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JOURNAL OF THE 9 th SENAT OR I AL DIST RICT
o h rnal eft r Parish ol |Lnfonrche and th«* Town of Thibodmx.
VOL. XX.
THIBODAUX, LA., SATURDAY, JUNE 13,1885.
NO. 46.
In Cnmp at Aldershot.
My friends, stationed at the camp,
receive me with the frank, generous
hopitalitv of the English officer, and
their kind and friendly treatment soon
makes me feel thoroughly at home
among them, free to go as I please,
and to make my acquaintance with
Tommy Atkins at my leisure. All j
branches of the service are represented |
here—engineers and artillery, "horse, j
loot, and dragoons," and all the varied !
types of character in the army are to j
be met with, from tlie little drummer- j
boy born in the service to the hard- j
ened non-commissioned officer of a
dozen campaigns. Magnificent types i
of the soldier these latter, as they pass :
through. the streets with ringing j
strides, straight as arrows, neat as soap |
and water, pipe-elay and brush, ean !
make them, proud of their position and i
of their profession, and often exercis- '
ing fully as much authority over the
men under them as the best of their j
officers.
A canteen where the soldier can pur- :
chase at moderate rates man}- of the ;
little lux-mies of life, libraries, reading
smoking and recreation rooms, are at
tached to the large barracks at Aider
shot. Here theatrical performances,
often of considerable merit, are fre
quentlygiven by the men, and the sol
diers can alwavs rely upon the generous
support of their officers in their amuse
ments. The theater or music hall at
the Royal Artillerv Barracks is gener
ally well attended almost anv evening,
and s good "song and dance" man en
joys no mean degree of popularity
among his comrades.
But it is in the innate love that all
Englishmen bear for athletic sport that
■"Tommy" comes out in his full glory,
and his officers do not disdain to meet
him on equal grounds at cricket, foot
ball, and other out-door games. Dif
ferent branches of the service frequent
ly meet in friendly rivalry, and many a
match is played on the grounds of the
officers' club between teams of various
regiments or corps, selected from among
the officers and men. irrespective of
their military rank
usual sight to see
■officers "umpired" by some veteran non
commissioned officer, skilled in all tlie
intricacies of the national game oi
cricket.
It is not an un
game among the
The most interesting of tlie purely
martial sports—if I can use the word
in reference to what forms part of the
drill of the cavalry and mounted artil
lery—are the exciting contests of saber
versus saber, or saber versus lance, and
the like, when some rival •'rough
riders" are pit ted against one another.
One can easily imagine how the tourna
ments of old appeared, to see those
active follows, mounted on their fine
horses, which seem to sympathize with
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and enter into the spirit of their riders, j
as, clad in stout loather tuuies. their
beads protected with strong wire maSKS,
they charge down on one ^another, cut
ting, thrusting, and parrying, retreat- j
and pursuing. Hard knocks are
and received with apparent
though I doubt not that
of discipline restrain many
ing
given
good-lnimo
long habit;
an honest fellow's temper, when his
blood is up. It is rough and mauly
■work, ami oi.e does not wonder, on see
ing what training they go through, that
the British horsemen are renowned for
their courage and dexterity. Another
sport in which the nerve and coolness
that go so far toward making a good
cavalier are displayed to great advan
tage is tent-pegging, introduced, I be
lieve, into the British army by the
native cavalrymen of the Indian service.
The player, armed with a light bamboo
lance, puts his horse at a full gallop
over the course, and strikes with his
lance head a tent peg protruding a few
inches out of the ground, into which
one end has been firmly driven. See
bow firmly yet lightly the soldier sits
on his horse, body bent forward, lance
couched, thundering forward at the
top of his horse s speed. Lower down
on his charger's nock, a tighter clasp of
the legs, nearer ami nearer—the exact
moment must, be rightly chosen—a
slight turn of t he wrist of the prac
ticed bridle hand-now! crash!—and he
swings back upright into the saddle,
waving the light lance triumphantly
abov
piece
point
Magtttine.
In the fifty-eight provinces of Euro
pean Uus ia there are l'.Ub-1,7211 horses,
of which uuinlier neiuH" fi.OO0,O0O are
in the military eircle of Kazan. Com
plaint is made that too many horses are
exported from the country. The num
ber exported in tiSiff was Iff,000. iu
1880 it was 24.000, in 1882 it was 115,200,
aud last war the number is believed to
have reached 45,000. It is proposed
that an export tax of 50 gold rubles on
every horse valued at under 1100 rubles
be imposed.
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Hash made envelope* cost originally
& cent* each. The envelope machine
now turns them out mi that a thousand
•may be sold for 150 cents.
The Kind or Oil.
For a moment let us glance at the
principal sources of animal aud vegeta
ble oil supply, ere the fountains of
mineral oil were revealed for the use
and comfort of the human family.
First and foremost, of course, ranked
the fish oils—tlie well-known train (or
drain) oil which drained from the blub
ber of the great Greenland whale—a
large whale sometimes yielding fully
thirty tons of blubber—each ton repre
senting nearly 200 gallons of oil.
Though the cachalot, or sperm-whale,
could never rival the Greenland whale
in the quantity of its contribution, it
had at least the advantage of quality
and variety, sine?, besides ordinary
blubber, it yields a large amount of
sperm-oil, aud also of spermaceti. Of
tlie latter valuable product, the head
alone often yields ten barrels.
Next among oil-yie ding fish come
the grampus, or dolphin, tlie porpoise,
the shark, the seal, the cod, the her
ring, and others.
Of animal fats are butter, tallow,
lard, goose-grease, neat's-foot oil (pre
pared from the feet of oxeu aud used
by curriers in dressing leather), and
mare's grease i imported from Buenos
Ayres and Montevideo, where a multi
tude of horses are annually slaughtered
for the sake of their hides, tallow, and
bones)! In Russia, especially at Mos
cow, velk-of-egg oil is in great repnte
for making soap and pomatum.
Vegetable oils form a'very important
item in our supplies, inasmuch as oil
seeds to the value of £5.500.000 are
annually imported into Britain for
crushing purposes, and our exports of
oil are roughly valued at £1,000,000,
The export of seed-oil from London.
Hull, and Liverpool, in 1800, was 14,
508,000 gallons.
Under the head of seed-oils rank lin
I seed, cotton-seed, and castor oil. Colzo
| oil, also, is made from mustard, hemp,
j radish, rape, turnip, and other seeds.
I Then we have olive oil and almond oil.
I From India comes poppy-seed oil; from
the Black Sea, oil of sunflower
! seeds. From Ceylon aud the Pacific
j i s i es comes coeoanut oil. From Western
| palm-nut oil of the oil palm,
I and oil of ground nuts for use in fine
I machinery. From Singapore and China
i we receive kokum oil and vegetable tal
i low. About 14,000 tons of croton oil
t are annually imported for the uso of
| the wool-dressers of Britain.
| Besides these, so familiar to onr
! selves, almost every country has some
j specutltv in oils. Thus, in Southern
i Russia, tobacco oil is largely used; in
i Italy, oil of grape stones; in China, oil
j of tea soed; in India, oil of nutmegs, of
seed of the gamboge tree, of eustard
I apple seed, of cashew-nut, of carda
! mom, of meam, of msrgoza, and many
others. Brazil, too, has a largo num
j ber of both amma l aud vegetable,
peotl ij m . to iiselt.—Popular Science
Monthly.
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Finish What Ton
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My old Great-grandmother Knox had
a wav of making her children finish
their work. If they began a thing
they must complete it.
If they under
took to build a cob-liouse, they must
not leave it until it was done, and
nothing of work or play to which they
set their hands would she allow them
to abandon incomplete. I sometimes
wish I had been trained in this way.
How much of life is wasted in un
finished work! Manv a man uses up
his time ic splendid beginnings. The
labor devoted to commence ten things
and leave them useless would finish
five of them and make them profitable
and useful. Finish your work; life is
brief: time is short. Stop beginning
forty things, and go back and finish
four. Put patient, persistent toil into
the matter, and, be assured, one com
pleted undertaking will yield yourself
more pleasure and the world more
profit than a dozen fair plans of whieh
people say. "Tills man liegan to build,
and was not able to finish."
"Whatsoever thy baud findeth to do,
do it with thy might."— Anon.
A Whispering Piano.
A Dresden piano factory has intro
called the whispering piano. A low
tone is an excellent thing m a woman,
but it is simply divine in a piano. While
the player will be able to hear his in
strumeiJt, the occupant of the nest room
will be able to forget that there is such
a thing as a string instrument on legs
in existence. The people in the next
house where one of these blessed pianos
is iu use will never have to shower
maledictions on the all-doWn-lvut-uine
set-'em-up-in-the-othev-alley; style of
playing that seems to be the proper
thiug in the city. Nobody can ever
guess the blessings that would-come
with tliis new piano save the poor soul
who has been waked out of his slumbers
at 2 a. in. to And that the fat woman
across tlie way n trying to play a sym
phony in her' night gmr.—Nev; York
Extra.
k Recruit's First Experience.
My first uniform was a bgd fit; my
trousers were too long by three or four
inches; the fiannel shirt was coarse aud
unpleasant, too large at the neck and
too short elsewhere. The forage cap
was an ungainly bag, with pasteboard
top and leather visor; the blouse was
the only part which seemed decent;
while the overcoat made me feel like a
little nib of corn amid a preponderance
of lmsk. Nothing except "Virginia
mud" ever took down my ideas of mili
tary pomp quite so low. ■
After enlisting I didn't seem of so
much consequence as I expected. There
was not so much excitement on account j
of my military appearance as I deemed 1
justly my due. I was taught my fac
iugs, ami at the time I thought the drill
master needlessly fussy about shoulder
ing, ordering, and presenting arms. The
musket, after an hour's drill, seemed
heavier and less ornamental than it had
looked to be. The first day I went out
to drill, getting tired of doing the same
things over anil over, I said to the drill
sergeant: "Let's stop this fooling and
go over to the grocery." His only reply
was addressed to a corporal: "Corporal.
take this man out and drill him like
li—1and the corporal did.
I found that suggestions were not as
well appreciated in the army as in pri
vate life, and that no wisdom was equal
to a drill-master's "Bight fate," "Left
wheel," and "Right, oblique, march."
It takes a raw recruit some time to
learn that he is not to think or suggest,
but oliey. Some never do learn. I
acquired' it at last, in humility and mud,
but it was tongh. Yet I doubt if my
patriotism, during my first three weeks'
drill, was quite knee high. Drilling
looks easy to a spectator, but it isn't.
Old soldiers who read this will remem
ber their green recruithood and smile
assent. After a time I had cut down
my uniform so that I could see out of
it, and had conquered the drill suffi
ciently to see through it. Then the
word came: On to Washington!— The
Century.
A Private Railroad Station.
"We made a singular discovery the
other day," remarked an official of a
road running into Chicago. "About
three miles beyond a certain station on
our line there is a farm-house by the side
of the track. Just beyond the farm
house is a little creek, over which there
is a small bridge. About four years
ago some repairs were made to that
little bridge, and, of course, the bridge
gang had to put up a signboard 'Run
Klow,' on either side, during the day or
so the bridge was weakened. When
they had finished their work, they went
off and forgot the signs. The fact is,
the boards had disappeared, and they
didn't take the trouble to hnnt them up.
"Some weeks afterward, no one knows
just when, those signs reappeared in
their former places. Nobody knew
who put them there or what for. No
body cared. If tlie section men noticed
them at all they thought the bridge r
men had done it. It was none of the t
engineers' business why they were there }
—it was their duty to observe regula- i
tions, which requiml them to slow t
down at all such signs." Observe regula- f
tions they did. For about four years t
not a train had passed over that little
bridge without slowing almost to a .
standstill. The cukcrt, for that's all
it is, lias been as safe as any part of
the road-bed, ami yet stopping and
starting trains there lias cost this com
pany thousands of dollars. You know,
it costs money to stop and start trains.
"You are wondering how it all comes
about, of course. Well, that fanner
stole those boards and put. them up
again at his leisure. For four years lie
has been going into the town or coming
from it on on? trains, getting on or off ,
right at his own door. It was a slick j
scheme, and how he must have laughed ■
at us and enjoyed it all the while. But
his game is up now, and the 'engineers ;
are having their revenge by keeping np
an infernal screeching of their whistles
at all hours of the day or night whenever !
they pass that farm house."— Ch'n-ago
Herald.
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Didn't Keep ft.
" Why, didn't you have oysters ?'
"No, I couldn't get them thg way you
said, and I was afraid it would he 'aa
gcrona to eat them any other, way.
"Why, that's odd. Couldn 7 get
stewed oysters? I fold you yo i .-ouid.
eat stewed oysters with impunity.''
"That's just it. I could get the
stewed oysters easy enough,;but I. sent
to all the restaurants in the neighbor
hood for the impunity, and the blamed
fools said they never had such a thing
on the hill of fare."—2'&r«s Siftings.
,.
Mr. DcbghxijT — l^^daignter, tha
bride." "Moat charmed, indeed. I have
not met vour husbond-that-is-to-be—the
—sh—groom." "Groom* indeed! Sir*
there's no groom here. No, sir, my
daughter isn't marrying a eoaehman."
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SALE.
LUMBER Ft
' Aug-7-81.
L. e/AUBEUT.
Jackson Street , Thibodaux, La
six. cents ioipoe
tage.and receive free, a
costly, box of goods
which will help you t>
. make more money right
*aWHV than anything
else in this world. All.of
iroin iirst hour. The hroadProad- A* tortune
opens before the workers, absolutely sure.
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goods of large value, that will start you in
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faster than anything else iu America. All
about the $200,01)0 iu presents with each box.
Agent* wanted everywhere, of either sex, of
f 11 ages, for all the' time, or spare time only,
to work for us at their own home's. For
tunes for all workers absolutely assured.
Don't delay. H. Hallett & Co., Portlaad
Maine.
COLLECTOR.
I am prepared to collect all kind of bills
J ntr!]s t e d to mv care. Prompt attention
K j ven to all matters intrusted to me. Best
0 f references famished. Address:
FRED DAVIS
Constabls 9th Ward, LockportP. O
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J j. DAIGRE. DENTIST HAS LOCA
• eated in town permanent ly and wil*
perform all operations appertaining to hi®
professions at very moderate prices.
He will also practice iu the surrounding
country and adjoining Parishes when called
Office : Corner of St. Philip and Tbibodanx
Sts. The best ot reference given.
H. HOFFMAN*,
Dealer in
F URNITURE, Hardware, Paints, Oil
Window glass. Wall-paper, Lime, Sand
Plaster, Cement. Metallic, rose wood, immi
ration lilark walnut Coffins, also cypress
coffins made to order, Ac, &«.
In connection with A.-II Hoffmakx, Cab
net Mukei'and Repairer of all kinds of fur
injure. Main Street.
■-jau7ii ly Bet. Jackson and St Philip
O.VrniKTY DAYS TRIAL.
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MUSIC STORE.
Trof. E. Choi with J. Guardia,
.PIANOS,
to sell and rent.
EivMEKSOX pianos,
• 7
Guaranteed for 7 years.
L«w«t Possible Prices.
ORDERS RESPECTFULLY SOLICIT 2D
lune 21 1884.
J.DUSCH,
Fashionable Tailor,
ZERNOTTS BUILDING,
Main tit., bet. St. Louis aud St.
Philip Streets,
Tixilcod.a.-j.^c, Ua,.
Grand Lake Coal Co.
DIONNE & .HIMEL,
AGENTS FOR
Pittsburgh. Anthracite
and t'annel Coal,
Thibodaux, La.
Feb.9.1884.
A. MEUNIER.
Corner Main and St. PhilipStsJThibodaux, La
——Dealer iu
Dry j Goods, Clothing, Hats, Caps
and Shoes.
FIRST QUALITY AND LOW PRICE8.
B. T. BLAKE,
Attorney at Law,
Will practice Jin the Courts of Lafomxsbe
Terrebonne and Assumption.
Will attend also to all Notarial business ia
trusted to him.
Office on Green St. near the Court Henna
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