Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-08-31
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The Boston g0s1, under TINS meaning
entertains its readers with column daily,
OF rare little tslips and slices.n From o
few of the numbers before us, we Gull the
following:
It is thought if the "Dictatorn could
carry successfully the official heaviness il
bore from Boston to Portsmouth there is
no danger of its sinking under any
weight.
a man at Mr.. McGilvray's auction room
yesterday morning, bought therm ometer
for twenty FIVE cents, and before he reach
ed home it rose to ninety! Good invest
ment.
Good news for bad punsters-the Russian
Chamberlain and ex-Secretary of State,
Alexander Popoff, is dead.
There were $4,000 baskets of peaches on
one train TO Philadelphia last week.
The body polite in New York, appears
to be pretty well covered with felons.
A rattle snake in Illinois crawled the
whole length of boys trowsers without
biting the boy.
The heaviest boiler on the Dunderberg
weighs so tons.
Last year 20s 900 emigrsnts arrived here
from Great Britain.
The total capital invested in oil is esti-
mated to be 1853 ,594, 900.
Pctroleans show symptoms Of being
very un-DeR just now.
The brewers and beer-sellers in New
York are at lager heads.
A gentleman just from high priced
hotel at Newport, says his money ell went
by the bo0rd.
The Credit Mobilier has lent ths city of
Paris $50 goo, 900.
TWAS about neck and nothing with the
Saratoga ball toilettes.
A correspondent more edicted to scrip
ture than the classics, asks if The trsnsla-
ton of Homer, bears any resemblance to
the translation of Enoch.
Advice to Mr.. McCulloch--take heed
that tho Republic receive no mora debt
riment.
Mr.. Quilp, who boasts that he never
takes siosvings, y wishes to explain that he
doesn't include legacies in that category.
The King Of Bavaria is fond of riding on
d locomotive and INDUCES his taste to the
great alarm Of his attendants.
Stanton and the other Government ope-
rators are hard at work amputatinR the
military arm"
Two kinds OF statesmen--men of A bility
and mon Of Mobility.
About that musquito,-our correspond
emit in these extravaganza times shouldn't
grumble at 8 little bill.
A cow near Troy got beastzy drunk on
whisky.
Vesuvius has fred up for the season.
A time serving class--the watchmakers.
The Atlantic Cable-We never shall see
the end of it.
A dissatisfied Taxpayer ehsracterizes
tho revenue laws as an imposition and the
assessors as ''impost-ers."
The way to court q lawyers daughter
sne for her.
The Germans had nice time in New
York last week. They first sang and
smoked themselves to death, and then each
man carried his own 6ser.
How does an Irishman wash his face and
handsf He Lages them alone.
The State tax of Maine foots up 81, 400
600. No wonder the citizens ''cut stick.'
At the lowest estimate, it costs the tar
payers over $4,000 to '.try' q man by
military commission in State where the
civil authority is in full force.
Hair apparent-the female waterfalls
Mr.. Quilp says, he finds much less diff
Guilty in keeoing his word than in getting
anybody to take it.
A horse insurance company is the latest
successful enterprise in Illinois. Itinsures
against thieves.