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ANCIENT MILITARY SCHOOL.
Historic Ground on Which the Young
Hen of Yionisianu Receive
Their Training:.
The Louisiana state university and
agricultural and mechanical college is
known as the military college ot the
south, says the Baltimore Sun. It is lo
cated at Baton Rouge, and numbers
among its graduates many men who are
now officers in the regular army. Gen.
W. T. Sherman was the first president
of the institution before the civil war,
and, notwitstanding his espousal of the
northern cause, his memory is still rev
ered at this scene of his former labors,
and his life-size portrait in oils occupies
a prominent place in the handsome as
sembly hall of the college.
The site of the university is historic
ground. It was for many years a mil
itary post, and the garrisons of France,
England, Spain and the United States
have all at different periods occupied
it. After it was abandoned for military
purposes it was turned over to the state
of Louisiana for purposes of education.
The original buildings, however, still
stand, and, with the flag floating over
them, present a striking and beautiful
appearance.
Here, in 1779, Galves, the Spanish gov
ernor general of Louisiana, after an en
gagement that lasted for three days, cap
tured the British garrison. The Span
iards were in turn driven out by a party
of Americans, and this marked the
passing of west Florida from the do
main of Spain. In 1861 the confeder
ates captured the post, and the next year
a desperate battle, involving both land
and sea forces, was fought near by,
and the confederate ram Arkansas was
blown up in the view of the land bat
MSI ItfS.
Many distinguished officers served
here while it was still a military post.
Among those whose names are associ
ated with the place are Wilkinson and
the first Wade Hampton, Winfield Scott
and Zachary Taylor, Grant and Lee and
Stonewall Jackson, McClellan and Joe
Johnson, Bragg, Rosecrans, Longstreet,
Harney, Thomas and Beauregard, For
rest and Phil Sheridan, Hardee and
Hood, Hancock and Custer, Admiral
Porter and “Bishop” Gen. Polk. Among
the great civilians we recall the names
of Abraham Lincoln, Clay and Calhoun
and Jefferson Davis. There is hardly
a place elsewhere in the south so rich
in historic associations.
The university is true to its traditions.
The sons of Louisiana are soldiers by in
heritance, and while they revere the
cause for which their fathers fought, no
northern boys are to-day more loyal to
the flag which is lowered at sunset every
evening to the well-known strains of
retreat, while on parade of over 300 ca
dets stands on parade at attention.
Everything about the university is con
ducted on military lines, and by means
of frequent inspections a proper system
of discipline is constantly maintained.
CURIOUS HABITS OF WRITING.
The Scribbling Microbe Never Leave*
One After It Gain* a
Lodging.
“The habit of writing is a curious
habit and one which may not be out
grown,” said an old scribbler, in the
New Orleans Times-Democrat. “It
seems4 to be born in the blood. It is a
part of the nature of some men to write
things. Early in life they begin to yield
to an inclination to jot things down; to
scribble off a few thoughts at idle mo
ments, and between times, as it were;
to versify a bit; to philosophize; to put
down maxims and axioms, and to scrawl
a thousand and one little nothings
which appeal to the fancy from time to
time. Once acquire the habit and it is
thine for aye. No amount of change in
life’s course; no upheavals of fortune,
no sudden shifts of fate and destiny; no
nothing that may come with the fleet
ing years will ever once break the mind
from the bent which prompts it to trace
in the queer curling symbols which roll
out from the pencil’s point the little
playful nothings about which the soul
is wont to dream.
“Dainty, delicate children are these
little vagrants which one idly scrawls
into existence between times. Often
they are bright, deep, subtle and of the
verities; sometimes they are morose,
gloomy, of that sterner stuff which feeds
the soul of the hungry pessimists; some
times as light and airy as the very foam
which bursts laughingly around the
ankles of Aphrodite; but whether light,
or profound, whether gay or sad, these
things of mental loafing, these little i
pet nothings of mental vagabondage,
are scintlllants which cheer and amuse
a fellow as he hurries on from one mile
post to another. Ah, for the habit of
writing! It pays when the bank fails
—pays in the sweet consolat ion one may
know from close communion with one’s
own soul, for man hath not known his
soul until it glare at him in such cheap
symbols as he may employ in efforts,
always short of weight, to speak its
weighty sentiments.”
A IHU UOC,
An American in Paris was* one day J
looking at the Eiffel tower, when he
was accosted by an enthusiastic French- j
man with: “Ah! my friend, that is aj
beautiful tower, and I doubt very much j
whether you have anything to beat it
In America.”
“Wal, stranger,” replied the Amer
ican, “I guess it’s good for France, but
in America we have a tower so high
that we ha ve to lower the top at night.”
“Lower the top at night?" replied the j
Frenchman. “For what reason?"
“W'al, I guess it is just to let the moon i
pass, stranger. Good-day.”—London I
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suddenly get well when the time comes
tor the great event of the year, the fair j
which la called the OctoberleaL
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