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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1885-12-02
JUDGE L. North Cullom wou)d

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JUDGE L. North Cullom woul,
make an able and patriotic sucees
tsor to Hon. Chas. parlange in the
/ otAte Senate. Avoyelles is emit.
tleaf to it this time, too, on tile score
q rotation City Item.
--MR. G. A. sehnack, minor
member of the we'll known firm of
ferguson d Setback, left on the
Morgan train Yesterday for New
Orleans, tofay In their usual stock
81 christmas and Holiday goods.
Mas. N. /. McGinnis and
family returned home from their
Texas trip on Saturday last. Thew
visited whilst away several of the
largest cities Of the Lone Star State
IND were much pleased with the
lights they saw
DIR. Thomas H. Maddox and
rem. e. Mason Graham, two of the
ldsst citizens of the Parish, we're
2 ~ town on Monday. Though both
ave passed the four-score notch L
'ey Seem to be in the very best of |
eallh' May they both live to be Fl
sntenarians. II
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04
The French Cholera Patients.

As one who saw cholera patients for
the first time Tin Paris). what struck
me with most force was the great fear
which seemed to lay hold of many OF
these patients, so unlike anything met
with in the ordinary zymotics-such as
smallpox. typhus. diphtheria. and the
like; the sudden and extreme collapse.
the comparative absence of real de-
lirium. and as the later stages come
on the shrunken features. the shrunken
eyeballs, dark areola round orbit, and
the shrivelled, inelastic condition of the
skin. so that when pinched and raised
up it showed scarcely any elasticity or
tendency to retract itself in the normal
manner. In one man at the Hospital
Cochin this inelastic state was marked
even in the convalescent stage. After
seeing patients in the collapse of cholera
it is easy to understand how it has been
possible tn mistake patients really alive
for dead, so like is the condition to that
of q corpse. Lancet.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04
A FEATHERED BAcCHANAL.
singular Accomplishment Of . Milwaukee
Canary Bird.

Singular Accomplishment OF . MILWAUKEE,
Canary Bird.
A tiny yellow-feathered canary bird
stopped eating hemp seed and began
cooking its head on one side. then
scratching its bill with one claw, the
bird began to sing in fiute-like tones.
I'VE Won't go Home till Morning"
Every note was as true and prompt as .
French music box. Despite the ami
mated appearance of the songster. it
was so unnatural to hear the registering
song of the bacchanals chanted by a
canary, that the bystander looked sus-
piciously around to find the music box
which was playing the tune. The bird
belongs to L. ID. Stebbins, the watch
maker. on Wisconsin Street, and he ex-
planned the nodus operandi by which
the little songster acquired its surpris-
ing faculty.
He said that the bird had been bred
BY himself. being . common canary.
The parent birds were chosen with ref
erence to volume of voice and quality.
..As soon as the bird was born" he
said, 1.-THE education was begun. A
mouth organ was the educator en-
ployed. Beginning thus early it was
eight months before the education was
completed. The bird can sing We
Won't 90 Home till Morning. fault
Iessly. but there its requirements end.
It has never heard any other song
That tune was played at the bird three
times day on an organ. 1t is COM
mon canary, and is valuable on account
of its superior education, insomuch that
1 was offered forty-five dollars for it .
few days ago. Ignorant common Ca
naries sell for four dollars. which
proves conclusively that there is moth
ing lost by educating them."-Mlsoas-
Ice Wisconsin,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Earthquakes in North Japan are
more numerous and severe in winter
than in summer.
"A Milwaukee editor committed su-
icide because he was in debt. 1t is such
an unusual thing for an editor to be in
debt that he could not stand it.-Boston
Post.
If there is q craze called roller
skating raging in the land. as reported.
it is very strange that some of the para
graphists don't make a joke about it.
Norristown Herald.
In one issue of a Utica, On. Y.)
paper recently were accounts of no less
than four suicides. two of which were
ascribed to dependency over the loss of
wives, and third to the interference of
a young mans family in his love affairs.
Emma Nevada, the sweet singer Of
the Sierras. kissed three hundred girls
before leaving San Francisco, and COM
plains that it made her very tired.
Served her right. Why didn't she hire
cheap young man?-Burtsngton
Hawkeye.
A man never begins to find out how
little he knows about domestic matters
until his wife asks him to keep his eyes
on the baby and to see that pan of
melted butter is kept stirred while she
goes into the attic to look through her
rag bag.-Cape Ann Advertiser.
A ministerial acquaintance thinks
that he alone should decide what hymns
are to be sung during service He
thinks that the choir should have no
voice in the matter. They haven't in
very many churches-that is to say. any
voice to speak Of Christian at Work.
The life of woman in Italy who
was recently buried beneath an ava
lanche was saved by hen. The ac-
count does not specify how this was
done, but we presume the woman had a
corn, and the hen in scratching for it
dug her out.-Rockldnd Courier Ga
zette.
Emerson says: s.All the world
loves lover" That may be true, but
wide observation has taught us that the
love of all the world doesn't make the
lover any more contented SO long rs
one little snip of a seventeen-year-old
girl says that she can be to him only as
. sister-S0merUille Journal.
Clara (shyly)-Of all the months Of
the year, George, dear, which do you
think is the happiest one for lovers?
George (of thrifty nature)-May is
the happiest because it is the cheapest
Clara-Cheapest? How? George-It
is too late in the season for oysters and
too early for ice cream.-N Y. Times.
The other day. q reverend gentle
man, addressing his lawyer companion
at the fire, said he didn't see 'why a
stable should catch fire in the middle Of
the day when there was no fireplace or
stove in connection with the building" J"
Whereupon the legal friend replied:
.'They may have kept q fiery horse in
there. - Chicago Jcnrnai.
$50 you are stenographer?" "Yes.
SIR" Il should think it would be very
difficult to take down everything .
speaker says" "It's not so hard when
you understand it. / was reporting a
speech the other day, and I thought l
would just try and see how fast could
report, and, will you believe it. none of
the speakers could follow mer'-Teras
Sittings.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04
COVINGTON, ST TAMMANY PARISH, La. JULY 4, 1885.

and there's tin roof. Another one Ol
Julia's ideas. Our price is eight dollars.
l think she wants to rent this room:
but you'd better come in later and see
her.
Mr.. Elderberry did not return to Mrs.
Mullen s. and. after long wandering,
found little room in a house owned by
two quiet spinsters. But the lot was
narrow, and on one side was a melo-
deon and on the other were four girls
and dulcimer In vain did Mr.. Elder.
berry attempt literary composition. The
melodeon wheezed, while the dulcimer
kept up monotonous: '.Pink-a-punk-a-
pink! Pink-a-punk! A pink-a-punk!
A pinkr'
When week had passed. having
only dollar and four cents left, Mr..
Elderberry set out for home on foot.
He had on his old clothes, but the min.
isterial cut was unmistakable, and the
old farmer who overlook him. asked,
dryly: "Hev lift, Elder? I'm goin'
your way"
..Hev the dumbdest kind O. work a.
gittin' help" he grumbled, when Mr..
Elderberry had accepted his offer. An
I've work for two men in the hop-yard,
an there's sight O. cowcumbers spilin'
to be picked fore they're too big for the
pickle fact'ry."
Il wish you'd hire me to pick cue um.
bers." said Mr.. Elderberry.
The old man laughed. incredulously;
and then Mr.. Elderberry told him his
whole story. at which the old man
laughed again, and engaged him on the
spot for dollar day.
When Mr.. Elderberry returned to
Flintville his cheeks were brown and
his step was brisk, and he received
many congratulations on the good his
fishing excursion had done him; but
Squire Pogg spent Thanksgiving with
friends near East Gypsum, and the next
week a committee waited on the pastor
I'VE consider you've brung disgrace
on us an the cause" said the Squire,
severely, when he had detailed what he
had heard. The bes' thing you kin dc
is to resign"
When Mr.. Elderberry had told the
story of his vacation, and had explained
that the money he had earned in the
cucumber field had part of il gone to
swell the church missionary accounts,
the committee were Modified; but there
was still ranking feeling that he had
disgraced the church. The winter
passed, and spring was blossoming into
summer. when Flintville was electrified
by the news that Mr.. Elderberry had a
call to Gypsum Center, and was offered
eighteen hundred dollars and a par>on.
age.
s.lt's all come of that old Scran he
worked for on the Mile Strip, last sum.
mer." said Squire Pogg to Deacon
Harp. '.Scran's son 5 deacon in the
Gypsum Center Church. / seen the
old feller last week. an sez he, | never
had man on the place that put in the
licks Elderberry did, sez he; an when
you want to drive your new preacher,
Mr.. Chubb. ont o town, sez he, SEM
him up to me-"
.M-yeh ahr' calculated Deacon
Harp. with an expressive shake of hi:
head If he can't 60 to his fathers
or his father-in-law's. or-some'ere.
respectable, Mr.. Chubb won't git nc
vacation. ."-Eiizabeth Cummings, in n
Y. Independent.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04
w. G.. KENTZEL, Edito
A SONG OF LIFE.

Make life long by noble deeds,
Make it sweet by loving;
Walk in paths where duty leads,
Ever onward moving.
Life is short in point of years,
Bitter oft with sorrow:
Dim we look thrc' mist of tears
Tward the dlead tomorrow.
IL were naught if this be all:
breathing. sleeping, waking:
Uleam of sunshine--then a pail
Hearts with anguish breaking.
Were this all. oh, then at best
Life's withered flower;
Sweetcr far to he at rest
From its blighting power.
We may make it what we will.
Grand in strength and beauty:
And with sheayes our bOsoms I'LL
Cleaned from fields of duty.
Make life long by noble deeds,
Make it sweet by loving:
And as day the night succeeds,
Onward we are moving.
g. W. Crofts. in Chicago Inter Ocean
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04
This the Firs Number of The Cast

This the Firs Number of The Cast
Plow goes to the world under many ad-
verse circumstances it is our first effort
at type setting. without case and a
secondhand outfit and not half enough
OF that. We are our own typo, editor.
and Devil principally, the latter.
When this edition goes to the world and
all hands have a whack. at me will be
all ..Chawed' and ..Mangled' but that
does not make any difference. l will
have whole month"; to get overit in
Farmerciie (Ld.) Cast Piow.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04

The difference between an imitation
and a genuine amethyst can be easily
distinguished just put them on your
tongue alternately. and you will find
that the spurious feels warm and the
genuine icy to the touch. The stone
which has had the greatest run of late
is tiger-eye, which has peculiar, dull
fire. 1t is only a piece of petrified.
wood, turned. smoothed and polished.
~ T. Herald.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04
INTRODUCTlONS.
The "Rest People" Mt the Hub Settfue
Their Faces Against the Custom.

The s.Rest People" at the Hub Settiue
Their Faces Against the Custom.
Our "best people" are setting the ban
of their displeasure against the custom
of introducing people to other people.
The social lines, including guests who
NAV be introduced to other guests. are
very tightly drawn, and an invitation te
people in good society to visit them
does not by any means involve the
probability of your becoming known
to the other guests. This is not taken
to mean that you are not at liberty to
..scrape acquaintance" with any of the
lordly guests if you choose to make the
attempt, but simply that the hostess
considers it no part of her duty to i'm.
pose your acquaintanceship upon her
other friends. There are some old
families here. the bearers of pre-revolu.
tionary names and pedigrees, who carry
the absurd new notion to a ridiculous
extreme. Many of these families are
as poor as church mice, and have no
little trouble to scrape along in their
shabby gentility, but the way they hold
up their social superiority is something
truly agonizing. / heard bright and
cultivated young lady telling of her
experience under one of these ancestral
roof trees the other evening. and as she
is sensible enough to enjoy the absur-
dity of the whole pretentious custom. it
gives her friends no little healthy
amusement. At private musicale a
few evenings since one of the young
lady guests, who is a social favorite, as
well as a remarkably fine amateur
pianist was approached at the close OF
brilliant performance bv one of the
grand and unapproaehable danes, who
condescended to say: You play very
well. You really must ask some one to
introduce you to mer' Needless to say,
the presentation has not yet been made.
Boston Cor. Minneapolis Tribune.
"A Syracuse lady washed. boiled
and ironed, in the pocket of an apron,
a five-dollar bill of the issue bearing the
portrait of President Garfield. and dis
covered it upon taking the apron from
the drawer, in as clean and perfect con-
ditiOn as a new bill.-SyrdcuSe Journal.
The American anthracite stove has
become the perfection of all that is con-
venient. economical and comfortable.
but at the same time grotesque and
even hideous object of contemplation
Indianapolis Journal.
Short skirts are to be the rule this
summer. it seems. and those who care
for comfort will be thankful, says a
feminine correspondent.-A. y. Nail
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04

And now it is all the rage to paint
flowers and landscapes on large. square
crackers aud render them useless, even
tor dog feed.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04

Some one has discovered that tho
reason why men succeed who mind
their own business is because there is
little competition.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04

Short skirts are to be the rule this
summer. it seems. and those who care
for comfort will be thankful, says a
feminine lcorrespondent.-A. y. Nail
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04

The American anthracite stove has
become the perfection of all that is con-
venient. economical and comfortable.
but at the same time a grotesque and
even hideous object of contemplation
TaIinnHDOIiS journal
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04

The only goose ranch-a farm de-
.oted to the breeding and care of geese
in this country is located on the east
ern shore of Virginia, and covers near
IL S.oM acres. Its fiocks number in
.he ne.ghborhood Of 5000 birds.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-07-04

The finding of gold in grass is thus
described by. San Francisco pioneer:
81 remember when I was mining in
Calaveras County that we struck somN
diggings about one mile from Winters
Bar, on the Mokelumne River. back in
the foothills, some two miles below
Campo Seco. where we found the gold
in the grass roots as high as four bits
to the pan. but prospecting about three
to five cents, generally. The gold was
all on. or very near. the surface. and to
get it we had to wash out the grass
roots. This. think, was about 1853"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-21
A DAY OF STORM.

Twas a day of storm, for the giant Allan.
tic, rolling in pride,
Drawn by the full moon, driven by the
fierce wind, tide upon tide,
Flooded our poor little channel. A hundred
anxious eyes
Were watching breach new broken-when
suddenly some one cries:
"a boat coming in !'' and rounding the pier
head that hid her before,
There, sure enough, was stranger smack,
head straight for the shore.
How will she land, where each wave is q
mountain? Too late for how!
Kun up flag there to show her the right
place! She must land now!
She is close; with rush on the galloping
wave top, stand,
AS the water sinks from beneath her, her
nose just touches the land,
And then, as rude hands sacking a city,
greedy of prey,
Toss, in some Uttered chamber, a child's
toy, lightly away,
A great wave rose from behind, and lifting
her, covered, aud broke,
And flung her head long down on the hard
beach, close to the folk
Crash! But it is only her bowsprit gone
she is saved some how;
And cheer breaks out, foS a hundred hands
have hold of her now.
And they say twas her bowsprit saved her
or she must have gone over then!
Her bowsprit it was that saved her; and
little they think those men,
OF one weak woman that prayed, as she
watched them, tempest driven!
They say twas her bowsprit saved her, ]
say twas that prayer and Heaven.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-21
A Remarkable Operation.

1t happened on a Pullman car be-
tween New York and Chicago. Din
ner having been finished, the gentle
men assembled in the smoking room
to enjoy their cigars.
During the time was in the war, y
said the quiet man, Il saw very Won
derful thing in the line of surgical oper-
atoms. A friend of mine was shot
through the right breast, the bullet pass
ing clear through him. The quickness
of mind of his companion undoubtedly
saved his life. He wrapped his hand
kerchief around the ramrod of his gun,
and pushing it through the path made
bv the bullet, cleared the wound of all
poisonous lead. know it is hard to
believe, but, gentlemen, the man still
lives to tell the tale.''
(Which man?' inquired the slim pas
senger ON the opposite seat quietly.
':The wounded one, of course!'' ex
claimed the old soldier, scornfully.
''Oh. l beg your pardon. | thought
it might be the other.-1Ae Rambler.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-21
Orion q Tour.


"Hi! hi!' yelled boy in an alley
off Clifford street yesterday.
A second boy, who stood on tho
crosswalk, meandered down and asked
what was wanted.
"Put your eye to this knot-hole and
tell me what you see.'
''Nuhin' but man sittin' out in the
back yard.''
Don't you read the papers?'
"Course do
''Didn't you see in the papers three
or four days ago that this Teller got
married? Name John Blank"
"Oh, yes"
"And it said the happy couple had
started on a bridal tour to Omaha. -
Eyes,
"Just went as far as Chicago, and
headed back for home. Got here in
the night and walked up to the house
to escape observation. That couple
has got to put in about ten days
around here with the front door locked
and the curtains down, and some morn
ing you'll see great stir and learn
that thy have just returned after an
enjoyable trip Say, JIM"
"Yes.'
"Don't get married."
"Never!'
If you ever do, don't try to Omaha
the public
II WON'T
"Cause truth is mighty and must
prevail, and deception must sooner or
later 60 to grass.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-21
AND SUBSTANCE.

[CHARLES HERVEY IN 1.-THE ARGOSY.
On bright August afternoon year
or two ago one of the squares abutting
on the Lees at Folkestone was thronged
with a miscellaneous assemblage of
visitors, strolling about or sitting in
groups, and listening to a lively selec-
ton from "Olivette' played with I'M.
Tagging spirit by the band of regi-
ment quartered at Shorncliffe.
Among the latest arrivals was a
good-looking young man in a travelling
suit. After pausing for few minutes
at the entrance, as if undecided whether
to 20 in or not, he quietly made his
waythrough the crowd, and, securing
post of vantage in a temporarily Sc
cluded part of the garden, glanced
rather listlessly than curiously at the
animated scene before him. He had
not been there long when he felt a
hand on his shoulder, and turning
round beheld, to his evident dissatis-
faction, stout, Sinking individual
Tommy Gabbleton, the most notori-
Gus gossip and scandal-monger since
the days of Crabtree and Sir Benjamin
who accosted him with familiar:
"Hullo, Torrens. who in the world
would have thought of seeing you
here? They told me you were at HON.
burg
$50 I was until yesterday replied
the other. "Only arrived this morn
ing"
"Quite right to look us up on your
way to Scotland. ratified on Tommy,
"for of course you are off to the moors,
Nothing like laying in provision of
OXYGEN he continued, without wait
ing for an answer. II always do at
this time of year, and for that sort Of
thing there's no better place than
Folkestone. By the bye'-here his sly,
puckered face assumed a semi-mysteri-
Gus expression-''perhaps you don't
know that Miss Trevelyan is here''
"Indeed!" said Torrens, in studious-
ly Indifferent tone. Il was not aware
of it.
Eyes, and what's more, she is sitting
yonder, not twenty yards from us, with
her aunt, Mrs. Mortimer, and-ahem!
-Gerestein. Thought it best to give
you hint, as. under the circumstances,
meeting might be unpleasant, you
know"
ION the contrary was the young
man s unexpected answer, II shall be
delighted to see Miss Trevelyan.'
And. following his not little astonished
guide, he soon found himself in the
presence of the trio in question, con-
sisting of a strikingly handsome girl.
elaborately attired in one of NJ. Worth S
latest ''creations," a middle-aged chap
eron, and a stout, overdressed person.
age of Enthusiastically Teutqe nationality.
II have brought you an old acquaint-
ance, ladies" said Gabbleton, with an
insufferably self-satistied grin. ''Our
friend Torrens has just landed, and is
impatient to present his homage at the
shrine Of beauty. A charming surprise,
isn't it?''
If one might Judge from the effec,
produced on the three sisters by this
introduction of the new conner, the sur:
prise prepared for them was startling
rather than agreeable. Each of the
party betrayed in a greater or lesser
degree very decided symptoms of EN-.
barrassment. Mrs. Mortimer blushed
through her pearl powder, her piece
turned ashy pale, while Herr Geresteir
6dgeted uncomfortably on his chair and
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-21

A married woman in Dakota adj
vises young ladies who go out there
not to be in hurry about marrying.
She says they can secure claims and
teach school or find some other employ
ment, and by holding their claims in a
few years they will have snug little
fortune and be independent, whereas
if they marry at once they will have
nothing and wear tn emselves out with
hard work, especially if the husband
is a young farmer just getting a start.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-21
Nervous Dibilitated Men

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No risk is incurred. Illustrated pamphlet
with full information, terms, etc, mailed
free by addressing Voltaic Belt Co., Mar
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Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-10-21
A Reciprocal Spirit.

II can't find my tooth brush any
where,' said Cottage Hill young lady
looking all over the house for the
article.
I'LL len you mine," accommodate
ingly suggested the colored kitchen
girl.
"Oh. no, thanks" replied the young
lady, turning away.
You needn't hab no comoustion
about takin' it, MISS persisted the
girl, 'for is used yours sometimes
when 1 couldn't find mine.-Gl city
Derrick