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The Irish standard., 1886-12-25
Oastlerea Mountain.

This mountain, also known as sheye
Golry, was anciently called Brj LeaJh.
According to a legend in the Book Of
Tara" mentioned byO'Donovan, it re-
ceiyed the name last given from the
circumstance that Leath, young war
rior Of Annually. who loved Bri, the
daughter of neighborlng chief living
on this hill came with his retinue to ask
her hand in marriage from her father.
The latter, however, refused his con-
sent and fight ensued which resulted
in the defeat Of the youthful lover. The
lady died soon after of a broken heart
and the mountain was thel eafter known
as Bri Leatb, name which it retained,
until the last century. Irish World.
The Irish standard., 1886-12-25
The Giant S Grave.

AIMS grave Is W DG 1o1iltt AiSesA
Dayjdstown. in the toWnlana OF
Brownstown, between Inistiogue and
Rosbercou, in the barony Of Ida, which
forms the southeastern portion ot Kill
kenny county. Father uea}y. the emil
nent antiquarian, believes it to have
been the toulb Of O']Jea, the hereditary
chieftajn OF that district. Canon
Moore, 2. r., of .loilnsto"I. i'll a paper
Of his real before the Kilkenny
Archaeological Society On the Sd April,
l54y, describes the grave To DE Il 'oeep
trenc|, about II feet long by As feet IN
widti,,' extending nearly north and
south in IL level field. the bottom 1oornl
with hard tIof!den clay. aud Che SIDES
and ends originally lined with coarse
flags. wnlch q fs.c.neG, whom he very sn-
dignantly ant. very justly styles ''lgno-
rant carried away foG the YARD OF his
dwe]ling The pessantry, he says, CALI
it in Irish the tomb OF the long man, >"
and tradition has it that its occupant
was eight feet high. Canon Moore ADDS
that very ipteiligen5 old nan named
Donovan was taken to the plaees4aSs ne
stated, when 31ut very young and lNid
by one Of the Oldest members OF. A}s
family, there is the tomb OF long Nta.
Lord Edward PitzgerAld's Refusal to zSetraoS
Your friend was not correct in assert
ing that Lord Edward Fitzgerald had
apologizeu in the Irish Parliament foI
Genouncing the Lord-lalen5enant and
the majority Of It's members The iii
cident occurred during adeba' G IN S'ar~
lament in 1882 The ministry had is
sued proclamation against the revival
of the volunteers and he condemned the
proceeding in the House. saying IN the
course Of bis speech, 81 do think that
the Lieutenant and the majority
of the members Of the Eiouss. ale the
worst subjects the King has" Loud
cries of Bar" ana Take down bl5
words'' followed 5his outbursl from all
sides The House was at once cleared
of strangers and a furious debate OF
three hours ensued, but all that could
be drawn from HIM in the way OF ex-
planation was the following equiVocai
expressions: ~ said so. It is true,
and am sorry for it,. That his words
we're not considered in the light Of q
retraction is seen from the fact that he
was again brought to the bar on the
following day, though the matter was
finally allowed to drop.-Irish World.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-12-16
BELLEVUE La, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16 1885,

captain, taking up the whale lance and
planting himself in the bow. The boat
was worked gently forward. But the
captain suddenly changed his mind.
He did not like the way bhe huge
creature was behaving
Laying down the lance, he took up
the bomb gun again. ''Pass cartridge
from the stern locker" he lnuttered
and then reloaded his piece, thinking
it safer to try another shot than to pull
up within lancing distance.
In obedience to a wave of his hand,
the boat was now worked little nearer.
ranging alongside, but keeping well
clear OF the whales fiukes, when a
second bomb was fired into ITS body,
at the ''water-line," we'll forward, and
dipping" at an angle of thirtg or forty
degrees. Four oars struck sinto the
water at the same instant, E:opelling
the boat backward-but not before we
were all again drenched frons head to
foot by the powerful lateral sweep of
the great creatures tail. Down it
went again. leaving a roaring whirl-
pool in its wake, but rose after few
seconds, spouting fresh blood. The
last bomb, as was afterwards:s :seen. had
exploded in its lungs; yet for aive or ten
minutes the whale plunged about,
spouting with a hollow ngise after
every few seconds. The boat, mean
time, had been backed SONS distance
away to be out of reach of these furries.
which became less and less violent until
at length the huge creature turned
partly on its side and foatsd on the
surface.
Our prize was true finback whale
about sixty feet in length. He sank
within an hour-as is often. the case
with these whales-before oFr schooner
could reach us, but rose to the surface
and was secured the third sday after.
Thus ended successful hus,t. A bad
shot with the bomb-lance ard the hun.
ters carried twenty miles out to sea.
with fog rising and gale coming on.
would be the reverse side CT the piet-
ure.-A. r. Myers, in Youth $ Compan-
ION.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-12-16
AN IDEAL COW.
The Appearance and Leading Points Of
the Famous Jersey, Mary Anne.

tine Famous dorsey, Mary Anne.
Mary Anne, of ST. Lambert's, the
famous cow (for which Mr.. Fuller has
refused 26,000) is indeed wonder to
look at, even though the beholder knew
nothing of her marvellous butter record.
She is large specimen of the breed,
and no judge of a dairy cow could pass
her by unnoticed. In color she NAV
be regarded as solid fawn, with dark
facings. Her horns are short, fine and
crumpled Head is large, full in the
face, and shade coarse at the muzzle.
Her neck slong and fine. with promi.
nence of dewlap that does not add to her
beauty. Her shoulders are very thin
and fine, with considerable depth to
the brisket. Back of the shoulders she
begins to widen out slowly like wedge.
Her body is very long, with great depth
through the after portion of the
abdomen. Her ribs are long, fiat anu
open, with an unusual stretch between
the last rib and the point of the hip.
Her hip bones are wide apart and
prominent, and the distance from the
point of the hip to the root of the tail.
Her stiles are deep and well developed,
her udder extremely large and perfectly
formed, and for large and tortuou:
milk-veins it is doubtful if she has an
equal living. She looks to be COW of
extraordinary constitution and vitality,
and except that her milking habit
shows marvellous development, she
shows no signs of the wonderful milk
ing tests to which she has been sub
jected To all appearances Mary Anne
is the very picture of rugged, robust
health. and is now unquestionably as
fit. if not indeed filter than ever, to
champion the claims of the Jerseys in
a butter test. She appears to be an ex-
tremely hearty feeder, is fond OF being
petted. singularly cool and free from
nervousness, and. in short, the very
ideal of dairy COW fully in her prime,
and absolutely free from faults or all
ments Of any kind.--Torofsto Globe.
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WILLIAM HENRY.
How q Remarkably Smart BOY Was Dis
couraged by Cruel Teacher.

How Remarkably Smart BOY Was Dis
couraged by q Cruel Teacher.
A teacher in a country school was
very much annoyed the first day by the
would-be smart performances of an
overgrown boy of about fifteen. Mild
expostulations proving of no avail. the
indignant teacher amazed the obstrep-
erous pupil greatly by treating him to
most thorough and deserved thrash
ing, after which he was sent home to
reflect on the error of his ways.
A half hour later he rcappeared in
company with his mother, an angular,
wiry female, evidently perturbed in
spirit.
"William Henry says you licked
him." she said, abruptly.
YES" replied the teacher, coolly.
''He annoyed me beyond endurance and
punished him for it.
'Well, you hadn't ort O. done il, "
said the woman.
"Why notp'
"Cause it's apt to have discouragin'
effect on i'm
.'How so?''
'Well, amt you found out that he's
the smartest boy in this here school?
He's clear to compound fractions in his
'rithmetic and they amt another boy
furder along than division"
'What of that.''
''He kin out-spell airy boy in this
school,"
what if he can?"
''He kin beat any of 'em readin' and
he kin say the multiplication table
back ards as easy as for ards. And he
kin bound airy State in the American
Union an tell its capital an rivers"
..Indeed."
Eyes, sir; an I'd like to know if that
don't give him some privileges tho
others amt no right to expects? It's
discouragin' to William Henry to be
mauled round same as if he was an
abe scholar or one o. the first reader
class. 1t TUX him down awfully to get
licked like common mental 'rithmetic
or first part O. jogerfy boy. Amt his
larnin' goin' to give him no privileges
here?'
.'He can not be impudent and DISC
bey the rules of the school under any
circumstances"
''An' he's got to be as common as
anybody. eh?''
He must behave as the other boys
do"
swell. it don't seem fair, an it's
mighty discouragin' for i'm. He might
as well not 60 in for edgucation if
that's all the good it III do i'm. It's
an awful setback for i'm, smart as he
is. I'm feerd he won't have no heart
to tackle partial payments an gram
mar if he's got to be licked as COM
mon as anybody Detroit Free Press.
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LOSS OF MEMORY.
One of the Worst Features in Cases
This Kind.

One of the Worst Features in Cases OF
This Kind.
The loss of m emory in the aged is a
familiar example, says Dr.. NJ. L. HoI-
brook, and can only be accounted for
by deterioration of the braiB elements
and diminution of blood supplied to
them. One of the worst features of
such cases is the fact that an old per-
son is not. for long time after decay
has begun, aware of it, am now treat
ing case of loss of memory in per-
son advanced in years, who did not
know that his memory had failed most
remarkably till / told him of it. He is
making vigorous effort to bring it back
again, and with partial success.
The method pursued is to spend two
hours daily. one in the morning and
one in the evening, in exercising this
faculty. The patient is instructed to
give the closest attention to all that he
learns, 50 that it shall be impressed on
his mind clearly. He is asked to recall
every evening all the facts and expert
ences of the day and again the n ext
morning. Every name heard is writ, m
down and impressed on his mind clear
ly. and an effort made to recall it at in
tervals. Ten names from public men
are ordered to be committed from
memory every week A verse of fpoet-
ry is to be learned. also verse from
the Bible, daily. He is asked to remem-
ber the number of the page in any book
where any interesting fact is recorded
These and other methods are slowly
resuscitating failing memory.-Bos-
ton Herald.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-12-16
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

The difference between a porous
plaster and lottery ticket is that the
plaster draws something-N. Y. Mail.
-Four hundred and eighty thousand
cans of fruit were put up by one factory
at Batavia, N. T.. this season.
"A Chicago girl has eloped with a
street-car conductor He was accus-
toned to taking the fare. Phitadeiphia
North american.
Powder magazines do not differ
materially from other magazines in
some respects. Both, for instance, are
liable to go up.
A woman always tells secret to
some one because she is afraid she
might die and then there would be no
one left to keep it.--Merchan. Traueier.
Ii people who mean to begin to
read should read all the advice to read
ers about reading they wouldn't have
time to read any thing else. SomeruitJe
Journal.
DIR. Lyman Beecher once replied
to an inquiry of DIR. Hawes: How
are you getting on?'' First rate!
first rate! first rate! ever since
stopped trying to run this world.
Restaurant Matron-"l want you
girls to.fix up little extra and look as
pretty as you cam" Waiter Girls-..Is
the butter bad again?" Restaurant
Matron-''No; the meats tough. IN.
Y. Sun
Mrs. Society-"Now, dearie. be
good little girl, and go to bed soon.
Mamma must hurry off now" Little
Dot-"Where's 90 goin', mammal"
Mrs. Sim going to party. pet"
Little Dot gazing at the decollette cos
tume)-- Is 90 goin' to dress ooself
when 90 gets there?"-0n,asa World.
Yes" said Mr. Hendricks to the
minister. ~ am proud of that dog.
Why, he knows the different days of
the week." just then the dog began
to run to gun which stood in the cor
ner. then back to his master. and wag
his tail. Hes made mistake this
time, pa" said Bobby; ''he thinks it's
Sunday. "-Harper's Bazar.
job Shuttle sat by the open CRATE
upon which the first fall blaze was
burning. He was in pleasant mood,
as all men are when they are comfort
able. II suppose" said he to Mrs.
Shuttle, that the children were all at
school to-daya' you suppose so?
Why. don't you know they were?"
mo, not exactly. I met Charles
down town about an hour after
school began" 20, he was car
rying a note from the teacher to her
best young man." THAT'S pretty bust.
! ness" .But she marks him ten in his
studies. for keeping mum about it. ;
20. that makes difference" Hart
| ford Posi-.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-12-16
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

"A sausage factory at Hudson, N.
T., cuts up fifteen hundred pounds of
meat every hour.
Inventors would do we'll to make
| note of the fact that a machine is greatly
needed that will cut up corn as it is
found on the hill Troy Times.
American plow-makers will watch
| with interest the endeavor to introduce
American plows into Mexico. Three
| hundred were recently introduced.
The Rochester Tumbler Company,
| OF Pennsylvania, offers four thousand
dollars in prizes to its employees for the
best work during the coming year.
A corporation has been formed at
Azusa, Los Angeles County, CAL,
which proposes to expend 100000 in
piping the water for irrigation, which
has heretofore been wastefullv con-
Quoted through open bitches.
The output of Swiss matchmaker
is forty watches q year, of United
States mechanic one hundred and fifty,
and the American earns in his skilled
line of labor three times as much as his
Swiss competitor.
"A new process of making steel
pipe has been introduced into Ger
many. AS soon as the steel is cast into
the round mold core is thrust into the
steel, so that tube is form ID between
it and the walls of the mold.
The farmers of South Carolina
have concluded that they can no longer
raise rice with profit. It is very diff
ficult to obtain reliable labor for the
rice hclds. During the last few years
several other cereals have come into
use in the place of rice, and the de-
mand for it has decreased. Chicago
Times.
-Masons and plasterers would do
well to make note of a hint thrown out
by an English architect. who says that
the addition of saccharine matter in
creases the strength of mortar, making
common lime, with sugar added, as
strong as Portland cement. Water to
which sugar has been added, dissolves
fourteen and half times more lime
than does water without sugar. Chi
cago Tribune.
The average annual wages of en-
ployes of rolling mills in Dauphin
County-says the Harrisburg (Pa. Pa
triot-are $479 and those of employees
of Bessemer steel works $472; while
the employees of printing and book pub
fishing houses average S487 per annum.
and those of daily and weekly news
papers in Dauphin County average $473
per annum.
AT the mechanical exhibition at the
Palais de rIndustrie in Paris, there is
exhibited. machine for registering
votes, which will, it is said, be shortly
installed in the Senate and the Cham
Der of Deputies. Its object is to obvi-
ate mistakes. the loss of time aud the
necessity of the members leaving their
desks to record their votes The ma
chine, which is the invention of M.
Debayeux, is worked by electricity.
and the vote of a full house. it is said,
may be made known by this means in
less than five minutes.
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THE GIRL IN THE KITCHEN,

,rho e,rl i'm the kitcnen sits all alone,
In her work k-wOrn. faded clothes:
az I'll only the night to call her own.
with only the wind to voice her woes.
The kitchen girl, like pinioned dove,
Hae heart grown heavy and slow;
For a fathers kiss and mothers love
Are the dim like visions of long ago.
The kitchen girl has love as true
As the maid N the drawing room;
And her poor heart aches as her thoughts
pursue
Their faded fancies athwart the gloom
put the Christ who lay in the manQer straw
WIN find in the tchen even His own;
girl as pure as the saints who draw
IN reyerent circle about His throne
Charles Knonlcs Bolton, in Good H0usekeep-
inn
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-12-16
WEDDING INVITATIONS.
Why They Should Be Extended Only to
the Most Intimate Friends.

Why They Should Be Extended Only to
the Most Intimate Friends.
The whole difficulty about wedding
etiquette and the difference of opinion
that exists on so many points is the re-
suit of the false and loose methods and
the hollow mockeries and shams into
which people have been drifting for
several years. Weddings which were
once the most charming, as well as the
most beautiful of social events incident
al to the home life. have been allowed
to become to great extent mere spec
tacles for the exhibition of vanity. The
bride commissions some one to look
after her dresses. the bridegroom ap-
points some one to hire carriages, en-
ploy clergymen, etc., and the BRIDE
family puts the whole arrangement of
the house, the church, the feast. etc.,
in the hands of some caterer or decor
ator. The getting up of the invitations
is given to an expert in such
matters in some shop, and very
often the invitations are sent out
wholesale by some one who is
employed for the purpose. People
are invited to 60 or not, as they feel
inclined, and 60 to shops and order
presents sent in the most perfunctory
way, so that bride is as likely as not
to get twenty vases, or dozen lamps,
or fifty spoons of different patterns.
Where presents are sent, they should,
if possible be sent early, so as to give
the bride-elect plenty of time to ac.
knowledge them; and if worth sending
at all. they deserve that some time and
care should be given to their selection.
1t is common thing to hear brides say
that, of all their wedding presents, they
appreciate and value most the few ap.
propriate and often inexpensive things
that come from their intimate friends
1t should not be forgotten that a
wedding is the first, choicest, and most
important of all social incidents, and
that an invitation to one is one of the
greatest compliments that can be con.
ferred. Invitations to balls, dinners
and parties may be perfunctory, mean
ingiess. but almost without exception
it is only friends or acquaintances who
are honored, who are invited to a
wedding, and a point should always be
strained to make some sort of acknowl
edgment. Philadelphia Times.
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-She-"I don't see why won er
should not make as good swimmers 81
men, He-"Yes-but you see 1
swimmer has to keep his mouth shut. >
Life.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-12-16
FUNNY FLAMiNGOES.
How They Amused Themselves at the
Old Play of Skipping the Rope.

How They Amused Themselves at the
Old Play of skipping the Rope.
They're funny fellows, I can tell
you," the captain declared. 81 met a
man down the coast who told me that
once when he was huntin' ON the
Florida lowlands he came upon a
whole colony of famingoes among the
mangrove trees. He watched their
antics for some time some standin'
on one leg, some with their long neeks
in all sorts of curious positions. some
stalking up and down as solemn as
parsons-and be thought it wouldn't
be bad idea to play joke on them.
$50 he took a fish-line, and when
the birds flew away he fastened one
end of the line to the root of tree
and climbed with the other end up into
another tree.
Before long the birds came back,
and then the fun began. AS soon as
one or two stepped across the line, the
man in the tree gave it pull, and the
flamingoes began hoppin' and trippin'
and daucin' about, now fallin' down,
now jumpin' across and really seemin'
to enjoy it immensely. He actually
had 'em all a-skippin' rope, and there's
no telhn' how long they'd "a kept it
up if it hadn't been so very funny that
my friend couldn't help laughin' out
loud that frightened them off. That
may seem rather brisk story" said
Captain Sam; "but from what I've
seen of my specimen, fully believe il"
- Charles Frederick Holder. in st. Mich
olas.
1T is stated that electricity will put
q piano out of tune. What is more
badly needed is something little more
powerful than notwithstanding
that will put certain pianos out of the
house next door. -Norristown Herald.
If some paper insinuates that a
politician is for sale, there is a good
deal of irritation displayed; but let the
same paper state that the politician
has never been sold and everybody
laughs.-LoweH Citizen.
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Nearly fifteen million pounds OF
fruit have been exported by the grow.
ers in Vaca valley, California, this sea-
son.
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John, what are these round ivory
things in your dress-vest pocket"
''T-those are samples of b-buttons
that got at my t-tailor's to-day,
dear; tucked them in there d-day
before yes" (which do you pro-
pose to choose for steady wear, John,
the red, the white or the blue ones?'
Puck.