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, 1884-01-29
Frances Four Political Factions.

Paris Cor. Louisville Courier-JournaL.l
The four different political factions OF this
country will be difficult, nay, almost impos-
sible, to unite, for each is violent and rooted
In its ideas, and If change does come 1t will
strain the very heart strings of France, as
her political tempests have done before, leav-
ing her sorely wounded; but with the wonder
full vitality and recuperation which seems to
belong to her more than any power on earth,
she would soon regain her footing and be the
gay, brilliant nation she has always been.
There are the Legitimists, remnants of what
was best in the feudal system, with lofty,
noble minds and n keen sense of "noblesse
oblige," believers in the divine rights OF the
Bourbon line to reign in France. with poetic,
graceful chivalry and devotion to the MEM
DRY of their late King Henry ", a patriot
who refused n crown for fear of involving
his beloved "patrie' in civil war. Truly q
royal gentleman.
There are the partisans of the Orleans
branch, who revere tho memory Of Louis
Philippe and esteem tho Comic de Paris, not
only because he is their chief, but because,
should he ever come to the throne, letters.
arts, religion and morals would reign by his
side in France. | know those who know him
well, and hear that his private character Inns
the gentle nobleness which his face indicates;
thai he is a model husband and a good father.
Good traits these to make the foundation for
n good king. l have been promised the honor
Of u presentation to him, after which | will
give you my personal observation.
The B~onapar.ist faction is more numerous
than | supposed, and there are even enemies
Of "Plon Plon" who think him very clever. l
think the manifesto which he published last
winter was anything but a proof OF the ex-
tstence in his bonnet OF the "white feather"
for which he is accredited here. But | AXE
less interest in the Bonapartist cause now,
my romantic sympathy dying with the young
Louis Napoleon.
Among the Republicans there are many
stalwart men. such as 100 years ago the
pioneers OF our new nation were, who would
give all the world holds dear to them for the
sake OF their political principle-men TO con-
quer or die; but unhappily not having on
their banner, as we had, the glorious motto,
AIN God we trust" and for that very reason
falling in much that we achieved. How sad
for France that she has not produced more
Calvins and fewer Voltairesl
, 1884-01-29

lSlhllut III NhlChkO lIlDunc.l
1t was at a dinner, mainly of railroad men,
recently where everybody was called on for
n speech. Mr.. Simon Stevens, late president
Of the Tehuantepec Railway and Canal COM
pany, responded humorously, and apropos of
a legal yarn that had just been related told
the following as a true story:
When / lived down in Pennsylvania thirty
odd years ago l knew James Buchanan pretty
we'll. 1t was years before he wa president;
he was merely a prominent lawyer who
practiced in the courts of the county. One
day he asked three or four of his rich clients
home with him to dinner, among them
Henry Musselman, a thriving German
farmer from the next town. Judge
Hopkins, l think, was Mt the table that
day, too. 1t was a handsome table; the fine
damask tablecloth reached nearly TO the
floor. They had all been helped to turkey,
sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and the
trimmings, and were preparing to assault tho
repast when Musselman, who had set his
plate very close to the edge of the table, up
set it, hot gravy and nl,, into his lap. He
sprang up in modification and anguish and
exclaimed: ''Mein Cot m Himmell L wish
! vos in Hellum minutor' and made for tbs
door, mopping his hot face with his gravy
soaked napkin and calculating in broken
fashion. In another instant there was a gqn-
eral start of dismay around the table, as If
they felt the foundations of the earth giving
way. For Musselman, who came in town on
horseback, had accidentally hooked his spun
firmly into the tahlecloth as he turned, and
MS he rushed out tho door he dragged the
whole dinner to the floor with u jerk When
buchanan had another dinner cooked and
Musselmnn tried to apologize, he said Nc
wished he Understood seventeen languages.
, 1884-01-29
WHAT SHE SAID AND WHAT SHE DID.


[Harper's Bazaar.
u never will marry" she said-she said
"Unless a young mar that just suits me l
find;
Taller than ! by at least half a head
He surely must be, with q face bright and
kind;
His eyes ia prefer of a violet blue,
His hair a light brown or a very warm
gold; ~
he must sing-a fine tenor-and dance nicely
too,
And tell as good stories as ever were told.
No smoking allowed, for the weed l detest,
And of course no remarks that are rude or
ill-bred;
And I'd like him to always be stylishly
dressed,
The young man l marry she said-shc
said.
And then tho maid married-she did, shO
did
A three-score old fellow much shorter than
she,
who wore a short wig that but awkwardly
hid
A patio that no balder could possibly be;
And his voice was a creak, and he danced
like n bear,
And his nose it wa red, aud dull gray was
his eyes,
And he'd sit by the hour aud stupidity stare,
And lie never said anything witty or wise,
Aud he smoked a clay pins, and from morn.
ing till night
In his mouth held of strongest tobacco a
quid;
And he d~ressod-but enough, no had tive
millions, quite,
And she married him gladly-she did, shl
did.
, 1884-01-29
The Purchase OF Melbourne. AUS


rNelbourne Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. !
Recently in the public library-a magnif-
cent institution-I inspected two formal le-
gal deeds by which eight chiefs conveyed to
John Batman, the civilian Penn" of Vic
toria, GOO. 900 acres more or less" of land in
consideration of 40 pairs of blankets, 30
t~omahawks, 100 knives, so pairs Of scissors, 80
looking-glnsses 200 handkerchiefs 100 pounds
of flour. and six shirts, for 500, 900 acres of
tract, and for the other, of 100, 900 acres, 40
pairs of blankets, 30 knives, l2 tomahawks,
10 ooking-glass 12 pairs of scissors, so
~handkerchiefs IL red shirts, 4 flannel jack
cts, 4 suits of clothes, so pounds of -four" 1t
was added that a certain number OF similar
articles were to be given annually as a rental
such as would amount to 81 600, and finally
it is said to be dated according to the
Christian era, this 9th day of june, 1885,"
That was the year in which Melbourne was
founded. Not yet fifty years old and already
the ninth city of the British empire in popu-
lationi Batman was a fairly good man, but
his ideas in the way of buying land were too
large in proportion to his IDEAS of paying for
it. His purchase was not much respected
worried to death by litigation, he died four
wears after his contract with the chiefs. His
descendants are poor, toiling people. His
story ought to be written on a monument, in
order tha they who go forth to New Guinea
and other regions may remember that there is
an ambition that o'erleaps its ~"sell,n or sad
die, and falls on the other side. At the same
time there is n respectable fact beneath this
new agitation for annexing the adjacent
islands; it is that the Australians are growing
a Monroe destrine and that they can rest il
on much the same grounds as our Monroe
doctrine rests on.
, 1884-01-29
CIVILIZATIONS EXTREMES.
Three Homeless waira on II One
Hand and aDude on the Other.

lFt" 1OIh plln.l
Three little waits outcasts in n great city
-huddled together over an iron grating in
Park row carly on New Years morning, and
talked softly as the steam filtered through
the grating from the cellar and impaired to
them a degree Of humid warmth. They were
siclly looking children. The oldest, a boy of
perhaps 2 years, wore his eyes at right
angles TO each other, had a broken nose, red
hair, and we'll developed ears. His attire
was of the conventional Fourth ward fashion
clipped paternal trousers, calico shirt, bare
feet, and the crown of an old hat. The other
two little ones were characterized by dirt and
sorrow.
"Dere comes a g%illie," said the oldest boy,
glowering sayagely at a youth who was pick
ing his way daintily across the street. Lies
pulverize the darlin', will yezf'
The others sprang from the grating as
though 1t had suddenly become red hot, ran
to the gutter. and seized handouts OF New
York's peculiar combination OF snow md
mud, and scrambled back to the grating
again. TIL youth, who was deliberately
dressed and very gentle looking, stamped his
feet carefully when he came TO the sidewalk,
and, with a shudder at the appearance OF
his boots, passed on toward tho bridge. A
moment later a huge chunk Of snow and mud
hit the back of his hat and sent IL spinning
oNti TIT hhltNhAhs bH lhlAgl WIN u
flushed face aud tightly grasped stick, but
saw no one but the three homeless waits
clustered in pitiful sympathy on the graf.
ing. He looked everywhere. His head
wngsed and his lips moved rapidly,
but he could not fix his suspicious. He
stopped down TO pick up his hat a fusil,
lade OF mud and snow struck him, and he
wheeled about again. Tn peanut vender
grinned and the horse-car drivers jeered, but
the boys still looked sorrowful and chilled.
The unfortunate caller Strengthened himself
up and proceeded on his way with many
backward Chances and an expression that
meant death TO his tormentors.
He arrived at Franklin's statue woebegone
and bcdraZgled, and was hurrying on wher
another missile-this time from tho west
struck tho side Of his head aud obliterated til,
youthful bloom Of his cheek. He whirleC
around. The three boys had gone from tn,
grating, and he glanced up and down the
street On the platform OF a bobtail cal
that was going up town at a high rata Of
speed were clustered the waits, but their
erstwhile sorrowful faces were frightened by
Joyous smiles, and they raised their voices al
the bobtail swung into Centre street an,
shouted the glad tidings OF u happy New
Year.
, 1884-01-29
Anglomania in Names OF Hotels and
IIBInaea

t"Caspar's" Letter in Detroit Free Press.
By the way, the Anglomania epidemic
keeps right on. l notice that The Free Press
in a late alluslon to it mentions the names of
some New York hotels by way of illustration.
Only four are named, though, while the list
could be made quite long. Besides the Wind
sor, the Westminster, etc, we have the st.
James, the Victoria, the Wellington, the
Buckingham, the Imperial and many more
with names which tell the same story. In
deed if the names of the hotels were the guide,
New York might as readily be taken for an
English city as an American. And the nam
ing of the French flats, too-here's the most
ridiculous incongruity Of all Builders put
up great barracks which they called French
hats, and then give them English names.
They are not doing quite so much now, be-
cause the names are giving out, but the up
per part of the city is dotted all over with
flats bearing foreign names, as inappropriate
in New York as American Indian names
would be In England.
A wild sort of satire on the whole sill Y
business may be seen in the lower part of the
Bowery, where a large number Of 'divesn
and other resorts Of the baser clements duplt-
cate the heightened English names given to
| hotels and flats. The only New York theatre
with a distinctively English name, the Wind
sor, was in the Bowery, and the worst of the
Bowery, at that. 1t would be there still if a
big fire had not swept it away a few weeks
ago.
Another symptom of the Anglomania dis.
ease is seen in the names given TO places.
Along the Hudson, for instance, we have
Washington Hudson, IrvingUon-on- Hudson,
Fishkill-on-H Hudson, Bath-on-Hudson, New
burg-on-Hudson, and so on all the way from
New York to Albany. 'On-Hudson,n you
see, suggests the English "On-Thames." and
gives a sort of aristocratic flavor. 1t may
be some time before the disease runs its
course. 1t is not really dangerous to life,
but its effect in producing imbecility is SO
serious that an increase in the number Of
idiot asylums may soon be necessary.
, 1884-01-29
THE TALL BRAKEMAN MUST 60,
For the AItItudinous Man OF the
Wheel Is the Victim OF Peculiar


[St. Louis Globe Democrat
mo; we are not hiring any tall brakemen
now. Might give you a place in some other
department, but not at the brakes. Tall
brakemen are not bad things TO have when
one goes in for style, but they are too ex-
pensive for this road"
That's the answer that will be given to the
next siK-footer from the country who wants
10 go braking on the great cannon-ball route.
The Wabash legal department is alwats
teaching the other departments of the road
some new kink in the way of handling cars,
and now the fiat has been issued, -The tall
brakeman must go.n
The altitudinous man of the wheel Is the
victim Of peculiar circumstances. 1t was in
the summer of 1882 that a man named Brad
ley was loading logs in n hat-car on a side
track at Kelly's station, in Wabash county,
Ind A freight came along with one car
about a foot higher than freight-cars usually
are. On the centre roof-board of this car
stood a gay md festive brakeman six feet
three inches high, being nine inches higher
than the average knight of the wheel
Across the track were some telegraph wires,
the lowest OF which hung about a foot lower
than such wires usually do. On this p%articu-
lar occasion the law of general average went
into temporary retirement
The lew telegraph wire caught the tall
brakeman under the chin. the brakeman
didn't give way, but the insulator ON the
cross-tree of the first telegraph pole did, and
so did several other non-conductors. In a
few seconds there was a large amount of
loose telegraph wire following the train, and
Mr.. Bradley being then and there engaged in
the laudable labor of loading logs, was en-
tangled in the wiry mesh, which pulled him
under the wheels of the train, so that he was
compelled to close the circuit of his days. He
didn't leave any widow, but he left seven
small children, mostly twins, and now the
Wabash legal department is studying to see
how far proof Of a wide variation from the
law of averages will help them to defend a
| IN mn III.
, 1884-01-29

sumes hat all people grow old at the same
pace Notoriously this Is untrue. Women
feel the injustice of this calendar, especially
single women No wonder, therefore, that
they refuse to tell how many years they have
been in the world, for our habit is TO reckon
age by years. For this reason a woman who
knows that she is only % does
not like to confess that she has had forty
birthdays, not because she is ashamed of her
real age, but because of the falseness of reck-
oning age by the artificial periods we have
adopted Some people are old at 20, others
are young at 60. Some people ~livsthree
years in one, and some come to old age before
twoscore. Others live and grow old slowly.
and it is a mere misrepresentation to say of
them that thew are 50 years old, as we must
say in our artificial method. 1t is absurd to
reduce life to a m~athematica statement
, 1884-01-29
WOMEN AS wAGE-woRKERa
Eject OF Their Competition IN tho
Labor Market of Chicago.
Chicago News


There are 81, 700 women employed in va
rious occupations in Chicago said Joe
Greenhut, tenement Inspector and labor stat
i~stician, yesterday, "and their influence Is
having a most disastrous effect upon the Ia
Dor market. In almost every case they take
places that would otherwise be filed by mon,
and the effect is a ruinous competition among
wa~ge-workers.n
What trades do women chiefly followf'
making r~eady-made clothing occupies
$500 women; cloak-making, $500; mems
furnishing goods, $500; saleswomenin stores,
800; restaurants and hotels, $500; cigar and
tobacco manufacturers, 500; millinery, 1900;
and almost every occupation has its quota
These women work for one-half the wages
men would accept, and are rapidly invading
such other fields as bookkeeping, stenography
and telegraphy. Women work for whatever
they can get, and as they are not capable of
forming t~rndeSunions, they continually cut
each others Threats. Nearly one-half of the
w~orkingwomen of Chicago are out of work to-
day, many having been discharged after the
holiday work was done"
"But why can't women get the same wages
as menr'
"Chieny because they work only to support
themselves, always hope to marry and relieve
themselves OF the necessity of working, and
they never form tra~des-unions Under these
conditions they have no opportunity or in
centive for organized effort to better their
condition, and the only effect of their pres
ence is to cut down the wages of their male
co workers. When labor-saving machinery
is introduced the male operatives always de
mand that they shall receive, in the form of
increased wages, a share of the enlarged
profits, but the women work on at the same
old price, and the employer reaps all the ben
eft At present there are more men than
women in Chicago, and consequently the evil
results Of female competition with men is not
as clearly seen as 1t is in some eastern cities,
where tho proportion Of men to women is
rayayaad
, 1884-01-29

o
al know a good joke on u certain Ohio con
gresham, said a Buckeye editor, at colum.
bus. "For heavens sake don't say l told You,
but when he was running for congress n year
ngo last fall no called me up by telephone
one day, when a conversation like this fol.
lowed.
@'say, l am just going away on tho train i
must make some expression on the tariff
write up n nice Interview with me and print
IL to-day without fail
"'But, my dear sir, dom know what to
write; / don't know anything about your
tariff views.'
"'Thats Just the devil Of IL: I haven't got
any-don't know anything about IT, You
know what is best; make me say it I'll stand
to it,
"'But,
Here's my tTain-byr
"Won, l wrote up ablg interview with
him on the tariff, published It, and. by gosh.
it elected hint sas the very thing that did
the husinessH
, 1884-01-29
The Drama in Kansas City.

ISt. LOnls GIobe-Den1Ocfat
As we nave heretofore remarked, the
Shaksperean drama is caviar to the gem
ernln in Kansas City. Edwin Boot IS a de-
fusion, JOIN Mccullough is WEAKNESS, and
Mary Anderson is fatigue in that highly
cultured metropolis. We are glad to note,
however, that there is something in the
drama of the time that suits the Kansas
City lasts, and we infer this much from the
announcement that the Bandit King" az
performed by the Jesse James combination,
is now drawing immense audiences to
Coates opera house every night, As one OF
Kansas City's society beaus observed after
witnessing the first performance of this
thrilling production: at beats Hamlet u
Hellengone.n
, 1884-01-29
A Baltimore newspaper man has been CEN
victed OF libeling his mother-in-law.
. Iseiier- o~oncerning the soul.

IVtIulU uIN1SSJ IIONuIusI
Whilst the modern man appears to have
been losing his soul, or never to have found
out that he had one, the ancient Egyptians,
che Britons, the Hindoos, the Chaldeans, the
Gnostics, all held that men had seven souls
The Dakotas hold that man has four souls
One remains with the corpse; one stays in the
village; one passes into the air; and one as.
cends to the land of spirits. The Khonds OF
Orissa also recognize the four souls, or four
fold soul The Hebrew rabbine sometimes
recognize a triple soul. In the Druidic phi
losophy man is composed OF seven souls or
clements; earth, water, air, vapor, fire,
blossoms, and the wind of purposes oil
intellectual ghost-and is endowed with seven
senses. These are closely related to the seven
component parts of the soul i'll ~esoteric
Buddhism and in Egyptian psychology.
, 1884-01-29
ONE BACHELOR OF MANY.


M. B.. In Harper's MaEazine.l
There's one thing to the ladies ! plainly wish
TO say;
I'm a man of no pretensrs; Pm 80, il a day;
I'm neither gay nor ~amiable, Pm fussy, and
Pm plain;
But, girls, you needn't plot for me-all plot
ting Is in vain.
I never SEQ the brightest eyes, and all their
witchery
Is wasted ammunition, If Its aim is hurting
me;
1 never see tho rcddest lips Pm proof against
1 rather think I'm not the man for any wo.
mans wileS-
I can sew on my own buttons, my stockings
And woman's hands around my room arc not
what 1 intend;
l want no knitted, netted things no travelling
bags, no wraps,
No slippers and no comfortors, no painted
plaques, no caps.
/ buy the things that l require; so, ladies,
hear me say,
All such attentions spent on me are simply
thrown away;
So shake your curls and give your gifts, be-
wilder all you can,
But Just remember, if you please, that am
not the man.
I've heard there's twenty-one old maids
consider me their "fate,'
And clever widows five or six who wish with
ms TO mate;
There's pretty schoolgirls who insist l must
have had some loss,n
And say I'm 80 romantic when I'm only
tired or cross.
But, ladies, all attentions from this date l
hope will cease;
T only favor that l ask is to be left in
peace;
For consider one thing sure as anything can
be-
1 win not marry any girl, and nono shall
marry me.
That's just exactly what he said about a year
ago,
Now, II You could but sec his rooms, they arc
n perfect show
OF netted things, and knitted things, and
painted plaques and screens,
OF photographs Of famous men and BeAuty's
living queens:
While ON the hearthstone sits his wife-she's
sweet and good, 1 know
And II you tell him of the words he said a
year ago,
He answers you without a blush, "Oh, that's
the usual way;
No one believes II single word old bachelors
may say:
When the right angel comes along, they
marry any day
, 1884-01-29

Applications for rates TO clubs should
be made only 10 the office of the company In
New Orleans.
For further write clearly,
living full address. Make 20. Money riders
payable and address Registered Letters TO
NEW NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans, La.
Postal notes and ordinary letters by mall
or express (Rll sums of s5 and upwards by
express at our expense to
NJ. a. DAUPHIN, New Orleans, La.
or NJ. A. DAUPHIN, COZ Seventh ST., WASH
ington. DC.
, 1884-01-29
Commits ioners.

incorporated In 1868 for IS years by the Leg
islature for Educational and Charitable pur-
poses-with n capital OF 81 ,OO0, 000-to which a
reserve fund OF over $4,000 has since been
added.
BY an overwhelming popular vote its
franchise was made a part of the present
state Constitution adopted December I'd. A
ID. 1879.
The only Lottery euer voted on and endorsed
By The people Of any Slate.
1t never scales or postpones.
rs Grand Single Number Drawings take
place monthly.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN
A FORTUNE. Second Grand Drawing,
Glass b., at NEW ORLEANS. TURSD AY,
FEBRUARY II, lsSi-l65th Monthly Drawing.
CAPITAL PRIZE, $4,000.
100, 900 Tickets at Five Dollars Each.
fractions. in Fifths in proportion.
, 1884-01-29
The Democratic Leader.
Published Daily, Except Monday.
More widely Circulated thnn nnS
other Paper in the Territory.


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Address DEMOCRATtC LEADER,
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, 1884-01-29
Alpine Air.


Two scientific investigators, one Swiss and
the other French, have been Analysing the
Alpine air. They ascertained tina entirely
pure air is not found until an altitude is
reached of from 6,00U to $1,000 feet above
the level of the sea.
, 1884-01-29

Ayers S%arsaparilla wonderfully i'm
proves the complexion, and brings to
old and young the bloom of health. AS
a purifier Of the blood 1t has no equal.