Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-01-18
GENERAL ITEMS.

MOTTO for homopathists-sick de Simil-
ibus. .o,,,
R.prrsr Observation-Disclosures and els
tern.
A GUEST, like fish, hath bad odor the
third day.
BIRD never flew so high but it had to
come to earth for food.
Inst. Petersburg the police force is en-
ployed to arrest smallpox.
M. DE LEssEPs projects another ship
canal through the 1sthmus OF Corinth.
A RUSSIAN expedition has gone to XIII
va to tell the Khan he can't.
BILL SHANKs says that courtshipis bliss,
but matrimony is blister.
A NUMBER of East Indian women are
attending lectures at the Madras Medical
College.
QUERY for detectives-DO the slight
fingered" fraternity usually have taper
fingers.
AMERICAN titles of nobility-Jersey's
sand-barrens and Connecticut's short
counts.
CHOLERA has been exploring the Nile,
and at Beriee killed 700 natives in ten
days.
RUSSIA casually observes that the
Khan will get un-Khiva'd if he don'tlook
out.
OUR cynic remarks that when "dOctors
differ" they're very apt to lose their pa
tients.
The greatest advantage that we gain
from history is the enthusiasm that II be-
gets.
A ScoTCH consumer remarks that the
coalition of the golfers is a fuelish pro-
ceeding.
WASHINGTON Territory boasts public
library containing 36l volumes, "princi-
pally patent Office reports"
Iowa claims the awful reverence of the
travelling public for the oldest locomotive
in existence.
BosToN, having declined gifts from
outsiders, is authorized by the Legislature
to 90 it loan to the extent Of 0,0OO,OOO.
Iowa is rapidly coming to the conclu-
sion that murderers might better nave
their necks hemped than exhempt.
PRUDENT Connecticut clergymen COM
plete the marriage ceremony by giving
full instructions how to procure divorce
MASSACHUSETTS is going to build All,
other commodious rural asylum as wa
tering-place for confirmed inebriates.
81 WONDER what causes my eyes to be
SO weak % said top to gentleman.
"They are in weak place." replied the
latter.
AN Ohio woman, who has been the bet
ter-fifteenth of Brigham Young, is going
to tell how she liked it, from the lecture
platform.
The Cincinnati Bar Association, wish
ing to avoid i'm its apartments the obvious
pun on bar-rooms, has resolved 10 abolish
alcoholic beverages from its future meet
ings.
The school slate Is to be abolished in
Germany, on the ground that 1t contracts
the pupils both opthalmolOgically and
GEOGRAPHICALLY. Its (s)late to mend
perhaps, but better now than never.
AN English court has decided that peo-
ple who pin their faith on spiritual medl-
ums instead of using the medium OF
their own senses, are fit subjects tor lu'
matte asylum.
JERSEY CITY is rather proud than 9th
erwise OF having cerebro-spinal meningitis
because there was doubt expressed
whether Jersymen could have more thar
the spinal part of the disease.
AT Ohio pork auctions in this season Q
epizootics it Is limited that animals uni
for ham are brought to the hammer
which, however, places them meas'l.
within the reach of the poorer classes.
NEW JERSEY papers state that applica
ton will be made, at the coming session
of the legislature, for the passage OF
law forbidding the employment in facto
ries of children under twelve years Q
age.