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4 Short Sermon for Young Ladies.

The practical reformer, DR.. Dio
Lewis, is the antlor OF the following
racy criticism upon tlemodern young
woman of fashion:
The idleness of otr girls is deplor-
able. a friend had three daughters
and two sons, all grown up. He was
a shoplleeper, and one Of the sons
was employed in the shop, while the
three girls did nothing but dress,
play a little, make cails, receive
calls, go shopping, and, during the
summer, visit the country for their
health. The business went Oh bad
ly, until finally the father called his
daughters together and told them
that he was in debt and that the on
ly chance for the family was that
the girls should abandon their idle
life and help him to carry on the
business. This they did. The clerks
were discharged; the daughters be
came industrious and useful, and the
family was saved from poverty and
distress.
All women long to bury their un-
certainties and anxieties in the love
of a husband. Men, on their part,
are thinking of the same thing; but
only the rich can afford to marry it
costs too much. Besides, women
make themselves ugly. Look at one
of them. A big lump, three big
humps i'll a wilderness Of crimps and
frills, a hauling up Of the dress here
and there, and an enormous, hide,
orLs mass of false hair or bark plan
ted Oh the top Of the head, and on
the very top of that a little nondes-
cript thing, ornamented with bits of
lace, birds tails, and so on; while
the shop windows tell us all day
long of the paddings, wllalebones,
and springs which occupy. most OF
the space within that outside ring.
How can any man Of sense, who
knows that life is made up Of use
and work, take such q partner ? He
must be desperate to unite himself
for life with such ii deformed. fetter-
ed, half breathing arrangement.-
Such women have no power or mag
netism. They giggle freely and zlse
big words, such as "splendidn and
awful" but this does not deceive
us; we see through it all. The fact
is, they are superficial, affected, sill
ly. They have become 50 childish
that they refuse to wear decent names
even, and insist upon little baby
names. Instead Of Helen, Marga-
ret, Elizabeth, they affect Nellie,
Maggie, and Lizzie. A woman TWEEN
tw-five years of age, whose real name
is Catherine, insists Oh being called
Katie. How can a sensible man
propose q life partnership to such a
silly goose? But if men could see
that girls are Industrious and eco
nomical, with habits that secure
health and strength, that their life
is earnest and real, that they are
willing to begin at the beginning in
life with the man they would con-
sent to marry, then marriage would
become the rule, and not be as now,
among certain class, the exception.
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,B.EAUx BRIDGE, La, May I3, 1871.

Messrs. Geo. l.. Squier g. Bro.
conference.-the Mammoth No. / Mill
purchased from you last season. has proven
itself far superior to the expectation of sugar
makers in general. In strength, durability,
workmanship and capacity. it is unsurpassed
by any mill of its size now in the market ]
took off crop of 100 hogsheads Of sugal
and can readily make 300 hogsheads of su.
gar with it in one and a half months grind
ing. 1t has never given me any trouble, or
in any manner gotten ont of order.
ARCADE PATIN.
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manufacturer, now unwilling to ven
tllre South in consequence of local
disturbance and danger, the tempta
ton will be great to hasten to help
and strengthen every cause that
promises prosperity and improve
ment,
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Discouraging to Beer Drinkers.

Genuine beer is as, hard to find as
pure ale or porter. Not only are
malt and hop beers largely adulter-
ated, but beers are made without
malt or hops. Sugar, honey, mo-
lasses and 1icorice are used for malt F.;
alum, opium, gentian, quassia, aloes,
cocculus indicus, amara, tobacco and
nux for hops; saltpetre, jalap, salt,
maranta, green copperas, marble
dust, oyster shells, egg shells, sui
phate of lime, hartshorn, shavings,
nut gals, potash, soda, Sc, to pre-
vent souring. The beautiful carlli-
flower head often comes from green
vitriol, alum, and salt. The smack
of age and the tingle to the palate
often comes from alum, and new beer
is made old in a few hours by oil of
vitriol. Take your ale, beer and
porter if you will, but remember it's
strength or Intoxicating qualities
may be due to the deadly coccrllus
indicus, foxglove, henbane, multum,
and nux-yomica, and the narcotic
power to opium, tobacco and grains
of paradise.
Smack your lips at the tingle of
lime and pepper, and exult in the
foam of copperas and lime. Is there
not death in the beer mug?-IDr. E.
G. Dalton. 2ssa s@iz 80
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An eminent doctor writes "that
when a lady says no and means yes
she has the amesic aphasia, arising
from embolus thombuS.' Only
married ladies mean no when they
say it.
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lie was evidently not beyond the
reach of consolation, the Hoosier
widowcr who replied to a sy1npa-
thizing visitor at the funeral of his
wife, "Wcll, yes; shall miss her;
she was a very expensive woman
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An editor in Alabama having
read an article in Halls Journal Of
Health advising that husband and
wife should sleep in separate rooms,
says: "Dr. Hall can sleep when
and where he chooses, but for him
self he intends to sleep where he
can defend his wife against rats and
all other nocturnal foes as long as
he has cot one to defend.'
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A writer in Appletons' Journal
collates the proverbs, superstitions
and curious facts about cats. This
extract may save some mothers wor-
ry. A common superstition charges
cats with sucking the breath of in
fants, thereby causing their death
by strangulation. This is a false
accusation, as pussy's mouth is SO
formed anatomically that she would
not be able to do so sanguinary a
deed did she wish it. Instances are
ON record where cats have crawled
into a cradle or bed, and lain down
on an infants face, not probably
with any criminal intent-though
children have been found dead un-
der such circumstances but purely
for the sake of the warmth of the
infants body and clothing.
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They tell of man out West
whose hair is so red that he has to
wear tly-nets over his head to keep
the candle moths from flying in.
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J.w. BLACKMAN'S
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE,
81 CAMP STREET,

Corner OF commercial fIace, new Uiisdus' Id
OPEN DAY AND EVENING THE
AT ENTIRE YEAR.
-IA Pcnmanship, Book Keeping, Math-
ematies and Languages are practically taught
by experienced professors. Persons from fif-
teen to fifty years of age attend. Instructions
given privately to each student, who has
separate desk to himself and is put through
thorough and systematic course to qualify him
for the situation he intends to fill. Persons
who have neglected their education are here
speedily prepared for business: Students from
the country may obtain board in the family
of the Principal.
TERMs-Twenty per cent, less than other
Commercial Colleges in this city. Cost of
full Commercial Course only 500 Average
time, three to four months.
The Principal has been professional teach
er in New Orleans since 1851.
For Circulars address
J. w. BLACKMAN,
Febls-lyl New Orleans
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THE HUMORlsTS' COLUMN.
A little nonsense now and then,
Is relished by the wisestmen.

Pacific mails - Hen-peckel hus.
bands.
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A school girls conundrtlm is:
What State is round on both ends
and high in the middles Ohio.
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" What is your chief consolation
in lifen asked a clergyman i'll his
Sabbath lesson of a young girl in a
Bible class. The young lady
blushed and hesitated. "Will you
not tell me:" urged the clergyman.
II don't want to tell his name,"
said the ingenious maiden, "but |
have no objection to telling you
where he lives.'
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THE BEST SUGAR MILL

THE BEST SUGAR MILL
In market can now be bought of
B. j. WEST,
119 to 1879 Magazine street, New Orleans, La,
Who is sole agent for New Orleans for
THE CELEBRATED
AMERICAN CANE MACHINERY,
MANUFACTURED BY
GEO. L. soUIER g. BRO, BUFFALO N. Y,
i CONSISTING OF
Fifteen Sizes Of Cane Mills, EvapO-
rat0rs, Horse Powers,
Also the celebrated
KING OF TIE SOUTH"
Solid French Burr Stone Plantation Corn Mill.
Read the following testimonials of well
known planters who have used these splendid
SUGAR MILLS.
PARISH OF IBERIA, La, April 20, 1871.
Messrs. Geo. l.. Squier & Bro.-Gentlemcn {:
| found the Croncher to be euen superior to
,chat gou recommended it to be, being capable,
with good cane, proper feeding and four
mules, of grinding cane enough in "a hours
for the astonishing amount of 0rer three hogs
heads Of sugar; though most of the time
only worked it up to from one and half to
two hcgsheads, that being the limit of my
evaporating capacity. l would say that
deem it advisable always to have the capacity
of the mill greater than that of the evapo
rator, SO as to insure an abundance of juice
ahead, whether the cane be dry or juicy,
without extra strain upon the team or the
feeder, ...-..... e..~
had no breakage of the mill, and do not
bclieee that It Gun be broken by any fair usage.
regard its self-adjastability, by means of the
rubber springs, as great improvement orer
the ordinary rigid mills. For mill of its
size, it can hardly be excelled; and regard
it as pre-sminentty the mill for small sugar
farms making from as to 6Q hogsheads of SUI
gar year; and have no doubt that in fu-
ture an active inquiry will spring up for the
"GIANT BABY"
| am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
Your obediept servant,
EUGENE b. OLIVIER.
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COTTON PRESSES
---AND-
HORSE POWERS.
The Reynolds" Revolving Wrought
Iron Screw

OTTON p r ESS
Is an Improvement on the most popular Screw
Presses, and is pronounced to be the MOST
complete, durable, and easy working Press
now in the market. The whole weight of the
Press with the cotton in the box stands on a
pivot, enabling two men or one horse to press
a 500 lbs bale with ease.
The Reynolds Horse POaCers
Is unsurpassed for strength and durability.
They are manufactured expressly for Cotton
Ginning, Corn Mills and other plantation
work. -
These articles took the PREMIUMS at the
TEXAS STATE FAIR 1871.
Manufactured in New Orleans, at
REYNOLDS IRON WORKS,
Corner South Market and Fulton Sts.,
Near ST. Mary's Market.
W. H. REYNOLDS, Proprietor, Box 1890.
Office aud Depot, 81 Carondelet Street
Agents wanted everywhere. tg Send for
Price List [JeA-6m /
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A Distinguished Republicans Ex-
PLANTATION Of the Origin of the
Term kuklux.
Communication in N. Y. Tribune. |

An explanation of the origin and
Specification of the term Kuklux
would doubtless be gratifying to
many curious readers. The follow
ing extract from an old poem will,
perhaps, furnish it. It is from Wee
ver's " Funeral Monuments,n edition
Of 1861, quoted in Disraeli's "Ca-
hmities and Quarrels of Authors
Nondon edition, 1867, p. 52D. The
lines we're written OH the death of
John Peury, a Welsh non conform
list.
"The Weshman is hanged
Who at our kirke hanged,
And at the state banged,
And brened are his buks,
And though he be hanged,
Yet he is not wranged;
The dell has him fanged
In his kruked kluks''
Surely the deiFs kruked Huks
CROOKED claws Or clutches) would
be very appropriate name for those
emissaries of Satan known in our
days as the Kulllux.
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PAY SMALL DEBTs.-Small bills
should be promptly paid. The men
to whom they are due generally need
the money. The little bills are the
ones that make numberless gaps in
the world of business. How much
comfort to families, cheer to des-
ponding business men, and encour-
agement generally, would be given
by the immediate discharge of all
little, and perhaps half forgotten OBJ
legations! Pay small debts, and do
it at once.
1t is not work that kills men; it
is worry. Work is healthy; you
can hardly put more upon a man
than he can bear. Worry is rust
upon the blade. 1t is not the revo-
luton that destroys the machinery,
but the friction. Fear secretes
acids; but love and trust are sweet
juices.
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A Singular "Tail.n-Recently a
love-sick swain was paying court to
his dulcina. She had smuggled
him into the parlor, and the dark
ness only served to conceal her
bushes, while John told the story
of his love. The muttered words
reached the parental ear, and conf
ing suddenly into the room he de-
manded to know of Mary who it was
she had with her. "It's the cat,
sir" was the mumbling reply
Drive it out of here" thundered
Putey5ami7ias. "Scatm screamed
Mary, and then soto roce: "John
meaow a ittle~ John set up q
woful yowl. "That cats got q
cold,' remarked the parent. John
yowled louder than ever. "Con-
found it, bring a light, and scare
the thing out" This was too much,
and John made leap for the win
dow, carrying glass and frame with
him. "Thunder! what a catn
said the parent, contemplating the
ruin after the light was brought;
/" never saw anything like it, and,
confound it, it's tail is made out of
broadcloth,' as he viewed flutter-
ing remnant hanging from the win
dow
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TN w R IG III II.
Z J. FRANK KNOX,

u EvENUE STAMPS Of all denomina-
IL tions tor sale at Maya's Drug Store.
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yosEpH M. MOORE

JACQUES ARNAUD,
Notary Paislie and Justice OF the Peace.
OFFICE At
Lsoaxilla Parish of St Landry,
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Fellow-tr -trabellers," said a "cul-
lud preacher "ef I had been eatin'
dried apples for q week, an den
took to drinkin' for q mont, |
couldn't feel more swelled up dan 1
am dis minnit wild pride and vanity
at seein' sich full tendance har dis
eyenin'; an when | refeck dat it
am right in de whitewashin' season,
when de brudders am seen gwian
round de street a-lookin' like old
gypsum mllmmies preserved in lime,
an de sisters are up to dar ankles
in de scrubbin time, my heart
yearns toward you like q piece of
India rubber on a hot stobe, an l
feel dat hab an affecshun for you
dat muffin can estrange, OF. syringe,
| forget now which; but one am
Just de same as fodder"
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THE ADVANTAGE OF PRINTING.
Mr.. B., a well known metropolitan
printer, once told us that OH one
occasion an old woman from the
country came into the printing
Office, with an old bible ii her hand.
II want" said she, I" that you
should print it over again. It's
gittin' little blurred, sort of, and
my eyes is not what they was.
How much do you axw
"Fitty cents.7
"Can you have it done in half an
hour? Wish you would-want to
be getting home-I live a good way
out Of town. s
When the old lady went out, he
sent around to the office OF the
American Bible Society, and pur.
chased copy for fifty cents.
"Lor' sakes a mussyw exclaimed
the old lady when she came to look
at it, chow good you've fixed it! I
never saw nuthin' so curious as
what printers is.a
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At Lawrence, Kansas, few Sun
days ago. while minister was hold
ing forth in a church, a crowd got
up a cock fight in the yard. The
congregation went out to stop the
fight, but waited till it was over be-
fore objecting. The minister when
they returned said: awe are all
miserable sinners-which licked?n
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y German customer called upon
a marble dealer, and was shown
through the establishment and yard.
He was very much struck with the
specimens of Scotch granite OIL ex-
hibition. Referring to the gray
Scotch, he inquired, "Vat ish dat!"
"That is gray Scotch GRANTEE re-
piled the dealer, "and this is the
red" pointing to q finely polished
monument. 'You calls dat gra.
mite" exclaimed the German; you
fools me notings. | knows him too
well to be humbug nit your stories.
He is no more as a pig glass full of
sausage meat. Dat ish played
OUT The marble dealer wilted.
We,met with this witty and un-
ansWerable retort in a sketch of a
short trip through portion of
Ireland. The writer is conversing
with his car driver: care you a
Catholic, Jemmy?" "Yis, yer hon.
Or "And pray to the Virgin
Mary?' ~ do, yer honor" "Well,
she was a good woman. The Bible
says so. But she may have been
no better than your mother or
mine.7 ''That's tlrue, yer honor;
but then you'll allow there's {;
mighty difference in their Children
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horrible Mmf among the tan and sawdust /;
and he lay in the ring, doubled up and
dead
a surgeon came ont of the boxes, who
sad that his neck was broken, and that
death must have been instant. tainted
away. When came too, saw his body
being carried out of the ring.
"Well, sir, ! was pitched upon to he the
bearer of the sad news to the widow. I'll
pass over that. l was surprised TO find
that, in spite OF his cruel usage, she still
was very fond of him. kissed the child
who had grown fine little girl, and re.
turned to Manchester the next day.
attended the funeral, of course. Ranford
hardly left pound behind him | gave
the widow an address that would always
find me, and told her to write Whenever
when--if she wanted-that is, whenever
she required assistance.
First the poor thing tried to set up
school for children, bat that failed and,
knowing that she must have been pressed,
] often sent to her. don't know how it
came about but after long correspond
ence and courtship, married her; and
here she comes with my beef-tea-nnd
here come Evelina; for that's the very
woman sir, and that's the very little girl,
and "a real beauty she is p
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The (irCIIS llnSlncss.

There are in the United States, travel
ing through the Summer season, no less
than forty-four different circus compan-
les. The fitting out Of iirst.class circus
exclusive of any menagerie, costs fully
SlO0,OOO. The expense of new tent,
with poles, ropes, seats, lamps, banners,
and entrance curtains, is little short of
$1,000. The baggage wagons range in
value from $500 to 500. The extra
horses, needed for them, are from $500
to 600 pair, and the great gilded show
chariot for musicians, $4,000 to $4,000.
The entree livery dresses and horse
parnphernalia cost from 81, 800 to 81
600, and the ring carpet for tnmbling,
from 5000 to $500, according to size and
quality. Trick horses range from ST.
500 ts $50, 900 in valne. pad horses from
81 200 to $4,000, bareback act horses
from 81, 900 to $4,000, trick ponies,
from S4OO to 81 900, and the trick mules
often cost $1,000 n pair. The salaries
paid to performers are : First-class stock
gymnasts and riders receive from $50 to
800 week and their board for the
travelling season. First-clms men or
women riders receive from $50 to $l75 a
week and their board Clowns from $50
to 500; and the mass of riders
from S25 to $50. Equestrian stars, re-
ceive from 5000 to 81 200 month. Six
to ten acrobats, six riders, and half n
dozen super-numeraries, usually form
the complement of circus, in addition
to the stars. The daily expenses of such
an establishment are from 5000 to 81 900.
The amount invested in the forty-four
circuses and menageries, is S2,500,000.
A town of 1900 inhabitants will require
about $500 worth of advance posters
and large cities, $500 to $1,000. Circuses
do not travel during the winter in the
Northern States. They either lay up
until the spring, and start upon their
tours from the 1st of April to the 10th of
May, or they travel in the Southern
States, beginning their marches from
the 1st to the 10th of November
About ten of the forty-four proprietors
are wealthy, but the great majority of
them are in the hands of sheriff from
two to twenty times during each season.
The weather is their greatest enemy,
u raining day setting them back badly.
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Important to POstmasters.

Not many weeks ago the postmaster at
Hillsboro, n c., refused to take mutt
lated 81 bill in exchange for stamps
The gentleman who had offered the bill
determined to test the thing, and accord
ingly sued the postmaster for 50 dam
ages. The suit has just ended, and the
postmaster finds himself victimized to
the extent of 800. At the trial it was
shown that the Post Office Department
had issued orders that the postmasters
should receive mutilaied currency in ex-
change for stamps, when offered.
This Court, besides, held that all the
of the Government were
bound to sustain the currency of the
Government, and the fact of the bill be-
ing more or less mutilated was no lusti-
fcation for its being refused by an Off
cial of the Government.
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UP In THE AIR.

some months back was called in, being
surgeon by profession, to attend a Senor
Tornados, who, despite his name, was as
true an Englishman by birth and parentage
as the parish of Lambeth ever bred and
reared. | found him suffering from ex-
1reme debility and nervousness, brought
on by the oycrstrained tension of the
muscles and sinews. He told me that he
was a rope-dancer slack and tight; a
tnmbler, stiff and loose sprite, acrobat,
and bottle-equilibrist, and many other
things which have escaped my memory.
lis family consisted of his wife, pale,
sickly woman, somewhat older than him
self, and very handsome little girl. Ac-
customed as | was to witness the devotion
OF women by sick bedside. and the irri-
liability Of male patients, the self-sacrilice
OF Madame Tornados, and the demonstra-
i've gratitude Of her husband for each lit
te act of attention, surprised me. He was
under my care some months. and, as he
got better, grew talkative and familiar.
One evening, as he sat in an easy chair
propped up by pillows, he favored me with
the following narrative. purposely sup
press any professional technicalities and
acrobatic o1yot, which would be unintell
goe to the ordinary reader.
You see, sir,' he began, "my father
was hawker over in Lambeth Marsh.
never knew my mother. because she died
when was quite young. | don't know
now 1t was learned tumblng. The first
thing can remember is standing on my
head close to Westminster Bridge, and
gentleman going by giving me shilling.
Now, my boy the gentleman said, do
that again. which did Now said he,
spring" which did, and came on my feet
again. Good boy p said he, and he pattod
me on the back. That gentleman, sir, was
great Mr. Ducrow. Well, sir, of course, at-
Yer such encouragement from such man,
number | became. ] spared neither,
pans nor trouble, and practised till be-
came master Of my art and head of my
profession.
About seven years ago-l was Just
tn"enty-three-l first met with James
hanlord, who was also in my line, and he
proposed to me that we should work to-
ee'her. | consented. and we Travelled
aoout and exhibited at town halls and as
sein3ly rooms, and large rooms at inns but
We dld very badly. Eaniord had wife
ana child, so it fell harder upon him. |
was forced to lend him what little could
spare for cosld not see young woman
!. ana a little baby go without while had
wen, sir, things got from bad to worse;
anu my partner, being a man of viekert
'einper took TO drink-he was always vip-
"a mat way-and AM sorry to saw, be
tSeu 10 boat his wife. Sometimes by blood
ras boiled, and have vailed away for
lear that ' should interfere. However,
uSed TO cheer up the missus as well as !
Lo.lu, an nurse the little girl, and they
'o'h grew to like me very much.