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The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-09-30
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A Wonderful Run Morley's T-x-s Ague Tonic
is creating quite furore and having
wonderful run among chill suffering
people, claiming advantages heretofore
deemed impossible, and making such
rapid and permanent cures, causes peo-
ple to talk about it. Contains no qui-
nine, mercury, stryehnine or deleteriOus
drug of any kind. Cleanses and tones
the stomach, arouses the kidneys and
effective even in chronic cases that have
resisted all other medicines. Try 1t. At
Kalteyer's
The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1884-09-30

Mn. GOODMAN, who 1t will he remem-
bered, delivered the opening address at
the grand Independent meeting held in
New York some weeks ago, is reported
as saying he Is much Disguised with the
outlook for Cleveland, and will take to
the woods on election day. The indie
pendent movement is very much like
Satan shearlng hog, much cry and lit
tie wool
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13
A Formidable Cipher.

The Nihilists have just hit upon new
and formidable cipher, mnch to the
mystificatien and alarm of the ''secret
correspondence" department of the
third section. Outwardly the device
seems the simplest imaginable - a
harmless row or series of rows, of
single and double figures, separated
from each other by dots, and promis-
ing easy resolution into the letters of
which they stand in place. A closer
examination, however, soon shows the
uselessness of all ordinary methods of
cipher reading. The numbers often go
much higher than the thirty-six letters
of the Russian alphabet. This makes
it clear that there has been no
simple substitution of figures for let
ters. The same numbers frequently
recur, occasionally in sequences of three
and four. This shows that the cipher
is not consistent with itself-that fig
ure means one thing in one part of a
phrase and another thing in another
and that, therefore, no clue can be had
to the secret message by simply ''di-
vining" certain letters, vowels, for ex-
ample, from their frequency of recur-
renee.
The following example illustrates the
task upon which the decipherers of the
third section are now engaged in ex-
amining the new nihilistic correspond
ence. For convenience the cipher is
supposed to be in English. A message
to st. Petersburg from the Provinces,
for instance, might run thus: 81 IA 16
9 SO 43 30 26 30 q 81 33 Al 80 16 % II
II % 45 80 Is % II 25 % 40 40 90 18 Z
IL "a. This sentence really consists of
two-the message itself and kew word
previously agreed upon between the
sender and receiver. The letters of
the alphabet contained in each are re-
placed by figures, a being 1, bs2, and
so on to the end. The numbers as they
appear above are obtained by the
figures of the key word being continu-
ously added to the figures representing
the message. ''Sun'' being the KEY
word, for example, the numbers 10 81
IA, representing the letters SUN, would
be added in the sequence given to the
first three numbers of the message,
and in the same way to every succeed
ing three to the end. In the example
the key word is ''liberty," and by sub
tracing the numbers which correspond
to this word-namely, II, 8, 2, 5, IS,
20, 25-for the combined figures of the
message and word, continuing the pro-
cess until the end is reached, the real
message will be disclosed in the form,
"Send twenty pounds of dynamite to
Kief.' In this sentence no fewer than
twenty-seven letters are repeated from
one up to three times. yet in the num-
bers there are only two cases where rep
etition of figures corresponds with rep
etition of letters, f appearing twice as
II and n twice as 49, Chicago Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13
Madame TwOstar's Ball.

1t is not always an enviable thing to
be the hostess who entertained dis
tinguished company last night" and
figures perennially in the papers. The
Twostars are parvenus, who have made
great fortune and set up grand es-
tablishment = in Greenland, say-and
this done, madame sat down before the
fortress, Society, determined to hang
her banners on the outer wall, and fly
her flag over the citadel. She was, if
not a lady, a cleverly-veneered imita-
ton of one; she had ambition and tact
and brains, but, alasl hot temper.
Toward the close of her second season,
during which she had entertained like
a fairy princess, she determined to give
a grand ball Hundreds of invitations
were sent out and accepted. An or
chestra of eighty picked men was Sc
cured. A supper worthy of Soyer or
Vatel was ordered. An army of fun
kies, tons of flowers, bunting, Chinese
lanterns, etc., floors that were waxed to-
perfection, electric lights, gas, wax
lights, produced brilliant ensemble,
and madame, in her Worth dress and
all her diamonds, was chandelier.
Guests poured in and the rooms
were soon filled; but in spite of all her
precautions, the women somewhat out
numbered the men, who grouped them
selves about the doors and looked
blandly on at the rows of girls in pink
| and girls in blue that lined the walls,
and the dancing, which was going on
in a feeble way. Madame saw all this
would not do She approached the
gentlemen.
''Let me introduce you to Miss Blank,
that pretty girl in green over there.
She dances beautifully" she said to
one of them.
Thanks, but l am not by way of
dancing tonight, he replied. SIT is
so awfully hot"
A second declined her proposal to 60
and have an ice, ON the ground that it
was $50 awfully cold" A third was
mot making any acquaintance" and
would not be presented to any of the
ladies. A fourth had ''seen the docora-
tions upstairs and declined to bulge.
A fifth never ate anything after din
ner." They all began with one ac-
cord to make excuses" like the guests
of the Biblical feast, but madame, in
stead of taking the same revenge, grew
furiously angry, and stamping her foot,
cried, Then what the dickens did you
come here for?'
This effected more than all her en-
treaties. The men burst into hearty
laugh; and protested their entire will
ingness to do whatever she pleased,
were introduced, talked, supped, danced,
made themselves agreeable, and the
ball a success. But the story was an
open secret; in twelve hours everybody
was talking of it, Society was shocked
beyond expression, and madame went
abroad.-Edjtor's DraaCer, IN Harper s
Magazine.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13
BulWer and His Wife.

Bulwer's income, independent of his
work, may have been $500 a year;
within three years of his marriage, he
is supposed by his son to have been liv-
ing at the rate of f3,000 Almost an
unknown man, and generally detested
by the critics, he had to meet the de-
fcits of indefatigible toll. The labors
imposed upon him sowed the seeds of
sorrow. The young people fondly
owed each other at first, and had they
married on a competency, might have
have made themselves happy. Mrs.
Bulwer naturally looked for caresses
and attentions, while her preoccupied
husband had little leisure for either.
His labors overtasked his strength, and
in the brief intervals of rest he was irri-
table. They had taken lonely house in
the wilds of Oxfordshire, and in her
letters the wife writes that she seldom
saw her husband. She knew nothing
of the value of money, and spent it
lavishly; while she had so intense a
dislike for domestic details that she even
shrank from going to London to choose
a cook. Money matters were at the
bottom of their subsequent differences.
Bulwer, we are told, was personally
frugal, almost to parsimony, and
an admirable manager, who
delighted in good bargains. His
wife's extravaganza must have fretted
him terribly, when each folly brought
fresh draft on his brain. Yet that
natural frugality proves the strength of
his passion, for even Mrs. Bulwer COM
plains playfully to correspondent that
in his reckless generosity he overloaded
her with gifts. For if he seems to
have been economical to parsimonious-
ness in small matters, he was essen
TALLY large-minded and liberal, and
the pride which was one of his predom-
mating qualities showed itself most
honorably in pecuniary affairs. After
a reconciliation, his mother renewed
his allowance. He felt the relief
keenlv, for his health had been suf-
fering and the worry of an inadequate
income was making his life a misery
to him. Yet when his mother in her
quick temper had taunted him with
maintaining his wife, he renounced
the allowance at once and forever
The word maintaining" stuck in his
throat. Mrs. BulWer Lytton subse-
quently made many offers of substan-
tial help, and between son and mother
his susceptibilities seem exaggerated.
But he would never again consent to be
dependent so as to lay himself open to
such another sting. Yet the affection
ate tone of his letters to her is followed
up by offers of sympathy and active as
| sistance, and he would even turn to his
mother for temporary assistance,
though he insisted that it should be in
the shape of a loan to be repaid. Lon
don Times.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13
Genuine Boston Society.

What peculiar crowd is Boston
audience of the eighteen-carat type !!
The women all look alike, dress alike,
act alike, speak alike. The same tailor
made accuracy pervades their clothes,
and the identical neryous-intellectual-
fed on Matthew Arnold Ruskin- Hem
schel-concert- been-to-Europe express
sion gambols over their couRtenance in
a style that distrains the onlooker from
spheres less cultured and more cosmo-
politan. The genuine Bostonese is the
italics of social equality She is bred
in virtue, and lives in the stimulating
atmosphere of mental superiority ever
after Saturday Gazette.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13
NUMBER /.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, re-
'eived but seven new members last
Year.-Brooktya Eagle.
The Baptists have completed the
100000 endowment of the theological
seminary of Morgan Park, Ill., ChicGgo
Journal.
Governor Waller, of Connecticut,
thinks the country schools are not SO
good as they were thirty years ago
Hartford Post
The De Pauw University, in Green
castle, Ind, is to have eight more build
ings-a law college, medical college,
theological college, an observatory,
two dormitories and other structures
to be erected without delay.-lHdtaR-
apoE6s journal.
-Kindergartens being under discus
sion in the California School Teachers
Convention, Mrs. A. Griffiths said that
in her.eXperience the kindergarten chill
dren had proved to be the most un-
manageable youngsters of any that she
had ever tried to teach.
Among the Methodist missionaries
in Norway is Mrs. Nielsen, who was
for twenty-five years successful act
ress. She was converted under the
preaching of Methodist minister,
abandoned her profession and has since
been preaching with great acceptance
to crowded houses. Her fine elocution-
airy powers, added to an intense con-
yiction of the truths of the gospel, give
peculiar attractiveness to her dis
courses.-N. Y. Tribune.
-Rev. DR.. Rankin, of the Congrega-
tional Church, in answer to an inquiry
as to the number of white and colore6
members of his church, writes: ''I do
not divide my flock that way. Inevcr
did the black people of my congrega-
ton the indignity TO count them. All
who come are welcomed just as the
whites are. AS pastor know no diff
ference of color or race, and this try,
to teach my people is Christianity. -
N. Y. Herald.
A field of about three-fourths of an
acre in extent has been added to the
Botanical Garden at Harvard College
for the special purpose of illustrating
Professor Gray's Manual" which.
comprises the plants which grow east
of the Mississippi and north of North
Carolina. The field will be trans
formed into miniature country Of
mountain, marsh and plain, with the
design of securing the varied conditions
of shade, moisture and temperature
demanded by the different plants.-M
\. Examiner.
The Biblical Recorder, Of Raleigh,
calls to mind the following historical
incident How Baptist principles grew.
In 1741 some Baptists applied to the
County Court of North Berne, n. c.,
for permission to build church in thas
town. They were all publicly whipped.
bound over to keep the peace, COM
PEELED to take the test oath, and re-
quired to give bonds for their good beA
havior. - Christian IsdeI. What o
change! Now there are 100000 Bap-
lists in North Carolina, and the Episco-
palians, who did the whipping, number
1000.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A Frenchman claims to have in
vented paper which is iucombustible.,
Let some of our essayists get hold of Is
and they win make it dry enough To-
burn.-Boston Transcript.
A society called the ''Sons of Rev
olution" has been organized in New;
York. 1t is a more high-toned name
than organ-grinders, but we infer that
the object is the same.-NogvistosOw
Herald.
"A Toronto man waited until he was
eighty-three years old before he got
married. He waited until he was sura
that if he didn't like it he wouldn'b
live long to repent. Boston Post.
The electric light is to be introduced
into the New York State Asylum for
the Blind. We are glad to see the
philanthropists, who have been sending
blankets to the cannibal islands. turn
ing their attention to the needs OF suf-
ferers at home.-BWrIisgtos Free Press.
Philadelphia hotel keepers seem to
be about as mean as they make 'em.
An exchange says that they paste tha
following notice over their gas Jets !:
The relatives and friends Of guests
who blow out the gas will have to pay
for the amount OF gas wasted before
the body will be delivered. Detroit
Post.
Here is q fair sample of the small
boys diary, as given by an exchanges
''Got up and washed me-had break
fast-slid down hill-had dinner-slid
down hill had fight with Willie
Smith-we won't speak any more
wore hole in the toe of my new boot,
steering my new sled--eat supper--pa
spanked me about the boot-went to
bed-bully good day."
A gentleman was congratulating .
friend the other day on his recent mar
riage. YES" said the latter, thank
ing him for his pleasant words, "If
you marry and get the right one there
is nothing like it, and if you don't get
the right one | suppose there is nothing
like it. ''-Nee0 England Farmer.
Plantation Philosophy: Oar is
hundred seekers arter money whar dar
10 one seeker arter happiness. We
amt got no respeck fur de stingy man,
nor fur de feller what fiings his money
away. a mans awkward shape amt
no argument agin his 'preciation OBJ de
finer p'ints OBJ life. A ole black bear
amt putty, but he's powerful fon' OBJ
honey. has often heerd dat de bes' is
de cheapes'. Dis doan' hole good in
all cases, fur III be dinged eff de
cheapes way ter lib is de bes'. A man
mout tell me dat bread an ingons is
better dan bread, meat, 'taters an in
gons, but wouldn't belebe him. m.-Ar-
] kq1lsav Traveller,
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13
p4TTENCE WITH LOVE.

Ebov are such tiny feet:
srhey have gone such a little way to meet
a-be years which are required to break
moi. stems t. ayenness and make
Them go
More sure and slow.
They are such little hands,
I,e Find. Thingssare so new and life but stands
4 step beyond the doorway. All around
New day has found
spch tempting things to shine upon, and so
The hands are tempted hard, you know.
They are such new, young lives;
surely their newness shrivcs
Them well of many sins. They see so much,
THAT. being immortal, they would touch,
That if they reach
We must not chide, but teach.
They are such fond, clear eyes,
That widen to surprise Ht
At every turn; they are so often held
m SIMS or showers-showers soon dispelled
nv looking in our face
Love asks for so much grace.
They are such fair, frail gifts;
Uncertain as the riffs
of light that lie along the sky
They may not be here by and by,
Give them not love, but mOre-aboye
And harder-patience with the love.
N. Y. Graphic.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13
BELLEVUE, La, THURSDAY MARCH 49, 1884,

she secured good price for all
the cards and pictures she could paint,
and in time the demand for them came
to be so great that she was finally en-
abled to abandon the distasteful idea
OF becoming teacher and realize her
dream of studying art.
Her first prize was won on a portrait
of her dearest friend; and when any
one asks who it is, she tells them, with
grateful tears filling her eyes, the story
of Vic Vinton's Valentine Harper s
YOU7aq People.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13
-.Indre Riddla decided in the "a

Judge Biddle decided in the Com
mon Pleas Court at Philadelphia re-
Gently that ex-Judge Briggs was not
libeled by a defamatory letter written
by Philip G. Garrett, because Briggs,
by his candidacy for office, invoked
scrutiny of his character. -PbiEGdeLphiq
Press.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13

Household servants get four dollars
month in Mexico. They require no
days out or company in, and treat their
mistresses with becoming decency.-
Chicago Journal.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13

Some men are Just blind enough
not to see their duties, but they can see
all their rights very clearly.-N. Z.
Herald.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13

Mrs. j. M. Hood, of Frederick, Md,
has given $4,000 to Franklin and Mar
shall College for an astronomical OBJ
servatorY. Baltimore Sun.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13

"A theatrical audience in Rouen,
France, took strong dislike to an
actor and hissed him. He came for
ward and said Ladies' and gentlemen,
have wife and three children, and,
if | had been fortunate enough to please
you, should have earned yearly salary
of 1,S00 francs, which would have suf-
feed for US all. do not dispute your
right to reject me, but, although my
singing has not satisfied you, perhaps
my whistling may" Thereupon he
whistled popular air so cleverly that
the whole house applauded and his en-
gagement was renewed, on condition
that he should whistle his parts instead
of singing them.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1884-03-13
COniugal Brutality.

Charles, DEAR said charming
little literary lady to her husband the
other evening, ''let me read you the
opening chapter of my new novel"
Certainly" replied Charles, Il
should be delighted
"Well, then, sit still and listen:
Twas evening. A huge, inky
''Blue ink?" interrupted Charles,
''No. SIR
"Violet ink, mebbe.''
''No, it was-''
''Red ink, for instance. at
''Charles, you know"
Perhaps it was that delicate, fash
ionable mauve inkpn
"Now Charles, don't"
"Mebbe it was green ink, like Ar
nold's copying fluid. -
"Why, you horrid creature, youl
When | speak of anything having an
inky appearance, what impression does
it make on you?''
Same as blotting pad, my love-
take it all in. Go on with the harrow
ing scene. y
"Charles, you are a bruter' and the
little literary lady founced out of the
room, and Charles bawled back after
her:
Come back, my love, I am sitting
still. "-TerGS SiftSngs.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-08-07

BLKToN, MD, August Last night,
shortly after the man Ryan, who swindled
the Italian laborers so badly at Chesa.
peake City yesterday, had left that place
the Italians began to make hostile demon
strations against William Rick, who had
acted as interpreter between them and
Ryan, because, as they alleged, he had
been oognizant of the swindle perpe-
trRted by the latter, and had probably
prOiited by it. The iniuriated men
threatened to kill the interpreter and his
wife. In order to prevent them from COM
mitting murder, the threatened persons
were put in the lock up, where they re-
mAined until this morning, after large
number OF their oGnntrymsn had left iOr
klkton, when they were set at liberty.
About dozen OF the rioters had re-
mAined in Chesapeake City, who, upon
seeing the interpreter and his
wife upon the streets, rem, wed
tbs quarrel with them. Four oil
the principal rioters were arrested and
locked mp, after which the prosecuted
man and his wife obtained transportation
to this place, where they arrived abOut 4
O'Clock this Afternoon, glad that they had
escaped with their lives. The Italiane
who came here this morning have been
hanging around town all day, much tc
the disgust and annoyance OF the citizans,
but no serious difficulty ia apprehended
from their presence.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-08-07
Italiana swindIed Arn,n.

ELKToE, July 31'-There was consider
able excitement and indignation among a
lot Of Italians who arrived in Chesapeake
City to-day. About 20 of them were in
duoed by some man, name unknown, to
come to Elkton and start for Chesapeake
City, where they would take boat for
the work. The man collected over $4
from each, and gave them tickets which
were found to be worthless in Chesapeake
City, and the bogus agent had left them
In the luroh. The man drove to Elkton and
took the north bound train. He promised
them full play and plenty Of work. The
Italians are much excited, and would
have lynched him ii they had caught
him. They were to 60 by boat to Balti-
more and then out to work on some rail-
read in Pennsylvsnis. One of the more
intelligent of the Italians came hurrisdly
here and wired to Wilmington, Philadei-
phiA and New York, hoping to catch the
bogus agent. Much sympathy is felt for
the men, who are left unrrovided for and
have no money to take them home.
They had walked from Elkton to Chesa-
peake City,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-08-07
The narrord Canned Goods.

A Baltimore Sun special from Bel Air,
dated yesterday week, says The, Hartford
Furnace canned goods case came mp before
Judge Yellott here to-day. The motion
was to dissolve an injunction issued by
the Hartford county court restraining the
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore
railroad from transporting from Perry
mans station 5000 cases OF canned toma-
toes, claimed under writ of replevin
issued out Of the United States
circuit court by Thurbsr & Co.,
creditors Of Thomas ]. Oliver, the
goods being also claimed by Hartford
county creditors under proceedings in
the county court. T. Wallis Blackstone
and William Young sustained the motion
and Archibald Stirling and Harlan g.
Webster opposed it. After preliminary
statements Judge Yellott decided that he
could mot entertain the motion until
Thurber 4 Co. and other parties inter.
ested had filed their answers in COM
pliance with the order Of injunction, The
case was therefore postponed indeh-
nitely.