St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-03-07
A Dutcbmans Mistake

| geeps me Won leedle schtcre town
broadway, und does poorly goot peesnis
bu: don't go. mooch capital 10 WORK nit,
| so finds it hard work TO get NE all DER
| credits vot | would like
| Last week | hear about some eoots dot
barty vas going to sell pooty cheap, und
so | writes dot man if he would glef me
der refusal of dose goots Tor gouple DAYS
He gate me- der refuss-do, is he salt
couldn't hat dem, but salt he voula gall
| on me und see mine schstore, und den if
| mine schtore und mine schtsnding in
peesnis vas goot, perhaps We might d
Something's tosedder. Veil, l vas behind
mine counter yesterday, ven shentemen
comes in und dskes me py der liant urd
saws, Mr. Schmidt, l believe" | SAYS
"Iaw," und den drinks to mineself. dis
vas dc man vot has dos4 goots to cell und
| must dry to make some eoot imbre 5siors
NIT him SO We gould do some peesnis.
dis vas goot schlore" he SAYS, looking
roundt, bud you don't got pooty pig
schtock already" l vas svraid to let him
know cot | only hat bout tousand toll
lars Wort of goots il der blaze so says:
You toni would dlnk hat more as dree
tonsand tolis1s ia dis leetle schtore, ain
id?" He SAYS: "Yol don't tole NE
Vas dot bossib-?" l says "Yaw." |
meant dot id vas b ssible. dough id wasn't
so, voc vas ike Snorge Vashingdons ven
he cut town der colt elm on Pc. ton Com
mons NIT his lee,le hadche', und gouldnt
dell some lies boud i'd
Yes, says Ger shentleman, Il dipks
you ought to know pettar as anybody else
vot you haf got in Ger schtore. IND den
he daKes pig book from unter his arm
und say, we'll. poots you town vor dree
tousanc tol!ars.' | ask him vot he means |
Ply puts me town." und be says he vas
Won Oft der dax men, o. assessors off brob- |
etty, und he dank me SO kindly as nefer |
vas, because he say | vas sooch an hone st |
Deutscher, und tidn't dry und sheat der
gofermanss | dells you vot it vos, tidnt
veel any more peter as a hundert Der cent
ven dot man walks oudt of mine sch,ore
und der next dime makes free NIT
strangers finds first der peesnis oudt.-
WaybGck Ast0nssher.
The Original Home of the Sugar Cane
DR.. Edmund Won Lippnan, al eminent
German chemist, and an authority on
sugar, gives the following brief sketch of
the history and development of sugar cul-
ture and manufacture In lecture. syn
opsis OF which appeared in the Deutsche
The original home OF the sugar cane
must be looked for in the coast gjon ex.
tending from Bengal to Assam, at the
northern extremity of the Bay of Bengal
1t Is remarkable that there is no such thing
Is wild sugar cane. whilst four-tt.h. of
other formerly wild but now cultivated
plants are still in existence in a Wild state
ot the slightest chronological indication
IS regards the time when it was first
known is to be found in Indian annals. A
chinese compilation of the third century
states that the province of Bengal sent
sugar cane IS tribute to China, from
which We may conclude that at that time
olid sugar was not known The first in
iication of sugar itself is found between E
he third and sixth century in India while 8
he Chinese were not acquainted with its t
manufacture until about the year $40. In {
he ninth century clarified sugar was pre-
Jared by drying raw sugar in the sun. r
The companions of Alexander the Great {
peak of sort of honey which they met d
With on their way to Asia, which grew
here without bees. At the commence a
aent of the sixth century there was sugar r
ans on this side of the Indus. at the con-
uenC0 Ol Tue CupuTdteS anu llB us. 1 ue "
onical shape Of the sugar loaf has existed IL
ince the seventh or eighth century. The b
pfning was effected chiefly by the ashes g
f plants. b
Sugar came first into Europe at tie u
me of the conquest of Sicily by the Sara Il
Ems in 1877. From Morocco the manufac- q
1re of sugar extended to Spain AID at y
lined such development that it amount fe
! to LOG. 900 tons per annum. In the year
30 the Doge Orseolo concluded the first ar
eaty of commerce with the Arabs aud re-
ned sugar was then introduced into Venice. es
rom thence sugar found its way into Ger
any, and is first mel toned II the poems &C
Wolfram Of Eschenba and Gottfried nc
St-asburg. Columbus took the sugar sp
ne with him on his second voyage t. no
merica but it appears to b. again lost
ght of there. In Germany the first rein WI
y was established il. 1913 a. Augsburg, CO
the patricisn family Of Roth. The Bu
xt refinery was SET up in 1897, at Dres- tn
n. Ne