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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-04-09

Between nineteen and twenty thousand
are now enrolled in the class Of 1886 Of the
Chautauqua Circle throughout the country
There are, in connection with tic Circle,
1900 members iii Japan, and several
hundred in Russia 4 remarkable fact
about these classes is that the majority are
ladies' In four years 55Gl have graduated,
varying IN age-some 50 years old OF
these graduates 003 were mon showing
that ladies' are ayailing themselves Of the
opportunity to obtain a higher education
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20
PRETTY GIRLS.
Beauty BY No Means as Attractive a. 1t
Is Supposed to BE.

Beauty BY No Means as Attractive a. 1t
s Is Supposed to BE.
Beauty in women is not to be under
valued, but it is easy to overvalue it. A
well-known employer, who has about
two thousand girls in his store and
work-rooms, was asked the other day
whether a pretty girl could sell more
goods than an ordinary-looking one.
After hesitation he answered, doubtful
jly: "Yes--if she has other qualifica-
TONS. Beauty alone, he said, will not
lure the money from a careful customer;
and when girl is too conscious of her
beauty, and is disposed to depend upon
it for her power to please, it becomes a
hindrance. The intelligent mind, the
winning manner, the earnest purpose,
are ''the other qualifications which
give success.
1t is much the same in the great attain
of marriage. Beauty alone is by no
means the attractive force it is often
supposed to be. Dull, conscious, ire
sponsive beauty pleases but for mo-
ment, and does not in that momen,
please much. tits the good, kind, friend.
", capable girl whom we all like, and
who can soonest convert liking into
love. If, in addition to all these nice
qualities, she has the gift Of beauty, 80
much the better. But we can dispense
with that very easily when the heart is
good and the mind is intelligent,-M r
Ledger.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20
ONCE TOO OFTEN.
A Too Frequent Test of the Financial
Value of Tenpenny Nails,

Value of Tenpenny Nails.
Something clinked on the bottom of
the Randolph street car, and an indif-
ferently washed man, wearing bad clothes
and a worse face, CROPPED about despair
ingly.
ooh, the poor :fellow!'' involuntarily
murmured pale woman with eye
glasses and sympathy, che just looks as
though it was the last nickel he had.''
The other nine passengers looked ex-
eessively sorry, and the tintinnabulations
of the, conductors approaching bell
punch percolated through the gloom like
melancholy cadences from some distant
convent tower. The indifferently washed
man put on a poverty SILVER as the con.
ductor came along.
''Fare, please"
''My dime, sir, just fell through the
foot-rack there on the floor"
''Where?''
Fright down there, sir; Invent clean
out of sight,
I eyes, indeed, Mister Conductor, in
terposed the little woman. II saw him
lose it."
"Never mind" said the Conductor, at
length, "here's your five cents change.
I'll find the dime when | take the car
into the barn.
Then everybody thought what kind
man the conductor was, and the un-
washed passenger debarked at the Hal
sted street crossing.
Not long subsequent he assembled in
to Madison street transport, Some
thing clinked on the floor soon after.
"Fare, SIR" said the conductor, in
terrupting the frantic search which he
was making among the intersticies of
the foot-rack.
Give lost my dime, sir, and it"
.'You are the
Bang!
"Blanked tramp who worked
that"
Biff! Biff!
dodge on me last week.
Bang! Bang! ~
The women screamed; the men
laughed; and he, fishing himself out of
the slushy snow, looked unutterably
bankrupt as he spitefully cast away his
remnant stock in trade-a handful of
tenpenny nails. Chicago Nesos.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20
VOL. XLI.--NO. 81.
old age the person by whom in his boy.
hood it had been marked for life.

Olu aye Guc poISOu ny WHO'LL LII Ills Joy
hood it had been marked for life.
There are some few other specimens
of land tortoise in this country. There
is one on the western prairies consid-
cradle larger than ours. And in the
South there is very large one, known
as the gopher turtle. This creature has
shell nearly fifteen inches long, and
is so strong that it can move under
weight of two hundred pounds, so that
it might easily carry a man on its back.
1t lives in underground burrows in
sandy forests, and does its providing by
night, often making havoc in the sweet
potato and melon patches of the inhab-
itaAts. So the good people of the Gulf
States do not altogether relish the
gopher.
1t is the water-turtles, the terrapins
of our fresh waters and the great sea
turtles which are the delight of epicures.
Of the fresh-water species we have sew
eral varieties, from a little fellow of the
waters of Pennsylvania and New Jer-
sey not four inches long, to the great
and fierce snapping-turtle with she'll
nine inches and more in length. 1t is
said to have been taken of four feet in
total length, from snout to end of tail.
To kill this creature does not kill it's
swapping propensities; the head will
live for hours after being cut off, and
has been known to snap boys finger
or the leg of an investigating hen hours
after it ought to have been dead. It is
not safe thing to throw the head of
snapper in the grass as trap for prowl-
ing chickens or curious boys.
There is one other odd popularity of
tortoises and some other reptiles with
which we may conclude. If we want
to breathe freely, we open our mouth
to do so; but if the mouth of tortoise
or a toad be kept open by inserting a
stick between its jaws, it will soon suf-
focate for want of breath.
This may seem impossible, yet it may
be easily explained. All the higher
animals breathe by pumping the air
into and out of their lungs. We do
our air-pumping by means of the dia-
phragm, a broad membrane below the
lungs, which moves up and down at
every breath, and opens and closes the
lungs successfully. In the tortoise the
mouth is the pump. 1t takes in
mouthful of air. Then it closes its
lips, contracts the cavity of the mouth,
and drives the air down into its lungs.
If the mouth be kept open, this pump
will not work, since the air will rush
outward instead of downward.
This is one of the odd facts of nature.
As many fish can be drowned by being
fastened under water and not allowed
to come to the surface, so many air.
breathers can be sufocated by being
placed in an ocean of air with their
mouths wide open. = Charles Norris,
IN Harper's Young People.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20
ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA, WEDNESDAY,, JANUARY
eral subjects, he said, among them

eral subjects, he said, among them
"the heroes of the late civil war; but
he took the estate of Maine" instead,
because he was reminded Gin these
piping times of peace and recolrcilia-
ton nothing is to be said about loyalty
and treason; flowers are to be scattered
on the graves of the blue and the gray
alike; the battleilags must be furled
and put away in dark places, and
neither on platform nor in pulpit is it
proper to talk of rights secured and
sealed by the blood of brave soldiers
Mr.. Beecher's remarks were loudly
applauded and so were Senator Frye's
confessions that the war is over; if not
for him, certainly for the mass of the
people. He is certainly right. The
popular feeling no longer responds to
mere rhetoric and sentimentalism about
the war If anyone has anything in
teresting to tell-of daring deeds on
either side; of the manner in which
battles were lost and won; of the mis-
takes OF failures of Generals. under
either flag; of adventures and escapes;
OF dangers and difficulties, of the dis
tinguished men North and South, whose
names will forever be associated with
the great war, the public is eager to
listen. The overwhelming rush Of war
literature and the anxiety OF new gen.
Grafton to learn of these not distant
scenes and days proves what deep in
terest is still felt in the war, not, how
ever, as sentiment, but as ''cause''.
Only the old and middle-aged, and
not all of them by any means, share
the feelings of Senator Frye, Robert
Toombs and the politicians that beat
the old war drums to Indifferent ears.
Senator Frye's confession, even more
than Beecher's eulogy, proves to the
wayfaring man that the ''war is over''.
detroit Free Press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20
THE CONFLICT is ENDED.
"A Grand Spectacle Which "History Ha.
Never Had to Record Before"

A Grand Spectacle Which "History Has
Never Had to Record Before.
As a rule the Southern people are
not admirers of the Puritans, and they
may perhaps at first be startled at the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's cutting
them so, as he did at the Brooklyn
New England dinner. But they are
not likely to lay it up against him
when they comprehend the splendid
compliment he paid them
He defined the Purtans as those who
insisted on making themselves instru-
ments in the correction of abuses no
matter at what sacrifice; who refused
to be led away from these aims and
who had the will power to carry them
out at any cost "There are" he said,
''men in Ireland to-day as good Puri-
tans as the world ever saw Every
man, no matter where he lives, does
the best he can without counting the
cost-every such man he reckoned
among the great brotherhood of the
Purltans.
There are great many Puritans in
Georgia and South Carolina, he said,
who meant right but who made mis-
takes. But though they saw every
thing passing away from them, their
sons slaughtered, their wealth disap-
pearing, they showed heroism which
the historian ought to celebrate. He
continues:
They were on the wrong side. They acted
under false lights, but they acted nObly, in
their spheres, and !, born Abolitionlst, / who
fought slavery as old Putnam fought the wolf
in his hole, / who urged on the war and who
relaxed no whit until the end came, desire
to go on recOrd-and hope this at least will
be quoted of mel desire to say deliberately
that since the human race existed on the
earth there is no such spectacle of great
proud people living in some twelve or fifteen
States that after the war accepted the con.
ditions allotted to them-not, admit, with
out some errors here. not without some ex-
cesses there, but take them as a whole, their
patience, their cOntentment, their noble re-
construction, with courage and zeal and work,
presents to the world spectacle that history
has never had to record before.
Senator Frye, of Maine, responded
to the toast ''the State OF Name, in a
bright and incisive speech, but he
couldn't let the chance go by without
growing in an undertone at Beecher's
sentiments. He had his choice of sew
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20


quires the greatest space to tell it,
N r. MAIL
1t is customary in Germany to kill
an editor whenever he says anything
witty. There has been no editor killed
in Germany for many years. -Euans-
ytlle Aryts.
The more hat man can buy for
two dollars the less bonnet woman
can buy for twenty, and yet some folks
say this world was slung together in
perfect harmony.-Philoclelol Call.
First Doctor-Well, I'm sorry to
see you in this shape, Doc. Who's pre-
scribing for you, by the way? Second
Doctor-Nobody. Doing it myself.
First Doctor-Great Scott don't!
You're committing suicide !-Puck.
Tailor - Married or unmarriedp
Customer-Married. Tailor Ito cutter)
One pocket concealed in lining Of
vest. Customer-Eh? What? Tailor
(explaining)-To hide your change, you
know, at night. I'm married myself
Chicago Rambler.
1t knocks all the gilt off the ginger
bread of an editor's life to know that
when he has written fiery and brilliant
article denouncing tyranny and expos
ing slavery he will have to 60 home and
split kindling-wood for his wife and
shine his mother-in-law' boots. Chica-
20 Tribune.
An elderly gentleman is seen to
tread on a piece of orange-peel, and
come heavily down, on what may be po-
litely called the small of his back. To
him, polite stranger, raising his hat:
excuse me, sir; would you mind doing
that againP Ny friend didn't see it. ~
Harper's Bazaar.
-Jones-Smith, you are the LATEST
man ever saw. Smith-Correct.
Jones-They say you sleep fifteen hours
out Of every twenty-four. Smith-Cor-
rect. Jones-What do you do it forp
Smith-In order to economic. You
see it costs nothing to sleep, but the mo-
ment you wake up expenses begin
Boston Post.
Cousin Sophia talented and &C
complisheO Yes, I like Mr.. Fibson.
He's SO sensible. He told me he didn't
care rap for unintellectual women,
however beautiful they might be.
Cousin Bella (only pretty)-Did he,
really? Why, he told me he couldn't
bear intellectual women! He said wom-
ans mission was to be beautiful -
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20

Much is said in favor of the new
kind of bricks made from the waste sand
of glass factories, which often accumu-
lates in such large quantities as to occa-
sion much inconvenience. For utiliza-
ton in this way, the sand is subjected to
an immense hydraulic pressure, and then
baked in furnaces at high temperature,
SO as to produce blocks Of various forms
and dimensions, of uniform white
color, which are composed of almost
pure slick. The crushing load is from
two to three tons per square inch.
CHICAGO Journal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20
GROWING OLD.

I'm growing old. daily feel
The years are creeping on apace,
The seasons and the birthdays steal
Around with but little space;
The t&eS are deeper on my brow,
My walk Is more sedate, Pm told,
My friends are fewer, choicer now
I'm growing old.
The things that pleased me when boy
No longer please, but bore instead;
The friends that gave me greatest Joy
Are scattered far and wide-or dead.
find my mem'ry has a gap.
thrice retell a tale retold,
1 like an after dinner nap
Pm growing old.
I'm growing old. Alack! Alack!
But yesterday was boy,
With life before, an unknown track,
dream of gold without alloy.
Oh, but to live it DER again!
Oh, for the days of youth and gold!
But boys are boys and men are men
I'm growing old.
j. r. Burgess, in Detroit Free Press
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20
a posT.MoRTEM,
The Duties and Responsibilities of tho OF.
ficiRting Surgeons.

floating Surgeons.
Few persons upon reading an ac-
coAnt of post-mortem examination
stop to consider the Importance of the
matter or the time taken up to do the
work of an autopsy. The post-mortem
surgeons are important officers, who
make all the medico-legal examina-
tons for the city, and are the medical
witnesses for the State in cases where
post-mortem examinations are re-
quired. There are two post-mortem
physicians in Baltimore, DR.. S. v.
.Hoopman, for the ten lower wards,
and DR.. L. w. Councilman, for the
ten upper wards.
A reporter, wishing to witness the
post-mortem work, called on DR.. Hoop
man short time ago just as he was
starting to perform such duty. The
case was very important one, being
one of the late murders committed in
the eastern section of the city. Ar
irving at the house, about twenty med
ical students were found, who ac-
companied Dr. Hoopman to the room
where the dead body lay. A table was
prepared by covering it with an oil
cloth. The clothing was removed from
the body, and it was placed on the
table. The doctor carefully inspected
the corpse and noted all wounds, which
in this case were found to be three,
two bullet-wounds and one knife-gash.
The head was first examined. An in
cision was made from ear to ear over
the top of the head, followed by a
gush of blood, which made
some of the spectators remember
that they were needed outside
for moment. The scalp was reflected
backward and forward and the skull
exposed. The skull was then sawed
around on a line with the eyebrows.
When the top of the skull was removed
the doctor took out the brain. The
beautiful organ, with its assures and
convolutions, was mass of blood, the
fatal bullet having plowed it's way di-
agonally through it. An inspection Of
the neck showed that another bullet
had entered at the back, passed through
toward the front, severing the carotid
artery and jugular vein. The next move
was to make a long incision from the
chin down to the navel. The breast
bone was dissected and the heart and
lungs taken out for inspection. After
carefully examining the heart, the doc
tor remarked that "the columne car
nae, chorde tendinee and auriculo-ven-
tricule and semi-lunar valves are all
healthy" The lungs were found
healthy. A piece thrown in water
would not sink, which the doctor said
was test for healthy lungs. The
stomach, liver, spleen, pancreas and
intestines were all in turn carefully re-
moved and inspected. All this COM
pleted, the organs were replaced and
the missions carefully sewed up. So
completely is this done that when the
body is dressed the fact of post-mor.
tenn examination having been made ia
not apparent.
I" How many post-mortems have you
made during the year," asked the re.
porter.
Z" About forty, and about one hum
dred since have been making post.
mortems."
CHANGING at the watch it was found
that four hours had been occupied in
performing the interesting examina.
ton. Baltimore Sun.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20

In the ancient Athenian republic
Cisthenes devised ostracism as a
way OF getting out of the way any pub
lie man whom the people feared or dis
trusted. If six thousand of the citizens
voted for the ostracism of man he was
compelled to withdraw from the city
within ten days and remain in banish-
ment at tlrst for ten years and after
ward for five years. Even Aristides,
Themistocles and Cimon were thus
quietly sent into exile.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20

When men sheer at the want OF
courage in women they seem to forget
that a tender and delicate girl will
silently, and without sign, endure un-
told agonies in breaking in new pair
OF boots two sizes too sn- I'll for her,
while man will rip and snort as if he
was shot if his buck corn happens to
be disturbed by a bit of careless leather
IN Z. Times,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20

The Presidency of the United States
is to be abolished. 1t is lie Figaro, tbs
Partisan truth-teller. tina. lets us know
about it,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20

With what an air Of calm superior.
ity hen will gobble a ,wormdG
rooster has scratched
lots Of hens in the WI
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-01-20
PITH AND POINT.

The man who knows the least ~.
quires the greatest space to tell it,
~ p. Mail.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-16
MlLLlS ER Y.
Pants, Pants Elegant fitting pants cheap
AT Oak Hall
Obituary Notices.

Mr.. c. C Halliday died on Sunday morn
ing last Al o clock at his home, West Side
in this city, lie had been a constant sufferer
FROM rheumatism in its most acute form foi
about eight years past, and at times foi
weeks was confined to his house, and often
many days at a time was rendered helples,
by its excrutiating pain Last winter he was
compelled 10 give up his position rs book
keeper in the Pioneer Construction Works
by reason of his sickness, which was soon
complicated by Bright's disease. His fune
raj occurred on Tues lay under the ritual OF
the Masonic fraternity, of which he was Il
prominent member. He was born in Cayuga
y. Y, December, 1884; came to Utica in
1897, was for twenty-one consecutive years
superintendent of the Utica cement works
aflerward grain receiver for himself and 9th.
ers, and came TO Ottawa to live couple of
years ago. lie was a man Of fine literary
tastes, an extensive reader and a refined
gentleman.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-16
Opera House.

The Ke ndall Comedy Comedy, which has
been filling a weeks engagement at the Op.
era House, have met with such great success
playing to crowded houses) that they have
decided to remain another week, commenc
ing on Monday, October is, at which time
will present their great success of last sea,
son, entitled " My Mother in Law" with
both George and Lizzie Kendall in the cast
onight will be produced for the first time
in Ottawa the great comedy drama of " En-
gagged"
At the matinee this afternoon, at go Pm,
" Our Bachelors will be given, at which
time Kendal's full orchestra will play some
hne selections.
The orchestra and the brass band are
great features of these entertainments, both
being excellent This is the only company
at low prices carrying a good orchestra and
band that has ever been here, and both have
been highly pleasing to the out ofdoor spec
tators, as well as the theatre audiences.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-16

Alshler is ahead of all competitors on
solid fall goods for every day and Sunday
wear, Those Astrachan suits are the favor.
its and every gentleman should have one.
They are handsome, desirable and cheap.
Also call and look at Alshuler's supply of
fine and business overcoats. He has big
stock and these goods are in the latest style
and well made.
Alshuer has full line of gentlemen
underwear and big stock of boys suits of
all styles. Call and examine. You will find
the prices correct.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-16

The daily Tme, says; The Industrial
Political League Of La Sale county have en-.
dorsed James 7. Trench as their candidate
for the legislature. The labor element will
give Trench their votes, while the democrats,
seeing their daRse'. will give their votes to
Brown" What "danser" On electing
their two can Il !stes: Nonsense, Mr. + Y,,s
They will vote eQually fJr both, and cleo,
them, TOO.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-10-16
Reduced Rates on the c., Ii. Il q,

Reduced Rates on the c., Ii. go,
The dedication of the Illinois Soldiers and
Sailors Home, and the Veterans Reunion,
is to take place at Quincy H., on October
10, 20 and u, 1886. Tho universal interest
in the home and the great number of attrac
tons provided for the entertainment of Wis.,
itors to the city, among which may be men
toned the camp of the Grand Army Posts,
the Regatta, the Parade and Review of Sol
diery, the Fireworks, Nominations and
evening street Parale, with fambeaux and
floats representing American war scenes, as
well as the dedication of the Home, at which
a long list of distinguished speakers will be
present--sll this and much more will, it is
expected, attract great number of people
to that city on the dates mentioned For
this occasion the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy Railroad will sell tickets to Quincy
from all stations on its lines in Illinois at one
fare for the round trip. Special rates also
m ade for organized bodies, G. A. r., Wo
mems Relief Corps, and State Militia. Tick
cts can be obtained at any station in Illinois
on the c., b. & q. Il. X. on October lS, -
and 20, good on date Of sale only, and lin
tied for return to October ~, inclusive.
Trunks.-See the nice trunks at Oak Hall,
north Of court house