The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-20
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP

Pennsylvania. There are now in that
State thirteen Oranges of the Patrons OF
Husbandry, FIVE awaiting organization,
and the foundation is laid for 100 more
ADyERTIsEMENrs of American schools
and seminaries proclaim 'correct taste"
and sspolislled manners" while those in
England dilate upon ''pure milk, TIL
ing" "cricket, stdiet unlimited, I" dIthe
like. -
The General Manager of fhe Atlantic
and Great Western Railway has issued: the
following instructions to employees:
"Treat people as if you appreciated and
were willing to acknowledge their custom.
Try to accommodate and please. In short,
actas any good business man would to-
ward his customers. Don't treat people
as if you were cGnferring favor on them
by letting them ride. Rather seek to
make the line popular, because its business
is dependent on the good will Of the beo-
ple''
THE Postmaster general at Washington
has at present under consideration a
scheme for a postal-card conventions be
tween England end the United States by
which the cards; would be delivered in
either country for three cents, The only
obstacle in the way now is the demand of
the, steamship companies, WHO receive two
cents, and urge that they are nnderpaid.
RELIGIous pilgrimages are assuming
such dimensions in France hs have not
been seen since the Revolution. Ever
since the summer set in the daily average
of visitors to the Sanctuary of Lourdes
has been upward of two thousand; and,
during the month of May, the Cathedral
of Chartres saw more than seven hundred
thousand pilgrims at the foot of the vene-
raff1 SfatTn nf NOtrn- na,nn do npckolIC
Terre.
London says: 4 One of our broad-chtlreh
clergymen beingirecently on an excursion
in Scotland, was vehemently rebuked by
his iandlady for taking walk on Sunday
afternoon. The clergyman said that he
could not see the harm, dIsaid: You
knew that we read that our Lord himself
walked with his! disciples in the fields on
the Sabbath day. 'Ay,' said. the old lady,
ays ken it, an ne'er thought any the
better O. him for it, neither p
THE husband of an Englishwoman, a
bankrupt Micawber, suddenly disappeared
recently, and body found shortly after in
the Thames was identified as his. The
agony of the bereayed dame was so pro-
digfous that the creditors made her pres
ent5of the sum Of 1915 and some furniture.
She was Immediately calmed and con$oled
and was, indeed, prepared to enter the
married state for the second time, when
Micawber himself turned up, and! the
pleasant gift of property had to be restored
to the creditors by order of theeourt. Twas
abominably aggtavating and IN very bad
taste. Enoch Arden wouldn't have done
it. sac
A MAN in Pennsylvania has invented a
ratrtrap that is made to operate upon the
selfish passions SOf the poor. rat and lure
him into trouble. A mirror is set in the
back part of the device, beyond the bait
and as his ratship is out on q foraging ex-
pedition he espies the baits at the same
time believing bis own image in the mir
ror to be another rat making for it on the
opposite side. This is too much for rat
nature to stand and be cool over; so he
PUSHES for the bait and is caught.
TAME, in his English Literature .
gives the following description of word
in common use, Snob,' the precise
meaning of which few understand and
fewer. still are able to define. He says:
1.-THE snob is the child of aristocratical
societies perched on the step of the long
ladder, he respects the man on the round
above him, and despises the man ON the
step below, without inquiring what they
are worth, solely on accounts of their posi-
ton in his innarmost hearthe finds It ma
tural to kiss thelboots of the first, ans kick
the second.f
ITEMS of vital statistics recently pub-
lished in Europe are cited I'M confirmation
of the generally received opinion that the
duration of human life is at present great
er than in past centuries Thus it is
stated that in the city of Geneva, SwitZer-
land, registers have been kept ofthe yearly
11f FIR 1SQ0
In that year it is given at twenty-five years
and six months. At present it is over
forty years. The tables compiled by life
assurance companies in England. and
adopted in this country, are said to show
similar result. i'm the fourteenth century,
the average annual mortality in the city of
Paris was one in sixteen !; il is now given
as about one in thirty-two. In all Eng
land, in 1890, the rate of mortality was one
in thirty-three as now given, it is about
one inforty-tWo. gs5
THE Grand Duchess Marie Alexanflrow-
ma, just betrothed to the Duke of !Edin-
burgh, is the only daughter of the Gar OF
Russia, is just twenty years old, is very
lovely, and has a magnificent dDwry.
She retains her own Greek faith, but con-
sents that all her children shall be brought
up Protestants 7: the Duke also retains his
oAh ClCSA3 ftllA VIM 4ifC f4UC1AettNly liz
England and Russia, till he is called upon
to- take possession of his principality in
Germany. He gets one hundred and
twenty-five Thousand dollars year from
Parliament, on which, together with his
wife's liberal allowance, it Is hoped he win
manage to worry along.
IA DIR. PRrNGLE writes to the London
Times, that the deaths inflicted by the great
car of .TupperJl9lIt are not the OuteQme of
frenzied devoteeism, but are entirely due
to accident, though the native priests have
no sort of objection to such accidents, be
ing exceedingly glad when they occur. 1t
takes a crowd of fifteen hundred worship
ers to drag the monstrouss car, with its
sixteen huge spiked wheels; and. con-
fused andlentahgled in the five long ropes
which they hold, many of these poor
wretehes naturally fall, and are crushed
out of life. OF late years the English au-
thorities have ordered nets to be fixed to
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