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The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-01

George Eliot says that girls are deli
cate vessels, in which is borne onward
through ages the treasure of human at
lection. George, George, you don't
know anything about it. Did you ever
take a weeks salary into ladies res
taurant and try to fill one Of these "del-
icate vessels" with ice cream, layer CAKE
and chocolate caramels? Girly, 1t ca"
be did.-S. Louis GLOBE.
Col. Dupressoir, who commanded
the regiment of cuirassiers of the French
guards during the celebrated attack AZ
Granville in 1870, has just died at
Nancy. The regiment, which numbered
forty officers and six hundred men, I0SS
in the attack twenty-eight officers al"
Jour hundred and fifteen men.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15
New York Telegraml


Senior Miranda is famous gymnast,
and resides with his father, at $40 East
Forty-sixth Street. A few weeks ago
the young man caught severe cold,
which necessitated his remaining at
home for some time. The father of the
gymnast called at the Central Office this
morning and related one of the most Won
derful performances ever accomplished
bya gymnast. 1t seems that after being
confined to the house for a few days the
cold settled on his lungs, and becoming
irritated at his long confinement and
absence from his favorite business he be-
came delirious, and was then locked up
in his rooms on the third floor of the
house. He was constantly watched in
case he should do some injury to him
self. Yesterday the delirium assumed
a more terrible state, and the un-
fortunate young man had to be tied
to his bed with ropes. At very early
hour this morning he succeeded in burst.
ing his ropes asunder, and with mani
ac's glee he seized his coat, and with no
other covering he rushed to the window,
and finding that fastened, he opened it,
and then gave utterance to his joy and
satisfaction by uttering shout which
awoke all the inmates of the house, and
in fact those of the adjoining house. Be-
fore his friends could come to his assist
ance hehad sprung through the window,
turning a favorite somersault as he
went, and when his friends discovered
him he was hanging on the easement by
his hands. His friends were Mortified
and held their breath in terror, as they
expected to see him drop to the pave
ment below every second. Then they
rushed to his assistance, but he, crying
out, "Go awayl Pll climb to the
moonp swung his body to and fro for
second or so, and then let go his hold
Instead of falling to the sidewalk as his
relatives expected, he had grasped the
metal leader, and in few moments he
was ascending it in hand over hand fash
ion. He continued his perilous ascent
until he reached a shutter on the fourth
floor. Here he perched himself as if on
trepaze, but it only added to the fears
and terrors of his relatives, as the shut
ter was weak and likely to break at any
moment. After a few moments rest, he
gave leap and grasped the gutter of
the house, which he ran along as nimbly
as monkey. On reaching the next
house, he quickly descended from shut
ter to shutter, window to window, not
speaking word, and apparently as cool
and collected as if he were performing
before a crowded house. He reached
the top of the stoop, and sliding down
one of the pillars reached the street in
safety, and then ran with the feetness of
a deer until he was lost to sight. The
father notified the police, but no trace
of him could be found. This morning,
on hearing the story, general alarm
was sent to all stations to keep a good
lookout for him.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15
The Unfair SeC.

IF there is anything funny under the
sun. it is very thin, little man in very
long ulster.
SPRING is close upon us, and the time
is not far distant when the ulster over
coat can no longer hide the patched-up
knees of the owner.
EVERY man is, in sense, three
different men. In the first place, he is
the man he thinks himself to be; in the
second place, he is the man other per-
sons think him to be-; and, finally, he is
the man that he really is.
"BEFoRE we were married." said he
to friend, Z" she used to say 'by-by' so
sweetly when 1 went down the steps,"
"And now what does she say?" asked
the friend. "ohl just the same," ex-
claimed the man-"buy, buy" "Ah
Isee," said the other; " she only exercises
a little different spell over you"
THEY tell story of man at a Chicago
hotel, whose room was on the top floor,
the bell in which was out of order. At
ter wrestling with it half an hour, he
went to the window and collected a
crowd on the street below by waving a
pillow-case. When a multitude of fel-
low-citizens had collected he shouted
loud enough to be heard in Omaha:
"Some of you fellows go to that office
and tell them to send me up a cock
toll p,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15
The DasUn of GaLiIeo's Troubles.
Popular Science Monthly.l


Galileo, who was man of rare good
sense, and perfectly eonversant with the
ways of the world, had in advance formed
the best and most powerful relations.
Besides, he came there in sort of official
capacity, at the Grand Dukes charges,
and he was entertained there by the Tus-
can Embassador. Prelates. Cardinals,
Princes, Wed with one another for the
honor of offering fetes and banquets to
the most illustrious representatives of
italian science.
At the palace of Cardinal Bandini, in
the beautiful gardens of the Quirinal, in
the villa of the Marquis Cesi, on the
summit of the Janiculan, Galileo de-
lighted society of elite by having them
contemplate, during the serene nights of
April, the vault of heaven through the
telescope which hehad recently invented,
and which Tears his name.
He awakened a genuine enthusiasm
one day when, after dinner, he pointed
his telescope toward st. John of Lateran,
three miles distant, and enabled the
guests to read the inscription upon the
facade of that basilica.
His arguments did not equally con-
vince all of those who were present at
his astronomical observations, and who
listened to the explanation he gave of
the movement of Jupiter's four satellites,
the inequalities of the moons surface,
and the phases of Venus and Saturn, and
to the discussions he carried ON with those
who opposed his views.
His doctrine implied the confirmation
of the system of Copernicus and the
demonstration of the earth's motion,
which were no longer reserved for math-
ematicians only, but made Ineligible to
all by series of experiments. Here was
an innovation calculated to alarm the
theologians. A system that might be re-
garded as inoffensive so long as it was
only mathematical hypothesis, useful
to men of scien ce in their researches, be-
came a very different thing on being
transformed into physical truth acces.
sible to the senses and pregnant with
consequences touching the plurality Of
worlds and the aim of creation. Hence
the apparent triumph of Galileo hid
from view perils the magnitude of which
at first eluded his penetrating mind
While he was giving himself up, with
perhaps over-much confidence, to tn,
pleasure of success, and was yielding too
easily to his habitual temptation to an
swer objections with sarcasm, the ecclesi
astical authority quietly set on foot al
inquiry into the orthodoxy of his opin
ions.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15
Haunted 6u q Teaf.
MOODY in Boston,


Twenty years ago was a wild and
reckless young manin the town of which
1 have been speaking, Mortified, and
was working in field with man, and
he was weeping. And asked him why
he was weeping, and he told me very
strange story, which sounded strange
then, because l was not Christian. He
said when he was young man Che was
then in middle life) he started out from
that town to make his fortune, and, as
he left, his mother gave him this text,
"Seek first the kingdom of God"
He forgot all about the text, but went
from one town to another, but got moth
ing to do. He was very anxious to get
money. After he had been away from
home some time, he went into church
and the minister preached from the text
which his mother gave him. The passage
went deep into his heart, but he was
seeking after money and didn't want to
be Christian. Finding nothing to do
in that town, he went to another, and
then another; and it wasn't long before
he heard another sermon from the same
text. and it troubled him very much.
But he didn't want to become a Christian,
and thought he would get rich faster
without having Christ, and thought he
would put off the question until he got
settled in life-just as great many peo-
pie in this building no doubt think.
Finally, he said he wouldn't seek the
kingdom of God till he got position,,in
life. Then, with tears trickling down
his face, he said God had given him some
property, but no sermon ever touched his
heart since. After l became Christian
1 thought 1 would go and see that man,
and found that he had been taken to an
insane asylum, and while there he would
keep repeating the text, Seek first the
kingdom of God" The next time 1 went
home 1 found him at his farm house. He
was idiotic. He didn't know me, but
reached out his finger and said, "Young
man, Seek first the kingdom of God.'"
The text had followed him all through
life. The next time 1 went home found
he was buried.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15
SdgacitU of a Gdnder.


A correspondent informs US that in
the village of Droyton a grain buyer
several weeks ago saved a gander from
two dogs who were acting rudely to-
ward him, and ever since he has shown
the greatest affection for his protector;
in fact, he never leaves him while in the
market, and if he enters store or other
place of business, the gander will re
main outside the door until his guardian
comes out, and always greets him with
kindness, which he shows by making a
great noise, Tapping his wings, wagging
his tail and following him wherever he
goes. He is the observed of all observers,
and is certainly curiosity. He can be
seen every day in the village following
his protector from door to door. The
perceptive faculties of the gander are
remarked by everybody, and particu-
larly by strangers, as he will perceive
his protector in the morning as he comes
to business, several blocks away, and
will Immediately fly to him with every
demonstration of Joy.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15
The Destruction of woods.


In the able report upon Chill by Mr..
Rumbold, to which we lately referred,
we find some remarks on the effect thas
has been produced by the destruction OF
the woods that formerly covered the
country, which are well deserving of at
tention. During the past thirty years
an extraordinary extension of agricul-
ture has occurred in Chilli. Formerly
she was an importer of coins now she is
large exporter. The first impetus was
given by the discovery of gold in Call
fornia; a great demand for wheat arose,
and Chill set to work TO supply It. Then
the discovery of gold in Australia
opened a new and profitable market, and
now Peru offers another outlet. In their
eagerness to produce wheat and barley
the peasants recklessly burned down the
woods on the lower Cordilleras, near the
coast. The progress in mining led TO
the same results in the valleys of the
main chain of the Andes; the conse-
quence of this unwooding has beea to
deprive the country of its due rainfall,
and to threaten its soil with sterility.
Thirty years ago, Mr.. Rumbold tells us,
travellers posting between Valparaiso and
Santiago-a distance of only ninety
miles-were sometimes, in winter, de-
taiued as many as five days, by the swol-
len state of the river, and the heavy
roads, and it regularly took bullock-carts
month to make the journey. In 1872
"there we're three hundred and thirty.
five dry days, of which two hundred
and thirty-three were entirely cloudless
and one hundred and two either par,
TALLY or entirely overcast. There was
much rain on nineteen and it was show
ery on twelve out of the remaining
thirty-one days. In 1873, when the
winter was more severe, the rainy days
amounted to twenty-five, and the show
cry days to eleven. The result is that one
whom Mr.. Rumbold describes as great
authority, speaks of the sterility which
is invading with alarming rapidity the
fields of the central region, now de
void of woods, and the slopes of the hills
robbed of the vegetable soil, which
nothing now prevents the rain from
washing down into the valleys"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15
4 stra,lae Restitiltio,r,

A correspondent of the New York
Times writes from Oil City, Pa, as fol-
lows: William Harper, of Forest County,
has just returned from California with
SS6, 900, being the principal and interest
of sum that was stolen from himself
and two others twelve years ago. The
hardware firm of ]. & W. Harper & Co.,
of Philadelphia, in 1865, desiring to
speculate in oil lands, employed man
named Edgar G. Martin, of Baltimore,
to go into the oil region and select suita-
BILE property for them. Martin came to
them highly recommended as an expert,
and also as to character and reliability.
He selected some land near Pithole, and
was intrusted with $4,000 by his en-
ployers to make payment on the pro-
posed purchase. Hearing nothing from
their agent for some time, and receiving
no response to their letter, one of the
firm went to Pithole. There he learned
that Martin had not invested their
money in land for them, but he had gone
away from the place in company with a
chambermaid employed in the hotel
where he boarded. She had been q
danseuse in variety troop that disban-
ded there, and was the wife of the bar
keeper of the hotel. Martin left wife
and six children in Maryland. Two OF
the firm who had lost the $4,000 subse-
quently died, and in 1873 the survivor,
VIM. Harper failed in business and re.
moved to Forest County, where he has
since lived in reduced circumstances.
About the1st of February last, friends
of Harper in Philadelphia forwarded
him letter, addressed to the old firm
and postmarked San Francisco. Thi:
letter was from the absconding agent
E. G. Martin. He was in San Francisco
and wrote that he desired to refund the
money he had taken, and would do SO i
he was given immunity from prosecu
tion. Mr.. Harper started for Californis
as soon as possible, and met Martin
He had elegant apartments at an aris
tocratic boarding house. His mistress
Mrs. Warren, was still with him, anG
met Mr.. Harper resplendent in jewels
Martin said that he had sailed at one,
for Peru when he absconded, and hat
engaged in opening silver mines in tha
country for share of their product
He claimed to be worth S2,OOO,OOO. HI
was in California on business, and in
tended to return to Peru. He paid owe
TO Mr.. Harper the amount stated above
He said he had provided for the family
he left in Baltimore, and they had gon,
to England, where his wife's parent
live.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15
THE FAIR SEX.
WHAT odd heads the ladies must have.
A Paris writer says that ladies will have
bonnets of seventy-two shapes to choose
frop, 4bis

WHAT odd heads the ladies must have.
A Paris writer says that ladies will have
bonnets of seventy-two shapes to choose
from this spring.
RocKLAND Courier: The price Of
kerosene is coming down, and the plea of
economy will soon have ceased to be an
excuse for girl turning down the lamp,
when her fellow comes to see her.
STATESMEN may argue, philosophers
ponder and mathematicians figure, until
all the universe is hazy with abstruse
chaotic ideas, but they can never bring
back happiness to the heart of the woman
who has lost the first pick at the spring
bonnets.
VELVET bands for the neck and arms,
finished with buckles and bows, are very
tasty, and are often worn, especially with
house dresses. The velvet that is usually
used is about an inch wide. Bows of
bright colored ribbon are greatly worn
with dark dresses, and are wonderful
improvement. They are made in sets;
a set consists of six bows-for the sleeves,
pocket, neck, hair, belt. They are fas-
tened on by a safety pin, and can easily
be changed from one dress to another.
To the one for the belt Is attached rib
bon, which is worn loosely round the
waist, the bow to be fastened to the skirt
of the basque at the left side of the back,
a few inches below the waist line.
A NEW style of costume, known as the
"Breton," bids fair to become quite
popular. A dress which we saw made
in this style was of plum color, vigogne
trimmed with the same color of velvet.
The bodice was plain in front; at the
back was one large plait and several
small ones, the whole fastened together
by wide garniture, each extremity OF
which was ornamented with several rows
of fiat smoked pearl buttons. The pocket
was formed simply of bands of velvet to
correspond with the jupon and tunic,
which were trimmed with bands and
pluses. Added to this costume was an
outside jacket for street wear. This con-
sisted of a long cuirasse back with vest
front, the latter somewhat shorter than
the Jacket. The sleeves and deep turned
down collar were also trimmed with sew
eral rows of buttons.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15

An object of profound admiration is
the Patient Female who languidly stands
in prominent place in a public audi
ence, till some gentleman gives her his
own good seat and himself retires to the
back of the room. Such self-forgetful.
ness on her part is separated bya narrow
line from b-ld-z-g.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15

As appointed by the Pope, two new
Bishops are announced for the United
States-one, the Rev. DIR. John Moore, of
Charleston, to be Bishop of st. Angus
tine, Florida, and the other Dominican
Friar Vinges, of Benicia, to be Coadiu.
tor of Bishop O'Connell, of Grass Valley,
California.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15
WICHITA (Kas.) Beacon: A German Ii

WICHITA (Kas.) Beacon: A Germanliv
ing on Sand Creek, six miles above the
mouth, started with his two little boys
twelve and fourteen years of age, for the
Chikaskia, after load of wood. Travel
ing in an unsettled country, he lost his
way. They started on Saturday and wan
dered about till Monday morning. On
Sunday night their suferings were terri
rible. The father cut grass with his pen
knife and covered the boys; he at inter-
walls would run around to get little
warmth in his almost frozen body. The
cruel night finally came to an end, and
the man recognized his locality and
knew that he was about five miles from
his home. After getting to the fire and
thawing out, they found that they were
frozen to the knees. They will probably
lose their legs. The only food they had
was their little dog, which they killed
and ate
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15

A BLUE GLASS chimney on the parlor
lamp will bring young man up to the
point of proposing to cross-eyed maiden
with store teeth, in three Sunday even
ings.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15

ENGLISH railway corporations are en-
blowing women as clerks at stations.
Their experience in managing trains and
switches probably suggested the expert
ment,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15

NORFOLK, Virginia, has become the
second cotton port in the United States.
The advance of the city in commercial
importance has been very rapid.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15
Human Chemicals.

Careful experiments, extending over
series of years, plainly indicate that the
food of healthy man, engaged in
manual labor, should contain regular
daily supply of about three hundred
grains of nitrogen and four thousand
and eight hundred grains of carbon.
Among badly-fed operatives, subsistence
has been known to be maintained on one
hundred and seventy grains of nitrogen
and three thousand grains of carbon,
but that was attended by feeble health.
The amounts required in health may
vary, according to circumstances, such
as temperature, the moisture of the air
and the amount of muscular work per-
formed, but the average to be maintained
is as already stated. Little or nothing
is known of the supply needed for brain
work, nor do scientists pretend to under
stand much about the needed supplies
of elements present in the body other
than carbon and nitrogen, nor even
what difference it makes whether they
are supplied with regularity or not.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15

THERE is drank in London annually
ninety million gallons of ale and porter,
and three million gallons of gin.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15

THEY are never alone that are &C
companied with noble thoughts.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15

The path of duty-Through the GUS
tom house.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15

Full short his journey was no dust
OF earth unto his sandals clave;
The weary weight that old men must
He bore not to the grave.
He seemed a cherub who had lost his way
And wandered hither SO his stay
With US was short, and twas most meet
That he should be no deliver in earth's clod,
Nor need to pause and cleanse his feet
To stand before his God.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-15

The horses of the great street railway
lines of New York labored through the
severe work which the wintry weather
imposed upon them only to become vic
tins of. cerebro spinal meningitis. The
horses attacked we're first observed to
become weak in the legs and dizzy, then
unable to stand at all. Not all the
stables of the car lines have been visited
by the disease, but in the stables of
Brooklyn company thirteen out of forty
attacked have died. The appearance of
the disease is attributed to the change
able spring weather.
Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1877-12-01

Simmer gro6fdbttfh. = SubreI
(rpr @dt1er's 9sburtsbaus in Morbah)
Dies ttsr aliO in Sas 6aus, In wel6eu I'M
fer 4tcBer G9iGer 9eboren rurre.
3stItnSer Sra, tOren Gle NAL, Ranne'
len, hes tann MID ater NtGt fs6r tmpont
rem fen flee, radltses @duitten? Na
mrin Sutsfer', ees 1T jar ntf6t, ba fCIter
Gle nal bas @raGt1eb6ube feben, men,
@Giaer BET uns in Berlin ieb0ren wdre.
Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1877-12-01

Qehen80ef6id.-- garge quilt i@
Der Menfh, fetn 8rpo au srnerbsn. 1nb
penn CT enbli6 babtn setOmmen tit, es NIT
gs6asttdteit unb Seibf3ufrteoenbstt elen
III tDuRen, BAT er tetne 3dSne msbr, e8 III
teteen.
Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1877-12-01

@usber g 6ute.-9ebrer Die Grbe
lit olic, pte Du al btefem 0lObus fteSf, eine
8uasl. DER linb u unfers @e9enfue.
ier?
@6uler: Dl3 wsis Id nt6t.
2etyT; NUn, csnn ptr In Sstr3is elm
Sod ientre6t bard bte Grbe bOtren, Del6es
al Ger anbsrn @eite ptener terausaebt, no
fomrnen mir pa beraus 2
&GuIer; Mus benz QoGe.
Der wanderer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1867-1957, 1877-12-01
III utRrh des.

Gin wetfer 6etbe.-Sabt, Der met
fe Yerfer, fab zines &tenbs p~ertteft bit BEN
&Oran ; als ar anfbltdte, paren ron fetnsn
bret SSbnen 3wst etnssfflafen Der brittle
otsr iaste (ebr. ftlbnsuirteben ,.Sttb. Ta'
ter, wte bic fGlafen; Id abtr-th bette
n@ein 9Obn". enteesnete fanft Der yatsr,
obsiIsr iffs bod mUbl su f6laien, ais ttClS
letn auf nas, pas man ttut."
Gir@Cltttter.-Der berii6mte Ibra'
BAN a Ganta Clara faste. Das Wort
Politicus fdrst NIT p an. Dieter SuHfabe
fGtdt f6 fur nIe 9dttel. go man TIN GEE
UGtnlt6 fUrmtrt, tn er eth p, ba man ibn
umfallst eth q. basfelbe aufwdrts miro eth
eeihaut, bafern man bteles umi1ld9t trirb
Elm b., unb fOl9erselialt fcI eth POtttieus &c.
artet fsin, bae CT ii& In ale Mpbsl fetn be.
quertfn fGnnte.
Die 9taats9efes9ebung ron
S1tnO's sat etnen @efessDrihlas angenpm'
men, 8emdB ireI4em bic 9afwtrtte rer'
SFtGtet perseu, a1e 3tmusr Der pberr
Stodperfe tbrer 9ctels nit Strtdlettern III
rerleben, tamtt bte @dfe bet SeuersBefat,
fiG retten TSnnsn. Dts @trtte MAIDEN ateI
fcIstnce Iuslesun9 unD id9su, bic @s(eBSe'
Ser tdtteu ben Gelsssntpurf nur fur li1 Ct
madt, bamtt tbnen 9elesentett seseten nsr'
be, aus cen 90tels ~ enttOmntn, Obne TIRE
Eehnun9 i'll be3a6len.