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LINES TO AN OLD FLAME.

hear that last Monday you passed through
Both YOU and your husband, en- route for
They say that you still are the same, and as
pretty
As ever you were in the days Of your
Of course you're surprised should be 50
romantic
AZ not to forget you in twenty five years,
And write in your honor these verses pc
dantic,
With lines about love, disappointment
l still have the note have kept and ad-
mireG, ...-s
In which you informed mo that you woro
engaged,
Describing the man as q "Chevalier Bayard,'
"Sans peur, sans reproche, and just mid
die aged"
I answered. l think, in a page full Of feeling,
And ,,;aa,|' T'.nfd you all joy "' brother and
Conccaling heart that would never know
healing,
a sorrow to grow till the 9 world without
end"
Ny friends came around INC and held a
great clinic,
They thought in Bohemia might find a
home;
And there for year was hermit and eynie,
And posed for Il time rs young St.
Jerome.
swore then I'd work with blind lespera-
ton,
And sought for cure in the baubles Of
fame;
But ply sic like this is Of shortest duration,
A man who ia gifted dislikos great
name.
dipped into pleasure, became whist
player, 'ao
Was called gourmet and lived at the
club;
flirted the more as my hair became grayer.
And drove In tho park with my "cats"
and 4 club"
Then weary Of follies. /! learned to he quiet,
Aud now am fond Of bachelor lite.
But when my hairs grayer Perll&ps l shall
dye it,
And, like old Sir Pnter, find out . young
wife.
You'll laugh ut these lines from q foolish
old fellow,
And think me tho quaintcst, Quixotic old
But, Madam, believe me, my heart is still
mellow
With love for 6 maiden Of ages ago.
TIL.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-08-13
SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.

In six years, trees of the Eucalyptus
globulMs planted in .Jamaica have become
one foot in diameter and sixty feet in
height.
1t has been affirmed by Dr. Arnott
that no wave of tho ocean rises more
than ten feet from the ordinary sea level,
which, with the ten feet its surface
afterwards descen.ls, gives twenty feet
for the maximum height of the entire
wave.
"A very successful experiment with
the electric light was lately made in a
Paris theatre. So manifest were the ad-
vantages secured that the subject of
compelling all the theatres in the city to
adopt some electric light is being coli
sidered.
1t is noticed that various substances
ar. formed during fires in coal mines
Among them NJ. Daubree has discovered
at Commentry new magnetic mineral
whicl, contains phosphorus and small
quantities Of arsenic and sulphur. This
substance resembles various natural
minerals and some meteoric stones.
The many unlikely methods by
which the seeds of plants are diffused
over land and sea until they ut length,
find congenal spot for development,
form an interesting and curious study.
1t is we'll known that bees carry pollen
from flower to flower, and Thus act not
| only as sewers of seed but also as fer
tilizers of the female plants. A curious
instance of this kind has been given by a
scientific man, who states that attached
to the skin of panther recently shot in
India lie found numerous seeds, eacl, OF
wliicl, had two perfect hooks, appearing
as if designed to attach themselves to
foreign bodies. AS the panther moved
| about it collected the seeds on the skin
and carried them wherever it went: but
| when it rubbed against the shrubs, the
seeds were brushed Oft, aud thus dis
tributed.
Quite recently, the curious fact has
been discovered by NJ. Van Tieglla,,.
that many of the lower plants can live
and sometimes fruit very well when they
develop i'll oil alone, and far removed
from all contact with the atmosphere
Unpurifed oils are sown with spores,
and then, if a slightly moist substance
he immersed la the oil, it becomes
covered with vegetation. Anon. others
the common mould, PenieiNium glaucum
develops in oil ard frncsifies very well in
the midst of the liquid, bnt tie intro
dncfl"n Of 4 small quantity of watgr II,
| first is necessary to cause the speres t,
.erminate. The termination of these
pisEts is due to the oxygen dissolved II,
the oil, and they possess the property ol
forming water at the expeuse Of til.
.,rHepts of the Oil.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-08-13
LOUISIANA SATURDAY AUGUST

crons mingled with tho sadder side tha
mirth comes inyolunta tarily to the inter
ested spectator. No ono has as yet SCUM
ded the length, the breadth and tn,
depth of the pathos and the ridiculous
ness as is seen in the Negro. Webster
could have found many new word fol
bis lexicon, fitly coined and nptly used
by Sambo, and how does the hnmor o1
Artemns Ward or Josh Billings compare
to plantation Negrs'si A favorite dish
Oh our table is potato Jricasee; l over.
heard the old cook, y colored Mrs. Par.
tington and a typical specimen of the
race, say with a comicnl air of impor.
tance as if she was sure she had got the
right word in the right place, "Mus'
cook some sanct;fed puttaters dis morn
inf" And what do you think of to
rightly and to sense as verbs Nucl,
moro expressive than to rectify or to in
strnct, are they mott An old Negro
sometime ago was having a religious dis
cnssion with his former mistress. She set
before him the character of onr Savior
III its many and most lovely shades.
And now, Francis" said she in trium.
plant conclusion, "Tell me what you
think Of Him." We'll, Miss Lizzie" re-
piled the old man, shuffling his feet and
scratching his gray head n,editatively
with lndicro,.s assumption of awe at
His unreasonable greatness and power,
=" De mo- hears bout Him an de mo-
| studies bout Him, pears to inc like
Jesus Christ JUS takes de rag right offer
de busli ~
Did you ever attend Negro wedding I
Ono Of the hoase-maids, very pretty
griffe girl, was married in the "quarters !"
month or two back. As she was was
quite fsvorite al" the house" the ladies'
Of the family made her wedding cake
and interested themselves in her adorn-
ments, etc. At the appointed hour all
"CHV W GuO CuUECn-1OuSe 10 W.T.
ness the ceremony. The bride, dressed in
white book-lnnslin with bridal veil and
wreath, looked rs sercnely happy as a
bottle of Jockey Club and an immense
boquet of cape jessamine flowers could
make her, while tho groom, too embar-
rassed to do aught but inspect the toes
of his shining boots, appeared an ebony
Beau Brummel in black suit, choking
white collar and gorgeous necktie.
STAN mp Mary an Billy" said the
preacher, who was attired in gray
linen duster of clericai cut, "Stan' up
an ans'er desc yere questions: Does
yon, Billy, take Mary to be yo' bewe,l-
ded wife, for bctt'r for wuss, tell death
yoi does depart an to live arer Gods
Holy ornermcnts as long as go bofe
shall live on dis yere ycarth'" And SO
on, until the beautiful ceremony of the
Church Of England became miserable
travesty in Bro Ruffin' s" mouth.
VILLETTE.
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Many strange sounds, real or imasin-
airy, have been heard in the working of
natures processes. There has been re-
ported to exist Oh distant island in the
Bay of Bengal u phenomenon known as
the " Barisal guns," which is oftsn heard
1T the beginning of rainfall, and is like
the sound of the firing of cannon. An
observer has decided that these saunds
are atmospheric and in some way con
uected with electricity. Mr.. Horne, re-
porting on the villages of the Hinalayas,
describes exceedingly powerful noises
heard in tie highest mountain peaks, to
which the natives can ascril,e no cause
Above the town Of koim'atar in Madras,
is a pond which the natives carefully
s''nn becansc frightful Hoises issue frosa
;tx depths.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-08-13
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY

| Foreign.
A marble statue Of Byron is shortly to
be erected at Missolongi,i.
Japan is now supporting six large uni-
versities on the European plan.
About 10000 Chinese will land at sgd
ney before tho close of the year.
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt is reckonet,
one of the millionaires of London.
There is 10 longer doubt that tho
infant heir of the Duke of Norfolk is
blind.
| Considerable doubt is entertained rs
to whether the late Sultan was really
murdered
| A st. Petersburg paper declares tho
Jewish troubles havc been excessively
exaggerated.
| Lord Beaconsfeld's late London resi-
dence, with its furniture, is advertised
for sale by anction.
The Grand Duke Constantine has com-
mitted the grave offense against Russian
etiquette of resigning all his offices with,
out permission.
man just died in the hospital of the
Odessa prison, with the reputation of
having committed eighty murders, and
Of having escaped no fewer than five
times from Siberia
The Supreme Court of Denmark has
sentenced thirty-nine Negroes, including
three women, to death, for participation
in the murders and incendiarism during
the late Negro riots in the island Of Santa
Cruz, West Indies.
In the prefecture Of Niigata, Japan,
small paper money and copper coins arc
both so scarce that the merchants arc
obliged to use postage stamps, post
cards, revenue stamps, matches, cnycl-
opes, chopsticks, wooden spoons, etc, as
change.
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Domestic.

| One of Now York's Broadway mil!iners
nets $50, 900 year.
The Great Eastern steamship is to DO
| sold at auction on the 1st Of October.
A pedestrian started from Chicago TO
walk to New York City in twenty days.
A little child at Perry, Ga, upset q
hive of bees, and stirred up the bees with
| stick.
New York publishes in the Hebrew
language the only jewish daily in the
world.
Garfeld's boys are the liyeliest boys
who ever had home in the White
House.
A San Francisco politician habitually
| wore irons to keep himself home at
nights.
A Negro escaped from q chain gang
| near Macon, Ga, and ran so hard that he
fell dead.
A United Brethren pastor at Caption,
Ohio, has been suspended for saying
"D-n it,"
Gen. Sherman's wife says that in
thirty-one years he has heen but oncs
late for dinner.
An eloping Missouri couple avertea
suspicion by registering at the hotels as
mother and SOD.
The first piano ever taken to Texas
was converted into q feed d-tr0ugL by
Mexican soldiers.
Broekton, Mass, now manufactures
more sewing machine noodles than all
Europe combined.
A fund is being raised in Boston to
give poor and infirm persons street car
rides OIL pleasant days.
A woman belonging to the sect called
Perfectionists undertook to run herself
to death at Dallas, Texas.
Philadelphia and New York are con-
nected by more telegraph wires than any
other two cities in the world.
Catholic bishops in America are in,
structed to exhort their flocks not to
encourage civil war in Ireland.
A man has been tramling through
Indiana for one month, with his head
enclosed in an carthenware globe.
Eighty three burial permits were is-
sued in Chicago on one day in July, the
largest number in the history of the city.
Corn cakes made from dough that had
stood over night in glazed crockery
dish poisoned an entire New Albany, Ind,
family.
A five-Jcar-old child at Mt. Pleasant,
Pa, was stransled to death by getting
it's head wedycd between the piekets Of
u fence.
A New York bride had the presents ell
gravcd with her own name so her hus-
band could not claim them in case Of
divorce.
| Eating houses along the new Southern
Pacific railroad bear the legend, Gone
meal, - cents; Square meal, ~ cents
Gorge, Is cents"
A Wisconsin father chained his dis
obedient little boy naked to the floor of
"a barn, and kept him there Oh bread and
| water for five days.
| One Of the crueltIe, charged III Il De-
| troit wife's suit for divorce was that ho
would not let her put her cold feet vi,
him to warm theta
| On operins the coffin Of baby buried
| twenty-five years ago 1T New man, Ga,
the child was seen with every feature
perfectly preserved.
The Iernandina, Texas, Ban1As keeps
n reporter to witness the pcrtnrnarcrs
ot approaehiu. theatrical companies ar
/ nei oilboins towns, 5" the p,o,,le W..
! not be swlndIe.l.
| At d ',"ier explosion iii the saw ln!it
near Oak land, Md, the iirem.n WI,
blown across the longhi"yL-t.y River
| 100 feet through q tl.;cket, .t.,t! bul....,
i.ea'. foremost, "ist.,f al. o.,l l"5
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~ KLINE, corner Crescent Place and
NJ Honnas street, dealer in Dry Goods,
Notions, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Pro
visions, Corn, Oats and Bran.
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TNO. SOLUZANO, dealer in Groceries
% Wines aud Liquors, Crockcry, Tinwarc,
Notions, etc. No. q Railroad AveDnc, be.
tween Conway and St. Michael streets,
DUnallsOnvillc.
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DONALDsONvlLLE
BUSINESS DIRECTORY,
SEWING MACHINES.

m A. KINGSTON, dealer in .ll kinds Of
Il New and Second Hand Sewing Ma
chimes, 155 Railroad Avenue. Needles, Oil,
Attachments and everything belonging to
tho sewing machine. Machines sold, ex-
changed or rented on easy monthly pay
ments. Machines given on trial. Repairing
speciality.
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M LEVY, dealer in Dry Goods, Cloth
Nls ing, Boots, Shoes. Hats, Groceries.
Furniture, Hardware and Plantation Sup.
plies, at Len.ann's old stand, Mississippi
street. &. FEITEL. Agent
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mt ISRAEL 4 CO., dealers in Dry Goods,
W. Clothing; Boots, Shoes, Saddlery,
Buggies, ETC., cDrner Mississippi street and
Railroad Avenue.
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BARBER SHOP.

II l.. FERNANDEZ, Barber Shop. Mis-.
Lie sissippi Street. near corner 11Bssartl
Shaving hxir-cutting. shampooing, etc. in
most artistic atyle
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TINSNIITH.

II OUIS j. RACKE, Tinslnitl,. Mississip,,i
IL street, Mt Lcmann's old stand. Or,lerr
attended to with dispatcl, and satisfaction
insured.
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DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, Etc.

TNO. +. PARK, dealer in Staple and Fan.
u cy Groceries, Provisions. Plantation and
Steamboat Supplies. Canned Goods, Wines,
Liquors, Bottled Beer. Ale, ETC., Dry Goods
and Notions, corner Of Mississippi and Chet.
imaches streets ODD River Ferry.
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CODA WATER MANUFACTORY, II.
y Hethcr, proprietor, No. IL Mississippi,
street. Soda, Mineral. Seltzer and all kinds
of aerated waters manufactured, and sold
1T lowest prices.
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ID CAMEL Agent for Louisiana Life In
Il sufaisce Company, Mississippi street,
over Fernanlez's barber shop. Policies Sc
cnretl by deposit Of u reserve fund in the
State treasury.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW.

DAUL LECIIE, Attorney at Law and No
II tary Public. Donal.lsonvillc. Office !:
One block below the Court House, on At
takapas street. ie25
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DERNARD LEMANN, dealer in Western
ID Produce, fancy and staple Groceries,
Liquors, ardware, Iron, Paints, Oils, Carts,
Plows, Sstldlery, Stoves and Tinware, Fur
niture, Crockery, Wall Paper and House
Furnishing Goods, Mississipli street, corner
Crescent Place.
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A d. VEGA, Agent, dealer in Dry Goods,
IA Notions, Clothing, Boots and Shoes,
Hats. Groceries, Liquors, Furniture, Hard
ware, Tobacco. Paints, Oils, Glass, Lumber,
Bricks, Carts and Wagons; 1.oeb's corner,
Railroad Avenue and Mississippi street.
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M TOBIAS, dealer in Groceries, Dry
4Xls Gootls, Clothing, Notions, Boots and
Shoes, Hats, Furniture, Hard ware, Crock.
cry, Trunks, ETC., corner Mississippi and st.
Patrick streets and No. ~ Railroad Avenue.
Every thing at lowest figures.
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ulTY HOTEL. P. Lefevre, Proprietor
~ Railroad Avenue, cor. lbcrvilIc street
Bar supplied with best Liquors.
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TOSERH GONDRAN, dealer in Clothing,
- Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Groceries,
Wines, Liquors, Boots, Shoes, Hardware,
Paints, Oils, Saddlery, Crockery, Furniture
and all kinds of House Furnishing Goods,
Blue Store MississiDl,i street.
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HOTELS AND BsOARDING-HOUs
DORT. E. LEE HOTEL, at Marx Israel's
II. old stand, corner Mississippi and Les
and billiard room attached. First-class en-
tcrtainnseat and accssps.oistiOps.,
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INSURANCE AGENCIES.

" MAURIN. General Fire Insurance
W Agent. Mississippi street. over Fer
nnndez's q barber shop. fiepresents arst-clnss
comp.I,ies Will. over $50 ,OO0yOOO Of capital.
Policies Issued directly from ~sgency with.
out delay. ~ *s5=
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MILLINERY

AIRS, NJ. BLUM. Ailliner, Mississippi
NJ street. bctweaa hessafd and St; Pat
rick. Latest styles Of Bennets. Hate; i;: French M
derwear.
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BLACKSMITH,

IN WALTER, blacksmith and Carriage
Z Shop. Mississippi street. near Lcssar,l
Carriage. buggy aud wagon making, trim
ming, decorating and repairing. Horse
shooing and all kinds Of blacksmith work
in first-class style.
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L1QUon AND nILLIARD SALOONS.

TVIIE PLACE, Gus. Israel, manager,
Il Corner Lessarl and Mississippi streets.
Billiards, Lager l,ecr. Best Wines and
Liquors, Fine Cigars, etc.
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SODA WATER MANUFACTORY.
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HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING.

INGRY, THE PAINTER, Crescent Place,
" opposite the Market House. House.
Sign and Ornamental Painting in all their
branches. Best work ut lowest prices.
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CONFECTIONERIES,
JACKSONVILLE CONFECTION
~ by A. Grilhc, Mississippi street. near
st. Patrick. Brancl, on Railroad Avenue,
near Opclonsas street. Cakes. Fruits, Nuts,
Soda Water, Ice Cream. Cakes. Ice Cream
and Syraps for weddings and parties fur
nished on short nOtic.,.
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LIVERY STABLES 8 UNnERTAKING

- Stable and Unlertaker's Establishment,
Railroad Avenue, between Iberville and At
:akapas streets. Competition dctied.
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United.

She who sleeps upon my heart
Was the first to win it;
She who dreams upon my breast
Ever reigns within it;
She who kisses oft my lips
Wakes the warmest blessing;
She who rests within my arms
Feels their closest pressing.
Other days than these shall come,
Days that may be dreary;
Other hours shall greet us yet,
Hours that may be weary;
Still that heart shall be thy home,
Shll that breast thy head shall pillow,
Still those lips meet thine, as oft
Billow meetath billow.
Sleep, then, on my happy heart,
Since thy love hath won it;
Dream, then, on my loyal breast
None but thou hast done it;
And when age our bloom shall change
With its wintry weather,
May we in the self-same grave
Sleep and dream together!
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MistletOe at Christmas Tide.

The hanging cf the mistletoe is q
cause of much fr,lic and laughter in
the house. 1t is the rule that whoe yer
is passing under the mistletoe- Dough
must submit to being kissed then and
there by whatsoever chooses to take
that liberty. AS bough usually hangs
from the center of the ceiling, spread
ing over q large space, it follows that
there must be much lodging or much
kissing; l am inclined to think that
there are both.
The origin of this use of the mistle-
toe is not known; but we do know that
more than eighteen hundred years ago,
when the glad stars sang together over
the manger in Bethlehem, and wise
men brought gifts Of gold, frankincense
and myrrh to a young Child in the
peasant mothers arms, England was a
chill mist covered island, Inhabited on
ly by savages, who wore garments of
skins and lived in huts of mud and
stone. Among these savage Britons
there were pagan priests called Druids.
These priests were mysterious folk,
who lived in dense woods far away
from other men and who, in the gloomy
solitudes Of the forest, performed strang
secret ceremonies. The sacred groves,
as they we're called, we're of oak; for
the oak was divine tree, according to
the Druidical religion. Within these
sacred groves. the priests, it is record
ed in history, offered their sacrifices,
and in some manner, not now known,
they employed the mistletoe. But all
mistletoe was not sacred to the Druids.
They would have none but that which
chung I. the trunk and was nourished
by the sap OF the divine oak. To the m,
the apple-tree mistletoe, which modern
England uses DO freely IN her holiday
festivities, would be . worthless and
common thing.
When, in later centuries, Eng
land was taught the Christian religion
by priests who went thither from
Rome, the people. though protesting {
belief in Christ, retain many Of theil
heather rites and customs changed
from their original meaning and pur-
pose. At any rate, from the Druidl
has come the modern usage Of the mis-
tletos- bough strangely preserved in fee
Invites which commemorate the birth
Of Him whose pure worship Destroy
all heather superstitions. st. Ntskelos
Az II you oould kill time without in
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An Untimely Thought.

wonder what day of the week
wonder what month CT the year
VIII it be midnight or morning,
And who will bend over my bier.
What a hideous fancy TO come,
As wait at the foot Of the stair,
While Lillian gives the last touch
To her robe, or the rose in her hair.
Do like your new dress-pompadour?
And do like you? On my life
You are eighteen and not day more,
And have not been six years my wife.
Those two rosy boys in the crib
Upstairs, are not ours to be sure!
You are just sweet bride in her bloom,
All sunshine, and snowy, and pure.
As the carriage rolls down the dark street,
The little wife laughs and makes cheer
Butt wonder what day of the week
wonder what month Of the year.
II 3. 4ldrjcA