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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1885-07-29

NoTICE.-The Directors of the
Rapides Parish School Board, are
requested to attend a meeting of
the Board, to be held in Alexand-
ria on the second Saturday in Au-
gust. Business of Importance to
be transacted.
JONAS RosENrHAL,
President.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1885-07-29

ASK Baynard about Smiths
Bile Beans, he has had an oppor-
tunlty to know their merits, and he
will tell you they are far superior to
anything in the pill line. Two bits
per bottle.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1885-07-29
A Walking Skeleton.

Mr.. L. Springer, of Mechanics
burg, Pa, writes: 81 was afflicted
with lung fever and abscess on the
lungs, and reduced to a walking
skeleton. Got free trial bottle of
Dr. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, which did me so much
good that l bought dollar bottle.
Alter using three bottles, found
myself once more a man, complete
~ restored to health, with a hearty
appetite, and a gain in flesh of As
pounds" Call at Jacob Geiger's
Eagle Drug Store and get a free
trial bottle of this certain cure for
all Lung diseases. Large bottles
one dollar.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1885-07-29
SPECIAL NOTICES.

STRAYeD OR SToLeN.-From the
undersigned, on Or about the LIST of
July, One Sorrel Horse, branded
A. 9. on hip; four white feet, with
a white spot in forehead; light
name and tail, IA or Is hands high.
A liberal reward will be paid for
his return to JOHN FoUsAy.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1885-07-29

IN speaking of Capt. Sinuott's
appointment, the river man of the
Times Democrat says "If the Cap
tain devotes the same time and tai
ent TO his new office that he has
displayed in his management as
steamdoatman, then the office of
Surveyor will have never been more
wisely administered"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1885-07-29

The following resolution was
passed at the recent session of the
Police Jury: "Resolved further,
That no druggist shall be permit
ted to sell Intoxicating liquor in the
Wards where its sale is prohibited,
more than once on the sama pre-
scription, and any druggist refill
ing such prescription shall be con-
sidered as guilty Of a violation of
this ordinance"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1885-07-29

recent trip.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1885-07-29
Base Ball News.

AS per our request to a friend at
Cheneyville, the following account
OF the Donaldsonville Chenevville
game was sent US
OFFICIAL SCORE.
innings Il 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
LeeS,.... @ 0 0 | 2 | 3 4-17
Nameless 2 ? 0 % 90 600 d
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20
Cholera VS.. Fruit and Vegetables.
Baltimore Americ an J

One who has passed through the three
cholera epidemics in lS30, lS+5 and
lS66 can well rememuer the preventive
measures generally adopted to lessen the
ravageS of the disease. are in diet was
considered most important, and fruits
were almost entirely discarded. Water
melons and cucumbers were almost en-
tirely discarded, and even ripe peaches
and other harmless fruits were per
mitted to rot upon the trees, the art of
canning not being then known.
So heavy were the losses by fruit
growers and dealers, in 1880, that for a
few years after the plague disappeared
no one would raise melons and other
Objectionable vegetables and fruits. for
fear they could not be disposed of
Boiled rice, mush and milk, and bread
and milk, became the principal art les
of diet in many families, and meat and
other heavy foods were partaken of very
sparingly. Camphor came into uniyer-
sal use as a disinfectant, and nearly
every person wore bag filled with the
drug suspended around their necks.
Nearly everv druggist had an anti
cholera specific of his own manufacture,
and Burgundy pitch and other plasterS
were used on the stomach and back.
Flaunels were also worn during the
hottest summer days.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20

Human nature is much the same the
world over, and if the following anec-
dotes have Scotchmen for their heroes,
the same thing might have happened
anywhere else than III the highlands.
1t should be said that in Scotland a
deacon is the chairman OF corporation
of tradesmen, and not a church otfi er
Two worthy incumt ents, who fretted
their little lOur upon stage not far
from the banks OF the Ayr, happened to
he chosen deacons on the same day.
Tie more youthful of the two few
home to tell his young wife what an
important prop of the civic editice he
had been allowed to become and search
ing the but and zen in vain. ran out
to the yre, where, meeting the COW, he
could no longer contain his oy, but, in
the fullness Of his heart, clasped her
round the neck, eXclalmng;
- h, crummle, crummie, ye're nae
langer common cow-yere the dea-
con COW.
The elder civic dignitary was a Sc
dite, p.ous person, AM felt rather
"ulate in showing to his wife that he
was upliftei owe this world S honors.
as he Thought, however, it was too
good a piece of news To allow her to re-
main any tine ignorant OF, he lifted the
lat h of his own door, md stretching his
head inward
"Nelly" said he, il voice that made
Nelly all ears and eyes gif onybody
cones spierin for the deacon, | IN just
owre the cato at John Tamson S"
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20

Nineteenth Century,

Few children like that part of the
meal which consists of meat. but pre-
fer tho pudding. the fruit, the vegeta-
bles. if we'll dressed, which unhappily is
not ALWAYS the case Many children
manifest great repugnauce to meat at
first. AM are coaNed and even scolded
by ANXIOUS mothers until the habit Of
eating is &C !uired. Adopting the in.
sular creel, which regards beef and
mutton as necessary to health and
streng, b, the mother often suffers from
groundles' iorebodingS aDout the future
Of child who re- ects flesh and mani
tests wnat is regarded as an unfortunate
partiality for bread and butter and pud-
ding. evertheless, am salts cd if
the children follow their own instinct in
that matter the result woald be a gain
in more ways than one. Certainly, if
meat did not appear in the nursery un-
Ill the children sent for it, it would
rarely be seen there, and tho young ones
would as rule thrive on milk and eggs,
with the varied prodIco of thu Nes
eiayle singdon.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20

On the third day out the explorers
came upon the Amakwakwa trioe, OF
whom MIR. richards says They have
no garuens at all. They are 50 ire
uently 70 bed by m Has impiS sol
dlers that they have ecome ute dis
outraged. Another reason is that the
native fruit is capable OF sustaining lie,
and is abundant, an, again. the palm
wine OwS freely ali over the country.
This palm tree is usually four or me
feet high, seldom ten feet. 1t mani e>ts
little life, save at the top, where "A few
leaves az pear. looking like over pot
II stump. These leaves are all cut o e,
and from the cut each tree yields daily
Al out pint of deli iOus uice, but
highly intoxicat ng when allowed to
stand for few h,urs
There seems to te no limit to these
trees, and We were surrounded Oh every
hand by drunken men and WON, II
ven little children were stagge@In.
about as inglOrio sly as their parents.
1t was di cult to avoid trouble with
these people, yet our guns We're re
spected, and tall fired carcleSsly at a
near tree would produce quiet for half an
hour. They were coarse, rough, drunken
fellows. often plnnderlng, often plum
dered, and accustomed to quarrelS and
fights not altogether bloodless. ne
could scarce expect to Ind pleasure in
passing among them"
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20
A CHAPTER ON EYES.
Animals and Birds Have More Beautiful
Eyes 1hnn DO the Human Race,

Kew Orleans Timrs.Democrat
There is TO 30 found in The Eclectic
Magazine, among other studies. an arti.
Gle on eyes, which Is full OF curious in.
formation an suggestion.
We humans, 20 prone to calmly ar.
rogate all beauties and per'ections, will
feel surprise at the assertion that we
have failed in our long ages of selection
to evolve eyes IS beautiful as those of
man animals and birds. No odalisque
eyes c9n be as soft and LIQUID as those
OF ga ellie. a deer. or even the OK, 10
whom hera did not disdain to be COM
ared and they have never developed
but two divisions OF color, dark, that is
all shades of brown, and light in al
shades of blue: that there is some
Leautiful variations between the ex.
tremes of the two tints is not to be
denied. Cne of the variations men.
toned in the article is OF a family who
all had dark brown spots on blue gray
eyes, and another who had on redd sh
ha Il iridcs tine characters resembling
reek letters, and for this reason was
called hy his neighLors O os escritos,
written eyes.
But the splendid ruby of the chicken
hawk 5 eye, and the chrysolite hue OF
the orbs of the pluma, tho glowing
phosphorescent sheen of cat es in
the dark are more Leautiful than any
thing We have leen able to produce in
hum. faces. mertld eyes have been
greatly raised by the spanish poets,
and of them the author says:
III they only existed would certainly
he beautiful beyond all others, espe-
cially if set OF with dark or brown
ir and that dim and pensi G creamy
pallor of the skin fre ,uently seen in
warm climates.
y celebrated man, howe er, consulted
on the question, says he has known one
person, a woman, whose eyes were un-
miStakably and deeply emerald in hue
and who inspired him with irresistible
tear. hoda Broughton speaks of Nate
hester ha, ing the curious com bination
of red hair and green eyes-eyes like
sea water. in the writer's own expert
ence there is the memory of IA woman,
very beautiful woman, with red hair
and eye AS yellow AS gold.
hawthorne's wife never could bGaI
the gaze OF his eyes, and of several
eastern rul, RS the same story has been
told. returning to colors of eyes he
says:
Again, in that exquisite type OF
female beauty wh'ch We see in the white
girl with slight infusion of negro
lood, giving the graceful frizzle to the
hair, the purple red hue to the lips,
and the du>ky terra-cotta tinge to the
skin, an eye more suitable than the
dark dull brown would have teen the
intense orongc brown seen in the
lemur's eye. For many very dark
skinned tribes nothing more beautiful
than theru y-red iris could Ee imagined
while sea-green eyes would have best
uted dusky pale olynesians.
here is description in this article
Of the shooting Of Aiagellanic eagle in
Patagonia AMI the magnificent fur. Of
his e es, great globes of Quiverinl
yellow ame viii h is one of the fines,
pieces of word painting in the Englist
language, scene which will be a vivid
picture in the mind of the reader for his
whole lie.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20
+ ign l. 2


Japan is made up o a chain of vol
canic mountains, and the arabic land OF
the empirt Is cla Y put al . o.
acres-Icss than one n If the area of q
state of ew ork-and t is is so fprtil,.
and thuro lghly Gu tivaIed that 1t fee IS
a population OF o 3, ,aJr--ahoat III /
of ran .. ice is one OF the lr.n ip |
crops, and of this some 00,vuO,D 81
bushels are RI srd annually. rand
la or is general Y used. ana two or three
crops year are RAISED on the S me
land.
rtifcial irrigation is general, b ing
necessary over one haf OF the cult
waited land, and fire uently the water is
taken from streams from twenty TO
thirty miles dist nj. he total nu II er
of horned cattle is III 1000, and of
horses /, o., ,pH0. ood of all ndS IS
cheap ard abundant, nearly all the
building cing of tihber, an WOO |
constituting the pr,n ipal .u.l the
area of forest lanl NJ. RI three tim 3
as great a, that Under cultivation.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20


A German correspondent writes as
ollowS: II have had severe attack of
lnhammatory rheumatism, and was
hea' / in two days time by soup made
the stalks and roots of celery, there
rore desire to make this simple rem
edy known through the columns of your
valuable paper for the enetit of all suf
tering from gout or rheumatism OF any
Orm New dlscOVerieS-OI what ella M
to lie discoveries the healing vir-
tues of plants are continually being
made. ne of the latest is that celery
is cure for rheumati m; indeed, 1t is
asserted the disease is impossible if the
vegetable he cooke and freely eaten.
The fact that it is alwa put upon the
table raw prevents its therapeutic pow
ers from being known.
II he celery should be cut into bits,
oiled in water until soft, and the water
drank by the patient Serve warm with
pieces of toasted bread, and the painful
element will soon yield. Such is the
declaration of physician who has
again and again tried the experiment,
and with unifor n success. At least two
thirds of the cases named heart dis
ease are as ri ed to rheumatism and its
agonizing ally, gout. >mallpox. so
much dreaded, is not half so destructive
as rheumatism, which, it is maintained
by many physicians, can be ! revented
by obeying natures laws in diet. Here,
in Germany, we boil the roots and
stalks, as the root is the principal part
of it, and afterward eat it as salad, W tn
oil and vinegar. | received such imme-
diate benefit that am anxious to let all
the rheumatic sufferers know of it.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20
The Great Forests cf Puget sound
II rann at 4 al IcNr al


In western Washington, betweon thA
Cascade range on tho east and the
coast, or Olympic rang. on tie west and
between the 18th and III deyre.s OF
north latitude is a thickly tinbercd belt
of fir cedar. alder, aple, and other
woods Of these, probably represents
three-fOurths. In the midst of this
wealth of forest nature has placed
iroad, deep arm Of the actic ocean
~ ct sound-with VIII ch it is connected
nv the strait of uca. Thus not only
has nature provided the timber, but
tue water way also by which it is
possible for the merchant marine of
the world TO come and o. tain their
lumber supplies, much of whi b, some
time in the future, must be furnished
from these forests. Already the lum-
Der trade with Australia, entral and
South America, China, and the island
of the aeifc, amounts to fully 1000
900 feet year, AMI employs feet OF
about fifteen vessels every month.
/ uget sound is 10 miles in length,
and hss a littoral of To- miles. his
irregular shore line forms lnnumerable
harl ors, splendIdly adapted for the
erection OF saw mills and other wood
working factories, and also Tor the es-
tablisnment of ship-yards Along this
whole shore line, and from thence on
both side; as far AS the ey S reaches,
nothing can lie seen but the vast and
magn ticent wealth of tim er, save here
and there where man has established
mill port, town, or an occasional
farm.
In the timber belt of western Wash
ington there are 90 0,o0 ares Gov
cred with tim er, most of with is
included within the lin Is nam d an
area nearly equal to the combined areas
of the states of onnpcticut MasSachu
sets, Vermont, and ew Hamp,h
This timber belt will average ,uJ0 feet
OF lumI er to the acre or total of 800
0J0, 600, o. feet of Ium9 9er Hence, the
saw-mills of uget sound. with their
present capacity of aOO, ,OOo, 000sfeet
year, would take $40 years to cut il
down. The r trees frequently attain
the height of , 0 feet and pankS o;
lumber are sometimes turned out OF
these mills lOO feet long.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20
VISIT TO AN AFRICAN RING.
A Tbatched Palace of Mod nnd Brush.
ood-Waksning the iIonArc:i.


We determin q first to go auj pay
MaukorOtnc, the chief OF king of the
trlte. a visit. whose place We found
without dIi Guilty common large hut
made Of E.ud plaster Il togrthrr with
hrdsbNOJI AMI rec >. aud colrs"ly
taatchyd UH the root. ! lie rates l'D-
ected over the walls about three 81,
50 that a vcranda W formed arjuu
the Elt TIE entrance VIZ ihroIgn q
yard Viii I.h sIrtuAn led the hut. witt a
wall O. lrusEwoOG seven lcct high.
There was only one doorway, into
viii h We entered on a smooth yard OF
red clay.
here, with their backs TO the wall. sat
some men, probably the king 3 o iy-
guard. The. were all more or less
dressed, having trous rs patched wit,
every conceivable color and material,
some with hats, others with old govern.
ment helmet. The inside OF the hut was
lined with grey C ay bearing quaint
figures and devi, es.
pposite the door and close to the in
side wal lay man on a couch with a
folded-up shawl under his head lie
had on red flannel shirt, blue coat,
very old cord trousers. and bOo.s with
cloth tops, but no Soc,S. lie was the
king AT his head sat another person, the
queen, sitting like a tailor, naked to the
waist. She had a quantity of beads
round her neck, of dinerent colorS, from
which hung charms and such useful arti-
cles as keys. The king was sound asleep,
but the queen and attendants We're wide
awake ound against the wall sat his
two prnceSses, or daughters Then two
men smoking. Not one of them took
the slightest notice of us.
AT last | addressed the queen, and
wished her all the COM iments of the
season. All then began to talk, ey-
cert the king, who was still asleep To
keep them company ! took up the
chorus of an old song. They seemed
delighted at this, so gave it to taem
gain, laughing violently all the
tie, my friend impioring me to
keep quiet lest | should wake the king
and incur his wrath but he did not
awake. We then cred the ueen Gig
arettes. and the princesses and the two
men The n Arrest prin ess chewed ner
lgarette. Alter sitting most OF an
hour We got up TO 90 and / nearly fel
over black baly | ing on the ioor,
which yelled AM woke the kim. p he
Jumped AMI greeted us most warmly,
shaking hands and asking for Lac o.
and also 'Shlllin.
gave him a cigarette, which he
forthwith lit up, implorng me to give
HIM shilling took out my purse
AMI turned it upside Gown and out
dropped a piece OF money. for which the
princess the lueen and the co rtiers
S ram lei. Cne of the pr.ncesseS Sc.
cured it and held il up, laughing. We
then left, saying, y ood bye.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20

wen the prospect of war letwpeu
Russia AMI ngland di>trrsses ng.ish-
speaking pco lie, liged 10 promo nc,
the names of towns and battle fields
whose enuuciatjOn Y the ordinary
reader wOul seem to invite the aid Of a
surgical operat on.
how are We going to pronounce PEN
drh To say uCthuIof Haruchak2
hen the rap RS ca MY say that Gen
komarof Is marching on al hat m,
or Bala Muir hat, or -arl al. VIII are
we going TO do alO it trWhon il is
said that 600 tr ops diSem arkei IL
Nichal0vsk IN route or antli-hr!e"eh
must we raise o"thcation. III. a ditch.
and l. y siege to tn" place before We can
capture it and pass on
eside> a this, think for a momrnt
of theunspeaEab.cem arraSSmrnt VIII cr
many an MI >hu' viii Su er m dy
ing ugon a b tie teld the name o
which his friends are unable to rro-
nounce, what avail is valor or hero
ism to the man who allS ri reed with il
hundred ulletS ruon the field O
Ieshawar ,uettlpulli>khti or who
could arouse the PIT fotiSm of his sol
di rs, if he had to address them as FOL
lows
">oldiors We have succe >'u'l
scaled the AFRO pa,m-i $ us Imopu
tains, and Stormed tn fortress of % f.
af h-u-s in a.l-e-h e n-S-k-i ae ar.
nov before the u>Sian army led b
Gems. FOmarof and autchukoT. e
RS remcm Ter the battle tel Is of D-au
la alb a-d and aba G.c-m-b er If
we can, and die if ncels he on vo5
der field of q i-r-,-h-k k-f,as A-h
k-o-S-hn'
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20
The Proper Weight of SIsn.

Professor Huxley asserts that the
proper weight of man is r5 POUNDS,
made up as follows: Muscles and their
appurtenances, IS pounds; skeleton, "A
pounds skin, TO- pounds, fat, 2s
pounds brain, pounds abdominal
viscera, / pounds blood which would
drain from the body, pounds,
The heart of such a man should heat
rs times a minute, and he should
breathe times minute. In twenty
four hours he should yitiate l, so cubic
feet of pure air to the extent Of l per
cent-a man, therefore, of the weight
mentioned, should have 800 cubic feet
of we'll ventilated space. Ho would
throw off by the skin lS ounces of
water, 100 grains of solid matter and
4OOgrains of carbonic acid every twenty
four hours, and his total loss during that
period would be pounds of water
and little more than , pounds OF
other matter.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20


The electric lamp used for examining
Gen. Grant throat manufa tured 10y
agents OF the Ldison light CO.. pany. 1t
is mounted on hard rubber hol er,
about seven inches long. having retlec-
tor at the lamp en- t. y Whlcu the light
can 10 thrown to an de lred anS.e. The
holder is connected by two SILK overed
wires to a small storage battery carried
in the pocket OF the PLY Scian. ne
gat is turned on by simply pressing a
small buttcV on The ruboer holder, and
the quantity is governed ly another
button convenient to the operator he
lamp is inserted in the mouth almost to
t e palate. with the re. e.ector aioye the
lamp, which throws the light down the
throat.
The lamp has nounpleasant heat, and
gives light elua, to half sperm can
die, The extreme simplicity Of the
whole appliance makes it very valuable
to the physician and dentist.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20
Water aud artho AXE.


Professor octor, says that in con-
siderng the earth 5 ~uhterrAuean ac-
tivities we have TO ok outs ,r for a
part al least OF the c'uScS of diSturii nee
The air perhaps ay IN TINS rr>pe t l'e
ne lected, Tut the w~ter is all IMPORT
ant Ii has lcyn al /, indeed and
probably with nearer appror h to
truth tlan usual IN The aSc OF gencraH-
Zatiou OF the sort WITHOUT water taere
can be no volcano, ant similar r lie
mot quite so gen1at applies to carta.
quakeS, few lron5ly Orpg. ros ly
none, save tn ol.gh the a ZION of
water in some war or other. All active
volcanoes except ol4e n mil Asia are
by the sea>hore. Ne.riy Ill the ear, h,
quakeS recorded 10y histor hav, taken.
and have apparently had their enter
of uisturban n AR The sea. There can
he very little dodlt, indee that the
direct cause of every Sreat subterranesn
disturbance is wafer in the form Of
steam-stedm superb heated.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20

The transition from the arm chair to
the easy was not made all at once.
" hen men and women wanted real re-
pose, they formerly found it in di>ans,
couches, sofas, and, what in hake-
speare's time, were somewhat reproach-
fully called ''day-beds. \ loose cush-
ion was made for wooden chairs, and il
was sometimes placed upon, at other
times underneath, richly embroidered
cloth or an animal skin. 1t is doubt
full whether, for many hundred years,
the easy chairs of western Europe wee
anything more elaborate. The fixed
seat and padded back and arms did not
come into use in England until Iueen
lila eth's time. An arm chair was, IN
fact. an article of costly luxury, and
sometimes of rcprOach.
The Brookhaven leader., 1885-08-20

'Pooulsr Science Monthly.l


So determined, indeed, are some of
these fabricators of frauds, that the fol-
lowing incident is worthy of being pub
llshed, to show the ingenuity they eXer-
clsc i'll their peculiar calling. To dis
cover an Indian grave is of course, a
red letter day for the arch ologist
. ow, Indian graves are manufactured
to order, it would appear. At least the
following recently occurred in New Jer-
sey A Philadelphia lint Jack secured
half-decayed skeleton from a potter
field in the vicinity. and placed 1t in a
shallow excavation on the wa ting bank
of creek in New Jersey, where Indian
relics were frequently found. With it
he placed Steatlte tobacco pipe of his
own make, Steatlte carving of an
eagle head, and beads; with these were
throw. numbers of genuine arrow heads
and fragments OF pottery. TIE earth
was biackrned with powdered charcoal
his plant was made in ovember
and, in the following March, during the
prevalence of high waters AMI local
ireshets, he announced to an cuthusi-
astic collector tnat lie knew the loca-
ton OF an indian grave, and offered to
take him thither for $ o, the money to
be paid if the search proved successful
which of course it did. The Uranium of
that Philadelphia pauper passed through
several craniologi>ts hands, and was
gravely remarked upon as of unusual
interest, as it WAS a marked dolichoce-
phalic skull, whereas the delaware In
dianS were brachyeephalic,