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News Notes.

is the largest for many years.
Congress adjourned sine die at 4
o'clock last Thursday afternoon.
The United States has been annu-
ally paying England $4,000, 900 for
tin.
The eighty gambling houses of
Pittsburg, Penn, do a business of
$1,000, 900 yearly.
At Wallacetown, Pa, Friday, Jas.
McLain shot Ella Davis, and then
suicided. Jealousy.
The Solado estate in Mexico has
an area of more than 800 square
miles, and lies partly in four States.
1t is said that within radius of
100 miles around Ashville, N. c.,
every known mineral can be found.
The Prohibition vote of Pennsyl-
vania is estimated at 100, 1000, and in
no possible manner less than $4,000.
A Noble county, Ohio, farmer nam
ed Rogers, was killed by his son ia
cob, while both were intoxicated, on
last Thursday.
A young man who quarrelled with
saloon keeper in Pierce City, Mo-,
over a bill of eighty cents was muir
dered by the latter.
Whittier, who embezzled $125,OO0
of the money of his client, Miss
Reed, in Boston, confessed his guilt
and was committed to Jail.
Seven members of one family, five
of them children, were drowned by
the capsizing of an open boat in
Portland harbor, Me-, on the 4th inst.
A farmer named Totman killed
himself and MORALLY wounded his
cousin at Sharon, Ohio, Thursday, as
the result of dispute over an un-
cle's estate.
At Clarksburg, West Virginia, a
wife beaten found bunch of hickory
withes at his door, with note of
warning to quit abusing his wife or
he would be given a drubbing.
VIM. P. Pierson, cashier of the
American Baptist Publication Socie-
ty, at Philadelphia, has been arrested
as defaulter TO the amount of $780,
900. The old story-lost in specu-
lation.
The silver production of Montana
is reported to be now resulting in
loss, and it is feared that if the price
does not soon advance large numbers
of men will be thrown out of en-
ployment and large investments sac
ri6ced.
Judge Joseph d. Shields commit
ted suicide at Natchez, Miss, on the
4th inst. He was one of the oldest
and most respected members of the
Natchez bar, ranked high as an ora
tor, and was the author of ssThe Life
and Times of s. s. Prentiss." It is
said the death of his wife some Is
months ago unbalanced his mind.
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The total amount of cash in the
United States Treasury, as shown by
the Secretary's statement last week,
is $3.50, 1000, 900.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-12

Diagnosis Of the national COM
plant by the Cincinnati Light: 'Too
muchee talkee."
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-12

Cupid nowadays seems to have
laid aside his bow and arrow, and
armed himself with revolver that
shoots to kill.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-12

Ex-Gov. Begole, Of Michigan, is
sure that the Republicans cannot
carry that State this fall. The solid
Northwest is probably q thing Of the
past.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-12

The cotton crop OF Western India
is expected to be the largest ever
recorded.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-12

The Congressional race in the fifth
District is not being settled with
any startling amount Of speed.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-12

All the ex-Governors of Oregon
are living
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England spends S6O,OOO,OO0 per
annum on her navy; the United States
spend $16,OOO,OOO.
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Chicago wants to swallow her
suburbs and become a city of 8, 90, 600
population
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-08-12

Fashion writer's say everything
Japanese and East Indian is in fash
inn
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The Republican convention of
Indiana will have 1894 delegates.
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Furniture a Speciality.

Qed- Room, Parlor. and all kinds of 0rns
- mental and Household Furniture, KEEP
on hand, this being a specially. FurnitgN
Department on second floor. y22n1
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-06-16
DOMESTIC CHIMES.
Sweet Notes Produced With a Silver or
Plated Spoon and a String.

Sweet Notes Produced With Silver or
Plated Spoon and q String.
Would you care to listen to the
chimes of a cathedral in your own
room? Tie silver or plated spoon to
a string or light cord, take an end of
the cord in each hand and place one
end in each ear. Then swing the
spoon so that it strikes against some
object-as for example a table-and
every conclusion will transmit a sound
so intense that it will seem as if some
gigantic clock were striking in the
neighborhood. The effect is very sim
gular one and the illusion complete.
Solid bodies are excellent conductors
of sound. 1t is this principle that is
used in the construction of the toy
telephone sold on the streets. The
cord that unites the two ear-pieces,
when stretched out, will easily carry
the voice considerably over one hundred
and fifty yards. Telephones with cords,
called mechanical telephones, are now
made that carry both simple sounds
and conversation several kilometers.
Indeed, so we'll do solid bodies trans
NIT sound that by plunging a stick into
the Rhone, and applying the ear to the
end out of the water, one can hear
the noise made by the stones as they
are carried by the current along the
bottom of the river.-Paris Journal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-06-16
AN EXPENSIVE ARMY.
Army, Press and Prisons of the Uruguayan
Republic.

Army, Press and Prisons of the Uruguayan
Republic.
The Uruguayan army has some popu-
lar features. One is found in the fact
that not long ago it had one thousand
officers and one thousand privates.
Now, when it is recruited for active
operations, it has six thousand men and
eighteen Generals. 1t is no wonder that
the army costs the country more than
FIVE hundred dollars per man. Prisons
are needed for political offenders. It is
not always convenient to have them
killed on the way to headquarters be-
cause they a.e said to be thinking about
escape. Then more than one prison is
convenient. If the obnoxious party does
not think of escape, or is not supposed
to think of it, on his way to the head
quarters, and so survives that trip, it
sometimes become necessary to remove
him from one prison to another. This
is nearly always fatal. He is sure to be
reported killed in attempting to escape.
A man connected with one of the
newspapers not long ago offended, a po-
litical chief. He was arrested and sent
to a certain prison quite out of the ordi-
nary center for imprisoning. 1t was
back of the house of the offended polit-
ical chief. There was gateway be.
tween his yard and the prison yard.
The chief came into the prison yard
and with his own hands whipped
the man till he was tired out
and then told him that Montevideo air
would not be healthy for him. The man
fled to Buenos Ayres. This is a little
rugged. One wonders how such a
chief could survive a month. 1t is
proper to remark here that the press Of
these South American cities is as free
as the air. The Government is criti-
cised with the greatest freedom and
ferceness. 1t is part of the status
quo. Thus the scourge and the pen
carry on the old-time strife. The ages
are rolled together. The tenth and the
nineteenth centuries stand face to face.
&C. II. FoaOler, IN Chicago Nes0s.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-06-16
A FEMALE SCHEME.
Showing What q Woman Can Do When
She Sets Out to Try,

Showing What Woman Can Do When
She Sets Out to Try,
"Let me tell you little story Of what
a woman can do when she wants to
economize," said South Slider. Com.
ing in on the cable cars have frequently
noticed at certain place down town a
crowd of well-dressed women standing
on the sidewalk, as if waiting for some
thing or somebody. My curiosity has
been so often aroused in this way that
few days ago promised my wife new
bonnet if she would find out what the
women were waiting for. She accepted
the proposition, came down town with
me, l pointed the place out to her, and
at night she was ready to report. The
explanation proved to be very simple.
There is an intelligence office for female
help in the neig hborhood, and these
women were there looking for servants.
By accosting the girls who might be on
their way to OF from the intelligence
office, and making q bargain with them
right there on the pavement, they could
save the fee charged help-seekers in the
Office. My wife didn't find out what
the woman who keeps the intelligence
office thinks of the women who thus
cheat her out of some of her business,
but III bet it would be interesting if ~
ported in full. Chicago Herald
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the amount of the dover. A
pirl who will bring twenty thousand
dollars into the new household generally
has a trousseau worth two thousand
dollars. It is customary for the BRIDE
groom to offer presents in proportion
to his wealth Jewels, laces and car
riages are expected of the man who can
afford them. If his mother has no girls
she presents her future daughter with
portion of the diamonds and laces which
She would have reserved for her own
daughters. Laces and jewels are thus
handed down and kept from generation
to generation. Relatives on both sides
are expected to offer something more
precious than a long array of nickel,
plated cake-baskets, cruet-stands and
napkin-rings. AS you see, to MAINTAIN
these expensive traditions it is impossl-
BILE for the French to have large families.
for it is a national and family pride for
parents to give as large dover as their
fortunes will allow, with the proviso,
however, of keeping the larger portion
for themselves, for it does not enter into
the customs to lessen the Importance OF
their own establishments for the
marriage settlement of their chill
dren. This custom of dover exists in all
classes of people who have any thing to
give. Small tradespeople will set up
shop for their children; peasants and
farmers will give so many herd OF cat
tie or portion of their land. Others,
whose incomes can not be divided, draw
up papers to pay a certain amount of it
yearly to their children, and lawsuits,
which force parents to the terms stipu-
lated in marriage contracts, are often
the subject of court discussions.
The ceremony of signing the contract
opens the wedding festivities. Unusually
takes place the day before the civil and
religious marriages, at the house OF the
bride. The contract is signed in the
presence of the family lawyers, by the
bride, bridegroom, parents and wit
nesses, just before guests arrive, who
have been invited to a reception, a mus
ical soiree, or ball. The bride for this
entertainment wears her last girlish
party-dress, light pink or blue gauze,
simply made la VERGE, adorned with
no jewels but those she has been allowed
to wear in her girlhood-coral, small
pearls and turquoise. Cor. Brooklyn
Eagle.
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Sboo,ooo,oOo.

Many splendid fortunes lie in the English
Court Of Chancery, which belong to Amer
can citizens. The court has held possession
in some cases, for more than one hundred
and fifty years. Cox & Co., London, En-
gland, have with great care and diligence
compiled book containing tho names of
fifty Thousand heirs and their descendants
who have been advertised for to claim
these fortunes. The book gives Christian
coed for the recovery Of money and estates.
Sent free to all parts of the world upon
receipt of one dollar. Remittance may be
made by registered letter or money order.
Address cox G. CO., Al Southampton
Buildings, London, England: Cox & Co.
refer by permission to the Kellogg News
paper Company, New York.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-06-16
HOME AND FARM.

Never use water from stone res
ervoir for cooking Purposes.-H~
change.
Cook oatmeal in double boiler, OF
in a covered pail set in kettle OF water.
Re- sure to salt 1.-THE Caterer.
BE sure and sprinkle little pulver'
lied charcoal about the poultry quar-
tiers. The fact thatit soon disappears is
evidence that more is required. -1To9
Times
Salt will curdle milk; therefore, IN
preparing milk toast, sauces. scrambled
eggs, or any thing of which milk is inc
foundation, do not add the salt till the
pan has left the fire.-Western RstraS.
1t is an error to always choose the
largest fowls for sitters. Those of me-
dunn size are generally better for this
purpose. provided they are not deficient
in feathers. Cincinnati Times.
To can tomatoes: Scald to remove
the skins; boil in their own juice TWEEN
ty minutes. Heat your jars by pouring
hot water into them, then empty and
wipe dry. Put the tomatoes in
scalding hot and seal at once. These
tomatoes keep perfectly.-Ioledo Blade.
Professor Cook, OF the Michigan
Agricultural College, says most of the
failures to destroy potato bugs by paris
green comes from waiting until eggs
have been laid on the vines before ap.
plying it. Make the first application
Just as the plants come up.
"A nice and cheap pickle: Chop fine
one large head of cabbage, three large
green and three large red bell peppers.
Add two ounces of yellow mustard seed.
one ounce of celery seed and three
tablespoonful of salt. Boil three pints
of vinegar, and pour on the mixture
hot. Stir we'll and put in a large jar.
Fit to eat in a few days.-TAs House,
hold.
To cook cauliflower take off the out
er leaves and separate the cauliffower
into little branches. Put into a sauce.
pan with little salt and cover with
cold water. Boil until soft, then drain
off the water, put in a gill of milk thick.
ened with a little flour, a piece Of butter
as large as a walnut, and a sprinkling
OF pepper. Boil up again and serve hot.
Household.
"A swine-breeder says that in wean-
ing pigs there is something more to be
considered than simply taking them
away from their mother. They should
be weaned gradually, so as not to gel
any stunt or setback. To take pig:
away before they have been taught tc
eat gives them check for at least two
weeks. Feeding them in a separate place
to which they have access will accustom
them to ing.-Prairie Farmer.
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THE CHAMPION.
A Lazy Man Who IL Entitled to the Prise
for Inactivity.

for Inactivity.
rClara Belle, In Cincinnati Enquire11
The champion lazy man lives across the
street from me. have watched him on
and off now for months, and he is the only
man ever knew who didn't do any thing
at all. It is true that he filed his nails
once, but he looked at them for hours at .
time every day for week before he began
the work, and then he was tho creator part
of another week getting them in shape.
Since that time he has been placidly ad-
miring them whenever / have glanced
across tho way at him. He is large, fat
and heavy eyed, and don't think he goes
out of the house once month. He has
tho appearance of perfect health, and
about the only exercise he takes is that in.
voEved in the movement of turning his
head sideways so that he can look out Of
the window. He lives in the window OF
his big house-he is widower and q
man of large means-where he has
constructed curious sort Of .
divan. The low window-sill has boon
widened and extended and heaped with
cushions and rugs. Two iron arms or
brackets extend from either side of the
window. They are designed to hold
books. Outside of the window and at.
tached to the easement are mirrors ar.
ranged to such an angle that one within
the room may look out and SEQ up and
down the street. There are thick portieres
across the windows. At eleven O'Clock
every morning servant draws these
curtains aside, and in about an hour from
that time the champion lazy man waddles
up to the window and stares sleepily out
on the street. He usually wears q
dressing gown, though his attire Is other
wise neat and conventional. He is they
scar cely out of bed until he sinks at once
into his luxurious cushion at the win
dow. His heavy eyes are turned upon any
object that may interest him in the
street, and he solemnly and soulfully stares
at it until the servant appears with the
breakfast tray. He is too much fatigued to
sit at the table and eat. and so the tray 10
placed beside him and he sits there and
munches his food lazily for the next hour.
After that he sits and looks out Of the win.
dow until it is time to eat dinner. I have
known him once or twice to sit up to dim
ner, but this is only on rare occasions.
Regularly every day his carriage comes
around to take him out for drive, and
regularly he stays at home. He seems
to be rather amused, however, by the
horses as they walk up and down before
the house. There are q lot Of complacent
old family servants to attend to him. He
never goes to the theater or opera, has
no family ties, and simply lives in solitude
and magnifcence in big city house and
worshiping but one god-himself. 1t isn't
particularly noble life, perhaps, but then
he seems to like it, and don't know that
it is my province to complain.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-06-16
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The French have taken the Ameri-
can verb Ito interview" into their Ian
guage.
-Tattooing in Japan is practised to
such an extent that a law prohibiting
the practice has just been passed.
"A French bonnet is named the
giraffe capote, and is trimmed with two
velvet ears of unequal length and size.
The Tower of London has been re-
opened to visitors, after having been
closed for more than a year on account
of the dynamite explosion.
The Sultan of Turkey is said to
pay two German apothecaries $1,000 a
year each, with board and rooms In the
palace, and the services Of several at
PENDANTS.
-Sixty-nine of her British Majesty s
big ships are said to be '.shams, an
tiques and curios, whose proper place is
in a naval museum or colossal marine
bric-a-brac shop"
An extraordinary fact in connec-
ton with the Russian conscrlpts drafted
into the ranks in 1885 is shown by some
statistics inst published. The total num-
Der of conscripts accepted was S47, 5o7,
of whom no fewer than 43,83O were
Jews.
"A great number of important and
interesting documents have lately been
discovered in stable lot at Belvoir
Castle by an inspector who was sent
down to look over the Duke of Rut-
lands family papers by the Historical
Manuscript Commissioners. Many Of
these old documents are of great his
torical value, and among them Isl diary
kept by the Earl of Rutland when he
was in attendance on Charles l.
The ways of the japanese post-office
are peculiar. In most countries, if the
postage on letter is inadequate, the
deficiency is recovered from the adj
dressee, and if he objects to be mulcted,
the letter is retained and there is an end
of the matter. 1t is not so in Japan.
The other day an unfortunate Japanese
declined to pay the extra postage,
whereupon he was dragged before a
magistrate and fined five dollars for
evading the taxes.
The silver tree of South Africa
(Leucadendron argenteun), "whose
leaves shine like FURNISHED metal" has
been supposed to occur nowhere in the
world except, on the slopes of Table
Mountain, near Cape Town; but cor
respondent of the Gardeners Chronicle
says he once saw specimen of this
marvellous plant in garden in the dis.
tr:ct of Madura, in Southern India. and
seeding twenty inches high is now
fourishing in an English conservatory.
The silver tree wsuld seem to be quite
as well worthy the attention of col
lectors as many of the orchids for which
! high prices are paid.
According to French paper thu
Count de Lesseps was foretold by al
ancient Egyptian oracle. 1t says
'Herodotus relates that when Neco
King of Egypt, undertook the work o
I'M ting the waters of the Mediterranean
and Red Seas, by means of a canal
! 100000 men persisted in the work. HI
then caused the work to be stopped ant
consulted an oracle, receiving the re
| ply, "A barbarian will finish thy work.
] The gentleman who alighted upon tina
! bit of history copied upon sheet of pa
per the ragraph from Herodotus ant
carried it to de Lesseps, who, having
/ read it, took his pen and appended
THE barbarian prophesied by the oracle
F. de Lesseps.' F"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-06-16
NEW USE OF FISH.
Converting Fish Refuse Into Pa1atablo
Soups, Jellies and Oils.

Converting Fish Refuse Into Palatablo
Soups, Jellies and Oils.
A remarkable and ingenious way Of
using the refuse of fish has been brought
out in Aberdeen by Messrs. Nordenfeldt
"a gun celebrity-and Sahistrom.
They are able to convert this refuse into
various substances, such as soups,
jellies, oils, CLUES and guanos. The
method by which the refuse material is
treated need not be entered into, as the
process is of somewhat intricate and
technical character; suffice it that what
in the past has been regarded as good
for nothing is now to be turned into q
nutritious food, and that this is a matter
which must evoke interest. There is no
doubt tendency toward scepticism in
regard to every new development of
science, and the striking character OF
the present discovery of fish will
probably be productive of con-
siderable amount of incredulity;
yet it is satisfactory to know
that Prof. McKendrick, of Glasgow
University, has stated, after demonstra-
ton, that the results are highly salts
factory. The efforts of Messrs. Norden-
feldt and Sahlstrom will be watched
with keen interest and the further de-
velopment will be eagerly welcomed.
1t is stated the discoveries intend erect
ing two factories, one in the Farce is
lands and the other in the west of Scot
land. Besides this. restaurants are to
be opened in Aberdeen, Dublin and
London, as an experiment, for the pur-
pose of supplying cheap and nourish-
ing dinner at the cost of one penny. 1t
is to be hoped the enterprise will sue
coed, as it will make an important addi-
ton of an obviously valuable character
to scale of dietary especially oppor-
tune at a time when wages are low and
trade in state of stagnation. Scot
tiSb NeUs.
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VALUABLE AUTOGRAPHS.
Tho Interesting Collection Owned by
Famous Newspaper Writer.

Tho Interesting Collection Owned by
Famous Newspaper Writer.
Ben PerIey Poore has collection of
the autographs of more than sixteen
thousand eminent men, which he be-
gan to make in 1886. II was then,"
he says, son visit to Andrew Jackson
in company with my father We were
present together one morning at the
opening of Old Hickory's mail, and as
he read the letter he turned to us and
said: 4 am beginning to get letters
asking for my autograph. 1t is Curl
Gus thing. and / don't see what they
want it for. have been afraid to send
it out for fear that some one might
write something over it and get me
into trouble, but l have served the
question by this card He then
showed us card about the size
of playing card, which he
had covered entirely in writing his sig
nature, and he told me that I could
have one if / wished it, / took it, OF
course, and have been an autograph
collector to certain extent from that
day to this. l should not say an auto
graph collector in the seeking sense Of
the term. Inever wrote to man for
his autograph in my life. l have mere
ly saved the things that have come to
me. And just here would say l do
not believe in tie general system of au-
tograph hunting, as it is now practiced.
Autographs should not be collected as
you would collect the front teeth of dis
tinguished men, or the parings Of
their fnger-nails. The mere signature
means nothing, and unless there is soma
sentiment or association with the rams
it is hardly worth the keeping."-
CltrSstien Union.