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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-08-07
THE HUMAN APPETITE.
Why 1t Can Not Re Regulated According
to Popular Medical Rules.

Why 1t Can Not Re Regulated According
to Popular Medical Rules.
Doctors disagree, and always have
disagreed, as to the quantity of food a
day required by nature for the support
of the human system. A French
Psychologist says six pounds of solid
and liquid food is the golden mean be-
tween excess and improper abstinence;
and another, who agrees with him,
the proportion tof solids should be
about two pounds. An eminent Amer
lean authority puts the total at five
and a half pounds, of which two and a
half pounds should be solids. They
all state the kind and qualities of
food which they consider most nutri-
tious.
it should be borne in mind, however,
that these learned professors expert
mented upon themselves, and. there
fore, if it be true that ''what is one
mans meat is another mans poison, :"
neither their quantitative nor their
qualitative directions are of universal
application. 1t is our own opinion that
every stomach, like every heart, best
''knows its own BURDEN and that the
burden it can carry without incon-
venience is the true gage of its healthy
requirements.
There can be little doubt thatn mo.
notonous diet whatever the kind of
nutriment used may be, is injurious.
1t is only necessary to look into the
mouth of human being to sec that he
is by nature both carnivorous and
herbivorous-hist teeth show it-and if,
in spite of his teeth, he confines him
self either to bran bread and squashes,
or beefsteak, he outrages the laws of
health, and will assuredly suffer for it
in some way or other.
The quantity of food that may be
beneficially taken into the stomach
can not be regulated by fixed rules. 1t
depends upon the size and vigor of the
organ. the occupation and habits OF
the individual, and other conditions,
and can only be ascertained by indi,
yidual experiment tn. Y. Ledger
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-08-07
PITH AND POINT.
livery man can rule shrew say
he that hath her.

livery man can rule shrew save
he that hath her.
Hardening OF the heart is very apt
to end in softening of the brain
Beecher.
Some men who can got fortune
out of u deal in stocks can't get a hen
out of truck patch. arlington
Critic.
-Politeness is like an air cushion;
there may be nothing in it, but it eases
our jolts wonderfully. -Sigourney.
Every duty which is hidden to wait,
returns with seven fresh duties at his
back. Charles Kingsley.
There ought to be a law whereby
you could put some people under bonds
to keep away from you.-Atchison
Globe.
If you want man to think you
are smart you have only to make him
think he is smart. -Binghamton Re-
publican.
Quite naturally it is the man of
seasoned intellect and ripe experience
who does not seem fresh. -Bingham-
ton Republican.
False evidence takes up some
truth; and great calumny can often
be made by no great change Of words.
-Bengel.
People who are in a hurry to 60 to
law are frequently in twice as much of
hurry to get away from it.-Mer-
chant Traveller
OF all the gifts that nature can
give us. the faculty of remaining ST.
lent, or of answering apropos, is per-
haps the most useful. Nine. Campan.
"A great man is happiest when he
can sit down and write his memoirs
and forget all the mean things he
knows about himself. -Boston Tran
script.
1t is well for philosophical medita-
tions to include the fact that in all Or
ganic existence the largest amount of
wind produces the heaviest swells, -
Baltimore American.
Nothing is SO great an instance of
ill.manners as flattery. If you flatter
all the company you please none; if
you tlatter only one or two you affront
the rest.-Swift.
1t is a great piece of folly for a
man to be always ready to meet trouble
half way. If he would put all the
journey on trouble he might never
meet it Scranton Truth.
The avaricious man is like the bar
rem, sandy ground of the desert. which
sucks in all the rain and dews with
greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs
or plants for the benefit of others. =
ZenO.
What is truth for one may not be
the truth for another. You don't know
what you may do. You may put a
straw across a trickle which will turn
river another way.-Mrs. Whitney.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-08-07
VOL. XLIV.-NO. 81.

Cut the corn down, and Immediately
prepare the land for a crop of rye by
s-working with two-horse culti-
yators to level the land. these being
better than turning plows, as they will
disturb but few of the stubbles. Then
harrow, and afterward SOW the rye
with drill at the rate of three pecks
to the acre, or, if sown broadcast, use
four pecks of seed and give complete
finish by narrowing. Rye will grow
on thinner land than any other grain
crop. and corn land which has pro-
duced four OR five barrels of corn may
be relied on for a good crop of rye.
which will furnish good grazing from
late fall to spring for sheep and young
cattle whenever the land is dry enough
to, admit the hoof upon it. Farmers
who have lost their hay or other forage
crops by the floods of the present sea-
son, may with profit avail themselves
of rye for winter grazing, as we'll as
of the large amount of first-class forage
to be secured by the blades, shucks
and stalks of corn, when the crop is
harvested in the manner suggested.
But we wish to use the rye as a stone
which "will kill two birds at the same
time" When the rye is sown-say
from the LIST to the 18th of August in
Virginia--put broadcast 800 to 400
pounds of good acid phosphate, 200
pounds of kainit, or other form Of
potash; harrow these thoroughly in.
and as a finish, SOW one gallon of
clover and two bushels of orchard
grass seed to the acre. lightly harrow
ing or brushing these seeds, il there is
no appearance of an early rain. The
rye will shelter and protect the young
grass during winter, and when spring
comes; let the rye get into bloom. and
then NOW it and let lie as mulch to the
young grass, which will establish and
protect it against the hot weather of
summer. This method OF using rye is
preferable to its production of grain
and straw. Its average yield of grain
is rather higher than wheat, but its
average price will rarely go beyond
eighty cents bushel; and whilst the
straw is in fair demand for the man
ufacture of coarse paper and for stuff
ing horse collars, yet the price to he
realized is not very remunerative.
| The loss of the grain and straw In the
proposed manner is more than coun-
terbalanced by the winter grazing it
affords, by its protection in winter to
the young grass, and by its further
protection by its mulch from the heat
and droughts OF summer, tosay moth
ing of the fertilizing effects of the de-
caying swath on the land. We have
made some small experiments in this
direction by which our suggestions are
prompted, and as reasonable and
sound theory, we think this is one OF
the simplest and cheapest means for
getting the land set in grass. The pre-
vailing method of sowing grass seed
in spring, leaves the young plants to
thehazard of summer heaHand drought,
whilst grasses sown in the last month
of summer will have the benefit of
the usual fall rains and will be we'll
rooted by spring, being thus advanced
one year. Southern Planter.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-08-07
TRAPPING A RHlhocERos
Sport That Requires an Unlimited
Amount of Goodness and Courage.

A traveller with three Dutch hunters
had some exciting adventures in the
Transvaal country, a. few months ago,
in attempting to capture a rhinoceros.
They came upon big two-horned fell
low suddenly one morning, and had to
''climb a tree to escape his horns.
The animal made for the tent of
the party, short distance away, but
a system of simple defense, of wire
brush, foiled him, and he made off.
A pit was dug in the swamp, and a
nice, fat native, which is calculated to
make almost any rhinoceros hungry,
sent out to decoy the prey. Soon after
they heard the shrill notes of the 60
called rhinoceros bird, which is inva-
riably found in the company OF the
beast.
1t is asserted that the bird consti-
tutes himself the sentinel of the lum-
bering behemoth, and that its cries
! arc uttered to warn him that danger is
near.
The native came through the clear
ing with the old fellow in tow. The
native had about thirty feet the start,
and when they passed our mound he
had lost five feet of that, although run
ming like an express train.
The rhinoceros was big one, UNI
usually black, and he ran with his
snout down and his tail erect. We
cheered the native to encourage him,
and away the two went up the trail we
had tempered with.
Had the race been ten yards longer,
the native would have had to leave the
path to avoid death. AS he neared the
pit, he ran along the right-hand edge
of it, while the rhinoceros Numbered
along the center.
He was within twelve feet of the
heels of the runner, when his feet let
go of solid earth and plunged him
head-lirst into the pit. We heard him
grunt from where we stood, and it was
plain that his tumble had knocked the
breath out of him.
AS he struck he rolled over on his
right side, and when we reached the
pit he was helpless.
When he got it through his thick
head that he had been fooled, he was
the maddest beast in all Africa but
it was too late for action.
We had come prepared for just such
a job as we now had on hand The
huge animal must be got aboard the
barge, but we were in no hurry to be.
gin.
We got our ropes and chains ashore,
drove stout stakes where they would
be wanted, and moved the barge to
the lower end of the bluff. By this
time it was dark, and we tied the old
fellows hind legs together and left
him.
After breakfast next morning we
first hobbled our prisoner, and then
hoisted him out of the pit. The first
thing he did was to make a rush, but
it was a failure.
We got purchase tackles on him,
and led them away to trees and sta
Piles, and by these means we checked
him up or warped him along as willed.
All we had to do was to keep clear OF
his wicked horns.
BY noon we had him safe aboard the
barge, one-half of which was given
him. We had managed his capture
without inflicting an injury.
He was landed in Hamburg without
a piece of skin rubbed Off, and is no
doubt alive at this writing. His age
was estimated at thirty years when
captured, and he was considered good
for fifty or sixty years more.-Golden
Days.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-08-07

Pump" is the name OF milk ped
dler in Chicago. Very appropriate
name for the trade. 1t is nip and tuck
between the pump and the COW as to
which shall furnish the most of the
coloring matter ior coffee in cities,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-08-07

we had nos been told to expect
mountain we would not be SO grievOus-
ly disappointed to find that mouse
had been brought iorth.-N. Y. Star.
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
GREENrrELp HILL.

Mr. Gardner's chemical experiments at
the academy, last week Friday drew a
number OF spectators.
Horace Burr and number of family
friends enjoyed musical treat, Satur-
day night, two violins and piano form
Ing the orchestra.
Horace Banks and wife were In Wash
ington, Inauguration Day and have Wis
4 lied different points In the Southern
States.
Miss Hattie Sherwood has visited New
York friends.
ladies sewing society with Mrs VIII
liam Hill, last week Thursday afternoon
I, 8nd the sociable in the evening drew q
company Of young folks.
Mr. and Mrs Lewis Burr entertained
4 kflcnds, last week.
S ID. III Bradley has opened q meat mar
Y W. AZ his Old stand on the Hill.
HUNDRED that Frank Banks VIII leave
Icxp, this Spring.
& lnpp Bradley nnd VIII attended ~
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
EASToN.

A statue will be erected at the Easton
Methodist church, which is known as the
Jesse Lee Memorial church.
lieut. Republican.
Mr. and Mrs Samuel Fancher of West
on, Mr. and Mrs Joseph Fancher and lit
tie son were recent guests of w. F. Sell
leck.
Mrs Horace Gilbert and Mrs Ed Raw
ling of Bridgeport have visited Mrs Har-
riett Garfield.
Mrs Daniel Edwards is the proud own
er of a Gala lily, measuring 4 feet
inches, which has borne several blossoms.
l.. Ell. Edwards has completed hem
merry 10x16 feet with glass front.
M. III. Thorpe has sold fine Holstein
bull to James w. Beardsley of Bridge
port.
Mrs J. E. Field has visited her brother
in Bridgeport and friends in Southport.
Sunday school conference in Congre-
gational church, Tuesday, 9TH, at p m.
Ladies enterprise society with Mrs
George Freedom, Thursday 9Th. Net pro-
ceeds of the basket sociable, $1S.
The home occupied by the late Aunt
Rhoda Hall has been purchased by par
ties in Hartford, who intend to modern
ize the house and improve the grounds
for Summer residence.
Mr. Hawley, wife and daughter OF
Huntington visit Mrs William Sherman.
Service at Judd school house by Rev
Mr. Bulkley, Sunday, 10th, at Z o'clock.
Mrs Charles Silliman is still at her
mothers sick and unable to return home,
though more comfortable.
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
oRoNoQuE.

Charles and Frank Brakeman are get
ting ties for the Consolidated railroad.
George III. Tornlinson has contract
to deliver 100 cords OF wood at Roberts
paper mill.
Annual meeting of the Stratford New
Church Reading Circle at b. G. Ryder's
9TH.
Mrs Sarah Head Of Huntington Ii
with Mrs Samuel Morse, who is still al
invalid.
Several members of Housatonis
Grange met with Worthy Master s. G
Lewis In Putney, March |, to assist il
eating huge loaf of cake presented te
Brother Lewis at the last meeting, thu
first anniversary of the grange.
Mrs q. g. Beard, who has been quite
sick with diphtheretic sore throat is near
Nv well.
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
STRATFoRD.

A lodge of the New England order of
rejection Is being formed. G.. 5. Perry,
snior Warden, has made successful
invass for members.
The last assembly of the season was
Md to be the best.
Robert w. Curtiss read an interesting
aper on roads and road making before
4 he Farmers Grange.
Miss Curtiss of Norwalk Is guest of
Irs Charlas Blakslee.
Robert w. Curtiss, Henry Meachen
nd Mrs Avery represented the Farmers
range at Hartford.
Miss Bradley of Westport has visited
he Misses Fields.
"Bert" Hubbell went to Washington
o take In the Inauguration.
With the advent of Worth wilcoxson's
lew baby, four generations of the family
we're under one roof.
LAWN A1Shlthb NtlGpIdLth biiS cfbii
hiversary of his birth, Monday. He is In
good health and bids fair to see more
birthdays.
David Bennett mourns the loss of IA
korlte hen, which died, Saturday, at the
advanced age, for hen, of 20 years.
Frank l.. Curtis has entered upon his
luties as undertaken for Messrs Hubben
4 Curtiss of Bridgeport.
Two weddings are talked of for this
month.
The Allen place has passed into the
possession of Mr. Tyler of New Haven.
John Fox, employed at the Granite
works, had his foot badly crushed while
AZ work In Bridgeport.
Rev Mr. Pardee began his labors with
Christ church, Sunday.
Watson Smith has gone to Northport
to look after oyster interests.
Mrs Henry Thompson entertained q
dancing party, Wednesday night.
George Furnald has moved into the
Judd place.
Carpenters at the Abner Judson house,
tearing down an old mantel, found an.
Gent coin.
w. E. Wheeler has received a barge
load of coal.
The M. f. endeavor society is soon tc
hold sociable.
Charles Blakeslee is building the foun
dalton for Capt Tallmadge's new house
on Wharf street.
A hat sociable at George Fairchild's
Tuesday night.
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
HULL'S FARMS.

Isaac E. Smith contemplates moving,
this Spring.
III. r. Elwood, Jr, has filled his ice
house. Dame Rumor says he and his
bride will make their future home in
our midst and his friends and neighbors
wish them a long and happy welded
life and abundant success.
The Hawkins brothers have complet-
ed their new and roomy barn, an orna-
ment to the corner.
Nearly 100 acres of land for sale in
this vicinity.
William Mitchell has rented the Wood
place for another year.
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
ira STRATFIELD.

Mr. and Mrs G. w. WalSeman entertain
ed friends at their new residence on the
avenue, last week Wednesday evening.
Jessie Lee Beers, the actress, was
guest, last week, of Mr. and Mrs B. b.
Brothwell.
Walter Cornell is extensively repairing
his barn; James Screder does the car
penter work.
Reuben Rodgers has contracted for a
garbage route.
John Cread, for drunken and disorder
~ conduct, was sentenced by Justice
Brothwell to 10 days with w. w. Wells
on North avenue.
Mr. and Mrs Wyden Benedict attended
the wedding of their cousin at Black
Rock, last week.
The Chautauqua society will give a
eomedietta, Thursday evening, at the
residence of John Osborne. Proceeds
for the Stratfield church.
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
DIAMOND HILL fREDDING)

No school, this week, as the teacher,
Miss Grace Boughton, spends the time
in Danbury and Hartford.
Miss Polly Selleck has been quite
sick, but is improving.
Henry Patchen Of Weston was guess
of Elijah Grammar, Sunday.
Oscar Jones Of Easton visited friends
here, Sunday.
Mrs Harry Storms entertains her son
and his family from New York.
a very successful meeting Of the Red
ding Ready Folks, Saturday, at the
churches, thanks to their new president,
Miss Emma v. Rumsey. Two new
members joined.
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08

Miss Nellie Adams entertained friends
from Weston.
Joel Virgins will leave his farm and
reside in Bridgeport.
James Fenton will leave the John
Merwin place, this Spring.
The Belden place is to be vacated
April 1, as it has changed hands.
B. b. Middlebrook will occupy his
birthplace, April /.
Mrs Staples, who has been blind for
years, suffers with consumption.
Essie Craft, aged IA, who is thought
to have consumption, has gone to Illinois
and Kansas with her aunt, Mrs Isaac
Staples.
Mr. and Mrs Sherwood Banks and fam
lily have visited Fred Mills of the Farms.
The debating club met, last Friday
night and were favored with music by
Oliver Lobdell and sister.
A surprise at Lewis Burr's, last week
Thursday night and the Burr boys and
Samuel Buckley furnished fine music.
William Bradley, who has been under
the doctors care, is much better.
Mrs George Banks of Guilford has
visited here.
| Pupils of Burr's school who reached
100 per cent, in the monthly exam.
nation for February: Reading, Mile
Jennings, Oracle Gould, Emogene
Whitaker; spelling, Mile jennings
Oracle Gould, Emogene Whitaker, Cora
Buckley, Bessie Jennings, Georgia Gould,
Frank Rogers; writing, Millie Jennings
grammar, Mile Jennings, Oracle Gould
Henry Whitaker; geography, Emogene
Whitaker; history, Mile Jennings
Oracle Gould; practical arithmetic,
Georgia Gould, BERTHE Whitaker. In
the monthly report of recitations, de-
pertinent and attendance, Mile Jen.
nings ranks No. !, her average being 0;
per cent.
! Miss Sarah E. Hopkins, the efficient
teacher of this school, is on her second
year. She has given satisfaction, moi
only to parents, but she has by her un
firing efforts gained the love, confidence
and esteem of her pupils. May success:
attend her labors.
Mrs James Staples, who has beer
totally blind for number of years, i:
gradually wasting away and probably a
few days will end her life of toll.
Ladies' aid society and missionary
union, last week, at Mrs William B
Hills; "a took supper. Sociable in the
evening. They are at present making
sheets, bedquilts and underwear. Some Of
the company, young in experience al
well as in years, Joined the four selvedgel
and made them bag shaped.
Next meeting, probably, at Mr.
Frances Sherwood's.
The Academy is gaining in interest an6
popularity under Prof Gardner. Week.,
meetings are held and various subject
discussed, making them quite interesting
especially when paper is prepared an,
read.
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
AspETucx.

The activity of some of our eldest citi-
zens is surprising. Last Friday, David
G. Banks, aged 50, took the stage for
Bridgeport, distance of II miles; while
there he purchased an elegant parlor suit
for his daughter, Mrs Walter $. Hawley,
returning home the next day.
Wildman Couch is frequently seen on
our streets breaking his famous colt,
Fanny Patchen.
Samuel Bradley Is quite feeble, this
Spring.
Mrs Emory Sherwood is poorly.
Mrs Alva Williams has been quite sick,
but Is better. She is attended by DR.
Gorhanl.
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08

The BEE gives, this week, the pictures
1.-THE late and present presidents of the
Iston type foundry, which has supplied
I BEE and many another New Eng
I'D Journal with its outfit. John X.
}gers, now dead, rose from obscurity
an enviable position in the world of
Biography. He was man of sterling
hracter of whom Rounds Printers
tblnet has said, Ellis name will ever be
membered for his sagacity and down
ght integrity and will be chronicled
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
FAIRFIELD.

The School Board has voted to buy
supplies of Hayes & Belts of Bridgeport.
William w. Hull's place is improved
by the use of the AK and saw among his
fruit and shade trees.
Horace Jennings made birthday
party, last Friday, for his youngest
daughter. About 40 were present and
danced to music furnished by Murphy
of Greenfield Hill. A fine supper was
served, about midnight and the festivi-
ties broke up in the morning hours
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
NORTH WILTON.

Mrs Ida Morris of Danbury visits Miss
Carrie Olmstead.
Fred Albig is very sick with pneumo-
MIA.
Died, last week Tuesday, at South
Norwalk, Charlie Wakeman, formerly
of this place. His remains were brought
here for burial. He leaves wife and
one child.
Marion, Grace, Fannie and George
Paddock have measles, Sam and Ernest
Whitney, Willie Olmstead, Arthur and
Mary Seribner mumps.
Robert w. Keller went to Washing
ton to attend the Inauguration.
John Johnston of Bridgeport and
family are guests of Mrs Harriet Com
stock.
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
TASHyA.

Lorenzo Mallett and Morse Mallet
were appraisers of the estate of the late
Winton French. Most of it lies high
and there is fine prospect of hill and
valley in almost any direction.
Mrs Amanda Wheeler has gone to Cam
ada with her sister, Mrs Mary Plumb
and found the thermometer 20 and 80 be-
low zero.
The old Leather Man passed through
here, last week Thursday. 1t is well
that his daily journey is not very long
he is so slow on his feet as he grow:
more feeble.
Ten or II men got together at the
church, Monday and dug out the dirt
and accumulated debris of more than 4O
years, preparatory to putting in the base
ment timbers. The posts under the foo
girders prove to be very rotten, with ex
ception of two.
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
pEERFIELD.

Mrs Thomas Bradley entertained
friends, last week.
Lewis Beers of Lyons Plain recently
visited Charles Nichols.
Mrs Carr and Miss Cora Burr attended
the Burr-Allen wedding in Black Rock.
Mrs Clark Nichols has entertained
Misses Jennie Brotherton and Georgia
Banks of Cross Highway.
Miss Minnie Nichols has visited in
Cross Highway.
Charles Nichols's hens laid, during the
three Winter months, 1866 eggs: only
has about 40 hens.
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
BLACK ROCK

Frank r.. Burr and Cornelia Allen
were married, last week Thursday, at
the brides home. Rev Mr. Woodward
performed the ceremony, assisted By
Rev Marcus Burr, the groom's father.
Friends were present from New York,
New Haven, Hartford and adjacent
towns. Mr. and Mrs Burr took train,
the same evening. for bridal tour to
Vermont and, returning, will probably
BE- At home III Bridgepo rt where hi
The Newtown bee., 1889-03-08
CHESTNUT HILL.

Beach Hall, the carpenter, suffers will
lame back.
Mrs Eli S. Godfrey has visited hel
brother, Agur S. Beach.
Mr. and Mrs Cochrane of Bridgeport
spent Sunday with Myron Patchen.
Lieut. Starkweather went to Washing
ton to attend the Inauguration exercises
Frank Olmstead, wife and little Harold
spent Sunday with his sister, Mrs Agul
Beach.
Agur S. Beach is in Brooklyn.