The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-08-02
GENERAL ITEMS.

6ENEkAL lTE46.
TH1 best capital to begin life with is ,
capital wife.
A MIsNEsorA hunting party secured
1855 gOphers In three weeks.
e MILWAUKEE, has Gagged q female FORGE
Mrs. Van Vliet, alias Allen, alias Smith
Ono Of the most adroit and successful
operators living.
-. A BAREFooTED girl In Ohio, who lately
walked ten miles to hire out to hoe corn
!, has married q widower worth $50, 900
Here Is moral for girls anxious t
marry.
In 1868 the United States received only
24 immigrants from Russia. In 1877
!, there were 4,137, showing that q very de
cided tendency to emigrate seems to be
developing In Russia.
The number of vessels sailing under all
nags lost during the month Of Nay was
125 sailing vessels and ten steamers, Of
which five sailing vessels and three steam
ers were American. ....
= TOBACCO smoke, says Carlyle, is the
one element In European manners land
he might have added American) in which
men can sit silent together without em-
barTassment, and where no man Is bound
to speak one word more than he has actu-
ally and vertically got to say.
RESPONSIBLE citizens of Pulaski, Ten
nessee, vouch for the story that staid old
hen that has laid eggs and Matched and
scratched for fourteen years has recently
gone into the rooster business. Her comb
has grown brighter, new glories have been
added to her tail feathers, her age has
been renewed, and she struts about with
the vim of rooster still in the viROr of
his /" teens.''
TIE mess system at the University of
virginia has reduced the board of the
students to an almost miraculous degree
OF cheapness, The University report
mentions mess of eight whose board
only cost them nine dollars per month,
and one State student whose total ex-
pense for living during the session. in
Guiding room rent, board, lights, fuel, and
washing, has been under $40.
THOMAS W1NANs, Of Baltimore, the
well known railway contractor, machin-
lst, ETC., Is building, for his private music
nan IN the above city, gigantic organ.
1t 10 to be worked by steam power. 1t
WIN have twenty five bass pipes each two
'feet square and thirty-two feet long. 1t
as TO be finished within year, and it is
expected that it will be 1oarer. Com
pared with it, the treat organ of Boston
will dwindle iuto insignincance.
A REGULAR pearl fishing expedition has
Gulf Of California. The fishing has hith-
erto been carried on by divers. These men
could stay for minute and thirty seconds
under water, which barely enabled them
to reach the bottom, grasp handful Of
shells at random, and come to the surface
again. Now the new expedition takes out
q d1ving-bell, and the necessary apparatus
and divers. n
PROFESSOR AGAssIz has q class of fifty
students at work among the rocks, shall
lows and reefs, study ing natural history
without books and by individual search
and labor on Penekpe Island, thus nobly
utilizing Mr.. Anderson's splendid gift.
He calls the boys together every morning
for familiar talk, then tells them to ram.
Ole about the island and use their eyes.
Every lad has his aquarium and labora-
tory, with all the land and sea before him.
The Franklin (Ky.) Patriot gives the
1olIowlng new remedy for cholera. It
says: Everybody in town knows old
Sam Bradshaw (c0lored). Well, old Sam
took the sOapsuds diarrh9a and cured |
himself. When asked how he did it, he |
salt: "Bless God, wouldn't let him 20 !
through me; jes stand on my head and |
stop him." And he did. Whenever he |
feit like his bowels would move, he !
brought himself to an anchor with his |
head on the floor and his feet up his cabin
wall and remained in that position till the
passed off. Sam was binding
pats the other day, and the hands who
were at work with him missing him,
looked back and saw him standing on his
head In the middle of the field like great
orked stump.
A RECENT lumberman's circular esti-
mates the number of railroad ties in pres
mt use in the United States at 100000
OO. A cut Of 200 ties to the acre is above
.ather than under the average, and it
therefore required the product of $50, 600
'cres of well timbered land to furnish the
upply. Railroad ties last about five
'earsi consequently 30, 900 ties are used
annually for repairs, taking the timber
rom 10000 acres. The manufacture of
olling stock disposed of the entire yield of
oO,OOO acres, and the full supply of
learly 600. 600 acres more every year. 1t
ppears that our railroads are stripping
he country at the rate of 100000 acres
'er annum, and their demands are rapidly