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The Washington times., 1902-01-05

Jesse j. Philips.
At what degree Of cold docs mercury freeze !?
At 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is the correct translation of the motto
"Dum tacent, clamant!' T. D. c.
"When they keep silence. they cry
aloud"
When was the Chinese Exclusion law enacted,
and when Tc-cu2ctedH i. n.
In 1882, the Geary law coming in 1892.
When did General Lee surrender, and on what
date was the battle OF Mansfield! T. r.. c.
April ., 1865, and April .. 1864, respec-
lively.
What is the population of the five larger cities
Of Kentucky? E.T.
Louisville. 2o4,7S1: Covington, 42,93s;
Newport. 28.3O1; Lexington. 25.369, Padu-
cab, 19.iiG.
OF what docs storage battery consisti A. L.
Plates or grids of lead, coated with OK
ide of lead, and diluted sulphuric acid or
solution Of some sulphate.
What part of the expenses Of the marriage
ceremony should fall on the groom? WORTH.
The clergyman's fees and the carriage
that takes the couple away.
How many are the Danish West Indies, and
what Is their area and population? d. W.
Three: St John, ST. Thomas. and Santa
Cruz Area about 142 square miles; popu-
lation about 32,7So. ..,
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Getting His Orders.
Detroit Free Press.

'DtIIVIt Itt IIt.s.D
Where are you going. my pretty maid?"
"To hang up this nistietoc- branch" she
said
And may assist you in the decorating"
"No. thanks. But you might in the oscu-
Iating,'
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Policy, Perhaps. But Generous.
cleveland Plain Dealer. }

Mr. Mergan's Christmas liberai!ty to his
trusted employees may have been the act
of man who always knows how TO invest
his money 10 the best advantage, but at
the same time II would probably be q
difficult task to lUre these favored l.eu-
tenants from the great financial mag
Mates employ.
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Balm for Laccratcd Feelings.
Baltimore SUM-

Baltimore SUM-
Mrs. Tomkins-Mrs. Gabsley has had
such an experience, Arrested for shop
lifting. All mistake, of course.
Mrs. Jenkins-I suppose she must have
been very much annoyed.
Mrs. Tompkins-Not at all. The papers
all said she was Of 'prepossessing appear
ance."
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No SOrdid Love There.
(Fliegendc Blaettcr.)

FNfsendc BIaettcr.)
You are right, Edgar-but there are
people who still think that you married
me because of my two millions"
Nonsense, my dear. | should have
married you if you had only one million. +"
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Experienced Not Expert.
nrdinrnrnlis vor,N

Cndanapolis Nevs)
Think you, my dear Mr. Professor,
that | will enough learn that l may in six
months before the public sing?"
''Ah, no, my dear miss; cannot so much
hope. But then you will perhaps enough
know that you will to do it not try"
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Royal Artillery. He obtained teachers
certificate az the Ottawa Normal School
and was employed in several schools. In
1882 he was ordained deacon and began
attending Trinity University at Toronto.
For a time he was curate at Trenton and
instructor in a deaf and dumb asylum.
About .,,is time his contributions to the
press began, consisting of hymns, ballads
and poems: In 1856 he went to Australia,
engaging in newspaper work and play
writing. Removing to England. he began
his career as novelist. producing large
ly. In 1895 he married the daughter of
New York merchant.
What was the date of Napoleon's march across
the Alps? .. Where was he going and what
was the size of his army during that march?
s. When and where was he born and when and
where did he die? W. l.. L.
Tho latter part of May, 1900. 2. Into
italy. against an Austrian army under
Melas. 8. His own contingent, that which
went by the Great Saint Bernard pass,
consisted of about 600 men. Smaller
sections crossed through the Mont Cents
and st. Gothard passes. 3. He was born
at Ajaccio, Corsica; August 10, 1863, Is
the date commonly accepted. He died at
st. Helena, May 5. 1921.
Why was Marshal Ncy shot? A. X.
To carry out q sentence of death Tor
kigh treason. lie had been one OF Ma
noleon's ADLER and braver generals, but
after the capture OF Paris had urged the
Emperor to aodicatc, had himself sub
raitted to Louis XVIII and had been
loaded with favors. When Napoleon came
back from Elba Ney was sent with 1900
men to capture him, but, with most OF
his soldiers, went over to him and fought
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Easy Enough.
Chicago Record-Herald.

Chicago Record-Hcrald)
'I always somehow get mixed on Mad
ison and Monroe she said. Il can re-
member about the other Presidents very
well, but those two are always confused
in my mind
Just remember that Madison had his
Dolly and Monroe his Doctrine, he an
swered, "and it'll be easy enough"
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A Regular Mind Reader,
(Ch;clro NcvsO

Chicago News)
II suppose" said the physician. smiling
and trying TO appear witty. while feeling
the pulse of 4 lady patient, Il suppose
You consider me an old humbug?"
Why, doctor" replied the lady. 81 had
no idea you could ascertain a woman S
thoughts by merely feeling her pulse"
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A Feminine UtiIitarian.

(Atlanta Constitution)
'I notice, my deer, that 4 process has.
been discovered whereby glass is made
soluble and turned into a liquid that can
be applied to all sorts Of surfaces with a
brush, just like paint"
Did you ever! Wouldn't that make a
Just too lovely face enamel?"
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Neither Quite Satisfied.

(Puck.)
MiStreSs-I am not quite satisfied with
your references.
Applicant-Nayther am I, mum; but
they's the best ] could get.
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"QUIPS AND QUIRKS AND WANT0N SMILES"
A Slip of the Tongue.
Judge

The Count-Aiac5 OMAR. will you be
please receive my devDt1ons 2. Il ioofs you
yiG grande passion -'H' s751 -.,--
Miss Milly O'Nair-But. Count, will you
serve me dsvotediy' You are sometimes
SO austere.
The Couut-Oystere, serfe him stew
cd. fried, on re half-he, what say /! /
vculd say I serfe you vid my heart all.
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Rather Doubtful.
Gid Bits.)

Tardy Arrival at Dinner Party-I am
afraid am too late, dear Mrs. Smith.
Mrs. Smith (effusively)-Oh, dear. you
could never come too late.
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when Greatness Comes.

GIarper's Bazar.)
Little Elmer-Papa, what is it that
makes a statesman great?
Prof. Broadhead-Death. my son.
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Upper Cut.
philadelphia Press.)

81 think owe you a CALI said Mrs.
Nopay. .
Really" replied the Doctors wife cut-
tingly. only this morning my husband
was remarking that your husband owes
him half a dozen visits
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A Midnight Impression.
lAtlanla Constitution.


IT'S strange that your husband knew
just what to get you for a Christmas
gift.
"Oh. / impressed it on his mind rather
forcibly the night he came home SO late
from the Hickenlooper stag party"
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Best Form Possible.
PHILADELPHIA Press.)

" AlAbtIiiAi iltae.t
Tom-.What, dress suit and russet
shoes. That's wrctched bad form.
Dick-I know, but a dress suit and
stockinged feet is worst.
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Only Case on Record.

philadelphia Bulletin.)
II have friend who has kept a cook
fer nearly year"
rs it possble?'
Yes: he's a iailer.''
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Didn't Take the Hint.
Detroit Free Press }

Detroit Free Press)
Christmas is in the air." said Mrs.
Fosdick. looking out of the window.
80, that's mostly SCOT you see,' her
husband explained.
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prOba

(BTooklyn Liie.)
Eewett-Iialf the world doesn't know
how the other half lives.
Jewett-I think you overestimate the
number of people who mind their own
business.
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Never Gave 1t "a Thought.
(Chicano NeWs.l


Her Father-It's simply absurd in you
to think that you could support my daugh-
ter properly.
Young Cheeker-I assure you, sir, such
a thought never entered ICY mind.
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UnprcfcszionaI Conduct.
Chicago News.)

A Cincinnati physician fooiishiy took
some of his own medicine. The verdict
OF the coroner's Jury was: Death due to
unprofessional conduct"
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He Couldn't Stand That.
QChic,po Tribuncl

Irate Editor-I am going to tell the peo-
pie just exactly what kind OF man you
are,
Equally Irate Statesman-If you do I'll
sue you for libel,
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%

viii YOU tell me- where saffron grows, and
where | can buy lit q.
The saffron -crocCs. from whose bios
SONS saffron is derived, is indigenous in
Greece and Asia Minor, and is cultivated
in Europe Saffron can be had OF drug
gists.
bets that there is three hours difference in
standard time between New York and San Fran
cisco; that there is only two hours difference.
Who winsI I. H. Y.
A wins: the different "timcs," with an
hour between each adjoining two. are
Eastern, Central, Mountain, and Pacific.
says that conductor on freight train ia
paid by the mile; that he is paid by the
month. Which is rightly ). IL. L.
Most railroads maintain the rule of
monthly pay days, also base the pay of
trainmen on the length of run. We think
A is right.
How MANY soldiers homes there in the
Northern States, and where are they located?
Are they for disabled aged veterans, and do
inmates also receive pensionsT +. 5. Z. z.
The National Home for Disabled Volun-
teer Soldiers at Washington has branches
at Dayton, Ohio; Milwaukee. Wis; Togus,
Maine: Hampton. Va; Leayenworth, kas.i
Santa Monica, Cal; Marion. Ind, and
Danville, III. Then there are State homes
in California. Colorado. Connecticut.
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana. Iowa, Kan
sas, Massachusetts,, Michigan. Min
nesota. Missouri, Montana. Nebraska,
New Hampshire. New Jersey, New York.
North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsyl-
yania. Rhode Island, South Dakota, YER
mont, Washington. Wisconsin and Wyo-
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Cause and Effect.
(Harlem Life.

''To what do you attribute the remark
able increase CT kleptomania in late
years." 'l--r L..t.
ITO the fact that the dry goods stores
keep more detectives"
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ming Disability that prevents the appli-
cant from earning his living is a common
requirement for admission. veteran re-
ceiving n greater pension than SIS n
month is ineligible, under ordinary condi-
tons for the National Home; elsewhere
the practice varies.
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The Home of the Historical Nov

me 1oHne VI thC
Oh I'm bound for Indiana, where the Middle
Ages grow,
Ands tine grass is thick with cut1asses and
swords;
Where the very air is dim and atmospheric
don't you know2
And the scenery rich food for thought affords.
o sweet Indianapolis,
There's no other spot, wis,
Where the novel can be fitly introduced;
For the people all are kind,
When a haplcss stray they find,
To the medieval novel they used.
There arc fields in Indiana where knighthood is
in flower,
There are woods quite full of mobiles like
Beaucaire;
Clash of swords and crack OF pistols may be
heard there every hour,
For the here's ever bound to do and dare.
O sweet indianapolis,
Where romantic breezes kiss
The cheek OF every fair, ambitious maid.
'Tis the novels only home,
Whether on the ocean foam
Or in castle or in fed the scene Is laid.
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the practice varies.
What part Of Egypt is watercd by the over
flow OF the Nile? Do crops ever fail because
OF the river being low? d. X.
Some 1900 square miles. 9 Yes, for
despite a most elaborate system of irri-
CATION. much water goes to waste at the
time OF flood that later is sorely needed
The average extreme rise at Cairo is
twenty-seven feet; less than twelty feet
means loss from scarcity, and at times
there is great damage from flood A
tremendous dam is now building TO store
up the Niles water and overcome these
faults.
One geography says there are six continents:
another that there are only three. Which is
rightf IVANHOE.
The first is right, and the most COM
mon of the several current divisions.
These are, two, Eastern and Western;
four, Africa. Asia, Europe. and America;
five, Australia being reckoned as one, and
six, in which North and South America
arc reckoned separately. A seventh IS
sometimes found in n hypothetical conti-
nent about the South Pole. 1t is not
usual to reckon the continents as three.
Will you tell me something of Gilbert Parker !?
u.
He was born at Camden East, Adding
ton, Ontario, about 1860, and was the son
Of q nom n-commissiOned officer in the
The Washington times., 1902-01-05
HANEH 4 LAUGH WITH US!
STRAY SHOTS BY A MERRY MARKSWOMAN.

invite small company OF very select
people to occupy her boz and take supper
afterward.
"And be sure to say" she repeated.
that it is a small box party-most ex-
elusive"
The society editor did-that is, she
supposed she did. But there was wee,
and horror, and enquiry In the home OF
the society lady and in the newspaper Of
fee on the Sunday morning following
For the announcement appeared in the So
ciety column
Mrs. Flipton will give very exclusive
smallpox party at the Magnolia Theatre
tomorrow night"
The Washington times., 1902-01-05

Who is Chief Justice Of Illinois? L.
Jesse J. Phillips.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22
LOVE IS O FL IND

Love is not blind, but e through all
disguise.
And that is why we hear from day to
of odd engagements causing much sur
And weddings passing strange in every
way.
what can She see in him. the critics
Love is not blind, but sees through all
It's those who cannot use his Roentgen
At whom love laughs aud leaves them to
surmise.
{ find in you what all true lovers prize;
You find in me all [ was meant to be; :,
Love is not blind, but sees through all
disguise. ,,,.,
And finds the charm-coInpatibllty.
And so when comes the DEFY that we arc
wed,
Well smile at those who think them
selves more wise,
And live to prove the truth of what we've
said :,
Love is not blind, but sees through all
disguise.
Good Housekeeping.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22
A Kindred Soul.

They had just been introduced, ant
as she looked into his thoughtful blue
eyes the young girl felt that she hat
at last met a man of high ideals.
"Are you interested in the elevation
of the masses, Mr.. McSmudge?" she
asked, after she had worked up to thu
subject by easy conversational stages
Intensely, Miss Gushington," h'
answered. 81 have dedicated my lift
to this great work. I am just now in
teresting myself in circulating
pamphlet on the subject, which I shall
be pleased to send you"
"How lovely" she murmured. She
knew that she had at last found 1
kindred soul.
But this world is full Of disappoint
ments, and it was a hard jolt to Ethe
Gushington's finer sensibilities whel
a few days later she received, with thu
compliments Of John Wesley Nc
Smudge, a catalogue of passenge.
elevators for which he was agent
Salt Lake Herald.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22
New Method of Road Building.

A novel system of road construction
has been successfully resorted to IL
Monmouth, Ill. The ground was pre-
pared for it by grading and being al
lowed to remain so for two months
It was treated to an occasional scrap
Ing.so that it would pack evenly, be
ing thus rendered hard and ever fol
the laying Of a surface Of brick. the
chief constructive feature. The IRIS
thing was the setting Of a curDlng
made of two by six inch planks seven
feet apart, held by oak stakes eighteen
inches long and put down every foul
feet. Inside of this was a hVe-incf
bed of sand, all evened up, and a single
course of No. i paving brick then put
down. a fine roadbed being thus Cd
tanned, Outside the curb two feet OF
crushed rock were laid, graded up e
make an easy approach, this plan In
s,1ring a way Of eleven feet in Wlotn
and. as the earth on each side wa
graded and worked, there was auto
gether a width Of some forty feet al
eording tracks on each side for use IL
dry weather. Such a brick ROAD cos''
about ninety cents "a running oot'
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22
Papa's Arrival Was Timely.

A little girl at East End, who is wont
to take refuge in the protecting arms
Of her father when her mothers ire is
up and trouble is pending, almost
missed her haven the other night. Her
mother and she had gone up stairs for
the night, leaving the father in the
reading-room below. In the prepare.
lions for retiring the little girl dis
obeyed her mother and trouble was i'm
minent.
"I'lI just switch you, little lady," re-
marked the mother.
In an instant the little girl rushed to
the door and screamed for her father
to come up at once.
The obedient father got up the stairs
in about three steps, and as he entered
the room the angered mother was
about to use the switch.
"'You just did get here in time, papa"
said the little one, as she buried her
face under his arm.-Memphis Scimi'
tar,
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22

until illness came upon me three years
ago. I first noticed it by being irreg-
ular and having very painful and
scanty menstruation; gradually nay
general health failed ; l could not en-
Joy my meals; / became 1anguid and
nervous, with gripirg pains frequently
In the groins.
81 advised with our family phys
ician who prescribed without any i'm
provement. One day he said.-'Try
Lydia Pinkham's Remedies l
did, thank God the next month l was
better, and it gradually built nae up
until in four months | was cured. This
Is nearly o year ago and l have not
had a pain or ache since. BONNIE
DELANo, 324s Indiana Ave, Chicago,
M--s5coo forfsft y above testimonial Is net
gsRafas.
Trustworthy proof Is abundant that
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound saves thousands of
young women from dangers resulting
from organic ir~regularity, suppression
Or retention of the menses, ovarian or
womb troubles. Refuse substitutes.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22
Curious work with English Medals.

A. veteran of Bridport has just re-
ceiyed his medal-such is the indecent
haste of the War Omce-for the Cri,
mean War, just as many Canadian
Volunteers about two years ago We're
hurriedly presented with their medals
for services Of some forty years back.
This, however, is nothing to a naval
medal, bearing ships and sails, which
was once accidentally struck and dis
tributed for a frontier trouble in the
interior of India! The War Office
rightly reserves its energies for the
due reward, OF such important and
hazardous services as garrison work
in Malta. The militia, who were dis
patched there temporarily. are al
ready going to receive their war
medals.-London Chronicle.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22
Sewing Birds.

Most curious are the sewing or tail
or birds of India-little yellow things
not much larger than ones thumb
To escape falling a prey to snakes
and monkeys the tailor bird picks VI
q dead leaf and flies up into a tree
and with a fibre for a thread and its
bill for a needle, sews the leaf to {
green one hanging from the tree: the
sides are sewed up. IN opening t.
the nest thus formed being left al
the top. That a nest is swinging IL
the tree no snake or monkey or ever
man would suspect.-London Science
Eiftings.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22
Guinea IL

New Guinea is just now SUFFERING
from q visitation of whooping cough,
This Is the first time that the malady
has occurred there, and as usual II
such cases 1t Is spreading like wild.
fire. 1t Is we'll known that infectious
diseases occurring among a hitherto
unattached people rage with the great.
cot virulence, and whooping cough in
new Guinea is no exception; the ma,
tlves are dying by hundreds. Beine
at q loss to account for the deadly
scourge the natives attribute it to the
witchcraft of their neishbors, with the
result that there have been many in.
tertribai and intorvillase fights ant
~saasEafTes,
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22
The West Point Of Mexico.

In Mexico experience has conclusive.
" shown that officers and even soldiers
cannot be improvised, and the very
first care Of General Diaz has been tt
establish a good school for instructins
scientific officers. The military schoo,
of Chapultepec in it's actual condition
is the fruit of his efforts. Many for
eign officers Of different nationalities
have visited that establishment an6
believe that it ranks among the first in
the comprehensiveness and perfection
of military instruction there impaired
and in the severe but just discipline tc
which the cadets are subjected.-Na-
tional Geographic Magazine.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22
- s,lverwaro CT Paul Revar. 6,

qhs sIlverware CT Pau Revere is n,
.rcellent workmanship and chasts n
sarrn. evidently modelled after English
Ysth century designs, and pieces nj
plete manufactured by him, and now
20 eagerly sought for by collectors
ara good examples of the STYLE a,
present so greatly in favor, which W,
haye agreed to call colonial, Thi,
slmple classical forms adopted by GU,
struggling artisans at a period wher
art in this country was still in it's "bil
ana tucker" strangely enough hay,
nsver bee9 improved upon by thei,
successors; and by reverting to their
In U.ese latter days U silVersmiths
no well as our cahinetnakers, are dis.
playing good sense as well as tasie; bu,
In this mechanical age they stamp O,
saw out their patterns in unlimited
quantities by machinery, and do not
as OF yore, hammer Or carve them la.
oorlously, piece by piece, by hand, anc
therein lies a distinction and a differ.
ence.@Scribner's.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22
Handling Farm Products.

An item in the report Of the Indus.
trial Commission, at Washington
shows that the cost Of handling farm
nroducts over the country roads if
Estimated at $500, 100000 a year. OF
more than the entire cost Of operating
ali the railroads Of the United States
which is placed at $s1s.ooo,ooo. That
saams inconceivable. but no doubt II
Is approximately true, except in the
fact that the farmers don't pay IN
money for the use of their teams, Du'
in unestimated labor.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22
Honors For the Young.

The new Chief Justice Of Sierra
Leone, MI. P. G. smyly, is the young
est man holding such a position in the
colonial service. He is only thirty-fve,
and has been on the west coast for the
past six years and found the climate
to agree with him. The new Chief
Justice took his LII. d. degree in Dub
lin University ten years ago, and his
great talents early marked him out for
rapid advancement. - London Chroni"
claA
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22

No matte2 what ais you, headache to q
cancer, ysu will never set well until your
bowels are put right. CtscARETs help nature,
cure you without q gripe or pain, produce
easy Natural movements, cost you Just 10
cents to start getting your hoalth back. CAS-
CADETS Candy Catiartic, the genuine, put up
IN metal boxes, every tablet has c.. C. G.
stamped Oh it. BeEaIe OF limitations.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22
rhaandustrdar Discoverer.

II ID not the boy who is surrounded
NV the best implements and tools that
ingenuity can manufacture, but an III
whitney making a cotton gin in q Gel
,ar in the South with the simplesi
tools or a Cunard whiting the mode
"a ! ship with a jackknife. that makes
s,,aaf industrial discoveries.-Succsss.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22

F{dNK J. CHENEI:s make oath that no 10 the
serroc partner Of the firm OF F. ]. CHENEY q
0tAs doing business in the City Of Toledo,
Cofnty and State aforesaid, ana that said
DR. p will pay tho sum fhEE DOL
LA5Ss fo1 each and every cas- 4 ATARI that
cInot be cured by the use Of HALL's
C6fTAsRa CURs FRANZ J. CHENEY.
ooworn to before me md subscribed in my
) t-~ presence, 1his 6th day Of December,
SEAL. A. D., 1886. A. W. GLEASON.
'~~' Notc5y Pu0ic.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on tho blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonials,
free. r. J. CHENEyt& Y; Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75o.
Halls Family Pills arc the best.
The Opelousas courier., 1902-03-22

An arrangement has just beea made
waereby the Berlin gas lamps In tht
street will be lighted automatically
md simultaneously by means Of ar
electric attachment. The current viii
% switched On from the central sta.
don, and q spark will ignite the gas
which will be turned CT by a sDecia
APPARATUS.