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The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27
HOW A TRAMP MADE HIS POINT.
\ } Icincinnati Enq.Morll :,

.. F3s AICincinnAti EnQAMorI I ~
Sam Stoddard, a well-known tramp
who has grown gray ON the road,
walked into the Commercial Bank
yesterday, and, approaching the CASH
Ter, addressed him In that familiar
way which Is SO characteristic of tho
veterans. uiT2 ;i ts; stsas IN ..M.sr.,
"Gimme twenty-five cents to buy q :.
meals victuals." so
Sam looked tritle worse than when
he was here six months ago. His
raimeut was In a more advanced stage
Of decay, and his nose had taken ON q
deeper purple and had developed a few
more pimples. t.,...,.,. ...,........, ~.
i t'Gimme twenty -fivc cents and I'm
of for San Francisco by tho next
boat" s7s ,,. zH.ft Ha, pf-i...
Tho cashier didn't know Sam's stay
ing qualities, and suggested that times
We're hard and twcnty-flve.cent pieces
were not picked up everywhere.
seTtmes hard!' exclaimed Sam In n
tone Of voice which, indicated that l,e
was prepared. to argue that point.
"Times hard! npprehend, SIR, that
you will have some difficulty in making
TINT assertion good. What arc the
facts 2" 81" -'"]a5 '"' s5:' a.a.4.,t
ssro thunder with the fncis!'' said tho
cashier, AS he bent over his ledger.
"What arc facts ?" continued sam
in a higher key. ssDuring December
! the decrease since July Inst Is $40, ,iOS,-
75l. 1t ought to be plain to every
unprejudiced mind that, so far from
| times being hard, everything is lovely
and the country OH the broad highway
to prosperity. lisa mighty small
pittance ask" -.np I. ~. a!..s..,
stThe town is Overrun with men of
your Glass; fg ,aua tl .a:. ,f r
sThcre is no reason under heaven
why the town should be-, and have
no doubt they arc impostors. Point
out a single solitary reason why tho
country should be filled with mcndi-
cants. Heavens Tho total debt OF tho
government Is only a trifle over $4,000
OOO, 900, and the cash balance OH the
first day of January was nearly equal
to this sum. Why, look ut tho assets
of the government---"
"Without arguing tho case, allow
me to say that you will got no twenty.
five cents here" 4,. aa, non, 4.
| s'Then give ne ton cents"
| fI won't give you picayune, aud 1
want you to get out of this" ~, .'' "
"I propose to convince you that this
country was never better fixed than
she is today, and that national banks
CIV sAso. SaAoSSu ksSopAS VI \iAS SOVcTu-
nent, and therefore abundantly abio
to extend a helping" " '''E
J. "1'll extend II helping foot II you
don't go along about your business"
II "How much money do you suppose
there is in tho United States Treasury
Mt this very minute ?''
i "Will you get out Of this, sir?'' 80.
! 'I am not able to give you the exact
figures" continued Sam, "but il is
way up in the hundred millions. Then
there is tho bonds issued to tho Pacific
Railroad Companies, interest payable
In lawful money; principal outstand-
ing something like sixty.four hundred
millions. Why, man alive, what's
ton cents ?"
The cashier dipped Snm out half
dollar and told him to hurry on or he
would miss the San Francisco steamer.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

Inc Trouble with Mr.. ACkIeD, the
unfortunate member from Louisiana,
is that in the House, about tho middle
of January, he reported, as if from the
Committee on Foreign Relations, of
which he was not a member, q resolu-
tion looking to the appointment OF
special committee on Nicaragua claims.
The next day the Record showed that
this report was made by Gen. King,
of Louisiana, a member of the F'orign
Relations Committee, who had charge
of the resolution in question az a SUBJ
committee. Gen. King was absent at
the time in Louisiana, and on his
return, about the Gath Of January,
called Mr.. Acklen to account for his
unauthorized proceeding, and caused
him to make an explanation in the
House. That did not end the unfavor-
able comment in Congressional and
journalistic circles in regard to the
matter, which is without precedent, as
far as is known, and the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, at Mr.. Acklen's sug.
gcstion, have been investigating it for
some time. Mr.. Acklep is not popular
in the Honse, with older members
especially, because he ha. assumed
prominence and sometimes attempted
leadership when, according to Con-
gressional traditions and precelents,
he should have been content with n
back seat. The committee, by the
way, in the Acklen case, was only
instructed to ascertain whether the
charges Of the newspapers were true,
and is not charged with the duty Of
! recommending to the House what 1t
shall do with him.-3fobiie Register.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27
Joseph f.. Johnston.

4 TTORNEY AT LAW, MONROE, La,
~ will practice in all the Courts Of the
Fourteenth Judicial District and in the
Supreme Court of the State.
January 25, 1879. ....t
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

James Il. StrOtlCr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW, MONROE, La.
yractices in the parishes of Ouachita, Rich
land and Caldwell.
Monroe, Dec. 26, 1879.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1880-02-27

A TT ORNEY AT LAW, Monroe, La, will
n practice in the State and Federal Courts
in louisiana, and in the Supreme Court at
Washington City. IL
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-25
The Dignity of Housekeeping.

Where is there any station higher than
the ordering Of the house? While the
husband has to vex himself with out
ward matters, while he has wealth to
gather and secure, while perhaps he
takes part In the administration of the
State, and everywhere depends on cir
cumstances; ruling nothing, [ may say,
while he conceives that he is ruling
much; compelled to be but polite where
he would willingly be reasonable, to dis
semble where he would be open, to be
false where he would be upright; while
thus, for the sake of an object which he
never reaches, he must every moment
sacrifice the first of objects, hi mony
with himself-a reasonable housewife is
actually governing in the interior of her
family; has the comfort and activity of
every person in it to provide for, and
make possible. What is the. highest
happiness Of mortals, if not to execute
what we consider right and good, to be
really masters of the means conducive to
our aims? And where should or can our
nearest aims be but in the interior of our
homes? All those indispensable and
still to-be-renewed supplies, where do we
expect, do we require to find them, If not
III the place where we rise and where we
go to sleep, where hctchen and cellar,
and every species of accommodation for
ourselves and ours is to be always ready?
What unvarying activity is needed to
conduct this constantly recurring series in
unbroken living order! How few are the
men to whom it is given to return regu-
larly like star, to command their day
as they command their night; to form
for themselves their household instru-
ments, to SOW and to reap, to gain and
to expend, and to travel around their
circle with perpetual success and peace
and love! It is when woman has at
tanned this inward mastery, that she
truly makes the husband whom she loves
master; her attention will require all
sorts Of knowledge; her activity will
turn them all to profit. Thus is she de-
pendent upon no one; and she procures
her husband genuine independence, that
which is interior and domestic; whatever
he possesses, he beholdsy secured; what
he earns, well employed; and thus he
can direct his mind to lofty objects and,
if fortune favors, he may act in the State
the same character which so well be-
comes his wife at home.-Goetbe's VII.
helm Meister.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-25
The Education Of Wild Beasts.

The veteran animal tanner, Alfred Still,
says that too much whipping makes a
wild animal sulky and vicious, but a GER
tain amount Of whipping is necessary.
To train a wild beast, he said recently,
you must ''frst make its acquaintance
from the outside Of the cage, and get the
animal acquainted with your face; but,
above all, with your voice. They become
accustomed to voices sooner than faces,
and are governed more by sound than by
sight. Having got accustomed to your
beasts, and they accustomed to you, you,
next step is to train them to their tricks
Though these tricks are simple, they re.
qulre great deal of time and patience,
and a good deal Of whipping to accom-.
pllsh them The lions are the srdartest
OF the wild beasts. You can train a lion
to do the ordinary tricks of the trade:
Jump through hoops and over gates,
standing on his hind legs, and so on--in
about five weeks constant work 1t will
require about week longer to- teach a
loness, and a leopard, which comes next
to lion In intelligence, about six weeks
to learn the same feats It takes about
seven or eight weeks to teach tiger, and
tlgress from eight to nine weeks, while
you can keep on beating and teaching a
hyena for four months before you can do
much with him. The most difficult thing
TO 90 IS to teach wild beast to let you
hedown on him withouthis tryingto make
you lie i'a him by eating youup. Kindness
that is, anything but ordinary civility-
IS absolutely thrown away upon wild
beast; With tiger or tigress especially
all affection is literally wasted. A tigress
is likely to eat you up after an intimate
acquaintance Of six years as one OF SIX
weeks. AS a rule, the whip is the most St
efflcaclous instrument for training. IL
can be used quickly and it hurts. Il |
were to drop my whip the beasts woulo
fancy [ had lost my power over them
and would pounce first on the whip ana
then go for me. The four tlgress5es
trained in that cage are estimated to De
worth $32, 900; but a good tiger, - un-
broken, is not worth more than ~, ou oo
Lions are worth about $2, 900 to w 2| 9oo
each; panthers, 5000; jaguars, S49o'
hyenas, $3.50, if unframed; leopalaa''
$3.50 to $40O, according to their klno
A22eric02a.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-25
ROttOn Row in the Season.

The Shah of Persia, in his memorable
visit to England, was much struck by
Rotton Row. He went there in the
morning and saw the riders going up
and down, while the pedestrians on the
sidewalks looked on and criticised. He
went again in the afternoon and drove
around the Ladies' Mile, round and
round, up and down, and the same crowd
enjoyed the spectacle In his journal he
enters his views of this social obligation
laid upon the English nobility of being
expected to amuse the populace for q
certain number of hours daily. He pre-
ferred his own country, he said, as the
nobility paid others to do their work.
even to dance for them. How much
would we have stared at the well dressed
crowd on our Sundays this season. creep
ing up and down, the, ladies displaying
their wonderous taste in dress. their red
parasols, their moss-colored dresses. with
amber bead necklaces and fringes. their
high-heeled boots, their terrible laced-in
waists, their glittering head trimmings.
the pale blue, the heliotropes, the pea
cock blues, and all the other colors that
go to make up The one hundred and
fifty different shades that fashion is said
to require every year before she can issue
her models for the season. London Cor
-NeaOa1.k Advertiser.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-25
FOREIGN.

A PLAGUE of locusts has broken out in
Asiatic Turkey and throughout the region Of
the Caucasus. Intelligence from Kars states that
10000 men are employed in efforts to destroy
these pests, and that the damage already done
is enormous. a34a' =
In the distribution of prizes to ex-
hibitors at the International Fishery Exhibition
at Berlin the first honorary prize was awarded
to Prof. Baird, of the Smithsonian Institution
The United States will also receive gold medal
and an address. A Berlin dispatch saws 'sThe
supplementary suppl p conference have agreed to re-
quest the technical commission to meet baro
and elaborate a new boundary. which shall -
submitted to the assembled Ambassadors b he
preliminary to all further action. The cnnfar.
ence. therefore. will not meet again. probablv
until next week, 50 as to allow the enainaasss,
ana geographers to work out the problem. {
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-25
Abundant Hair.

Japanese women are very proud of
their hair, which is black and luxuriant.
They cultivate and arrange it with great
care by brushing their tresses back from
the forehead, and gathering them in a
plated topknot, covered with flowers,
s5pangles and hairpins of gold, silver and
tortoise-shell. Rich and poor are alike
proud of their couture, and the kuli-
woman in rags devotes the same atten-
ton to her hair as any great lady. To
ores rye the ela 9orate strrs trre from be-
inc disturbed, women during sleep rest
IA cks on, a padded fork, Thsre is.
no difference between single and married
1 omen In wearing their hair, as in
China and their respective social status
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-25

This exhibit does not include postal revenues or
postal expenditures. etrfa S.
SECRETARY OF WAR RAMSEY has re-
ceived dispatch from the American Minister
to Mexico stating that the Mexican G Government
has refused to permit Gen. Hatch to follow the
Indian bands into Mexican territory.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-25
The troops in Cabanas fortress. at Ha-


vana, reyolted, the other day, owing to the
non-payment of their wages Six of the ring
leaders We're shot, and the remainder were
speedily subdued.
De FREYc1NET has introduced into the
French Chamber Of Deputies general amnes-
ty bill. Gambetta says that public opinion, in
the provinces as well as in Paris, is in favor of
amnesty, and that the good behavior of the
1000 amnestied persons in the capital should
reassure the t1mid.. In the contest for
the long-range challenge cup at Dolly
mount, near Dublin, June 19, six
Americans and ten Irishmen competed Miner
and Rigby, of the latter, made the highest
scores, Miner making 143 out of possible $50,
and, Rlgby making the same score they will
have to shoot again. Farrow, of the American
team, made 1884,, The weather being feggy, the
Americans were at q great disadvantage. An
UNSUCCESSFUL attempt has been ma dc. oh the life
of the Grand Shereef of Mecca
The Jesuits expelled from France
have purchased a house at Prague. The
French Chamber of Deputies has passed the
bill granting general amnesty to. exiled Com
munists.
INSTEAD Of passing the summer at
Balmoral and Osborne, as usual Queen Vic
toria will go to Ireland for change of scene.
She will leave England about the middle of
August, and while in Ireland will be the guest
of Lord Kenmare, who is having his mansion
at Kilberg reftted for her entertainment
She last visited Ireland thirty years ago ]. :.
Charles Bradlaugh, the Radical agitator, has
been unseated by the English House Of Com
mons, by vote Of 275 to $780,. . Swiss papers
state that the st. Gothard tunnel is III danger
of falling in. Land-sllps continue to threaten
the masonry, and the engineers think the only
way to avert the danger is to modify the line
traced out for the tunnel
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-25

is indicated by the position of the bow
IN which the waist scarf is tied, girls
wearing it at the back, matrons in front.
The latter likewise shave their eye
brows, and dye their teeth black. Girls
use rouge freely, and sometimes gid
then lips. They are all fond of smok-
ing, and wear their embroidered tobacco
pouches as belt Ornaments.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-25

In Worth county, Ca, a little 4-year-
old child, while playing in the door
yard, was bitten by large moccasin
which had come into the yard in search
of water. AS soon as the snake bit the
child the first time, being terribly fright
ened, it fell down, and the reptile con-
tinued to bury it's deadly fangs in its
flesh. There we're more than forty
punctures made by the snakes teeth.
The child died next day.
THERE is beautiful young girl in the
Vermont penitentiary;- sentenced for
horse-stealing.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-25
Glass Rank Of Distinguished Soldiers

Tie following table, prepared from
official sources, giving class rank and year
of graduation at West Point of dis
tinguished soldiers of the late war will
be found interesting .
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-25

A PROVIDENCE lady visited a store to
purchase pair of gloves. She tried or
one or two pairs before become salts
fed. A lew days afterward she missed a
valuable gold ring from her finger.
Search was made for it without success,
and it was finally given up as lost. At
the expiration of nearly year she went
into the same store again on the same
GRAND as before. In the finger of the
first pair she tried on she found her
long-lost ring, where she left it in draw
ing off the glove a year ago.
The Rock Island Argus., 1880-08-27
Greatest Remedy Known.

Dr. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption is certainly the greatest
medical remedy ever placed within the
reach of suffering humanity. Thou
sands of once hopeless sufferers, now
loudly proclaim their praise for this
wonderful Discovery to which they
owe their lives. Not only does it
positively cure Consnmption, but
Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis,
Hay Fever, Hoarseness and all affec-
tioIs of the Throat, Chest and Lungs
yield at once to its wonderful curative
powers as if by magic. We do not ask
you to buy a large bottle until you
know what you are getting. We
therefore earnestly request you to call at
your Druggist q. Speidel's and get a
trial bottle free of cost which will con-
vince the most skeptical of its wonder
derful merits, and show you what a
one dollar size bottle will do.
For sale by @, Speidel
The Rock Island Argus., 1880-08-27
q. .. DUNRAR'S
FLUID
NJ AGN z ST A.

Superior to any English American. A d.
PLOMA was awarded TO this Magnesia, by the
American Institute in 1852
This very useful and elegant preparation is used
Aperient antic-acid in dyspepsia comp aints
attended with accidity with very great benefit. 1t
has the advantage over common Magnesia. in being
dissolved, and therefore not being liable TO accu-
mulate in the bowels. 1t is decidedly superior to
Carbonate OF Soda or Potash, on account OF its ap
This solution of Magnesia is found particularly
beneficial pleasing sedative and aperient in all
of irritation, acdity of the stomach febtie
complaints. infantile disorders. or sea sickness.
An ounce two of this solution speedily re
moves heartburn, acrid eructations and sourness,
or irregular digestion.
The solution Is of itself an aperient, but its laxa-
tive properties can be much augmented by taking
with it, directly after ii, little lemon juice.
mixed with sugar and water, or even with cream
of tartar. in this manner very agreeable efer-
vescent draugh can be safely taken at any time
during fever or thirst
to the presence of SO much carbonIc acid, have
been found very valuable in putrid and other fe-
yer. AS lotion for the mouth, it sweetens the
breath, and the Magnesia cleans the teeth from
tartar.
The solution is almost invariably succeeded in
removing fits, spasms and headache to which deli
cate persons subject from acids and crudiies OF
the stomach and bowels.
The attention Of the public is particularly direct
ed to the following certificates of physicians and
other persons who have used the Magnesia:
NEW HAVEN, Feb. D., 1859,
S. o. DUNBAR, Esq, Dear Sir; most cheerfully
Magnesia.' 1 have never found anything plea
mach and curing headache arising therefrom.
1t is resorted to by several members of my family
wherever suffering above, and always with great
satisfaction and instantaneous relief
Your truly, JOHN A. BLAKE.
The subscriber having used the above article in
his family for some years, is happy to endorse the
estimony of Mr.. Blake IN his favor.
Hartford, Conn. REV. JOHN ORCUTT.
PROVIDENCE, NOV. Il, 1S4S.
Mr.. s. o. DUNBAR,-Dear Sir; l am happy to
hear that your preparation OF fluid Magnesia is
coming into general use While it Is more econo-
mical than other preparations of Fluid Magnesla.
have found 1t vastly more efficient. and not only
an antiseptc and anti-acid upon the stomach, but
a very considerable tonic. 1t is a beautiful medi-
cine for the bowel arrangement which often af-
hicts young children, and for females of debilita-
ted and sour stomachs particularly those encientic
1t is invaluable. Being ecientic preparation and
open to the profession. it needs only ac0uaint-
arce to become with them favorite medicine
VIM. GRosvENoR, M. d.
9. o. DUNBAR--Desr Sir; have been sometime
in the habit of prescribing the Fluid Magnesia pre-
pared by you and prefer it to the English prepar
atlon on account of its cheapnees and its superior
laxative qualities.
Respectfully yours, &c. M. S. PERRY M. D.
The Rock Island Argus., 1880-08-27
WOMEN:

Leucorrhea. Excessive Flowing, Painful.
Monthly Periods, Suppressions when from un-
natural causes, Irregu ularities, Weak Back. Proap
sus or Falling of the Uterus AnterverstOn and
Retroversion. Bearing down Sensations, Interna
Heat, Nervous Depression, Debility, Dependency
Threatened Miscarriage, Chronic Congestion, ,Inha-
nation and liberation of the Uterus, Impo-
tency, Barrenness, or Stcrilty, ana Female, weak
ness.
Added to these are the pangs, the troubles, the
wearing strain of maternity. and which often do
more toward breaking her constitution and weak
ening for other efforts than all else of her labor
and duties 1t is in this direction that
one often discovers that which it most pitiful in
the life of such woman. She labors on through
the period of CESSATION the last possible moment.
often over cXertng herself. and often doing her
and her offspring irreparahle injury. The result of
all this is that the mother az thar period of life
when she sh ould pess The threshold of y vigorous
and cheerful old age often broken down and,
after yesr or two of intolcrable suffering is hur-
ried of to the nearest chnrchyard
bottle or two of SEorey's investigator taken
during the year, Will not only make wonaD's
life light and happy, but will cure permanently
most OF her complaintss Sold by all druggists at
one dollar per large package Sold in Des MOines
wholesale and retail by
c. II. WARD & CO. and by druggists generally
FULLER & FULLER,
Wholesale Agents. Chicago.
Depot, 55 Cedar ST. New York. 6-26nWf&w