made
men strong. He thought it was great
pleasure to come into the Y. NJ. G. A.
hall, go down to the gymnasium and
burn up the effete matters which formed
in the system.
Mr., Hiram Knowlton was thankful
that Portland had seen the necessity Of
Christian work and had successfully un-
dsrtaken the task of raising the necessary
funds to erect building like the one he
was speaking in. for it was truly an adj
vertisement to the city.
The place was an inviting one because
young men could yisitait and have about
them only good associations.
MIR. J. H. Libby spoke as the business
man and dwelt upon the favorable cir
cumstances under which the young of
this country were born and contrasted
them with the conditions prevailing in
other countries where the son of the weay-
er must of necessity be weaver, and
only rulers sons were ever privileged to
rule. He was especially thankful that
he lived under the Protestant religious
system and expressed the thought that
when the clubroom notionswas SO preva-
lent in our midst, it was we'll to have a
building like the Z M. G. A. building
to counteract the tendency and was glad
that the business men of the city had
taken SO mQCH iobCLOSp AA AUS ooAnpEUC-
tion and had given it their support.
| Rev. Mr.. Ayers was the last speaker OF
the dav and said it was impossible to
realize how. much we owe to the church
of Christ, as essential to our well being
as sunlight to life. Corruption may be
among us, but i6 dare not lift its head in
broad daylight because of Christian teach.
ings. The sacredness of a mans word il
the foundation of the business world and
there is no place on earth where we can
live q strong life that is not under the
inf uence of the religion of Christ He
referred to the influence of the churches
and their power over men shut up in the
counting room and workshop, and said
| that the church even closed, was silently
preaching lesson needed by the people
as they passed it on their way to the daily
associations,
The Portland daily press., 1898-11-25
PROF. CARPENTER.

The attraction at Portland theatre
next week will be the renowned hypno-
tist, Prof. Carpenter. The following
notice Of this attraction is copied from
the Montreal Herald of November /:
Prof. Carpenter is laugh-producer par
excellence. There is never dull mo-
ment during the entire programme.
The opening lecture is very lucid and
interesting explanation of the theory and
practice of hynotism and its relation to-,
and cooperation with the exact sciences.
After the lecture the practical tests are
made, candit is at this stage that the
solid, continuous and united laugh COM
Inenoes.
Reserved seats go ON sale this morning.
The Portland daily press., 1898-11-25
. POPULAR CONDUCTOR TURNED
HOTEL PROPRIETOR.

Mr.. George P. Thomas, twenty six
years conductor for the Portland and
Ogdensburg, now the mountain division
of the Maine Central, has resigned, the
resignation to take effect December LIST.
in order to go into partnership with Mr..
Gray as part proprietor of the Preble
house. Mr.. Thomas has made hosts OF
friends who will regret his departure
from the Maine Central service, but glad
to welcome him as one of the hosts Of the
Prable.
The Portland daily press., 1898-11-25

for the season of 1898, making her last
"trip eastward, leaving Portland Friday,
December 20, and westward, leaving Ma
obiasport, Monday, December 20.
There will be a resumption of this SER
vice early in March, 1899, when the boat
will run as during the past season.
The steamer has become very popular
along the route and the management
are greatly pleased with the season S
business.
The Portland daily press., 1898-11-25
cAsToRIA

s.zrsthe signature of cHAs. H. FLETCHER.
In. use for more than thirty years, and
The KIND yoa Have Afsoays Bought.
cASToRIA
Bears the signature of cHAs. H. FLETCHER
In use for more than thirty years, and
The Kind Yoa Have Afvays Bought.
cASTORIA
Bears the signature of cHAs. H. FLETCHER.
In use for more than thirty years, and
The Kind Yoa Have Always Bought.
The Portland daily press., 1898-11-25

Mrs. wsnsIow's Soothing ryrap,
Bzs been used over Fifty Years by millions OIL
mothers for their children while 1eetnlns
with perfect success. 1t soothes tne cniia.
softsns the gums. allays Pain, cures mna
Cole. regulates the bowels. and Is inc pess
remedy for Diarrhoes whether arising Ho"
testhine or other causes. For sale ny pres,
GIFTS IN every part Of the world Be sure ana
ask for Mrs. winslow's Soothing syrup' 20 c's
a bottle.