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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26
Concerning Corscts.

In an indirect way the Supreme
Court of pennsylvania has been reall>1
etl upon to decide the important
question as to whether q woman las
any legal right to wear stays. 1t
gallantly says she has. The matter
found it's way into court after tins
fashion
A lady was riding in 4 horse car,
not crowded, perhaps, but contain
ing ladies' enough to cover all tho
seats with their dresses, so that this
traveller had to stand up. The car
started suddenly and she fell over,
breaking her l<nec-pan. She sued
tor damages. Tho company claimed
contributory negligence on her part,
in that she did not take hold OF the
strap that is provided for standing
passengers. She set up OH tho other
hand that she could no reach or hold
tho strap, owing to the stays which
she wore, and that with the present
fashions no lady can do so, at least,
without Inconvenience, and POSSIBLY
injury. The lower court decided that
the lady, in taking hold ola fellow
passengers hand, had done all
that was necessary, and that, under
tho circumstances, she was not
Obliged to stretch up to the strap.
1t awarded nor about So,OOo, anu Vic
Supreme Court, reviewing tho case,
declines to interfere. 1t is a question
of some sociological Importance to
know how this decision would be
received by tho Sex. At first glance
it looks like Il declaration in favor OF
woman's rights, but it will scarcely
stand analysis us such. 1t amounts
really to the official proclamation
that woman shall remain cralnpcU
barrclcd up and unable to lift her
arms, and content on!y with cllnGu's
to some other persons hand for sup
port. Aud this is what modern dress
amounts to. OF corset does.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26
To the Four winds.

Five weeping children were left
orphans the other day by the death
Of their mother, a widow who lived
on Prospect street. The father was
killed at one of the depots about two
years ago, and since then the mother
days work. Lack of food, exposure
and worry brought on an illness
which terminated fatally, and the
children huddled together in corner
Of the room feeling awed and frigh-
tened, but yet unable to realize that
death had made them waits. When
tho remains had been sent away to
potter's field q dozen women gather
cd and held n whispered converse
ton.
ssI'll take one of the poor things,
though I've four children Of my own"
said one of the women.
"And I'll take another"
"And I'll take one"
stAnd so will l."
Then there was the baby--a toldling
boy, who had been rocked to sleep
every night of his life, and whose big
blue eyes were full of tears as he
shrank behind his sister to escape
observation. AS none of the poor
| women seemed prepared to take so
young q child, q girl not over ten
years old, dressed a little better than
other children there, crept into the
group, reached out for the babe,
patted his white head, kissed him
and said:
81 will take this one! I have no
brother, and ma and pa will let me
keep Him. He can sleep in my trui.
dle-bcd, play with my doll, and they
may put all the Christmas presents
into his stocking!" and thp girl ran
around the corner and rcturncd with
her mother, who sanctioned all she
had said. ttCop,e, bubby-yon,r''
% 'ams,o now "! ~ ,,,s sahe..shs ,gir', an
him and tried 70 es, j: T. Mcbride
BY and bye 4 4, s. d. Kennedy and
nor home. VI ,o,sr
baby p 10y a.ssAa;
They put their arms around him
, and Rugged and kissed him, and they
went out from the old house to go il!
different directions and perhaps
never again to meet all together.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26
The Total Eclipse Of tho Sun.

A few words descriptive of the
eclipse on the Goth inst, may be of
interest to the readers of the Free
Press
The conc of shadow which causes
tho total part Of the eclipse strikes
horizontally upon the earth's surface
ut a point in Siberia ut sunrise Oh
July 30, local date. 1t travels north
easterly to about tho 1SO2l degree of
longitude, where tho date is suddenly
changed to July %, crosses Bchring
Straits in q duo cast course, is III
southeastern Alaska at noon, local
time, follows the summit of the Rocky
Mountains over tho National Park
to Central City, Col, passes out of
Colorado at tho Southeast corner OF
the State, arrives at tho Gulf OF
Mexico, between Galveston and New
Orleans, at 80 y. IN. local time, and
leaves the earth at shutdown in the
Caribbean Sea.
We may illustrate the sweep of
the cone Of shadow through space 10y
surprising it to be u huge knife, rest
ing ut sunrise at II place in Siberia.
Its point would DO some 5000 miles
sOuthwcsterly from tho place Of con-
tact. If we suppose tho knife to cut
NS way through INC cIrCu Cuc Siicc
cut of would be from the northern
portion of the earth, and the severed
surface would he nearly plane. The
cutting would be done i'll u little less
than three hours, and tho earth
having revOlved about one ghth OF
revolution during this interval, the
severed surface would be slightly
warped.
We have stated apparently that
the total eclipse would DC upon the
earth from sunrise to sunset, but in
reality tho cone of shadow passes
rapidly from II place OF sunrise to &
place Of sunset, and is upon tho earth
but three hours. Tho duration o
totality at any place in tho exac
central line of eclipse is about tire,
minutes, and the path Of totality il
about 116 miles in width.-Detroi
Free Press.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26
DERKsIIItE AND ESSEX PIC

Thoroughbred and acclimatod. W
doubt the best breed for tho Soutl
subscriber breeds from the finest M
bred imported Berkshiros and the
duce, such as 'sSallie Othello," IS
chester Cardiff" s'Robin Hood, '"To
s'Stumpy," "Sweot Seventeen" {
Has three fine boars at tho head
herd. Stock entered for tho third ,
'ss American berkshire Swine Record
none but thoroughbred stock are ad
Pigs for sale at all times, as good
be found in the United States.
boxed and delivered at Trenton or n
La, $25 per pair.
For further particulars, address
G. II. HINES, NJ. d
DoaO7esviLkc, Union IMTisI
Rsserenaes given if desired.
WT5ruary %, 1873.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26

ssThere is no more Doubt" says Il
writer in tho Popular Science Month
ly, 1sthat drinking icc water arrests
digestion than there is that - rctriG-
orator would arrest perspiration. 1T
drives from the stomach its natural
heat, suspcnds tho flow of gastric
Juice, and shocks and wcakcns the
delicate organs with which 1T comes
in contact.' II such dangers us those
lurk in the cooler, 1T is much to be
watched 10y wise men rs the dcmii"hn
itself.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26

They put their arms around him,
and Rugged and kissed him, and they
went out from the old house to go in
different directions and perhaps
never again to meet all together.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26

Tho conclusion arrived at by the
Cabinet ut Washington, seems to be
not to attempt to redeem legal ten
der notes before the first of January.
1t is thought however that Il prac-
tical cquivalcncy Of Value may be
secured at an earlier period by pay
ing out silver, gold and grcenhacks
in the current expenditures of the
Government.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26
0nafhitA Telegraph.
MoNRoE, La, JULY 20. 1878
J THE TRUE DOCTRINE.
IN. o. Delta.]

r Ne
u.,o rlatform adopted few days
ono hv ~the Arkansas Democratic
Gonyenfion contains this declaration
teWe arc opposed to any settle-
,.ant If Our State debt which would
involve . compromise of any portion
If that which is unjust or fraudu-
This declaration is in precise &C.
corxlance with tho views enunciated
n the Delta of Thursday last, when
we stated that the funding act of
1874. and the constitutional amend
ment approving and ratifying it, did
not sanction, much less provide fol, the
funding of bonds or other evidences
Of State indebtedness which were
tainted with fraud or were unlaw-
fully issued. A piece of paper with
ten words and figures upon 1T, pur-
porting to be promise to pay
money, and signed with tho names of
public officers of State, is moro
binding upon tho State than if
signed by private persons; unless
there is in existence u statute passed
in conformity with the Constitution,
authorizing the issue Of the paper,
and this for the very sufficient rca-
son that the contract does not con-
sist of the paper, nor, is it founded
on the paper, which is the nero evil
dence Of the contract, but is founded
upon the law which authorizes its
issue and upon that alone. Without
that it is worthless.
Now it is q notorious fact that no
act of consolidation and funding OF
public debts in Louisiana, State Oh
municipal, contains any provision
looking to the payment of evidences
fraudulently or Illegally created, be
cause As.At is not Ct eze6t at ak. Sucl
evidences OF Indebtedness arc not {
par1icls4 more bIRIiug on the State
on City, GhaAn n promissory not<
si.sued by John Jones, Attorney, IL
fact of John Smith, would be binding
on John Smith, if the authority o.
John Jones did not specifically i'll
clude the power to make and issue
prOmissOry notes in the name of and
for the account of John Smith.
The premium bond scheme of New
Orleans was devised and adopted
for the express purpOse-amons
others-of paying evidences OF debt
not legally binding upon the city
The same can he truthfully said OF
the State funding act Of 1874, which
would never have been agreed to by
the holders Of legal bonds except
upon the theory that ''half q loaf j:
better than no Bread" because i
placed holders Of illegal bonds AM
warrants upon the same footing
with holders of legal bonds and wal
rants, and we aver that tho Fundin
Board has funded bonds and wa
rants AuoaUn by them to be fraudulei
in their origin. Fortunately there
in existence, evidence of tho nun
bers and other marks of identitic;
ton of the new consOls issued tc
each old bond, SO that these latte
bonds were not merged in now COZ
soils in such Il way Us to prevent til
singing out ono by one of the ne,
consols based upon an old and fraut
ulent bond for which it was c,
changed. That is to say, the franc
ulent cOnsOls can be identified.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26

Let those who arc appointed to
judge Of tho character of others bear
in mind their own impcrfcctions, and
rather strive by sympathy to soften
the pang arising from ~ conviction
of guilt, than by misrepresentation
to increase it.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26

"Vat Il monster language says II
Frcnchman. ''IIerc l read i'll 70 news
papers zat II man commit II murder,
who was committed for trial and zen
committed himself to Il rcportair. No
wonder everything in America is done
by committee"
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
TIP TOP,
1
THE CELEBRATED .
HARNESS AND SADDLE STALL

THE CELIsBRATED
HARNESS AND SADDLE STALL
Will make tho present season al
stable OH tho McGuiro place. three
north east of Monroe; la. His servic
offered at $40 a single leap; $50 the 3
or 1926 to insure marc III foal. None
when the fact is ascertained or marc I
with. The colt, i'll all cases, standing
for the money.
DESCRIPTION AND PEDIGREE
TIT Tor is beautiful bay, full l6
high, strong and muscular, possessiI
style and action. Was sired by the :
renowned old Edwin Forrest, own
Alexander of kentucky dam by Elk.
Morgan grand dam by old Gray Ea
PERFORMANCES
IIo has taken several premiums a
Gus fairs in kentucky. Also, in st.
Mo-, and Il number of premiums at
bia, Fulton and Jefferson City fair
peting with some of the best trOtters
West. Ho has trottcd u mile in 2:4O.
March 30, 1875, III. w. MCLl
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26

awe mover saw n man," says an
exchange, "whO thought it u sin to
steal an umbrella" Then you never
saw a man whose umbrella had just
been stolen.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-07-26
THE SUM-
1878 - NEW YoRK............. 1878

AS tho time nppfOacneS 1OC LILO IohoWNA
of subscriptions, Tho Sun would remind its
friends and well-wishers everywhere, that
it is again candidate for their considera-
ton and support. Upon its record for the
past ten years it relies for a continuance of
tho hearty sympathy and generous CO.
operation which have hitherto been OK
tended to it from overy quarter of the
Union.
Tho Daily Sun is n four-page sheet of %
columns, price by mail. post paid, SIS cents
n month, or $G.5O per year.
The Sunday edition of The Sun is an
eight-page sheet of 56 columns. While
giving the news Of tho day, it also contains
a large amount of literary and miscellane-
Gus matter specially prepared for 1t. Tho
Sunday Sun has met with great success.
Post paid, $l.2O n year.
TIE WEEKLY SUN.
Who does not know tho Weekly sun? 1t
circulates throughout the United States.
the Canatlas, and beyond. Ninety Thousand
families greet it's welcome pages weekly,
and regard it in the light OF guide, coun-
sollor and friend. It's news, editorial, agri-
cultural and literary departments make it
essentially a journal for the family and the
| tireside. Terms, One Dollar y year, post
paid. This price, quality considered makes
it the cheapest newspaper published. For
clubs OF ton, with $40 cash, we will send an
extra copy free. Address
TIE SUN, NewYor City, N. Y.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-05-29
How a Horse Kept warm.

One morning last March, a well
kno vn physician in Meridian, Conn
drove up to q house on Crown street,
left his horse standing in front OF
the door, aud went il to visit a pa
tient.
The horse was one of those that
could be trusted to stand without ty-
ing but the weather being cold, be
soon began to feel chilly. He stamp
ed and paved the ground, he moved
this way aud that hoping every mo-
ment that his master would be ready
to drive on.
Al last, feeling that be could not
wait any longer without exercise, the
horse started of at a brisk pace, to-
ward Olive street. When be had
gone several rods be turned the bug
gy round as neatly as though guided
by q skillful driver, and trotted back
to the stsnding-place.
Here be stopped, and waited again
full FIVE minutes. Then he trotted
Oh several rods towards Main Street.
turned round as skillful as before.
and in spite Of a boy who tried to
stop him, tfaneying that he was a
runaway, pranced back to his old
station 10 front Of the house, and
waited patiently for his master.
When the doctor came out, there
was the horse standing at the hitch
ing post, as demurely as though h'
had never thought of leaving it. This
is a true story.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-05-29
The President aud the Goddess or LIB
erty.

WASHINGTON, May ia wiry
little IN about forty years old,
and with snaky curls down her back,
stepped up to the presidents door
keeper this morning and solemnly
announced tina. she was the God.
Cess of Liberty, and that she had
descended from the dome Of the Cap
itol this morning on purpose to see
the President. The doorkeeper.
somewhat surprised, showed her to
the anie-room, and asked her to re-
main there a while. He shortly af-
forwards let a party of ladies 10 to see
the President who merely wished to
pay their respects to him. Unseen
by him the Goddess Of Liberty slip.
ped in with the party. Inside she
created somewhat Of q scene by rush.
ing up TO the PfesideDr, repeating
her assertion that she was the God.
dess ofLibe cty just . epped down from
the dome and demanded the pardon
of her son, who she said was now 10
the New Jersey penitentiary. The
President, equal to the occasion ma.
neuvreG her out into the nall again.
She planted herself by the doorkeep-
er and refused to move until she
had received the pardon of her SON.
The doorkeeper, after considerable
trouble, got rid of her by saying that
the Attorney General bad all the
papers in ler sons case now at the
Capitol, and she bad better 90 up
there Immediately, as be would scon
lock up bis Office for the day. Hear
ing this, she decamped, walking brisk.
ly 10 the C ton of the Capitol.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-05-29
a Butter Joke.

Mr.. Atkinson is a farmer, and very
fond of a joke. Recently be wrote TO
a business house in Boston, with
whom be is on terms of intimacy, as
follows:
II will send you the finest butter
next week you ever saw. The first
lot will weigh about sixty pounds.
VIII divide the proceeds of sale with
YOU" Encouraged by the liberal
terms Of the offer, the firm advertised
extensively that they were prepared
to ill orders for dairymen and pro-
duce merchants for the finest butter
ever sent to market. AT the appoint
ed time the consignment failed to ar
rive, so the merchants telegraphed up
to MI. Atkinson, and received the re-
ply that the butter would be down
by the first train the next morning.
TIE butter arrived as promised, but
was in the form Of q most ferocious
goat Of enormous size, who was no
sooner liberated from the crate THAI
be commenced a career Of the most
unbridled villainy ever witnessed.
lie knocked the senior partner into
the corner, and butted three of his
ribs out; the junior p%artaer took re-
fuge on the top of some bales of wool
bat he goat jumped after and butted
him off on the floor, and prodded hin
with bis horns until be was inse0si
bic. After knocking about thiog'
generally, so that each member of the
frm looked as if he had been invited
to a FIRST class massacre, be wound
up by q determined assault upon q
threshing machine. The first elias!
butter was al last caught with q
rope and sent to the city pound.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-05-29
An Aztec Princes wedding.

| must pass owe a long period 10
the life of Master VI. with the mere
remark that he graduated in both his
military and religious classes With
the highest honors, and acquitted
himself to the most perfect satisfac-
ton of both the a~lfalquis, or priests,
and the tescbcauhs, which is nearly
the same as our word teachers.
Master NJ. had, for a long time,
cherished a hope that some day he
might press the throne as king of
Mexico, So, like the Yorkshire lad
who begged salt Of a stranger eating
eggs near him, so as to have the salt
ready in case any one should ask
him to accept an egg, he prepared
himself fully for the possible emer-
gency, aud became not only a mill
tary general, but a leading alfalqui.
And then he married. | have not
room to give you a detailed descrip-
ton of the whole ceremoDy,-its
crowds, and fuss, and grandeur,-but
here is q glimpse Of the way it was
done.
A lady whose position in society
required her to negotiate the match.
having previously made all the ne
cessary arrangements, one evening,
hoisted the happy damsel on her
back, and accompanied by four
young women, each in appropriate
costume, bearing a torch, headed the
Joyous procession and marched to
the house Of Master NJ, where she
dropped her cargo of precious human
ity. Then the alfslqui asked them il
they were mutually agreed on mat
rimony, and of course, they said
yes" when be proceeded 10 tie their
clothes together. Then two old pa.
triarchs aud two good old grand
mothers stepped forward in a very
solemn manner, aud delivered little
sermons suited to the occasion. The
new couple walked seven times round
a blazing fire, psrtook of a feast with
their friends, heard a final sort Of a
ninety-ninthly and to conclude" part.
ing word from the four old people,
and then, just as all married people
do, went TO housekeeping, sod having
their own way as much IS possible.
One thing they could not do. There
was no law OF divorce TO appeal to
then; death was the only Judge who
could entertain the question Of separ'
alton.
Master NJ. will now disappear, to
re-appesr as the Emperor. In The
year ''ten rabbits" or A. ID. 1902, the
former monarch died, and the elect.
ors selected Master NJ. to supply hi:
place. In the household of each
monarch there was an electoral board
of four mobiles, whose duty it was, on
the death Of the ruler, to elect bis
successor from among the sons and
nephews of the crown. Having done
this, and so notified the successor,
they selected four mobiles 10 gil their
own places, and vacated their electo-
raj chairs. Master NJ, when waited
upon TO be notified of his election to
GIL his u%ncle's place, was very busy
sweeping down the stairs in the great
temple dedicated to the god OF war
&C c Haskins, 81. Nicholas for
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-05-29
Transparency OF Metals.

That gold may be beaten to such
a state Of thinness as TO readily trans
NIT a ereenish light is a fact that has
been long known: ard this properly
has been used by the gold heater as
a practical test Of the purity oil the
precious metal, inasmuch as The
smallest admixture OF silver with the
latter causes a p~erceptible change OF
tint in the transmitted light. AT q
recent meeting Of the New York
Academy Of Sciences, there was ex'
hibited a film of gold (mounted be,
tween two plates of glass for protec.
ton against injury which was stated
10 be the fhinnest deaf Of this met
FL that has as vet ever been produced.
The method by which this remarka.
bic result was obtained is very sim
pie. yet one that requires consldera-
bic delicacy Of manipulation. An
exceedingly tenaOus film Of gold hav'
|iog been, by means of a galvanic bat
terry, deposited on The surface Of an
ordinary daguerreotype plate OF cop
per. the latter metal was afterwards
dissolved away by the action OF nit
rio acid. and the gold hlm caught OF
8 plate Of glass.
The property OF t~ranslueency
when 10 films, mas, until a compare
lively short time ago, been regarded
as one peculiar to gold alone; th'
reason being, perhaps, that but lie"
metals besides gold can be success
folly hammered TO the necessary de
gree Of tenuity. In this respect, 10
deed. no metals bul silver and plat
mum have been found to approach q
gold. The interesting discovery ha
been made. however, that by meau
Of electricity thin films, not Only o
gold but Of tire other metals, a b
obtained which transmit light yer
readily. The method Of obtainip,
these teuu0us sheets of metal Is D.
causing electric sparks to pass iron
wires Of the required metals passlnI
into tubes of raretied air or othe
gases. when the particles OF meta.
{ detached from the wire- by th
sparks, become deposited on the SIDE
Of the glass, forming an excessivel
thin Glm. quite continuous under ID
/. microscope. OF the metallic him
thus produced gold transmits a I'm
green light; silver gives a fine blu
color; copper, a dull green platinum
. a blush gray zinc, a deep blois
gray; iron, a tint nearly neutral, bu
inelining 20 brownish ; and cadmium
, ike zinc. a blush gray.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1878-05-29
Dying of brain Work

When We hear that q MA has
killed himself by excessive brain
work, We feel that we should like to
have the witnesses in court 10 order
that we might rigidly cross-examine
them. What sort of work was il !
Was it brain work pure, or was i,
mixed up with anxiety, worry and
excitement? What we're the mans
habits? Did be indulge overmuch
in what are called stimulants? Did
be deprive himself of a just allotment
of sleep! If all these question:
could be asked and answered, We
suspect it would be found that the
man who is supposed to have died Of
excessive mental energy died rather
of want of fresh air and exercise, of
too much fre-water in some form or
another, of horrible financial embar-
Of late hours, ard Of ex-
other than those pure
work breeds in the human brain.