Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-19
GENERAL ITEMS.
SHARP blades-Horse-raisers.


Sr. PIUL. Mimi, is forcing the season
in the matter Of thunder-snowers'
CONCORD is proud of cltizen wEo mas
voted at every election since louV.
MISSISSIPPI papers, in puonshng mar
rage notices, put the name OF the Viculh
last.
FIFTEEN women have been qualified as
electors by the Selectmen OF Windham,
Conn.
A BosToN gentleman keeps the small
pox hospital literally supplied with
flowers.
THE latest problem for civil engineers is
to make one of the keys of piano hit the
lock of a canal.
A FRENCH commission has reported in
favor of prohibiting the sale Of absinthe
in that country.
IT is not an uncommon sight in Russia
to see women working with men at paw
ing the streets.
PAGE county, Iowa, is going to try the
anomaly of an agricultural fair without
horse-racing.
The Supreme Court of Vermont has
set aside verdict which the jury reached
by means of a rattle.
GOLD is at a premium of only thirty
thousand per cent. as compared with pa
per currency in Hayti.
ONE member of the Constitutional Con-
vention of Pennsylvania, has called an
other Oily Cannon, Esq.
Pennsylvania proposes to found a cult
nary college as soon as 1t can get suffic-
lent rooster of stewgents.
Nova SCOTIA yielded, in the ten years
ot asf rl.f frtac
of gold valued at $3,640, 1856.
A NEW town is just started in Kansas,
in which no one is to be allowed to settle
who smokes or chews tobacco.
The epizootic has temporarily stopped
work at the Sutro tunnel, it being impos-
sible to haul fuel for the engines.
THE taxes in California-State, county
and municipal-range from three to four
per cent. on the value of property.
THERE is farm in Essex county, Mas
sachusetts, which has been in the posses
sion of the same family for 237 years.
A COOPERATIVE communion called the
Ebenezers, of German extraction, long
established near Buffalo, are attracting at
tention.
The Michigan Legislature has author
lied Detroit to expend $500, 900 in park,
boulevard, or both, on the lake shore,
in the section known as Hamtramck.
A PARTISAN gun-maker advertises "a
select assortment of revOlvers for those
disappointed in love-" Little things like
this indicate the approach of the mil
lenium.
The women school-teachers of Detroit,
Mich, are on strike for higher wages
They haven't stopped work, but intimate
that they must do so or starve at present
prices.
A MICHIGAN girl drew 1000 farm al
gift concert recently, and now the loca
poets describe her as beautiful being
although she is lame, has red hair and
no teeth.
IT is estimated that over $4,000, 00(
have been loaned on Chicago property
since the fire. The money has been
drawn mainly from New York, Boston
and Hartford.
THE number of persons out of employ
ment in Philadelphia is appalling. On
insertion of little advertisement for
clerk in a railroad Office brought $50 ap
plicants in single day.
A SMALL boy in New Haven made
sensation for short time by quietly trans
ferring card bearing the words, s. TAX
one" from a lot of hand-bills in front OF
store to basket of oranges.
A BROOKLYN real estate auctioneer, ben
on SURPRISING his rivals, advertises i
flaring posters, thar he has great mum
Der of "superb, gilt-edged, A No. l lots
for sale. Gilt-edged is good.
DIFFICULTIES have existed for som
time as to the exact boundary line betwee
Virginia and Maryland. Virginia claim
- ~, 1,av.f aI
ritory, which has a taxable value of $50
100000.
IT is stated that the old hand presses
on which so many fine books bave bee
printed, are again coming into use
France. 1t is found that in small editions
requiring much care, these presses al
much better than those worked by m;
chinery.
Four thousand English ministers urg
the Archbishop of Canterbury to suppO
in the House of Lords the bill to legali2
marriage with a deceased wife's siste
Why should the parsons be so partial
their sisters-in-law?
IT is said that pigeons can be nurture
to the fairness and delicacy of ortOlans, b
feeding them with wheat STEPPED in coz
liver oil. Those who have partaken {
pigeons thus fattened say that it is th
pleasantest way of taking cod-liver oil "
tried by them.
THERE is happy land, and we call Il
sex's attention to 1t. A letter written b
San Francisco gentleman on vOyas
to the Navigator Islands, dated at Apil
in speaking of the inhabitants says: "a
the white men here have native wives, an
are really slaves to them"
A SACRAMENTO lawyer remarked to II
Court SIT is my candid opinion, Judg'
you are an old fool" The Judge Above
his mildly-beaming eye to fall upon II
lawyer brief moment; then, in voit
husky with suppressed tobacco juice an
emotion, said: ut is my candid opil
ion that you are fined $780,"
ROBIN redbreast has hard time of
in the sunny South, according to the Mu
freesborough (Tenn.) Nescs, which say
Ever since last Christmas millions
robins have been roosting in the cedars Q
the Pickett place, about four miles We
of town. Hundreds of people visit Il
roost nightly, and bag as many as the
want Tin N fbic Iofa Thousands 0f fba