The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-05-26
ROUNDABOUT.
EHNINGER's LAST.

studying under the celebrated painter, Cou
ture His recent drawing of Sheridan
ride purchased by the Union League
Club has just been photographed, and vii!
doubtless become popular.
Mr.. BULL. AT HONS.
English pomposity and holiness were
never more thoroughly, yet briefly, illus
trated than in the written discharge sent
by MIR. Plimsoli, NJ. p, recently to his
coachman Il strongly recommend YOU
says this Parliamentary ''party," "to OBJ
tain some other employment than that O,
coachman. Your quarrelsome disposition
and saucy tendency particularly unfit YOU
for that work, whilst your ability to get
drunk acts as total disqualification to
your having the care of horses And, as
if this were not sufficiently demolishiug, be
adds "Then, | think, it unlikely that
any one else will suffer because of your
breath as l have done, and keep your place
open for six seven weeks" In an OF
factory point of view, that coachment is
done for.
NAPOLEON I.
Che birth of Napoleon l. is to be cele-
brated at his birth place, in the Island of
Corsica in August, when it is expected
that all the members of the Bonaparte
family will be present. Tuscany is full of
the traces of this stock, which is to all in
tents Italian, for at the little town of San
Miniato, twenty miles from Florence, it
had its origin. In the obscure church are
found the early monuments of the family,
and the Tuscans are not ashamed that the
great Captain sprang from their gifted race
in -ifr
which the Emperor Napoleon has built
here in Florence, shows that the ancient
connection is to be kept up. The eagle
may fly to this perch if scared from its nest
in the Tuileries, and the imperial eaglet,
hardly yet hedged, here may pick up few
crumbs OF nourishment and add some
grains of force in the preparation for com
ing fight. Admirers of Bonapartes are
fond here, and some are hoping that at
the time of the visit to Corsica the chief
OF the honse may stray into Tuscany.
POISONED STOCKINGS.
Some time since London surgeon call
ed attention to eruptions produced by
wearing stockings and socks dyed with a
new material. Perhaps it is the same that
NJ. Tardieu has lately described to the
French Academy as producing similar un-
pleasant effects, and which is known as
ecoralline.'' nj. Tardieu states that in
May, 1868, he was consulted by young
man, twenty-three years old, of good con-
sttution, but affected with severe vesi-
cular eruption on both feet, which at FIRST
sight, might have been taken for eczema.
but it had the popularity of being confined
to the space pressed upon by his shoes, and
this afforded a clew to its cause. 1t ap-
paared that for some days he had been
wearing silk socks of an elegant red tint,
which were just then in flashing. These
socks did not yield any coloriug matter to
cold water, or hot, or to water slightly adj
alated !; but alcohol, boiling at IS degrees,
rapidly dissolved out of them the red col
ering matter was dried. then dissolved in a
little alcohol, and a small quantity injected
under the skin of the thigh of dog, a rab-
bit, and frog. all of which died.
COFFEE AS A cIvILIzER.
DR.. Draper makes out very strong case
ia favor of coffee as civiizing AGENT
He says: Those who have made it sub.
jsct of study aud examination tell us that
when prepared as a strong infusion without
milk, coffee acts powerfully on the sympa
thetic nervous system and the organs sup
piled by it, quickening their action and in
creasing their vitality. That it renders the
contraction of the heart and other muscles
more powerful; enables the body to resist
cold, moisture, and the deadly poison of
mlasmatic districts counteracts the Ian
gor of torrid climes prevents or amelio
rates attacks of spasmodic asthma allie
viates laxity of the kidneys and bladder
and it is even said that calculus is not as
common since it has been generally used
1t also acts with energy ION the brain, re-
moving the sensation to fatigue and dispo-
sitIon to sleep, which has always made it
fayOrite with students. 1t obviates the
excessive indulgence in the use of wine
and spirits; is an antidote to opium, BELLA
donna, and the vegetable poisons that act
on the brain and relieves the nervous
headache 10 which many are subject In
In brief, it is not merely fashionable po.
tatlon-it is one of the great civilizing
agents; for, by increasing his power of &C
eomplishing brain and muscle work, it has
increased the power and influence of man.
Elm BOOK
Just about the middle of Spring, with
the month of May, the time comes around
for the cold; rocky beer cellars to be open
GU, anu LOT tRe lager, WHICH naQ Oeen on
the stocks in large casks to mature, to be
brought forth for consumption. This event |
ls accompanied in Germany with marked
eelat, and in some communities even fes-
tive day is made of it when the first key of |
genuine lager is rolled out from its deep
recess in the rocks and tapped, and its
foaming contents tasted, and its quality
conscientiously criticised. But the change
from the jungbier-a winter beer-to lager
Is signaiized by the introduction of two
other kinds of beer, which precede, as the
heraids did of old the mighty knights, the
prince of drinks" lager, by several weeks.
These are the Salvador beer in April, fol-
lowed by the book, which last makes its
appearance generally about the 1st of May.
so accustomed have the Germans in the
Vaterland become to this that the sbock
season" is reigiously observed, and in some
districts particularly at Munich and
throughout Bavaria, the good burghers
would do without the King and his court
much sooner than they could without their
Salvador beer in April and the book on the
FIRST of May. Were the book to be miss
ing at this season they would think the
whole course of nature changed, and that
The lovely month of May was the opening
Of winter instead of summer