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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-11-27

Such are the almost incredible re-
suits reached at the close of the year
ending in 1881. 1t must be stated, too,
that since that date the yearly receipts
have steadily increased until, at the ex-
piration of the twelve months closing
with the commencement of this present
year, 1889, they reached the enormous
sum of 25, 0O0, 900 francs
From the facts and figures which have
been laid before the reader it is easy to
realize the exact standing and condition
of Monaco as regards the gaming tables,
and to see that the power to abolish
them rests neither with the Prince of
Monaco nor his government. The only
possible method to attain that end would
be to indemnify the society, but q mo-
ment's reflection will show what an
enormous and well-nigh impossible sum
they would be entitled to demand in
consideration of their twenty-five years
of lease which have yet to run.
The financial obligations of the vari-
GUS European states would not permit of
their sacrificing the sum which would
be necessary to achieve this end, and it
is to be feared that, however DESTROYS
the new Prince of Monaco may be to
break off his connection with the adj
ministration of Monte Carlo, it is for
him, certainly at present, an impossi-
bility.-Chicago Tribune.
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A REPUBLICAN, WATERLOO.
The Stomach of the G. O. p. Is Now Full
of NauSeOus Cro&v

The Stomach of the G. O. p. Is Now Full
of Nauseous Grow.
There is wailing in the camp of mo-
nopoly and privilege. Mournful epitaphs
have been hung, and all the rites per-
formed that appertain unto a burial.
The Republican stomach is full of nause-
GUS crow, garnished with wormwood
and seasoned with the gall of bitter
ness. For many day the organs will
feed their readers on explanations. They
will seek to cover with petty excuses
that which appears in appropriate naked
ness. There is but one thing upon
which the party of buster can brag
now-it can show more black eyes than
all the houris of the Mussulman heaven.
The Iowa Democrats have at last got
out of the wilderness of fanaticism and
free whisky, and their Moses will now
strike with his rod of right the rock of
justice, and bring forth pure stream
that will cleanse the State of Repub-
Hcan sewage. He has led his faithful
followers into the promised land of Dem
ocratic ascendancy.
The rebel Brigadier, Malone, is buried
for all time. The organs should not
complain of his destruction. Their meat
and drink is abuse of rebel Brigadiers,
and they should rejoice that one of them
the worst-has met his fate at the
hands of an honest man.
The forged-letter dodge did not save
the Fire-Alarm leader of the Ohio Re-
publicans. His sham pretense at espous-
ing the cause Of Sunday saloon-closing
did not save him. The respectable ele-
ment in his own party refused to vote
for him, and he had nothing to expect
from the Democrats. He, too, is done
for.
The defeat of Foraker, Hutchinson and
Malone, the election of Campbell, Boies
and Mckinney, is a stinging rebuke to
theAdministration and to the whole Re.
publican party. Tuesdays votes show
that the election of Harrison was an ac-
cident and a mistake. More than that,
they show that the bow of promise for
the Democrats in 1892 is already being
set in the political heaven. They show,
too, that the tax-ridden, monopoly-op.
pressed people of this country are find
ing out that they must look to the Dem
ocratic party for their deliverance from
the chains of error, dishonesty and
fanaticism. The people have found that
the Democratic party is their party, and,
having learned this, they will stand by
the party and their rights.-Ch Chicago
Herald.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS,

The bottom principle of De-
mocracy is to give every man a show
N. Y. Sun.
We refrain from expressing an
opinion of the Pan-Americans until it
is seen how they pan out. Troy Press.
No Northern Republican need feel
aggrieved because the spurious Repub-
licanism of Malone has been rejected at
the Virginia polls. = Buffalo Express
Rep.)
Couldn't DIR. Harrison spare few
United States troops for the lawless Re.
publican counties of Kentucky? The
militia is weary.-Louisville Courier
journal.
Tanners idea, as reflected in his
annual report, is that the men who en-
listed in the army during the war made
themselves residuary legatees of tho
Nations estate, and are now en-
titled to inherit all that is left of it,
N. Y. World.
Congressman Morse calls for Re-
publican boycott on Harvard College.
We respectfully remind the rising son
OF Canton that Harvard does not teach
what he calls 'free trade" because it is
Democratic, but because it is the truth.
Boston Globe.
First the scholars who left the
Republican party were scoffed at; then
the clergymen who did likewise were
lampooned, and now the wealthy men
who have got sick of the old machine
are the subjects of sarcasm. Well, we
guess they can all stand this longer
than the Republican party can.-Boston
Herald.
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Mr.. MoRToN's SALOON.
Tho Nations Vice-President Sets Up q
Bar at Washington.


A liquor license was yesterday granted BY the
district commissioners to Hon. Levi P Morton
the Vice-President of the United States, to sell
whisky, beer and other spirituous and malt
liquors at retail on the premises at the corner
OF Fifteenth and Fl streets. This is the fat
known as the "Shoreham," just completed by
Mr.. Morton. Under the rules Of the district
the majority Of the property.holders in the
block must approve the application for the Ii
cense. The only property-holde besides the
Vice-President is John Mclean, the proprietor
of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. Mclean ap.
pears as sponsor on the application. Mr.. Nor
toms bar-room will be the handsomest in the
city-Washtngto Special.
Thanksgiving Day is coming, and the
Harrison punch-bowl and Morton's bal
ought to furnish sufficient themes fol
the day, especially from Prohibition
Republican standpoint. What special
cause for thanksgiving that the White
House is rid of Frances Cleveland and
Rose Cleveland and President Cleveland.
and that we have gorgeous wine dinners
and Sunday excursions, and $40, 0OO, OOl
Vice-President who is able to set up a
bar, and that the country is governed by
the Quays, Mahones, Dudleys, Clark.
sons and other Christian statesmen.-
Muscatine Qa.) News-Tribune.
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HENRY L. BIOSSAT, Business Mana gel
THE WAY OF THE WORLD.
1 never gossip, as you know,
For q N, a II ,Jnr uyarI,;,,

never gossip, as you know,
For am all day working,
So can not mnd my neighbours ways
without, like Miss Dean, Sinking.
She knows just every thing around,
There goes that Miss McVerly;
She lies abed till nearly noon,
But Pm up bright and early.
Ipay my bills when they come due;
1 couldn't stand such dunning
As that proud Mrs. Style gets
For all her clothes so stunning.
1 do not see how folks can let
Their children act so awful
As do those folks across the way.
They do say 'twasn't lawful
The way my left hand neighbor here
From her first husband parted,
And that she took the second one
Fore the divorce was started.
That's Mrs. Brown that's coming round
The corner; do just watch now,
don't believe you ever saw
A dress that's such bOtch now.
That pretty girl? Why, that's Miss Jilts,
The biggest f1irt that's going,
She's got come up with, though, at last,
And reaps what she's been sowing.
She's awful pale, you see. I've heard
That she was to be married,
And had her things all ready, too,
But her dear bridegroom tarried.
What! going? Oh, do stay. There comes
The wife Of our new pastor.
Don't go, and we will have some fun;
She tells more tales, and faster,
Than any woman that you know.
You must go? Well, good day, dear.
So glad you found me quite alone,
was so afraid she'd stay here.
--Aristine Anderson, in Detroit Free Press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-11-27
Steam-Carriage for Roads.

In the French technical journal, La
Nature, there is described steam-car-
rage for common roads, which will car
~ three passengers. 1t has a small
boiler Of the vertical type, which works
at pressure OF one hundred and seventy
pounds on the square inch, and e7apo-
rates about thirteen gallons Of water per
hour. The speed attained on good
road is fifteen miles per hour, and
enough water can be carried to last for
q run of twenty-five miles. The fuel
(coke) costs one-third Of penny per
mile. The entire weight Of ear, fuel.
water aad passengers is twenty Two huA-
0reQ aeight ~ -
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,oys of the ranch, who had been attract.

boys Of the ranch, who had been attract
ed and guided by his shots, hurried out
OF the snow-scud, their revolvers in their
hands, and sent shower of balls into
the band of snarling and struggling
brutes that killed two more of them.
The remaining two, badly wounded,
darted away with loud yelps, all the
fight taken out of them, and were seen
no more.
Adair was nearly exhausted, and was
so faint from loss of blood that the cow
boys were compelled to carry him to the
which was difficult and
laborious feat, under the circumstances.
1t was found that an artery had been
severed in Adair's foot, and the foot was
otherwise so torn that for months he
could not bear his weight upon it. He
did not fully recover from the effects of
his injury until the following summer.
John H. Whitson, in Youths Com.
panion.
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FACTS ABOUT YERBA.
ono OF the Most Important and Useful
Products of Paraguay.

Products of Paraguay.
OF all the productions of Paraguay, the
most important and peculiar is the
yerba, which is derived from the twigs
and leaves of a bushy evergreen tree
which is scattered through the wild for
ests OF the central Cordillera. The dis
tricts where it is most abundant are
called yerbales. At present it is not a
cultivated product. In former times
the Jesuits, recognizing the advantages
OF having the yerba close at hand, made
large plantations in the south, a grove OF
theirs near Santiago at the end of the
last century containing not less than 90, ;
900 trees. The trees of the northern
yerbales yield finer tea than those Of
the south; but the best of these, on &C.
,ount of their remoteness, are not
worked. For time the yerbales were
. government monopoly, and yielded a
large part of the public revenues. In
1850 the southern yerbales were granted
to private firm for ten years on favor
able terms, and in 1886 nearly the whole
OF the government yerbales we're sold at
public auction.
Yerba itself is the name applied to
the dry and powdered leaf of the lex
Paraguayensis, tree which in size and
character bears close resemblance to
the orange tree. The shrub, which be-
longs to the holly family, grows to a
height of fifteen to twenty feet, and is
indigenous. 1t grows wild, not only in
Paraguay, but in parts of Brazil and the
Argentine Republic. The white flowers
grow in umbellated clusters, with q
berry the size of pepper grain, and
containing four seeds. 1t contains an
aromatic oil, gluten and portion Of
theme. 1t has not the delicacy of flavor,
and has more bitterness and astrin-
gency than China tea. The Paraguayan
yerba is considered superior to that
grown elsewhere; it is cheaper than cof-
fee or tea, selling in Asuncion at about
81 for twenty-five pounds. In the mar
ket at Buenos Ayres it sells at double
and nearly treble this price. 1t can be
prepared from the leaf in thirty-six
hours. Efforts to introduce it into Eu-
rope have failed; butit is used by eight.
cen millions in Brazil, the River Plate,
Peru and Bolivia. The export from
Paraguay is worth about half million
dollars per annum.-N. Y. Ledger.
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No Good Cause for Complaint.

The Harrison Administration settles
the fight over the post-ofice at indie.
pendence, Mo-, by deciding to retain the
Mormon recently appointed. Compare
lively speaking, the people of Independ-
ence have no right to complain. They
may not like Mormons, but they SHOULD
remember how much better of they are
than the people Of the New York town
VINO had burglar appointed for their
postmaster, or than the Arkansas town
whose new postmaster had been con-
vlcted in the Federal courts for sendinl
obscene matter through the mails.-ss
Louis Republic.
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PlTH AND POINT.

The man who is given to sober re.
Election seldom gets into tight place.
Boston Courier.
Good will, like good name, is got
by many actions and lost by one
Francis jeffrey.
Don't be too severe on the man who
scolds his wife in public. Perhaps that
is the only time he dares to do SO.
Many run after felicity like man
hunting for his hat while it is on his
head.-Washington Post.
No individual or nation over rose
to eminence in any department which
gave itself up to childish complaints.
Real humorists are scarce, and when
man once gets that reputation his
whole life is saddened by the efforts to
live up to it.-Mobile Register.
The mischief of opinions formed
under irritation is that men feel obliged
to maintain them even after the irrita,
ton is gone.-Century.
The man who tries to argue a WON.
an into loving him may succeed, per-.
haps, but he must have a long life and
no rival. journal.
The clinging ivy is pretty thing to
look at, until we learn that it is very
apt to crush the life out of the tree upon
which it acts as parasite.-Mrs. Ellen B.
Dietrich.
He who is ashamed of asking proper
information on point on which he is
uninstructed takes the surest method to
make himself lifelong prisoner in the
Castle of Ignorance.-Once Week.
An intelligent selfshness on the part
OF men would demand that their com.
panions should be their equals, in order
that their society may be enjoyable
Rev. Charles G. Ames.
He who complains that the world is
hollow and heartless unconsciously con-
fesses his own lack of sympathy, while
he who believes that people as whole
are kindly and humane is certain to
have the milk of human kindness in his
own nature.
We need to be cautious about bad
mans invitation, even when his PROPOSE.
ton to us seems most plausible. There
is such a thing as Being used by .
scheming man, when we simply go to .
perfectly-reputable place as one of his
invited GUESTS. S. Times.
The habit of doing one thing at
time and doing it we'll, the power OF con.
centration, which is the outgrowth of
this habit, and a resolution to make the
best of life and work one has chosen, are
the surest defense against misfortune
and the best safeguard against disease.
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REMARKABLE EATERS.
Tho Healthy Appetite Of Couple of Maine
Youngsters.

The Healthy Appetite Of a Couple of Maine
Youngsters.
In Maine company recently the con-
versation turned to astronomical feats
and achievements in the art of stuffing.
When the young lady who had eaten six
bananas at one sitting and the young
man who had boosted of having topped
off dinner with whole mince pie had
told their stories, demure maiden mod
estly related an incident in the history
Of her family that completely discour-
aged all her rivals.
"One Fourth of july" said she, ssmy
brother and friend wished to make an
excursion up river, and as they proposed
to start very early in the morning and
be gone all day, my mother prepared a
large basket of food for them the
night before. In the bottom of the
basket she placed a thick stratum
Of delectable articles to represent
supper; on this she placed another layer
for their dinner, and at the top of the
basket, where it would be first accessi-
BILE, she put a hearty breakfast. Being
well acquainted with the capacity of the
boys, she made an unusually large al.
lowance for each of the three meals.
D"Well, the boys set out for their OK.
cursion at four o'clock in the morning.
Their boat had not gone far up the river
when the rain began to come down.
They went ashore to wait awhile and
ate their breakfast. Tho rain was still
falling when they had finished this
share of their supplies, and so they inn
mediately ate the next layer-their
dinner. Still they were hungry and
still it was raining. They had nothing
else to do but to devour the remaining
contents Of the basket, and SO they
jumped in their boat and came back
ho.ne-and took breakfast with the rest
Of W. y Lewiston lMe.l journal
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A GAME OF cRoQuET.
The Kind All of Us Have Played at Ono
Time or Al other.

The Kind All of Us Have Played at Ono
Time or A other.
"Whose turn is it?"
"Maude's."
"No it isn't"
eyes it is-Janie played last"
81 thought red came after the blue,
and
"That was splendid hit, Maude."
Snow play for Meds ball, and knock
him away from me, and"
'No, don't! Play for the side wicket;
you can go right through it."
''If were you, Maude, rd--ha, ha,
you missed it."
'Isn't it provoking?"
STA, ha, ha! See where Charlie has
sent Fred's ballr'
Good for y@,, Charlie! Now sene
JAMES, ball far us you can!"
"oh, you mean old thing, you!'
'Now 60 through those two wickets-
there! that's Splendid
"Whose turn is it now?'
JAMES,
''No-yours.
sob, so it is! What am I thinking
about? Pshaw! Isn't it provoking to
just miss a wicket like that?''
isn't it thought"
.Now, Fred, don't you fail to hit the
post, for the worldr'
''Ha, ha, ha! He missed if!'
"Goody! Goody! Well beat 'em yet,
Maude!"
MAY be you will, sir! Oh, Charley,
that was lovely stroke! Now do make
both OF those wickets-bravo! Now
keep right on-Oh. dear! dear! I'm so
sorry you missed itr'
.'Now, jamie, play for dear life-oh,
that's too bad!''
"Goodr'
ssHa! ha! ha!''
s'We've beat! We've heat! Hurrah!"
''iia! ha! hal
"splendidI"- brakes Magazine,
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PULLERS-IN AND PRiCERS.
Men and Women Who Make Living in .
Peculiar Way,

Peculiar Way.
The ''puller-in" is one Of the species
of New Yorker whom age does not
wither nor custom stale. just as ore or
coal is found to exist in beds that often
follow narrow and well-defned lines, SO
the New York puller-in is observed to
exist in a reasonably straight, very mar
row and not over-lengthy seam or streak
beginning at the Five Points, following
along Baxter street, turning at Park
row, and losing itself or terminating at
the end of the first block in Division
street. The superficial signs that denote
the existence of this peculiar product
are secondhand clothing and brand new
millinery at popular prices. The pullers-
in of Baxter street and Park row are the
male proprietors and clerks of the Sec
ond-hand clothing stores, and their
neighbors, the dealers in the very
cheapest first-hand clothing. The pull
ers-in of the millinery stores are all
women or girls. A puller-in is, OF
course, a person who brings customers
to store by strength of arms,
commercial wrestler, physical SPELL
binder. There are those who assert that
although the pullers-in are never miss
ing from the sidewalks Of the sickle
shaped route along Division, old Chat
ham and Baxter streets, it is none the
less true that they now use no other
force than that of seductive tone and
argument to engender trade. Others
assert that pulling-in is only more cir
cumspectly carried on than in those days
of yore when it was all poor mans
clothes were worth to attempt to free
himself from these octopus-like sales
men. There is good reason for all fair
efforts to lull the public back to feel
ing of security in this respect, for not
long ago the popular complaints were so
loud, and the fights between dealers for
the capture of citizens were SO energetic,
that the lively calling fell into disre.
pute in its own seat and stronghold.
Whatever the state Of the profession
may be to-day, the athletic clerks still
stand or walk before their stores, and
the people still call them pullers-in.
Quite as peculiar, in a totally different
way, are the clever men and women who
are known as "pricers, 'and who are en-
ployed by the proprietors of the great
shopping stores to learn the prices at
which their competitors are Offering
goods. These "pricers" must be very
talented, experienced and judicious
specialists. They must be able to Judge
of the quality and brand Of an article,
as well as to discover its selling price.
They must hide their business from
those they spy upon as carefully and as
ingeniously as detective works among
criminals. They must pretend to be
shoppers, messengers from invalids
wanting samples, eccentric ladies
who scarcely know what they want,
and so ask about many things. They
must in some cases work in one great
store and draw salaries from two, the
second salary being their pay for ac-
quainting rival with their employers
business. Weekly.
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as he (Posey) had made such state.
ments to Mr.. Clarkson as would pre-
clude all danger of his removal. From
this it is conclusive that if the idea of
my appointment was, at any time, Sc
riously entertained by the President, he
has been forced by Mr. Posey, State
Acknowledgement Kitchener and others
to abandon it Very respectfully,
ISABELLE De LA HUNT.
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GAMBLING IN MONACO.

The Almost Incredible Financial Results
of the Monte Carlo Games.
Does it pay?
From reliable source comes a table
OF the gross receipts and corresponding
dividends of this truly gilded gambling
hell of all creation which answers the
question. Its showing is appended:
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-01
ON WALL STREET.
Very Little Life was Shown On the
Market Yesterday.
A Belief in Better Time Coming After the
First of the New Year Lead to Some
Buying fhe Prices.
COMMERCIAL RESUME.

COMMERCIAL RESUME.
Special to the Gazette.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3l.-Railway bonds
to-day sold as follows:
Fort Worth and Denver, 905S.
Texas and Pacific rs, 50.
2's, 40.
Kansas and Texas s, 62.
ST. Louis, Arkansas and Texas rs, 90 &.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas rs, 574 i.
6's, 81.
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe rs. I19.
San ANTONIO and Arkansas Pass, 500.
Money, 5Q7 per cent.
Governments lower.
Silver, 9238
Sterling, steady.
Wheat active and excited, closing
weak
Cotton dull at an advance of 8 points.
Oil, 6758.
The coffee exchange was closed to-day.
Sugar, quiet,
GOVERNMENTS, STOCKS AND BONDS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 81 With the eXcep-
ton of the first two DAYS, when business
was almost entirely suspended at the time
of the blizzard, to-day was in all proba-
bility the quIetest day of the year in
stocks, and only in the first hour and
again in the last hour was there any
thing like animation shown in the mar
ket. At the same time the general be-
lief in d better time coming after the first
of the new year led to some buying, and
the tone of the dealings was firm
throughout the day. Absolutely no
news of a character to effect prices was
received during the day, but London
came higher this morning, and there
were purchases of firm stocks at the OPEN
ing which induced some covering of
shorts, and with limited offerings this
was sefhcient to give strong tone to the
market what there was OF it.
The Taildroad bond market was in close
sympathy with the share list, and was
dull and generally firm with little or no
feature of Importance.
Government bonds were dull but steady
to firm.
State bonds were dull and steady.
BRITISH GRAIN TRADE.
LONDON, Dec, 81 The Mark Lane
Express in its weekly review of the
British grain trade says:
English wheats are weak. Much damp
and inferior sorts have been cleared off
at any price, dragging mean values
down The sales of English wheat dur
ing the past week were IS 1868 quarters at
sos "a, against Al $50 quarters at 30s Sd
during the corresponding week last year.
Foreign wheat shows an average de-
cline OF Cd. Corn is Sd lower at to-day S
market. English wheats were well held.
Frost is strengthening the markets. For
eign wheats were firm. Oats, beans and
peas were unchanged. LaPlata maize
was Cd down.