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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-04-12
senile sOftening Of the Brain.


This one of the most frequent diseases
of the brain in advanced life. A por-
ton Of the brain undergoes fatty degen-
Grafton.
The softened mass varies in charac-
ter and consistency at different stages,
but at one stageit resembles moist gela-
tine, In another form of it the mass is
as fluid as cream.
Its most common cause is an obstruc-
tion in the neighboring arteries. which
cuts off the supply of blood to the part.
such an obstruction is often attributed
to embolism-a small particle swept
from the heart to some capillary and
lodged there; or to thrombOsis-a
larger bit (perhaps Of clot) thus swept
along and lodged in some artery; to u
tumor pressing on an artery; TO a flow
OF blood from ruptured vessel already
affected with degeneration.
Sometimes feeble heart, unable TO
send the blood to all the capillaries of
the brain. may give rise to It. 1t is
often remotely due to prolonged intel
lectual efforts. strong and continued
emotions, blows on the head, alcohol,
or 10 disease of the heart, caused by
acute rheumatism.
Softening of the brain may be either
acute or chronic. The former is fatal
within ten days More commonly there
are no premonitory symptoms, and the
attack resembles that of paralysis.
When premonitory symptoms occur
there may be pricking sensations,
cramps, blunted touch, diminished pow
er Of motion, increasing weakness Of
the affected side and clumsiness of the
fingers, hands and feet, and tottering
gait.
Some of the symptoms of chronic
softening are increasing fecbleness, loss
of memory, fretfulness, fits of uncon-
trollable weeping, dull pains in the
head, sense of confusion, thickness of
speech, gradual loss of museularpower.
listlesshess, and later, paralysis of one
side, childishness, helplessness. disposi-
ton to sleep most of the time. The
appetite and the weight may remain
good
When there are premonitory symp-
toms, the diet must be rigidIy' simple.
nourishing and Of easy digestion. Milk
is the best Nothing should be allowed
tending to increase the action of the
heart Youth $ Companion
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HUMOROUS.

"A relic hunter A fellow endeavor-
ing to capture u widow.
The man who has lived through the
past winter and isn't thankful for IL
ought to break a leg.-Detroa Free
Press.
"Ma, are we cannibals?r asked Il
little girl Of her mother the other morn
ing. "Why, my child, what do you
mean?" "Oh, nothing, only ! heard
you say to Bridget, boy legs for break
fast
The old snperstitious notion that
crocodlcs weep has been exploded by
the scientists; but it is pretty generally
acknowledged that sailors have repeat
edly seen whales bubber. National
Baptist,
-'Julia, my little cherub, when does
your sister Bertha return?' Il don't
know" Didn't she say anything be-
fore she went away?n "She said, if
you came TO see her she'd be gone till
doomsday."
Young Slowtocatch recently had
cause TO borrow pair of rubber shoes,
and after putting them on remarked:
"They re immense: they fiji me to To-
and then he could not tell why the peo-
pie smiled. ChqG
"A lady in neighboring city, whose
husband had remodeled the front of
their residence. while the rear was badly
dilapidated, said the front Of her house
was Queen Ann and the rear Crazy
Jane style.-Boston Commercial But-
ietiR
Two men got into wordy contro-
yersy which waxed quite hot, and final
" one challenged the other TO a square
fight. But the other refused mot
that am a coward, he said, ''or that
| am afraid Of you; but ] am always
unlucky in fight,
-. No, sir,n said an old Indian,
down in Maine. II don't have my boy
taught arithmetic. ] learned it, and
the curse Of my life has been the re-
marks Of people who thought them
selves funny, 10 the effect that / was
very pleasant because was an Indian
summer"
No, he said. II am not bad
tempered man but when somebody
takes my tooth-busI and puts in place
Of il another that has been used to ap-
ply hair dye, and get hold Of il in the
dark and use it, think it's not sur
prising that said; Gosh drTn it, ~
Boston Post.
Why she was weary: "Oh, dear.
I'm all tired out" exclaimed Mrs.
Shoppingham; ''you can't have parcels
sent 70 the depot now without paving,
you know, and in an economical fit I've
been Juggling this all about the city"
And with great sigh Of relief she took
a spool of cotton ont of her pocket and
deposited it on the table Chicago
Herald
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-04-12
Advice TO a Young Man.

! want you, my boy, always TO keep
up with the times, but want you, how
ever fast you may run. to retain a
tender and loving reverence for the
dear old past, with its beautiful lessons
of honest purpose, of loving faith, of
trustfulness, of really good feeling; re-
member the past with reverence.
At the same time | don't want You to
be sleeping or stupidity conservative
This is a rapid old world and you must
sleep with your spurs on if you will
keep up with the times. | don't want
you TO live forever in the past. We
must live in to-day don't agree with
the esthetics who wall about the desc
Grafton of the past by the noisy, vul-
gar money-getting present; these
people who rend their garments be-
cause a railroad runs through Palestine
and another winds up'the lava-scorched
sides Of Vesuvius, and put on sackcloth
and sink down in ashes because steam
propellers steam and splash through
the busy streets of Venice. and the
steam whistle tortmes the gloomy quiet
of the Bridge of Sighs. Good for the
steam whistle Had it shrieked its in
dignant protest against the hate and
blindness OF the past, centuries ago, the
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-04-12
MAGNoLIA MISSISSIPPI THURSDAY, April y, 1883

gloomy pitilesS cruclties and remorsc-
less tyranny that now invest the Bridge
of Signs with morbid, inhuman inter-
est, would never have been. iii were the
steam whistle of 1888, under that shadow
OF the dark ages, would pun my valve
wide open until my head hung down on
my back, and would shrek and scream
until the torment of my civilized Wells
shook that pathway Of tears. that mon
ument of barbaric cruelty and pitiless
torture from its cruel and iniduitous
foundations. Mr.. Ruskin lifts his fee
BILE voice against the clamorof the voice
OF steam. Its well enough for Mr..
Ruskin TO cry " sacrilegeN now, but
suppose Mr. Ruskin had clankcd across
that bridge six hundred years ago. with
fair-eyed Hope throwing him good bye
kisses from the further portal, he would
have given worlds for the saving shrek
of the steam whistle. Do YOU ever 90
back to the old school-hollse and weep
and sob because some hcartless old
iconoclast Of farmer is going to make
iirewood of the old beech tree? All. no:
You have wept enough on account of
that tree in days gone by. You take
the farmer by the hand and say: "Chop
il down, and then grub the roots and
fiji the hole with salt. Why didn't you
think of this thirty years agor' So the
tree and Bridge Of Signs must 90, for
what are school-house dress but breeches
of SighS?
1t is a world of change We may not
like to see the old landmarks go, but if
they stand in the way Of the railroad
they must 90. There are some links
that tie us To the past that even dread
to see broken, but they can not stand in
the way Of manifest destiny.
Why, there are people, my boy. who
think i is proclamation and sacrilege be-
caused it is proposed to have railroad
wind its way up the sacred side of
Mount Olivet, and to send the railway
locomotive steaming and pulling along
the sunny slopes that were trodden SO
wearily by the aching feet that sancti-,
fed the mountain with their perfect
holiness two thousand years ago. But
while ! yield place to no man in nv
honest reverence for sacred things, my
boy, ! can see proclamation in the rail
road, even when it winds along the
slope of sacred Olivet. Because as [
look at it, il was the light that shone
from Olivet, it was the life that made
the mountain holy ground, that led
mankind from all darkness into all the
light Of the nineteenth century; il was
Olivet and the instruction of the teacher
whose prayers and tears and sullerings
were all for all mankind, that led us
from barharism to civilization, and to
all the triumphs Of fertilization; from the
brazen-wheeled chariot to the light
running ambulance; from the solid
wheeled Syrian ox-cart to the road
wagon and the Victoria; from the slow
moving caravan TO the limited express
and fast white mail, and If anything in
the world has a right TO go shouting
along the grades of the Mount of Olivet
i is the railway locomotive. Nothing
that is really progressive can be sac
rilegious. But there is great deal
that sprofane and sacrilegious, my boy,
that isn't the least bit progressive. =
D3,,.,Jojfo g
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A HOrseman,s Barbarily.

Racing men throughout the country.
and particularly in this vicinity, viii
be shocked to learn of the viliainous
operation performed on that magnifi-
cent young stallion, Onondaga, who
carried the Dyer colors so well in his
two-year-old form. The horse, it will
be remembered, was bought by Milton
Young, last fall, and placed at the head
Of his stud in Kentucky. Onondaga,
like all the Leamingtons, and particu-
larly the recent ones, had anything but
a good temper. and, since he has been
at the stud, he has become savage. To
remedy this the horse was chloroformed
and his eyes taken out A well-known
veterinary surgeon, who until very re-
Gently maintained a racing stable, de-
nounced this deed as dastardly out
rage ~ never heard Of such inhuman
cruelty. ltwas altogether unnecessary,
as they might have put goggles on him,
or leather eye coverings Besides, the
horse will grow altogether morbid in
his disposition, and, being unable to
see, viii lash out Unfortunately. u
AZ. y. Mail md Express
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] rNpER HER CHLM :

rv,ry her bonnet under her chin
sLe lied her raven ringlcts in,
III, Nh alone in the sllken snArc
XII she catch her lovely floating hair
irr wing her b0nuct under her chin
sbe fiei d Young mans heart within.
SlV " -Nord Perfg.
And many a time that little chin
Ue's heard from since, you bet and win
And bonnets she's had for her raven hair,
And many Il time he's been called a beari
And now She is throwing her ringlets back,
And saws she shall have sealskin sacque!
-COilrieI'-JOdrndt.
Duttoning the sealskln up to her chin,
Sho glideth out aud she glideth in,
And the eyes of women with envy are green
hit the eist Young fellow is seldom seen,
For in a dark office he labors like sin,
Forthe fairy who tied and roped him in.
-ChtcdgO World.
Tying her bonnet under her chin
Il not where the harm to that youth comes in
Moran Office dark; but Il big, airy hall,
with green-covered table and cue and ball
some friends, Il supper and Il little gin
There's where the harm TO that youth comes
in.
If a man can enjoy the good things of life.
Why should he grOwl at the wants of his wife,
And fnme and scold. and tear and roar,
And lay all the ills Of the world mt her door?
And why should the fairy have fOped him in,
By tying her bonnet under her chinl 4
--One Of the Girls.
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After The NewhalI Hotel m

After the NewhalI Hotel fire, in
Milwaukee, Mrs. r. Wilson, Of New
York, could not sleep for fear Of being
burned, but finally in troubled dream
she invented iire-escape, which She
has perfected and put to use. There is
an iron platform with movable railing
attached to the window-sill and also an
iron ladder, all of which folds up and
forms an ornamental piece Of furniture.
Several heavy New Workers have walked
up and down the escape. pronounced it
good. and think Mrs Wilson win coin
her dream into money.
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-04-12

Mrs. DIR. Wiggins, of Garfield, Ber
gen County, n. j., ran SO fast to obtain
assistance for her husband, who had
been taken suddenly i'll, that when she
returned she fell dead from heart-dis-
ease. Her husband was revived and
viii recover,
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1883-04-12

Anthony Trollope, just before he
laid down his pen never to take it up
again, wrote these words, which will
appear in his last novel: I" Amusement
is good, truth is still better, and love
best of all Love gives itself and is
not bought; but all true love Is founded
on esteem y
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-04-28
Women and the Ciyil-Seryice Law.

WASHINGTON, April II.
The Civil Service Commission have not as
yet determined whether they will interpret
the new law as designed to admit women on
equal terms with men to the public service.
This matter will not be determined until
the return of the President, and the con-
clusion will doubtless be embodied in the
rules. The language Of the new law GER
tainly makes no distinction between the
sexes In fact it recognizes women in
terms !" that it requires every application to
state his or her residence under oath."
Many of the Government officials
are interposing manifold objections to
placing woman on equality for all those
examined, as they claim that, notwith-
standing she passed better examination
than men, she is i'll adapted for. many
reasons to various employment. A
curious argument has even been raised that
it would be unfair to give women the oppor-
tunity to compete with them on equal terms
before the Examining Board. The tendency
of the Commissioners is said to be to admit
women to the examinations on equal terms
with men. 1t is a fact that some of the
most expert clerks in the Government ser
vice. holding positions where much techni-
cal skill is required, are now women.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-04-28
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Queen Victoria's John Brown had
employed the sunshine to the extent OF
e5,000,OO0 of hay-making.
Seven years ago Mr.. Bell, of tele-
phone fame, was a poor man. Now ne
is said to be worth $6,O00,000.
Joaquin Miller stands by Mr.. Dix
in the reverend doctor war on modern
feminine wickedness. Mr.. Miller has
been twice married.
The mother of Oscar Wilde has
long poem on Ireland in the Boston RI
lot. Her conclusion is that the Irish
people, driven frantic, s'will take their
stand in a mightier land beyond the
broad Atlantic"
Now we have honored John How
ard Payne, the Hartford Post calls for
honors to ssother song-writers who are
forgotten?'' But if they are forgotten,
how shall we know upon what writers
to bestow these honors!
tive who write novels for the exist
ing time should face our task with forti-
tude sublime,' writes Edgar Fawcett.
The same thing would apply with equal
force to a majority of the people who
read the average modern novel.
"A very beautiful and expensive book
has lately been made in Boston, only
ten copies of which are printed. 1t is
the richly illustrated story Of a yacht
ing trip taken by Mr.. Edwards, the in
ventor of the heliotype process.
Miss Linda Gilbert is now endeavor-
ing to secure additional educational
facilities and other reforms in the prisons
of Baltimore and Washington. In May
she will sail for England and devote the
summer to efforts in behalf of prison
reform there.
-Mathilde Blind says that Mr.. Lewes
was more than a husband to George
Eliot; he was like a mother, watching
over her health, cheering her despond-
| ency with his own buoyancy, and Great
ing the spiritual atmosphere in which
her genius ripened.
| Mrs. David Davis says the reason
she would not consent to marry Judge
Davis while he was in office, was be-
cause, Mr.. Arthur being a WidoWer and
Judge Davis Acting Vice President, she
would have had the duties attendant
upon :. the first lady in the land''-a
position she did not care to occupy.
The Graphic's estimate of $S,0oO,-
100000 as the total representation OF
the guests Of the Vanderbilt ball is criti-
cised as improbable. but ope-tenth OF
the amount is accepted 10 possible.
The former figure would give each o1
the 700 guests 81, 42S. 561-a state Of
affairs that never exists with any zoe
/ people except those of an editorial con
! yention.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-04-28
An Honest Boy.

There were dozen of us waiting
around the depot at Chattanooga to
take the train for Atlanta, and pretty
soon stout, red-faced and high-tem-
pered man from Columbus, O., began
.jawing about the way he had been bled
by the walters at the hotel, and added
that there wasn't single honest niger
south Of Mason and Dixon's line.
y II beg your pardon, but must differ
with YOU, remarked man from South
Carolina.
n & Differ be hanged!'' shouted the fat
man. & I wouldn't trust one of 'em out
of sight with ten-cent piece.
u" Oh, you certainly misunderstanding
them; I'll bet you the cigars that II !
give one of 'em ten dollar bill to get
changed he'll return as straight as a
string
"I'll do it. Give your money to that
chap by the Window
The gentleman walked over, took a
bill from his pocket, and quietly said:
.sBoy, run up town and get change
for this.
g Yes, sah," was the reply, as the
youth hurried out.
In about fifteen minutes he returned,
walked up to the Carolinian and re-
turned the bill, and said:
Went all ober, sab, but couldn' t git
it busted =
He was rewarded with a dime, and
the Buckeye, after a great deal OF puff
ing and blowing and wondering over it.,
paid the cigars. As we boarded the
train asked the winner:
Did you know the boyp"
For answer he took the bill from his
pocket and unfolded it. 1t was a ten
dollar Confederate note!-Ccr- Detroit
Free Press.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-04-28
HUMOROUS.

-Theedncinnati Enquirer has got to
the bottom of the whole matter. 1t
says that Lady Dixie saw a mouse.
-s.Take care of the useful, and the
beautiful will take care Of itself. " This
is what the fond and numerous father
remarked when he married off his
ugliest daughter first. Puck.
The Washington Republican says
that 'sa fearful as well as plausible ex-
PLANTATION of the Lady Dixie matter is
the suggestion that Lady Dixie may
contemplate lecture season in Amer
lea.
-ssBah Jove!'' exclaimed young
Dudiboi, "the weathah is getting so
mild, yer know, that | must have the
ferrule taken off my cane. It's too
beastly heavy for a warm day, yer
know. ''''-Boston transcript.
"A man tanned a prairie dog that
somebody sent him until the docile lit
tie creature would eat off his hand. At
least, it ate off about three-quarters of
his thumb one day, but it died Of con-
cussion of the brain before it could i'm
ish his hand.
"A book just published is entitled:
How to Make $500 Yearly Profit with
Twelve Hens We have not read the
book, but we suppose the. authors
recipe is to sell the corn thatthey would
annually eat, and then kill the hens
Philadelphia Neacs.
Mrs. Sam Millidge, an Austin lady,
was busy trying to make pincushion
of sawdust when the colored cook came
to ask what she should cook for dinner.
80 Go away, and don't bother me now.
My head is full Of sawdust now, and /
can't think of anything else =
I B. Franklin says: Time is an
herb that cures all diseases Frank
lin evidently didn't know much about
ssyarbs, y and was not at the head Of
the class in spelling, if he was a printer.
Thyme is an herb, but, not being pat
ent medicine, it will not cure all dis
eases.-IHe Imp.
The Rochester Post Express re-
marks: ssYou mustn't tell us that mar
ried men are not mindful of the comfort
of their wives. Who ever heard of q
married man going home late at night
who didn't take his boots off in the
hall and steal quietly to bed, in order
not to disturb the slumbers of his wife. =
Asked traveller in the Orient of a
Pasha: ssIs the Turkish civil service
like ours? Are there retiring allow
ances and pensions, for instance? My
illustrious friend, and joy OF my liver, !"
replied the Pasha. "Allah is great,
and the public functionary who stands
in need Of a retiring allowance when his
term of Office expires is an ass! ! have
spoken.
Brown struck an icy place in the
sidewalk, and down he went all in 9
heap. A gentleman stepped up and
helped Brown to his feet, politely re-
marking, 1T is quite slippery, sir. =
Brown was SO mad he forgot to re-
turn thanks. .sWhat in thunder did
he want to tell me # was slippery for?''
| soliloquized Brown; s.didn't the fool
suppose knew that before be told. me. !"
Boston Transcript.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-04-28
A Double Butchery.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April II.
An old feud between Henry Emil john
son, Russian Finn, and James Donnely, a
young man, terminated last evening by q
stabbing ARRAY at a saloon in Stockton,
which resulted in the killing of both men,
The trouble arose over the sale of a wagon
which johnson sold to Donnelly, and yester-
day johnson was attacked by the latter and
two companions, in which ARRAY the attack
ing party were worsted.
Yesterday afternoon both men armed
themselves with dirk knives sharp as razors,
and met at the saloon. They adjourned to
the sidewalk and began fighting with knives,
and in few minutes johnson rushed in fol-
lowed by Donnelly, blood squirting from both
men. )
johnson sat down on a. keg, exclaiming:
'sI'm dying! send for DOCTOR" and fell
over dead.
a Donnelly dropped dead at the door,
stabbed through the heart. He had three
stabs on the body, and johnson was stabbed
in the breast and groin.
Donnelly was twenty-three years old and
unmarried. johnson leaves wife and two
children. Both were under the influence Of
liquor.