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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12
How Little Girls Are Taught House.
keeping.

In the kindergarten school of Pitts
burgh, Pa, the children are taught to
lay the table for breakfast Little toy
tables and toy dishes are used. . What
do we place on the table next?" asks the
teacher. " Napkins reply the pupils.
4" What are napkins for?' TO wipe
our mouths and fingers, and. keep our
dresses neat Having learned this
lesson, the pupils are taught to place
the napkins, then to place the plates,
which SC mtlst always be warmed,' then
the milk pitcher, water pitcher, sugar
bowl, tray bowl. What is a tray
bowl for:?'' i" To pour the dregs of the
cups into Then the coffee pot and
other articles are arranged and the pu-
pills arise and repeat the lesson togeth-
ar, pointing to each article as they name
it. These are little breakfast tables
This is the coffee pot; it should be scald-
ed before the coffeei is put in This is the
sugar bowl; it should be filled when
taken from the table. These are the
knives. This is the fork; we eat with
the fork. These are the breakfast plates;
they should always be warm" and so
on with the whole. Then comes song
which the children sing together:
" When was very little, L used to sit and
think
How hard my mother had to work. until my
heart would sink
| tried to help her, as / could, but always did
it wrong,
That always made the matter worse and her
own work so long
so then went to school,
SO then went to school,
And there we learned exactly right,
For VIC were taught by rule
The dishes are cleared away by rule,
and atoy dish-pan is placed before each
little housemaid. The players wash the
dishes and rinse them, singing mean
while:
" Washing dishes,
Suds are hot,
Work away briskly,
Do not stop.
I" First the glasses;
Wash them we'll;
If YOU do them nicely,
All can tell
". Y ESening Post.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12
Corn For Green Fodder.

1t is of common occurrence IN this
vicinity to have midsummer drouth,
and consequently period of scant feed
for all farm stock, where grass alone is
relied on, during the months of July and
August, and frequently in September
also; and all good farmers have for the
past few years been experimenting with
the different varieties of food recon-
mended, such as rye, oats, clover and
corn, each having its advocates as being
the best for the purpose of furnishing
green feed for dairy stock. While some
farmers grow them all, others cultivate
only corn foc that purpose. have Gull
tivated both corn and grass, but have
given the most attention to corn. Corn
for fodder is commonly sown broadcast.
| have found the drill system most sat
isfactorv. But care must be taken not
to sow too thick. In regard to varieties
Of corn to cultivate for feeding purposes
in it's green state, [ have selected three
varieties of sweet-corn as best suited for
this purpose, viz: Early Minnesota,
Moore's Early Concord and Evergreen,
these varieties following each other in
succession, and furnishing the best of
feed in their season. The Early Mime
sofa comes into feeding the earliest. 1t
will not yield as much fodder per acre
as either of the others but is
an excellent early sort for the
first feeding. My rule is to begin
to feed as soon as the ears are fit for
boiling for green corn, which will be in
this latitude about the last of July, and
to begin with light ration and increase
it to full feed. 1t usually takes about
week to get the animals accustomed
to their feed; then they can be fed all
they will eat up clean, and this may
continue during the period of drouth, or
if desirable till winter. If we have
more than we want to feed green, it is
cut and put in shock to be fed out as
wanted. We cut and shock before the
ears get hard, and by so doing we think
we get the best of feed for all farm
stock that we have ever grown. For
calves and horses it is cut with feed
cutter, and is all eaten clean, stalks as
we'll as ears.
After experimenting for years, pre-
fer to feed green fodder late in the day,
say from three to five or six o'clock for
the reason that cows when fed in the
morning will not care to Craze so indus
triously as those not fed. BY emitting
to feed in the morning they will get a
portion of their feed from the pasture,
and then if fed green feed in a clean
manger they will eat a very liberal al
lowance from three to six O clock. They
are then MIXED and turned into their
night pasture, where they soon lie down
to rest and ruminate, while digestion is
converting their feed into milk and
flesh for future profits to their owners.
j. Tulcott, in Examiner and Chronicle.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12
The Child's Gift Of Imagination.

Into the life of every child" says a
recent essayist, no matter in what class
of life it is found, Imagination enters
with all the freshness and beauty of a
pure spring Of water. Their games and
sports take them into some mysterious
dreamland of delight; their play is fully
charged with fancy, and to make be-
lieve' that they seem to be what they are
not comes as comfort to the imprisoned
children of our crowded cities. They
have no sands on which to build their
castles, and their little feet are seldom
freshened with the salt of the oceans
waves; they can only live in grassy
meadows and lowered woodlands when
they get passing peep at picture
shop; the din of the city and its wheels
is forever in their ears; but the servitude
of unromance to which they are born
does not dull or deaden sweet Nature
gift of Imagination which makes mimic
soldiers and sailors of the children whose
playground is the pavement, and whose
toys are but too often the refuse of the
Streets .&=
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12
The Stupidity Of Servants.

I have in my household, writes a
correspondent of the London Times, an
under-nurse, who, upon the family's
leaving town for a short holiday, was
enjoined to see that the birds in the
nursery (canaries) were well supplied
with sand. When we came back we
found them all starved to death. She
had given them sand, but, alas, no
seed. This was girl from the country,
who, one would think, would have
known what birds fed upon; otherwise
one does not expect much intelligence
from Arcadia. When our last importa-
ton Gan der-housemaid) "turned on
the gas'' in the upper apartments, as
she was directed to do, but omitted to
light it, thought it very excusable;
she had not been accustomed to gas.
On the other hand, when her mistress
told her to s'look to the fire. of GER
tain room, l contend we had a right to
expect that that fire should be kept in.
1t was not so, however, and when the
lady inquired: "Why did you not look
to it, as told you?" the girl replied ::
"Well, I did, mum; the door was open,
and / looked at the fire every time
passed." She appeared to attach
some sort of igneous power to the hu-
man eye.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

If Mr.. William Mckee, of Keokuk,
in the State of Iowa, had not got drunk
he would not have strayed into the
wrong house and been mistaken for a
burglar, and had his skull fractured
with billet of stove-wood. Similarly,
if Mr.. Peter McDermott, of Brooklyn,
in the State of New York, had kept
sober he would not have been wander
ing about the suburbs in the small hours,
and the honest farmer of whom he asked
a ride would not have mistaken him for
a foot-pad, and Knocked him senseless
with the butt of his whip.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

to "slick him up Never mind dirty
coat and rough looks; you can clean the
former and smooth the latter without
risk to the animal as soon as you get
home, and after this he will probably
show twenty-five to fifty per cent. bet
ter than when you bought him. One
rather thin in flesh is safer to buy than
when fat, for this covers bad points,
and when worn down somewhat a rather
Incorporating horse turns out to be very
common looking. - Rural NeW Yorker.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12
DIR. r. V. PIERCE :
A Square Meal.

We are sure our readers will thank us TO
calling their attention to the very handsome
advertisement of the Excelsior Manufacture
ing Co. of st. Louis, Mo-, as it would be use
less for us to say any thing in favor OF their
GRAND CHARTER OAK COOKING STOVE.
The very name suggests the thought of we'll
cooked meal, followed by easy digestion,
vigorous health and a desire to have, and to
do, plenty of REAL WORK, to say nothing OF
happy and contented household. Ask your
Stove Dealer to show you the latest patterns.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12
Gratitude Layfahed.

Is CLIPPED from the columns of the Journal
Courier, New Haven, Conn, the following
endorsement: "Gratitude Of character
strong, earnest and impetuous, is daily, in
person and by letter, being lavshed upon H.
II. Warner & Co.. for the Introduction Of, and
the making so extensively known, their Won
derful cures, named as Warmers Safe Rene
dos
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12
THE Elkbart Buggy and Harness Mar

THE Elkhart Buggy and Harness Manufac-
turing Company, ElkEart, Ind, ship buggies
and harness anyw here with privilege of exam
lining before paying for, and pay all charges if
not satisfactory. Best hand made buggy har-
ness oak stock, 50 to SIS; best team harness,
SIS; platform spring wo-seated wagons, SIS;
three-spring wagons, $75 Catalogue with
prices sent free. Address W. B. PRATT, Sec'y.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12
Several Good Things.

If you want good digestion,
II you want good health,
II you want good baking,
If you want the best stove,
If you want the cheapest stove,
If you want a good square meal
Buy CHARTER OAK STOVE.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

THE mule stood on his off fore leg,
Whence all but he had fled,
And kicked a fierce gun-cOttOn key,
Right on its bottom head.
The keg it burst with grievous sound,
The mule, CHI! where was he?
Go ask him, for he stood his ground,
And still kicks mulefully.
Brooklyn Edgbe.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

PIMPLEs AND HUMoRs ON THE FACE.-fn
this condition of the skin, the VEaETINE is
the great remedy as it acts directly upon the
cause. 1t cleanses and purifies the blood,
thereby causing humors Of all kinds to dis
appear.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

WHEN the Czarina of Russia alightcd from
the railway car which took her to St. Peters
burg on her return from her last journey to
Italy, she exclaimed Alas! have done
with travelling. Farewell railroads; farewell
coaches and locomotives My next convey
ance will be the hearse."
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12
Around the World.

A FAME that is worldwide and acquired in
the short space Of few wears, must have
true merit for lis support. DR.. Perce's Fam
lily Medicines have gained such fame and the
fore On orders for his Golden Medical Discov-
ery-the greatest blood-puritier of the age,
for his Pleasant Purgative Pellets Qttle
.ugar-coated pills., his Fayorite Prescription
~-woman's best friend-and other remedies
became so great that branch of the WorlI' 8
Dispensary has been established in London,
England, for their manufacture. From this
depot they are shipped to every part of Eu-
rope, and to the East Indies, China, Japan
and other countries. Their sale in both
North and South America is perfectly enor-
nous and increases yearly. Worlds Dis
pensary Medica. Association, Proprietors,
Buffalo N. Y, and Great Russell Street
Buildings London, Eng.
ROYAL CENTRE, Cass Co. Ind,
Feb. %, 1879.
DIR. r. V. PIERCE:
De1r SRI take pleasure in writing my
TESTIMONY with others in regard to your valu-
able medicine. For long time l have suf-
fered from disease of the lungs, and until l
used your Discovery found nothing that did
me any good. Thanks to it | ain relieved and
recommend it to all. Yours truly,
MARY KENNEL.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

SOMEHOW you remember longer the dentist
who, having gotten grip on your tooth,
utilities your person to mop up his floor than
you do the tooth-puller who jerks the Offend
ing ivory out before you know it-Boston
transcript.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

TuLARE LAKE bed in Hanford, Cal is five
miles from where it was four years ago. On
the land reclaimed by the change are found
the remains of corral and cabin, and irrigat-
lines. Wheat is now growing on the bed of
the old lake.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

"YEs," said Mrs. Goodington sadly, che
was indulging in sequestering exercise. His
horse got frightened at something or other
and reciprocated him to the sidewalk. When
they took him up they found bad fractions
in his leg, and it had to be computated to
save his life" And the old lady didn't say
another word for at least fifteen minutes. She
was thinking, as she afterwards said, Of the
dreadful sights in the confrmatory. "-Bos
ton Transcript.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

THE fat men of Baltimore recently gave q
ball They only looked at the dancing. The
latest man present weighed 430 pounds.
From the fair sex the palm was borne off by
q sylnh who turns the scales at 3l5.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12
Entirely Satisfactory.

The Charter Oak is as near perfection as
we ever expect to find stove. Entirely
satisfactory; in short, a perfect success as a
frst-class cooking stove.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

Iris said that four million packages OF Fra
zer's Axle Grease were sold in 1879; and we
believe it.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

ASK your druggist for Redding's Russia
Salve. Keep it in house in case of accidents.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

dog belonging to Boston man takes pennies
and goes to bakers daily and buys warm
rolls for his breakfast. The neighbors give
him pennies, which he buries in place
scooped out under the stoop.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

AHAIn Wholesale and retail. Send orprce-
III III Il list Goods sent COD. Wigs made to orda:
aaBttHuE BtREHAM, II State Street Chicago
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

EnII EncV A trial package Of Oh. Evans Cure for
EFllEF . Epilep:ic Fits mailed free on receipt
OF address. I. p. EVANS. Druggist, Dover. Maine.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

nAlaGRH Merphia Habit Cured ct Home: 1;0.a
VI hOtSin Address Or. MARSH. Quincy. Atch
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

CARLYLE says england and America are going to
nothing but wind and tongue" That is hardly true
for they are also going to HUNTS REMEDY, and quite
rapidly too. Trial size, is cents.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-06-12

r. L. con per day at home. Samples worth 8 ,
~ 10 0LU free Address STINsoN Co. Portland. Me-
The Newtown bee., 1880-08-25
Amusing Old Wills.

A foreign reviewer of new book en- titled "Curiosities of the Search-Room q Collection of Serious snd Whimsical Wills" writes as follows:
 The chapters on Eccentric Wills, on Vindictive Wills and on Directions for Burial contain some curious illustra- tions of human frailty and folly A certain Dr. Elierby beoueat he'd his heart to one friend, his lungs to another and his brains to third, declaring that if they do not execute his wishes with re-
 gard to them he will come and torment them ''if it should be by any means pos sible.n Another testator, an American,
 requires that his skin may be converted into two drum-heads, upon which are to
 he inscribed Pope's Universal Prayer and
 the Declaration Of Independence; another American, a New Yorker, leaves seventy-one pairs of trousers, to be sold to the highest bidder without examina-
 tion, no purchaser being allowed to buy more than one pair. In each pair was found bundle of bank-notes represent ing a thousand dollars. A Frenchman institutes an annual race with pigs, to
 be ridden by boys or men, with prize
 of $4O0 to the winner.
 Grotesque instructions with regard to the testator's body are frequent in wills One man bequeathed his body to the Imperial gas company to be consumed to ashes in one of their retorts; and New York spinister desired to employ all her money in building a church,
 .'but stipulated that her remains should
 be mixed up in the mortar used for fix ing the first stone." Some of the be- quests in what the compiler calls ssVin- dictiye Wills" have in them touch of
 humor Thus the Fifth Earl of Penn
 broke writes: 'J bequeath to Thomas
 May, whose nose did break at a mas querade, five shillings. My intention
 had been to give him more, but all who have seen his History of the Parlia-
 ment' will consider that even this sum
 too large;" and certain pr. Dunlop be- queaths to his brother-in-law, Chris topher, his best pipe, out of gratitude that he married my sister Maggie, whom no man of taste would have taken,n and to his eldest sister, Joan. his | five-acre field, .to console her for being married to man she is obliged to hem peckn
The Newtown bee., 1880-08-25
A Queer Lake.

Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, claims to have medical lake mile and "a half long that would have satisfied even Ponce de Leon's search for the fountain of youth.
 The water is clear and of dark color. and, besides curing all skin diseases of men and beasts, lays out nervous troubles, rheumatism, paralysis and similar ailments. The water has not been analysed, but tastes of salt and borax. is as buoyant as the Dead Sea, and the only animal life it sustains is 3 species of jelly fish.
 The lake has no visible outlet, and. although fed by several small streams, never increases or decreases in size. In the slightest breeze the water lashes into . foam which makes superior soap, and almost anything can be cleansed in the lake much better than by the most powerful chemicals SprinQfe1d Re1wblicazs.
The Newtown bee., 1880-08-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A case of suspended animation Swinging in hammock
 A Texas dog was born without a tail. and he will sit right down beside an old kettle.
 The city of New York's consumption of postage stamps amounts to about SlO0. .000 a week.
 Africa has 70. 900 Protestant converts. the result of the efforts of thirty-three missionary societies.
 A young man of society out making call may wear two watches and yet not know when it is time to 20 home.
 A summons in a breach of promise suit against the bridegroom was sent in among the bridal presents at an Iowa wedding.
 The census of Utah reveals the fact that the Gentle population has i'm creased 220 per cent, while the Mormon increase has only been forty-fve per cent.
 A catile-herder named King, living near the Cheyenne river. Dakota. re- gently lassoed a four-year-old buffalo, and is now endeavoring to domesticate the animal.
 In former years Austria used to im- port considerable quantity of sugar and export little. Counties having stimulated home production, there are now no imports of sugar but large ex- ports.
 More lighthouses can be seen from Black Point. Conn, than from any other summer resort on the New England coast. On clear evening you can count fifteen lights. IN THE RESTAURANT. Two more dishes of cream" To the waiter he cried, His eyes staring wildly, His m cuth open wide; "I love her most madly, To marriage I'm bent, And I'll satisfy her appetite If it takes my last cent" Mcager county, Montana has won- derful cave. An arched passage thirty feet wide, many feet high, and seventy feet long conducts the visitor to 8 spa cious apartment six feet in width and loo feet in length. From this room passages open on all sides into other cham bers. one of which is estimated to be 100 feet ing to height of eighty feef. -7'a s.s
The Newtown bee., 1880-08-25
English Landscape.

"Gath g writes from London to the Cincinnati Enqssirer:
 The journey over England is refresh
 ing to the eye of the American. He sees
 few sunny tints or prospects, but also
 few offensive contrasts, such as brand
 new country interposes to nature with
 it's slovenly worn fences and stih. white
 barns and houses. Here the landscape
 is humid, yet warm with rocks. heaths.
 and red houses and brown thatches and
 stacks. Stone or brick walls go every
 where, and infinitely numerous canals
 and railroads require so many arched
 bridges that the mason and the gar
 dener seem never out of sight The land is cultivated as carefully as quilts are patched and hemmed. Towns rise and fall out of sight like clustars of grapes to the lips of Tantalue. Thestn lions are neat and picturesques the people swarm like bees; the raiirond is a grand Roman yiaduct, built to ingt forever, with it's line kept like an end- | less garden or park, and it's trains lfeht as c0upes behind . toy engine. New | Enxland was not ul-named for i(z re- semblance to England by Captain John l Smith its rocky npiUeG, Green vnlleyB, little rivers. and hRoken coaets and clumpG of m0UntnfnD indicating tho humid land of Albion. No doubE thiq 1 is land of love. both for ftn antiquity and present industxia1 flcry. A great. virile, cold grained, yot afz6ctionate race 1 is here, anchored on tho GS le xOck or oolf- l intereet, with ixo1sydMt Gonsumg and
 3notftutfons, but gpeh Qne11ol a4yu1- tagoe and ciy1liM <1nn thnf t1eyq = el-
 way. cone9 1>o u451rey eQ c0 e9e [
The Newtown bee., 1880-08-25

Ladies who are threatened with bald- ness or thin hair on the top of the head can sometimes arrest the misfortune by clipping off the hair on the top of the head and brushing it smooth so as not to show the shingling.
 Artistic Dresses.
 Artistic dresses are on the increase. In the Row during the week many are to be seen, as. for example, short dress of brocaded China silk of grass-green shade, the bodice pointed back and front, fastened with double row of buttons up the back and slightly gath cred in front; the sleeves of the old leg of-mutton form. gathered on the outside of the arm at the shoulder and wrist, the. skirt draped and scanty, large collar of lace reaching to the shoulders, accompanied by broad brimmed straw hat with flowers of all kinds. Old gold tinds many patrons among artistic dresses. With short skirt of satin de Lyon and 8 long pointed piece coming from the back of the waist, cream bodice and tunic of soft woolen material was worn, the sleeves puffed and tied betw cen the outings with bands of old gold. A gathered plastron of old gold on the front of black or cream DO nted bodice and laced across with cord, is 2 favorite style.
 A dark green merino dress, the plain skirt gathered to the full, short waisted bodice, was cut rather low for a high dress at the neck and worn with turn down collar faste ne with amber bows. which appeared also at the wrists, the tight sleeves made with one deep puff to the elbow. An Indian red soft silk was made with very wide Watteau plait at the back and a full-banded bodice with tight sleeves. Some dark green velvet dresses now being worn by two sisters have plain skirts edged with pink silk plaitings and meet up the front in points over pink satin outings, the same introduced into the sslashings of the sleeves. A full-bodice, ,!cut half high in the neck, confined at the waist by belt, and worn over chemisette of the same, is another artistic and easy style of making, chiefly adapted to cash meres and soft woolen sGuffs, such as chamois piped with lemon, pretty mixture of coloring. In the evening artistic dressing takes the form of a Vatican plait. A low, square bodiced dress of tussore silk with one of these, worn at dinner party last week, had the front gathered but cut in one with the skirt, and not drawn in at all to the fgure-a veritable smock. = London O,xoo,,