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The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-05-25
THE RING NY MOTHER WORE.

II is not set with precious gem.
/: IT'S but quaint and simple thing
Yet more than jewcled diadem
prize this dear old-fashioned ring.
She laid it In my trembling hand
And babe me wear IL evermore;
There's magic in its narrow band,
The wedding ring my mother wore.
Two names in letters old and dim.
That time and use have worn away,
A craven on its narrow rim.
The records of q vanished day.
Those names are writ on marble now,
The parted twain have met once more,
This ring records each solemn VOW
The wedding ring my mother wore.
Dear patient hand that lies at resti
Dear ring that binds my soul TO herl
Be this my future holy quest
To see in it Gods messenger,
My passport TO the city fair.
When this fantastic scene is DER.
Dear emblem of our circle there,
The wedding ring my mother wore.
-Nrs. M. L. Payne, in Detroit Free Press.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-05-25

"A law has recently been enacted
in the German Empire prohibiting the
use Of tin alloy in the manufacture of
cooking. eating and drinking utensils
that contains moro than ten per cont.
Of lead.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-05-25
SIR PIGGY.


Curious Facts and Fancics About the
Humble Porker-The Important Figure
He Cuts In Legendary and His
t0ric Tradition.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-05-25

Fruit Soups: To be eaten warm or
cold. These are made OF almost any
fruit cooked soft, strained. sufficient
water added. little thickening, sugar
and spice. They are especially well
come in summer. May be eaten as q
irst course or set aside TO be used as q
drink during the meal
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-05-25

whether he will marry young or old
wife, according to the age Of the first
grunter.
Hogs are also weather-wise. Two
English sayings are recorded as signs
of coming storm:
"How restless are the snorting swine,
Their litter is not tossed by sows uncican-"
In the "Husbandman's Practice"
(1864 we are told: when swine car
ry bottles of hay or straw to hide them,
rain is at hand" Our own games
say the same, when the pigs hide in
the straw. IN other places it is said
to be a sign of cold weather when
they are seen to pile and store straws,
leaves, ETC., and especially fortells a
cold winter when seen in the fall In
Texas, a .'norther" is expected when
they go about with sticks in their
mouths.
Another old work, 1.-THE Cabinet of
Nature" (1657) tells us: "When hogs
run granting home. storm inpends. !"
Cold is in this country predicted when
they are uneasy and huddled together.
If they rub the side of the pen in win
ter thaw is coming. Some farmers
say the winter will be colder during
the first months if the forward end OF
q pigs melt is the thickest, but If the
other end is thickest the final months
will bring the most cold. In West
phalia, pigs are thought to see the
wind coming.
There are number Of sayings con-
nected with pigs, some of which are
we'll known, others moro or less OBJ
scure. A ''hog in armor" is really
Hodge in armor. please the pigs, y is
please pigu (Anglo-Saxon for the Vir-
gin). "You have the wrong SOW by
the ear" is said to the pickler OF
sssouser" when he takes the ear of the
wrong SOW or tub. ITO buy pig in q
pike 10 in French ''acheter chotea
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
THE ENGLISH SPARROW.

The bulletin recently issued by the
department of agriculture, devoted to
the English sparrow, is a volume of
over four hundred pages. 1t premises
that this little bird ''has grown to be
serious question in economic SCIENCE"
so far as agricultural interests are con-
cerned. A very elaborate mass of in
formation is gathered OH the subject,
showing from the fifty or sixty birds
coIoniZed at points in sixteen states,
they have multiplied and spread over
the land almost like the locusts of
Egypt. The first Sparrows in the
country were small number in New
York park about 1850. 1t is a wonder
full multiplier. 1t is computed that
single pair will rear from twenty to
thirty young in year. A mathema-
tician has figured that, allowing to each
pair twenty-four as the annual product,
the progeny resulting from one pair
in ten years would be the enor-
nous total of 275,7l6, 9S369S. If, then.
there were twenty-five pair started
upon their multiplying mission forty
years ago-the present total would re-
quire figures impossible to comprehend.
They have spread over every state east
of the Mississippi. and many points
west. The principal charges against
the sparrow are that it eats the grain
sown, also grass seed, fruit buds and
blossoms, and drives off other birds,
while it does not destroy insects. 1t is
superior to most of the casualties that
check bird life, and escapes the clutches
of its enemies. Some states have legis-
lated in regard to it, and offeerd
bountIes for its destruction, but they
have not checked the growth of the
nuisance. The report recommends poi
son as most effective. Wheat or other
grain soaked in solutions of arsenic or
strychnine are regarded as the most
available. The invasion is of course
due to the fact that there was no ex-
elusive tariff in operation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
PROTECTING AUTHORS.

Mr.. BLAINE has policy, after all. 1t
is not OF that lingo variety which every
body expected to see him adopt when
he resumed his old place at the head of
the state department; nor is it in that
speculative line that his former guano
deals suggested.
The new BLAINE policy has literary
tinge, yet it is none the less pronounced
Or aggressive.
"This piracy must STOP"
That was the emphatic language used
by the secretary of state the other day.
He was not talking of the Canadian fish
cry troubles, nor was he abiding to the
seal catches in the Behring sea. He
was speaking to the Comte DE KERA-
TRY, representative of the French
government, who visited this country
to ask the cooperation of our govern
ment in securing an international copy
right law, by which authors can be pro-
tected from the piracy of the book pub
fishers.
Mr.. BLAINE is emphatic in his decla-
ration that this species of piracy must
be stopped. He is an author himself,
and the gentleman who represents this
country at the French capital is also a
man of literary distinction; so it was
thought an opportune time for the
French authors to begin reagitation
of this question. Before anything can
be done it will be necessary to have
congressional action. but Mr.. BLAINE
can be relied on to bring the matter to
the attention of congress, and to urge
upon that body the necessity for taking
definite action.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
AN OPERA QUEEN,

ANNIE LEoF is unknown to fame, yet
she possesses an element of heroism that
entities her to place well up among
the worlds greatest women. Miss
LEoF is only an opera singer On small
salary, but that should not detract from
the praise that is her due for the per-
Torrance of a valorous deed. She had
recently been annoyed by the attentions
of Sol BLOOMINGTON, gilt-edged New
York swell, who imagined that it is his
mission on earth to mash all the girls
who are poor and pretty. Miss LEoF
had signified to him that his absence
was preferable to his company, yet he
insisted on pressing his attentions.
When he called at her dressing room in
New York theater the other evening,
with costly bouquet in one hand and
package of trlnkets in the other. Miss
LEoF stepped out with a horsewhip in
that good right hand OF hers, and, clutch
ing the dude by the collar of his coat
with that other good left hand, she
dragged him to the front of the stage and
there. in the presence of the audience,
gave him worse drubbing than SULLI-
VAN administered to KILRAIN. All honor
to the woman who protects her woman
hood.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
OUR AMERICAN saAHs.

GHooI.Y KHAN, the Persian minister
at Washington, got mad because of the
lack of reverence ON the part of the
American newspapers when speaking
of the shah, and announced his lnten-
ton of reSigning and returning to his
own country, where newspaper jokers
have their heads chopped off. Upon
further reflection, however, GHooLY
KHAN has determined to withdraw his
resignation and to put up with the
jibeS and ieers of the newspaper gang
a while longer. The truth is, that since
he has given his attention to the matter
GHoOLY KHAN has discovered that the
freedom of the press in this country
means something Of which he had no
conception before he arrived here. He
has discovered that the average Ameri-
can newspaper man is something of a
shah himself, and there can be no dis
courtesy in one ruler poking little fun
at his brother ruler. Over in Persia,
when newspaper man speaks disre-
spectfully of the ruler, the public exc
cutioner calls around the next MORN
ing with polite invitation for
the editors head, and he gets
it. The law works differently in
this country. When a ruler speaks dis
respectfully of the newspaper gang his
head is pretty apt to 90 off at the next
election. This has been explained to
GHooLY KHAN, and as an illustration
of what Difference rulers pay to news
paper men in this country Mr.. BLAINE
showed him the diplomatic appointment
list, which is principally made up of
Republican editors. Impressed by the
exalted station that the newspaper gang
occupy in this country, Col. GHooLY
KHAN promptly withdrew his resig-
nation, and has probably cabled to his
royal master, in case he meets any Amer
lean editor during his European travels,
to be sure to touch the floor with his
forehead when giving the imperial salu-
fatiOn
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
PARCEL POSTAGE.

Before Mr.. WANAMAKER was ap-
pointed postmaster general he stated in
an interview that if selected to that posi-
ton there were two reforms to which he
wished to devote his energies-one was
to secure one-eent letter rate, and the
other the adoption of the parcel post
system. He has since changed his
mind, as reported, in regard to the let
ter rate. although 1t is in the Repub-
liean platform; but it is presumed he
will adhere to the parcel phase, and
urge it upon congress. The publishing
houses and the large dry goods houses
are in favor of this, and will actively
support the movement. The classified
lions in third and fourth-class matter
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
DEAF-MUrE CONGRESS.

Among the numerous international
congresses to be held at Paris during
the exposition, there are others that will
make more noise, but the one to con-
vene to-day is not least in interest. 1t
is the worlds congress of deaf-mutes.
This country has a large delegation
there, and nearly every civilized land
will have representatives. There will
be no vociferous clamor OF shouting for
the floor, but it will be an intelligent
body, and it's interchange of ideas will
be of much interest. A noticeable feat
ure is that all have one and the same
language, whether from Russia, Ger
many, France or the United States.
The deaf-mutes use the same signs the
world over. 1t is voiceless Volapuk,
and affords suggestion to those who be-
lieve in common language. Statistics
are said to show that about one person
in 1,5O0 is deaf-mute, which will make
a surprisingly large total.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
COMIC SIDE OF THINGS.

The ruler of Morocco is able to do a
Dey's work.-Washington Critic.
Because a young man wears a tennis
blazer it does not necessarily follow that
he will set the world afire.-Jamestown
News.
The English princess who is to marry
Fife need not be a musician in order to
blow her Observation-Disclosures Re-
publican.
1t takes a man with a pretty strong
constitution to rise with the lark after
being OUT one all night.-Lawrence
American.
1t was ?" esterner who went into a
haberdasher's and asked the proprietor
if he had any family ties.-Yonkrrs
Statesman.
A certain amount of wholesale igno-
rance is necessary to the enjoyment or
even to the liberation 0feXistenee.-Sat-
urday Review.
The man who allows himself to drift
idly down stream will never make much
of an up-roWer in the world.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
TIE ARIZONA KICKER.
A Western Editors Views on Mat
tiers and Things.

We select the following items from
the last issue of the Arizona Kicker:
Stop It-There's 100 much poetry in
this Western country-ten times too
much. Every week fifty or more men
and women in this locality who ought
to be engaged hoelng potatoes or max
best part of seven days to ''dash off"
! poem for the Kicker. Not one out of
500lis true poetry, and not more than
one out of bushel is worth publish
= fishing.
~ There should be law applying to the
country west of Omaha law to make
1T a penal offense to send a poem to a
newspaper unsolicited. We are satisfied
that this rhyme-jingIing has retarded
+ the; growth of the West twenty years,
and it will continue to work against US
until there is law to stop it.
81 -
g Not Appreciated efforts of a
hundred or more of our citizens to make
iap for the lack of natural scenery ia
and around the town by standing on the
Street corners, with legs crossed and
hands in pockets, is not appreciated by
those competent to judge of effects. 1t
is pretty h lrd for a red-eyed old squat
Ilht JuuSt udIlISOu W pOoO I'll outu
way as to pass for noble cataract, and
the effort of Maj. Philbrick to pass
himself off as substitute for precipice
500 feet high brings ridieule on the
whole country. Gentlemen, your
proper pose is in a loek-step line. We
are advising you as a friend.
~
We Can't See It-Our eontem-
porary down street is tickIed almost to
death because Maj. Bilden has been ap-
pointed postmaster Of this town, and
because, as it affirms, the editor of the
Kicker got left. We can't see anything
to laugh at. We were the best man by
long odds among the twenty applicants,
and if Wanamaker couldn't see it the
fault is not ours. We expected to get
the appointments, and ought to have had
it. The man who did get it doesn't
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
SUMNER SNAPS.

Figgs-Have you read the Deserted
Village?'
Jiggs-No, but / have seen it; I have
just come from Philadelphia.
~"
Bessie-So this is a saw mill. I won
der what they do with the timber that
is all full of knotholes.
Jennie-From my own experience l
should say they used it to build bathing
houses.-The Yokel.
-
Each night she looked beneath the bed,
To see if there a man was hid
She never found one there, it's said,
Though others say her husband did
"Your pa objects to me, fear,'
he said. Her answer set him glowing.
HE does not mind your coming, dear.
he only scolds about your going"
SE
Jauntly-Did she give you her photo
graph last night?
Jiltly-N0' but got her negative.
Mrs. De Gusshe-Oh, 1 am so sorry
for that Door queen of Servia.
Mr.. De Gusshe-Why in the world do
You waste your sympathies on her?
Mrs. De CIT must be hard for her to
be chased out of her native land.
Mr., De G.-She seemed to find the
same difficulty in her native land.--The
Historian.
On Staten Island ferry boat.
Thrifty-How is it you and Snifty
never speak as you pass by?
Grifty-Well, I don't know whether
he is to blame or [.
Thrifty-What's the trouble?
Grifty-You see he came to our OPEN
air performance of GAS You Like 1t"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
OUTRAGEs in ARMENIA.
Liberals Will Make Salisbury Tell
All He Knows.

LONDON, July 9.-The Liberal leaders
have determined to bring up for dis
cussion in the house at al early date
the question of outrages in Armenia.
They believe that Lord Salisbury at
taches altogether too much Importance
to the denials which emanate from Turk
ish sources, and they claim to have
positive information that the reports of
cruelties practiced upon the Armenian
Christians by their MOhammedan rulers
have not been exaggerated. George
Lewis, one of the counsel for the Par
nellites before the Parnell commission,
has sent a summons to Mr.. Houston,
the secretary of the Irish Loyal and
Patriotic league. to produce the books
of the league. He has also subp9naed
persons who loaned Houston money. 1t
is considered probable that Justice
Hannen will exclude this evidence on
the ground of irrelevancy. The Ger
man government evidently has nc dis
position to forget its grudge against
Switzerland. The Berlin authorities to-
day announced that they have put on
new express train between Berlin and
Rome which will run by way of the
Tyrol and the Bremen pass, thus avoid
ing Switzerland altogether.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
w1NoNA NORMAL SCHOOL.

The 1889 catalogue of the state nor
NAL school at Winona exhibits a mar
velous degree of prosperity for that in
stitution. This school was established
under the organic act of 1858, and was
first opened in 1860. But in 1864 it was
reOrganlZed, so that this is really the
quarter-centennial year of the institu-
ton, and it is proposed to celebrate the
event in fitting manner. A circular
letter has been issued, addressed to the
alumni and former students of the
school, inviting them to attend an
alumni reunion, to be held at Winona
on the 27th and 2Sth days of August.
A special programme has been prepared
for this quarter-centennial celebration,
and arrangements are being made to
secure a reduction of fare on all the
railroads in the state.
We extract from the mass of informa-
ton contained in the last catalogue a
few facts of general interest, to which
we invite the attention Of the friends of
popular education. Dnring the twenty
five years since the organization Of the
Winona school 800 teachers have been
graduated. and about 5000 undergrad
yates have received instruction. The
average term of teaching of the grad
yates has been between five and six
years. Less than per cent of the en-
tire number have failed to fulfill the
pledge to teach two years in the state, OF
to repay to the state tuition in full for
the time of attendance. About 20 per
cent of the students are children of
farmers, while most of the others are
children of the laboring classes. The
graduating classes for the last five years
have averaged over fifty members. The
class this year numbered siXty-two,
representing fifteen counties in the
state, and about thirty counties were
represented in the enrolment.
With such showing as this there is
no occasion for any taxpayer OF the
state to grumble because of the appro-
pfiation of public funds for the support
of these normal schools. The eXcep-
tional prosperity of the Winona school is
due to two causes: first, to the untiring
energy of the principal and his efficient
corps of assistants; and secondly, to the
interest manifested in the institution
and the support given it by the citizens
of the beautiful little city where 1T is
located.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
ONLY ONE EACH WEEK.

Cabinet Meetings will Be Few
and Far Between in the Dog
Days.
WASHINGTON, July 9.-There will be
only weekly meetings of the cabinet
during the heated term, instead of BIZ
weekly meetings as heretofore, and
"Wednesday has been selected as the
day of meeting. The regular Tuesday
meeting was therefore omitted to-day.
The president had large number of
callers to-day. Among those who saw
him were Secretary Window, Senators
Paddock and Davis, Representatives
Thompson, Brewer and Hall, ex-Repre-
sentative Strait, of Minnesota; ex-Rep-
resentative Butler, of Tennessee; III.
N. Martin, of New Orleans, and w. T,
Parkinson, of Washington Territory.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
HIT OR MISS.

Sweepstakes-Broom handles erre
Haute Express.
"Adolph, what are you screaming so
for?" Mamma, crab has found me-"
-Fliegende Batter.
The tombstone is about the only thing
that can stand upright and lie on its
face at the same time.-Terre Haute
Express.
Every man has his role in life, es-
peclally the man who tries to ride the
bucking mule at circuS.-Burlingto
Free Press.
Truth crushed to earth will rise again,
but by that time the funeral of some
ones character is all OVer.-JamestOwn
News.
The literary interests of the country
demand the appointment of William D.
Howells as minister to Russia. 1t will
give him his only chance of ever dis
covering a plot.-Baltimore American.
We have thought over the matter an
hour or so, and 1t seems to US that the
reason why Western stage coaches do
not tumble down those steep mountain
precipices is that there are so many road
agents to hold them up.-Binghampton
Republican.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
A SUDDEN DROP IN PRICES

a SUDDEN DROP In PRICES.
San Francisco Chronicle
1t was in New York, and an actor
who wanted to buy some particular kind
of coat for part in play found it in
one of those deep, dark mausoleums of
dead wearing apparel.
sThat's what L want. How much is
ite''
Fifteen dollars"
'sWhat! Fifteen dollars for this old
thing? only want it to play part Oh
the stage"
''Vas you an actor?"
eyes"
"You can hat it for 49,"
'That's a difference, but"
s'YOu vas an actor, vas you? Veil,
veil. Does you know my son? He's a
actor"
"No, don't know him."
''Oh, yes; he vas an actor. He vas
on the stage in the name of the O'Brien
Brothers"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-10
LEVEL-HEADED RADICALS.
They Will Oppose Further Grants
to Sprios of ROYALTY.


to Sprigs of Royalty.
LONDON, July 9.-In the house of
commons W. FL. Smith, the government
leader, moved that the committee on
allowances to Prince Albert Victor of
Wales and Princess Victoria of Prussia.
on the occasion of the marriage, consist
of twenty-three members. Dillwyn
NiberaD proposed committee of
twenty-five members, adding two Radi-
committee that Mr.. Smith wanted would
have majority of three government
supporters, instead of one, according to
precedent. Mr.. Smith assured the house
that the government was adhering to
precedent and that the views of every
section were fairly represented in the
proposed committee. Mr.. Gladstone
approved Mr.. Smiths distribution and
said that the government was entitled
to majority of three on the commit
tee. Mr.. Bradlaugh supported Mr..
Dillwyn'S amendment. He said that he
was altogether opposed to such grants
and would raise every possible diff
Guilty to prevent the voting of the pro-
posed allowances. After further de-
bate Mr.. Dillwyn's amendment was de-
feated by vote of 300 to los.
VIC AND ALBERT EDWARD DISPLEASED
The queen and the Prince of Wales
are very much chagrined at the treat
ment accorded them in the house of
commons, in referring the whole ques-
ton of dowries for the young princes
and princesses to committee on royal
grants. The government, having been
forced by the threat of determined Lib
eral opposition to accept the royal
grants committee, now finds itself an
tagonized by the leading Tories, who
Under threat of revolt, they have al
ready extOrted from w. III. Smith, first
lord of the treasury, the promise that
the cases of the children in the direct
line of succession to the throne shall
not be included within the scope of the
committees inquiry.