Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-08
INTERESTING ITEMS.

Like MIR. Beecher, the Nor
wegian novelist, Biorason, breaches
also.
IA Hay of the best quality is
bringing thirty dollars a ton il
Bangor.
@~I know of but two beautiful
things, saith philosopher the
starry heavens above my head and
the sense of duty within my heart
B% Fame is like a young duck
in mud-puddle-very easy to see
very easy to talk about after you
have seen it, but it is an awful job
to get hold of it.
b~Edward Richardson, origin.
ally from Vermont, owns an estate
of four hundred thousand acres Of
land in the island of Hawaii. He
went to the Sandwich Islands eigh-
teen years ago, to earn living as q
carpenter.
AD~Prince Bismarck has received
present of a magnificent team Of
three white Russian horses from
the Germans of Moscow. The horses
are from the same stud as those
presented to Louis Napoleon two
years ago.
s~ Napoleon Ill, in his days Of
empire, while quite Indifferent to
fantasies of the more classic must
clans, went into undisguised rap
ture over the simple negro melo-
dies of the minstrels, and even now
he enjoys them at his Chiselhurst
home.
n%The cuirass was a part of ar
NOR much in use among the Greeks
and Romans. The skins of beasts,
and afterward tanned leather, form
ed the cuirass of the Britons until
the Anglo-Saxon era it was af-
terward made of iron and brass,
and covered the warrior from neck
to waist, before and behind. 1t was
worn by the heavy cavalry in the
reign of Henry III.
B6S Mace, weapon anciently
used by the cavalry of most nations,
was originally spiked club, hung
at the saddle-bow, formed of metal.
Maces We're also early ensigns of
authority, borne before officers of
State, the top being made in the
form Of an open crown. In England
the Lord Chancellor and Speaker
of the House of Commons have
maces borne before them. Edward
III, granted to London the privi-
lege of having gold OF silver maces
carried before the lord mayor, sher-
ifs, aldermen and corporation.
bH"The cypress or cupressus
sempercrens, is tree whose wood
has an agreeable smell, and scarce
ly ever decays or takes the worm i
it was originally found in the isle
OF Cyprus. The Athenians buried
their heroes in collins made of this
wood, of which many of the Egyp-
tian mnmmy-chests were also
fabricated. The ancients planted it
in cemeteries. 1t was taken to
England about A. ID. 1441. The
deciduous cypress, or c'presSus dis
ticha, was exported from North
America about the year 1910.
The fact seems well establish
ed that certain articles, such as old
wearing apparel, well dried wood,
etc, are capable of generating sufli-
cient heat to induce combustion
without the application of fire. We
think that not few of the numer-
GUS fires, supposed to be the work
of an incendiary,' are caused by,
perhaps, rag which has been used
with benzine by the frugal house
wife to clean coat, or by the heat
which is known to be generated
from articles of silk, cotton, ETC.,
closed up in a close room.
A@ Mrs. Van Harmon revived in
Montana, the other day, the me-
mories of our Revolutionary
danes. Left alone in her cabin,
she was startled by the approach
of three Cheyennes, and had barely
time to bolt the door when the In
dams flung themselves against it.
her children into the eel
lar, the heroic young woman seized
a revolver and gun, and confronted ,
The Indians ut the open widow. The