Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-30
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

arms, manages to maui iii' "-iO
feet. ,;e,,, f,ISo
teeth when he wants to keep her from
Tyr California Cinnamon won't ride
after a black horse, believing that any
Chinaman who does will soon pine and
die. ...-
Two business partners in Cincinnati |
liked each others wives so well that they |
both divorced and remarked, and now |
live as happily as can be.
A DRY-GooDs clerk in Springfield, ILL.,,
was much mortified the other day because
a young lady who didn't agree about the
price called him "a miserable elongated
tape-worm."
THE plans of the new Courthouse in
Chicago are severely criticised. One wri-
ter says: "The general effect is that OF a
cigar-box with pickle bottle at one end
and lot of pepper castors on top"
The. club handled parasols are vindi-
eating their usefulness. A young lady
recently, at Morristown, laid OUT
savage dog with one of these airy tri1es
in the most effectual manner.
The memory of William Tell was hon.
ored at an Indiana SchutZen Verein, re-
Gently, by youth who threw cham
payne bottle at his fathers head, just
grazing his scalp but splitting all the
champagne.
A CINCINNATI man who went of the
other day with all the family excepting
his mother-in-law and the house cat,
found upon his return that the animal had
been talked to death for being out late at
night.
A LONELY fellow advertises in Chica-
90 paper for a wife, and intimates that he
prefers poor girl. The Louisville Co's-
yier-Jouy7iaL tells him to take the first one
who responds, and he will be almost GER
tain to get poor one.
EPITAPH IN CHURCH-YARD IN IRELAND.
Here lies Pat Steele.
That's very true, ,..... ais
Who was he? What was he?
What's that TO you?
.L Di-Do-Dum.
In Springfield, Mass, recently, young
bridal couple applied for temporary lodg-
ings at the police station. They had been
married that day, but had had quarrel
with the old folks, who had turned them
out into the street homeless and penni-
less.
A WICKED wretch in Madison, Wis.,,
took seat in church directly behind his
rival who had "got away" with Sarah
Jane, and during the service slipped al
active chinch bug down his back. Itmade
the fellow so uneasy that he was com
PEELED to leave the church, and the othel
fellow went home with the girl.
1T is customary to assert that, if pun
ishment for crime could only be mad
certain and prompt, criminals would b
struck with terror, and crime greatly di
minished. But one thing seems to mill
tate against such conclusion. Societ.
cannot hope to inflict upon her knave
any more prompt and certain punish
ment than nature does upon her fools
and yet the latter keep on kindling fir
with kerosene oil.
The new code of Iowa which take
effect on September lst has this wise pre-
vision: The Governor shall grant n
pardon for murder in the first degre
without previous notice, and the reason
thereof, published in one newspaper a
the capital and one in the county wher
conviction was reached, for four success
i've weeks previous to the meeting of tn
Legislature, to which body the Governo
shall then present the matter and abide b
their decision.
liz young ladies who pride themselve
on their skill and tact in the art of flirt;
ton could only hear all that is said {
them behind their backs, we think the
would renounce their indicate blandisf
ments forever, and blush, if not past ths
wholesome indication of shame, for tn
false part they had so far played on 81
ciety. The practical firt is looked upo
by all young men, save those gree
enough to be her victims, merely as
frivolous piece of human trumpery, wit
whom it may be well enough TO Will
away an hour or two now and then, whe
nothing better in the way Of amusemer
offers. u ht s-ts ---'
The TOUGHEST OF CATs.-There is
man on Franklin street who has been el
gagged in the past two months in might
effort to kill cat. In that time that III
fortunate animal has explored the botto
of every sheet and stream of water with
six miles of Danbury, has had an uni
territorial taste of the several new varieti
of powder, and has got so it can tell
the dark, without looking around, Il
difference between a half brick and
whole one. The man himself hasn't g
whole piece of clothing in his WARDROBE
and has almost entirely lost the use
one leg from rheumatism contracted viii
drowning the cat, and has more scratch
on him than the survivor OF four wive
Ills dgeO ldIntT says Hc VIII ldhC a Ohd
outiu the yard on pleasant afternoo
and will sit there for two hours at tin
and look at that cat and swear.-Danbu
Ne,os. I'D.
QUALITY OF AIR IN DIFFERENT Local
TIEs.-An interesting paper, valuable in
physiological point of view, on the qua
tity of air taken from various localitie
was lately read by DIR. Sigerson, of Du
lin, before the Royal Irish Society.
air from an iron-factory he found, on e
animation, carbon, ash and iron; the Is
ter substance was in the form of lit
hollow balls, each about two-thousandth
an inch in diameter, the iron being so tn
that the light passed throughit. In shil
factory air were found filaments of lin
and cotton. Antimony-from the typ
metal probably-was discovered in the
of printing-rooms. Stable air was asct
tanned to contain floating hair and scale
and in the air through which tobac
smoke was passing, nicotine, the pois
of tobacco, appeared in little globules.