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Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-09-06
UNWHOLESOME DIET.
lFrom The PHILADELPHIA Call.

From The Philadelphia Call.
Old Mosquito: "There, now, you
must have been disobeying me. What
made you so sick?"
Young Mosquito: "Dunno, ma; l
didn't do nOthin'."
Old Mosquito: eyes, you did. Have
you been eating anything told you to
avoid this weather."
Young Mosquito: "No'm."
Old Mosquito: eyes, you have, or
you wouldn't be sick. Now, mind;
will give you a regular ihrasliing if you
ever again touch veal or dudes in the
summer time"
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Poor Tired Mother
MARaARkT EYTINGE.


From Harper's Magazine
They were talking Of the glory OF the land De-
ynnd the lies,
OF the light and of the Gladnrss to be found IL,
phradise,
or the flowers ever blooming. of the never
crasinR s0nRs,
or the wand rings through the golden street oil
happy white-rObed thr0ngs;
And said father, leaning cOzly back In his easy
char
(Father always was u master hand for comfort
everywhere);
"What Joyful thing 'twould be to know that
when this life ia O'er
One would straightway hear welcume from
the blessed shining shOrel''
And Isabel. our eldest girl, glanced upward
from the reed
She was painting on a water jug, and murmur-
ed. :Yes, indeed,'
And Marian. the next in age. q moment drop
ped her book.
And :Yes, indeed!'' repeated, with a most
ecstatic look.
But mother. gray haired mother, had come to
sweep the room,
With patient smile on her thin face, leaned
lightly on her broom
she had to do
And said, IL hope it is not wrong not to agree
with you,
But to me thut when I die, before join
the blest,
I'D like just Tor little while to lie in nv grave
and rest.''
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SEE THE LABEL.
Kansas City Star, ind. |

Young Roosevelt's recent letter may
be summarized thus: 81 am the only
genuine reformer-all others are coun-
terteit. Beware especially of one
known as Grover Cleveland. Get on
ly the best. See that the proper label
is on every bottle"
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-09-06
INFORMATION WANTED.
IFrom the Chicago News

IT lVIII tlC CUWHfU 1NCWS.J
If the accessiOns of Irish Americans
to the Blaine ranks are SO numerous,
why should each one be advertised
with all the prominence usually de-
voted to curiosity in Il museum.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-09-06
THE FEARLESS WIDOW.
From the Texas siftings.l

A New York widow was taking the
fresh air in Central park with her two
children when che met former lover,
with whom she entered into CONVERSE
ton.
81 am completely broken up, Amelia" i"
he said, seizing her hand. "Thcre is
no telling what 1 might not say and do
if it were not for these children"
"Cmldrcn," said the fond mother,
pushing them away, "run over Wonder
where the goat carriages are and play
until send for YOU.
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TOO TRUE.
[BOston Transcript.l

When Blinks heard the ten COM
malt!ments read the other day he ex-
claimed, "Humph One of the party
platforms, ell ? But what do those
things amount to? Nobody lives up
tp them
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-09-06
Mo. P. R. r. Time Table.
Passenger. Freight.

Sunday train leaves Kansas City for Browns
Vile vt i: :O7 q. M, Lexington 9:O5 and arrives
at brownsville ut 10 40. Returning, leaves
Brownsville at 500 p. m. arrives ut Lexington
ut 9:3O anu Kansas City.at II :25.
Morning train west makes all western con-
nections ut Kansas City. Bolh passenger trans
make all connections to and from st. Louis.
Through Sleeper. Reclining chair and coach
to st Louis. Tickets and connection to all
points. and baggage checked. Tourist and ex-
cursiOn tickets on sale.
c. Il. RUSSELL, Agt.
AT Lexington.
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PREOAUTION RECOMMENDED.


Secretary Chandler will please notify
cominandants of navy yards that here
after all persons going in to see the
navy will be required TO leave their
canes outside.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-09-06
he Is GOING TO HOLLER.

Buffalo Courier.l
Gen. Butler evidently intends to hol>
ler If he doesn't sell claim.
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-09-06
Chicago & Alton r. &.

Trains MArkeu VIII mol stUII.
Trains market will stop on signal.
Local frs,ghts run daily except Sunday. Other
trains daily.
We keep u tuIl line Of through tick. is to all
principal points IN the United states and Can
ala nt low est rates. Also through checks
H.. p PRICE, AgeI:, at Higgin-v,lle.
FRANkG ADAMS. Agent. at O,tessa.
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PIOUs STEPHEN.
IChicagO Tribune. renl,

TVHIS"SV TGp1.
The New York World accuses Mr..
Elkins of being "pious." Stephen, can
this thing he true ?
Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1884-09-06

THURsDAY-sRCOND DAY.
Model horse. amy age or sex, lst prem. F. W.
Small, 2d prem. l.. ID Bolton.
anrneSs horse. stallion und over lat prem
ihna. frIce. 2d prem +. Campbell.
Harness horse, stallion and under 4, l,t
prem II ID Ayres. I'll prem. NJ Bcnm.r
Harness stallion. and under 3, lst prem ii
Beamer.
Harness stallion. and under 9. lat prem. j
II Marrow, 2d prem. Wilkerson.
Jacks and over, lat prem. Eli. Kennedy I'd
prem. W. l.. Hancock
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ATTORNEYS.
xENOPHON RYLAND.

n ,ont,on to ali business entrusted to his care.
y viii practice in all the courts, except me fro-
Vfhate Court of Lafayette county. decZFl
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BANKS.

,s.s Incorporated 1870 under the
II hs'Ap'''''il laws oil the Stale Of Missouri
10. A. WILSON,
$40. WILSON, Cashier.
prraideHt.
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Jacks and under 3. lst prem. Dock Barnes
prem. j: Richardson. I'd prem: F. +, Bates Bates,
Short Horn COW and under 8. ISL prem j..
w Sparks, I'd prem. + T. Bates.
short-horn Ocow l and under2 j. Richard
son. let and I'll prem.
Short horn COW | and under, lst prem 3.
SteinneiZ. I'd prem. F. L. bates
ROutisters, mares 4 and over. lst prem. III.
Bcamer. 2d prem. Perry Johnson.
Roadsters, mare } and under 4. lst and I'll
Roadsters, mare 9 and under 3. lst prem. II.
d. Ayres. I'd prem. NJ. Beaner.
Mules, any sex. and over. lst prem Ed
Hoosier, ID prem. H q. Sydnor.
Mule any sex. and under 8, lat prem. Il. e.
Mules any sex, and under 2. lst prem. II c.
Mules any sex. under l year, lst prom. Ed.
johnson, 2d prem. Nathan Corder
Pair mules any age or sex, ist prem Edward
Hooser, 81 prem. II. q: SSdnor. -,
Jersey Bull and under 8. lst prem W. II.
Bruins.
.Ieraeys. breeding COW, and over. lat prem
PoIled Angus bull 3 and over. 1st prem. N.
Leonard.
PoIIe,i- Angus bull 2 and under 3. lat prem. N
Leonard. I'd prem. w. q. Nesle.
Polled Angus bull under year. 1st and I'd
Poiled Angus COW and over, 1st and I'd
prem. Leonard.
PoIled Angus COW. and under 3. lst prem.
P.llel Angus COW. l and under .. Let prem.
N. Leonard.
POlled Angus cow, under year, lat and 2d
prem. N Leonard.
Hcrefords. bull. and under 9. lst prem. G. d.
Hudson.
H.reiorls. bull under year. lat and 2i prem.
e. ID Hudson. I
IIcrefords COW and over. lst and III prem.
e u. Hudson.
Herefords. COW and under 3. lat prem. q. d.
Hudson.
FnEE FoR ALL rRor-s2OO. 800. $40.
Peters Bros enter "Lu,ige Huws' 3 0 ,
j. $. Sherwood enters Billy Patchen'.2
z Eynlt enters Roxy Lee';;.. , .
Time 1851 \, =: 35. 2:31s
nUNNiNG nACE-TwO NILE DASH.
WHISKY. ky.................. ..............A
Nellie O'Nenl. ............. ..3
Time, 4:O4.
FOUR YEAR OLD TRor.
George " uks
Lula Gates ....................... 1
Time. BIB; 3:Ol 8:02.
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4 ENnY C. WALLACE. VIZ. IL oH'.-
WALLACE & CHILES.
MEDICAL.
an. VAUGHAN, ID. ID. S

NHysiCIAN & SURGEON once oppoIo lpsare
cou1thouse, over Graham 4 Morrison s s'1rg Hsh
Residence: AZ '"e janl76-ly.
atreet. --
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GRAVES. WILLIAM AoLh
GRAVES g. AULL.

TrORNEYS-AT-LAw, Lexington, MO-.
"A will practice in the courts OF the siStP romnt
cisl Circuit. and United Sta,es onice in the
Lle rlehn Block. '
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-11-29
HerOism Of the King Of Italy.

cat Pordenone they rejoice, at Ma
piles they die. 90 to Naples" Such
was the telegraphic answer of the King
to the inhabitants of Pordenone begging
his presence at their races, and he
came. and was received with an ova-
ton. 1t is impossible to describe the
enthusiasm of these impulsive south
erners-prayers, blessings and tears
met his Majesty wherever he appeared,
and even the coldest heart can not 9TH
erwise than beat gratefully for tho
self sacrifice which has impelled him
to encounter so much danger and to
witness such deplorable distress. The
details are the same from day to day,
and to repeat them would be useless
and too painful.
There is, however, something that is
cheering in the midst of all this dark
ness, and that is the abnegation of the
King, of those who accompany him,
and of all the local authorities, and of
those whose duty it is to assist the suf
fering. The first visit of his majesty,
after a short repose, was to the Hos
pital of the Canocchia. Il wish to see
all, /" he said, when some one interposed
to prevent his mounting to the upper
story. The Archbishop, whose visits to
the hospital have been daily, was al
ready there to receive the King, and
accompany his Majesty in every di-
rectiOn.-LondOn Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-11-29
A Suicidal Epidemic.

What does it mean? Is there any
special cause to be assigned for the in
creased and increasing number of sui
cides9 Doubtless some. persons deny
the increase, asserting it always has
been so, but more publicity is given to
the cases now than ever before. We
are not speaking with such skeptics.
We wish they were right. We know
they are wrong.
Greater publicity is indeed given to
the cases now than formerly and this
tends to increase the number. News
papers with reports of suicides are very
wisely excluded from judiciously man
aged asylums for the insane, because
the suggestion tends to create passion
to 90 and do likewise. There is sense
in which every suicide is out of his
right mind. and when reason is par
tally dethroned and strong emotion
dominates the mind. the fact that one
has found way out OF the world un-
doubtedly encourages another to fol-
low. 1t is not wholesome to society to
publish the details of suicides. If the
fact must be mentioned as part of the
history of the times we live in, let it be
with the least possible coloring and
with strong condemnation. 1t is a great
sin, great crime and cowardly act
if the victim be sane when the deed is
done.
Where the suicide is intelligent and
moral, the act is almost always the re-
suit of pecuniary or domestic troubles.
Except those instances in which intem-
perance was the impelling demon. the
cause of suicidal despair may be largely
found in these two quarters. And he
must read the journals of the day very
carelessly who does not see that the
habits of business and the features of
domestic life are loose to a degree hith-
ertO unattained. We are passing
through troubled waters in social and
business concerns The foundations
are shaken. We have sown to the wind,
we are now reaping the whirlwind.
The moral epidemic is fierce and spread
ing, and we have not seen the worst
yet. There is vast amount of wrong
doing unrevealed. Much of it may not
be. But we shall hear from time to
time that mems hearts fail them be-
cause OF fear, and rather than bear the
ills that are, they fly into the dark, per-
chance to hide themselves from an i'm
pending calamity.
A sound mind in sound body is a
great good, and he who has it with a
clear conscience will wait Gods time
to leave this beautiful world.-N. y.
Observer.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-11-29
COVNGTON ST. TAMMANY PARISH, La NOVEMBER 20, 1854.

face. With n terrible shrek that woke
leaped into the pool and. grasping the
form of her murdered lover, both went
down together. The waters rippled
and swelled moment and then all was
peace and calm again.
1.-The next day the old father, re-
covered from his drunken madness,
went to look for his daughter.
I'm the afternoon some negroes
found him lying flat upon the ground.
stone dead, his eyes wide open, gazing
dreadfully into the pool.
'The bodies of the lovers were never
found. 1t was supposed that some un
dercurrent carried them far away.
I'm one week 4 marvellous change
took place in this pool and its sur
roundings. The flowers all died, the
waters took on an inky blackness, the
trees interlaced their branches so that
no light of sun or moon could enter and
all life fled, whether of insect, beast,
bird or fish.
1.-The place became most desolate and
forlorn, and the negroes avoided it as
they would a graveyard"
THE SEQUEL.
He paused and relighted his pipe.
"That is a very nice yarn" | said;
"but you don't expect me to believe it.
do you?"
20. no." he replied. II didn't
myself when it was told to me. but "a
you wanted to hear it thought would
spin it out for you" Lire Oaks
(Fla.) Cor. PHILADELPHIA Times.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-11-29
A New Volcano.

On the 26th of July the lighthouse
keeper at Cape ReykjaneS, the south
west point of Iceland, on scanning the
sea with his glass, saw what he at first
took for very large ship, but with a
closer inspection showed to be a new
island. 1t had the form of a rounded
flattened cone, was of considerable size,
and lay, according to his estimate,
about fourteen miles northwest of the
volcanic island Eldey or the Mealsack
(Melskken), which lies eight miles oil
Reykjanes to the southwest. Several
earthquake shocks had been felt during
the preceding days, and they have since
occurred at intervals, but no other vol
canic manifestations heralded or at
tended the rise of the island. Owing
to the danger of approaching the island
in an open boat, no one has yet at
tempted to land on it. The light-keeper
has observed it from day to day when
not prevented by foggy weather, and
reports no change in its appearance,
save that large part of one side of the
cone appears to have slipped or fallen
down into the sea.
From time to time since the COLOMBIA
ton of Iceland volcanic islands have
sprung up out of the waves in the neigh
borhood of Reykjanes only to disappear
again after brief period. In the end
of last century an island arose at or
near the same place as the present one
occupies. and was taken possession of
by the Danes, under the name of Nye
New Island); but as it consisted only
OF loose volcanic ash and pumice. the
action of the waves speedily broke it
down; and after little more than q
month it disappeared. st. James Ga
1pffp
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-11-29
Origin Of a PetticOat.

1t was at about the same date 1s55-
56) that our gracious queen set the
fashion of wearing a scarlet under-pet-
ticoat, an idea obtained from the milk
maids at Balmoral. 1t is said that the
late Prince Consort, in admiring the
effect of the red petticoat in the land
scape, suggested that her majesty
should adopt one also. This sealed the
fate of white petticoats in England.
They had been worn,- previously to
that, both in summer and winter, and.
of course, in order to make sufficient
warmth. several had to be put on. thus
adding to the weight to be carried at
the waist. Since the introduction of
the scarlet skirt the fashion of the col
ored petticoat has been maintained, and
the useful skirt lined with leather has
also been introduced for walking in the
country in muddy weather.-Leisnrs
Hour.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-11-29
The French and Their Clocks.

Watchmakers in dull quarters of
Paris derive good fixed incomes from
being employed to attend weekly to
the chimney clocks of prosperous bour-
geois. Punctuality is not French
virtue. and half an hours law is given
at private dinner parties to those in
vited. At public dinners the guests sit
down at about an hour after the time
specified in the cards of invitation.
Railway clocks on the fasades of ter
minuses are five minutes in advance OF
those inside. An appointment is
hardly ever punctually kept. Gam
BETA was one of the rare Frenchmen
who are always to the minute. But his
friend NJ. Spuller sometimes gives him.
self couple of hours margin. NJ.
Clemenceau piques himself on the OBJ
servance of social duties. and is in this
respect a pattern Radical; but when he
makes an appointment he is not vexed
if the person he is to meet is half an
hour late NJ Barthelemv St.-Hilare
and De Lesseps keep time by marine
watches purchased abroad. know a
deputy who piques himself on his OBJ
servance of social duties. One day
had an appointment with him for one
o'clock. He came after two. When l
ventured to reproach him with being
so late, his answer was: al am very
sorry YOU had to wait so long. but why
did you come so early?" The way in
France is for each of the parties who
have made a rendezvous unless IS
duellists-to give the other half an
hours margin, which being taken on
both sides makes in all an hour. This
system of addition is analogous to what
a Californian said of a big tree. 1t
grew SO high that it took two men and
a boy to see to the top.
The Prussians have been branded
since lS70-'71 with the name of Voleurs
de Pendules. They were especially
tempted by the pinchbeck-looking gal
vanoplastic articles which are usually
protected from the air by glass shades.
Time pieces of severe style, and in
real bronze, were not so often looted.
Prince Bismarck took fancy TO a dark
bronze clock, which stood in his sitting
room at Versailles on an elevated
bracket. 1t represented the Fall of
Lucifer The defeated archangel was
more Byronic than Miltonic. When
negotiating the preliminaries of peace
NJ. Theirs was placed at the table op-
posite this timepiece. He was nervous
and fatigued, and though not habitually
superstitious, felt very uncomfortable
whenever his eye caught the sardonic
visage. of Lucifer. Bismarck secretly
noticed his discomfort, and enjoyed it.
At last NJ. Theirs avowed that he could
no longer endure the irritation which
the sinister-looking figure cansed him.
and asked to be allowed to change
places with the Chancellor. He would
have been glad if Lucifer had been
taken out of the room. The proprie-
tress of the house was asked by Bis
marck to let him have the clock at a
valuation. He wished to keep it as a
souvenir of the event which took place
under its shadow. 1t was reluctantly
sold to him.-London Neus.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-11-29
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A Northern Texas editor complains
that the number of marriages is ridicu-
lously small when compared with the
time squandered in buggy-riding.
-..And SO you have been to Europe?
Did you 60 to Switzerland? and did you
see the glaciers?' Mrs. Shoddy-O,
YES, we saw mechanics of all kinds;
but then. you know. l don't take any
interest in such vulgar persons-Cht-
eaqo Tribune.
Waiter r-..What will you have,
Miss?" Customer docking over the
restaurant bill of fare) Permit me tn
cogitate. In the correlation of forces it
is a recognized property of atomic"
Waiter (shouts across the hall to head
server)-..Baked beans for one. ~
Philadelphia Cal.
Mamma. is it wrong to say 1T is
going to thunder?' "Why, of course
not, Eddie. Why do you ask such q
question:" 'Cause yesterday pa said
if You were going to thunder he
prssS.
Mamma" said the small boy,
..that young man that comes to see
Edith is awful funny" '.Why, child.'
"Because he puts his watch in water.
"Nonsense." "Yes he does. cause 1
heard him telling another man down
the street this afternoon that he couldn't
90 with him cause he had to 60 and
put his watch in soak. ."-Bosto" Post.
"A Happy Clam
am a gay contented clam,
Yes am!
will open my mouth and smile,
For while,
For the fat and juicy oyster
Is now dragged from out his cloister
BY the rude and reckless holster,
Full Of guile.
N Y journal.
When a Cape Cod landlord told a
Boston man that the people of Boston
didn't know what a blue fish was. and
was met bv the answer: 80. yes, we
do: it is the temnodon saltator. an
acanthoptergian of the family of seom-
BRIDE he Just went and laid down on
the sofa and dreamed of death and
desolation. Rochester Herald.
She was young, and sweet, and
poetic, and he was young and mis-
chievous. They were sitting out on the
yeranda in the moonlight, and she
grew ethereal 30, how / love to sit
out here in the moonlight" she cooed.
..to be famed by the languorous per-
fumes of the roses, and to be kissed by
the soft airs from the South Then
he kissed her and she grew indignant
"How dare you?" she almost sobbed:
..Why. I'm soft heir from the South.
he replied contritely. She didn't say
anything when hs kissed her again. :.
Boston los!.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-11-29
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The finest church organs in Europe
are made at Turin, Italy.
The University of Mississippi is
free to all the world, and to both sexes
Some of the Atlanta (Ga.) churches
are using chairs for seats instead OF the
old-time benches or pews.
The late Francis b. Hayes. of Lex
ington, Mass, in willing away SS,O0o,-
900 or more, left $4,000 each to Har-
ward and Dartmouth Colleges and Ber-
wick Acadamy.-Boston Post.
-Rey. ID. Nj. Bates says: cit has
been estimated that the astonishing
sum of Sl5l, ,752, 900 is annually ex-
pended in China in the observance of
ancestral worship, and it is important
that educational institutions be sus-
tanned in our missions in China. that
the mist of ignorance and superstition
may be dispelled."
Hon. w. T. Welcker, California's
State Superintendent of Public Schools.
has decided that Chinese children can
not become pupils of the public schools.
public education being intended, under
the constitution of the State. only for
those who can become citizens. There
are l, 800 Chinese children in San FraA-
cisco.
-Left-handed penmanship is now
taught in a number of American
schools. The method of instruction is
to make the pupil write his name in
pencil and then 90 over it with a pen
held in the left hand. After doing this
for some time the writer is able to write
his signature without the aid of penciled
copy. This is kept up until sufficient
degree of proficiency is obtained.-Cat-
cdgo Times.
DIR. Marcus ID. Buell., in lions
Herald, illustrates in an opening sem
tence the truthfulness of the following:
"Commend me to an audience of
preachers. Critical they certainly are.
knowing circumlocution, gush and
logical fog afar. but none are keener in
catching the good points of discourse,
none more Gospel hungry, and none
kindlier in their criticisms"
Professor William Wagner has
made another handsome addition to
his endowment of the s.Wagner Free
Institution of Science" in Philadelphia
He has constructed thirteen new and
uduusOiuc UWcliiIlg uoustS tt q SoSi VI
$l65,OO0, which have been turned over
to the trustees of the institute. The
houses are built in the best style. and
become a part of the permanent en-
dowment of the institute. This new
gift makes the total value of Professor
Wagner's gifts,to the institute more
than 5000, 600.
Twenty wears ago the Harvey group
of islands in the Pacific, were of little
importance to commerce. and tho
natives were in barbarous state. To-
day the control of the trade of the
islands is an object of keen competi-
ton to traders, and the people are well
dressed, in a civilized manner, and
have sewing machines and European
dishes in their houses. and watches,
chains, lace, embroidery, etc., about
their persons. They attribute all their
prosperity to the introduction of the
Gospel.-Baptist Missionary Magazine.