The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-02-01

Congressman Nicholas Longworth's
answer to the report that he has won
100000 on Wall street is, in sub.
stance, that he'll divide with the man
who proves it.
cleveland is not content with hav-
ing become the chief city in Ohio
by the census of 1900, but has just
voted to annex one of her flourish
ing suburbs.
At a sale of rare coins in Philadel-
phia $50 United States gold piece
of 1850 brought only $195, which was
considered very cheap.
The official register for 1907 win
show that the whole number of official
and all sorts of employees in the Gov
eminent sevices is 306,141.
The Mexican government is ex-
perimenting with various methods for
obtaining the best results from ir.
rigation. The dry-farming method is
also to be well tested. :
Manufacture of rubber from the ma
tive guayule shrub has begun in Mara
thon, Texas. 1t is Estimated that the
factory owners control Is per cent. of
the guayule land in Texas.
Grass widows have formed club
| in Chicago. To be named the Sun.
shine Club? queries the New York
American
Those knots in Saturn's rings may
merely have been placed there to
keep him from forgetting something,
suggests the Indianapolis News.
George Bernard Shaw declares that
he is opposed to war because he u.s.
afraid, and that peace will come only
when every one has the courage to
confess himself a coward
Happily work is plentiful and wages |
good. rejoices the Meriden Journal,
for there never was time when |
men had to hustle so lively to keep
abreast of the prices of living.
Hayseed and coal tar dye with other
ingredients are being put up and sold
as strawberry. Jam, by some. eastern
: dealers, says DR.. H. w. Wiley, u. S.
Chemist
An eminent Frenchman, who lived
to be one hundred years old, gave !
as his single rule of life: Some
thing of everything: not too much of
anything"
A loan of $5,5O0,OOO at 5 per cent
has been accepted by the Government
of Chile, the proceeds to be used
in improving the port of Valparaiso
1t is supposed to double the capacity
of the docks and increase the facili.
ties of the custom hodse.e
A New Jersey man did his banking
in pasteboard box IN the attic and
red squirrels carried Off the money
to make nests. Even squirrels know,
observes the New York American,
that money ought not to be boarded.
The mikado had assurances says
the Washington Star, that ought to
make him proof against any efforts
to scare him about the movements
of American warships...
Travellers who have passed through
the unshorn Southwest report to the
Ricahmpnd Times-Dispatch that the
Texas pies are now so small. that the
unfortunate natives eat them whole
sale with a teaspoon.
The coal trust has 200 years to .
operate in, and then it must go into ,
some other line of business, notes the ,
Birmingham Age-Herald, for it has
been ascertained there will be no coal :
in this country after the year 21G7.
Every maiden stands with reluct. v
ant feet, exclaims the Atlanta Jour. v
nal, where the brook and river meet t
or anywhere else wfreh she tries to n
crowd number five foot into mum
Der three shoe.
London chemists claim to have dis.
covered that two-thirds of the weight q
Of girl is composed of sugar. Which "
makes it seem TO the Washington ~
Pest all the more remarkable that
there are no flies on the American
girl.
A Chicago woman thrashed her Vi
husband when she heard that he had e,
He'd an application for divorce. That h,
viii teach him thinks the Washington IA
Pest. never to take such step again G.
Without first obtaining permission. m
hi
Hoarding is not only an economic W
mistake, but an economic crime as ar
veil, announces the Calcutta States hs
nan. .. 1t is in fact a survival of the 81
vii days Or northumberland. It Eph
omes down to us from. the time when
early all Governments were : con- f..
uerors who considered themselves tw
Untitled to p1under their subjects. tei
'hus, boarding is founded upon dis. al al
rust of the Government. til,
pr,
Wall Street may be described as IN IN
reat manufactory' Of paper-paper :.
ghiy engraved bearing. thes dollar / d.
lark and representing ownership in Sc
mortgages upon. the most valuable b,Ie
'operties in the country. the rail- W pe
ads. the mines and the Industrial
AS a manufactures