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The Penn's Grove record., 1884-07-26

Among the strange institutions which
have been started within the last few
years is that of The Society for Mutual
Autopsy" which commenced its exis-
tence in Paris in the year 1876. No
balloting or any elaborate system is
necessary to become a member. A
proper introduction with a fee of five
francs sulices, and IN engagement to
will your body to the society for
the purpose of dissection after death.
In order to prevent the friends
and relatives Of the dead from frus-
trating the intentions Of the tesla
tor, by disposing OF the corpse in
the usual manner, a proper legal form
has been drawn up and inscribed in the
rules. This society, which consists of
about 200 members, q dozen of whom
are LADIES', contains among its members
many men eminent in the medical world
IN Paris, as well as distinguished in SCI
ence and art. The theory of the found
ers is, that in consequence of the dill.
Guilty of obtaining for post-mortem
examinations any other subjects but
those of the lowest classes, whose fac
ulties are naturally warped or otherwise
un~developed, much beneit mu It accrue
to science by ar opportunity being given
for the dissection of persons of cultiva-
ted understanding, and particularly by
making observations on the brain. Be-
tween twenty and thirty of the members
Of this society generally dine together
once a month at a restaurant near
Halles, where they pass a %congenial
evening, although there is a touch Of
ghastliness in the gathering. When
II of their community is missing at
the banquet, instead of lamenting over
his departure, every n listens with
rapt interest to the surgeons explana'
tion of the post norton examination he
has made.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-07-26
soldier. and Churches In Mexico.

Col. Croffut says, o a recent ride up
to Mexico two things especially attract
the attention of the tourist-the SOL
diers, by their presence, and the priests,
by their absence. Every passenger
train has one car filed with armed SOL
diers who accompany it to protect 1t
from highwaymen. The rural guards
r~urales, as they are called-also watch
its movements. When the engineer
whistles for a station the passengers at
the window will see a dashing cayal!erin
a grey uniform of buckskin, fully arm
ed gallop across the fields on a hand
some horse and head off the the train.
He exchanges a few words with the
major in command of the train-proba-
bly, sail well'-and on go the cars
again. Sometimes there are two or
more of these men in buckskin, and
there are 1000 of them in all watching
the railroad interests. 1t seems to me
that all this fuss and parade must be
rather a survival of the times of distur-
bance which recent years have seen,
rather than a present necessity, every
thing here appears to be so quiet and
so safe but perhaps the government
knows best.
OF priests there were of course none
visible, for priests are forbidden by law
from appearing in their robes anywhere
in Mexico. The universal confiscation
OF churches and converts has also sub
jected this curious property to some
strange vicissitudes. AS late as the
year 1859 one third OF all the real and
personal property OF Mexico was own
ed by the Catholic church. The Indian
reformer and ''Father of his Country"
Juares, rose up and coniscated it all at
a blow, Many of the religious institu-
tons were sold out to whomsoever
would buy. Some churches are used
as tobacco warehouses some Ia s at Fac
tecas and Monterrey for no tells, and
some for public schools. l was told
that the monastery Of Soledad was a
stable , aud the convent at Orizaba,
where We tarried all night is now the
arena for bull-1ghts!
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-07-26
women as GIovemakers.

Glovemaking is unique as an employ
ment for women. 1t stands midway
between the textile industries, which
"a only be carried on in large factories,
and the ordinary thanksgiving which is
doue by seamstresses at home. for max
ing a glove is a very elaborate affair,
consisting of many processes, each Of
which has its own special workmen and
workwomen. Out Of the 10,000or To-
600 women who are more or less con
stantly employed in making the gloves
sold by the great firm Of Dent, Allcroft
81 c., only 800 or 400 are at work in the
famous Worcester factory, which may
be regarded "a the headquarters of the
English glove trade. The rest work at
home; but, as they go from the factory
to the home, so they return from the
home to the factory, for the plain sew
ing is only n of the many processes
through which the skin passes in its pro-
gress from the back of the kid to the
hand of its future wearer.
To supply the requisite material for
the gloves sold by a single firm alone
which however, 1t is fair to say, has
more than half the trade In its own
hands-nearly 5000, 900 kids and lambs
are slaughtered annually, That is to
say, 10000 of 2 months old innocents
are killed every working day, year in
and year out, to supply "Dent's" with
material for their gloves. More gloves,
however, are sewn by women at home,
and the employment thus afforded for
the spare hours of wives and daughters
in the counties os Worcester, Hereford,
Oxford, Somerset, Devon and Glouces-
ter Is III Of the most important sources
Of female income. The whole system
is very deliberately organized. The
g~loye-making counties are mapped out
into circuits, each Of which has its sew
ing clerk or commercial traveller. The
firm employ a number of clerks, who
have each their W districts, and
around these they travel every week,
taking a caIt-load of gloves each round.
The glove sewers of the district assem-
BILE at a fixed place-generally the VII
lage inn-and receive their work, which
they take home and deliver next week
when the clerk comes round again. AS
arule, there are twenty to thirty workers
in each village who do the plain sewing,
some by hand and some by machine.
they earn from 81. to IS. the week,
which is the pay for one to two dozen
pairs Of gloves.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-07-26
Preooo,ty of Great Musicians.

Nearly all the great music masters
were precocious. Haydn began his
career at the age of eight. When IF
teen he had already developed much Of
the skill and independence for which he
became famous. At that age be happen
ed TO hear of a vacancy in the church
at Tell, and circumstances made him
anxious to obtain the post. The choir
master, however, OF receiving his APP
plication refused to allow him to join
the choir. Haydn had managed to
smuggle himself into the choir, and sit
next to the principal soloist. just as he
rose to deliver himself of the solo,
Hadyn snatched the music from his
hand and commenced to sing it him
self at sight, The church authorities
were so electrified that they gave him
a good sum of money as soon as
the church services were over. Beetho-
ven, at fifteen, was one of the chief mu-
sicians under the FL ctor Of Cologne.
At four, Mozart could play freely on
the harpsichord at five he not only
composed, but began to travel extern
sively as a virtuoso. The Archbishop
of Salzburg a few years afterwards
would not believe that a child so young
could of himself, accomplish al he Was
credited with. Accordingly he shut
himself up with pen and ink and wrote
the words of the Mass. Within a week
the young composer produced
a complete score for the inspec-
ton of the incredulous Archbishop
The result of this performance
was that the Mass became a stock piece
at Salzburg Cathedral while Mozart be-
came the p~relate's concert-meister at
the age of twelve. Mendelssohn wa a
noted improvisor on the piano-forte at
the age Of eight Schumann, as a
school-boy, could at any time gather a
knot of companions who eagerly listen
ed with "a patience, not common at
their age, while he described their char
acters on the piano. Chopin d1d a
still more wonderful thing, when
a boy in his fathers school. Sontag
thought him such a miracle at ten that
she gave him a valuable gold watch as
token Of admiration. At nine he wa
asked to assist at a public concert for
the poor. He selected as his subject a
concerto by Gyrowitz and was dressed
by his mother as u little dandy for the
occasion. After obtaining immense
success he went home TO his mother,
who asked him as she embraced him,
what the public liked best. "Oh mann
MAJ said the unconscious young gen.
ius, "noboy could look at anything
but my collar"
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-07-26
No Bread.

Bread is unknown in parts of South
ern Austria, Italy and throughout
the agricultural district of Roumania,
In the villages of the Obersteiermark,
not very many miles from Vienna,
bread is never seen, the staple food Of
the people being sterz, a kind of por-
ridge made from ground beechnuts,
which is taken at breakfast with fresh
or curdled milk, at dinner with broth
or with fried lard, and with milk again
for supper. This is also known as hei-
den ard takes the place of bread, not
only in the Steiermark, but in CarInthia
and in many parts of the Tyrol. In the
north of Italy the ~peasantry live chiefly
on polenta, a porridge made Of boiled
maize. The polenta, however, is not
allowed to granulate like Scotch por-
ridge or like the Austrian sterz, but is
boiled into a solid pudding, which is
cut up and portioned out with a string.
1t is eaten cold as often as hot and IS
Ia every sense the Italian PEASANTS
daily bread. The modern Roumanians
are held by many scholars to be descen-
ed from a Roman colony in other words
to be the cousins of the Italians; and,
c%uriously enough, a variation of the po-
lenta called mamaliga is the national dish
of Roumania. The mamaliga is like the
polenta in that it is made of boiled
maize, but it is unlike the latter in one
important respect, as the grains are not
allowed to settle into a solid mass, but
are kept distinct, after toe fashion Of
oatmeal porTldge.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-07-26
Lacquer.

The native japanese papers state that
the tree from which %thelacquer varnish
is obtained is disappearing, and an out
cry is making against ''the extinction
Of the lacquer industry" Like the
mulberry tree (silk worms foodl it was
formerly protected by law. The upper
class families were obliged to rear 100
trees, the middle class 20, and the over
class 40" The law having fallen into
disuse, the cultivation of the lacquer
tree has fallen away and the price of
lacquer has been enormously increas-
ed,n
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-07-26
Wind Flower.

A flower has been discovered in
South America which is only visible
when the wind is blowing. The shrub
belongs to the cactus family, and is
about three feet high, with a crook at
the top, giving it the appearance OF a
black hickory cane. When the wind
blows a number of beautiful flowers
protrude from little Jumps 90 the stalk.
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-07-26

The researches of DR.. F. W. East, an
English physician, have shown that in.
fection may be conveyed in a moist and
quiet atmosphere from smallpox hospi.
tails to houses in the vicinity. Other
observers are inclined to believe that
other diseases which are known - be
spread by the air owe their transmiss, N
solely to the influence Of moisture,
The Penn's Grove record., 1884-07-26

The japanese entangle whales in
nets and then kill them with harpoons
and lances.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07
Times Changes.

Marion Cobb, a responsible gen.
tleman of the Lusby's Mill precinct,
KY, says he saw squirrel acting
in very peculiar manner up in the
top Of a tree and it caused him to
stop and watch its actions. Pretty
soon it came down the tree bearing
a bunch of something in its mouth,
and went directly to the creek.
When he got to the edge of the
water it turned round and backed
into the creek until the water COW
cred it entirely, except the tip OF
its nose when it let 60 the bunch,
which floated off down the creek.
To crafty his curiosity, Marion
went down and got the bunch, and
found, he says, that it had a million
fieas on it.-OwentOn News.
Ninety-three years ago, it was a
fox, that disposed of fieas in that
way.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07
A Healthy Candidate.

els Mr.. Tilden in ?" asked the
interviewer. Hardly had he got
the words out of his mouth before
Mr.. Tilden, in a full suit of chain
armor, leaped' from the second floor
landing with the remark, in a voice
like thunder: "Here am, young
man; what's wanted?" The re.
porter managed to murmur some
thing about candidacy" and "con-
vention;" but before he could pro-
coed further the Sage turned a
double back-somersault and in
formed the interviewer that he was
out of politics. "May ask who is
your first choice ?" asked the inter
viewer, timidly. "My first choicc!"
shouted Mr.. Tilden, in his excite.
ment wrenching three or four up
rights from the stair railing. 81
have no first choice. The country
however, wants a strong man. u
And he struck the heavy oaken
front door a tremendous blow
knockingit completely offthe hing.
es. However" he added with O
wink, "you understand" The re-
porter understood and he returned
to the Office and informed the worth
through the columns of his news.
paper that Mr.. Tilden was a com
plete wreck Boston Transcript
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07
THE Trains.

The first train since March 10,
arrived at Tallulah Thursday June
5. The engine came hindpart
before but it had to come or 90 that
way, as there is no turntable here.
On Sunday the train will 60
through to Crew Lake and stay
there that night, and on Monday
morning it will run on the follow
ing schedule:
Leave Crew Lake - Gas am.
Arrive at Delta 1910 PIN.
Returning Leave Delta 1:3O pm.
Arrive at Crew Lake $50 p m.
Connecting with hand car for
Monroe.
In 1.-TWO weeks it is probable through
trains to Monroe, will be running
and we may get our fourth of July
excursion to Shreveport.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07
A Hundred Mile Pneumatic Tube.

An application was made to the
Commissioners of the Illinois and
Michigan Canal at their meeting TO-
day by a Chicago lawyer for the
right of way along the canal to La
Sale for a pneumatic tube. He
proposes to sink a hole in the
ground FIVE feet from the surface,
and run il from Chicago to La Sale,
one hundred miles. 1t is is to be
used in shipping wheat, bundles
and other portable stuff.
Commissioner Callaghan asked
the applicant how the articles were
to be transported: whether it was
designed to make the tube q high
way for mail carriers. A Disguised
expression fitted over the lawyers
face as he answered: SPY com.
pressed air, of course. Ishall have
two engines, one at each end, and
stations at Lockport, Joliet, and
intermediate points.
GLOW fast can the bundles tray
ell" inquired Commissioner Brown
ga mile a minute" answered
the applicant. "Wheat and corr
will be put in in bulk, and will &c
faster"
"Well, gentlemen" said the at
torney, angrily, "I didn't think
should be made the target for your
wit when / came here. Will you
give the right of way or mott"
The commissioners talked over
the matter, and finally decided tc
let the attorney put down his tube
provided he would pay the usua
toll charges on the canal.-Chicago
News.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07
A Snake in q Sleeping Car.

"The liveliest time ever had on
the road" said the sleeping car
conductor, "was one night when a
snake got loose in my car. We
were coming East from st. Louis,
and out at Eflingham, H., we took
on family of Pittsburgers bound
for home. There was boy of ten
in the party, who carried a little
wicker cage in his hand, partly
wrapped up. Thought, of course,
he had a bird in it and allowed him
to take it with him into the car.
That night at Dayton, which We
reached at $50 O'Clock, pretty
young lady was put aboard and
took a berth at the end of the car,
near the ladies' dressing-room.
About 10 o'clock / was at the other
end of the car, looking at the porter
blacking the boots, when suddenly
there came from the dressing-room
some of the shrillest screaming
you ever heard-so keen that we
heard it over the noise of the train.
l rushed through the car, followed
by the porter, and found the little
lady who got on at Dayton perched
on tiptoes on the washstand, fright
ened out of her wits, and pointing
at something on the floor. She was
so excited that / couldn't make out
what she was saying, but / looked
down, and there was a nasty little
green snake coiled up in the middle
of the floor and moving his head
about from side to side, evidently
ready for a fight. l wasn't exactly
afraid of the thing, but it did give
me creepy sort of Il feeling to see
it in my car, and l was just about
to kill it when>I heard somebody
behind me yelling: 'It's my snake!
Don't kill it! Don't kill it!' and
the boy who had brought the cage
into the car rushed in and took the
snake up in his hands. But when
the boy had put the snake back in
his cage l settled matters by drop
ping the cage, snake and all, out of
the window. felt like dropping
the boy out, too. The boy had put
the cage under the berth on the
floor, and when the porter was fish
ing out the boots he must have up
set it and let the snake out. "-Ex.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07
For The Press

At the last meeting of the Press
Association, resolution was adopt
ed requesting its President to ask
the General Assembly to pass a
law that will secure payment to the
printer of his charges for legal adj
vertisements of which he is fire.
quently deprived, by the entangle-
ments of law procedures.
This matter having been brought
to the attention of Hon. Robert P.
Hunter, of Rapides, gentleman as
distinguished for his legal ability.
as for the talent he has at times
displayed as an editorial writer
that gentleman has generously un-
dertaken to urge compliance with
the just request made by the Press,
and Monday last, in the House Of
Representatives, he gave notice
that he would introduce an Act
"To fix the rate and regulate the
cost of judicial advertisements sue.
cession notices, etc.; to require
parties ordering same to gave Sc.
curity satisfactory to the printer
for the cost of same, in advance OF
the publication, and making
sheriffs, administrators, syndics,
etc., personally liable for failure
to demand said security; to make
the payment for judicial advertise.
ments, due prior to the expiration
of the time fixed for sales, appoint
ment of administrators syndics,
etc., and authorizing the publish
ers of newspapers to discontinue
said advertisements if the costs Of
same are not paid prior to the time
fixed for sales, appointments, etc.
making the cost OF same part o.
the sheriff's and clerks costs to be
SO taxed when not paid in advance
and to repeal all laws or parts Of
laws in conflict with this act. -
Capitolian Advocate.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07

The hero ofthe hour at Berlin at
present is DR.. Koch. the president
Of the German Cholera Commits
sion, who has just returned from
India, where he has discovered the
cholera germ. He studied medi-
cine at Gottingen. and afterwards
pursued his microscopic studies OF
bacteria at Breslau under Prof.
Cohn. DR.. Koch has been known
to the scientific world for some time
as a conscientious and acurate OBJ
server, but to the unscientific world
his name was unknown until his
discovery ofth cholera germ.-Ex.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07
SUCCESSION NOTICE.
State of Louisiana. Parish of Madison
Sth District Court-No. $50 Probate.

SUCCESSION OF JOHN ExBRRr, deceased.
WHEREAS, Henry NJ. Floyd has
w presented to said Court, his final
account as administrator of said sue
cessions, with his petition praying that
said account be approved, confirmed
and homologated lafter due notice. and
he be discharged with judgement as
prayed for.
Now therefore, all persons are
required to show cause, IL any they
have, within ten days from the date
hereof, why the prayer of the petition
er should not be granted.
Witness the Honorable f. J. Delony,
Judge of said Court, and the official
seal thereof, this 18th day Of May, A.
ID. 1884.
F. NJ. DAWSON, Dp'y Clerk.
A true copy attest.
F. NJ. DAWSON, Dp'y Clerk.
May 81, Ct.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07


The death is announced at Ard
none, Pa, of the wife of r. J. Bur.
dette, the well known humorist.
The deceased was married to Mr.
Burdette on March 4, 1870, when
she was thought to be at the point
of death, and when so feeble tina,
her responses could only be made
by a slight movement of the eyes
and a faint pressure of the hand.
She subsequently rallied and recov.
cred some degree of health. In
1875 she was broken completely
down by an attack of rhumatic
fever, and has since been a hopeless
invalid. 1t was through his wife s
persuasions that Mr.. Burdettc first
began to lecture, as it was to please
her and drive away gloom and pain
that he wrote his first humorous
articles. std.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07
NOTICE.
TALLULAH, La, May 81, Is

TALLULAH, La, May 81, 1854.
The assessments for the year
1884, are now ready for inspection,
and correction. All parties desir-
ing to investigate their assessments,
are notified to do so within the
next thirty days.
J. II. GILFoIL,
Assessor.
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07
POSTPONED SHERIFF'S SALE.
State Of Louisiana, Parish OF Madison
9Th District Court.

AUGUST BRRSHEIN 4 BAUER vs.. E. G.
PEALE.-No. 556.
DY virtue Of an order of sale to me
ID directed from the Honorable Z. ] i.
DelOny. Judge of the Eighth District
Court for the parish Of Madison afore-
said in the above entitled cause, /
will proceed to sell, at public auction, at
the door of the Courthouse in the town
of Tallu!ah, in Madison parish, Louisi-
ana, on
The Third Saturday, the 21st
day of June, A. D., 1884,
between the hours prescribed by law,
all the right, title and interest Of +. q
Peale in and TO the following described
property, to-wit:
All the stock of Dry Goods, Groceries,
Wares, Merchandise, Medicines, etc.
Also one Water Tank. Also unexpire,I
lease of Storehouse, and one wagon; set
Books and Accounts, seized in the above
suit.
Terms Of ssle-Cash with the benefit
OF appraisement.
F.. s. DENNIS, Sheriff.
Per w. II. MCFARLAND, Dp'v.
Sheriif's Office, Taliulah. May "a, 1854
Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
MILO MAIZE.

r HAVE one barrel of the seed of
L "Millo Maize" Any of my planting
friends can get some Of these seed free
of cost. | would like to see Milo
Maize planted largely. 1t has proven a
good thing with me.
JAS. A. STONE.