The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-05-19
Miscellaneous Items.

81 One Lord Mayor of London, although famous for biz
4 gastronomy denounced luncheon altogether saying
consider luncheon as insult to breakfast and
! injury to dinner
i The value of Canadian cattle imported into the
Il United States during the first three months OF 1859
two hundred and thirtysix thousand two hundred
] and ffty-two dollars-nearly double the value Of
those imported during the same period Of 1858.
An euterprislng Spectator in Paris talks about start
| ing mammoth printing house, where he desires to
print all the daily newspapers published in the city.
He says by doing SO the dailes will reduce their ex-
penses ten per cent.
/ Loss BY HoARDIsG.-On thousand and forty dollars
in gold pieces of the year 1896, thereabous, were
recently disposed of in Trenton, n J., after having
| been boarded for seventy four years. The loss
Of interest in that time somewhat oyer four thou
sand dollars.
The Union Pacific railroad sold 10000 passenger
tickets from Chicago to White Pine, Nevada, during
the month of March. Everything indicates great
rush to the silver regions from the East this spring
Josh Billings says: "Bes are the sorest things ov
their size on reckord and kross tew the touch
setting hen or dog with fresh bone"
The Cincinnati Times expresses the hope that with
in the coming year the Great Lakes and Great Gulf
will have direct and almost and air line connection
and passengers will be whirled through the Republic
from North to South and South to North without
change of cars!
hF feSSGGQeH pilu HaHQSOWe conn ileHt W lue
South Wednesday week, in the Senate. He said for
fifty years the proportion of civil officers OF the Gov
eminent from the Southern States as two to one
from all others. AS those years of honest eco
nomical administration of the Government it reflects
great honor on all who then held Office.
The Cape of Good Hope has been visited by ca
lamity unprecedented in its annals severe drought
bad burnt up everything and the heat still rising
when the 4th of February fires broke out in several
places and in few hours covered district four hum
dred miles in length and from fifteen to fifty n BREADTH
destroying all houses, trees, crops cattle, and appa
reny natives, few Europeans only escaping by arush
for the nearest river
THE CocKRoAcu.-The coclroach IL a bug at large.
He is one of the luxuries of civilization.
He is easy to domestkate, yielding gracefully to or
binary kindness, and never deserving those who show
him proper acts of courtesy.
We are led to beeave, upon cuss examination OF
the outward Of these fashionable insects that they
are highly successful inernmrriase between the /
brunette pissmire and the artikus beyo, common
American grasshopper
He don't leave the places he was born at upon the
slghtes. provocation like the gddy and vagrant flea,
or the ferocious bed bug, and until death Tor some vile
powder, the invenshun of man, knocks at his front
door, he and hiz brothers and sisters may be with
the naked eye ever and calmly climbing the
white sugarbowl or running foot-races between the
butter plates. =-NM.
The cockroach is born on the fust ov May and on
the first ov November semi annually and is ready for
use fifteen days from date.
They are born from egg, four from each egg, and
they all of them twins. There is
such thing in the annals ov nature single cock
zach. .,9
The maternal bug don't set upon the egg as the
,oose DOTH but leaves them lie around loose, like
,int of split mustard seed, and don't to
larn whether they get ripe not.
But never knew cockroach egg fail tew put in an
appearance. They are to hatch out and run
canada thstes or bad kold.
The cockroach is two colors, sorrel and black.
hey are always on the move, and kan tro, I should
ay, good track, and good day, cluss to three
linits.
Their food seems to consist, not much in what
hey eat, what they travel, and often finding them
lead in my soup at the boarding house, | hav to
he conclusion that cockroach can't swim, but they
an float.
Naturasts hav also declared that the cockroach has
10 double teeth. This is important fakt and ought
be introduced into all the primary school books
Amerika.
But the most interesting feature in this remarkable
ug is the oveyness their natures. They caut bite
or sting, skratch, jaw back They are
amable that hav known them tew get stuck in the
utter, and lay there all day. and not boiler for help
nd ackually dia at last with broken heart.
[Josh Billings.