Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-08-23
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

dcwy morning, the rainbow, mountains,
orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight,
shadows in still water and the like, if
too eagerly hunted, become shows
merely, and mock us with their unreali-
ty. Go ont of the house to see the
moon and it is mere tinsel A; it will not
please as when its light shines upon
vour necessary journey. IL private
places. among sor(lid objects an act OF
truth of heroism seems at once To draw
10 itself the sky az its temple, the sun
as it's candle. Nature stretched ont her
arms to embrace man, only let his
thoughts be of equal greatness. Will
ing does she follow his steps with the
rose and the violet and bend her lines
Of grandeur and grace to the decoration
of her darling child. Only let his
thoughts be of equal scope, and the
frame will suit the picture. Emerson
The Peoria Review man tells his
story of sharp juvenile of that CITY
I'm vigorous chase after rats, Friday
afternoon. a bow on Jefferson street
broke down a shelf in the cellar ana
inundated six jars OF preserves. ne
cazed on the ruins without sign,
caught and killed the rat, LAID 1t among
the debris, and daubing his faith1ri
dor's nose and legs with the fruit, sent
him ND stairs. while the boy hid IN the
coal shed. He heard feminine shrieks
of dismay: he heard the wrathful OBJ
;u,cations of his sire he heard the I'M
suspectipg dog led into the back yard
and shot. aud spreading forth his hands
said solemnly, Another victim of cir
cumstantial evidence.
San Francisco is burdered with an
ice-ring. Ice was formerly imported
from Alaska and Nevada at about one
cent and half pound, but some fell
lows came in with patent apparatus for
freezing water by steam, and as they
proposed to sell the product at seven
dollars per ton, the ice importers re-
tired from the business. Then being
without competition, the steam fellows
ran the price mp, so that with the Their
mometer at 9S the people have to pay
the rascally ring 700 per cent profit.
Somebody has been looking the
theatrical profession in the mouth and
discloses this much Edwin Booth is
80 years old, Maggie Mitchell 80, Lolita
30, l.. p. Barrett 80, Frank Chanfrau
81, John E. Ownes "a, John Brougham
IS, Lester Wallack 53, Boucicault SO,
Mrs. Chanfrau 80, Miss Nelson 30. Joe
Jefferson IS, Agnes Ethel 81, Clara
Morris 30, Mrs. Bowers 80, f. A. Soth-
ern 40, Janauschek4 40, W. J. Florence 40.
The trout of lake Tahoe, Califor-
MIA, is cannibal of the most merciless
kind it spares neither relative, age
sex, nor condition Of it's own kind. 1t is
as gluttinous, too, as an anaconda, and
like that reptile, frequently swallows its
prey whole. 1t may often be seen,
resting on the bottom of the lake in
shallow water, with the tale of a muir
dered relative projecting from its
mouth.
Mr.. William p. Ragsdale, who has
been practicing law several years in
Honolulu, lately became aware that
he was victim of that scourge of the
Sandwich islands, leprosy, and volun-
tarily gave himself mp to the sheriff to
be separated from his family and re-
moved to Malakai, the place provided
by the government for lepers.
AN old negro minister, in a sermon on
hell, pictured it as region of ice and
snow, where the damned froze through
eternity. When privately asked his
purpose in representing Gehenna in this
way, he said: Il don't dare to tell
them people nothing else. Why, if 1
was to say that hell was warm, some of
them old rheumatic niggers would be
wanting to start down the first frost"
The prizes at the San Francisco
baby show were awarded for the follow
ing distinctions Handsomest baby,
handsomest twins, heaviest head of hair,
smallest feet and hands, latest dark
eyed baby, latest blue-eyed baby,
smallest baby, handsomest mother,
youngest mother, oldest mother, best
dressed child, sweetest smiling child.
lOudest bawler.
"A fifteen foot alligator came down
upon a bathing party at Moriana, Fla,
and after grinning and chuckling to him.
self at their antics for while, he quietly
licked up small negro boy under his
arm and struck ont for deep water. The
boy didn't like it, but he was drowned
before he could yell much.
"A gentleman of culture, who is de-
voting his leisure hours tor reporting for
the New York Herald, says that on Sun.
day night, "while pious and respecta-
BILE people were making their way
hOmeward, the unregenerated cor pop
uh were silently and secretly going to
the prize-fght."
BY the sinking of the Jennie How
ell in the Ohio river, last week, several
passengers, among them some small
children, were drowned, but the morn
ing after the accident little son of
Mrs King was found floating on mat
tress in the cabin, fast asleep.
The woman taxpayers of San Fran
cisco have got right up on the tips of their
little pink ears about it, and tetOtally
swear, in the woman fashio !, that they
will make no further contribution to the
salaries of officers in whose election
they have no voice, if they can help it.
Gerald Massey's conundrum, "Why
don't God kill the devil ?" isn't cOnsid-
cred half as hard as one pyopounded by
constant reader of the newspapers,
who asks why the devil don't have
everything his own way?"
The fashion editors tell MS that
puffs, paniers, and polonaises are soon
to be things of the past, and plain
skirts, innocent of f1ounces and furbe-
lows are to be all the rage. And the
double scull belts and the big but
tons.
Iowa grasshoppers not only eat