The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1869-05-19
ROUNDABOUT.
HORSE MEAT.

A Paris correspondence says: I'll
French Emperor has dish of horse me,
served every day on his dinner table, wit
the hope his subjects may think what
good for an emperor is good for me, and s
adopt horse meat as butchers meat. 1ha
era still seems as distant as the millenn
um. All of the horse meat stalls in Pari
except those originally established an
still supported by the Society for the Di
fusion of Taste for Horse Meat, hav
closed doors. Money thwarts unnumbere
benevolent schemes
LOVE AND SPRING.
1t must be, as Tennyson says, that Low
works the young man up in the spring.
AT one place we hear of rejected love
Staying his dulcena, and then entering int
hot battle with the brother thereof; an,
in another have tidings of second furios
assaulting stern PARENT. who, satisfied a.
father, would not to be father-in-lay
incline. Two cases of assault on inappre
ciative damsels, uncomplicated with famil,
objections, as per above, are also noted
| Unhappy infatuation! Why not live
young men, and sing:
'If she be not fair for me,
What care how fair she be p
HER MAJEsTY's THEArER."
The stage of the new "Her Maiesty,s
Theater," ia London, is the finest in En-
rope, being sixty-one feet deep, ninety-nine
wide, and eighty-one feet high. The sys.
TEN OF framing the proscenium more o,
less in barbarc gold will be abandoned in
favor OF the real architectural and classic
style. By these means the stage side OF
the new theater will offer in its outlines
and in its rich draperies and decorations a
worthy frontispiece to a magnificent thea.
ter. There will be q splendid arch, with
noble paintings in the Italian manner.eoyer
the stage. The circles will abound with
gold fret-work and medallions containing
tasteful designs in color.
Carrie Moore, the velocipede performer,
announces that in her performances she
picks up two chairs, one in each hand, and
carries them around the room; makes
Fights and curves without use of hands !:
makes circuit of the room without the
use OF hands or feet; stands on one foot
on the saddle, and performs the feat of
passing hoop over the head and manages
to get through it while riding Mexican
fashion. This is the mission of women,
then is it? Is suffrage comparable to the
inestimable boon of unsexing herself in
this brazen manner? Talk about the de.
generacy of the times, what would her old
grandmother say to all this? The old la
dy's cap would vibrate with horror.
THE oATMsrER.
A Philadelphia drayman has invented
machine for feeding a quadruped in bur-
~. 10 eat pick of oats occupies his
mules about three quarters of an hour
The machine in question turns with
crank. The mule sits upon his launches
md straiehtens out his neck. A peck of
pats are then slung into him at single
evolution OF the cylinder, inside of min
lite and quarter. The inventor terms the
apparatus an "oatmeter." This genius is
low at work on one to be used in hotels.
teamboots, railroad meal stands, and sec
'ndrate rate boarding houses. The Hu.
nan Feedmeter is warranted to cram |
':ven number of Americans ten times as
asst as they can bolt it themselves, stuff
hey never SO wisely.
LITTLE BOY BALLOT.
The current number of Punch makes
he ballot question, in English politics, the
ubject of the leading cartoon, which it en-
tiles Little Boy Ballot" The design is
I a lad who has ridculously outgrown his
'ock and pants, and shows feet and hands.
nkles and wrists, entirely emancipated
'om juvenile clothing. John Bright in
poets the phenomenon, on whose n,cs
allot box serves for head, with curious
nd tender interest; Mr.. Gladstone looks
n with easy dignity, and unconcern and
he Secretary OF War, Mr.. Lowe. whispers.
ehind his head, "He's precious ugly, but
g grows tremendously''-allud to the
lpid gains made of late by the cause Of the
allot and the unwilingness, nevertheless.
many OF the leading politicians to ac-
ept it.
RELICS OF BoNAPARTE.
The Princess Baciofechi beoueatbed
.veral most interesting relics of the First
apoleon to the Prince Imperial. These
ere conveyed to the Tuileries few weeks ]
20, for the Emperor's inspection, and
'mprised the celebrated gray top coat ,
orn by the exile of st. Helena, favorite
ouble- barreled fowling piece, a tri-colored I
arr worn on the occasion of Napoleon's
sit to the plague-stricken soldiers of I
affa; the spurs worn at the battle of the
and on which doubtless several
INJURIES looked down upon; q snuff.box. r
at Louis the Eighteenth left on his wri-
og-desk IN the hurry to get out of his ri.
us way; several annotated books. thu.
oyage of Anarcharsis Telemachus, Bos.
cts Orations, Mirabeaus Speeches, etc. Z
fter the inspection the Emperor direct. i
them to be handed over to their owner. =
RocHEFoRr.
Rochefort gets upon the manuscript of s
CD number of his Lanterne in the follow. I
g strange manner: His malicious witt I
SIMS and maots are written with lead t
neil on small scraps of paper, which he t
lids on book as be PAGES up and down +
e room. AS fast as written these scraps f
thrown into a basket, which the "devil" a
mes in and empties when there is q call U
copy. Sometimes, when copy is want 8
the basket is empty. The "devil" an b
unces the fact to his master, who ex t
inns mon Dieu is that SO ?" and falls a
silly. to writing in his peculiar way q
metlmes. when good idea strikes him,
bursts into loud peal of laughter, t
'ows aside, book, paper and pencil, and n
neil, and filings himself upon the sofa, b
lrlng at the top of his lungs. No one t,
Joys his BON D1OtS more than himself I'll