The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-10-19
NUMBER IS.
Miscellaneous Items.

Inc WOFSC hlEu VI Ittiu- Stur-r alSG-
hoods.
A native silk-worm has been discov-
cred in Texas.
Rnmor-tism is prevalent journalis-
tic complaint.
A contemporary says Eve was tho
first hone-a-part.
When patient begins to feed more,
tho doctor is feed less.
What is it that nobody wants, yet
nobody likes to lose? A lawsuit.
There were 3l3,577 dead letters en-
tombed ut Washington last July.
Kentucky expects to raise $1,000
hogs heads of tobacco this year.
A stitch in Time may save nine-but
he never seems to be entirely sewn up.
A Philadelphia family left tho gas
burning while they went to Europe
anu back.
The residents of Boston represent an
aggregate wealth of over one thousand
millions of dollars.
Philadelphia leyotes all the f,uit
grown in Fairmont Park to the char
liable institutions in the city.
The best birthday gift for your wife
is policy on your life in the Piedmont
and Arlington Insurance Company.
General Spinner is called sithe
man that writes the name on the green
backs that looks like string of eels.'
What cord is it in which you can
find knots that no man living ever tied
and no man living can untie7 Why,
cord of wood.
A resident of New JERSEY writes to
correct the statement that sparrows
eat mosquitoes. In his part of the
country the mosquitoes eat the spar
rows.
f'No vehicle drawn by more than one
animal is allowed to cross this bridge
in opposite directions Mt the same time,"
| is Inscribed OH n bridge over the Platte
river at Denver, Colorado.
| The following is the conclusion of a
letter from a Dutch commercial house;
"Sngar are falling more and more eve
Try day; not SO the respect and esteem
with which we are" &C., &c.
A Little Hartford four-year old, re-
peating the Lords Prayer at his moth
er's knee, came to the petition "give
us this day our daily bread" and adj
ded, soto roce, candy too"
| A party of workmen engaged in Dig
ging a canal in Sherman, Me-, found IS
live turtle, eighteen inches across the
back, ten feet below tho surface.
Why is mans trade mark like
certain leading Prussian Because it
lis ''biz" mark. The author Of the
aDove leaves wife and tweve small
children.
The greatest lengthof New England
is about $50 miles, and its greatest
breadth 300 miles. It's narrowest part
is between Boston and West Stock
bridge, l35 miles.
The Emperor Napoleon, besides own
ing large amounts of property in New
York, is now said to also have large
amount OF real estate in Baltimore,
purchased FIVE years ago.
The new Grand Central Hotel at
New York is claimed to cover more
area than any other in the world, has
been two years in building, cost 81,
5000, and can accommodate 1900
guests.
A contemporary tells of q "shrewd
Jersey farmer" who "dosen't shoot
boys that steal his melons, but lets
them eat all they want and takes his
revenge when reading their obituary
notices in the paper the next day"
To what extremities the confirmed
punster is sometimes driven, may be
seen by tho following: Consider the
house structure; consider a shelter !;
consider the house home; and then,
o then, consider the Housatonic
| Elijah Hedges, of Mortified, Massa-
chusetts is the owner of a pair of boots
made in the year 1928. For 80 years
he wore them only on Sundays, june
trainings, Fourth of July, &C., while
for the last twelve years he has worn
them Occasionally
| 1t is said that up near Goose creek,
in Norfolk county. Va, there is %
damsel whose hair is SO red that she
has to wear fy-nets over her ears to
i keep candle mo tbs from, springing into
that part of her anatomy while she
sits pensive in the summer twilight.
"What part of the chicken will you
take, Mrs. BittusY" ga wing, if you
please, Mr.. B., wing" "Can't give
yon that, my dear, want that myself
besides, only angels have wings" "In-
deed then you had better help your
self to drum stick, Bittus; brutes
have legs"
| Ira T. Gleason, of Saltwater, N. Y.
f has in his possession a mare that wa.
purchased of General Robert Z. Lee
twenty-one years ago. She was known
upon the race-course at that time ~
: the "Queen of the. South" She i:
n now thirty-one years of age.
q A gentlemen having engaged bricl
n layer to make some repairs in his Gel
- lar, ordered the ale to be removed be
fore the brick layer commenced Iii
Is work. "Oii, I'm not afraid of barre
J. of ale,- said the brick layer. 81 pre-
t. sumo not,n said the gentleman; "but
,s think barrel of ale would run 9
s. your approach.
ID Daniel Webster said: If We work NJ