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The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05
Latest Fashion Novelties.

Long, thin silk scarfs for the neck.
Soft tones of green in suede gloves.
Plaid and fancy hosiery in brilliant
array.
Net by the yard crossed with braid
for vests.
Long listers Of plain cloth with fur
finishing.
Shirts having but two seams, back
and front.
Russian blouses and shirt waists of
velveteen.
Corduroy costumes trimmed with
jet and fur.
Cloth costumes made up with plaid
accessories.
Fur coats showing a loose front and
belted back.
Fancy muffs and collars in two con
trasting furs.
Collars of silk with a gauze ruche
and crayat bow.
Vicuna cloths in black and colors
for tailored suits.
Plaitings of shaded silk for puff ef-
fects on large hats.
Plaitings of narrow ribbon or silk
for dress trimmings.
Tailor suits of rough black goods
trimmed with braid.
Glass lamp shades in translucent
and enameled effects.
Girls plaid frocks made with the
blocks bias or straight.
Short petticoats of crepon trimmed
with lace or silk embroidery.
Suits showing sleeves, belt and yoke
of velvet and blouse and skirt Of cloth,
MORE velour or drap d'ete.
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Owls Now in Favor.

Owls are the latest trimmings" for
women's hats. From time immemorial
The owl has been known as the bird OF
night. shrinking from the glare OF
sunshine and finding the greatest COM
fort in dark caves and the hollows OF
old trees, coming forth only at night,
but now, under fashions latest de
cree. this bird of darkness is IN evil
dence on every side, and his broad,
fat face, small eyes and hooked beak
surmount fresh, rosy, youthful faces
and form by contrast a strange frame
for the female faces they adorn.
During last summer a few ultra
fashionable women had two OF three
great owl heads crushed in among the
wings and ribbons on their travelling
hats. and from the very oddity of the
idea the hats were striking and stylish.
Not content with heads, fashion has
now decreed that the whole bird shall
adorn the fall aud winter sailors and
toques.
In spite of the society formed to
prevent the killing Of birds for ora
menting millinery, and the thousands
Of signatures affixed to the numerous
netitions sent broadcast all over tue
country. in which women pledge
themselves not to wear birds OF
feathers of any kind on their hats, this
is essentially a bird year, and the
fayorite of ali the feathered tribe IS the
owl.
To be strictly fashionable the head
wings and tail feathers Of the birds
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TRICKY FALCON ISLAND.
1t Has a Way of Disappearing Soon Afte1
Its Annexation.

Far away out in the deep Pacific
Ocean exists q small strip of land
which shows that it has a decided
spirit and sweet little will of its own,
for it will not undergo allegiance to
any country. Governments often ex-
perience considerable trouble in pre-
serving the allegiance of peoples they
have conquered, but as a rule a piece
of property or real estate has been
looked upon as likely to remain in the
same place for q considerable period
of time.
This little island, which has received
the name of Falcon Island, proves an
exception to the rule, however. No
sooner has it been annexed than it
disappears off the face Of the globe,
leaving only a dangerous reef to indi-
cate it's former whereabouts, and COM
ing up in a few years time, when the
country which has performed the an
nexation has given up all claims.
Our old friend, John Bull, always
on the watch to increase the imperial
empire, was the first to encounter it.
In 1889 the British corvette Egeria
was sent on a cruise among the South
Islands, with orders from the British
Admiralty to seize upon any islands
or coral reefs that had hitherto been
unclaimed, and to take possession in
the name of the Queen. Cruising
around shessanoticed from afar off a
prominent island, toward which she
sailed. Tall palm trees were growing
on it's southern extremity, which was
a commanding bluff, rising $50 feet
from the level of the sea.
Having reported the results of his
voyage to the Admiralty, next year
they sent out a transport ship with
orders to make further discoveries
and reports. What was the dismay of
the Captain of the Egeria, who hap
pened to be in command of the trans
port, on arriving at the place where he
had the year before left the island
sporting the union jack, to find that it
had disappeared from view! Instead
Of the beautiful island standing out so
prominently from the ocean, was a
low and dangerous coral reef, with the
sea beating and surging up against it.
Two years later France, also seized
with the inordinate desire of annexing
new territory, sent the cruiser Du-
chaffault to the Pacific. Cruising
around she found her way to Falcon.
There, instead Of finding a sunken
reef, whitened with the foam Of the
| breakers, the vessels crew discovered
an island the exact shape of the
island found by the English corvette
in 1889.
Scarcely two years had passed away
when a brig sent out by France to
revisit her possessions found her way
to Falcon Island. 1t had again dis
appeared, it being simplya reef dan
gerous to navigation. Whereupon
France was obliged to give up all
rights Of possession.-New York Her
aid,
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A UNIQUE Pine.

A novel pipe for transmitting hydrau
lie pressure is in use at the Victoria
bridge, near the mouth of the Rivc'
Dee, England. AS described in the Ell
cheering News, it consists of a solid
drawn lead pipe, covered with clost
coils of copper wire, and is used fol
conveying water at $50 pounds pei
square inch pressure from Il side OF
the river to the other to operate thu
machinery Of a span Of the swing
bridge. At first a copper pipe one and
a half inches in diameter, jointed witt
screwed unions, was used, but thu
securing action of the tide washed gu
the bed of the river, left the pipe I'm
supported in two places and caused
to leak. The new pipe made Of lead
wrapped with copper wire, Is mor'
flexible than the old one, and 1t is ey
pected it will work more satisfactorily
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KLoNDlkE's SCHOOL HOUSE.
Shipped In the Hold of a Steamer Al,
Ready t. 30 Nailed Together.

SA1ppSo A. Ii dAoAo VA II <AAf
Ready to 30 Nailed Together.
The first schoolhouse in the Klondike
was made in sections ready to be fitted
and nailed together at once upon reach
Ing it's destination, and was shipped In
the hold of the steamer Humboldt. Its
teacher Will be Mrs. L. C. Rowland.
"Tne idea Of teaching school in the
Klondike is not entirely my own said
Mrs. Rowland. You see, my husband
Is going up there and when we were
discussing things somebody mentioned
that 1t would be a good idea for NE to
start q school. This interested me. as
[ had heard how hard it was to dc
nothing in that land, and l began to
discuss 1t among the company that was
going up on the Humboldt. The result
was that we decided to carry out the
Idea aud at once began to get pointers
from people who knew all about the
country. The school building may look
q little peculiar, but 1t is built accord
ting 10 directions. There Is @ fat, slop.
ing roof, so that the now can be easily
sN0VeIeu OH. lUe dIe ulSD
above the ground. That is to prevent
the snow from drifting over them
Everything has been considered that
will I've conducive to comfort. We have
a big wood stove that will be placed IN
a corner and ought to keep things
warm. There will be only n door,
and that will open into a small room
through which q door will open into tilc
schoolroom. This part Of the building
will bu arranged SO that one door must
be closed before the other can be
opened. This will avoid all draughts."
DO you think you can get any
pupils?" was asked.
"Oh, yes. People who have been UP
there tell me there are a number OF
children only too anxious for instruc'
lion. And, besides this, l am sure there
will he a number of grown people who
would be glad to put in a few months
studying when they cannot work IL
The mines. I am very sanguine Of sue
saSS."
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must all be used on one hat, and some.
times these hats are very expensive.

Gossip.
Miss Grace Mckinley, O niece of
the President, takes leading parts in
dramatic entertainments at Mount
Holyoke College.
There has been q Government in
quiry in Glasgow, Scotland, recently
over the matter of the abuse of tele-
phone girls by irate subscribers Of the
company.
Mrs. Alice Bradford Wiles, Presi-
dent Of the Illinois Federation Of
Women's Clubs, is a New Highlander,
and boasts among her ances' ors Mary
Chiffon, "the Orphan of Plymouth"
and John Winslow, her husband.
A New Hampshire wohlan, Mrs.
Martha NJ. Kicker, who is an attorney
at-law, a politician and Commissioner
and Examiner in Chancery, has an
nounced herself a candidate for Con-
gress from the First Congress District
of her State.
French women of fashion are going
in for fur trimmings to the greatest
extremes. In addition to wearing
bands of chinchilla on everything from
ball gowns to tea jackets, some Of them
have the tops of their boots ornament
ed with a circlet of fur.
Mrs. Murfee, of Meridian, Miss,
Vice-President of the United Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy of that State,
is seeking the assistance of the Mis-
souri, Daughters of the Confederacy in
the project to purchase the old home
of Jefferson Davis at Beauvoir.
Miss De Ia Rance, known to fame
as "Ouida," is eccentric in dress. She
favors light c%olors, quite out of har-
mony with her age and appearance
generally. Her face is not innocent
Of powder and her hair is arranged in
a curly mass, with ribbon on it.
When Professor Virchow, of Ber-
lin, was in Russia a few weeks ago a
deputation of women physicians visit
ed him and thanked him for having
thrown open his lecture room and
laboratory to a Russian woman when
the German universities did not ad-
NIT female students.
Lola M. Coulter, @ fourteen-year-
old girl, Of Stockton, Cal, is an en-
gineer, and knows how to handle the
throttle as we'll as a man. She has
made trips over some of the mostdiffi-
cult grades and curves in the West
and has proved that she has a steady
nerve and a keen eye.
A professional woman who has to
employ a young woman assistant says
that one of her greatest troubles is
that her assistants are constantly try
ing to impress not only upon her, but
upon her patients, that they are not
accustomed to such employment, but
have been brought up to better things,
though she is we'll aware of the fact
that the young women have come from
homes where there was neither culture
nor money.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05
The Age of Women.

The common objection among
womankind to letting their ages be
known is not shared by the ONE of
Japan, who actually display their age
in the arrangement of their hair.
Girls from nine to fifteen wear their
hair interlaced with red Grape describ-
ing a half-circle around the head, the
forehead being left free with a curl at
each side. From fifteen to thirty, the
hair is dressed very high on the fore
head, and put up at the back in the
shape of a fan or butterfly, with inter
lacing of silver cord and a decoration
Of colored balls. Beyond thirty, a
woman twists her hair around a shell
pin, placed horizontally at the back Of
the head. Widows also designate
themselves and whether or not they
desire to marry again.-Detroit Free
Press,
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DAWN. Sand on Gardens,

That the texture of heavy soils may
be greatly improved by intermixing
them with sand has long been under
stood. It is net much practiced, how
ever, because even where sand al be
had near the ield to be benefited by
it the work CT loading, drawing and
spreading it is enormous in proportion
to the benefit. Most of the advantages
of making clay soil more mellow and
less retentive of water are secured by
running underdrains through the
piece. Yet it is a fact that melons
will grow much better in sandy soil
than they can be made to do on clay,
however mellow the soil be made. A
half a load Of sand brought and dumped
where a melon hill is to be, and prop
erly fertilized, will bring better melons
than can be grown without it. Whether
this will pay is more doubtful. We
saw it done once, the man making the
experiment having plenty of sand
thirty rods away from his garden,
which was heavy soil. The work was
done mostly in the winter, and each
load CT sand vas spread into two
squares of seven by eight feet each,
in the middle Of which the melon hill
was planted the following spring. But
though a good many loads were drawn
into the garden, the addition Of so
much sand did less to make the gar
den soil friable than did the good In
derd-ain which the farmers son after
wards put under it.
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New Zealand's Idle Women.

Women are allowed to practice law
in New Zealand. But in a recent let
ter to a London paper mention is
made of the suicide of a female lawyer
who had waited three years in vain for
clients. Reference is also made to
thirty-two women who passed examin4
atoms as teachers, but were unable to
get places, as men are preferred for
the high schools.
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The Becomingness Of Fur,

What woman does not know the be-
c~omingness Of fur on a cold crisp day,
when the eyes are b .ghtened and the
color of the cheeks Heightened by the
stiff, bracing air? Fur, if selected to
suit the wearer and worn consistently,
does more to lend youth and freshness
to the face and general style than al
most any other accessory of feminine
dress, and the woman of forty-fve
who affects furs to harmonic with her
general coloring Of hair, skin and eyes
can take many years from her usual
appearance.-Woman's Home Com
panion.
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Utilizing Waste Beans and Peas.

We seed dealers at the beginning OF
every season have more or less of
beans and peas on our hands, whose
percentage of vegetation is too low to
make them of any value for seed pur-
poses, while they are too good to
throw away. These are usually util-
lied either by selling them to the
grocerymen, who handle them as col
ored beans, or to the farmers to feed
to sheep. In my own disposing Of
them T have usually had them ground
and then fed to my COWS and horses.
As beans are apt to cling to the mill
stones $50 my miller tells me), they
are ground with two or three times
their bulk Of corn. My horses will
not eat the bean meal, while the COWS
relish both bean and pea meal. Either
of them is exceedingly rich feed, hay
ing a larger proportion of the flesh
forming constituent (protein) than
corn, while peas are also valuable for
fattening animals, as u Canadian
neighbors we'll know, though inferior
in this respect to corn. The fat made
from peas is whittier in color than that
from corn, as can be readily seen by
comparing Canada fattened turkeys
with those raised in the States. AS a
milk producer, bean meal is a great
favorite with those dairymen who are
so fortunate as to be able to obtain a
supply Of old beans at as low a figure
as corn sells at. Like all very rich
foods, bean meal should be fed with
discretion; a wise proportion, incline
to believe, is but little more than can
be safely fed Of cottonseed meal if the
feeder intends to keepa good COW.
There is another kind of bean and
pea waste which I have been using
more or less for the last forty years
that I believe is but rarely used to
the best advantage; indeed, in many
cases it is not used at all. but con-
signed to the dung heap. I refer
to the waste from new beans and
peas. That Of which I have spoken
previously is the waste caused by age,
the peas and beans being as sound as
ever, but simply too old; that which I
now speak of is the waste picked,
riddled and winnowed out Of them to
make them in condition to be sold as
seed. This waste is made up of the
half beans and peas, and that small
grade which passes through the wires
of the sieves used in racking and win
moving, and the sprouted, skin
cracked, rotten or otherwise defective
ones which are hand picked out. This
class of waste is confined mostly to
the growers and the wholesale dealers
in beans who contract for the crop
just as winnowed, and do their own
sorting and hand picking. Such
waste cannot be ground, as there is
too much foul stuff among it to make
it healthy food.
There are two ways by which it car
be utilized, by feeding to sheep just as
it is, leaving it to the instinct of the
animal to reject the rotten peas, or bs
feeding it to pips, in which case it re
quires some manipulation. Ny frs
experience in utilizing beans was will
the hand-picked waste of the wholesale
grocers. Purchasing about twent,
bushel of these at about twenty-five
cents a bushel, I put the quantit.
needed for the next days feeding il
soak over night, the next day cookies
them with a quantity Of beef scrap I'm
til they were soft, and while the mas
was scalding hot thickened it by stir
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meath Rather than Boomers.

Mrs. Walter Hubbell, the wife Of a
Rochester IN. " machinist, invested
In pair Of boomers and insisted on
wearing them. Her husband used all
his powers Of persuasion, but neither
threats nor pleadings prevailed. Then,
Ather than live with a woman who
More boomers, he went and hanged
Ilmself. His wife cut him down in
kin,e To save his life and has stored her
Mcomers in the attic. Mi. Hubbeli
once more has a monopoly Of the trou-
Y sers worn in that family.
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Versatile Sir Claude.

Sir Claude de Crespigny has led an
adventurous life, having been sailor,
soldier, steeplechaser, wal cores
pondent and aeronaut. l. the last
named capacity he holds the record,
for he is the only living balloonis'
who has crossed the North Sea, as dis.
tingnished from the Channel, his com
panion, the professional aeronaut Sim
mons, having been killed TO- after.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05
Novel Snow Pillow.

A pneumatic snow pillow, driven by
electricity, is certainly as up-to-date a
machine as any one could desire to
use in winter. It's novelty consists
in the fact that the snow is blown Of
the track by a blast instead OF being
swept away OF removed by some sort
of snow pillow.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05

An exchange says: "What do you
think Of an artist who painted cob
webs on the ceiling SO tr%uthfully that
the hired girl wore herself into an at
tack Of prostration trying to
sweep them DOWN." There might
have been such an artist, but never
such q hired girl.
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,.v works. slums DisapDearIpc-

/ New 1OTAS oklkflS DfSa
| Paradise Alley and Bone Alley, on
CHERRY hill, near Franklin Square, are
no more, says Harper's Weekly. The
tonements that bordered them are de-
molished, and their population has
has found shelter elsewhere. Both
alleys were crowded and profitable, but
their manners and reputation sunk,
md their death rate rose until the
BOARD of Health condemned them to
INSTRUCTION, and after a fight in the
courts with owners who were not
ashamed to fatten on Stun property,
the sentence Of the board has been car
'r,ed out. On the site Of Bone Alley
will be opened a new park-Willett
park-where Cherry Hill may find a
breathing place. What will succeed
the tenements of Paradise Alley is not
vet determined, but it viii be either q
warehouse or a play ground for school
'ohiliran-
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The French cruiser Jeanne dare is
estimated to have cost about $4,000
900, of which perhaps So, 600, 900 was
for auxiliary fittings, such as armor,
gun mountings and mechanism, tor
pedo gear and special fitting.
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1t is a fragrant, unctuous ointment of great
cooling and healing power. 1t is good for Tet.
ter, Ringworln, Eczema and all r%oughness of
the skin. Itstops pain and itching at once and
If properly used will positively cure even the
worst of chronic cases. 80 cents at a drugstore
or by mail for 30 cents in stamps. J.T. Shup.
trine, Savannah, Ga.
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Are you one of the striking miners"
asked the woman ct the door. Yes,
mum. I'm what dey call a pioneer. l
struck thirty years ago, and I've never
give in yet."-Detroit Free Press.
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The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there IS at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
It's stases, anu that IS Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con-
etitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
pally, acting d rectly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. thereby destroy
Ing the foundation OF the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con-
stitudon and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprletors have so much faith in
its curative powers that they offer One Hun.
dred Dollars 70" any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Address
F.. j. CHENEY d Co, Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, T5c.
HALLS Family Pills are the best.
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srtt1sh Possessions.

According to the authority Of an En-.
glish magazine Great Britain controls
twenty-one out of every 100 square
miles oftthe earth's surface and twenty
four out of every 100 square miles Of
territory in North and South America
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The Last iEan on Earth

TO recklessly experiment upon himself with
hope of relief is the dyspept!c. Yet the nos
trums for this malady are as the sands of the
Indigestion, that obstinate malady, oven if of
Ions perpetuity, is eventually overcome with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. an appetizing
tonic and Alternative. which cures constipation,
fever and aguc. bilious remittent, rheumatism,
kidney complaint and feebleness.
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Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after hrstday's use of DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. atrial bottle and treatise free
DR.. r. H. KLINE, Ltd. 81 Arch ST., Phila, Pa.
When a boy begins to shave he always goes
to an old barber.
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To Cure a Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Table is. AL
Druggists refund money If itfailst % cure. 25t
the IafIors

druggists refund money II lGlallSt cure. @3c.
suits the IaflOrs.
Felix Faure's tailors made a good
thing out of the st. Petersburg visit.
1t rained every hour Of the Presidents
stay in Russia, and consequently his
eight dress suits and twelve silk hats
were all ruined. When the reception
at Dunkirk was given NJ. Faure on his
return home he had to wear a pressed
suit" but that did not so much matter,
for there again it also rained in tor
rents. AS he always is the pink Of ele-
gance, this continued annoyance must
have been as hard to bear as for some
fine lady out in a ~downpour, minus an
umbrella and no money for a cab.
Make yourself a shade more comfort.
able, and you will be to several shades
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05

Leaping Power of the Lion.
A lion in a jungle will jump twenty
five feet or thirty feet from a standing
start.
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Use &C C C'' Certain Chill Cure.
Best in the world. CERTAIN CURE Co,
Evansville, Ind
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, ~softens the gums, Observation-Disclosures
tion, allays pain, cures wind collie. 25c. a bottle
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05

Chew Star Tobacco-The Best.
Smoke Sledge Cigarettes.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05

If Mary writes her name Mae or Marie
that settles 1t; she can't cook.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05

That which a man breads most in marriage,
D woman thinks most of.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05

A soft, gentle, pleading voice becomes NOR
eiresome than a rasping one.
The Opelousas courier., 1898-03-05
800 300.

Did you ever see two left handed persons
shake hands?
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1t is not difficult for a man to be a woman's
Ideal If he lives in another state.

Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal
Rs a Cough medicine.-F. NJ. ABBOTT, 3Sj Sen
eca ST., Buffalo, n. Y, May 8, 1894.
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What Is TetterineS

You can't put enough clothes on a worthless
man to disguise him.