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St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-02
Farming for Pleasure.

Many persons who are engaged in
farming for livelihood or as branch
Of business do not regard it as very
pleasurable occupation. In fact, they
complain OF their monotonous life and
of their lack of the means of enjoyment.
Many farmers make their plans to
spend the later years of their lives in
some town, where they can have more
to enjoy than they do on the farm.
Men who become rich in cities, how
ever, desire to retire to the country,
and very many of them do so. A large
proportion of the very wealthy men in
this city own and manage farms. Sew
eral of them are well versed in every
department of agriculture, fruit-grow-
growing and stock-raising. The like is
true of men of wealth in other cities in
the country. Farming is engaged
in as pastime by many peo-
Ele in Great Bgitain. Indeed, COM
plants are constantly being made in
the English papers by farmers that so
much land is being secured by persons
of large means, who desire to engage in
| different branches of husbandry simply
for pleasure. They purchase land at
prices that those who look upon it as a
safe investment for conducting farming
operations cannot afford to pay. They
also secure the best stock of all kinds,
not with view to profit, but as sources
of pleasure. The Englishman of wealth
and leisure takes more pleasure at his
country seat than in his London man
sion. He takes pleasure in being a good
farmer, skillful fruit-grower, and a
successful stock breeder. A large num-
Der of professional and business men in
New York and Philadelphia. manage
farms as means for recreation. They
spend money on them, not with view
Of getting returns in cash, but in happi-
ness. Lawyers, ministers, merchants.
and manufacturers spend considerable
Of their time in farming as q source of
/ pleasure.
Is there any other kind of business in
which men engage simply 'sfor the fun
Of the thing?'f Rich men do not en-
/ gage in mining, manufacturing, or trade
simply for pleasure. No one, perhaps,
ever heard of man who had an album
dance of this worlds goods engaged in
running train of cars, hammering at
sn anvil, tending a saw-mill, laying
brick or quarrying stone for pleasure.
They do rot think that they can obtain
any enjoyment in any of these occupa.
tons. They leave them to persons who
are obliged to engage in them for the
purpose OF supporting themselves and
their families. They engage in agri-
culture, horticulture and stock-raising
with the expectation Of having good
sime. and, from their own accounts, arc
seldom disappointed. = Chicago Times
St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-02
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

"A good grass run for pigs viii dc
more in the matter of keeping them well
up in growth than anything else Troy
Times.
Beef Cakes: Chop rare done roast
beef very fine; season with salt, pepper
and little chopped onion; mix, make
into small cakes and fry in beef drip
pings. N. 7. Times.
Horses at work will be gratifed il
they are allowed little green grass
once day. If not convenient to turn
on the grass cut it and feed, with a little
salt, in the ra:k.-DetroN Post.
Hardly anything in the line of flow
ers and green can be more beautiful
than tWo-yard coil of smilax,. perfect
in leaf. and graced with thousand
sweet white blooms of this growth.
The idea that sorrel denotes sour
condition of the soil, because the sorrel
leaf is itself acid, is an old notion long
since exploded. Lime and ashes have
been recommended TO correct this sup
posed aeidity. They will often prevent
the sorrel, but they do it by encourag-
ing the growth of clover, which, with a
GOOD catch, will usually keep down all
annual weeds. ALBANY journal
A farmer of Cass Township, Hunt
ington County, Pa, wanted to borrow "a
Gun from neighbor for the purpose OF
Killing some crows in his field of corn
which were eating the grain. His
neicbbor declined to loan the gun, for
he fhonoht the crows useful. In order
to satisfy his curiosity he shot one OF
them, opened its craw and found in it
twenty-one cut worms and four grains
of corn.
"A shying horse can not be consid-
cred safe horse, yet the habit IS gen.
orally considered of so small a conse-
ouence that it does not materially affect
the value of horse. There are but
few faults that driving horse can have
that are more liable to do mischief than
that of soaring and shying. Although
it NAV take some time time and trouble,
such habits should be broken up as
soon as poss;ble.-N. 7. Tribune.
The farmer can better afford to
raise potatoes for twenty-five cents per
bushel than to grow.wheat fer one dol
lar. Two hundred bushels per acre is
not large average yield. This would
give fifty dollars per acre. Fifteen
bushels is an average yield of an acre OF
wheat. The potato crop will require
little moro labor, but with the late i'm
proved machinery the cost of cult,
waiting and harvesting an acre of pota-
toes has been very much reduced. :
Chicago Tribune.
A common fruit and spice cake is
made of one cupful of butter, two cup,
fuls of sugar; beat these to a cream
then add two well-beaten eggs, the
whites and yelks beaten together, q
large handful of currants, a quarter oil
a pound of citron cut in small bits, one
tea-spoonful each of grated nutmeg, Gin
namon and cloves, half cupful of sou1
milk with quarter of tea-spoonful Of
soda dissolved in it and three cupfuls O
-four. This cake requires nearly an
hour for baking in q moderate oven. :
Exchange.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-02
Had a Long Memory.

..WeIl, john said old man Jordan
to his young friend, ''you have just been
married, ! hear?'
Eyes, sir" he answered, with a
spring-morning smile, ''just month
ago, and want you to go up to dinner
with me to-day"
''Have you got cook?'
mo"
..Well, my boy, s'pose we go to a res
taurant this time. You must remem-
Der had young wife once myself. -
Merchant IrGUetter.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-02

One day recently Henry Rinsland,
Of Kingston, N. Y, killed sheep that
had 8 calf's head and legs. The mon
strosity weighed one hundred and sew
enty-tWo pounds. Part of its hide was
wool and the other part hair. 1t also
had 10 ears. Troy Times.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-02

p. T. Barnum proves to be the per-
son who last year quietly gave $780,
TO Tufts College for museum of natur
u historY.-M 7. Tribune
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
LONG coURTsHIP ENDED.
what the Earthquake Did for n Low
Ing Young Couple.
New York Star Man About Town.


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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
Peoria Transcript


Up the Platte river, in Nebraska, as You
may have heard, it blows. And a blow" in
Nebraska is different from what it is in
Illinois. The ordinary summer breeze of
Nebraska would make an lllinoSan hunt his
cyclone cellar, and what Nebraska man
calls blow is a widely different sort of ar
rangement. Cyclones are not common in
the great treeless state this year. We
We're out there few days since, and
learned that they did not average more than
three a week. Occasionally they have two
in one day, but not very often.
The Platte river has two channels When
the wind is in the south it fills one; when in
formed 10y an old native-one who came
through with the forty miners that the Platte
sometimes overfiows its banks and green
people think 1t has been raining above, when
il is simply the wind blowing up s:rram; and
again, it goes almost entirely dry when the
wind is down stream, All the stories of fish
showers are true, aud they are all blown ont
of the P,atte. People 90 around in the even.
ing regularly, looking to see whether the
cables that hold the houses To- the ground are
all secure, and it i, nothing for them to sleep
for hours with the house two or three feet
above the ground The, have perfect con-
tempt in that country tor cyclone caves or
cellars and people WHO have become uqrus-
toned 10 the wiuj -1N they wouldn't Give IA
snap for hrrrl' That couldn't blow away u
hole in tine ground.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
So Ways the world.

y
Junk dealer TO pin and needle vcndGY)-
There's that jimmy gone and married Il Jail
hurrd, and her taythcrS HAT mad he won't
spake to atthcr Of thin Sure Nhoy should he
moind: says |. Thin laupclS is nearly jail
burrlS thimSelvcs. lis litt!c differ ! can SET
bctNauc en-.
Footman TO houscmaidl-Now think of a
junk-dcaler h'obie ting because his dart ~.
been and married n aupcr. Its mall IN tie
mud To ether they hare, thinks |.
Shop--irl TO clorli-Ihp airs the srrvanti
give Themselves. Jane Bryan won't look al
that fine .iunli-dcalrr and he's handsum,
fellow, too, and earns rs much as She does
He owns his shop at amy rate, and she work,
for a mistress; he's plenty good enough loI
her. am sure.
Petty Trade>man rcadm- his papcr-Tut
tut what foolish pride is crccpr- in anon.
the lower CLASSES Here is case of gir
di~owncd by her family Lccat>c sine marIec
Il coachmun And h was only a shop-gir
serving customers at Macys, Wen, we'll
what is the world coming to!
Eminent lawyer to iriendJ Now, already
the higutry of some people is perfectly as
toniehng. Brown is in business for himself
in small way, after havn. been clerk fol
twenty years. And now he has actually re-
fuses to give his daughter to young Smith,
his book-keeper Says his position units him
to look at her. Ambition will be the ruin
of this country
Young English Baronet TO ttp-Aw,
yahs, blieve professional men do object Il
their daughters mawwying men in business
Cahnt see why m'self. If ye don't b'long tC
the nobility, y know, we blong to the mid
die cahsses, and | shd fahncy it wouldn't
make much dflewence who she mahwied
pwovided it wasn't in the lower clahsses.
Princess of royal blood to another princess
of royal bloodl-I really don't see why Lady
Hauteur should object to her sons marrying
that pretty American girl. To be sure she is
a commoner, but he is only baronet; moi
even a lord. Now it was quite another thing
when the Princess Louise married a subject
That shocked me, will confess and yet I'm
not so very conservative.
Chorus of angels in Heaven-Lord, all mer
are equal in Thy sight. How long, o Lord
how long before pride, ambition, and envy
vanish from the earth! Poor sinners ALL for
give them, Lord, and send us to minister t.
them, We beseech Thee.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24

II has often aud truly been said that CAPT
tai is a delicate thing, frightened at the
slightest runur, and tucked away AT the first
note of disaster The case was eXempliIied
again the other day when an indianapolis
man was about to put $50, GOO into hogs His
son came into the Office with the announce
ment that ST. Louis cooper-shop had
busted.
"Ah! coopershop eh9 Coopers make bar
rels, and barrels and pork go together. |
think III wait a little"
"But that was a cooper-shop which made
only flour barrels" protested the man wait
ing for the papers 10 be signed.
"Yes, that may be, and while l can't ex-
Rctly see what flour barrels and hogs have to
do with each other, I'll hold this matter open
for few days. There's drop in the price
Of bristles in there somewhere, anyhow"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
Alexandria, Virginia.
ben: Perley Poore.l


Alexandria, which was within the original
ten miles square which constituted the Dis
trict of Columbia, made vigorous attempt
in 1916 to be restored to the jurisdiction OF
the state of Virginia. Being quite out of
the atmosphere of Washington, she derived
no advantage from her connection with the
government Of the United States, while her
citizens were deprived of the privilege of
voting for their rulers and cut off from those
comforting, maternal attentions which are
derivabe from state legislature, congress
being so large and so digntied as to overlook
so small place as Alexandria, that could
give no votes, while immense attention must
be paid TO the buncOmbe, of the west and the
south that had votes to beStow upon presi-
dental and congressional candidates. Alex
andria had pctitioned the legislature of Nir-
ginia to take her back, and the legislature,
like n kind parent, made arrangements, so
soon n congress, should pronounce the
sentence Of divorce, TO receive back her
daughter, stripped Of much that size possessed
when She left her maternal home.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
[Danbury News.l

A woman is far more sensitive than n man.
She has finer feelings and a more delicate
mind. There are a very few men who re-
allie this and in consequence woman is made
to endure much unnecessary suffering. One
of our merchants was going 10 church with
his wife ON Sunday morning, when she sud
denly stopped and put her hand to her head.
"Whnt'S the natter" he asked, startled by
the look on her face. "Oh, | have got ON my
brown hat Eth" CALCULATED the aStoni,hed
man. She burst into tears. "What, Martha,
what l.. the matter with Yru" he demanded
"Don't You sre what j, tho matter| she re-
returned in sobbnc voice. I've got ON my
brown hat with my striped silk Oh, what
Will people say"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24

Ia' nNtI lIlt'S.
Gen II +. ~clles the Colorado commits
homer to &c New Orleans exposition. was
|elling some friends "A few day, ago about his
FIRST glimpse OF mountain lion. He said:
tWe were living up in the mountain, and had
quite herd of COWS, among them one, an
|bld COW, who Wore a bell. The COWS had
been missing for several days, and the boys
fvere ont searching, and one afternoon |
Thought | would try what | could do, SO |
mountei pony and rode quite n distance,
when thought heard the old cows bell.
dismounted and started to prowl around
among the rocks and bushes.
at had been training during the early part
of the afternoon, and had an umbrella.
tied the pony to a tree and started. After
had gone a short distance | caught a
glimpse of the cows. As | started toward
them, suddenly they lifted their heads,
crooked their tails, and started away on
dead run. | was just wondering what
frightened them, when | heard a rustlng in
the bushes behind me.
II turned around, and there not ten feet
away, was IA big mountain lion standing on "a
rock staring at me. | assure you | never
felt so bushlul in all my life / hadn't gun
or even a jaCk-knife, and there was that
beast staring and getting ready fol a SPRING
All at once ! thought of my umbrella, and
as quick rs thought | raised that much-b Dor
rOwed article, and spread it Iignt IN Mr..
Lions face. He didn't stop to examine but
made one great jump clear acro>, gorge.
and when be lighted gave yell that hook
the hills
81 saw nc more of him. When got homo
the cows Vur" llcrc.'
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
rHE SCIENCE OF pHYslooNoMY
A. Practiccd by the Hotel Employees
at Saratoga.
r"Uncle Bill" in Chicago Herald.

I"Uncle Billy in Chicago Herald.l
The science of phvsiognomy is practiced at
the hotel here which does not intend n
admit Jews. Employees are expected to he ex-
pert in detecting Judaism in faces. Nomen-
claturc is also made n special study. How
ever, the proficiency is not SO great in every
case as to save the establishment from
lsraelitish invasion. A man with neither the
nose nor name of Jew may become
guest. On the other hand, Christian
may bc mistaken for "A jew under
some circumstances There is n
summer resident mere who by nasal brelkage
has been made to re emble member of the
chosen people, though he is a born and bred
Yankee from Boston. His daughter was
taken i'll, and he FASTENED to the hotel in
question to call DR.. Bennett who was
boarding there. A doorman stopped him ON
the threshold with the que ,tion, Are you a
guest"
mo, but I'm going for a Doctor" was the
reply
II can't let You in
But I'm not jew, sir"
The guard scrutnizcd the suspicious nose
and refused to admit it. Then its owner took
it to tn" Office and submitte it to the clerk,
who reluctantly became convinced of the
truth, aud wrote nm order letting it in.
Florence, lhe actor, got n little fun ont Of
this auti-Jcwsh crusade His iuvial a @ has
IRISH lines in it, but no lncamont that could
he construed ae Jewish. He had read what
wrote last week about the situation. and it
came into his mind rs he walked up TO the
registry He wrote in the book: -. l-aac~,
New York; The clerk looked Mt the sigma
tulr in sudden alarm, and thea ga2'I earn
CStIV into the COmmedlan'S ANYTHING but
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
Good Tor ISurns.

IThlIadeIphla JaILI
Impecunious Young Doctor-!low sweet
the moonlight is to-night'
Fair Siren-Yes, but how warlh the air is.
/ was in hopes it would he cooler after the
sun went down, but no breeze has sprung
up. Ouch! Don't press my hand that way,
/ burned it to-day.
"Poor little hand! You should have put
soda water on it, Soda is very good foI
burns
"Then, Of course, soda water is good fol
heat, isn't III"
lie led the way to a drug store
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
= Sew Way to Buy I,orso.

The Turf, Field and Farm says Tat pre-
vious to ,he ,l0,OOO race at Iiart' 81. d. d.
Ripley requested Charles II. Haluogd to
put price ou the gray gelding, lhI Inomp-
son, who Wa entered for the purse and was
regarded a. having good chance 10 win.
Mr. Raymond declined, but said that he
would entertain an offer Mr. Ripley re
marked IN an olI-hand way, 81 will give you
double what you paid David Bonner for his
lalf interest in the horse "Say double and
$4,000 additional, aud the horse is yours"
mo, but | will make it $1,000. Mr.. Ray
mOnd reflected moment and then re-
marked, 81 will take it." Gan right, now
tell me what you paid David Bonner for his
half interest" What, you do not know"
NO" "Wcll, it was $500" 1.-The devil,
you say. Then owe you 5000"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
WATER IN EUROPE.
An Expensive Thing to Buy and
Very Hard to Get.
Drinking water Scarce and water
for Bathing Almost out OF
the Qucstion-Beer
and Wine.

[Fli Perkins Letter
The most expensive thing and the hardest
thing to get in Europe is pure water. At the
hotels even in Switzerland, where the ice
crowned Alps are in sight, they charge you
for icc-watcr to drink. There is no water ON
the cars, and a the stations they look at YOU
in amazcmcnt if you ask for it. To protect
myself now carry h bottle of water strapped
to my carpetbag
But if it is hard to get glass of water in
France, Switzerland, or Germany to drink.
how much harder it is to get enough for "A
bath The idea of water enough to battle in
all over sets them wild. At Dresden, the
boosted art center of Europe my wife wanted
a hot bath. In America when n guest wants
a hot bath he rings for the chambermaid,
turns IN the hot water, takes it, aud finds -
cents charged for it in his bill. Well, | wen
down to the office and saw the 81 'rli about it.
He seemed half da2ed at the dea of a bath,
and went off To se' the proprietor The pro
lrictor came pailing back to the office and
asked me what | wanted
My wife wants bath" said.
"All ovcr-halh all over" he "a ped.
"N'c~, all over. in hot water"
"IIot watcr-ho water all ovcr-mon Colt
i'm Ilmmcl.' he exclaimed throwing up his
hands.
"Ne,. hot-watrr bath" | said: "tcll the
girl to turn on the hot and cold wa'or'
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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
FATE.


lStello c. Aikcnsl
A careless builder, high and dry
Nailed plank to Il broad ships side.
The plank was rotten, and by-and-by
The ship was launched ON the waters wide
Away she sailed for eastern goals;
But the cargo She carried was human souls
The happy maiden, a. good as gold,
Lived and loved at the oceans feet;
Her heart grew young as the day grew old,
fleet.
Brave ships waxed tall on the gray sky
rim;
But never the ship that carried hlml
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
AT ANC HOR.

William lIayue in The Manhattan.l
My love was like "a huoyaut ship
Ger sunny waves at sea,
And in the voyage of my heart
She sailed away from me!
] followed in her flying wake
The waves grew strong and fleet;
passed 10y shoals of circumstance,
And quicksands of defeat!
But little winds of coquetry
Still kept our lives apart,
Till in my cruise of love | reached
The harbor of her heart
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
Origin Of the strawberry saying.

uzaak Walton's "Compete Angler.~
Indeed, my good scholar we may say of
angling as DR.. Boteler said Of Strawberries,
doubtless God could have made a better
berry but doubtless, God never did" and so
df might he the judge God never did make
a more calm quiet, innocent occupation than
angling.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-10-24
BETTER than Salmon.

The reddish caught in the lakes in the Saw
tooth range in ldado are said to be very de-
lcious, and in every way better than the
Columbia river salmon, which they closely
resemble.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-03-15
Plantation Philosophy.

Too much y me makes man sick.
De sweetes smell III all de worl' is
nuthin
When he curmunlty takes up de no
ton da. msn Is or fool, iar ain much
us'n him kIcA!n' agin lie jeigment.
l ain aferd 0 de man what frowns
when he gifts mad, but de man what
smiles when he's mad makes me feel
mighty Uneasy.
De poler,iclan is al'ers watchin' out
fur de good o De people, jes' like the
hawk what Is alters wa.chin' out fur de
good o de chlckln.
De fatter de dog gifts. de lazier he Is,
but de richer nlan gifts de more 'dus-
trious he becomes Dis is bout de big
ges' difference dat l ken see 'twixt de
dog an de abtrage rich man.
De man what goes ter church de mos
ain Al'ers de shoes o goiu' ter heaben
De duck washes hisset heep of'ener der
lie turkey. tat aictes ali be ALL hat o
clean. - Ar.aa.as Irasc!<~,