Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-09-28
INTERESTING ITEMS.

pGA woman in Vancouver, thir-
ty-two years old, is declared to weigh
1923 pounds. She was the youngest
of a family Of nineteen children and
is in good health.
~Sevsral men were recsntly
poisoned IN Nevada by drinking
from . sprine whose wateta appear
ed perfectly clear. Analysis showed
that they were strongly impregnat-
ed with arsenic.
ara sevsnteen-year old girl
spent a lonely and terrified night in
the woods at New Hampshire lately
having lost her way while searching
for gum.
SEWN. II. Rushmore, a farmer
nearly ninety years of age, OF North
Hampstead, regularly drives his
market wagon to Brooklyn, dis
lance of twenty-four miles. He
makes the trip three times a week.
1%Among the lamp-lighters in
Milwaukee, Wis, is little girl, ten
years old, who makes her rounds in
all kinks of weather, and runs up
the ladder like squirrel, while her
elderly mother watches for her safe
ty below.
p6 An insane Wisconsin woman
threw three of her children into
forty-foot well, and was about to
cast the rest of the family after
them when she was discovered. and
the act prevented. The three were
all taken out alive, and only one
was seriously injured.
B@A very old horse is attached
to Fire Company No. 4, in Cam
bridge, Mass. 1t manifests the
greatest hostility to rats and mice,
which it seizes and kills like a ter
rier. Grown ambitious through
success in this sport, the horse re-.
Gently observed buffalo robe on a
fence, made for it, and taking it in
his teeth, administered to it ire
mendous shaking, evidently under
the impression that it was some new
and fearful beast of prey.
b@The cry of under-weight in
bread is raised again in New Or
leans. The city ordinance provides
that every Monday morning the
mayor shall publish a tariff, saying
how much bread baker shall sell
during the next seven days for five
or ten cents, the price of flour on
the previous Saturday being alone
the basis of the tariff The ordi-
nance is not executed.
1$ A little boy, in Yorkville,
Canada, came to his death few
day ago under the most singular
circumstances. He was one of n
party of children who were playing
together, and kissed one of the lit
tie girls. This so enraged another
little girl that, in fit of what may
be called jealousy, she struck him
with stick, inAicting an injury
from which he died in a few hours,
b%A little girl in Sardinia, Erie
county, who recently merely saw
mad dog killed, has since been at
tackled at intervals with symptoms
very similar to those Of hydropho-
bia, except that during the intervals
she eats easily ana drinks wster rs
freely as ever. 1t is moi tn,u,
that she has ever been bitten b.
mad dog.
ATr A Hartford man keeps box
in which he regularly deposits his
car fare when he walks to and from
his place of business, as he now al
most always does. The other day,
at the close of a year, he opened it,
and found he bad $1O9 90 This
he put in the savings bank, and
keeps right on paying car fare as
before.
DRMr. John Burrows and wife,
of Mystic, Conn, celebrated their
golden wedding recently. Five
generations of the family were pre-
sent, with two of the guests who
attended their first wedding, and
the dress worn by the bride at that