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Lonisianians, you just sit down
quietly and wait till some benevo-
lent individuals come along and
build all the railroads and other in
ternal improvements you need.
Wait for something to turn up
There's no use helping yourselves.
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WHEELER & WILSON
ufactu ring Company,
No. 1913 Canal Street,
NEW ORLEANS.
v. sHIDET,
Matchmaker and Jeweler.

WHICnmaKer ana JeWeI6fS
Takes this method of announcing to ~
i his old friends and patrons and IA
the public in general, that he will be ~
found on Market Street, near Bogeps DruE
store. Shreveport, La, where he il pfeparss
to repair watches, jeweiry, &c., promptly sDe
at moderate prices. Satisfaction guaranteea'
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-07-28

Correct thoughts are important.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-07-28

Only a man with a good head
should be put at the head of great
enterprise.
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y. Henry Shepher1.

A ttorney. at Law, Shreveport. La IA,
"A practice in the Courts Of Caada "nl
Joining parishes, also ii the Supreme S "a1 e.
eraI Court of the State, ' ahu " red 81
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-07-28

Bourbon county, KY, is entirely
ont of debt. Brave! Bourbons.
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J. a. W. LOWRY.


A tse4nsys at Law, Bellevue, In w;y.,
"A tics In the Courts ~ &c., iii ptae
and Webster parishes. -. nosoenviIls
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1881-07-28

The more enterprise Louisiana
displays the greater the prosperity
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15

IRE the quiet manner of her husband.
and has limited circle of acquaintance
Secretary Lincoln's wife was Mary Har-
Ian, daughter of ex-senator Harlan,
woman of exquisite loneliness. In her
younger days the suitors for her hand
were numbered by the score. Her
presence In the charmed circle of the
Cabinet will add to its brilIiancy. The
fact that Mrs. Macveagh is Simon
Cameron's daughter has given her a
reputation which has preceded her here.
She is tall, graceful Of figure, and, hay
ing spent years In society with her
father when he was in the zenith of his
political glory and power, comes we'll
prepared for the new honors which both
her husband and herself will receive
Those who know her intimately say that
she possesses In q marked degree many
of the characteristics which distinguish
her father, and that these traits are
more largely developed than In any
of her relatives. Having been brought
up in political atmosphere, she has
acquired the faculty eff reading men and
women at glance and I am told that
hers has been the directing mind in
many of the movements made by her
husband. Mrs. Hunt will be the belle
of the Cabinet beyond doubt. She is
beautiful blonde, agreeable in manner
and cultivated in taste. Mrs. Hunt is
one of the best-educated ladies in Wash
ington, and withal a brilliant society
woman. Her circle of acquaintance is
large and she entertains with true
Southern hberality. Postmaster James
has lovely wife, who will be an orna-
ment to society here.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
Queens of the CabInet.

Seldom, writes a Washington CORE
spondent, has it been that, in the selec-
ton of Cabinet, the wives of the mem
bers enjoyed such distinction, apart from
the reputation of their husbands, as do
some of those of the present administra-
ton. Mrs. Blaine is a fine-looking lady,
tall, with good features, and hair well
sprinkled with gray. She is pleasant in
her manners, ready conversationalist.
and shrewd. Her long experience in
public life has made her a valuable ac-
ouisition to the administration, or at
least to that part of it represented by
her husband. She can keep a secret
and ward off the inquisitive. Mrs.
Blaine possesses those peculiar qualifi-
cations which make wife great com
fort and aid to a public man. Mrs.
Window is a fine. matronly lady, who
has never shown any disposition for So
ciety and its frivolities. While she
always dresses in good taste, in either
black silk or satin, or some solid color,
there is nothing dashing to distinguish
her in crowded reception room. She
appears to best advantage IN the home
circle. The oldest fish in the Cabinet
basket is Samuel J. Kirkwood, the Sec
rotary of the Interior. He is a plain
man, and has an agricultural appear
ance, but the one who picks him up as a
fiat will be mistaken. Little Is known of
his wife beyond the fact that she is an
estimable lady, who partakes in meas
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
Suicidal Facts.

The Frenchman kills himself to very
large extent. No less than 149 French
men commit suicide every year. This
is what we might expect of a people
struggling to remember day by day
whether they are living under q King
or an Emperor or one of two or three
kinds of republics. The reading of
French newspapers must else be a pro-
life cause of suicide. The reader is la
bic at almost any time to be shocked by
finding news paragraph setting forth
some occurrence of not more than three
days old. Of course, Frenchman of
nervous temperament would be serious
ly disturbed by succession Of such
shocks happening within a space of six
months, and would very likely in his ex-
element seek the sure serenity of death.
Life is hardly worth living in country
where you may be dragged out of bed at
any hour in the night by excited patriots
and required to lend hand in upset ing
the Government. The wonder is, not
that so many Frenchmen commit sui
eide, but that suicide is not the univer-
ssh practice.
One would imagine that the Danes
would very seldom kill themselves.
They have small country, the geogra-
ply of which they can master in half an
hour, and they are believed to be pros
porous and happy people, exempt from
revolutions and elections, and to very
great degree from daily newspapers and
malaria. Nevertheless, out of the small
population of Denmark 258 persons kill
themselves every year. The fact admits
of but two explanations, neither OF
which will be felt to be fully satisfa
ry. We may assume that as a nation
the Danes are still trying to understand
what was the the famous Schleswig-
Holstein question which led to the war
with Prussia and Austria, and that many
of them are thereby reduced to such
state of disgrace that they seek refuge
in death; or, we may suppose that the
Muhlbach novels, which few years ago
devastated this country, have been trans
lated into Danish and are universally
read. These two causes would undoubt-
edly be sufficient to account for any
quantity of suicides, but it is not Ter
tain that either the Schleswig- Holstein
question or the Muhlbach novels engage
to any extent the attention of the Danes
of the present me,-INelD York IJ31les
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
BITS OF INFORMATION.


HIBEBNIA is the Latin name for Ire
land.
CorroN MATTER wrote SS2 works Of
all kinds.
MEMPHIS was built by Mizraim 1900
years and more before Christ.
THE slang word ''crack" Gas, a "crack"
regiment) is corruption OF ''erepo, to
boast of. 1t is English university slang,
and was In common use In Shakspeare's
time.
ALUMINIUM when fused and east in
molds is soft as pure silver, but when
hammered or rolled it becomes az hard
as lion.
NmRo-GLYoERTNE was invented by
Soblero in 1847 In 1868 Alfred Nobel
German, first mixed it with gunpow-
der, and used it for blasting, and, after
further experiments, invented dynamite,
by mixing it with infusorial earth.
GLASS was first introduced into En-
gland In 674. Its use was at first entirely
confined to religious edifces, and did
not become general until the fourteenth
century. The first glass mandatory In
America was established by John Hewes.
In New Hampshire, in 1890.
THE "Riot Act" is an ENGLISH law
providing that if any persons to the
number of twelve or more, being unlaw-
fully, riotously and unanimously assem-
bled together to the disturbance of the
public peace, shall continue so assem-
bled for the space of an hour after q
magistrate has commanded them by
proclamation to dispense, they shall be
considered felons." It is the custom In
England always to read the Riot Act "
before proceeding to extremities.
In the ancient Egyptian astronomy,
the order of the planets, in respect of
distance from the earth, beginning with
the most remote, is Saturn, Jupiter,
Mars, the sun, Venus, Mercury, the
moon. The day was divided into twenty
four hours, and each successive hour
consecrated to particular planet in the
order stated-so that, one hour being
consecrated to Saturn, the next fell to
Jupiter, the third to Mars, and so on,
and each day was named after the planet
to which its first hour was consecrated,
The Egyptian week began with SatJr-
day, or the day of Saturn and the Jews,
because of their flight on that day, made
it the last day of their week--the last
day of their bondage-hence theiE Sab
bath or rest from labor.
The term Porte" which is used to-
denote the administrative government
of the Ottoman empire, and includes
the Sultan, the Grand Vizier, and the
great Council of State, had its origin in
this way: In the famous institutes es-
tablished by the famous warrior, Sultan
Mohammed IL, the Turkish body polit-
ic was described by the metaphor of o
stately tent, whose domes rested upon
four pillars. "The Viziers formed the
first pillar, the Judges the second, the
Treasures the third, and the Secretaries
the fourth" The chief seat of the gov
eminent was tguratively named the
"Lofty Gate of the Royal Tent, " in al
fusion to the practice Of earlier times,
when the Ottoman rulers sat at the tent
door to administer justice. The Italian
translation of this name was Gle Porte
Sublima." This phrase was modi-
fed in English to the Sublime
Porte" and finally the adjective has
been dropped, leaving it simply 1.-The
| Porte -
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
Maxims Derived from Bread.

Says Chaucer; "Of your white bread,
. SILVER "a thin slice). Says Shaks-
peare: easy it is of cut loaf to steal
shive." Says Pullein "a physician
writing in 1915: "Sodden bread, which
be called simnells or cracknells. be
verie unwholesome. And there is the
little loaf called manchet. Says More
of it: 81 love to entertain my friends
with frugal collation.; cup of wine,
a dish of fruit and manchet." SAYS
Bacon of it: "Take a small toast of
manchet, dipped in oil of sweet al
monds." Says Mrs. Glass of it, almost
within hearing: "To make water-tan-
sey, take half a manchet grated, or half
a penny roll"
Bread also has furnished proverb and
by-werd, adage and pert wit. Mrs.
Uppercrust is woman whose yeast. or
" BARN, or some other initiating power
has risen her very high indeed. Grumpy
and crusty are adiectives, applied to
persons, very well understood.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
The Seeds Of Disease.

Most people think bad smells prolific
of infection, and carrion and decaying
matter generally to be breeders of dis
ease Some are quite satisfied when the
foul air is deodorized, quite unaware
that the infectfFe particles may remain
the same.
But we must not mistake here. Our
success in battling with epidemic1 will
depend on our getting at the exact truth
in the case.
Liberia soon becomes the grave Of
every white man that goes there to stay;
but the keenest scent detec3s nothing of
the malaria in the atmosphere.
All may be fragrance and beauty
where yellow fever is decimating the
population. 1t was the finest parts of
Chicago that were ravaged by scarlet
fever, while the other parts were almost
exempt. Diphtheria has of late years
had proportionally more victims in the
mountainous regions of Massachusetts
than in Boston and our larger cities.
The fact is, infectious diseases come
of germs just as truly as the products of
our fields come of the seed sown. These
germs are almost infinitely small but
their mature plants-they are strictly
vegetable-have the power to multiply
at an almost infinite rate. Each disease
has its own germ. Smallpox cannot
come from typhoid germs; nor measles
from scarlatina; nor yellow fever from
cholera-and SO universally. They must
come each from its own seed, as much
SO as wheat, corn, the apple, elm or oak.
They cannot come without seed, for
science knows of no spontaneous genera
ton.
But the seeds of higher order require
good soil and other favoring conditions.
It is equally SO with the seeds of dis
ease. Their choicest soil is filth, and
there is no other favorable condition
equal to a depressed state of ones phys
ical system-whether depressed by bad
food, impure DIR, sensual indulgence,
long continued anxiety, fear, watching
or undue fasting. Youths Companion,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15

Mr.. Sherman, of Ohio, addressing the
Senate upon this question, said the
American people would look upon til s
contest, which involved nothing but a
few officers, with good deal of indiffer
ence, but back of this was a principle
which was recognized in every deliber-
ative body in the world: that was, that
the majority of any body must decide
every question that came before it. The
rights of the minority were not defined.
but prescribed. Here the majority was
In favor of change of officers. It was
shown by many votes, and it was more
than constitutional maiority--it was a
majority of the Senators without respect
to the voting of the Vice President
Did anybody question the right of the
majority to elect officers The minority
said No, you shall not do that. Per
haps the majority was wise and right
That was matter of Indifference. The
question was who should determine
the order of business. ANY majority
was a majority. It was because
Southern republics had disregarded
this law that they had never been able
to establish stable governments. He
made strong argument in opposition
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
How to Get n wife ,urud,,,

When man in decent rank of life
wishes to marry, and can prove that he
possesses the means of maintaining awife,
It is customary for him to apply to the
mistress of the Byculla School, state his
wishes and qualifications, and inquire
into the number and character of the
manageable girls. An investigation
Immediately follows as to eligibility, and,
if all promises satisfactorily, he is forth
with invited to drink tea with school
p'istress upon an appointed eveniE:c.. to
give him an opportunity of making his
selection. The elder girls are then in
formed of his intended visit and its pur-
port, and those who desire to enter the
matrimonial lists come forward and sig
Nifty their wish to join the party. Ere
quently four or five competitors make
their appearance on these occasions in
the mistress room. The gentleman,
while doing his best to make himself
universally agreeably, yet contrives, in
the course of the evening, to mark his
preference for one particular lady.
Should these symptoms of budding
affection be favorable received, he ten
u0IS LIS pIOpOSdlS Ill uu0 lOI14 C4 l14O
following morning. But it often occurs
that the selected lady does not partici-
pate in the inamorato's sudden flame, in
which case she is at perfect liberty to
decline the honor of his alliance, and re-
serves herself for the next tea-party ex-
hibition.
We have known an instance when an
amorous old gentleman from an out-sta-
ton presented himself three successive
times at these soirees in the hope of OBJ
tanning wife to cheer the solitude Of his
up-corntry residence, but all in vain !:
the young ladies unanimously rejected
him with the highest disdain, wondering
chow such an ugly old fellow could
have the impudence to think of a wife ?"
But very different reception is given to
the dashing young Sergeant or smart
looking conductor their attentions are
never repulsed, and the announcement
of the " chosen intended" as Miss
squeers would say, is anticipated with
the utmost impotence by many an
anxious young heart. The wedding
speedily follows, the brides modest
trousseau" being provided from the
funds of the establishment, and every
girl in the school cheerfully contribut-
ing her aid in the manufacture of the
dresses.-Life IN Bombay.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
Ice and the Stomach.

The use of ice as a luxury, in the form
of ice cream or of iced water, is becom-
ing more prevalent in this country.
Used in these ways they are generally
taken, especially by the young, reck-
lessly, without thong ht of any serious,
possibly fatal, results that may follow.
An average stomach has an immense
deal to do to digest three full meals a
day; especially when, as is frequently
the case, it is disturbed and irritated by
food that is indigestible because Of its
quality or its quantity. Let it be remem-
bered that there is nothing in the body
blood, muscle, membrane, bone, ten
don, nerve, brain, or secretions-which
has not come of the contents of the
stomach. Neither is there thought,
feeling. an emotion, volition, or an act,
Which has not derived the material force
back of it from the stomach.
Such an organ must, therefore, be
highly organized. 1t has countless
arteries, veins, nerves and glands. 1t is
lined with delicate mucous membrane,
as much 50 as the air-tubes.
It is studded all over with glands
which elaborate and pour into it that
wonderful fluid, gastric juice. Its coats
consist of different thin layers of muscles
arranged crosswise, and these are con-
stantly at work giving it that peculiar
rolling motion by which the food Is
thoroughly mixed with the saliva. Every
organ and muscle when in action must
have a special supply of blood. This is
especially true of the stomach.
Food, therefore, fails to disgest if the
blood is withdrawn from the stomach,
as. for instance, to the brain by study,
or close thought, or by anxiety, imme-
diately after eating.
Now, it is the nature of cold to con-
tract all blood-vessels and drive back the
blood, and to paralyze, more or less, all
nerves. Of course, the flow of gastric
juice is checked, and digestion is arrested,
and the proper motion of the stomach
interfered with, by an ice-cold fluid In
troduced into it.
Further, when the reaction sets in, the
blood-vessels become over-distended,
producing often dangerous congestion,
and an increased thirst, with demand
for more ice-water, thus inducing
'fvicious circle.
From what we have said, any reader
can see that iced water, or ice cream,
should not be taken into the stomach at
the same time with food. Serious con-
sequences often follow disregard of
this physical law Youths Companion
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
THE DEAD MOON.

The moon is in state cf deerepitude q dea
world, Professor PTcctsss
The moor is ead--defunct--played out
Sc Gays very learned doctor;
She looketh well, beyond doubt;
Perhaps she's in a trance, dear Proctor,
At any rate, she's most enhancing
For one OF such decrepit age;
And on herrsdiant beauties glancing,
She charms the eyes OF youth and sage.
Ard so the man upon hers perishedl
lie lived in doeiUl isolationl
Poor wretch No wife his bosom cherished,
Goehildren squalled his consolation.
Yet she's adored by eli the Gypses
Whose lorefS sigh beneath her beams,
She aids the steps of staggering tipsieg
And silvers Ger romantic streams.
Ard once she caught Endymion sleeping,
And she stopped to kiss him ia grove,
Upon him. very slyly creeping;
He was her first and early love.
But that's very ancient story
And was'a youthful indiscretion,
When she was IN her primal glory,
Ere scandal schools had held session.
Dear, darling moon / dote upon her,
vsIch her nightly in the sky;
Rgt oh! upon my word Of honor
I'd rather she we're dead than I.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
Learning to Sew.

To be handy with the needle is one of
the sterling accomplishments of every
educated woman. To be able to take
the "stitch In time is worth all the
time and trouble that are required to
learn the art. Like walking, reading
and many other things which we come
to do without special thought, the learn
ing to sew is a slow process, and should
be begun while the child is still quite
young. The girl should not only have
the use of the thread, needles and patch
work, but be instructed how to take the
stitches, turn the corners, and do vari-
GUS other things connected with needle
work. We are not excluding the boys
in our remarks, because they need to
learn to thread q needle and do general
sewing. Even if it is an age OF sewing
machines, it Is well that all children
should learn to use the simple, common,
old-fashioned kind, which can never be
wholly superseded. The amusement
and occupation that sewing furnishes
little folks afford sufficient reason why
all mothers should see that their girls,
and boys too, learn to sew but the very
practical use of the needle in after life
is the principal reason after all.
The TrifIing Young Lady.
Miss Augustine Snivil is young lady
yet in her teens, aid possessed of great
personal beauty, of which she is well
aware. She is not deficient in intellect,
although the natural powers of her mind
have been sadly weakened by the petty,
trifing pursuits of her life. Balls, par
ties, theaters and operas occupysher en-
tire thoughts when she has not on hand
some Irritation to displace them for q
time. She has never laid up store of
knowledge of any kind, and as nature
abhors 7acu1m her head is crammed
with bits of trashy novels; scraps of TO-
mantle sentiment, and all such weakly
accessories that go to form and complete
the character of the trifer. Her affec-
tons are easily won, because, placing
very little value upon them herself,
she is ready to present them to the first
fool who asks them, and as ready to
take them away to bestow them on q
second who may apply for them. Hav-
ing no principle of integrity in her char
acter, the violation of her word, howev-
or solemn1y pledged, forms no bar to her
in the affairs and offices of love. She
will pledge her heart to half dozen at
time, and when circumstances happen
to expose the duplicity of her conduct
she affects surprise that all her admirers
were not aware that she was funning all
the time.
The best and soundest-hearted man
may be deceived by the Establishments
Of such girl, and really feel true and
honest attachment for her. The discUv,
cry of such passion in any of her &C.
mirers is rafe sport for her, and she car
ries on the war of the feelings with con-
summate skill, until she has got the
poor fellow into the condition of slave,
to use for her mirth and laughter. OF
the two, though flushed with triumph,
we pity the deceiver more than the de-
ceived. He has only had the weakness
to betray an honest devotion; she has
the audacity to exhibit, without blush,
the utter lack of moral principles and
integrity of character. Happy is the
man who escapes the snares of such a
being.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-04-15
The Philosopher and the Humorist.

81 must tell Story" writes Boston
correspondent, that 1 heard this week
about two literary men of the older gem
Grafton here-two of our greatest lights.
One, also humorist, in conversation
about distinguished philosopher, re-
marked of him:
"' Yes, he has great thoughts and
ideas, but he has no sense of FORM
Directly after the humorist depart
ed, In came the philosopher in question.
A gentleman present, with mischiev-
GUS desire to find out the philosophers
opinion of the humorist, commenced a
critical estimate of the latter.
Yes, yes, responded the philoso-
pher, our friend is genius he has
fine sense of form, but he whites it
down to such fine point you can't see
IL >"