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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1880-03-27
BACHELORS BAWL.

Inc -hllsslsslppl Legislature has
come to the assistance of tie Leap
Year party, by passing law i'm
posing tax of three dollars on all
unmarried men over the age of
twenty-five. As might be sup
posed, the naturally cross and crabid
old bachelors have raised howl
of Indignation. and claim that this
act is unconstitutional and oppres-
sive. as it gives an undue advantage
to the enemy. But some of the
old rakes claim exemption from the
tax, upon apparently good grounds.
In Tylertown, Pike county, the
Bachelors Club held meeting and
gave vent to their grievances in a
series of resolutions. which we find
in the columns of our valued contem-
porary, the Summit Times. They
wall as follows:
eve claim that no Legislative
body has u right to impose any
more tax on one individual than
another for his existence. If men
choose to live single rather than
married, we claim that this right
should not be prohibited; and if
such tax must and shall be i'm
posed, we claim certain provisions.
If q man, after counting all the
girls in the county, and making
propositions to as many rs three in
one month, or, as one of our men,
bers has done, advertised i'll one of
the public journals, should then
fail, we claim that the fault is not
his, and he should be exempt.
1--WE claim further, that the ap-
preparation should not be made for
public school purposes, but instead,
be placed i'll the hands of the
County Treasurer, with instructions
that the amount be equally divided
among all "old maids and their
cats"
Whereas, We are commanded
alike to run well the race set before
us, we claim that we have done so,
and if we have failed we do not
think it right to be ridiculed by
those who have been more fortu-
nate. We, in our unbiased judg-
ment, are satisfied that many poor
hen-pecked husbands would gladly
exchange places with us, if they
dared admit it.
I'VE sympathize with the canine
race, and suppose, as bachelors are
sometimes called happy dogs they
were classed together by the Leeis-
lature and made the special object
of taxation. Whereas, we are not
posted as to the provisions of the
law, we are in doubt as to our duty
to purchase 50 so collar to ex-
empt US from further imposition;
but we will rest easy upon this mat
ter at present. for if such is the
case, our efficient Assessor will be
in order to give his brother batche-
lors timely warning-wear his in
conspicuous place, and in due time
show us the style. And now, in
our adjournment, be it resolved
that we sing the Doxology:
Bachelors Hall. we think it best.
Drunk, sick or sober, so home and take
rest.
No wife to scold; no children to bawl.
Happy is the man who keeps Bachelors
Hall"
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1880-03-27
DIED.:

JONES-In New Orleans, on Tuesday.
March %. 1880. Judge JESSE r. JONES.
of Covington, La, aged 81 yesIs and 8
months. II
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23
The Etiquette Of Shoes.

IHE custom of removing boots in
Burmah is not SO much an article of
etiquette observed by equals to EQUALS
as an ingenious device to exalt the
monarch Of the Golden Foot and de-
grade his subjects, and strangers, too.
before him. 1t is carried further at
Mandalay than at any other Asiatic
Court. Ii a European meets the King 8
palanquin in the streets of the city he
is expected to stop then and there and
dlvest himself of his boots. A moment .
hesitation to comply with this degrad-
ing and uncomfortable custom has often
entailed very serious consequences on
the foreigner; and our diplomatic diff
cultles with the Burmese Court have
been considerably intensified at differ
ent times owing to the insistance of the
Lord Chamberlain at Ava or Mandalay
that our Envoy should take his boots
OIL, and the reluctance of our proud
ana dlihdent representative to appear
IN public in their stockings. The Brit
ish, however. are not by any means the
only people whose feelings have been
hurt by this unpleasant discourtesy; and
Asiatic, as well as European, Ambassa-
dors have been in the most ancient
LINES subjected to the inconvenience.
ihe first Chinese invasion of Burmab.
IN the year 1884, A. D., was brought
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23
Pneumatic Dispatch.

1t would appear from some recently
issued statistics of the French telegraph
service thatthe system of closed or letter
kilograms is already largely in use in
Paris. This method of Communication
consists in blowing the telegram paperit-
self through pneumatic tube instead of
manipulating its contents verbally
along the telegraphic wire; and it ap-
pears that the pneumatic system at
present at work in Paris has a total
length of 1900 metres, and that it is
worked from six sations at which are
located steam engines having a total
power of 153 horses, besides six water
moters. The service comprises main
system with double line, at which ter
inmate seven supplementary systems
with branches, trains running every
three minutes ON the main system and
every five minutes on the supplement
tary systems. The system was intro
duced on the 1st of May, 1879 and it is
now possible to communicate from one
part of Paris to another and receive a
reply back for little more than half a
franc, or about one-fourth of the cost of
an ordinary telegraphic message in
London. The extent to which the
pneumatic service is used in Paris NAV
be judged from the fact that something
approaching 100000 dispatches of ali
kinds pass over the system every month.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23
Victoria in Uniform.

In the year 1910, Victoria, then a
young Queen, rode out on horseback
with her young husband by her side to
review her troops in Windsor Park.
She was attired in military costume,
with a riding habit made with broad
collar turned back from the bosom, show
ing little waistcoat of white pique with
turquoise buttons. A high military stock
of black silk supported her chin, above
which not the smallest symptom of white
collar was perceptible. On her head
sin wore a military cap with the wide
spreading crown, already indicative of
the German influence which was so soon
to penetrate every department of the
royal life and preside over every other
taste from the color of a ribbon to the
choice of a Minister. The cap was of
dark blue cloth and had FURNISHED
leather peak in front. Not a vestige of
hair was seen about her forehead or
down the side of her face, and but for
the stray lock behind, just above the
ear, she might have been taken for
some young Woolwich cadet. The blue
ribbon across. her bosom and the bril-
liant star above gave'a finish to figure
which would otherwise have appeared
hard and coarse. The other day-ex-
actly forty years had passed-the same
Queen reviewed her troops again in that
same Windsor Park; but had the same
observer been there he would have be-
held, instead of the fresh young girl to
whom even the stiff, hard collar and the
peaked cap pEfailed to give hardness of
expression, a worn and grieved mat
ronly lady, still mindful Of the regret
she had vowed for her departed love,
clad, although not quite in widows
weeds, still in garments of such somber
shape and hue that the observer was
madestos fael the sorrow by which the
royal wearer was still borne down.
London Letter.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23
Thinking Birds.

The Central Prison at Agra, India, is
the roosting-place of great number of
the common blue pigeons; they fly out
to the neighboring country for food
every morning and return in the even
ing, when they drink in tank just out
side the prison walls. In this tank are
a large number of fresh water turtles,
which lie in wait for the pigeons. ANY
bird alighting to drink near one of these
turtles has good chance of having its
head bitten off and eaten, and the head
less bodies of pigeons have been picked
up near the water. The pigeons, how
ever. are aware of the danger, and have
hit on the following plan to escape it.:
A pigeon comes in, and, as it nears the
tank, instead of flying down at once to
the waters edge, will cross the tank at
about twenty feet above the surface and
then fly back to the side from which it
came, apparently selecting for alightine
a safe spot which it had remarked as It
flew over the bank; but, even when
such q spot has been selected, the
bird will not alight at the edge of.the
water, but on the bank about a yard
from the water and will then run down
quickly to the water, take two or three
hurried gulps of it and then fly off to re-
peat the same process at another part
OF the tank till its thirst is satisfied.
l had often watched the birds doing
this and could not account for their
strange mode of drinking till told by
my friend, the Superintendent of the
Prison. of the turtles which lay in am
bush for the pigeons.-Londos Nature.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23
Take Your Hands Out Of Your Pockets,

Take your hands out of your pock-
cts, young man. You are losing time.
Time is valuable. People feel it at the
other end of the line when death is
near and eternity is pressing them into
such small quarters, for the work OF
this life Graves hours, days, weeks,
years. If those at this end of the line,
if youth with its abundance of re-
sources, would only feel that time was
precious! Time is quarry. Every
hour may be a nugget of gold. 1t is
time in whose invaluable moments we
build our bridges, spike the iron rails
to the sleepers, launch our ships, dig
our canals, run our factories. You
might have planted twenty hills of DO
tatoes while have been talking to
you, young man. Take your hands
out OF your pockets.
The world wants those hands. The
world is not dead, asleep under the
Pyramids, mummy by the Nile. The
world is alive, wide awake, pushing.
struggling. going ahead. The world
wants those hands. You need not
take them out of America. They can
find market here at home. The
country wants those hands, selling dry
goods in New York, grading wheat in
Minnesota. raising cotton in Alabama,
weaving cloth in Lowell, picking
oranges in Florida, digging gold in
Colorado, catching mackereI from the
deck of Down East fishing-smack,
Take your hands out of your pockets.
And what a laudable thing it is to
meet the wants of society and do your
best! When you are an old man, what
an honorable thing your hand will be!
Did you ever think of the dignity in
vesting the wrinkled hand Of an old
worker? 1t has been so useful, lifted so
many burdens. and wrought in such
honorable service. Who wants hand
without a character when old AGE
comes-a soft, flabby, do-nothing handp
You are willing to work, you say,
but can't find anything to do?
Nothing to do! Do the first thing that
comes along. Saw wood, get in coal,
go on errands. In short, do ANYTHING
honest with your hands, but don't let
them loaf in your pockets Golden.
DauS,
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

al about entirely by the "shoe ,,;an.- N .
The Chinese Envoys to the .,caa5F
Nara-thee-ha-pade had ins;a. .oaareh
spite of remonstranees ''ssso a
pearing in the royal ~ ap
with their boots on. They onsse op,ssseaee
have known better; for at Pet;ga tas %
conduct would have been cnna. n,a such
the height of bad manners. ana da'uered
as they were concerned Their !. y N
ton of Burmese etiquette had .nIfae-
unpleasant ending. They wera m a.s w !,
lowed twice to insult the Lord avs y y Y
the White Elephants, but wers = y Al
in a quiet part of Amarapoora ~. "ay,sld
their throats cut, summaru ,,.o aaa I'D
proceeding which brought an srms Sss s q
Burmah from the Flowery Land. a. ap'A
The habit Of removing the onts. I,
before entering an inner anartw.sa suoe
an oriental house is a great deal .s. msea .
embarrassing to the European ,h.a nO.s \
is to the native. The weli-to-d o-do W. seI Y Y
ic not uncommonly retains nfts,.sassss @s.ss.
ing the threshold a thin boot ~ s..it -
a sole, reaching up to the anIIs fA0a! !!
bright yellow or scarlet Leather ~ y
outer shoe being sort Of -; so,.ss y
which can be shuffled off eas;lys su.Ssl "a :
easily replaced; whereas, to say ~ na.s Z
ing OF the ignominy Of appearing av'a' !;
stockings, his taking off and nrss.,a !,
ON the laced-up shooting boot ,a M
which the Englishman is accuston,sa wv Z
brave the mud of Oriental citiess s. - y
matters of both time and incorsa -
nience. And then q Turk axperiensss 3
none of that nervousness which msls' t.s
the operation appear so awkward whsa
performed by a Frank of whatever 1sa n
tion.-LondOn Globe. ~
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The Methodist ministers of Boston
have requested the city authorities to
intermit giving free concerts on Sun
day in the public parks. - -ts
Forty eommon-school teachers in
Hardin County, Kentucky, had their
certificates revoked for failure to attend
the Teachers Institute, as required by
law. - sss say
The New Orleans schools remain
in amiserable condition as to finances.
The city is endeavoring to conduct the
schools at an expense of $780, a
year, when its income is only 5000, 900.
The gospel tent "Glad Tidings,"
which is supplied with one thousand
folding chairs, is to be pitched in Sara
toga for gospel meetings in charge of
d. L. Moody and other evangeIists.
Missionary work is earnestly called
for IN the valley OF the Yellowstone
River. The difficulty is to find men
who are willing to go; yeti church now
vacant in Brooklyn, N. Y, has thirty
seven candidates on record already.
"A service was recently announced
"for children of the upper classes"
Upon which an exchange makes the
pointed suggestion that the words of
Christ should be amended so as to read,
"Sufer little children of the upper
classes to come unto me-"
Several years ago benevolent
Frenchman named Jeanson bequeathed
a million of dollars to the City of Paris
for the creation of school in which the
children of. the Sixteenth Arrondisse-
ment, t,could receive classical educa-
tion. The work of building this new
edifice, which will be one of the finest
in the scspita. was begun a~few days
ago. ... .-, ..-....
Some wealthy Presbyterians, princi-
pally from Ohio, are talking of forming
a colony on Lake Chautauqua, close be-
side the Baptists. The Baptists have
erected spacious Tabernacle, with
room for 5000 people. If the Presby-
terian colony should be formed it will
be with an arrangement for the use of
this building for public services at times
1.-The great Baptist gatherings are
not iii session. We
81 Housewife, Pa, was busy oil town
but declined to such an extent that St.
Johns Protestant Episcopal Church
lost nearly all its members. The build
ing was a good one and there was need
for it at Bradford, which is now the
center of an active oil business. There
fore it was taken down, carried piece
meal to Bradford and there rebuilt 1t
has how been dedicated and is an ele-
CANT and commodious house of worship.
The Esquimaux OF Little Whale
River, Hudson Bay, have new church.
1T is an. iron building, twenty feet by
forty, and was sent from London in Sec
tions ready to be put up. 1t was nearly
two years on the way, but on arrival
was put together in a couple of weeks.
Eight Esquimaux members have been
added to this church by baptism, and
thirty more are under instruction with
a view to admission. Baptism by inn
mersion is not greatly in vogue among
tho Esduimaux.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23
A Feminine Stock. Gambler.

The ways of heaven are inscrr4.h,.
no doubt, but the ways Of women e =
past finding out. An ancient dsss 81
bowed under the weight Of many nm.
mers, entered an Office on Montgoms,v
Street and ordered the stock.h,sks!!
who inhabited that cell to buy imns ss'
diately for her shares in certain 1 stosl
to the amount of $500, all her woyl;l,
wealth. The broker, being fisd
hearted man, and not having 1 WI
good opinion of the aforesaid stai
advised her not to buy. But the 81
lady having confidence in her iudrmeDt
insisted, saying that If the 6guls,
would not purchase for her there war
others that would. Whereupon M
idea struck the man Of shares anfl M.
gins that it would be a good thine a
humbug the old girl for her own good
He therefore, told her that he ia
bought the stock as ordered, and m
old party was content. Next day down down
went the stock, and our veilerzAe.
friend lost her $500 and about thOu
Sa1u mOre-tnat Is, she would hare
lost them had The broker acted squars.
ly with her. Down she came to tie d
tice weeping, wailing and gnashingh III
teeth, or rather, her gums, for teat
she had none. s'Oh, Mister --r' cried
she, "Oh, if l only had my $500 baek
again I'd be content, and never, nerers
never risk it any more. It's all | have
in the world" This and much MOI,
did she pour into the brokers synp&l
thizing ear, and he made answer thus
MADAM, if you give me your word d
honor never to touch stock aRsin IN
take your risk myself and hand you
back your money" What pen can d
scribe the shower of blessings inyoked
on the head of that worthy hrokai
The promise was sacredly given, IL
$500 returned and the old lady marched
straight out of the office, across tM
street, and invested the entire sum N
Ophir losing the whole in about tWsut5
''Such is woman's Con-
stancy. San Francisco News- Letter.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

The Rev. DIR. John hall thinks tAt
American English contrasts favoraby,
as a whole, with that spoken IN III
British Isles, and that in London ther
is more barbarous and indefensibs
English uttered than in all the United
States. He is now in England, and y
a letter to the Ledger says: .sIher
are many phrases in use by our Engliah
cousins which we oughtto shun. They
stop at home all day. We steEslt !
home They talk of couple q
pounds as if the pounds were linked
together. In fact, the list Of Londoa.
isms would be long one. Not = !
know is the frequent confession q
ignorance, and if blame is to be laid q
one it is all along of him."
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23
gor ponng Readers.
BABY JEAN.

Eyes as bright as diamonds,
Mouth all sweet and clean,
Cheeks with tempting dimpleS;
That's my baby Jean!
Hands as soft as rose-leaves,
Teeth like giiStening pearls,
Little SunbeamS woven
On her head for curls.
Little feet that patter
Here and everywhere,
Little mind that's busy,
Filled with childish care.
Lips from which the kisses
Bubble all day long,
Tongue that's ever singing
Some sweet cradle-song.
How love my baby
Words can never tell;
And she-she loves papa
Just as mucs and well.
She's the dearest fairy
That was ever seen;
And from Heaven I'm certain
Came my baby Jeani
F. Il. Hamilton, in Nursery.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23
Rs. GREENwAY, of Raj

MRS. GREENwAY, of Baltimore. is
spoken of as the diamond lady of the
United States Hotel at Saratoga. At
the balcony concert her dress is de-
scribed as of delicate lilac oroandy.
trimmed with point duchesse, her bon.
net of the same lace, with pansies and
violets, the parasol to match the rest.
Solitaire diamonds glittered in her
ears, on her breast, her arms and
fingers; and she wears, in addition tn
these, when her head is uncovered. a
high comb and side combs illuminated
with the same wonderful stones.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

A. DR.. ELDRIDGE, OF Lewiston, Mo-
poses to fast forty days. He claims tD.s =
can subsst on magnetism to BE- draw ny. =
those who have full stomachs This msy
the secret of DR.. Tanners f0odless nP y. y
life. Shaking hands with man wno ..s -
been to dinner is regarded as . hearty n'-
by the new philosophers.-H q ftco1rne
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

SHoN," said Dutchman, "yoa
may say what you please 'pout p.d
neighbOrs; have had te worst neigs'
bors as never vas. Mine pigs and nIae
hens come home NIT dere ears splk
and fodder day two of them come hons
missing"
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

AT London ball, which cost $780,
600, weeping ash in the garden was
transferred into fountain and bowers
OF real grape vines were arranged along
side of the corridors in the house.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

You put binders on horse, 90 tnas = shssi -
see scarcely anything that 10 gong o. ssd "a
him, and then blame him for trem0nns ,..,ls
jumping and starting to run at eveIJ sss, rs,s
noise. You forget how frightened yoe oea.,.sI ssIi
when, with blinded eyes, yo1 ware iisst m;sstt
into the awful mysteries OF the hign n.a4ssat
full Lodge of Unbiased and Snperncls..ss ..s 4
Chinwaggers. And why shouldn't " 80.
frightened Is easily as donkey
TrGuscriDt.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

CANADIAN hemlock forests are being lH
idly destroyed for their bark. why Ns ~ 4
stroy few dogsl There is as mucn p5as 80 =
q dog as there is in Q forest-d~
Register.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

A ROTATION tN. Y farmer had
Just loaded his wheat in the harvest
field when he Knocked the ashes from
his pipe. They saved the team, but
the wagon and wheat were burned.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

If you don't get letter from y0gr eln n
cry week, Mr.. Horace Maynard fs ne m.G ~ Z
whom you must complain about y nopzsv-
caQo Times.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

Men owe their resolution, and most
OF their success, to the opposition they
meet with.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

A MAN who would not die In eprinH
may be killed by q falL-NsU Oy'sou II
H1ILe. sSy f4tss, < s
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

Those men whose brains are few
but active, are the most successful in
business.
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

AN eloquent editor, on vacation 49, s.ns q
his paper: sWe never weary OF gass ~
over the vast expanse Of the sea, q o.s sua
ing the varying skies which benz ,:,'o ano' sost
the white snips gliding to and ir0 vi tb,oshef.
less spirits in the deep" s1sAss - uel
would have been watching the new ~ !.:y, ~
bathing dresses and the noisy sditok
splash with them in the deep. a. Au.,nE
thank Heaven, is a moral being -o'ei
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

THE man who looks for big peaches sos = ~
bottom of basket is too c0nndinS ~
tricky world.-Detr0a Ffes Pres
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

THERE are two distinct kinda OF vk
this world-the human boy and the ~ ~
exists in Sunday-school books
Boar. g
The Bossier banner., 1880-09-23

THE oysters vacation is now over
IrG,iscr,pt.
The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-04-21
Premier Do Freyoinet's Policy,
AFt!HANISTAN.

LONDON. April 2o.-Wlth reference to the
groubie on the road between Quettah and
g,at,dabar, the Vieeroy Of India telegraphs as
foIIuws: On the night OF the sixteenth In
stant, q large body Of Pathans overpowered
after a. gallant resistance, the Dubrai. post
1,etwean Chaman and Candahar. which was
he,tf by local levies. Almost ell the defenders
were killed. including Major Wandby, the
road commandment. who had halted there.
A number Of Pathans have collected on the
PiahIn border. Other gatherings have beer
dispersed.
A dispatch to the Times from Oabul says
sE,Ae Two main points Of the governments
ro,icv-namely the refusal TO reinstate va
kpub Khan and the separation OF Cannahar.
aav,np now been announced IN Duerbar, II
wifi he impossible TO reoede from this position
hereafter without creating the utmost dill
Guilty and confusion.
The Sirdars have promised TO facilitate the
advance Of the column now processing from
.Cphul towards Ghunnee and also that or the
GIauda hBr force now approaching that place.
A force of 1000 men. under command of Gen
Roaa Ia now at MADAM. The country Ia quiet
and the people are outivatlng the fields:
There ia no eign Of any popular rising,
There apuears to be considerable excitement
among kuram Valley tribes, and some un.
ssaainees Ia felt at stations along the line OF
shat valley. The gathering of several tribes
10 reported az seawa, eight miles from Thull
raid has been made on the road between
Thull and Keram. Some foot soldiers and
aome camp followers were killed and camele
tsafsfurad.