St. Landry democrat., 1893-06-24
OLA PODRIDA.

DRILL MANUAL FOR AMAzoSs.-''Do
you know that in our Amazonian drill
we have to very considerably vary the
movement prescribed in the mannal Of
arms2" remarked the stage manager Of
a theatrical company while supervising
rehearsal. Take the plays, and they
are many, in which women appear armed
with rifles. Should the rifles be brought
to a carry by being rested against the
hip and shoulder, as is done by soldiers,
the result would be anything but salts
factory, for as women have broader hips
and narrower shoulders than men, the
guns would be all aslant We have to
teach them to hold the stock forward OF
the hips, and it is difficult to prevent a
backward slant of the piece, but this is
not readily perceptible. When line of
women assume the position OF the sos-
der we have to make another innoFa-
ton in the tactics. The regulations
prescribe that the soldiers should touch
knees, but the AmaZons have to touch
hips. Drilling Amazons requires not q
little ingenuity. = st. Louis Post~Dis-
patch.
COMMEMORATIVE HIsrORIe SFors AND
SITES. -" Massachusetts, takes the lead,
saws the Buffalo Commercial, Gin the good
work of locating and commemorative
historical spots and SITES Oh, no.
New York State took the lead several
wears ago. In 1886 Albany celebrated
her two hundredth birthday with much
pomp and ceremony. On that high occa-
sion she located and COMMUNICATED
number upward of fifty, of the more ln-
teresting historical spots and sites IN
which she is so rich. One of the me-
mortal tablets which she set up marks
the spot where her second City Hall
stood, in which the famous Congress
of 1854 met and prepared a union OF
the several colonies for mutual defence
Another of these tablets records that
sJ7pon this corner stood the house occu-
MED by and wherein died Aneke lanse
Bogardus, the former owner OF the
Trinity Church property, New York.
Such q tablet scheme is worthy OF all
commendati, n. Every city in the coun-
try which has any history of general III
terest ought to adopt = NY. Tribune.
The SKULLS AT MALVERN Hill
think the chastliest sight | ever saw,
said Sheriff Barnes yesterday, ''Was dur
inc the late war on the field Of Malvern
Hill 7 was in the battle and more
terrific engagement | never witnessed.
Rut that is not the exact time to which l
refer About year after the battle was
foupht nv regiment was ordered out
into the neighborhood of the same Ola
field. We went over the very same
ground. and there in the open field, eX-
posed to the torrid sun, were bleaching
the bones of our comrades who tel III
that awful engagement. 1t was sight
shall never forget On every side lay
a waste of skulls-skulls of almost
every shape and size-a modern "ol-
gotha, We could not identity
them, however, and could only
raze with feeling of sorrow ON
the aggregate pile of human heads tha5
had once been full of human HE ano
feeling. After the deeper emotions OK
cited BY the spectacle had worn away
thought of the infinite variety OF shapes
that were presented by the heaP'
There were no two of the same shape OF
size. and it was rather a matter OF curious
thou Oh melancholy interest to insPect
the different skulls as they lay crumbiin9
in the sultry atmosphere of that August
dav. 1t was, after all, mournfnl Slgh''
and one that was full of abiding pathos'
to think that all that was left OF the gal
liant men that figured in the h9ht Oh 'li"U
eyentful day was lot OF skulls 'ha' "ei1
now beyond recognition and that w W, a
soon be part of the dust on whica wv, we
were standing. Such is picture Oh tla'
awful sight, and only one of the many
horrid scenes in the portralturc Oh "aE'