The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1870-01-19
Miscellaneous Items.

fBDeu cOfsets, Win hoops, neaVy SkrS, tralS, ASu
heels panners, chignons and dozens of hair pins
sticking in their scaps cooped up in the house year
after year, with 10 exhirating exercise, no hopes,
aims ambitions in life, and see if they could stand
ii as well as the girls Nothing she said but the fact
that women, like CATS have nine lives, enables them
to survive the present regime to which custom dooms
Che sex.
A cheeky conductor on Pennsylvania railroad who,
with moderate salary, kept fast horses lived in fine
house, wore diamonds etc, indicted by the com
pany some time since for robbery. Thereupon he re-
turned $4,000 stolen plumber and was discharged
but being hard up for money, he now sues the COM
pany for the return of the money alleging that it was
obtained from him by threats and force
DR.. G. NJ. Bourne sixty.four years of age vege-
tartan, and for thrtyve years total abstinent from
liquors. tobacco tea and coffee started from the City
Hail. in San Francisco at midnight the 18th utmo,
and walked though to San Jose distance of fftyfye
miles accomplishing the task in Eighteen hours and fifty
minutes He counted the number of steps and found it
to be 81, 76S.
South Carolina and Massachusetts the two State
of the Union that stand a specie paying basis.
The former State gives official notice that interest
her State debt, falling due JAM ls will be paid in gold
coin, either at the State Treasury at its financial
agency in New York. Massachusetts has maintained
the honorable distinction through and since the of
being specie paying State
There is an old lady in Maine who claims to have
lien upon the State and having asked successive Gov
ernors Intellectually, for payment, she that
she will sell out the entire State at auction "sad sale
being for the purpose of realizing lien she holds upon
the said State and appurtenances for breach the fun
damental guarantees in the State of Maine and the
United States Constitution. Terms, cash."
The New York Revolution people have dropped
Parker Plsbury, and propose to have the paper run
by women entirely this year. Among the regular
tributors that it announces, Mrs. Stowe, Anna
Dickinson, Olive Logan Mrs. THEODORE Tilton, Isabella
Beecher Hooker, and host of Others nearly equally
well known.
The circulation of the New York papers is thus re-
ported for Saturday. Dee. 18th: Herald 81 00O News
SO 900, Tribune 29, 900, Times 10000, World 10000
Express $500, Mail 5000, Post 5000, Commercial
Advertiser $780, Telegram $780, Brooklyn Eagle 5000,
Brooklyn Union (morning) $4,000, (evenng) 400,
Brooklyn Times 1000, New York Star 1880.
Women in China are subjected to three obediences
lst Before marrying, the daughter must obey her
parents.
I'd. After marriage she must obey her husband.
Sd. After the death of her husband she must obey
her oldest Such is the teaching of the Chinese
classics.
Lord Derby cherished the traditional devotion oil
his party for good old port. Once wine merchant
sent him some Amontlado to try, with the recon.
mendation that if be drank nothing else he would
never be troubled with the govt. ~ have tasted
your sherry" wrote Lord Derby in reply, "and pre-
fer the govt"
A Florida paper reports that steamer with an ex-
porng party has assembled the st. John river $40 miles
$50 miles further than before ccompshed the
lakes though which they passed aresaid to be indies
crbaby beautiful and the country diversified than
lower down the river.
Twenty years ago Connecticut man left watch with
eweler to be cleaned and repaired, saying that he
would be in town in day two and call for it. Last
week the man called in at the jewelers. and asked "Do
you remember my leaving a watch with you number
of years since to be cleaned 20 eyes, replied the Jew
eer, land here it is"
Krupp, the great manufacturer ofcannons 10 Prussia
who employs over seventeen thousand workmen has
acquired so much wealth that he intends putting up
family residence which is to surpass in magnfcence any
royal palace in Europe. The cost is estimated at seven
millions ofdoars He has also purchased fine domain
for bis only son. English paper.
The London Lancet asserts that the Emperor of
Russia is suffering severely from hereditary hypochon-
drac disease He often refuses partake of food for
days time, and INDUCES in other morbid practices
which are rapidly undermining his physical consti
tuition.
DR.. Starke Register General of Scotland, says:
Bachelorsm is destructive to life than the most
unwhOesome OF trades, than residence in an un-
wholesome house or district where there has never
been the least attempt at sanitary improvement of any
kind.
On the l4th instant, workmen in a coal mine of the
Pacific Coal Company at Centertown, Cole county, Mo-.
dug into red hot fire of coal, while taking out coal
1t is supposed the fire has been burning there since
1852, when it kinded there by some laborers to
warm themselves.
St. Louis woman has solved the woman labor
question in the right way She bid for the job of mac
adamizng Eighteenth street, and got it. The contract
price is S1l 651, and the lady's name is Mrs Martin
Rigney
The survey for ship canal across Florida is in pro-
gress The route proposed is from the deep waters of
the st. Marys to the mouth of the Santaffee, on the
Suwanee. The estimated cost of the work is s2O,-
100000
From 1000 to 5000 tons of white clay were shipped
last year from Aiken, South Carolina, to certain
conectoners and cracker bakers in the North and has
doubtless found its way into the stomachs of children
and other innocent folks.
There is kind of grim humor in the address of
devout deacon to his newly settled pastor he gave
him the usual welcome" The Lord keep you humble |
and we will keep you poor"
" When great American dies" says the Boston |
Traveller "the first thing done is to resolve to build
monument to his memory, and the second is, not to |
build it."
The story started some years ago in Paris by the
enemies ofNapoeon that the little Prince Imperial was
not bis son. has been revived with the alleged discovery
Of evidence to prove its truth.
The river at Ellsworth, Maine, has closed, placing
an embargo upon many vessels loaded with lumber.
Such catastrophe has not before occurred for years
Ten vessels with $4,000 worth ofumber are frozen in
you've destroyed my peace of mind" said de-
spending lover to truant lass 1t can't do you but
little harm, John, for twas an amazing small piece
you had, anyway was the quick reply.
Madame Anna Bishop the opera singer has sued for
l divorce from her husband, on account of bis un-
aithfuness.
Of the Catholic bishops who present at the Ecu
nenca Council two are 95 years of age two others 80
md upwards, and twenty are octogenarians.
Philadelphia has built this year 1928 new buildings,
md crows over Chicago which reports only $500 build
ngs erected this year
Jay Cookies son is amateur magician but will
lever be able to rival the old mans success in trans
nutng cheek into gold.
The Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is the first
he crusades.
The Philadelphia Press says that within few years
ast four persons have died in that city of hydrophobia
aused by the bite of pet dogs in play.
The Cuban lobby is said to be the largest and to
lave the least money of all ever gathered at Wash
1gton.
The Prince Imperial is to take part in cabinet coun-
lis after the ls of January. This overworked young
enteman will be fourteen next birthday.
seamstress counted IA, 435 stitches in making
hirt.
Forty hundred tons of wild sumac have been gath
b t. III e. nOl