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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-20
Quite a Common Thing in Brazil.

Rio JANEEo, Feb. 20.-The revolution
which resulted in the expulsion of the
governor OF Geara was begun by some
students and their military simpathizerS.
The insurgents got possession of artillery
and attacked the palace Of Governor Cla-
rindes. The palace was harricaded by the
governors supporters. The fight was de~
perate and SanCuinary, but gradually the
weaker force Of the governor had TO give
way. After struggle of over twelve
hours, in which the palace was under CON
tinUal bonn bardment, the governor sur
rendered. Fourteen were killed and many
wounded in The attack
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-20
Took n Vote ON President.

ToLEDo,O. Feb. 2O.-The Toledo " eekly
Blade has received 1851 replies from all
over the country to a circular of inquiry
addressed to Republican voters asking
their choice for presidential candidates.
The vote stood: Blaine, 1854; Harrison,
e,l03: Mckinley. 1,5l7; all Others, 272.
Taking second choices, and in view of
Blaine's withdrawal, the vote is calculated
TO stand now: Harrison, 1857: McKin-
lev $40
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-20

NEW YORK, Feb. 2O-NiiSs Bette Miller.
a handsome young woman, arrived in
Hoboken from Vienna on the Spree.
Thursday. He betrothed, Ludwig ODER
amer, of Pullms n. Ills, awaited her on the
dock. They role TO the Office OF Justice of
the Peace Marks, who married them. Miss
Mary Martin Of Central avenue. Jersey
City and Ernest Bart of IS Washington
street. Hoboken. Were the witnesses.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-20
Arrested for an Illinois Murder.

ALTOONA, Pa, Feb. 2O.-Frank Callen.
alias Pat McDermott, a railroad brake
man residing in this city, was yesterday
arrested by detectives on the charge of hav-
ing murdered Daniel Dougherty in
Edgington, Illinois. He refused to talk.
but will be taken to that place.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-20

Let every enfeebled woman
know it There's a medicine
thatll cure her, and the proofs
positive!
Here's the proof = if it
doesn't do you good within
reasonable time, report the
fact to its makers and get
your money back without
a word-but you won't do it !!
The remedy is DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription and it
has proved itself the right
remedy in nearly every case
of female weakness.
1t IS not a miracle. 1t won't
cure everything it has
done more to build-up tired,
enfeebled and broken down
women than any other medi-
cine known.
Where's the woman who's
not ready for it? All that
we've to do is to get the
news to her. The medicine
will do the rest.
Wanted Women. First
to know it. Second to use
it. Third to be cured by it.
The one comes of the other.
The seat of sick headache
is not in the brain. Regulate
the stomach and you cure it.
DR.. Pierce's Pellets are the
little regulators.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-20

A gray portion of the brain of rabbit
or other an NAL will do as well, but sheep
has been CT osen because there Is larger
quantity OF that substance in the head OF
that animal. DR. Paul has made numer-
Gus experiments, and says that no reaction
has Vet taken place in patients whom he
has treated with q series of simultaneous
injections, their muscular strength has
been restored, their paralysis has left
them, and they have been able to walk.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-20
FRENCH MINISTERIAL cRIsIs.
The Cabinet Comes to Grief Doing a
- StraddIe Act.

PARIS, Feb. 20.-Carnot was averse to ac-
cepting the designations of the cabinet
which were rendered Thursday because
the chamber of deputies refused to vote
confidence in the government The cause
of the trouble seems to be that De Freycin-
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-20
The Behring sea Proelamatiop.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20-The president
has issued the usual proclamation prohib-
iting the killing of seal in Behring sea.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-20
FOUND A PARALYSIS CURE.
The Discovery a French Physician Claims
to Have Made.

PARIS, Feb 20-One of the most impor-
tant medical discoveries Of the century was
announced yesterday. DR.. Paul, a French
physician. announces his discovery in the
treatment of paralysis. His plan is to
make simultaneous injection of solu-
ton evolved from the gray matter of
sleeps brains sterilized. \ dose is five
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12
An AristOcratic Market Gardener,

Pretty nearly half England's nobility
has gone into trade of some sort. The
Duke of Fife is turning his land into
bank stock. Lord Randolph Churchill is
a special correspondent-and the name
is legion of those noble danes who sell
everything from butter to bonnets-and
not always by proxy. The so famous
Lady Brooks runs show in connection
with her Eastern charity work, where
you can buy nearly everything a woman
can put on from the crown Of her head
to the sole of her foot Her betters in
birth and breeding help themselves in
lowlier ways. One, the sister of the wife
Of the Duke of Wellington and daugh-
ter of Marquis whose blood is of the
best, lives just out Of London in ram
bling old house that has half an acre of
garden behind it. Small as is the bit of
earth, she gets from it good share of
her maintenance. She points out her as
paragus bed, crowded with tender shoots,
and says: as it not tempting?-but /
cannot afford to eat it. Every stalk is
engaged to Covent Garden Market, where
it fetches enough money to clothe me
and my girls. . New York Sun.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

snatched up her baby, who was kickin'
bis loved best at the fun; but told her
to Law him down for a minute, take a
twiue string out Of my coat pocket, and
tie it tight around my thumb where ]
were holdin' it. For don't you know,
| squire, it come to my mind that very
minute of Jay Roberts losin' his whole
| thumb three year ago that a moccasin
bit, and that under tho water? Yes
sir, that it did. Maggy screamed, but she
done us told her. Then told her to go
and mike pot of red-pepper tea, boilin
! hot, not thinkin' there was a drop of
spcrits in the house. Soon as she got
away, | hauled out my knife. [ give it
q wipe or two On the bottom of my shoe,
and them We'll, squire, whoever
thinks there's fun in cuttin off their own
thumb at the int, they're welcome to it,
But | grinned and got through with the
job, and by that time Maggy's ma got
back. She told Maggy to fling that
pepper tea away, and then she got out a
level tumblerful of whiskey and come
out and made me drink every drop of it.
And then, while Maggy was fixin' to tie
up what was left Of my thumb, she, a.
KNOWN [ couldn't carry all that load of
whiskey, she made me go to bed, and, tell
you the truth, squire never remembered
another thing till next mornin' daybreak,
when | woke up, calm for water"
" But where was Jim all this timer"
"They told me after it was all over
that Jim came back with his forked stick,
a-sayin' it took longer than he thought
TO rrntn %o i zlx
thanked him, and told him that he better
put it away keorful, as it might come in
handy next time"
THAT'S Jim; that's exactly JIM" said
my father. "But, Joe Hobby, don't tell
me you came away from that house with
out getting Maggy's word, after what
told you Of the Importance of being
brisker in some of your ways, especially
since Jim has become widower."
ooh, no, sir. | thought itwere good
chance to follow up your advice, and | |
put in for her as well as | could; and she |
said that, in all the circumstances, she |
wasn't sure but what it was her duty"
"That's good. that's tirst-rate.
"But, law, squire! she declare she
must put off the weddin' for at least one
whole year.
Nonsense! You tell Maggv, from me,
that, after all you've done for her and
hat baby, | say that think it very hard
to be putting it off so long, and that if
my accident was to happen to you in all
hat lonesome while she'd never forgive
herself"
He carried the words, and in a few
lays afterwards reported that they had
compromised on Easter.-LLippin2ott.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12
The Oldest Medical Work.

A translation into German of the
Egyptian medical manuscript acquired
about twenty years ago by George Ebers,
the eminent Psychologist and novelist,
has just been completed. DR.. Heinrich
Joachim, the translator, believes that
the work was written not later than 1850
b. G., and that parts of it are of still old
er date. 1t consists mainly of recipes,
lnterspersed here and there with prov
eros, but gives some advice upon the ez.
animation of patients, and states the
diseases indicated by certain symptoms.
hv original papyrus is a unique and
important document Delug the Oldest
medical work in the world. Trenton
IN. j. America.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12
The Portland Vase.

The Portland Vase was found in tho
Sixteenth century inclosed in marble
sarcophagus, in the sepulchral chamber
called Monte del Grano, on the road from
Rome to Frascati. 1t was formerly sup
posed that it was formed of single pre-
! cious stone; but it was afterward found
that this was not the fact. An author
ity, telling of how this wonderful work
was done, says: 1.-The first place among
these processes in which one color was
super-imposed on another may be given
to that by which the cameo glass was
produced. In this bubble Of opaque
white glass was formed at the end of the
tube used by the glassblowor; this was
coated with transparent blue, and that
again with opaque white, and the vessel
required was formed from this threefold
globe. The outer coat was then romov
ed from that portion which was to consti-
tute the ground, leaving the white for
the figures, foliage or other ornamental
dion; these were then soul ptured by
means of the gem engrayer's tooEs. The
famous Portland vase is the finest exam
pie OF this kind of work which has come
down to us, and was entire until it was
broken into some hundred pieces by a
drunken medical student some years ago.
The pieces, however, were joined to-
gether by Mr.. Doubleday with extra
ordinary skill, and the beauty of design
and execution may still be appreciated
almost as well as when it was intact.
A letter written by Wedgewood in 1886 |
to Sir William Hamilton has been ..pb-
lished in the life of the former by Miss
Meteyard, which contains some interest
ing remarks upon this beautiful work of
art. He concludes with the assertion,
i do not think e25,0OO for the execution
Of such vase, surprising our best ar
lists capable of such work, would be
at all equal to their gains from the
works they are now employed in 1t is
rue that the gem engravers Of that day
'eceived very high pay for their work"
-ICourier Journal.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12
A New Flower.

The cultivation of flowers has become
science and never u season passes that
Some new species of a rose or other bios
som is not born through the process Of
evolution, which isbrought aDoutby graft
ing. Last year the "American Beauty"
was the talk of the town and any number
OF new specimens Of chrysanthcmums
and peonies were shown. The latest
flower this season is cal led the Cosmos"
u delicate blossom with white petals and
a yellow centre, the whole resembling
very much the daisy, only it is nearly
twice as large as the largest of this white
soul OF the meadows.
The Cosmos has been brought to its
present state Of perfection by West
Broadway florist who has united the
daisy with the bood-root flower, and by
a series of grating has produced most
beautiful plant, which takes the place Of
ferns to d wide extent in trimming up
baskets. The Cosmos keeps fresh for
long time, and looks like a cross between
dogwood blossom and daisy. 1t is
not affected by cold or heat nor the stuffy
atmosphere Of oyer-peopled rooms.
just why this flower should have been
called the Cosmos is not clear The
Greek word is defined as "the world con-
sidered as an orderly or sympathetic
whole, opposed to chaos" The little
flower is certainly clean and orderly
enough and as attractive as a big daisy.
1t is found in great quantities at the
wholesale florists who pay the raisers OF
the rate Of about one dollar per dozen
lunches. As a delicate relief to the out
er edges of great lunches of flowers, the
Cosmos is much more attractive than
ferns and is gaining wide popularity. -
New York Recorder
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12
Earthquakes in Japan.

Earthquakes are of so frequent occur
renee in Japan that they are looked upon
! as a matter of course, and unless they
are accompanied with serious loss of
life and destruction of property, the out
side world hears little OF them Some of
the earliest japanese traditions are of
extremely destructive earthquakes, and
many fanciful tales are told of those
! which happened previous to the times Of
, trustworthy historical records. But there
are many authentic res ords of earth
quakes which destroyed. whole cities.
/ The most serious of these disturbances
. IN recent times WIS that Of 1875, when.
! in ledo, which w;ss the centre of the
! quake, 14,24l dwelling-houses and 1919
trc-proOf storchouses were overturned.
In the last days of the past October there
was very serious earthquake about
Gitu and Nagoya, and there was great
loss of life and property There were
slight earthquakes on Sunday, October
Goth, and these continued with increas-
ing severity until the morning Of the fol-
lowing Friday. During the last two
days of the quake, 500 distinct shocks
We're felt and recorded. At Gifu the
houses tumbled down and caught fire,
and theses people not caught in the ruins
fled TO the country and the hills; but in
nearl y every house it is reported that
one or more unfortunate victim was ]
caught. Enough is known to place the
loss of life at several thousands. When
the first shock was felt at Gifu the up
and down trains on the Takaido Railway
were just meeting. The shock was ac-
companicd by a rumbling sound, and the |
people on the train thought that there |
naa been collision. On looking out Of |
the windows, however, they saw the sta
ton in ruins, and the water in a neigh
boring pond dashing violently from side |
to side. As the shocks continued, cracks
in the earth were observed two or three
feet wide, opening and closing. The
shipping in the various harbors was very
much injured, and one ship which re-
Gently arrived at San Francisco reported
that when seventy miles at sea violent
shock was felt the sea was lushed into q
foam, the waves broke over the decks,
and the maintopmast and cross-trees
were lost. These disturbances at sea
have been very common in previous
and several times great
ships in japanese ports have had great
difficulty in weathering such unaccus-
toned conditions.- Harper's Weekly.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12
Women Make Poor Smugglers.

Mrs. Weltman, aCustoms lnspeCtress,
says women smugglers are less numerous
now than they were few years ago. Ii
is rather more difficult for them TO cheat
the Government than most people thiE6,
and if any contrabamd are brought into
this country without tolls being paid upon
the they IRE of very little value. We
can tell iii minute whether q woman
passenger has any valuables concealed
about her person. because women are
nervous and give themselves away. |
can easily pick out a women who hls
some taxable property concealed about
her. No matter how experienced she
may be, she becomes hustered if a pene-
trating look is aimed at her dress. She
coIors up and acts as if she were i'll ut
ease.
at is a funny thing, but true, that q
female smugger can be detected by
glancing at her feet and then looking
suddenly up into her face. If she has
diamonds, laccs or any SIN ggIed articles
concealed about her she will turn all tho
coors Of the rainbow If not she simply
looks at You inquiringly AMI then at her
feet. The story printed the other day
about woman smuggling $4,000 worth
Of diamonds in the beak ola pelicanis all
rot. The very fact that woman had
such q pet and cared for it, as she
naturally would in view Of its value,
would excite suspicion, and then q
thorough investigation would follow"
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12
LOVES SEASON.
Love doth q tenant Of the spring beeou

Love doth tenant Of the spring become:
Ofsummer hours when ssies of brill ant blue
Tempt bees and katydids to gardens new;
When the woodpecker with his distant drum
Is heard. and when the cricket S restful thrum
Makes autumn musical; when Winters few
Delights of Nature blossom into view;
Love makes tLe year, complete, its constant
home.
Nhateer the days or months for rs unfold
Love has one season in its rounded rhyme,
Loves sun turns darkest skies to brightest
gold,
And makes Of time q period sublime;
From craite-hymn to be Is at Lies night
tol'ed
Where Love dweils tits summer all the time
dexter Smith, in Boston Transcript.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

The Grant monument was erected
In Chicago without single salary
paid to any of the hard workers upon
the committee. In New York from
the outset they have had costly
Office and paid their secretary 50, 400
per year for keeping it warm.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

A CONTEMPORARY figures out the
cost of raising boy till he is q years
of age at $4,150. The trouble with
that expense is that influences entirely
outside Of the expenditure determine
whether, when the boy is raised, he
is worth the money or would be
highly valued at the odd $50.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

AN Ohio man hid bottle of whisky
In stone fence. Others saw him
and when he had gone appropriated
the bottle and drank its contents.
The whisky was drugged with strych-
nine and one man died of its effects.
Moral: Stone fence whisky is usually
fatal.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

A CHICAGO lake captain proposes
to dam Niagara Falls in order to Sc
cure deeper water in the lakes. Such
thing would be certain to meet
with a strenuous opposition on the
part Of New York and Canada, but
no one would object were he to damn
the malodorous Chicago River.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

MRS. kendall says the critics Of
the American press are irreproacha-
BILE. As the compliment must be re-
turned some way the same may be
said Of the fit Of Mr.. Kendal's trous-
ers
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

THE whole Common Council OF
Newport, Ky, has been incarcerated
in jail. However, it is not so I'M
usual for Aldermen to be behind the
bars with their constituents in front.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

1GNATIUs D0NNELLY gets 81 out Of
his libel suit against the Pioneer
Press, and the general opinion seems
to be that the jury put the ciphers in
the wrong place.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

AN old woman in the poor-house at
Butte, Mont, has received notice
that she is heir to an immense estate
In England, As is usual in such cases,
horde Of relatives springs up, anx-
ious to take charge of the dear old
lady for the rest Of her life. People
never have so many devoted friends
as when they inherit vast fortunes.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

IT is quite appropriate that the In
dependence race-track should be kite
shaped. That is certainly q good
shape for flyers.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

LITTLE Miss CLEVELAND begins life
with fine collection of spoons. and
as she approaches the age Of IS or 20
they will accumulate about her more
and more.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

ONE Of the exhibits to be seen in
the Moorish palace at the Worlds
Fair will be million of dollars in
gold coin. AS our visitors, with
scarcely an exception, will desire to
feast their eyes on this tempting
sight, the Moors would seem to have
hit upon very popular attraction.
1t is pleasing thing to see a million
of money, though one cannot have it
himself
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

DESPITE the anti-agitation regular
ly inaugurated by various dress-reform
movements, the corset continues to
stay.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

A YOUNG and blushing couple took
each other for better or worse the
other day on the very summit of
Pixies Peak. H0Ws that for high?
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

THE Pullman Company will exhibit
at the Worlds Fair the first sleeping
car ever built in the United States,
There has been a revolution since.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

SINCE PATHS famous parrot has
learned to speak Welsh she uses its
tongue for a c0rkscrew.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

A PERSON in Wilmington theater
the other night arose in his seat and
demanded that the performance
cease unless it could be conducted
according to his own ideas. The re-
mainder of the audience were in
some doubt as to whether he was a
dramatic critic or a popular clergy
man, but he proved to be an ordinary
rlx
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

THERE are 250,483 Indians in the
United States, exclusive Of Alaska, this
enumeration including bucks, squaws
and papoosrs. The available force for
lighting is 10000, only one-half Of whom
are warlike.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

JOHN TAYLOR, 10-year old, at St.
John, N. B., safely swallowed toy
whistle. He might be exhibited as
the human Whistling buoy.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

ONE Of these days a jury will pre-
scribe large dose Of long-delayed
justice for some Vitri0l- thrower.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

Present fashions appear to have been
created for fine looking'or beautiful
women.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

The population Of China is now esti-
mated at $50, 600, 900. which is almost
equal to the entire population of Europe.
The Chinese National debt is one of the
smallest, amounting to only s3s, 500, 900.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12

THE bugler of Tennyson's Light
Brigade still survives and lives in
Denver, it is said. The chances are
that this good old man would long
since have been gathered to his faith
ers had some fell accident ever
brought him before country school
on commencement day"-at which
time and place 1t is an tron-clad Gus
tom to kill off and bring back from
the jaws of death, back from the
mouth of he'll, this long-suffering 600.
THERE is renewed agitation in
Springfield, Mass, Of the dress ques-
ton, the point of attack being the
long dresses which sweep the streets
and carry into the houses not only
dirt but the germs Of disease. It
will be necessary, however, to bring
some stronger argument against the
long skirt before woman will consent
to abandon it, What is mere health
compared with fashion?
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12
St. Landry Democrat

by L. A. SANDOZ,-
Opelousas, Louisiana.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1892-03-12
SAME THING.

~ seo," he began, as he entered the
office of a plumber, that some one has
invented cutoff or valve or syphon by
which water pipe is prevented from
freezing, no matter how much exposed. "
Yes" softly replied the plumber.
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