Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-12-06
GENERAL BREYITIES.


ON Sunday if a family has any to chop.
A nov fourteen years old near Green
Row has chopped down five bee-trees tiiis
fali and captured four hundred POUNDS Oh
honey. ,
A LITTLE Indian girl in Bay City, Mich,
is found TO be an heir to property In the
CITY of Pittsburg, valued at over Sl,ocV,OVo,
and suits have been instituted to secure her
right to its possession.
In an account of Napoleon the Greats
Russian campaign, an historian relates
s.The Russians were massed upon frozen
swamp. Napoleon pointed his artillery at
I'm, and twenty thousand bit the dust.
DANIEL ANDREWS, rich old resident
of Delaware, died the other day, and his
will cut his brother off with six cents,
because the aforesaid brother once pulled
away a chair and let Daniel have the fioor.
Miss SARAH SAVAGE, of Portland, wants
$1,000 from her mistress, who injected
yitrioI into the optic as Sarah was peeping
through the keyhole of the parlOr door.
Sarah has quit the peeping business,
whether she gets her money or not.
THE monks of the order of La Trappe,
commonly known as the Brothers, at the
New Mellafy Monastery, in Dubuque
county, Iowa, have received mandate
from their head house in France, forbid
ing them to shave off their boards.
In Cairo, Egypt, is an artificial egg-hatch-
ing apparatus which has been in use for
generations. The country people bring
their eggs from long distances TO be hatch-
ed out there, thus relieving the hens OF a
great deal of wear and tear.
AT Nice (France) the olive tree is plant
cd over an extent of 1900 acres, and the
produce i'm fairly good year is 10000 to
100000 gallons. This is perhaps the rich
est product of the district-certainly that
which obtains the most consideration from
the inhabitants.
AN exchange says that, in reply to a
question from the lecture committee of the
chief town of the district as to the subject
of lecture to be given at the institution,
the lecturer telegraphed: "A Taste OF
Naples and Rome" The telegraph made
it read A Taste of Apples and Rum"
In Japan it takes five years for the tea
shrub to mature, though a crop is made
the third year. No tree is allowed to reach
more than five feet in height, and the older
the plant the more it is esteemed. Those
trees which produce the very choicest teas,
used only by the princes, worth five dol
lars pound, are said to be 500 years old.
THEY had a miracle up i'm Maine last
week. A sick mans son went out and
beat about the bush all the afternoon to
get nice, tender partridge for him, and
just as he reached the house at night, tired,
faint and empty handed, and thinking how
he should console the old man for the dis
appointment, gigantic hawk flew over
and dropped, almost at his feet, the very
partridge he wanted.
The farmers of California have another
monopoly to complain of. They represent
in petition to the Legislature, which has
been numerously signed, that all the in
land waters of the State, available for the
purposes of irrigation, are under the con-
troll of private corporations or confedera-
ted capital i'm some form, and they ask that
the waters of the commonwealth be made
as free to the use of all as the air.
GENTLEMEN" said an auctioneer, who
was selling piece of land, this is the
most delightful piece of land. 1t is the
easiest land to cultivate, it is so light, so
very light. Mr.. Parker here will corrob-
crate my statement. He owns the next
patch, and he will tell you how easy it is
worked" Yes, gentlemen" said Mr..
Parker, I" il is very easy to work but il
is plaguey sight easier TO gather the
crops"
The camphor tree perfumes the air, and
its leaves yield the finest honey. 1t often
reaches hundred feet i'm height, with a
girth of fifty feet. The precious gum is
found sometimes in layers as large as a
mans arm, but more frequently i'm small
fragments, extracted with sharp-pointed
instruments. The wood is excellent for
house, ship timber, and furniture, and ex-
cepting the teak and calambuco, is the
only wood never attacked by the myriads
of voracious insects in the East Indies.
The common kinds of camphor are pro-
cured by distillation.
An action against dentist for pulling
the wrong teeth came before Keene, n
H., court, the other day. The plaintiff,
Mrs. Alice Lowell, being unavoidably alb
sent by reason of having died, her interests
were represented by her husband, who as
serted that his lamented spouse gave the
dentist, DIR. |. w. Russell, special direc-
tons to pull certain teeth, and not to mo.
lest certain other teeth, but he made clean
sweep of one jaw and was rapidly harvest
ing the crop in the other, when Mrs. Low.
ell recovered from the anasthetic and shut
her mouth. The suit was for 5000 dam
ages, but the jury, considering that il
might have been mere misunderstanding
on the dentists part, and that the plaintiff
was dead, thought $40 about right.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Chronicle says
William France, who was shot some time
past near this place by Deputy Sheriff
Webb, is slowly recovering. The bal
took effect i'm the posterior aspect of the
body, passing through between two of the
ribs, about two inches to the left of the
spine, thence through the left kidney
thence into the stomach. DIR. j. Nat Lyle
the surgeon in charge of the case, gave
him some medicine, which proved an
emetic, and he threw the bullet up on the
floor, and it is now in the possession of the
surgeon. Twenty days have now passed
and the patient is still doing well. Mr.
France was charged with forgery, and ran
when Sheriff Webb came upon him with {
capias.
A MAN had rheumatic pains, which hi:
doctor thought would be relieved by "ni
trate of potash" The patient took the
medicine for some time, but was not much
benefited, and asked for another remedy
which the doctor prescribed. A few days
after he met him and asked after his health
"Oh. am getting well. DOCTOR" was the