St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-02
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Gov. CLEvELAND's worldly posses
sions consist of only $4,000 worth of
personal property. He has no real
estate.
THE latest Partisan agony in ladies'
hats is the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Journey It is said to bear a strong
resemblance to an inverted foWer-pot.
MIR. CHARLES WYNDHAM, the actor,
who recently started from London on |
continental tour, is reported as serious
" i'll at one of the German summer re-
sorts.
The Bartholdi Pedestal Fund, it ap-
pears is again languishing. The balance
on hand is only $4,000, which will be
used up this month. At least 100000
more is needed.
THE Massachusetts Charitable Me-
chanics' Association has decided not to
loan its great organ to the Worlds Fair
at New Orleans, as it would damage
the instrument to remove it.
THE measles have been dealing de-
struction among the children OF the
tenement-house districts in New York.
Out of 1868 cases of this disease reported
within the past six weeks, log have
proved fatal.
ST.. LOUIS is suffering from an odd
kind of monopoly. The sand sellers
have combined, and charge builders
and masons four times as much for
each load of sand as was charged last
year. Dirt IS no longer cheap.
A wELL-KNoWN tobacco manufactur-
ing firm in LOUISVILLE has purchased 20,
600 admission tickets from the manage
unent of the Louisville Exposition,
which they propose to distribute with
their tobacco, ticket being enclosed in
a tin box in certain plugs OF tobacco
This firm has purchased the exclusive
right to distribute tickets in that way.
TYPE-wRTTING is now a part OF the
instruction in the public schools of Chi
cago It's general use makes it not at
all doubtful that the young man who
learns to use the typewriter will get
employment and be more useful than
one who can write only with pen. The
Cooper Institute in New York City has
lately added the department of type
writing to its other courses of training.
AT the pension Office in Syracuse, n.
Y, the largest claim that has ever been
allowed, as far as known, has just been
paid. It is that of George II. Freiber
ger, of Westmoreland, N. Y, for &c.,
1921. The claimant, who was member
of the Fifth New York Heavy Artillery,
is in the Utica Insane Asylum, his
malady having been caused by his SER
vice in the war.
The members of the First Regiment
of Ohio Militia that refused to obey the
commanders during the Cincinnati riots
have been court-martialed. and now
their sentences are announced. Capt.
Richard Schnape must pay fine of
$500, suffer imprisonment for thirty
days, and be dismissed the service.
Lieut.. Kline's sentence is fine of 800,
three months imprisonment and dis
honorable dismissal Second Lieut..
Beiser is dishonorably discharged.
The crematory at Washington, Penn
sylvanfa, in which the bodies of promi-
nent strangers have been reduced to
ashes, is hereafter to discountenance
the bringing of bodies from a distance
to it. A fear exists among its proprie-
tors, says correspondent. that per-
sons who my have died violent deaths,
as by poison, will be taken there in or
der to obliterate all the traces of crime.
This might result in suits being brought
or other legal complications.
A SINGULAR coincident is noted in re-
gard to the early life of the two candi-
dates, Blaine and Cleveland. Both were
teachers, and each gave part of his
teaching days to q class deprived by
nature Of one of the senses with which
mankind is usually blessed. Mr..
Cleveland taught the blind in an asylum
an New York CITY for a wear or more