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St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21
Death-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 pestience;
and Nikosia, situated on the low ground
at the foot of a steep mountain ridge
that completely shuts out the health>
giving winds of the north, is the worst
conceivable place tor 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
environments along the higher slopes,
over which the fresh sea breeze plays
necessarily, 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 ouch
&arA~
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21
Fattcning Poultry by Machinery

Paris correspondence of the RI chester Express
While in the French department of
agriculture ! was much interested in an
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 battered to the floor in
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 a pedal with her foot,
and a 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 wafer, 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 this regimen makes him
much more desirable to be eaten. I
have nowhere else tasted such sweet,
juicy chicken as they have here. About
the morality of this system there may
also be some question, asd doubt if it
could obtain in country blessed with
Berghs.
1t certainly divests chicken life of
mucl IF its romance. They must devote
their lives exclusively to the ignoble,
unheroic business Of getting tat. No
growing or cackling and nest-hiding in
out of-the'way places in barns, or hatch
ing, or scratching fer the early 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 homelike associations.
They are Matched in steam incubators
and the velvety little birds never know
the sheltering arms of the old hen, but
are protected in fannel-lined drawers.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21
. Miscellaneous Items.

sal 2 s.
= The Americans eat twice as much salt
as the English. Is- asaE
1t thers were no relief to be had there
would be NJ Migrants. IL .s,'
Anaeng the mechanical. TOYS at the
Paris exposition are dolls that swim, dive
and tread water after the most approved
human style: HI. s,s2sa'5
4 glacier in Washington territory is
said toAcDntain a.lundred thousand 1cool
hundred thousand) tons of ice, and a
company has been formed at Olymp ia to
bring it into, market.
On the door of the great temple
Ligmoto, Japan, is q scene showing frs t
a monkey, then an ape, then a gorilla,
and SO on, tin at last the series ends with
q perfect man, surround by elephants
and curious birds: The door is several
centuries old .xaa i
In the late Russian campaign, 356 sur.
geons, out ola total of 2, 500, have died,
being equal TO about 12s per cent. This
mortalityfis a much larger proportion
than that Of the combatant officers The
only instance ON record where the pro.
portion Of deaths among the combatant
ffic.rs was larger than that of the sur.
eeons was in the Prussian army during
Tho Fra ico-P russian war in I87O,7I.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21
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 office, although aware the ap-
pointment would be obnoxious to George
". The Duke of Wellington undertook
the unpleasant 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! | said, On my honor as gen.
tleman, he should never be one of my
ministers again. I am sure you will
agree with me that cannot do what /
said on my honor as gentleman I would
not do" Another man would have been
sienced, 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
MILK, Uut LuC OuhC Wcut VIZ 1CAA
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 Mr..
Canning" "Well, Arthur" said the
king, drawing long breath, eff I must,
I must" Although he did not like
being told he was no gentleman, George
w. 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 a black
guard p The insulted officer could not
return the compliment without commit
ting Sc 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 glass and threw the contents in the
face Of his neigbbor, saying: His royal
highness' toast; PASS it on ~ ''Hamlyn,"
cried the regent, ''you're a capital fell
low! Here's your health!'' And they
were fsst friends from that evening"
Chambers Journal.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21
A Central African Storm.

We continued sailing for half an hour.
and as 1t was then near sunset, dropped
anchor In seventy.fve feet of water. The
wind, which had swept in strong gusts
from the northwest, suddenly fell, for in
the northeast the saspect of the sky had
long been threatening. Clouds surged
in thick masses from that direction and
cast a gloom over the woodclothed slopes
and crests of Usuguru, which became al
most as black as velvet pail, while the
lake grew as quiet 81 though yitrifed
into glass. Soon the piled mp cloud mass
grew jagged, and portentous zig;zag
line Of deep sable hue ran through it's
centre. from which the STERN seemed to,
issue. |. a requested the crew to come
further att, and fastening double rope
20 the stone anchor, prepared every mug
and baler for the rain with which We
were threatened. The wind then Tell, 40
though from above, upon our bowed
Il 4 4
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21
WAITS AND WHIMS.

1T is the silent watches of the NIGHT
that render the alarm clocks neces.
sary.
1t is not polite to bite corn from the
cob in the presence of pope who have
false teeth.
st. Eyremond said. Alteration 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?-W 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 a young man
cannot BIS fitted for college until he has
graduated at rowing academy.
-" How came you to have such short
nose p asked city dandy of a country
boy. $50 that would not be be pokins
into other peoples business" was the
reply.
The notion that you are genius is
a sort of will-o'the-wisp 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
]y needs discipline, thus discusses: "a,
woman is a handy thing to have about
the house. She docs not cost any more
to keep than you'll give her, and she'll
take agrcat 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 him.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21
Glass MilIstOnes.

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
millstones 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 asmuch as is the
case with the French burr stone. In
grinding grlst they run perfectly cold.
In order to make such stones blocks of
glass from to II inches wide are cast in
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
profitably spilled. 1t is said that these
miIlstones, made oflumrs of hard glass,
do not wear away faster than the burr
stones. Stones Of a feet in diameter
driven by six horsepower, ground 220
pounds of -four per hour, and did it
while remaining cold. The grist is drier,
looser, and the hull more thoroughly
from the kernel than is the
case with other stones.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21
He Has Learned About 1t.

King Alfonso IS said to have said to
some one recently: !" 1 am not one OF
those who 60 away. l shall die on the
throne, be it of a natural or 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 snd empress had gone to well
come them, the prince imperial suddenly
said to his father: Where are they
going ?" Who?' inquired the emperor.
" The Queen of Spain and Ii tie Alton
So" They are going into exile, my
SON." Where is exile!'' inquired the
little prince. The emperor paused for
moment, then smiled and answer d in
the way grown people are so irequ entity
forced to do when children drive them
into corner by some weird question
" You shall have exile explained to you
when you are older"
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21

heads with an overpowerirg force,
striving against the resistance
which it met, as if it would bear us down
to the bottom of the lake, and then, res
PEELED by the force of the water, it
bruGhed :st:1 : million OF tiny ripples.
Inc temperate fell to $50 Fahrenheit,
and with this sudden cold down dropped
severe shower of hailstones 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 blsz d, proceeding the most dread
full thunder~claps | remember to have
ever heard The rain, indeed, fell in
such quantities that it required two men
for each section to keep the boat sufi-
GENTLY buoyant to ride the crest of the
waves. The crew cried out that the boat
was sinking,-that, if the rain continued
in such volume, nothing could save us.
In reply, I only urged them to bale her
out faster. The sable mass of Usuguru
as observed by the bars of intense
light which the lightning flashed almost
every second-was still in front, and I
knew, therefore, that we were not being
swept very far to Sea. Our energies were
wholly devoted to keeping our poor pet
ted selves ahoat, and this occupied the
crew SO much that they half forgot the
horrors of the black and dismal night
For two hours this experience lasted and
then, unburdening our breasts with
signs of gla iness not unmixed with graft
tude, we took our anchor on board and
stole through the darkness to the west>
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., 1878-09-21
IF THOU COUtD'ST KNOW.

think II thou tou'd'st know,
0 eOul that wilt complain,
What lies eonceals below
Our burden and our pain;
How Just our Anguish brings
Ntarer those loDged-for riDgs
We seek for now in vain
think thou wouid'st rejoice, and not complain
think II thou could'st see.
With the din mortal sight,
How meanings dark to thee
Are shadows, hiding light;
Truth efforts crossed ana vsxed,
iife's purposes all perplcAed-
1t thou could at see tbs N right,
/ think that they would seem all clear, and wise,
and bright
And yet thou cans not know.
And yet thou can'st not q @;
Wisdom and sight are slow
In poor humanity
II thou eould'st t. ust, poor soul,
Ia Him who rules the whole,
Thou would'st find peace and rest:
Wisdom AID sight are well, bat trust is best.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21

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 fired. Some
of the boys were wounded. few were
killed. The captain who was red-head-
ed, ran on foot as he lost his horse) until
his face was as red ar his head, He saw
the crisis. s. he took a position in the
middle of the road, and waving his
sword, he male this order to his troops
"Men, for heavens sake, quit shooting;
it only makes them worse.-L Memphis
Avalanche.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21
The Gay GOndOliers.

Correspondence Of the Baltimore Americana
Poets and romancers have given the
gondolier the character OF q gay and airy
specimen of humanity, who does nothing
but laugh and sing and overflow with
animal spirits-a kind of a troubadour,
who keeps time with his oar, and plays
with it 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 IS
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
gondoliers, and then it is forty cents
per hour. The price is SO shamefully
low that visitors, especially Americans,
cheerfully give double these rates, and
they make themselves very obliging and
accommodating to strangers for this rea-
sou. There are thousands of gondoas
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 tneir own gondolas,
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 gaily attired gondoller
plying the oar. The law requires all
thee crafts to be painted black, but the
private ones are richly ornamented with
gay curtains and plated standards. Tie
dress of the private gondolier is usually
white, trimmed with green, blue or vel
low, wearing silk ssshes, and straw hat
with flowing ribbon. The dress OF the
regular gondolier is also prescribed oy
law-whise, wi h blue sash and tr1n-
mipgs. but most OF them disregard this
requirement, and appear in ordinary
attire.
There are also omnibus gondolas, car
rving from six to twelve persons, with
Three or four gondoliers. The rice upon
,hese il about five cents per hour 1or
zach person. Small steamers run houfly
% the outer islands, at which oatnng
are located.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21
FARM LIFE.
Its Practical and It's Sentimental SIDES

|
Poets have sung the delights of the
farmers life in strains so enchanting that
one might wonder why all the world has
not forsaken every other pursuit and be~
taken itself to the tilling of the soil. Bat
the farmer himself, in the upshaded hay.
field, or Flooding in the c'ayey-furrow
at the tail of his plow, with freeholder's
right sticking to each boot, or bending
with aching back, between the corn rows
or breasting the winters storms in the
performance of imperative duties, locks
at his life from a different point of view
To him his life appears as full of toll and
care and evil chances as that of any
other toiler. And true it is, the life of
any other toiIer. And true it is, the life
of an ordinary farmer is hard, with too
little to soften it-too much of work,
too little of play. But as true is what
the poet sang so long ago: Thrice
happy are the husbandmen if they
could but see their bless
ings," for they have independence more
than any Others who by the sweat of the
brow earn their bread, and the free air
OF heaven to breathe, and the blessed
privilege Of daily communion with MAJ
ture.
1t is not easy for the farmer to see any
beauty in his enemies-the meadows full
of daisies, with which he is forever fight
ing, or by which he has been ignomin-
ious] y conquered; the encroaching ranks
of golden rods along the borders of his
fields. and the bristliny bayonets of those
Canadian invaders, the thistles. How
few farmers, or other people for that
matter, see in the climbing bushes of
the dawning day, or the gorgeous painting
of its close, or in the perfect day itself,
anything but the foretelling of fair or
foul weather or notice the ways of any
untamed bird or beast, except that the
crows come to pull the corn, the hawks
to catch the chickens and the foxes to
catch the lambs and turkeys? How
ever, the farmer generally does feel
thrill of pleasure when, in the hazy soft
ness of a February Or March day, he
hears the cav of the first carrion>seeking
hungry crow. The heart of winter is
broke" In April when the fields begi
to show suspicion of coming green and
give forth an oder of spring, and the
dingy snow banks along the fences are
daily dwindling, he welcomes the carol
Of the blue bird, and is glad to hear the
robin utter his restless note from the
boughs of the old apple.tree, and the
clear voice of the new. come meadow
lark strikes him as not altogether un-
musical; and when he hears the plaintive
cry Of the grass plover he is sure the
spring has come. and thinks of the small
birds no more till the first blasts of
returning winter sweep over tie bare
trees and frozen fields, when, all at once,
he becomes aware that the troubadours
are gone. He see that the brave little
chickadee remains faithful to his post,
and feels that his CHEEKY note enlivens 8
little the drea1ines OF winter, as does
the reedy piping of the nuthatch and
the voice of the dowry, fuller of life than
of music, and the di c,rdant note of the
blue jay, VIM, clad in bit of summer
sky, loudly proclaims his presence; but
the singers are gone, and he misses them.
- Scribner, for August.
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News Items.

SOubHCEh News EUeIliSs
The city tax of Memphis amounts t
1887 on the 800.
The orange crop Of Louisiana promise
to be unusually large.
Hot Springs will introduce the Mofe
: register to raise city revenue.
An Alabama negro has been sentences
fifteen years for stealing $3.50.
Mr.. Money has been nominated 70
congress in the third Mississippi district
The mayor of New Orleans was fine'
$3.50 for evading quarantine and enter
! ing vicksburg,
Judge Roberts, nominee for Governo
OF Texas, was born In South Carolin.
and is seventy-two years old.
In eleven months Richmond paid $46,
937. O5 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 a 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. '>'@~~'
The yield of sponge this season has
been so abundant that the price in Key
West market has gone down fully one.
half. .....l.
The school board of New Orleans has
declared that q woman teacher who
marries shall be considered as resigning
her position as teacher.
A twelve FOUNDER Parrot gun is mount
ed en- barbette at Fort Quarantine, Mem
phis, to stop ali blockade running steam.
boats from 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.
Judge John Bragg, of Mobile, ate
serving in congress several terms and
filling many important offices in Alaba-
ma, died in Mobile few days ago, aged
seventy.two. He was a 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 is claimed,
pay every debt against her. The next
cargo of emigrants have therefore some
time to wait yet. .-. .-s@
Darien (Ga.) Timber Gazette: While
blowing in his field the other day, Mr.
John Ingram came across a church. bell
weighing about two hundred and fifty
pounds, hearing the date Philadelphia,
1909. The bell is apparently uniniured,
and seems as good as when first ma
nufactured. Tits 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
30 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 25 per cent. belew the
figure which everything promised few
weeks ago. 1t is too late. now for the
rains to do more than refresh the cotton
plants aud fill cut the fruit. s..
St. Landry democrat., 1878-09-21

was to raise the human race, to elevate
it unto race of demi-gods. | could
have done it, too. did do it, snd !
told my friends whom I trusted,
and 40 envy of my genius seiz-
ed upon them, and they shut me
up in a mad-house for years., the dis
coverer, beside whom Harvey's discovery
of the circulation of the blood was but a
notion to please child-shut up with
driveling idiots in a mad-house."
"But," 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
tanned"
Glow ?" he repeated. You sur
geon, and ask me that? What il the
vital organ Of everything that lives?
The heart. 1t is the only organ that
never rests. / would reproduce it. In
every breast two hearts should beat, and
then we could defy death. Defy tive
should be gods!'
[ recoiled from him again, smitten with
a 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 mailman, who,
to prove the ridiculous theory his crszed
brain had evolved, had taken more than
q dozen human lives
He did not seem to Lotice my agita-
ton, however, so carried away was he by