Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

ULNL1bAh H LVuOs |
FIVE live fishes were recently sent by
mail from Naples to the Crystal Palace
aquarium.
FEMALE prisoners in Tennessee are en-
ployed in breaking rock for street pave
ments.
CANADA experiences q growing desire |
to become annexed neighbOr to the United |
States.
BYRON unprecedented hath no fury |
like woman whose false hair don't
match.
The Providence Star asks, "if state
prison convict takes the smallpox, can
he break out with it?'
CARDS and birthstone make the best
matches. as the clergyman said when he
married gamester to shrew.
The young ladies of Vassar College
have formed an "anti-faliing -in-lOve-be-
fOre-yOu-are-Out-O f-schOOl club"
A NEW railway company i'm Maine has
inconsistently cut down two walkers of
timber to make sleepers for its road.
Eff wise men never made mistakes, this
would be hard world for foOls-Of
whom great many are which.-Josh
Billings.
"A BRITISH ZOOlOgist has tabulated fifty
four varieties of fleas, all of which are.
however, traceable to the same phlebOtO-
my.
Our henpecked, when twitted with his
want of shrewdness before marriage.
sadly observes that hes been shrcwed
enough ever since.
A TEUTONIC teetotaler is shocked to
hear that the faculty of certain wO-
mans college have choice spirits in their
Vassar.
"SORCERER is another name for MUIR
derer in Bombay. With a knowledge of
this fact came the discovery that the Par
sees had revived the society of Thugs.
THE North German Lloyd Company,
which already has fleet of sixty-five
steamships, intends to establish a new
line direct from Havre to the West In
dies.
LOUISVILLE astronomers are going
into ecstasies over French snails, which
the more conservative portion of the pop
ulation charactcriZes as the antic-limaX
of epicurcanism.
DIR. GREEN, the Boston City Physician,
has had already thirty-siX cases of per-
sons who had the smallpox the second
time, and five or six cases that had taken
it for the third time.
SYDNEY SMITH once commenced a char
ity sermon by saying: BenevOlence is a
sentiment common to human nature. A
never sees B in distress without asking G.
to relieve him."
PLAIN things may be as cheap and
humble as one chooses, or ones purse
cOmpels, but anything like luxury must
always be good. Cheap necessaries are
respectable. Cheap finery is low.
A DISCONTINUED wife in Buffalo alleges
that her husband is non coapos n,entis, and
offers in proof the circumstance that he
has been accepted as juryman in two
murder trials.
THERE was one divorce granted to ev-
cry fourteen and a half marriages in
Rhode Island i'm 1871. A fractional mar
riage in little Rhody'' must be a small
affair, but perhaps it is better than nOne
The young ladies' of New Haven never
say. - AS thick as leaves in Vallambro-
sa;" they think it sounds affected, and
accordingly substitute, - AS thick as pho
tOgraphs of Yale Students
One of the prettiest compliments we
have heard of lately, was that paid by a
gentlemen the other evening who object
ed to playing cards with lady, because,
he said, she had such winning ways about
her.
A DRUGGIST is much troubled with little
boys running in and asking the time of
day. In answer to one he replied "Why,
l told you the tidpe but moment ago."
"Yes, SIR" said the boy; ''but that was for
another woman"
CALIFORNIA eclipses the ccntenarian re-
cords of humanity with live frog lately
set free from the center of a stratum OF
sandstone which. according to Sir William
ThompsOn's chronology, must be several
million years old.
THE New Boston," which is to rise on
the ruins of the old, Is to be built on five
avenues, radiatiny nearly like the sticks
of fan when half opened, the avenues
cOnverging so as to enter into the square
around the pOst-Office.
THE difference between defaulting rev.
enue collectors In Tunis and i'm this coull-
try, according to the Louisville Courier
on stakes, while here they usually walk
off with the stakes.
A LADY with very unnusical voice in
"What does she call that ?" inquired a
guest. "The Tempest, l think" an
swered another. Don't be alarmed
said sea-captain present. ats only a
squall, and will soon be over"
A RURAL editor, lamenting the death of
"One of the best advertisers and subscri-
bers we ever had " thus tOuchingly con-
cludes his obituary eulogy: "He pos
sessed the love, confidence, and esteem of
all who knew him, and some who did not,
and. save slight poker debt to Mr.,
did not owe CT mt in the world"
A KENTUCKY farmer refused to look at
sample sewing machine, recently, as he
always "sewed wheat by hand" He is
related to the man who did not want a
threshing-machine on his farm; "for,"
said he, ''give me harness tug or bar
rel stave, and can make my family toe
the mark according to law AMI scripter."
AN Englishman, it is said, having heard
great deal about the Yankee propensity
Of Dragging" thought he would make
an experiment in the art himself. He
walked up to a market-woman's stand,
and, pointing to some large water-melons,
said: What, don't you raise any bigger
apples than these in American" cap
ples!" said the woman, disdainfully :;
anybody might know you was an Eng
lishman. Them's huckleberries."
The Utah Troubles.