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St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-02
PARADoxEs.

Who Is that solemn person, d.
Too serious by half,
VINO eVer looks lugubfions =
And never seems to laughf
Has he some pressing creditor
+ Who plans legal capers"
"No. son, he is an editor =.
Whoruns q comic paper"
And yonder mournful creature, pa
Atafed IN somber style;
Fray, VINO IS he with downcast mien,
And does he never smiles
Does Indigestion plague him,
Or some. crime, some act infernalr'
MY son, he's the compositor
tt. Upon that comic, journal
Anoe~io is that.dyspeptic one,
=. 81 whom conscience seems to rend,
T.. who looks as if he'd been in jail
Or lost his only friends
IGat melancholy, seedy one,
Is he an undertaken"
"My boy, he's comedian.
=: A most amusing fakir.."
America.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-02
A Collection of Pens.

A man in Denver, Col, named Lyon, got
an idea some years ago that it would be a
fine thing to collect all the odd shaped pens
he could find, so he started in and to-day he
has a lot comprising over seven hundred
different varieties. About twelve different
metals are represented in the collection
Then there are a number of wooden pens
and lot of add quilts. The collection en-
traces specimens from England, Ireland,
Scotland, Germany and other European
countries, besides America and Canada
There are pens pointed fine enough to make
lines of microscopic delicacy, and others in
tended for men who use the first personal
pronoun great deal in their correspond
enee. Some are in shape like shovels,
others resemble section of stoverjpe,
and others are delicate and diminutive.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-02
sheridan,s Estimate Of fr,,nt,

OF General Grant Sheridan says, abiding
to the events that eliminated in the sur
render OF Lee: 'The only apparent effect of
discomftures was to make him all the more
determined to discharge successfully the
stupendous trust committed to his care and
to bring into play the manifold resources of
his wel-ordered military mind. He guided
every subordinate then and in the last days
OF the rebellion with fund of common
sense and superiority of intellect which
have left an impress so distinct as to exhibit
bus great personality. When his military
history IS analysed after the lapse of years
it win show, even more clearly than now,
that during these as well as in his previous
campaigns he was the steadfast center
about and on which every thing else turned,
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-02
DEADLY ORGANISMS.
An Instructive Chat About BacteriologJ
in Practical Medicine.

An Instructive Chat About Bacteriology
in Practical Medicine.
1t was great discovery which revealed
the fact that most epidemic diseases are
due to microscopic organisms, now known
as microbes, or bacteria. Thus far, bow
ever, our knowledge is confined to this fact.
Researches in this line have been prose-
cuted with immense zeal by experts the
world over. But as harmless microbes are
vastly more numerous than the harmful,
and abound in the body, both in disease and
in health, it has been difficult to establish
the connection between a particular kind
Of disease and its own microbe. No. expert
has been able to gain an acknowledgment
of his discovery until he had. separated his
microbe from all others, cultivated it by it
self, and then, by incubation in some ami
NAL, obtained the characteristic symptoms.
Even then the general verdict has had to
await the results of similar tests by other
experts in different nations. Although sew
eral infectious diseases have thus been
traced to their bacterial origin, and the par
ticular microbes described and named, yet
thps far the chief benefit has been in gen
eral hygiene, and in getting rid of bacterial
breeding places outside Of the body. Al
LucSG UOtuluk has UGSU uOuG W Iudh0 Ou[
knowledge available for the cure Of dis.
ease. !.
Many problems remain to be solved. Ac
cording to the Medical Record, we know lit
tie of the way in which microbes exert theii
morbid influence; why they disappear from
the blood and organs Of some ANIMALS; why
similar groups of diseases can be excited by
different microbes; whence the difference
in the results of inoculating with small, and
with large, quantities Of microbic material
why individuality plays SO important a part
in the manifestations of disease, and why
the results are SO different in healthy ami
mails and in those slightly diseased. II
says: : When all the foregoing, and many
like, problems are solved, then it will be
more easy to employ bacteriology in practi
cal.medicine, and then we shall learn to es.
innate rightly the great value Of this new
study.n
Quite recently German expert has great
~ helped to settle the first problem, re-
ferred to above. He hes proved that mi
crobes, by their own natural action, de
velop various poisons Of the most deadly
character. Three of these, which he has
obtained and tested, he exhibited at the late
surgical congress in Germany. A CORE.
spondeut from Berlin writes: It is be-
neved We shall soon be able to understand
more about the deadly infections caused BY
these organisms"
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-02
An Want to PLAY First Fiddle.

In the grand orchestra Of life every body
is anxious to play first fiddle. Nay, almost
every body does play it; for although the
first fiddle absolutely may take precedence
of all the rest, yet every second fiddle is
first fiddle to somebody. AS ssheas have
smaller feas to bite 'em, and so on ad in
6nitum, so every man who tickles su-
perior has an inferior to tickle him. II it
were not for.this pleasant arrangement we
should have no social harmony, and 1t is
only when this system of relations Ii dis
turbed that we experience discoras and
crashes.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-02
A Vanished Florida City.

Somewhere in the thirties st. Joseph,
Fla. was thriving city of several thou
sand people. There was also railroad
running from lola, on the Apalachicola riv-
err, to st. Joseph. To-day there is not a ves-
tige of the city remaining, nor of the rail-
road. William Samuels, an old colored
man who lives near BAN bridge, told US
the other day that many years ago he lived
in st: Joseph, and Travelled thence by the
railroad from lola, also stating that it was
the first and the last time in his life he
ever rode on the cars. He was astonshed
when we told him that both city and rail-
road had been in the grave for over forty
yraorc
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-02
Barrels Made by Machine.

i The cooper trade threatens to be lost
art if modern science. continues its inroads
upon it. A Philadelphia man has just in
vented machine that, with the help OF SIX
men, will turn out as many barrels in day
as sixty men can make The machine has
been successfully operated, and coopers
are taking good deal Of interest IL It. II
il proves financially successful, It viii
prphahly reYQlntionize the cooper's trade.
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-02

During a very bad performance
of "Hamlet by a transforming
party in a country theater the audi
ence in its entirety commenced to hiss,
with the exception of one man. At
last the man next to him said: "Why
don't you hiss this show?' "It would
hardly be fair he said, "as came
in with an order; but if they don't do
better pretty soon, I'm hanged if
don't go out and buy ticket and join
you." g,
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-02

The money given by the women
of the Presbyterian church in the
United States during the past sixteen
years amounts to $2,15O.00o, repre-
senting the entire support of more
than 200 women missionaries, 200 ma
tive Bible readers and more than $50
schools. y
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-02
Quakcrs i'm PHILADELPHIA,

A Philadelphia newspaper says that the
prevailing impression that "the old time,
broad brimmed, sugar-scoop Quakers" are
dying out is erroneous, at, least as far as
Philadelphia is concerned. Twenty-Five
years age the same impression prevailed,
put to-day the benches in the meeting
houses are as full as then. The explana.
ton IS that, after coquetting with worldly
ways and fashions for season, the Young
generation of Friends undergo reaction
and gradually fall into the same WAYS and
the same austere life, even to the plain
garb of their graudfathers and grand.
mothers. .
~~p Woman with a Memory. -sfS<S
A writer in the New York Times SAYS:
"a most remarkable instance of memory
has just come to my notice. Its possessor Is
lady member of DIR. Howard Crosby,s
church, in New York. Without having
taken single note she will, when she goes
home, write out every word of her PASTORS
sermon, and she tells me she never makes
mistake of the or an 'and'-that every
sentence not only embodies his idea. but
gives 1t in his exact language. For twenty
five years this lady has been performing
these feats of memory, and during that
time she has written out some two thou
sand sermons. The manuscripts of some
OF them she has had bound and presented
to DIR. Crosby. They make forty large vol.
umeS."
St. Landry democrat., 1889-02-02

enjoying yourSelf, Nei.
Oh yes, dear, delightfully."-! Don't trouble
yourself about me, pray"
He passed in, but didn't go far, and as he
stood, whispering soft nothings to senti-
mental Kate Marshall, his eyes occasionally
wandered to his wife. How pretty she
was looking, and how gay she was, and
how coquettishly she was exchanging light
repartee with that flirting fellow, Tom Har-
rison. And all the time the handsome
stranger never left her side. 1t was per-
fectly evident that he admired her.
IF she were. not married woman ne
would certainly fall in love with her, she,
my wife," and he felt a little resentful OF
the admiration.
Nellie Palmer had never sung more
sweetly or danced more gracefully than on
this evening
aDon't you think, Nell, you have danced
q enough for one night, y said her husband to-
ward the close Of the evening, for mar
ried womansn he added.
Perhaps SOL she answered, cheerfully,
abut I've enjoyed myself SO muchl Really,
almost forgot was a married woman,
and felt like girl again.
t.And behaved like one,n he said, rather
coolly. "Who is that fellow that has been
In hbteHuaHce upOH you oil 6nS evenings
he inquired, as they walked downstairs.
"That remarkably handsome man, with
the expressive dark eyes, do YOU Aeana'
al never noticed his eyes or that he was
!. at all handsome, = he answered stifiy.
L ssOh, thought you meant Captain
Lowell, of the artillery. All, here he is
just one moment, dear, quite forgot
And Nellie spoke few words to the
Captain in passing, of which her husband
could distinguish only something about
Is the book
Upon my word, he said, sarcastically,
.you appear very intimate already
e Because, love, we've discovered that
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with oil and set on Are. During NE process Of
cremation the clothes and blankets Of the de-
ceased are laid on the pile and consumed with
the body, the men forming IN inner circle and
chanting . dirge, the women waiting in an
outer circle. The ashes are then gathered up,
placed in . boz, which IL deposited in the fam
lily tomb with some Of his personal belong
ings to which he was most attached.
Peering into one tomb we saw small trunk
which had belonged 70 the child whose ashes Il
contained, and two dolls daintily dressed were
lying upon il and several other toys were sus-
pended near it, On the outside Of the chiefs
blanket worth eco OF S70, according 20 the
price Of . similar one which We have been
watching squaw making today. About nine
tenths OF these Indians burn their dead, o Gus
tom which u may be better TO perpetuate and
initiate than TO abolish. On Douglas Island,
opposite juneau, 10 the great Treadwen gold
mine, which We visited and inspected
from the blasting the auriferous rock
4oo feet below the surface (the shaft being
90 wide that we can see this from the brink
through the milling BY 240 stamps said to be
the largest stamp mill in the world, and the re-
duction OF the most obdurate portion Of the
suiphurets BY chemical processes, until the
SHINING gold u ready 10 be cast into bricks
ana transported TO where il will do the most
good. The amount and yield OF the ore now
being mined and crushed are not easily ascer-
tainable, but the monthly output IL copjectured
to be not less than $l50,000. Salmon and seal
and gold from Alaska have, believe, already
repaid, but II not will soon repay, the 81 300 900
paid tORussia for this vast country, stretching
as far west OF San Francisco as that city is west
Of New York and making grand addition to
the wonderland of travel S.RR
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A BANK UNDERMINED.
/ Startling Discovery Accidentally
Made I'm Pittsburx.

From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
The workmen employed in excavating for .
new foundation for the First national bank of
Birmingham building, ct the corner Of 10Th
and Carson streets, made . surprising dis
oovery yesterday. The building 10 now under
going extensive repairs and the entire interior
has been Quilted. While one of the laborers
was engaged in digging at spot directly
under the place where the old vault was built,
the ground beneath his fest gave away, and he
found himaelf thrown into pit about ave feet
deep. An investigation was made, and IL was
discovered that mine had been dug BY un-
known persons ct no distant date for the evil
dent purpose of robbing the bank
Il was followed mp for some distance into an
adjoining cellar, where the hole had been
neatly stopped mp IN such . manner that il
could not be noticed by any person who entered
the cellar. II h supposed that the burglars
obtained entrance TO the cellar through smsII
i window used ~ coal hole, which was gem
orally left open The clay and dirt from the
mine were carried away In bags, presumably.
- none OF IL could be found In the cellar II
h thought that the bank was removed 10 IT,
present temporary location before ali srrsnee-
ments could be made 70 erack the safe.
The mine 4 row being Allied With concrete
and the ground beneath the vault win Be COW
cred With heavy stones, % - 10 prevent "a
possibility Of another mine.
Another hole Wa also found. but a had hs~r
made several years ego BY crackumsu. Who
were surprtsed ct work and oap1ured n =
also being fllsd with concrete.
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The Fated Excursionists,

Col Isham Young. chairman Of the Knox
vile, Tenn, board of public works, died
yesterday at q p. m Edward +. Barker 10
thought to be dying, also J. Z. Barry. Barry
was pinned under the cars for more than an
hour. County Judge Moloney IL In o prscari-
Gus condition. He will hardly recover. His
ribs are broken and thigh fractured An
inquest was held over Col. Powers today. A
verdict OF accidental death from unavoidable
causes was returned. His funeral occurred at
q o'clock in the afternoon and his remains
we're shipped to Augusta, KY. The city Of
Knoxville Is in mourning and business prscti-
ealiy suspended. mass meeting OF citizens
was held In the afternoon and resolutions Of
respect to the dead were drafted.
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UxrREcEDESrEu Attraction,
OVER A MILLION DIsTRIBUTEn
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COMPANY.

fucorrorated by the Legislature for Educational
and Charitable purposes. and its franchise made .
part of the present State Constitution In 1879 BY
overwhelming popular vote.
Its MAMMOTH DRAWINGS take place Semi.
Annually Dune and Decemberl, and its GRAND
SINGLE NUMBER DRAWINGS take place IN each
Of the other ten months Of the and all drawn
In public OF the Academy OF Music. New Orleans. Ia
FAMED FOR TWENTY YEARS FOR INTEGRITY
OF ITS DRAWINGS AND PROMPT PAY
MENT OF PRIZES,
Attested follows:
"He do hereby certify that pre- suppiss ns arrange.
nents all the mont nv and Semi nnud Dyasrfa0s9
The LOusssdnd State Lottery Company and IN person
Manage and control the Dyasn0s uemseues ana tof
The are conducted NTH honesty. and
gaV % ss CERTIFICATE. srff Jdcsities " osu So
Natures attached "a tts advertisements"
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South Cardinals Race War.

Mt. Pleasant, s. c., the scene of the race
war, is now gsrrisoned by state troops. The
prisoner has been sent to the city Of Charles
ton under guard. The negroes threaten to
burn the town. The trouble arose from the
accidental shooting by Fred Schaffer, a white
boy aged seventeen years, Of a negro woman
named Malsie Holmes, who had Just made a
purchase IN the store. The boy was cleaning a
gun. which went OF accidentally. The woman
In her ante norton statement deposed that the
shooting was accidental. The race feeling Is
very bitter not only at Mt Pleasant but even
In Charleston, and further trouble 10 antici-
pated
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The cigar makers are stiIl ON Q strike a
Jacksonville, Fla They expect aid from
Havana II disappointed in this respect thsy
viii doubtless have 70 give in to the bossss
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FROM THE LAND OF GLACIERS.
A Washingtonisn's Interesting visit 10
Alaska.

sAYrsIxo rHnouQH Az iNHxxn AlcKnnAoo--
SALMON TIsHrxe AND cASNrxa-Ax nrxnEsT-
mo Rnocxss-cArcuINo yrsH N HAxp-rKR
TorExs AND ToNBs OF THE INDIANS, 4ro
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We he wrdersioped Bnnt, and Bdnters tcn pap al
prizes drdrn The Louisiana Stale Lotteries rhseA
mag be presented cOifIiterS
r NJ wALMSLEY, Pres Louisiana National Bank
PIERRE LANAUX, Pres State National Bank
A. BALDWIN. Pres. New Orleans National bapk
CARL kOHN, Pres Union National bank
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Go Q. Fl!nAs Asu aAsunpAr Rvrus 1,
nsrshAu Han sxcursion. - a1vsrSisensaA-
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oRATEFUL-coMroRrTNo
EPPs'e COCOA
BREAKFAST.

by . thorough knovledre o6 the o.xpv.I ,s~,~Ax~s
eovern TIE oper.tiops Of dEeston and Nutrition an1
sscssd csoo NJ Hpps Il In sss nns q s:
table, with dslscsssfy hsvored bsvsrsee which may
eaon, use Of such articles Of diet thsf conssstSos
Gsy @ grsauAny built up until stron1 enough . -
msso1es ars aoaftnE around ready 70 stack uheF
T.5 9srs n veal point We may ssuaps many
Rore blood and properly nouraahsd fFsms. "-cs9
4ade simply with boiling wsssr or MIN. noaA suav
u nan-pound uns b. gro0sru. lsbalsd thusi
JAMES EPPs 90. Honsobsshse chs.a.s.
sul7sAtuktA xoo6oa. R,e,sua
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An Invaluable Man.

From thu Epoch.
stranger.
"weli, he fell and broke his arm last week,
and before he got ont Of bed he had gained a
pounds. Just now he's doing duty e the
bearded woman over In the corner"
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Policeman (sternly. -"Wha4 aeo yoa doing
On the street ct this honr Of the nish3f'
II. Iss n. ~! 0oyfnily)n5y Gsosss yosrs g;
: saloon. Ch5ouqo Tfjbssna
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PROSPERITY on BOON?

But y this prosperity or h u boomr
Prosperity, certainly. Take the oonAdsncs
and the capita, Of the public ~ proof. Re
Gently formed limited liability companies have
been started here for coal IN Tongkins, for tin
and gold in the straits. for tobaoco and timber
IN Bornso, reprsssntins paid-up capital a
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A Shipyard at sparrow's Point.

Shipyard at Sparrow's Point,
The Baltimore Neps yesterday said AIT The
Pennsylvanis steel company intend 70 sssxS4ssl
an immense shipyard a Sparrow poinxsSssivs
miles from Baltimore. The company wfllshuv4
the most magnificent equipment I'm the United
States and possibly in thu world for The CON-
struction Of steel ships. This industry q 20 Be
carried on in connection with the iron and gteel
WORKS o. the company ct 6parrows point
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ENTERTAINING FRIENDS.

Mr.. Chatter is very fond of entertaining his
friends; he is very fond Of racing and has only
given it up to become steward and Judge be-
cause for years he won everything and his din
ing room Is mass Of cups; but he Is fondest of
all Of Hong Kong. His affection for it 10 half
paternal and half-flial and his pride In its
present and faith In its future are boundless.
so "cornered' him one day physically not
financially and put to him q few OF the ques-
lions people are always asking about the col
ony. Nobody can answer 80 we'll and nobody's
answers would command 80 much respect from
everybody who knows where Hong Kong il and
what Ii is
What do you consider the causes" began,
.'of the present remarkable commercial and
financial prosperity Of Hong Kong?"
CAUSES OF PROSPERITY.
"The same causes that spell prosperity any
where else" was the reply. "An the local
companies are doing remarkably well, and this
is at once the fact and the explanation of our
enviable position. We have q very large stock
market, and except in one or two instances Of
conspicuous and undue imitation the quotations
are all justified. Take few examples: The
Hong Kong and Shanghai bank pays its share
holders l6 per cent; the local marine insurance
companies pay from Is TO 10 per cent; the local
nre insurance companies pay from Is 70 30;
company pays Is per cent; the China and
Manila steamship company pays 80 per cent;
the Rope manufacturing company pays Il per
cent; the sugar refinery pays Is, and the Ice
company. pays lsi per cent What more oan
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thlng placed In first-class condition. 1t is
probable that during the fall the guardsmen
will be given considerable shooting at the
range, although it will be difficult for the men.
perhaps. to get of from their work in the day
time. The trouble lies in the fact that all such
shooting should be systematic in order to be
profitable, and il any men go down to the bar
racks they should be sent by companies or
squads, under the charge Of an inspector, and
this Is where the working-hour problem comes
in But Gen. 0rdway hopes to be able to ar
range plan whereby q large number of the
men may avail themselves of the opportunities
afforded by these targets before next spring.
A SHOOTING GALLERY.
He has decided to keep his eyes open for a
suitable room near the center Of the city that
may be fitted up as a shooting gallery for the
use Of the officers and men. He feels confident
that such room could be found on tie upper
hoor OF some building, about 100 feet long II
would be so arranged that all danger would be
eliminated, the guns being loaded with light
charges to suit the length of the range II
| should be on the top floor in order to afford
ventilation to drive the smoke out. Here the
men could come in the evening and pass profit
able time in getting accustomed to the use Of a
gun, so that. as the general expresses it, they
might be able to hit target when they face
| one.
The officers of the s.atr are trying to arrange
| q rifle and pistol match between themselves for
prizes, but are confronted with grin specter
| in the shape Of Maj. Cashs record as the bes,
| shot In the District. In an even match he il
sure to win, no one on the staff being able to
score anywhere near him, and SO various plans
are now being considered for handicapping the
| match In order to make II no walk-over
THE GRAND DRESS PARADE
Of the guard this fall, TO be held on the White
lot, Is being anticipated with pleasure by mosi
Of the guardsmen, who are anxious to show
their friends what they can do in q brigade