Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-10-25
GENERAL BREyITIES.

STr.rrNG his wife's store teeth is the way
Dies MOines man has of stopping her
gadding.
THE Evangelical Alliance in New York
charge $40 apiece for season tickets to the
galleries.
BARSUM's "Circassian Girl'' was born
at Olney, ILL.,, it is said, and has Sl1,000
ready for rainy day.
A STYLISH lady at Bridgeport, Conn.,.
got mad at her husband about pair of
shoes, and went to church barefoOted to
spite him.
The Boston Young Mems Christian
Union has made an appeal for funds to con-
tinue their charitable practice of providing
free carriage rides for poor invalids.
IHE warden of Sing Sing prison thinks
tfat no prisoner should be sentenced for
less than ten years, as short terms keep
tDem anxious and Disconnected.
Mrs. JANE SYLVESTER. of Lincolnville
Me-, is now knitting with a set of needles
on which she knit stockings for the SOL
diers in the war of 1872, and also i'm the
Late war.
IHE editor OF an exchange wrote ::
During the past week we have been
visiting the SOlOns of the country:n but
the composition made him say that he had
been visiting the saloons.
AN English society has been formed
winch asserts that the theory that the
earth Is round, is delusion which is "a
gigantic and pernicious system of infidel
superstition, falsehOod, and..fraud.''
A SINGULAR case of monOmania has been
Drought to light in Troy. The victim con-
iesses 10 mania for spelling ladies'
dresses, having ruined large number i'm
the street by the aid of licorice juice.
AN exchange suggests that weekly pa
pers be allowed to drop out two issues in
year, making up their volume with fifty
numbers, so that newspaper folks be given
real vacation as well as other BRAIN
workers.
OLIvE LOGAN says that the sight of wo-
mans ankle on Wall street would put a
4uietus on any gold panic by drawing all
the crowd away. To which an exchange
ADDS Right; man who would worship
The golden calf in preference to shapely
one OF flesh and blood deserves to be tor
meDted by panics all his days.
A NEGRO woman known as Aunt Hagar
died at the Convent of the Visitation in st.
Louis, recently, who had attained the ex-
traordinary age, it is said, of one hundred
and twenty-five years. She came to st.
Louis from kaskaskia i'm 1874, but had been
with the sisters some twenty wears before
her arrival in that city.
FISH stories will turn up now and then
IN spite of all the newspapers can do to
keep them down. A few days ago a fish
erman OF Easton, Pennsylvania, caught a
Dlack bass in the Delaware that had in its
mouth thirteen hooks, with pieces of line
from half to two yards i'm length attached
to them all. The bass is not fish easily
to be landed with hook and line.
A FRENCH project recently wrote to one
OF the mayors of his department. advising
MIN, as the cholera had broken out i'm the
district, to take all the necessary precarl-
tions. After some time the mayor wrote
TO say that he had taken all the proper
steps, and upon the project sending to see
that they were effectual, he found that the
only preparation the mayor had made con-
sisted in having large number of graves
dug in the church-yard.
How TO DISCHARGE PRINTER.-Pat
Cunningham says they have peculiar
way OF discharging printers in the Dayton
onlces. Each comp" has nail to hang
ms coat ON, and when the foreman con-
cludes to dispense with the services of one
Va the nanus ne takes hammer and
drives the nail in to the head. The
comp" comes up next morning, finds
ms nal gone in, and Immediately infers
mat ne has been discharged. Being dis
charged, he goes off-and gets drink
Indianapolis Herald.
"A CURIOUS case was recently tried i'm |
hungarian court. A man found his wife |
IN the agonies of death from swallowing |
poison, and, with questionable humanity, |
put her out of misery with revolver, with |
which he afterwards tried to shoot himself. |
Inc cuiprit was tried for murder and sem
fenced TO ten years imprisonment, but, on |
appeal, the sentence was committed to |
three years, on the ground that the woman |
could not have recovered from the poison,
ana mat killing her was merely amistaken
act OF humanity to shorten her suffering.