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mmAL OF THE 9™ SENATORIAL DISTRICT
Journal of the Parish of Lafourche ai
the Town of Thihodaux.
VOL. XX.
THIBODAUX, LA., SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1S85.
NO. 48
GOO D MAMm sus.
Church Afinittrs,
While we are upon this subject we
y*®* 1 to call attention to two matters
in which the majority of eongraerations
might easily improve their manners and
add to their impressiveness of the ser
▼ioM. It is a common habit, when the
AnditncG &ro to ftt&nd during thp sing*
ipg of a hymn, to wait until the first
line is begun, and thou ruin the verse
% confusion of the rising. Again,
■during the latter part of the last verse
•the clattering of books into the pew
racks before the close of the song is a
serious interference with all devotional
effect, and especialy so when that
opportunity is seized for the putting on
ot wraps, rubliers, etc. No one would
do* this during the closing sentences St
a prayer; why should it be done during
the ascription of praise to God?
Hundreds, yea, thousands of Christian
people thus thoughtlessly mar the song
worship in the sanctuary .—Musical
Herald. f!w .
Tin- Manner of a Hon tots.
No hostess is to be more dreaded
than the one who frets under her
duties. If she is absent-minded at the
table and conscious of the blunders in
the service, she is an affliction to all
about her. Let mistakes go. An
easy, attentive bearing is worth tel the
angel's food, and wine, and jelly in
creation; for is it not the very essence
of the angel itself—that winch pats ns
thoroughly at onr ease? Oblivion is
an absolute essential after the guests
are seated at the table. One must be
unconscious of mistakes if they occur.
We have known instances where an
■evening has been marred by the
■obvious anxiety on the part of the
hostess that nothing should go amiss.
In consequence everything went wrong.
Let us then have frequent entertain
ments and less expensive ones.--Balti
more Herald.
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Gcntls Aocomplialuuent.
How sweetly patient and calm are
gentle manners! Courtesy is often
the finest when negative; when, instead
of seeking to entertain others, we let
them entertain us. It is a small thing
to be silent, and it is often the kindest
thing we can do for a man to let him
talk. Gentle respeetivity puts the shy
est and most timid man af ease and at
his best, and to do that ill a timer pleas
ure than detailing one's own .notions
and experiences in the most elegant and
happy periods. Do not be in a hurry.
Emerson says "Hurry is for slaves."
Ah! the slaves who are bought and sold
in the market-place do not hurry. It
is the greedy man who is free to get
and keep all that he can lay his hands
upon, who hurries. "I do not like to
go North, because the men there are
all in such a hurry they cannot lie civ
il," a Southern roan once said before
me. I am not sure that a finer sense of
the sweet kindliness that is one of the
springs of gentle manners would not
have softened - this criticism, for the
sake of the Northern woman, along
among strangers, who listened to him;
but to a candid mind not puffed up with
vainglory the criticism is suggestive.
No doubt the great pro-perity of the
North may be partly owing to the push
and energy necessary to live in it, end
developed by the rigor of its arctic
winters; but'there is hurry which is
mere clatter and noise. This sort of
lmrry never accompanies the great un
dertakings of strong, meg, out it is
characteristic of small and weak nerves.
It is rarely graceful or gracious, aud
always robs courtesy of its finest
charms.-— Christian Lnion.
Mosquitoes aud Yellow Fever.
The following propositions, which
give in a condensed form the chief con
clusions of Dr. Carlos Finlay's work on
yellow fever, deserve consideration:
Ordinary yellow fever is iuoculuble by
means of tlie bite of the mosquito On
the third, fourth, fifth and sixth days
of its natural evolution. The disease
cannot be transmitted by the ageucy of
the insect before the third day or after
the sixth, no matter what the severity
of the disease. - The period of incuba
tion of experimental inoculation, varies
as widelv as that of ordinary yellow
fever. The duration mud severity of
the fev.er produced bv inoculation by
the mosquito appeared to be propor
tional to the number of bites and pre
sumably to the quantity of matter con
tained in the insect's fangs. —London
Lancet.
The Lapse «f Merab.
In any give* time justabout such a
number of car-axles will break down,
just so many buildings will be burned,
just so many good men, WiU gi wrong.
With the greatest care in selecting men,
the keenest iutegm fate character, the
best chocks against fraud and loss, then
characters change, and n tom whose
record and Ibfla glen rtfe actfenoa of
'or
into k res
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Reminiscences of Herzegovina.
There were about twenty-five of us,
and for eight days not one ot ns ate
anything except boiled mutton. Every
night a sheep was kiljfte; a fire kindled
inside a tent to keep the blaze from the
watchful eyes of the Turk, past whose
stations we were running; and the flesh
of the sheep, before it had been an
hour dead, was cut into lumps and
thrown into a cauldron of boiling water.
After three days of this diet I could
stand it no longer, and for the next five
days I rode down the country without
tasting a bite of anything. I had a
little mm-and-water, but that was alL
Hunger is the worst on the seoond day.
On the third day you cease to feel
hunger, and yon begin to lose flesh,
but I kept going. Splendid savages
w£re some of those insurgents; al
though some were perfect gentlemen,
others were magnificent brutes. I'eko
Pavlovitoh was one of the latter. He
could neither read nor write, stood
about six feet six inches, wore armor on
his body, and although personally most
courteous to me, was the purest savage
t have ever seen in a white skin. I was
kitting beside him when a soldier came
with a dag of truce from Moukhtar
Pasha asking for permission to send
victuals to the beleagured fortress of
Govansko. Peko Pavlovitch could not
read, but he looked at the paper while
the contents were being interpreted to
hiqp. He then tore it into fragments,
dung the pieces into the messenger's
face, and waving his hand with a
savage expression declared, "That is
my answer." The messenger went
down stairs. Before lie reached the
landing I beard a groan. The man
was killed. Another specimen of Peko's
inode of warfare which I witnessed was
au unfortunate Turk, whose back I'eko
had scored with his knife and ripped
oft" three long strips of skin with his'
hands. The poor wretch was more
dead than alive.
Bears.
Not long since I was riding toward
Clond Peak, and had gone only three
miles when I discovered two enormous
grizzlies down in a horseshoe canon. I
left my pony, went to the canon wall
and opened fire on the enemies. The
bears were 500 yards away. My first
shot wounded one of the monsters, and
the wounded one immediately attacked
the other bear. They fought desper
ate! v for fifteen minutes. It was a ter
rible encounter. The wounded hear
was beaten by its antagonist, after
which I shot the victor. They were
both ferocious looking animals, aud the
two would weigh over :>,000 pounds.
Th&fr tusks measured three inches,
claws four inches, feet fourteen inches,
and the bears were twelve feet long.
Leaving the two bears, I walked over
a ridge not more than a mile away aud
came on to four more, two black and
two silver-tip beats. They did not see
me, and my position was a good one, on
the lee and near a nice smooth crag of
granite. Slipping on a pair of moc
casins I was soon on top of the granite
knob, 150 feet above ground. .1 opened
fire immediately, only 200 yards, killed
two at the first shot, and soon had them
rolling^down the mountain together.
It was an exciting tune; the four
bears made a terrible noise. After see
ing a large eagle swoop down among the
K i, catching a grouse. I descended
my rocky knob and ventured up to
the bears. -There they all lay iu a heap,
all dead and in the gnlch togetiier.
Those six bears would weigh over 7.000
pounds.— Halt La.'e Tribune.
At Onr Honest Best.
Take my expert or conscientious
word for it, you man or two who have
unwarrantably slipped in among the
women, for whom these fashion letters
are exclusively written; believe me, I
repeat, that yon are just now getting
the fashionable girl in as nearly a nor
mal aspect as she is ever likely to show
herself iu. What I mean to say is that
she is less distorted and falsified than
at any time within my memory, and
there's good reason to presume that
she is permanently reformed. Seatr
her from bead to foot. Don't you see
that, unless nearly bald, there is no
other hair than her own on her head ?
Don't yon see that her chest has lines
which do not greatly tax your creduli
ty, for there are no palpable evidences
at squeezure or buigation ? Don't you
appreciate the skirts that neither hide
her possession of limbs entirely tot ob
trude them immodestly upon your vis
ion ? Don't you dote on her hands,
which are gloved so easily that they
can clasp yotr own with * eenaitiye,
sympathetic grip; and hpr feet, which
are not much bigger than her shoes,
and, thereto**, do netexcite year pity ?
Oh, you are getting ns at onr honnat
beat this season. Those girls who fere
anywhere near to the mednuri standard
it bnJht '«ft»f*oi tt this than doing
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l of admirable sanity.
The Prayer Barrel.
I first met with prayer barrels on the
borders of Thibet, when, traveling the
narrow paths which wind along the face
of majestic, precipitous Himalayan ■
crags, we met native travelers from
still further north — traders driving
flocks of laden goats, women with
quaint headdresses of lumps of amber
aud large, coarse turquoises fastened
on bands of dirty cloth, and here and
there a man holding in his hand a small
bronze or brass cylinder which he
twirled mechanically all the time he
was journeying. It was some time be
fore I succeeded in getting hold of one
of these for a closer examination, as
the owners are nervously afraid to trust
their treasures in the hands of one who,
albeit iu ignorance, might irreverently
turn them the wrong way, and so undo
much of the merit acquired by perpet
ual twirling in the opposite direction.
For, as we eventually discovered, not
only is the sacred six-ayllabled charm
embossed on the metal cylinder, but
the same mystic words were written
over and over again on very lengthy
strips of cloth or papyrus, which are
bound round the spindle on which the
cylinder rotates, aud one end of which
forms the handle. It is, therefore,
necessary to turn this little barrel of
praye/s in such a direction that the
characters forming the hply phrase
may pass in proper order before the
person turning, and as all Oriental
books are read from the right side of
each page to the lift, the barrel is
turned in the same direction. For
the same reason the Thibetan walks in
this direction round the great terraces
and other buildings on which the holy
words are inscribed, in order that his
eyes may rest on the words in due
course, which can only be the case
when he keeps his left hand toward the
object round which he is walking.
Happily this produces a doubly satis
factory result, for in Eastern lands, as
well as our West, it has ever been ac
counted lucky and meritorious to walk
ronnd sacred objects or places in this
sunwise course—an act of homage to
the sun which I have seen rendered in
many lands. Just as our British an
cestors continued thus to circmuambu
late their churches long after they had
nominally abandoned all paganism, so
throughout the world we find survivals
of the old homage .—The Contempora
ry lieciew.
Sending a Kentuckian to Death.
The difficulty with some people to
comprehend the distinction between a
mandatory and an advisory railway
commission is very amusingly illus-.
trated in an anecdote related by a very
witty member of the Kentucky bar. A
criminal judge had before him a hard
ened and notorious criminal, who had
been found guilty of a crime for which
the penalty was death. The Judge, on
pronouncing sentence, told the pris
oner it afforded him extreme pleasure
to pronounce upon him the severest
penalty of the law, and the Sheriff
would be directed to take him from the
Court House to the jail, aud thence, on
a given date, at a given honr, to be
taken to the jail vard and there be
hanged by the neck until he was dead,
dead, dead.
The Judge then asked the prisoner if
he had anything to say why the sentence
of death should not be pronounced
against him.
"Well, not much," said the prisoner,
with imperturbable sang froid. "All I
have to say to the : -court and every
body connected with it is that, if it af
fords them any pleasure to have me
hanged till I am dead, dead, dead, then
this court and all connected with it may
just go to hell, hell, hell.
"Ah!" iustautly exclaimed the Court,
"in the Court's case the order is manda
tory, but in that of the prisoner it is
only advisory. Mr. Sheriff, let the sen
tence be executed ."—Nashville Ameri
can,
The Study of Dancing.
The old fashion prescribed that a
Indy or gentleman sbonld learn to walk
before dancing. Neophytes were prac
tically put to the back on the goose
step. * They were made to inarch slow
ly to a tune upon a squeaking kit or
sort of pup-fiddle, and after a severe
course of such treatment were at last
initiated by single steps into the man
ner. of moving in a quadrille. We have
now changed all that. The cramming
system is at work in the dancing schooL
And as horse trainers are in tu& habit
of harnessing proficient stagers with
unaccustomed to the shafts,
ptofnsorof the dance 1ms discovered
that nothing expedites the culture of a
pupil like having "the benefit of his
fcughtoretepietiofe'viih.? CM coatee,
the number of people engaged in hi«
calling is a proof of the large propor
tion of persons in town requiring their
ss n te te , be* noaduit will readily fi
lm to taking lessons any more than he
eg wil l i portable be d etected Hr
Cffliktilt H. Howtetr. then see
w)m rosily teslte
Fnox a little apart nay borat a
Ughlyflu,—Dwwte.
Washington as a Slave-Owner.
In these days of universal freedom it
may be interesting to know how George
Washington treated his slaves. Home
valuable information on this point is
given by Josiah Quincy, an old man of
87, now residing at Marshall Hall, on
the Maryland side of the Potomac.
While a youth Quincy lived many years
with the Cnetis family, aud personally
■ knew a number of the slaves that had
belonged to Washington.
"Washington did not own slaves for
pleasure," said. Mr. Quincy" "he made
them work, I tell you, anti if they were
not out in time fin the morning they
must have a good reason for it. Mr.
Custis often said that Gen. Washing
ton could get more work out of a negro
than any other man in Virginia. But
he was a very just man. He would not
overwork them, and he would not let
them be punished if they did not richly
deserve it. He would not whip a slave
himself, but sometimes he would knock
one down with his fist. One of his
slaves named Sam, whom I knew, had a
cut on his cheek which he said his mas
ter put there. The General caught
Sam riding one of his tine horses one
day, and be gave him a blow that Sam
.never forgot. Washington taught his
slaves to be religious, end would not
separate families. He often visited the
sick at their cabins. All his slaves
loved him. Though strict, he was a
kind-hearted master."
Electric Lights.
« There .are two kinds of elect ric lights,
wholly different in principle, in bril
lau< y, in appearauce and in the mode
of use. A writer in one of the daily
papers, explaining the difference to an
inquiring correspondent, writes:
"The distinguishing difference, to an
ordinary observer, bet ween arc and in
candescent electric lights may, I think,
be briefly stated thns: Arc lights bum
in the open air, with carbon sucks or
pencils, the very points or ends of which
are heated to a white heat and gradu
ally consumed. Such are our street
lights.
" Incandescent lights, on tlie+ontrary,
are produced inside small glues globes
of various shapes, from whiolt the air
has been exhausted. IliesfulighU are
caused by the passage qf electricity
through r. fine resisting wire or 'lire;
(usually bent for convenience Irftii tj
form of a horse-shoe), which' is thereby
raised into a white or incandescent heat,:
without being consumed, on account of
the absence of air. If the air leaks in,
the filament immediately burus up, and
'that is the end on't.'
"The term 'arc' is an old one, adopted
years ago. referring to the supposed
shape of an electric spark in passing
from one carbon point to the other."
A Nassau Dog's Service.
Nassau dogs are the most fearfnl and
wonderful productions of nature. They
have a wistful, hungry look about the
eves, and an all-gone, thin appearance
about the flank that gives them an air
of feeding on wind an • the air in a dead
calm. Bat we kave a dog here on the
piaffe that goes a little ahead of any
thing in the dog line I ever saw. He
belongs to the cook, and the boys say
they are never sure whether he is a
snake or a dog, he is so thin. He is a
cur of the currest kind, black and gray,
bnt an affectionate little rascal, and a
good watch dog, for he barks at night
on the smalleafprovocation. His name
is Jack.
Yon know down here sponges are as
plenty as apples at home. They wash
dishes with them, and use them for
every imaginable purpose, so there are
always bits of old sponge lying about.
You might go out in my back yard and
pick up half a bushel of them in ten
minutes. Well, Jack eats sponges. Of
course you will laugh at this; but I
pledge ray solemn word that I went
into the yard one day and saw Jack eat
ing a sponge, and be seemed to enjoy
it. No doubt bra idea was to cram him
self foil of sponge, then go off some
where and take a big drink of water,
and thus swell himself out to a respect
able well-fed size. I hare respected
Jack more ever since.— Cor. New York
Times.
A Silurian Scorpion.
Herr Lindstrom, a Stockholm geolo
gist, has found a perfect fossil scorpion
izi the upper silurian rocks of the
Island of Gotland, in Sweden. The
cuticle can be distinguished, also the
dorsal plates of the abdomen and the
oephalothor&x. The surface is quite
simitar in appearanoe to the aoorpions
at to-dsy, and ite organization proves
it to have lived on land and breathed
ter. It has been called Patasophonous
Nuncius, and is evidently one of the
most ancient of terrestrial animals, the
libelMeefouad In th*JD«vomian form*
tern of Canada, having hD fc qrto bqaa
■steamed the oldest known. It is re-,
if thoracic
liketbops
nffiqi fruitra
fefomte -elite
tefeS^An thsti
those of to-day— Engineering.
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its laanm utH has MXVEU hi wnrMnni
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