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St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
The Deyasting Moth-WOrm,

1t is we'll to remember that the moth
never DESTROYS wonlcns; it is the worm.
Ii is we'll to remember that camphor and
all the other vile odors in the world will
never protect fabrics i'll the least.
If woman puts a garment away that
has so much us one moth egg, ton of
camphor won't prevent that egg from
Matching, if there s any hatch to 1t. The
only way to preserve garment from
the rayares of the moth is to be abso-
lutcIy sure in the first place that moth
has laid no eggs in it, and this is not
easy to discover, because with the
mol her instinct it creeps into dark crew
ices, the more obscure the better, and
its eggs are as small as the point of q
pin. 1t coats these eggs or incrusts
them with a covering, and YOU might
beat and beat the garment and not in the
slightest degree hurt the eggs. Now
you can put that garment away in q
camphor chest and heap ton of cam
phor on top of it, yet if one of these
eggs matches worm, that worm will
start in to feed.
The only way to be sure that none of
these eggs are put away in garment
is to keep the garment out under con-
slant surveillance for two or three weeks
before putting it away, and in that time
any newly Matched worm will develop
into size that can be readily seen.
Once garment is absolutely free of the
egg or the worm, it can then be tied up
in a paper parcel, or anything else that
will keep the living moth out, with per
feet impunity, for moth will never bore
its way into anything The Upho)-
sterer,
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
Poems on Demand.

Poets find it difficult, if not impossible,
to write poetry Ito order A distin-
guished poet, who was not long ago asked
by the editor of a periodical if he would
not write for him poem within two
weeks, answered the editor: eyes, if
you will exercise your influence with the
muse in such way as to compel her to
visit me-" The editor had no ''inhuence
with the muse and lost his poem
Beranger, the famous French poet,
whose gr,@.eet gift lay in writing little
poems which he called songs, was par
ticularly dependent upon these chance
visits of the muse. He was once visited
by the author and Academician, Vlennet,
who said to him: "You must have
written several songs since [ saw you
last Il have only begun one,"
answered Beranger. Only one? I am
astonished!' exclaimed Niennet. Ber-
anger became indignant. ''Humph!" he
shouted. DO you think one can turn
off song as one turns off tragedy?'-
Manchester Times.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18

James B. Allen, whom citizens of
Chicago, ILL.,, recognized in 1889 as the
oldest settler by presenting him with
medal suitably inscribed, lndulges in
some interesting "reminiscences. He was
brought to the log settlement in 1888
being then two years old, by his father.
The family came from Ogdensburg, N.
Y. They took up their residence in
little house Immediately south of the
picket fence surrounding the fort. 1t
was the only house left by the Indians
after the massacre of 1872, and General
Winfield Scott had once occupied it.
The General resented to the elder Allen
three old cannon, which were afterwards
thrust muzzle down into the ground and
used as hitching posts. Later they were
cast into bell for the court house. Old
Allen built Clicago's first dock, on
River street. "Ihe first water works
Chicago had,' says his son, ''were
operated by Mic Reiss, who peddled
water to the settlers at the price of
twenty-five cents a hogshead. The
water works consisted of a two-wheel
cart on which was placed sort of tank,
and the whole arrangement was drawn
by horse which old Nick Reiss used to
drive. A good many years after that
my father and Virgil G. Walter, under
the firm name OF Allen & Walter, oper-
ated the old hydraulic water works at
the foot of Lake street. The water was
conducted to the city in wooden pipes"
He continues: 81 remember the old
ferry across the river where the Rush
Street Bridge is now; it was pulled by a
rope attached to a windlass on each
bank of the river. There also used to
be ferry where the Lake Street Bridge
now swings. The stage coaches for the
West, which used to make Galena their
objective point, used to be ferried across
there" Mr. Allen remembers the first
vessel launched in CHICAGO, the Mar
guerite Allen. 1t was originally (by
courtesy gunboat, and formed one of
the fleet that took part in Perry s victory
on Lake Erie. 1t was heightened and
rebuilt as schooner, and in this form
began its trading career. The first hotel
was known as the Green Tree House,
and was built by John Gray. The first
steamboat 10 ply on the lake was the
James Allen, named after the elder
Allen. Mr.. James B. Allen is a veteran
of the war. He claims to be great
nephew of Ethan Allen.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
Easy 10 Is, come AmbideXtrOus.

A majority of those persons unfortu-
nate enough to lose an arm, lose the left
arm it is said, but once in while some
one loses a right arm. Now then, did
you ever think as to your probable digita
facility in case YOU should lose your right
arm tomorrow. In the language OF the
exhorter, at may be your turn next?'
1t is useless, senseless, harmful habit
this neglect of the left arm and its ad-
juncts, but we are all of us too thought
less, too lazy perhaps to correct the habit.
1t can be corrected however, as I have
found after two weeks regular practice.
Any man or woman who is in earnest,
and will practice half an hour at some
certain time each day, can learn to write
legible hand aud with reasonable rapid
ity with the left hand.-Detroit Free
Press.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
Housekeeping in London.

An American taking a house in Lon
don will learn that she will have to keep
more servants in the old country than in
the new. These servants are trained,
and one who is willing TO engage to do
many things is usually willing to take
such Il position because she is incompe-
tent in everything.
\ small family there would keep a
cook, chambermald and waitress.
The washing would be put out, and a
charwoman. would be called iii once q
week to help with he cleaning and clear
ing up. A very good cook can be had
for 800 u year. Il chambermad for $50,
and a smart waitress for $50.
The charwoman will be paid two shil-
llngs, or fifty cents day, and given her
beer and food The washing for such q
family will cost from - to "a week.
In America such family would have
two Monochrome It cook who would also
wash and iron, and anoh as chamber
maid and waitress.
The servants we have here do more,
but hey do it moro roughly, and arc
totally deficient in that silent suhsrryience
which makes the ira English domes-
tic perform tho usual household duties
with automatic colerity. Generally you
have gcatcr number Of servants there
than here.
There the servants do not expect to
eat Just what is provided for the family.
Not ut all When the marketing is
done, special things are bought for the
servants, and they have a table for their
own, the meals being served at differ
ent hour, and the quality of the fool very
much less in cost. They eat very little
meat most of it salt; the cheapest kind
of fish, and then they have potatoes and
greens and buildings with treHcle, and
they are pro. ided with beer, unless i'll
engaging servants it is stipulated that
the engagement is without beer
i Notwithstanding
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
by her.

A few nights ago a man standing in
one of the streets in Brooklyn, N. Y,
suddenly threw up his hands and fell to
the pavement, apparently lifeless. A
large crowd Immediately gathered, and
two ambulances speedily came in re-
spouse to police calls. Several surgeons
made careful examination, and one of
them so roughly that the supposed dead
man sprang up, and roared with pain.
Then it was discovered that the man had
been shamming, and that he had done it on
wager that he could draw crowd of
500 people in less than ten minutes. He
won the wager, but it has cost him six
months in Jail.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
THE BODY AND IT'S HEALTH.

AvERTING ATTACKS OF AsTHMA.-Ac-
cordng to the Journal de Medicine of
Paris, the fumes of bromohydrate of am
and bronchitis. Bv al inhalation of the
fumes, under certain conditions, On at
tack Of asthma may be averted.
More AN.EsTuETIc AND ANTIsEPTIC
AGENTS. 1t seems that the use of solid
carbonic acid as an an;usthetic has been
made the subject of Il patent by the
we'll known DR.. Robert Wiesendanger,
Of Hamburg, When the liquetied gas is
poured from the iron cylinder in which it
is compressed, it rushes out in the form
Of white mist, which may be collected
as flakes of pure carbonc acid snow and
pressed into solid masses that will st
a number Of hours. Carbonic acid us
,olidihed produces intense cold, W CHI
may be made to henumb any part Of he
body to such in extent that minor su'gi-
cal operations are made painless. This
has been practiced with such certainty
that. at the Hamburg Hospital, one of
the experimental cases was that Of a boy
of thirteen who watched without shrink
ing while deep cut FIVE inches long was
made in his leg.
NENruArIoN. - The healthy atmos-
phcre in room is ono in which the air
is changed to the extent of 5000 cubic
feet per hour per adult inmate. The air
admitted need not be cold: warmedair,
So longas it is fresh, is of course prefer,
able t. cold air in winter, but in some
way the air must be brought in if we are
TO continue i'll health. There are various
ways OF doing this. One is by admitting
cold air 50 that it is directed upward
toward the ceiling, where the air of
room is at the highest temperature; the
cold stream is then heated in its passage
as it falls to the lower level for breath
ing. But i'll large rooms, to utilize at its
best this current, there should be in the
skirting outlets communicating with q
heated up-cast tlur, which will draw
away the heavy air near the door. In
cases where there is heating by hot
water coils, the cold air may be broughtin
at or near the floor level and passed
through the bot-water coils-the outlet
for Initiated air being in or near the cell
W u ilSii't u I-tdSt iuC. 1h ihi -pA
rooms or buildings for public assemblies
it may be necessary with either of these
systems to use fan, either to propel
fresh air into the room or to draw away
the vitiated air
The great desideratum in the admis-
sion OF fresh air is to cut it up into very
fine streams, something in the way water
is cut up in passing through the fine nose
of watering can 1t has been found
that air admitted through a tube or orr
flee of equal sectional area throughout
enters rs cold draught; but if the in
let be through series of small truncated
cones. the smaller section outward, the
larger inward, with wire gauze on the
inside, the current is so cut up and diff
fused that the draught is not felt. BY
analogy, Il mass OF water entering
through narrow canal drives all before
it and cuts channel for itself, but the
same quantity passing over large sur
face Of ground gently irrigates it. An
other important point is not to let the
passage of the air be at too great a
velocity; the gentIcr tie flow the better.
- The Contemporary Review.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18

A citizen of Southwestern Arkansas
writes thus of remarkable discovery to
Governor Eagle, of that State: ~ wish
to inform you in regard to a skeleton
found near Saratoga. 1t is supposed to
be some kind of a serpent's bones. Some
of the joints weigh nine and ten pounds
each. have thirty-nine of these joints
aud number of pieces of ribs, but no
whole ones From the best we could
tell the ribs would have measured four
feet in length. / have been informed
that you are gathering the curiosities of
our State for the museum, and every one
that has seen the bones says that they
are one of the greatest curlosities ever
seen in this part of our State. The
thirty-nine joints weigh $50 pounds.
Please give me the necessary informa-
ton in regard to getting the bones to
the museum"
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
No Full Length Portraits for Him.

Thackeray was not vain man, and he
dislked vanity in others, and made it the
subject of his ridicule and sarcasm.
After long pleading his family induced
him to have his portrait painted, and
Lawrence, famous London artist, gladly
undertook the task.
Soon after the picture was completed
Thackeray CHANGED to be dining at his
club, when a pompous officer Of the
Guards stopped beside the table and said:
"Haw, Thackeray, old boy, I hear
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
THE KING OYER YOU.

Trust not to numbers; trust not to blows;
Your king and your lord is the man who
knows;
Numbers are futile; Bullets are vain;
Your freedom lies in your soul and BRAIN.
Hands off the bludgeon; hands to the book!
Face to the future: turn not to look
Back to the past, though higher and higher
In the Seldoms you leave mounts the flame
of heavens fire!
Trust not to ballots: trust not to laws:
Who masters himself God judgeth his
causc
While Won think to be masters with ballot.
or blows,
Your king and your lord is the man who
knows.
-IWilliam v Byars, i'll st. Louis Republican.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
INDIAN SIGN LANGUAGE,
Julian Ralph Tells How the Red
Man SHELLS

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St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
st. Landry Democrat
by L a 9ANDOG,-
Opelousas, Louisiana.

Few people perhaps are aware of the
fact, believes the Boston Transcript,
that there was once a Postmistress-
General. She did not serve in this
country or in the present century, but
the fact that woman ever served in
that capacity is indeed remarkable.
Denmark was the home of this remark =
able woman. whose name was Countess
Gyldenlore, or Dorothea Krag, as she
was called during her term of office,
which extended from the year 1903 to
I'LL. The present postal system in
that country, which is considered one of
the best in the world, was inaugurated
by her.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
Not At All.

Intelligent Foreigner TO parlor- car &C,
quaintance)--l am indebted to you, sir
for a most enjoyable afternoon and much
political information. You are in public
life, presume?
MISUNDERSTANDING American
No, sir. | am Lieutenant Governor.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18

Mamma i wish YOU would 90 to Mad
am Modestte's and tell her that dress is
too tight, and | want it altered.
Small Son complaining ly)-Madam
MODESTO is SO far off, and I'm tired
plavin' ball. Mayn't go to a nearer
drcSs-maker?
Mamma Another dress maker won t
do
Small Son taftrr retirction)-W ell,
maynt 60 to tn drug store around tn
corner an get YOU q bottle of Anti-Fat?
- Good News.
ONE ENoCGH.
''Dear me- said Mrs. Hobbs, lust be
fore the guests arrived. ''Ihero are
sixteen persons and only fifteen
spoons.
''I'hat all right, u" said Hobbs. "Fan-
ny Harkins and Dave Fisher are en-
gagged. One spoon will do for them. -
LBnzar.
GIVING AN ORDER.
Small Boy Mamma wants you to
send her up quarter pound OF coffee
and a pound Of tea.
Careful t'rorcr-ISnt it quarter of
tea and pound of coffee she wants?
Small Boy Well, it's somehow that
way, and oh, ! forgot, send us up Il
barrel Of onions and half dozen Der
muda potatoes and peck Of eggs; now
don forget.
THE HEIGHT OF HOSPITALITY.
Wonderfully have You put on that
old dress, and, dear me, why are you
rubbing that dirt on YOUR face?
Little Daughter Susie Summer has
tun to call on me. an she : dot an Old
dress an dirty face. food News.
EQUAL TO THE OCCASION.
First Boy with bundIel--You stop
sicking that dog at me, or lll-I'Il give
him this meat
Second Boy-lIr, he! Wot goodll
that do?
First Boy While he's eatin' tn meat
IN lick YOU.
Second Boy-IIere, Tige'-LGood
News.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
A Difference in Adjecti'es.

Napoleon was one day searching for
book in the library of MaImason, and
at last discovered it on a shelf somewhat
above his reach. Marshal Money, who
WAS present-one Of the talcst men in
the army stepped forward, saying:
"Pcrmit me, sire. am higher than your
Majesty "Iou are longer, Marshal,
said the Emperor, with d frown--
[Argonaut.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
lawrence has been painting your por

Lawrence has been painting your por
trait?"
$50 he has" was the response.
Full length::'
No; full length portraits are for
soldiers, that we may see their spurs.
But the other end of the man is the prin
cipal thing with authors said Thack-
cray Cleveland Leader.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18

A distinguished French officer has in
vented rifle which can throw a charge
Of vitriol seventy meters.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18

France consumes, pro rata of hes
population, more eggs than any country
In Europe
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18

Delivery wagons, the motive power OF when
is electricity, are the newest vehicles
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
4 GENTLE HIM

She Ito idle youth)-Why don't you
engage in some work Of charity:
lie who has been calling quite fire.
qucntly of IateD-Ah, yes, | catch the
spirit of the author, and begin at home,
ell? Clever, by Gawge,
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
NOT A MATTER OF WAGES,

Say, said the elderly ,farmcr-looking
man IL want little piece put in the
paper that | want woman who can
cook, wash iron, milk four cows, an
manage market wagon
"All right, said the advertising clerk.
"Shall state what wages will be paid"
wages nothin'.' shouted the far
mer- looking man. 81 want to marry
her. indianapolis journal.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18

Friend How are you day?
Sick Man-lretty bad. I'm afraid I'm
going to die.
Friend Nonsense. Cheer up, old tel
low Only the good die young.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18

IV": VHTy lITt E5V7JU tEIt VVFIT5'
ALAS, POOR BEE.
How doth the Presidential bee
Improve each shining day
BY gathering delegates galore
In such a quiet way.
How skilIfulIy he lays his plans,
How we'll improves each minute!
And yet when the convention comes
Ofttimes he isn't in it.
- Chicago Times.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
THE MODERN WAY.

q like the bonnet very much 1t is
simply dream of beauty. But do you
think it matches my comp exion?'
"No, don't think it does But that
needn't cause any trouble. You can
easily fix your complexion to match the
bonnet"
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
EMlNENTLY FASHIONABLE

tMlNfNlLl FASHIONABLE,
"You were at high tea the other day
believer"
"Yes"
"Was it a fashionable AFFAIR."
go, decidedly 50. 1t was attended bv
the very best people. Very select"
"Indccd?"
Eyes; know they were the very best,
for they had a professional reader there,
and while he was reading Antony's ora
ton everybody talked and laughed Just
as if there had been no reader there. -
New York Press.
FORCE OF ARGUMENT.
She If you don't let go my hands. sir
Ill ring for the servants.
He-But if | don't let go how can you
ring:
She lthoughtfully)-That's so-and-
and DOR mamma got headache, so |
dare not Scream New York Herald.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
THE PLFASANTEST PART.

He preparing to leave)-I assure you
Miss Smarte, the time has passed very
pleasantly this evening
She (abstractedly)-Yes, it is pleasant
to know that it is past Boston
Transcript.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18
VERY LIKELY .

"Why do they have SO many fine oil
paintings in saloons nowadays"
''Probablv because water colors would
be Inappropriate. - Truth,
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18

Friend-What did he say to you when
he proposed to you?
Miss Rox-IIe said life without me
meant nothing.
Friend-IIe was sincere in that.
That s Just what his possessions amount
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18

"Who is that long haired young fellow
who seems to have nothing to do ~ III
quired the casual stranger.
'Ihat's our poet" said the Squire.
Clown chips in an pays his board and
Clothes
"N here are his works published -
"Ain't never been published He's
arranged TO have EN- printed arter he's
dead. That's wy we are trvin to keep
him alive longs we can. - Indianapolis
journal.
St. Landry democrat., 1892-06-18

x NFIF EN- Ut " tFrtN.
II observe, James. said the Boston
employer, "that YOU say 'eether' and
'neether. Are you not aware that such
is not our pronunciation of those
words :'
at doesn't seem to me- replied the
boy from New York, pondently,
that you ought to expect me to say
'cy'ther and 'nyther' on "a salary of SIG
a month