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Richland beacon., 1881-10-01
THE DANCE OF DANCES.

Scotch reels and country dances were
the fashion in 1874; then came the
quadrille in 1916, and then the waltz,
the pioneers whereof were Lord Pal
merston, Nine. de Lieven and the
Princess Esterhazy. "No event" wrote
Raikcs, "ever produced so great SEN
sation in English society as the intro
duction of the German waltz" Up to
that time the English country dance,
Scotch steps, and an occasional High
land reel formed the school of the dane
ing-master and the evening recreation of
the British youth, even in the first cir
cles. But peace was drawing near /;
foreigners were arriving, and the taste
for continental customs and manners
became the order Of the day. The young
Duke of Devonshire, as the "Magnus
Apollo" of the drawing rooms in London,
was at the head of the innovations; and,
as the card-playing dowagers, with their
quadrille, whist and macao, went out.
the young continentalized world came
in with its French quadrille and German
waltz. The war being over, too, those
young people drank champagne, to the
great horror Of the old-fashioned lovers
of old port, punch and propriety.
Richland beacon., 1881-10-01
RAYVILLE LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER J. 1881.

stamps or i'll nortars. In 1893. Louis
Robert, Of France. invented the so-callcd
Fourdrinier machine. He had so little
encouragement at home that lie took his
invention to London, where he interest
ed the FUuririnier brothers, wealthy
stationers, in his work. l. 1904 these
Fourdriniers purchased the patents ana
experimental with them at a COS. OF
800, 900. Their experiments ended in
the present Fourdrinier machine OF our
mills-a machine that has made possible
the enormous paper industry ci the
world. al industry Of which Pliny wrote
800 Years ago: "An the usages Of CIV
ilizsd lne depend in a remarkable de.
gree upon the employment Of paper.
The brothers Fourdrinier reaped no ad-
vantage from their invention. They
spent their entire fortune and died in
poverty, the eldest IN 1855, aged 30
Years.
The hrst paper-mill in the United
States was established in Germantown,
Pa, in 1890. The first paper company
in Massachusetts was granted a patent
III lI2S. The mill WAS started III Mil
ford in 1870. 1t was run with varied
success for some years, and then ceased
operations. In 1860 Bostonian got
furlough for an English soldier vino un-
derstood paper making, and the mill was
again started. In 1716 the Legislature
passed resolutions for the appointment
of suitable persons in each town 70 re-
ceive rags, and the people of the State
were urged to save their rags for paper
making. In 1873 Zenas Crane, of Wor-
cester, journeyed to Dalton, and there
began the business which his sons and
grandsons are still engaged III in the
same town; and his fellow-pioneer,
David Carson, has also descendants en-
gagged in the business and owning the
original mill site.
The address took up the art of paper
making from this time to its present
perfection, describing the process, the
inventions, Improvements, ETC., and the
importance of paper making in an edu-
cational view. The different materials
used, the many and various paper prod
ucts. from boats to collars and from car
wheels to petticeats. Holyoke is now
the great paper-manufacturing center Of
this State and of the United States, the
mills of that city having a capacity of
100 tons per day. The laily production
of paper in the United States is estimat-
I'd at 1900 tons, of which $50 are for
writing purposes. About 1000 tons of
fiber are used daily to produce the paper
made.-Pdper Trade Journal.
Richland beacon., 1881-10-01
HISTORY OF A SONG.

Will 8. Hays, of Louisville, KY, has
made small fortune by writing songs.
Among his popular compositions are
"Mollie Darling" Norah O'Neal" and
Evangeline." But he got no money
from the latter, though it gave him
start in his business. "Just before the
war;" he says, 81 was with some young
visitors up in Oldham county, Ky.
Among them was q beautiful girl who
resembled the ideal pictures Of Longfel-
low'S 'Eyangeline so closely that called
her by the name. We danced at an out
door frolic one evening, ami soon dis
covered that four of us could sing to-
gether. We tried popular quartettes,
and got along so well that we became
enthusiastic. About 2 o'clock in the
morning we started to walk home. The
night was as bright as day, with the full
moon hanging in the sky, and as We
walkedw We sang. We sat down in nook
! 70 rest, and 'Evangeline began to sug-
gest other songs to sing. IN write q
song,' said 1, If you'll promise to sing
it before we go home This was agreed
10. On the opposite side of the road
was a white plank fence. Where We
were sitting party of negroes had been
roasting ears of corn, and the charred
sticks lay all around. With them 1
wrote the first verse of the song on the
| top plank of the fence, and the notes for
four voices on the four planks beneath.
Then we stood off and sang it. The
girls were delighted, and insisted on hav-
ing a chorus, so ] wrote the chorus on
the planks. Well, We sang it over and
ever, and went home singing it. Next
morning 'Evangeline came down stairs
humming the air, and asked me to write
it ont and finish it. 1 told her l couldn't
do it, but she might go down and copy
it of the fence. She took an umbrella
and sheet of paper, and soon came back
with words and music. Then she in.
sisted on having another verse, so
wrote another verse, on condition that
was to have q kiss for it, and she to have
the music"
Hays sent the composition to various
music publishers, but couldn't sell it,
and it was at length made public ty the
voice of Campbell, the negro minstrel.
Thre. hundred thousand copies have
been sold. but the kiss was the only paJ
the author has received.
Richland beacon., 1881-10-01
AND PICKLeD MACKFREL.

Journalism, photography, tclegraphv
and the electric arts-everything, in TACT,
has made the most wonderful progress
during the past fifteen or twenty years,
but education or the study of science is
about the same old succotash that IL al
WAYS was.
1t has been many years since We left
the dear old school-room, and our teach
ers who we're so kind, and we ARE posi-
tive that at that time We knew where the
Moon mountains were, the Hnnalayas,
the Philippine islands and the Dneiper
river; but We can place our hand upon
our heart to-day and say trrIthfully that
We do not know where one of them are,
and We don't believe We have heard one
of them mentioned III the last fifteen
years. Still it must be remembered
that We are in the newspaper business.
Ii We were dealing in groceries IT would
probably be different, and We should Use
the Moou mountains every dav III our
business. Customers would expect it,
and while they would appear to he look
ing at the cheese to see if there were
any shippers, before buying wedge OF
it, they would i'll reality he making mp
their minds whether We knew where the
Philippine islands were. and the general
course Of the Dneiper.
One of the most successful grocers, a
man who has accumulated u handsome
fortune from very small beginning,
told us only the other day that he owed
all his success to the use Of algebra aud
few theorems in geometry when pick
ing a mackerel out OF the kit with hook
and slapping it against the side of the
barrel to get the brine off, aud buying
Just as close as he could for cash. Where
would that man he to-day If he had only
learned to add and multiply fractions,
and had stopped there. and had bought
his goods ON time with 10 per cent.
added. Teachers have great duty to
perform, because, to a greater or less ex-
tent, they are responsible for the chill
drea under their charge. No teacher
who is worthy OF tine name, and compe-
tent to understand the great trust that
has been committed to him or her, would
think of turning a child out to battle
with the world and make its own way i'll
life, unless he could, upon the instant,
name every rivulet from Kamtschatka to
Kalamazoo.
Richland beacon., 1881-10-01
About NAN.

Man that is married to a woman is Of
many days and full Of trouble. In the
morning he draws his salary, and in the
evening, behold it is all gone. 1t is tale
that is told it vanisheth and no ole
knoweth whittier it goeth. He riseth ND
clothed in thechilly garments of the night
and seeketh the commandment pare
gorlc wherevith TO soOthe the colicky bow
els his intantposterity. He become:h A.
a horse or an OK and draweth the chario,
OF his offspring, He spendeth hi
shekels in the purchase Of fine linen to
cover the bosom Of lis family, yet him
SELF Is .een in the gates Of the city with
one suspender Yea, he is altogether
wretched. --Exchange.
Richland beacon., 1881-10-01
xONsENsE,
DY AYRTL8 NAB.

q, Addlestcks! wish I was dead;
Boys haven't got half ssnss-
John wanted 10 know awhile ago
H"futlrs" wss in the past tense;
And when told him twas "pressnt OF course,n
He looked - glum - . crab,
And only said, 40, what head
Has our dear little Myrtle Nab"
And oooe when aAked him to show me how
To write . composition,
He said, "Phe-e-ew. When viii you
Acquire one acqus.tion?"
Sill, he helped me oil the same;
He couldnt well refuse;
Bu, the other day heard him cay:
MAIDS always got the bluss."
And when asked him, tauntingly,
II he had snakes In his boot
lie gave smile that could be heard Q mile,
And played 1.-THE Old Mans Drunk Again {" o,
his Cute.
Oh. If just knew single boy
Who had one grain Of sense,
I'D give him my doll and pretty Poll,
And push him through hsdge-fsnca
Richland beacon., 1881-10-01

Where's Congress? I'm looking for
Congress" said tall. one-eyed woman,
peering through one Of the doors Of the
House OF Representatives.
els that feller with the bald head
Congress
"What do you want with Congress,
any how?" demanded a deputy door
keeper, grufuy. "Hold Oh j! you can't
go in there"
81 came from Bucks county, Penn.
sylvania, to see Congress, aud if you've
got it on draught anywhere around here
I want some. What's the reason can't
go in there ?"
"Cause you can't. Nobody allowed
here but me mbers."
THAT red headed man with a squiDt
q member?"
mo; he's one OF the members secrs-
taries. He has a perfect right on the
floor"
"Is that lopsided chap with wig
one of the members
"No he's a friend Of member had
pass"
Whats that bare-legged boy falling
over chair? Has he got any friends?'
He's one Of the pages.
"Who is that red-nosed artist with a
sore ear? Did he have pass?"
"That's messenger. He doesn't
need pass"
whats that fellow with his legs on
desk. Is he one of the bosses?"
He is one of the clerks"
"Do any of them fellows pay any
taxes?"
81 think no. ; don't know" said the
doorkeeper, mditierently.
Now, young fellow, you want to
hunt for room to stand in while / bust
in this door. Don't fool with ME, or
your friends will think you've been do
ing business with steam grindstone. I
pay taxes on three acres and eight pigs
in Bucks county, and I'm going through
this ere Congress like 3 contribution
box through congregation. You just
crawl ont of sight if You don't want your
spine to change places with tine next
township
"Send for your member, and he will
pass you ill.,"
where's the Congress from Bucks
county? Show me the Bucks county
Congress and if he don't get bill
through this town to send that hare
tipped old sky-rocket who wants to fore
close mortgage on my place to the pen
itentiary he'll wish he'd been born q
tree and cut down and burned when lie
was young. Point out the Congress
/! from Bucks county before l have you
! inside out, to see how you're put togeth-
er. Tell me can't 60 in among lot Of
/ clerks. passes and pages! II there's q
square foot OF Congress left by the time
! reach it, it'll wish it was covered with
! hair that comes out without hurting I"
| They induced her to leave by telling
her that the Congress from Bucks
! county" held its sessions in the Patent
/ Office, and she departed, threatening to
get the bill disposing Of her mortgage
; through before she left town, or make
the Bucks county member think bar
rel OF "cider had busted under him just
ns shot tower fell on top Of him."
Richland beacon., 1881-10-01
PLEASANTRIES.

Follow the example Of trees-keep
some things in the shade.
MANY Of the richest planters Of San
Domingo live on coffee grounds.
NEVER write the worl "inis back
ward. 1t will he "sin if you do.
A PIG was never known To wash, lut
a great many people have seen the rlX
iron.
A DRY-GOops house adveriiscs lawn
dresses that will wash. Isn't it the buoi-
ness Of laundress to wash?
TEE hog may not lie thoroughly post
ed in arithmetic, but when you come To
a square root he is there-the hog Is.
WAR makes the hair fall ont - asks
a correspondent. Usually il is the prop
crty OF the deceased that makes the heirs
fall out.
A RIVERS month is larger than its
head, the SEA has arms but no hands,
and a mountain has foot but no legs.
Queer, isn't it?
REv. GEoRog H. HEPwoRTH has writ
ten romance entitled ~" 1t is in
sSS, and the interest is 'tling and un ed.
-LoU,H CDurier.
A CORRESPONDENT writes: "Will you
tel! Us what Mrs. Langtry's maiden
name was Certainly; her maiden
aim was to marry Mr.. Langtry.
MANY Il newspaper has been assassin-
at.d Ill the same way Us the late Sultan
Abdul Aziz, by means of scissors.
FORK Commercial Adccrtistr.
A LITTLE 3-year-old said to her mother
one day. mamma, you married papa
80 that no one else could get Inn, didn't
you?" Her IDEAS oi human nature were
quite earnest.
"WHAr is the greatest charge on reo-
ord?' asked the Professor of History
And the absent-minded student an
swered: Seventeen dollars for hack
hire for self and girl for two hours"
An Arkansas journal says that they
have i'll that State spring so powerfully
impregnated with iron that the farmers
horses which drink at it never have to
he shod, the shoe growing on their feet
naturally.
| CAUGHT in the act: Clara-"O Char
lev, you naughty boy saw you throw
Your cigar away just as l came round
the corner" Charley" Why didn't
you say you wanted it? How was I to
know?"
That genial old proverb manufacturer
who wrote, "All work and no play
makes Jack dull boy" forgot to add
that all play and no work makes Jack q
professional sport at 20 years Of age,
and lands him in the penitentiary at 30.
"HENRY," said his wife, with chilling
severity, 81 saw you coming out of a
saloon this afternoon" "Well, my
darling" replied the heartless man,
"you wouldn't have your husband stay
ing in a saloon all day, would your
| PHYSICIANS have decided that a man
hailing from a small town in Kansas has
two hearts. What a predicament he will
he in when his girl asks him, "DO you
love me with all your hearth He will
have to say, Which heart 2" and that
may break the engagement. -Phitddet-
phia Sm.
Richland beacon., 1881-10-01
HOW N'PHEBsON DIED.

Gems. Mcpherson and Logan, who
had been to Gen. Sherman's headquart-
ers before Atlanta, rode up to the rear
IF the Seventeenth corps and dismount-
ed in q clump Of trees III front Of an
open stretch, which had probably been q
field at one time. This was about 10
O'Clock. Shortly after they had dis
mounted picket firing began on the left
and apparently to the rear of the main
line. After listening to it for few min-
ntes, Mcpherson said lie would 60 out
in that direction and See what it meant.
Calling to Capt. Kilburn Knox, OF his
staff, to follow, he mounted Blackie,'
his fayorite horse, and galloped down
the lane or narrow road, running in the
rear of the Seventeenth corps, at All
angle of IS degree. from the main line,
toward the point where the firing was
heard. Gen. Dodge, commanding the
Sixteenth corps, had been ordered to the
eft, with instructions to form at night
angles with Gen. Blair's line, but he had
not had time to get into position, conss-
quently the firing could not be on his
skrmish line, which led to the conclu-
sion that something unusual was going
on. Hoods tactics being well known to
Mcpherson, he Was on the lookout tor
dashes, hence his anxiety. 1t was not
more than fifteen minutes after McPher-
son and Knox, accompanied by their or
derlies, had dashed down the lane until
Blackie," the Generals horse, came
gaIloping back with a wound in the
shoulder, from which the blood was
pouring in . perfect stream. The cry
was instantly raised that the General
has been shot" Closely following the
horse came Capt. Knox and the two or
derlies. Knox dashed up and in an ex-
cited manner exclaimed, "He is dead.
Get an ambulance quick" Gen. William
E. Strong. now Of Chicago, and Capt.
d. n. Buell., ordnance officer, started at
once with the headquarters ambulance
down the lane, followed by several Of
the mounted men. Buell. rode ahead
and skirmished with the rebel pickets,
keeping them back until Gen. Strong
got the body into the ambulance. They
drove back with all speed to where Gen.
Logan and the other officers were. Dr.
Hewitt hastily opened his coat and dis
covered that the bullet had passed di-
rectly through his heart, killing him in
stantly. The body was taken at once to-
Gen. Sherman's headquarters, from
where it was sent, in charge of Gen.
McPherson's personal staff, to Marietta,
where it was embalmed and sent with
the same escort to the home Of his aged
mother at Clyde, Ohio.
Capt. Knox, who accompanied the
General, said they had gone but short
distance down the lane when a shot was
fred from an ambush, taking effect in
the shoulder of the Generals horse.
They reined up. but had not time to
turn until another was fred and the
General fell heavily to the ground. He
neither spoke nor moved . muscle.
After the fatal shot several skirmishers
made their appearance, one Of whom
rushed up and took off the Generals
waist belt. As soon a. he retired, .
member of the Union pioneer corps ran
ND and rified the Generals pockets, TAX
ing a pocket-book containing about 500
-PiUsburgh Telegraph.
Richland beacon., 1881-10-01

A BgooKLYS Young man Calls MS
.weethear. "S.leuce," >" because. when
ne wants to kiss her, she gives con-
sent"
Richland beacon., 1881-10-01

Ar picnic party the youth who reck-
lessly hugged all the girls was put down
as free-and-squeezy fellow.
4 PHILADELPHIA drug clerk blundered
In compoundlng dose for bis OWL tax
ing, and lost bis life thereby.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-24
NO SMALLPOX In CAIRO.

1t seems, by the light of existing facts,
that the prison authorities at Joliet have
been overofficious--have been guided by
judgment hastily formed, upon informa-
tons obtained from unreliable sources
in their quarantine action against several
of the cities in Illinois. At any rate it is
a fact, if what the press in some of the
cities referred to has to say is true, that the
authorities have Numbered badly and have
laid themselves liable to we'll. deserved
abuse for their uncalled for certainly pre-.
mature, action. The Springfield Register
denies ppsitively that there is or has been a
single case Of even suspected smallpox in
that city; yet Springfield is quarantined
against by the prison authorities at Joliet
because of the prevalence of smallpox"
The people of Quincy are indignant. The
correspondent in that city of the Chicago
Tribune says that there has not been sign
of the disease in Quincy. There has been
case of varioloid in the neighborhood,
but no small pox. As for Cairo everyone
who knows the facts, knows also that there
is not sign of the dreadful disease any
where in the city. The river man who, it
was suspected, bad died of smallpox, came
here sick from the south and died of the
disease with which be was afflicted at the
time of his arrival. SO that il he had
smallpox, he did not contract it here, and
hence his case cannot be attributed to any
unfavorable condition of the atmosphere in
Cairo. Again, the fact that there have
been no subsequent cases, not even in the
marine hospital, where he lay for some
time, and from where he was buried, proves,
either that his ailment was not smallpox,
or that the conditions were not favorable to
its spread. 1t will not do to say that the
disease was not given a chance to spread
from this case; for the man was taken to
the hospital by citizen In buggy, VINO,
though this took place over two weeks
ago, shows as yet no signs of disease. There
can be no doubt but that the authorities at
Joliet have acted very foolishly, at least
with regard to Cairo and several other
cities. 1t is time enough to publish the
fact and check commercial intercourse be-
tween communities when the dreadful dis
ease has made its appearance; but to brand
a city with plague" when there is no sign
of such a thing within its limits, and thus
strike terror to the hearts of its citizens and
paralize it's commerce, is deserving of the
severest condemnation.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-24
Wesley and the !" Beau.p

English society has known three great
tops, who gave to il rules as to how IL
should dress and behave. '.Beau Nash"
who ruled for many years In Bath,
fashionable watering-place was one Of
these leaders Of the ton. Beau Brum-
mel' and Count D'Orsay, an imported
Frenchman, wore the other two. Nash
was a professional gambler, diner-out,
and fashionable man about town. A
big, awkward person. with harsh, ir-
regular features, fop in dress, a wit in
speech, and despot IN rule, he was
known far and wide as the liking Of
Bath" When John Wesley appeared
in Bath as street preacher, Nash I'M
dertook TO drive him from the town
Their encounter is thus reported;
Nash, the great beau, confronted the
great evangelist. The great, coarse,
brawnY over-dressed, fashionable ex-
quisite stands in the presence Of the lit
tie man with piercing eye and Grecian
face, in gown and cassock, addressing
a thousand people in the open air, who
listened with intense interest TO the dia-
logue that ensued.
by what authority do you appear
here" exclaimed Nash.
by the authority of Jesus Christ and
the Archbishop of Canterbury" replied
Mr.. Wesley.
Nash had doubtless expected to meet
an ignorant, brawlNg ''gospeller," but
found himself face to face with cul.
tured'cergyman Of the National Estab-
lishment.
This is contrary to act of parlia-
ment 1t is conventicle," said Nash.
"The conventicle forbidden by par
lament is seditious meeting. Here is
not shadow of. sedition, therefore it is
not contrary to that act" retorted the
clergyman.
Beaten off his first tack, Nash could
only insolently reply; ~ say it is, and
besides, your preaching frightens peo-
Pile out Of their wits"
"Sir, did you ever hear me preachp
.No.n
"How then can you Judge Of that you
never heardp"
"Sir, by common report"
common report Is not enough 10
Judge by. Give me leave to ask, sir, Is
not your name Nash"
"My name is Nash"
Sir, dare not judge Of you by COM
mon report"
This was a hoNle thrust at a man who
had been notorious among all classes il
Bath for a whole generation as the
prince of gamblers.
He was second time silenced. He
rallied sufficiently to ask, in tame
way:
"a desire TO know why all these PEG.
pie are herep"
ITO save our souls, Mr.. Nash" shouts
an old lady, ''whle you take care Of
your precious body!' aHs,
There were volumes OF reproof and
ridicule in this reply and its source. and
the discounted panderer TO the things
or the flesh retired crestfallen from a
field where he had expected to win On
easy victory. G..lia