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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1882-07-19

TULIUS LEVIN, dealer in Lumber
e and Building material. Choice
Family Groceries. Second street, OPP
posite Town Hall.
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ROBr P: HUNTER, Attorney and
~ Counsellor at Law. Office in the
Hynson building, Front Street.
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HARRIS, JOHNNIE, Wheelwright
Ii and Blacksmith. Shop corner of
Fourth and Murray streets. Work
executed with dispatch, on reasonable
terms, for cash.
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TOHN WERNER, Front Street.
~ Tailor. Suits made to order; a
perfect fit guaranteed. The very latest
styles. Terms, Cheap for Cash.
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TOHN CASSON, Physician and Sur
- geon. Office at residence, head of
Beauregard street.
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POSENTHAL, j., corner of Second
~ and Murray streets, dealer in Dry
Goods, Groceries, Boots, Shoes, Hats.
Caps, and General Plantation Goods.
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n DU PRE-, Physician and Surgeon
Especial attention given to disea-
ses OF Women and Children. Office at
residence Johnston street, between
Second and Third sts., Alexandria. La,
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Wa2cHES, JH 1rKZR E2L.


TERGUSON & SCHNACK, Practi-
IL cal Watchmakers and Jewellers
and dealers in Fine Watches, solid
Gold Jewelry, Silverware, Spectacles
and Fancy Goods. Notions, Guns, Pts
tolls, etc. Front street.
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GROCERIES, LIQU0Rs, gre.

VALLERY, E., Front Street, oppo
y site Ferry Landing, Dealer in
Choice Wines, Liquors and Imported
Cigars. Sign of "Help Me Through
the WOrld.n
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MILLZNER T.
DzIScE.ZZAWEOUS.

CULLEN & ROGERS, Receiving,
" Forwarding and Commission Mer-
chants. Dealers in Coal, Lime, Co.
ment, Hay, Oats and Bran. The high
est market price paid for cotton seed.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
ALEXANDRIA,,
PROFESS/ON4L T..

PLACKNAN, w. F., Attorney and
- Counsellor at Law. Office on De
Soto Street, between First and Second
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Dc yes AArD MEDIcIrE,e.

CT. JOHN, HENRY, Chymist and
~ Druggist. All medicines guaran-
teed fresh and pure. Fancy and toilet
articles. Landreth's Garden seed kept
in stock.
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NEW TODAY.
CHILLS & FEVER

SIMMONS LIV.
E R REGULA-
TOR will soon
break the cllills,
and carries the
fever out of the
system. 1t cures
when all other
rap,o1:no c:Y
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-05-19
A Mean Traveller and His Boy.

A prominent business man Of this city
was going to New York on the fast
Atlantic Express with his son. The
gate-keeper refused to pass them through
without a ticket for the boy, and the
ticket-agent refused to accept any thing
less than full fare for the gentleman's
son. Then he sent very small boy to
make the purchase, but the ticket-agent
had been watching his movements, and
again refused to make a sale of that
character. The irrepressible father soon
made his appearance with boy much
smaller than the one he intended to take
with him, but was again refused,
although he insisted that he had with
him the boy who accompanied him the
first time. At last fully determined to
succeed N the undertaking of getting
his boy on the cars without buying him
full-fare ticket, the merchant stepped
up to the Office and handed in fare for
Paramount, the first station west of here
on the Auburn Road. The agent had
no right TO refuse it, and, consequently,
the scheming passenger passed victori-
ously through the CRATE on a ticket
which was no further use to him.
Instances like the above are not of rare
occurrence. Syracuse Standard.
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Dizziness of knowledge.

The fact is, the world is accommodating
too many materials for knowledge. We
do not recognize for rubbish what Is
really rubbish. AS each generation
leaves its fragments and postherds be-
hind 1t, such viii finally be the desper-
ate conclusion of the learned. -Hat0-
horre.
This sentiment was arrived at by
Hawthorne thirty years ago Just after
he had taken am excursion through the
British Museum. He came out of the
marvellous place bewildered and de-
pressed. His quick mind had taken in at
glance the countless objects of knowl
edge spread out before 1t In this museum.
He could see the vast range, but knew
that he could not compass it.
There it was that he felt life is short
and art is long" When he went to his
room after the ramble he wrote in his
Note Book: cit Is hopeless, and to
me, generally, depressing business, TO
go through an immense, multifarious
show like this, glancing at a thousand
things, and conscious of some little it'll
lation of mind from them, but really
taking in nothing" There are minds
one often comes in contact with which
are spacious museums of knowledge.
We say they know everything. Their
minds are of the encyclopaedia order
Every Granny of their mental storehouse
Is stuffed with facts. Their memory Is
scroll which never gets done unrolling.
On and on 1t comes We know these
tiresome people who know everything,
and escape them when we can. Who
cares always to be in the society of per-
sons who are perpetually exuding ac-
quired information? 1t is usually the
character of these human knowledge
boxes that they possess little or no orig
inality. They must tell us many facts
we did not know, but they are given out
in such dry, cherries manner, that one
hears them without receiving them.
Here is where our system of education
has so far been partial failure. 1t has
been conducted mainly on the examining
process. Only as it has broken away
from this has it been successful.
The mind which has learned to think
will, as Lord Bacon said, always find
plenty of "stuff" on which to exercise
its powers. Very few who know every
thing can do anything well. They can
accomplish q feat mechanically but
they can give it no originality. What
ever they do will be in imitation. Charles
Sumner Is said to have known SO many
things that the immensely of his knowl-
edge was burden upon him. When he
came to speak he hardly knew what to
omit from his great storehouse. He was
a man of genius, and could light up his
words. Webster knew much less than
Summer, but his mind was alive and
touched every subject with originality
and new life. A free, active mind that
has been taught to think for itself will
create, but the mind that is dull with too
much knowledge viii model and initiate.
Indianapolis Herald.
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why He starsd seren DAVIS.

Years ago, at Cape May, met very
good, though q very foppish fellow who
offered me . share Of his room, the hotel
being crowded "H you were to stop
until after tomorrow he said, "you
could have the room all to yourself, for
1 am of for Newport" He had pre-
viousiy told me that he had been there
out week. He had plenty Of money,
seemed to be enjoying himself, and was
general favorite. So this rapid fight
ratner surprised me. "Why this bur
~? ?" asked "you look as if you had
nothing to do but have a pleasant time,
as II You could afford to crafty your
every whim why do you rush away
Ny dear fellow, he answered, 81 never
stay anywhere more than . week. i
nave just seven suits of clothes, not
counting my dress suit, and arig-out for
Doatlng, fishing and that sort of thing.
never wear the same suit twice at any
one place, and so you see have reached
.he end OF my tether here. l could
Duy more, OF course, yet while dress Is
ust a. important to man Of fashion as
~ u TO o woman Of fashion. he cannot
go about with q CARLOAD of trunks like
. woman I never 20 to the length of
changing my dress two or three times
day, as some chaps do. That nonsense,
Du. 4 90 have fresh get-up for every
morning, which lasts very well until din
ner, then always, of course, the full
dress- MY plan has other advantages.
ION say am favorite with the young
ladieS 1 am, and / propose to remain
so can, 30 1 never let them weary of
me; ihey are always glad to see me,
~ lnu nave saUotr Jaire sufficient not to
let them get tired of me inside of a
xeek. Then I away to charm and be
charmed by others.h This I beg the
reader vlli not consider fairy tale. It
was an actual occurrence. Progress.
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HISTORICAL.

STEPHEN DAY was the printer OF the
first almanac published in America, IN
1889.
A LIFE of Gen. Grant has been printed
in Japan. 1t was seven volumes In
length.
BENEDICT, an italian, born in 4SO,
was the founder of the order Of Bene-
dictine monks.
The colonists of Ireland among whom
Cromwell portioned out the conquered
territory are still called Cromwellians.
LOUIS XII was the most famous King
of France since the days of Saint Louis,
and acquired the title of Father of his
people"
The oldest brick building in England,
except those built by the Romans, is said
TO be castle in Sussex, built by De
Flennes, treasurer of Henry VI.
An INTERESTING Archaeological Con-
gress has recently been held at Tifils,
which was attended by about eight
hundred persons, nearly all from Russia
and Caucasus.
In THE time of Alexander the Great
interest in natural curiosities was so far
developed that he used to send back from
his expeditions such objects to his
teacher ristotle.
JUsTINIAN raised Theodoria, a the
atrical performer, to the throne of the
Roman Empire. IF Gibbons account
of her be true, she was In many respects
her husbands superior.
An IMPORTANT classical discovery is re-
ported from Athens. It is a manuscript
of Homer, dating from the 117th Olym-
piad, 30S b. G. 1t was found by Prof.
Rokos, in an Athenian monastEy. .
JOHN AYLMER says of Queen Eliza
| beth that "when all the ladies went with
| their hair frounced, curled and doubly
curled, she altered nothing, but kept her
old maidenly shamefacedness.
SUCH was the public feeling against
Roman Catholics during the reign OF
| Charles III. that members of Parliament
we're required to make a declaration
against transubstantiation, which ex-
| cluded Roman Catholics from their seats.
THE publication of a new tale by
| Tourgenieff is an event In the world OF
Russian letters; for the reader knows
beforehand that in it will be found the
statement and examination of some
! burning problem of contemporary Rus
| sian life and politics.
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Who to Marry.

If you can not find a gentleman to
marry, girls, do not marry at all. By
that term we do not mean man who Is
above the need of work he may be any,
thing but gentleman, but man who
knows how to work, who has self-respect
enough to keep him from low habits
both of speech and action; who is courte-
Gus and honorable; who is not afraid of
soiling his hands; the farmer, the black
smith, the carpenter, any man may be a
gentleman under dust and SCOT and
chips, but if he is not, girls, don't marry
him There is enough trouble in life
without increasing it IN any way. Do
not subject yourself to the modification
that would be sure to come with hus-
band who would continually cause you
to blush for his coarseness and rough
ness for his slippery dealings or hypo-
critical polish. It is not sufficient that a
man looks well and dresses well; but he
must act and live well besides.
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out airing, and brought them home with
their hands full of wild flowers, some OF
which have received curious names.
One, yellow, daisy-like flower. june
SAID was called the Mormon biscuit,
because when the first Mormons VINO
came into Salt Lake Valley ran out OF
provisions while waiting for their nrss
crop, they were obliged for wnile 70
live on the roots of this weed In lieu OF
bread.
The children went one Sunday after
noon to the Mormon Tabernacle with
Julie. The communion consisted OF
broken bread and water, and was dis
tr1outed lndiscriminstely among the Peo-
pie assembled, both to Mormons and
strangers. Little babes received it.
When they came home from churcn,
little Paul provoked the good tempered
Julie by innocently asking II the women
sat on one side Of the aisle and the men
on the other, so the several wives OF
each man would not quarrel about which
one would sit next to the husband.
Julie seemed very anxious 70 prose-
lyte and make us converts to Mormon
ism. She said to my wife, one day, In
burst OF gratitude after receiving some
slight favor from her. "Oh. mann, you
are too good and kind to be GENTLE;
Her mistress suggested that sne would
not like to divide her husband among
several more wives but julie answered,
shaking her head sorrowfully-
"Oh, GENTLE ladies are SO jealous.
Don't you know the more wives man
takes. the higher up he goes IN Eternal
Glory, and carries them up with MN
III man has but one vie, when they
die they only go to the noon, but each
plural wife will take htn to a higher
star in GLORY"
This argument mar indicate belief
that the more man suffers ON earth, the
greater will be his rsward hereafter.
Julie, however, saw that my wife cared
to go no further than the moon, and
ceased trying to move her from her
lunacy.
1t Is a common saying among Gentlles
that MormoDs are taught it is no harm
to steal from Gentiles; that rather it is
good to punish their "heresy" by
worrying them in every possible way,
and that to steal from them is praise
worthy; but We found little Julie per-
fectly honest. and she only left us to be-
come the fourth wife Of an old bishop,
who was already married to widow and
her twin daughters.-K. ID. Fbrgeron
i,1 Youths Companion.
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Human Bodies Floating.

Paris paper publishes these alleged
statements of Partisan river spiresEan
concerning human bodies floating in the
river: q 1 always know beforehand If it
is man or woman. If the body has
the face upward it is woman if it
floats on its belly, with its nose in the
water, it is a man. have remarked
that a man who has been thrown into
the water after being assassinated reap
pears on the surface much earlier than
one who has fallen in by accident or has
drowned himself. The time the body
remains beneath the waters shows
whether it is case of suicide or MUIR
der. This curious information is valu-
able in proportion to its truth.
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A Lesson from Immigrants.

patient waiting for results through
ong series of years is not characteristic
81 Americans. "Qhick sales and small
profits" Is the motto not of the enter
prlsing country store-keeper alone; it
appears In one form or another over al
most every business announcement
throughout the country. To its being
acted upon, however, is undoubtedly due
the irrepressible push which dis
tnguishes the American from all man.
hind.
To it is undoubtedly due the rapid
substitution of machinery for hand
labor; the interminable divisions of
labor In every branch of industry; to it
Is due the manufacture" of farm pro-
ducts, and to it is due the striking dis
Inclination, manifest everywhere, Of the
average American to enter upon a gen
eral plan for money making, which in
wolves patient waiting through a series
Of years.
The rapid destruction of available
forests has for some time attracted the
serious attention of the Government and
OF individuals interested In forestry, and
many inducements have been held out
to any one who would undertake the
gowing of useful trees. But thus far
not many of the natives have been at
tRcted by the offers, and it has re-
NAMED for the sober, industrious, and
ntient emigrants, Germans, Swedes,
and Norwegians, to set us a wise ex-
ample.
The Federal Government offers to give
very man who is the head of family
lne hundred and sixty acres of land, II
Re will plant twenty acres of it In forest
hees. Can a young man afford to ac-
eeept this offer and wait for his trees to
grow? There Is no doubt of it-but
viii he? The Bulletin recently alluded
to the remarkable scarcity of black wal
nut. This tree hourishes in many OF
the Western States, especially in Iowa,
| Minnesota, and Wisconsin. On fifty
acres of such land as could be obtained
here, 5000 trees could be planted
when twenty years old they would be
worth s. tree, or $50, 900; when thirty
years old they would be worth $40 tree,
or 1920, 600. It is said that every year
after the trees are ten years old, the nuts
would be worth as much as a wheat CROP
from the same number of acres.
While the trees are growing any In
dustrious farmer could obtain hand
some living from the remaining III
acres. Surely, all this is great induce
ment at any rate, hundreds of far
sighted immigrants think SO, and man.
Young men out West are beginning t.
think so, too. While it is probable tina
the figures given above are rose-colored
it is certainly true that there is more il
the Government offer than most peepl
are aware of, and thoughtful young mel
in the East who see but little chance 70
i ra,,id accumulation here NAV we'll con
slider it-NetU York Bulletin.
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The Telephone in Germany and France.

So far back as November, 1877 (ac-
cording to a recent statement by Herr
Unger), did the German postal and tele-
graph authorities begin the use Of the
telephone in small places and there
are now $50 such telephone offices In
the country The public was slow tG
adopt the telephone for local traffic IN
large towns. Muhlhausen was the first
to act, and few months later, in April
last year, telephone traffic was begun IN
Berlin with eighty-seven subscribers.
The number of conversations by tele-
phone in Berlin is now Increasing by
about 5000 a month. Telephone sys-
TENS are now at work In Hamburg,
Frankfort, Breslau, Cologne, and Mann
helm and In Altoona, Barmen, Fiber
field, Hanover, Leipsic, Magdeburg,
Stettin, Strasburg, Bremen and Dresden
they are contemplated. In the first
seven towns the telephone wires have
reached total length of 3, 147 kilometers
(say l, 1856 miles,. Berlin comes first
with / ,554 kilometers, then come Ham
burg with GIL kilometers Breslau, with
200 kilometers Frankfort and Mann
helm each with 163 kilometers: Muhl-
hansen, with 81 kilometers and Cologne
with 50 kilometers. The total number
of applicants in these seven towns In the
end of December was 1904, and the
number increases every week. Alb
had been put In communication Berlin
had 668 aud Hamburg 623 applicants.
There are three central stations in
Berlin, In Franzosische, Mauer, and
Oranienburger streets respectively.
From data In the first three weeks IN
December, it appears that, on an aver
age, j, $50 connections were made daily
ION the Sunday 100, $40, and 1881. From
II to l Is the busiest time; during that
hour $50 connections on an average were
made in the Office In Franzosische
strasse, or five every two minutes.
From to 3 there Is little rest, and
from to z fresh activity. The tele-
phone chambers In the Exchange have
double walls, with ashes, clay or saw
dust between the inner walls have in
tervenlng layer of thick paste-board,
then cotton-covered felt on frames, and
on this the paper. These chambers
answer very well and are much fire.
quented There are again public tele-
phone rooms Cat present two In Berlin
and one in Hamburg,) into which one
may enter and on payment of so pfennig
(say 5d), have five minutes talk by
telephone with any one whose home or
Office is in the system. Turning to
France, we learn that the number of
lines supplied by the Societe Generate
des Telephone on the 31st of january
was ], All, instead of 626 at the end of
the corresponding week in 1881 and
the communications in the last week of
January this year amounted to so, 534
In Lyons the number of lines has in
creased from 81 in January, 1881, to
285 In January, 1882 in Marseilles,
from 30 to 153 in Nantes, from Il to
20; Bordeaux has continued with 1872
Havre with 100; Lille with 5.-Londosa
Times.
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The Philosopher and the Flea.


This is the tale of the philosopher and
the flea:
l. The former, having been bitten
by the latter, seized and was about TO
dispatch his foe, when he reflected that
the little insect had only acted from in
stinct, and was not to be blamed. Ac-
cordingly he deposited the flea on the
back of passing dog.
2. This dog was the poodle of a lady,
and she was very fond of the pretty ami
NAL. Olfhis return to the house his mis-
tress took him upon her lap to caress
him, and the flea embraced his oppor-
tunity to change his inhabit.
3. The flea having in the course of
the night engaged in active business op-
erations, awakened the lady. Her hus-
band was sleeping peacefully beside her,
and in the silence of her chamber she
heard him in his dreams whisper with an
accent of ineffable tenderness a name I
The name was that of her most intimate
female friend !
4. AS soon as it was day, the out
ragged wife hurried to the house of her
rival, and told the rivals husband of the
big, big, ding discovery she had made
He, being a man of decision, at once
called out the destroyer of his house
holds peace, and ran him through.
5. The widow, when her husband was
taken home to her upon the medium of
a shutter, was SO terribly smitten with
remorse that she precipitated herself
from the fourth-story window.
6. The other lady convinced her hus-
band that he had wronged her by enter
tanning any suspicious as to her fidelity,
and, becoming reconciled with him,
seized an early opportunity of poisoning
him.
Z. Inasmuch rs the jurors of that
country had never heard of "extenu-
ating circumstances, and the chief
magistrate thought that he could put
murderer to better uses than not gull
lioting him, the guilty woman was duly
decapitated, and the sole survivors OF
the tragedy were the philosopher and
the flea.
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THERE is nothing in this world so pure
and undefiIed as the love of lawyer for
his client. A recent case in this city
proves this. The lawyers won n big
case for their client and got him pile
Of money, and, with generosity never
before heard of, they have insisted upon
not keeping above half of what they re-
covered, for their own use, and have
compelled their client to take the other
half. Never again let it be said that it is
better to lose all than to go to law and re-
cover everything. -Fdu River Advance.
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ACCORDING to official statistics the
total population of the German empire,
as given by the last census, was As, 234, :
O61, of whom A, 95S, 2O5 were natives
and 275, $50 foreigners. OF males there
we're %, 1S5, 433, and of females %. 048,-
628. Prussia contributes Is, ala, $3.50,
the next most populous states being
Bavaria, $500, 600, and Saxony (the
most populous of all for its area), with
900, 900. The greatest number of
suicides occurs in Saxony, Leipsic alone
recording more self-mdrders than any of
the other great European capitals.
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Authors Who are Business Men.

Authors who do lay-work for a living,
and pursue their art In hours which are
the breathing time of other men, are
permitted few of the common pleasures
for which they needs must crave. Their
manuscripts are written in their blood.
and the ink grows pale apace. Even the
delight of reading, that at once stimulates
and draws upon the brain, is forbidden
to one who is harnessed in the van of q
professional career.-Century.