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St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28
Miscellaneous Items.

The Americans eat twice as much salt
as the English. .., r......t.
IT there were no relief to be had there
would be no vagrants. |s.s ''|
Among the mechanical toys at the
Paris exposition are dolls that swim dive
and tread water after the most approved
human style. .-..,..-.. -. ~t##..s..
4 glacier in Washington territory Is
said to contain a. hundred thousand )cool
hundred thousand) tons of ice, and q
company has been formed at Olympia to
bring it into market. rrrA.f
On the door ,of, the great temple
Bigmoto, Japan, is o scene showing frs t
q monkey, then an ape, then q gorilla,
and 10 on, till at last the series ends with
perfect man, surround by elephants
and curious birds The doer is several
centuries old xsg
In the late Russian campaign, 956 sur.
geons, out ofa total Of 2, $50, have died,
being equal to about 12i per cent. This
mortality is q much larger proportion
than that of the combatant officers The
only instance ON record where the pro-
portion Of deaths among the combatant
officers was larger than that of tie SUR
geons was in the Prussian army during
The Franco Prussian war in 1901.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28
Dcath-Dealing Climate of
Cyprus.

The heavy toll of human life which
England is already beginning to pay for
her possession of Cyprus can surprise no
one who has seen what the Greek cities
of the Levant really are. The grim old
provelb that "the plague lives in smyr,
ma all the year around" aptly describes
these hotbeds of filth and pestilence:
and Nikosia situated on the low ground
at the loot of steep mountain ridge
that completely shuts out the health~
giving winds of the north, is the worst
conceivable place for men fresh from
cool, breezy England. If the eastern
Jamaica" is not to rival its namesake's
destruction of life, the precautions
already adopted in the latter place must
be employed at once. CHARTERED in
cantonments along the higher slopes,
over which the fresh sea breezs plays
incessantly, the troops will be safe from
the sweltering heat below, with its in>
separable fever; and Sir Garnet Wolse-
ley, after his experience of Burmah, and
the African coast, is the man for such g
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28
Bob Burdette Lying Around
Minnesota.

One of the lions OF Lake Minnetonka
is Crane Island. Nobody lives on it but
the cranes. And, siDgularly enough;
you never see or hear OF crane on any
other island on the lake. But on Crane
Island, which is heavily wooded, there
are millions and millions and millions of
'em. The boats that ply on the lake run
close to this islanu and whistle to scare
up the cranes for the amusement of the
tourists. The cranes used to live in daily
terror of the whistles, and when they
were blown the startled birds would fly
up in dense clouds, shutting out the light
of the sun and making the whole lake
so dark that you couldn't see torch-light
procession on it. But they are more
accustomed to it now. When the Hattie
Mays whistles were blown the other day
only few of the birds came out. One
was very large, petulant old fellow,
who stretched himself above the tree
tops and said: CAV, give us a rest.'
And several impertinent young cranes
advised us to ''go and chaw iron," and
to Ego sun yourselves" But even this
was very amusing, and the passengers
enjoyed it immensely. There are cranes
on this island more than two hundred
years old. Some of them are sixteen feet
high.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28
Ways of Washing the Face.

There are several wrong ways of wash
ing the face and but one right. Towel,
flannel, sponge are all out of place where
the face is concerned. The hands only
should be used. Doctor Wilson's direc-
tions are Fill your basin about two
thirds full with fresh water; dip your
face in the water, and then your hands.
Soap the hands well, and pass the soaped
hands with gentle friction over the whole
face. Having performed shis part of the
operation thoroughly, dip the face in the
water second time, and rinse it COM
plets ly; you may add very much to the
luxury OF the latter part of the opera
tion by having second basin ready with
fresh water to perform a final rinse"
But the care OF the complexion requires
that not only the face, but the whole
body shall be daily subjected to the bath.
The sponge bath is, perhaps. the best, and
the temperature of the water must be
regulated by the sensations of the bather.
and by the season of the year. No one
can deny the charm of clear, soil color
In the cheeks and lips, and it mn lie an
incorrigible complexion, indeed, that
will not yield TO the measures that /
have recommended - Casselps Maga-
zine.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28
Equal to the Occasion.

When Lord Liverpool was forming his
ministry in 1922, he thou ht it abso-
lutely necessary to have Canning at the
foreign ctfice, although aware the ap-
pointment would be obnoxious to George
". The Duke of Wellington undertook
the unple asant task of communicating
Lord Liverpool's determination, and
went to Brighton for that purpose. As
soon as the king knew what WAS wanted
of him he broke out: "Arthur, it is i'm
possible! I said, On my honor as gen.
tleman, he should never be one of my
ministers again. l am sure you will
agree with me that I cannot do what l
said on my honor as a gentleman [ would
not do" Another man would have been
si'enced, but the great soldier, always
equal to the emergency, replied: "Par-
don me, sir, but don't agree with you
at all. Your majesty is not gentle
man" The bold assertion startled the
KlBR, Uut Vic uuho Woh1 oh A'uA
majesty is not gentleman, but the SOW
ereign of England, with duties to your
people far above any to yourself, and
their duties render it imperative that
you should employ the abilities of MIR.
Canning" "Well, Arthur" said the
king, drawing long breath, eff | must,
I must" Although he cid not like
being told he was no gentleman, George
". had once at least, while regent, for
gotten he was one. That was when he
flung glass of wine in Colonel Hamlyn's
face, with: "Hamlyn, you are b!ack~
guard - The insulted officer could not
return the compliment without commit
ting something like treason, it was out
of the question to challenge the prince,
while to pass the insult unnoticed was
equally impossible. The colonel filled
his glas. and threw the contents in the
face of his neighbor, saying: "His royal
highness' toast; pass it OF n' "Hamlyp, "
cried the regent, ';you're capital fel-
low! Here's your health!' And they
we're fast friends from that evening"
Chambers Journal
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28
Glass MillStOneS.

The Manufacturer and Builder calls
the attention of manufacturers who can
cast heavy pieces of glass, and also OF
millers. to recent German discovery
that the finest -four is produced by those
mil!stones which have the most CLASSY
texture and composition, and the conse-
quent discovery that pieces of glass COM
bined in the same way as the French
burr, and similarly grooved on their sur
faces, will grind better than the burr
millstones. The consequence of this
discovery has been the invention of the
glass millstones now made by Messrs.
Thorn, and used in Germany and in Ber-
kendorf with great satisfaction, as it is
found that they grind more easily and
do not heat the -four as smuch as is the
case with the French burr stone. In
grinding grIst they run perfectly cold.
In order to make such stones blocks of
glass from 6 to IL inches wide are cast in
a shape similar to the French burrs, but
more regular and uniform; they are con-
nected with cement in the same way ,and
dressed and furrow. cat with picks and
pointed hammers; but it is believed that
diamond. dressing machines might be
proftably applied. 1t is said that these
millstones, made oflumrs of hard glass,
do not wear away faster than the burr
stones. Stones Of A feet in diameter
driven by six horse power, ground 220
pounds of -four per hour, and did it
while remaining cold. The grist is drier,
looser, and the hull more thoroughly
separated from the kernel than is the
case with other stones.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28
Fattcning Poultry by Machinery

Paris correspondence of the r. chester Express
While in the French department OF
agriculture was much interested in sd
exhibit for tattening poultry by machin-
cry. The hens and cocks were arranged
in little stalls about ten inches square,
with their heads towards the open front
and their feet haltered to the floor in q
way to prevent their turning round.
The attendant passed in front of the
stalls, seized the unhappy bird by the
neck, inserted tube, to which was at
tached long hose, into its mouth
pressed upon pedal with her foot,
and graduated quantity of food was
forced into the stomach OF the bird.
They took their nourishment very much
as boy would take medicine. The food
is composed of a ground mixture of corn,
rye, barley, milk and water, and while
it may not accord with the American
idea of chicken rights to make rooster
eat, whether he wants to or not, it cannot
be denied that tnis regimen makes him
much more desirable to be eaten. /
have nowhere else tasted such sweet,
Juicy chicken as they have here. About
tie morality of this system there may
also be some question, asd | doubt if 1t
could obtain in country blessed with
Berghs.
1t certainly divests chicken life of
much # its romance. They must devote
their lives exclusively to The ignoble,
unheroic business of getting tat. No
Growing or clck)ing and nestbiding in
out of-the'way places in barns, or hatch
ing, or scratching tor the easly worm in
gardens or on ancestral dung hills for,
them. Indeed, these people who, it is
said, have no word for home, have done
much to divest the lives of chickens OF
halIowed and homeIike associations.
They are hatcbed in steam incubators
and the velvety little birds Deyer know
the sheltering arms of the old hen, but
are protected in fannel-lined drawers.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28

heads with an overpoweliDg force,
striving against the resistance
Which it met, as if it would bear US down
to the bottom of the lake, and then, re"
PEELED by the force of the water, it
brushei; :st? : million Of tiny ripples
Inc temperate fell to $50 Fahrenheit,
and with this sudden cold down dropped
severe shower of haiistones of great
size, which pelted US with great force
and made our teeth chatter, After this
the rain fell in sheets, while the light
ming blaz d, proceeding the most dread
full thunder~c'aps | remember to have
ever heard The rain, indeed, fell in
such quantities that it required two men
for each section to keep the boat suffi-
GENTLY buoyant to ride the crest Of the
waves. The crew cried out that the boat
was nking,-that, if the rain continued
in such volume, nothing could save us.
In reply, only urged them to bale her
out faster. The sable mass Of Usuguru
as I observed by the bars of intense
light which the lightning flashed almost
every second-was still in front, and l
knew, therefore, that we were not being
swept very far to sea Our energies were
wholly devoted to kee ping our poor pet
ted selves afoat, and this occupied the
crew SO much that they half forget the
horrors OF the black and dismal night
For two hours this experience lasted land
then, unburdening our breasts with
sighs of gla 1ness not unmixed with graft
tude, we took cur anchor on board and
stole through the darkness to the vest
ern side of Ngevi Island, where, at a
kindly fire, we dried our clothes and our
wetted bodies, and, over hot potful of
Leibig, affected to laugh at our late crit
ical position.-[Stanley's Book.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28
A Central African Storm,

We continued sailing for half an hour,
and as it was then near sunset, dropped
anchor in seventy-five feet of water. The
wind, which had swept in strong gusts
from the northwest, suddenly fell, for in
the northeast the aspect Of the sky had
hng been threatening. Clouds surged
in thick masses from that direction and
cast . gloom over the woodclothed slopes
and crests Of Usnguru, which became al
most as black as velvet pail, while the
lake grew as quiet as though vitrifed
into glass, Soon the piled p.cloud mass
grew jagged, and portentous zig gag
line of deep sable hue ran through its
centre, from which the storm seemed to
Issue. ..I requested the crew to come
further aft, and fastening double rope
TO the stone anchor, prepared every mug
and baler for the rain with which We
were threatened. The wind then fell, as
though from above, upon our bowed
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St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28
The Gay GOndoliers.

IO,rrespondeuce of the Baltimore American.
Poets and romancers have given the
gondolier the character OF gay and airy
specimen of humanity, who does nothing
but laugh and sing and overflow with
animal spirits-s kind of a troubadour,
who keeps time with his oar, and plays
with il as if it were the strings of
guitar. But they are in reality the hack
drivers OF Venice. and they are generally
Just about as jovial and goed-natured as
the gentlemen who can be found on Bar
NUNS corner. They are by law only al
lowed to charge twenty cents for the use
of their vehicles, unless there are two
gondolers, and then it is forty cents
per hour. The price is so shamefully
low that visitors, espe cially Americans,
cheerfully give double these rates, and
they make themselves very obliging and
accommodating to strangers for this rea-
son. There are thousands of gondolas
constantly in motion tor business or
pleasure, and they have their regular
stands, the same as the hackmen have
with us. There are great many private
families that keep their own gondoIas,
which can be seen emerging from some
of the small canals as soon as the sun
goes below the lofty houses of the grand
canal, with the ladies and children IN
them, and a gaily attired gondoller
plying the oar. The law requires all
thee crafts to be painted black, but the
private ones are richly ornamented with
CAV curtains and plated standards. Ire
dress of the private gendolier is usually
white, trimmed with green, blue or yer
low, wearing silk sashes, and " stfs" na'
with flowing ribbon. The dress OF Inc
regular gondolier is also prescrloeo oy
law-wbite, with blue sash and trlal-
mings, but most of them disregard this
requirement, and appear in Ordinary
attire.
There are also omnibus gondolas, car
rvipg from six to twelve persous' with
three or fout gondoliers. The rice upon
these i. about FIVE cents per hour 1of
each person. Small steamers run houfly
To the outer islands, at which oaehlns
establishments are located.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28
HcH Has Learned About 1t.

King Alfonso Is said to have said to
some one recently: "I am not one OF
those who go away. shall die on the
throne, be it of q natural or a violent
death" which recalls the anecdote of
some years ago. When Queen Isabella
and her son first sought an asylum in
France, one day at Biarritz, where the
emperor and empress had gone to well
come them, the prince imperial suddenly
said to his father: Where are they
going?" Who?' p inquired the emperor.
"The Queen of Spain and Ii tie Alton
So" They are going into exile, my
son." "Where is exileH' inquired the
little prince. The emperor paused for a
moment, then smiled and answered in
the way grown people are SO frequently
forced to do when children drive them
into a corner by some weird que tion:
"You shall have exile explained to you
when you are older"
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28
WAITS AND WHIMS.

r. is the silent watches of the night
that render the alarm clocks nsces-
sary.
1t is not polite to bite corn from the
cob in the presence of psop'e who have
false teeth.
st. Evremond said. Anectation is
a greater enemy to the face than the
smallpox"
"A great many men exc out what
they really have with what they pre-
tend to have.
When is mad bull as objection
able as an absent husband?-When it is
getting on toward one.
1t is generally acknowled" ed by
thinking people that the unive al bone
of contention is the jaw bone.
As education goes now young man
cannot hs fitted for college until he has
graduated at rowing academy.
Aio" Ch!ilC Ou w uhSt 7tIii "a ''''i y
nose" asked city dandy of country
boy. $50 that | would not be be pokins
into other peoples business" WAS the
reply.
The notion that you are genius IS
sort of wiil-o'the that will lead
you into bog some time and leave you
there. The only philosophers stone is
the ability and the willingness to work.
"A newly married man, who evident
ly needs discipline, thus discoursaA: GA
woman is handy thing to have about
the house. She does not cost any more
to keep than you'll give her, and she'll
take great interest in you."
The Oil City Derrick notices that,
while many women have killed bears,
not one of them has been known to kill
mouse The trouble is, we suppose,
that the mouse does not jump on the
table where they can get at Kim.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28
F THOU COUtD'ST KNOW.

| think If thou touid'at know,
O eoul that will complain,
What lies eoncealt d below
Our burden and cur pain;
How Just our Anguish brings
Ntarer those longed-for things
We seek for now In vain
I think thou wouId'st rejoice, and not complain
think II thou could'st see.
With the dln mortal sight,
How meanings dark to thee
Are shadows, bidipg light;
Truth efforts crossed ana sFxed,
life's purposes adj perpicAed-
II thou could'st see them right,
T think that they would seem all clear, and wise
and bright.
And yet thou can'st not know.
And vet thou canst not q;
Wisdom aud sight are slow
In poor humanity.
If thou couid'st t, ust poor soul,
In Him who rules the WHOLE
Thou Hould'st find peace and rest:
Wisdom aad sight are well, but trust Is best.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28

The captain 'scompany had not seen
much service, and one morning the Fed
eral cavalry surprised them. The boys
did the best they could; they broke, ran
and rallied in squads and fred. Some
of the boys were wounded, few were
killed. The captain who was red-head-
ed, ran on foot las he lost his horse) until
his lace was as red as his head, He saw
the crisis. S, he took position in the
middle of the road, and waving his
sword, he ma lie this order to his troops !:
Men, for heavens sake, quit shooting;
it only makes them worse. - Memphis
Avalanche.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News Items,

"a AS~N'' ASSAA'%s
The city tax of Memphis amounts to
1887 on the 800.
The orange crop of louisiana promises
to be unusually large.
Hot Springs will introduce the Mofet
register to raise city revenue.
An Alabama negro has been sentenced
fifteen years for stealing $3.50.
Mr.. Money has been nominated for
congress in the third Mississippi district.
The mayor of New Orleans was fined
$3.50 for evading quarantine and enter
ing Vicksburg.
Judge Roberts, nominee for Governor
of Texas, wss born in South Carolina
and is seventy-two years old.
In eleven months Richmond paid $780,
937.05 state tax on Intoxicating drinks,
as shown by the Moffett register.
San Antonio makes the street car com
pany pay tax of one cent on each fare
to keep the streets in repair.
The negroes in Sulphur Springs, Texas,
begsn protracted meeting last Fe-
bruary one year ago, and it is still going
on
Major Penn has a big camp meeting in
Burleson county, Texas, and thirty eight
persons were baptized by torchlight one
night. >a~s@
The yield OF sponge this season has
been so abundant that the price in Key
.. West market has gone dowl fully one
half. ......
The school board of New Orleans has
declared that woman teacher who
marries shall be considered as resigning
her position as teacher.
A twelve.pounder Parrot gun is mount
= ed en- borbette at Fort Quarantine, Mem
phis, to stop ali blockade running steam.
boats fom New Orleans, Vicksburg and
the yellow fever infected districts.
A negro in Atlanta has been sentenced
to twelve months service ON the public
works OF Fulton county for following up
newspaper carrier and stealing papers
from the doorsteps of the subscribers.
III Judge John Bragg, of Mobile, ate
serving in congress several terms and
filling many important oflces in Alaba-
ma, died in Mobile few days ago, aged
seventy-two. He was brother of Gen
Braxton Bragg.
Charleston News and Courier: The
Azor is now lying off Hunters wharf.
Arrangements have been about COM
pleted to load her with naval stores for
Antwerp. The freight will, it il claimed,
pay every debt against her. The next
cargo of emigrants have therefore come
time to wait yet.
Darien (Ga.) Timber Gazette: While
plowing in his field the other day, Mr.
John Ingram came across a church. bell
weighing about two hundred and fifty
pounds, bearing the date Philadelphia,
1909. The bell is apparently uninjured,
and seems as good as when first ma
nufactured. 1t is supposed that it was
buried during the war TO keep it from
failing into the hands of the Yankees.
spartanburg Is. O. Daily: We are
inclined to think the magnificent promise
80 long enjoyed by our farmers will prove
very delusive. From all we can hear
and judge the crops throughout the state
must fall at least Is per cent. below the
figure which everything promised few
weeks ago. It is too late now for the
rains to do more than refresh the cotton
plants and fill out the fruit.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-28

WAN
have done it, too. I did do it, snd !
told my friends whom I trusted,
and an envy of my genius seiz-
ed upon them, and they shut me
up in a mad-house for years-I, the dis
coverer, beside whom Harvey's discovery
of the circulation of the blood was but q
notion to please a child-shut up with
driveling idiots in mad-house."
"But," I said, seeing maniac's fury
was beginning to overpower him at the
Thought Of his fancied wrongs, chow
was this great contamination to be at
tained.''
Glow ?" he repeated. "You sur
geoD, and ask me that? What is the
vital organ of everything that lives
The heart. 1t is the only organ that
never rests. I would reproduce it. In
every breast two hearts should beat, and
then we could defy death. Defy tive
should be godsv
I recoiled from him again, smitten with
sudden terror, and the perspiration
broke out in cold drops upon my fore
head. A revelation had come to me
This, then, was the explanation to the
mysterious murders that had startled the
community. This man Who spoke was
the scientific assassin-a madman, who,
to prove the ridiculous theory his crszed
brain had evolved, had taken more than
dozen human lives!
He did not seem to notice my agita-
tion, however, so carried away was he by
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-12

TO RENE.

Our old established stand with fixtures
shelvings and gas complete situated ut tho
corner of Royal and st. Philip streets, in direct
communication by cars with Jackson and
pontehnrtratn railroads, and in Gloss proximity
to the French Market. An unusually good op-
portunity for any one desiring to open II dry
goods store. Now under repairs. which will be
completed on tho fourteenth instant when
store will be ready for delivery.
Apply ct DANIIG Frs
No. 157 Canal street.
Also, the upper part oft repository brick build
ing corner Royal md st. Philip streets. 10
complete repnir. with gns. ostern. bath rooms
and all modern improvements. to lont together
or separately ut tenant option.
Apply ut DANTIGER'H,
sc8 % i'm No. 1b7 Canal street