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OSTRICH FARMING.

Within the past few years a new and
extremely lucrative employment, namely,
ostrich farming, has sprung up at Cape
Town, Africa. Formerly the birds were
shot for their feathers. This of course
tended to greatly diminish their num-
bers. Now the nests of the ostriches are
closely watched, and as soon as the eggs
are Matched they are taken from the
mother and sold, when a week old, for
$40 each to those engaged in ostrich
farming. They are furnished with their
usual food but are housed at night.
Between the ages of one month and two
years they are taken out each day to
pasture. After that age they are kept
in paddock. When three or four years
old the birds commence laying. When n
hen has more than she can cover they
are Matched by an incubator. The birds
are plucked every eight months. After
the first plucking, called chicken feath-
ers, they average Gl0 worth of feathers.
Mr.. f. Noyco, whose present address is
Newham-house, Richmond, Surrep, Eng
land, is prominent among those interest
ed in ostrich farming, and says that
" the Cape never offered better opportu-
mites than the present for enterprising
young men, as such farms may be small
and can be obtained at q mere nominal
price"
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n woman who has fallen is restored to the
society of her fellows, instead of being
bounded on, further and yet further
from the paths which she would fain re-
seek, Of duty and of love look at the
endurance, the marvellous patience OF
the Spanish soldiery; look at the delicacy
of feeling of the verieet gitano in the
campo or mountain pass; look at the
marvellous temperance in eating and
drinking of the Spaniards, at their afec-
tionateness in the family circle, and you
will say with us, "spain is one of the
finest countries in the world, but she is
one Of the worst governed"
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4 coon WORD FOR TIRE sPANIARDs

"The Spaniards," says Mrs. Ramsey
with much truth, "bear hunger or thirot,
heat, cold, fatigue, or any other discom-
fort, with perfect equanimity; it would
be beneath them to fret or complain.
They are kind, hospitable, courteous
liberal, and magnificent in their ways !;
but thrifty they are not, and | think
never will be-" Look at their patience,
their cheerfulness-and no one who
knows the Spaniards will say that it is
indiherence-under the hundred wrongs
they are and have been suffering for years.
look at their exceeding courtesy--we say,
real courtesy, not politeness-to the
stranger or the fellow-creaturc in trouble;
look at the Christ-like tenderness of the
spanish woman, should you be sick and
suffering in her house; look at : the
utter absence of religious cant and spir-
itual pride among the really good and re-
ligious; look at the tcndernessw with which
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07
WHAT WILL BE DONE WITH THE
CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION
BUILDIEG.

There will be a general sale of all the
buildings belonging to the centennial
board of finance on Thursday, November
3Oth. at II o'clock A. NJ. The list COM
prises the main building and carriage
annex, agricultural hall, with pomOlOgi-
cal annexes, the art annex, photograph
ers exhibition building, shoe and leather
buildings, judges hall, butter and cheese
building, guard, station houses and vari-
GUS other small buildings. Particulars
of the sale will be furnished pamphlet
form, on application, ten days before the
appointed time. The sale was authorized
by the board of finance at its session last
Monday.
The expectation that most of the state
buildings on the grounds would be pre-
sented to the city at the close OF the ex-
hibition will probably prove not we'll
founded, as with only one exception they
are of frame, and, aside from the danger
of fire, the continuous expense in paint
ing and repairing would soon equal the
original cost of the structures, thus de-
tracing from their actual value for park
purposes. The Ohio state building, how
ever, unlike the rest, was erected almost
entirely of stone, and has been SO sub
stantially built that it will for years pre-
serve its present appearance as an olna-
ment. The original intention was to
present this structure to the city, and, at
recent meetings of the Ohio state board
the subject of its transfer to the park
commissioners has been considered.
Though no definite action has been taken
in the matter, it is probable that some
arrangement satisfactory to both the do
nors and the recipients will be made at
an early day. The German pavilion,
ubstantially-builts structure, may also in
due time become the property of the city,
as the German commissioners generally
favor the project of presenting it to the
park commission. A member of the COM
mission some time since wrote to the
minister of foreign affairs at Berlin for in
structions in regard to the proposed
transfer, and an answer favorable to the
plan Of permitting it to remain perma-
nentIy is confidently expected. So far
as at present known, it seems likely that
the other minor buildings will be sold to
the highest bidder or disposed of at pri-
vate sale at the close Of the exhibition.
Purchasers for many of them are numer-
GUS and fair prices will doubtless be OBJ
tained.-PhHudIphia Times.
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J and decrease {:
increase. decrease.

increase +DeCrease
The census shows that in the first de-
cade named the increase of the colored
population was thirty-three per cent,
and in the third only five per cent. AS
OILY fifteen hundred, according to the
report of Mr.. Stanton, secretary OF war,
were killed during thewar, the diminution
in the rate of increase cannot be ac-
counted for by death in battle. Those
who were in the United States army had
good food and medical attention, and in
the suothern country.the was no starva-
ton; therefore the circumstance of the
war does not account for this fact, and it
must be explained otherwise, and by the
results that followed the war. The CEN
sus shows that for the ten years to 1870
the whole increase in South Carolina
was less than one per cent; in Louisiana
about four per cent, and in Mississippi
less than one and three-quarter per
cent
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07
TIE NORTHEAST PASSAGE.

A navigable polar route between Eu-
rope and the heart of Asia is the latest
and greatest achievement of geographical
exploration. This work, far surprising
in interest and practical value anything
that Stanley has accomplished, the world
owes TO an intrepid Swedish explorer,
Prof. Nordenskiold. Prof NordenskiOld
had theory that the gulf stream, after
striking the coast of Europe, passed
around to the north of Scandinavia, and
opened a way with its warm currents
through the polar sea, north Of Russia
and Asia. The professor sailed from
Sweden in August, and has already, if
this report does not exaggerate his sue
cess, proved his theory true, and made
geographical discovery that will change
the course of trade between Europe and
Asia and powerfully effect tine destinies
of millions Of human beings for all time
to come. He found a clear passage
through the polar sea, reached the
mouth of the Yenisei, and through it
penetrated into the heart Of ASIA almost
to the very frontiers of China. The
country bordering the Yenisei is vast,
fertile and uncultiyated. The waters
about its mouth are warm. BY this
route vessels of light draught can be
taken within one hundred and fifty
miles of the head waters of the great
Amoor river, and the commercial dis
lance between Europe and China is
shortened thousands of miles. This dis
covery has the greatest interest to &rtic
explorers. II looks now as if the search
for the northwest passage was mistake.
A northeast passage we know now there
IL, hut as that is opened by the gulf
stream, which does not flow to the north
of the American continent, there can be
no scientific ground for believing that
there is a northwest passage. The COM
mercial results of tie new route are OBJ
vious. Excepting Indian trade, which
must go through the Mediterranean and
the Suez canal, commercial intercourse
between Europe and Asia will soon be.
gin to use the new northeast passage.
The shortncss of the route will add cor
respondingly to the comforts Of mankind.
New communities, new cities, perhaps,
will be founded on the fertile banks of
the Yenisci, and England will have more
cause than ever to rejoice that the al
most impossible lIimalayas bar her
oriental provinces from the growing
Asiatic dominion of Russia Chicago
Tribune.
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FUTURE OF THE OOLORED POPULA-
TON.

The Charleston Journal of Commerce
saws: ain Jamaica and Hayti, it is
stated, there are not now One-half the
population which existed at the time Of
emancipation, thirty-eight and seventy
odd years ago; and want and cold are
not the cause of the diminutiOn. The
spontaneous productions of nature sup
ply food, and climate requires little
clothing But late traveller has stated
that at Port-au-Prince, Hayti, in popu-
lation of $4,000, there were but eight
married couples. This state of morals,
with sexual diseases unattended, small
pox and the use of rum, have probably
produced diminution of the population
of these islands.
The census of 1860 will show the pros
poets of the colored race in the United
States, in competition with the Caucas-
ian race.
The following table, compiled from
the census of 1870, shows the increase
and decrease of the colored population
from 1910 to 1870. An examination
may explode some erroneous impressions
and develop some important truths:
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

ENGLAND has lately been the scene of
numerous meteoric showers of interest
ing proportions,
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07

NEARLY 1000 pieces of old pottery
have been received at the Peabody
museum of Yale college. They were
dug up in Missouri, and are supposed to
be between 800 and 1900 years of age.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07

From this table we gather the follow
ing rough estimate of the percentage of
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07

ENGLAND has lately been the scene OF
numerous meteoric showers of interest
ing proportions,
NEARLY 1000 pieces of old pottery
have been received at the Peabody
museum Of Yale college. They were
dug up in Missouri, and are supposed to
be between 800 and 1900 years of age.
THERE is published in Berlin the Jour
nal of Cooks and Housemaids, in which
housekeepers who lock up their butter
and sugar and infict other indignities
upon their servants are held up to pub
lie obloquy by name. A large number
of the subscribers of the paper have
bound themselves not to enter the ser
vice of any woman WHO has been thus
dvertised three times within the year.
THE United States government has en-
tered suit against Gen. O. O. Howard to
recover $4,000, as a defaulter respect
ing funds entrusted to him in connection
with the Freedmen's bureau and Howard
university. They are ordinary assumpsit
suits, and the money is alleged to have
been received by Gen. Howard for the
use of the United States, and not to have
been paid over. Gen. Howard asserts
he has full defense.
ONE of the many characters Of San
Francisco is Jack the Grabber."
Jack moors his boat close to ships dis
charging cargo at the wharves. His
boat contains hooks and grapples espec-
tally devised for bringing up substances
from the bottom. If a vessel be dis
charging coal, Jacks hooks will fish up
all the Jumps that drop into the water,
while in transitu from the ship to the
wharf If an angler drops his pocket
book in the water Jack is the man to
find it for him. He is said to make a good
living.
THE famous mare Flora Temple is now
thirty-onc years Of age. We saw her last
Monday in her comfortable box at Mr..
Welch's, at Chestnut Hill. She begins
to show the ravage of age, and we fear
that she will hardly survive the coming
winter. She is Of course well attended
to, ted with nice mashes and led to
take the air on sun-shiny days. But
she grows feeble and sometimes falls
down. What a vast difference in form
there is between what she is now and
what she was twenty years ago, when
John c. Perrin and his brother, George
f. Perrin, who now manages the United
States hotel at Hartford, Conn, owned
and trained her. One look at good old
Flora in her present estate will convince
anybody of the folly and absurity of
taking the dimensions of horses long past
their prime, for the purposes of forming
congratulations from them. ~ Y
Sportsman.
The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07

A PRIVATE letter from Berlin re-
ceiyed in London states that prince
Bismarck's nervous system has been &C.
riously impaired, and his condition
causes great anxiety to his family and
immediate friends who have been APP
prised Of the circumstance. His
physicians, who are in constant attend
ance, have peremptorily ordered that all
newspapers, pamphlets, etc, likely to
cause undue excitement, shall be kept
from him, and in fact that only docu-
ments Ct the most extraordinary Charac-
ter, absolutely requiring his personal at
tention, shall be permitted to reach him.
His physicians fear softening Of the
brain-an affliction with which he is
threatened, and may at any time be
Frustrated. A feeling OF grave anxiety
is manifested in court circles, and the
forced retirement of Bismarck from the
government council is feared.
A REPORT Of the departure Of the latest
colony of negroes from this country to
Liberia says: "They wore homespun
clothes and appeared a hardy, healthy
set of people, ranging in color from lamp
black to mahogany. They seemed to be
rather glad at leaving this land OF liberty
and equal rights and no doubt their
minds pictured future OF glowing and
perennial happiness on Afric's sunny
strand. Bishop Haven was in fne spir-
It's. lie spoke enthusiastically of the
destinies Of the colored racc-of the day
when, in educated numbers, they would
return to their natal soil and redeem IA
great continent from sterility and bar
barism. He dwelt fondiy on the pros
pect he hoped to see arise-great fleets
leaving the ports Of America laden with
intelligent and christian negroes, carry.
ing the torch of civilization and religion
into the haunts Of superstition, vice and
heathanism."
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Total. w 24l7, 3Sq 3,243, 1856 40OS, j40 1, 274 22I
Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1876-07-12

byla cd roku lS45 do 1919, totiz
pouxe 5 centi ma tisfc doiarG. Ia
Lincolna ztratilo Sc pouze 1Oct0
ma tisfc dolar1; "a Johnsona 63 I;
"a Grantova prvniho terminn 81
cent0 a "a prvni dvs leta druhs-
no terminu pouxe % centd ma IL
sic dolar6.
Pr6msrns xtraty ma pfijnech
obnkseii cd 1. ledna 1884 do 80
eervna 1861, tedy "a sprayy de-
mokraticke, 500 ma tisfc aolari.
Kdezto cd /. servence 1861 do 80.
Servna 1875 "a spravy republi-
k&nsk6 pouze "a centd na lOUO
dolarn, Gill pouze sestkrate meme.
Phi vydanich obnasi pra>
msrna ztrAta na tisfc dolarn cd
prvniho ledna 1884 do 30, cervna
1861, tsdy aA-spr4sy denokr.tic
ks, 50. .04, kdezto IA sprAvy repus
blikansks, od /. tervence 1861
do 30. eervna lS74 lsou pou &c 1
dol. 3Se. ma tisic dol.
Jsou-li tislice vdbee nejakym
dlkazem, svedeily by eislice iyto,
ze "a spravy republikansk6 jsou
zAlezitosti pokladny mnohem po-
ctivsji schopneji fizeny, nez-li
byly "a spravy demokraticke.
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Podvsdy v Gfadech.

DIE usnesenf senAtu vyhotovil
dspartement pokladny SpojenJch
stAta sesnam pfiJmi vYdAAi cd
l. ledna 1884 do 80. servna 1875
sPoln - stritami, jakfchz tento
odbor utrp3l. zprkva tato W.
kazujs, 10 nejvStsf Etrktn bShem
ttyr let utTpsly Spojen9 stkty n
administraoe Johnsona, cd l. Ger
vsncs 1885 do. so. csrvna 1869, .
sics q, ,662, ,72l.9O- Po ts nejvstsf
strata byia - 4 roxy cd l, Iedna
1884 do 81. prosiDcs 1887, toti3
Sl.38s, ,626.Al. Nejmsnh strita
byla Cd 1. Ssrvencs 1s45 do 50.
eervna 1s4e, obnasejfcf pouss
s1s. 100 .ps.
PoEftkms-li strktn M $1,000,
byla nejvstH ' lstsch 1884 II ~;
totiz e1O.l7 n kaadt tisfc dolare.
v lstsch lS42 - 1876 obnkssls
eo.oo - ti1fc. NejmeQM psk
Pokrok zaÌpadu. [volume] (Omaha, Neb.) 1871-1920, 1876-07-12

Opst Emana v kabinetn. Vrch-
nfmu postmistru dal president na
sroEumnsnou, 10 by jeho podeko.
vani 80 bylo pfijmuto jewell
bex odkladu odstoupil. Ma Jeho
misto jmenovan J. n Tynsr Z
Indiana.
We yschodnioh st&tsch zufily
prvnf dny tohoto tSdne velke
boufe.
yysetfovAni nsz Blaine jest
zapleten, bylo odlofeno, n pfisi>
nou icho nemoci-
Balehrad, IL. Servence-
Turci se zt&hli cd Driny < vi
dinn. obyvatelstvo kolem Driny
poystaIo . pfipojilo se X Srbnm-
Il Krussvce bojovali Srbovt pro-
ii turecks pfssile po I hodin .
dobyli nskterych dpech0.
PaHz,f1. servsncs.
Cernzjev ie sevfen mezi dvsma
tureck5mi voji. Postaveni Srb6
U Noveho Bazaru Jest ohrokeno-
LondSn, IL. Servence.
Pafizsky dopisovatel '.Times"
tvrdi, ze dosavAdni sarvatky V
Turecku hejsoG rozhodne a te
skuteSna valka nastane, az sc ar
mazda Cernohorska spoji 50 srb-
skou. Cernohorci titaji $4,000
muzn.
Mshomedani Niksit1 Presje-
ky a royin kolem Gatka tadali
knizete Cernoborskeho o ochranu
1ivotn imeni.
Zvlistni depese Ragasy pra-
vi, Ee pochod Cernohorcd zdr1en
byl proto, ably povstalci mohli 70
oEhrojiti pfipojiti.
Asman Pase odtAhnul cd Zai>
saru % ielikot jei nemohl dobtt
a byl ze strany ohroken-
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c. u. F.I.aL ys~~hny mrtse.
ly padlyeh byly rutoehy Eohas~-
ny vyinA Ca.ter. kellex.. -
IadsAns po ~nFti cd siztno-r-
Z e~ls xpr&sy o sSto s<iAiosii ~
svits. fe Custer hl.xns ssna xlaz
smrti syS mak.tsz nese. NeeAAl
Sc aehvatiti e<eis<hliso~si y pross
umlaveasna plaza Pa.sil 80 v
bol pfessloa - al 80 na-sAao4.
aesekale. al o~s-tns vois . nasa -
speyi- ryto dsa bsls stss.z.ly.
ks Inslasns pod se<senin nsSslnE-
IN @>sdseiho Bsk.~ zaji xs<e
ssratessekych ve5~a-ksrA vslo-
mo~sl, aez 50 Jana do-sd pfsPs.a.
valo- Nssi poehyey BE ->sgnsx
Ball" byl dosts sxsni sssdy
xpraxen o poeho<.aeA seS.ka /.
poazal psilsaise~ti .a.ssn Jssino
odialsnl pc drahsn- NaP.dmal
napfea osiasl~aa ers-akove . pss-
natl Z aeoaynatA Pax oeratal
sseeh svSeh sil prssi areAyua .so-
ram- T4kfSz esxs<isals raa.a~hsxs
nsssedni ad-lse~t = y tFxaloss-
To bezPoehyby Poxssis / Pss>
svsdseni. 10 desavaNlas ssly pEoti
rusi eham sEo1iei. l~oa xsimS n~>
siossaieSns; &c nalsso -Uos1 maIa.
ktefi ayai poh sto1s asis -
b5t p.stAysns ns aa4as nsk II. eora
maia. ktsrfaa - ss P.k jists P.,-
daftlo y kratks sisbA EuE4oeAy
zkrotAti- Zarovea doaianas s@
tato udAlsst pttvs<ls nase saxons-
dares K axnaai. ks ioszvaaiai pels-
sika uaiFu prot IaSilzsa@ kyka
ehy bna, te. aznaxsltes. 1s rxif~
pogze moei xkrotiti l.s. k0asSas
oiesziaii zalszsas.-ti in<issn-ks
pod sgrava Osieoxa xalsSaSAs.
Po eelS rsma ossvali sc Al4sy.
sby povOlani hyii doer0xol.ses
40 zbraEs doststssnSaa Ps,sta
tak razem boj tsato sk0aS~a I.
vxparal inIians sa<f w hla.sas .
nsb na rassrvaer dopras~nh
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RAKOUSKO.
Londtn, S. eervcnce.


Timesu SO Berlina xnamuje,
TO Rakousko pilne zbrojf. ZAloha
i obrana dostaiy rorkaz pfipravi
ii SO do boje.
Valeens lode byli poslany do
Semiina ku chraneni Rakusan6.
Armadni divise poslana byla ku
hranicim.
2 Berlina Sc oxnamuje, 10 ra>
kouske vojsko SO sonstfefuje v
ZAhfebu. Tel vojsko Dalmacii
bylo sesileno.
Novy Sad. 5. servence.
Miletie. pfedseda tajnsho slo-
vanske spolkn 3Omladina" . ne
kolik elen1 toho spolku, byli zat-
eeni q obYineni jsou 70 xrAdy.
LondSn, Z. tcrvence.
Haiieske noviny tvrdf ze $4,000
muz0 vojska Sc 5000 koxAky bli-
IL Sc RnkovIne.
Londyn, s. cervcnce.
Cisaf rakouskt hraba Andr&-
ii setkali 70 dnes . cArsm a Cor
eakovem v Podmokli q odebraIi
Sc do ceske Lipy.
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Belehrad, 4. eervence.

Belehrad, q. cervonce-
Srbska armada ma Drine byla
dplns poraxena cd l2.O0s Turk0
u Bsliny. Tnrci dobyll dye Ease
XIV a ukofistili 6 del. SrbovS
Etratili 700 muao.
Londyn, 10. eervence.
Zprava . poraaenf ZAcha Sc po-
tvrxnje roxli6nych stran. ArmA-
da jsho byla prs dplns znicena .
raneni skoro kafdou hodinu phi
vAaeni jsou do Bslehradu.
Rozhodna bitva ooekavk SO me-
ri gen. cernsjevem y Asman Pa
sou, kterix rozhodne bezpochyby
budouci spdsob valcenf. Pakli
budou porazsni Eamyslf Srbovs
stahnouu SO do Bulharska q zne-
pokojovati Turky malSch ee~
tsch.
Depese Balehradu tvrdi, fe
posledni zalohy byiy povolany
do zbrana.
Londyn, 10. eervence.
Depese Belehradu oznamuii,
10 In poslednich s dni podnikli
Srbov9 10 bitov q xtratili 5000
mu5n.
~Times' Sc dovida 10 Srbsko
dalo Rakousku zadostucineni
Ia to lie vojsko stfilelo IA rakou-
sky parnik. "Daily Telegraph
pravi, 10 We sehazi cisafe iusk eho
$ rakouskym usneseno, zakrotiti
We vSehodni otazce, pod jistym
vSminkami spoleene.
(Telegra6cke zpravy tohotC
tSdne isou TAX pomichane, ze jest
teako pravy stav veci seznati
Zpravy pramen6 tureckyoh o
znamuii porazky Srb1 na vsect
siranaeh, zpravy pax z prameni
slovanskscn pfipousu nsktert
porazky, vsak pfipisuji nekolil
vitezstvi. Jak SO zda, porazens
bylo srDske oddsleni pod vclenin
Zacha, Bsliny taktez Srbov.
doznali porazky. Napreti tom,
V nekoIika mensich potyskacl
byli Turci porazeni a gen. Cerne
jevu podafilo Sc dostatI sc Tur
kdm nazad, tax ze stoli mezi Ca
fihradem a neb vlastns Sotii ,
armadou tureckou. v celku isol
zpravy tyto pro mas pfekvapujic
q malo potesitelne. oeekavai
jsme 10 povede Sc Turk6m tax
jako vedlo a vede Sc Jim Herce
govins, vsak misto oeekavanScl
xprav vftezstvf, pfichazi zpra
Wy porazkach. vsak protc
netratime mysli. Srbovs zazil
nyni svij Bunker Hill a doufej
me, fe SO stssti valeSne nynf
lejich strane naklonf.
Il