Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-01
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.


Some large firms and manufacturing es-
have been obliged to dis
charge their employees; and although it
Is believed that the necessity for such
measures will not long exist, the loss OF
n single days wages il often the cause
Of suffering among those whose fami-
lies are ependent upon their daily earn
ings. II is indeed wonderful how the
interests OF all classes in the community
are linked together. No one stands
alone in nation. What is injurious TO
the rich man is harmful TO the poor in
financial affairs, and the misf6rtunes Of
the laboring classes react upon the
wealthy. Prosperity in country de-
pends upon union OF interests among
the people.
"A new article has been placed III
the Pennsylvania constitution in rela-
tion TO suffrage, which provide that the
voter must have been n citizen of the
United States at least one month, and Il
resident OF the distric. two months, in
stead of ten days, as heretofore; and
also that his taxes shall have been as
sessed at least two months, and paid
one month, before the election. Each
ballot is 10 be numbered. and the num-
Der placed opposite the voters name
"A Sitka correspondent thus de
gcribes Alaska scenery: "Takc one big
mountain. covered with trees from the
base nearly to the summit, with an
underground of brush, bri ~ and moes,
almost impassable--mnltiplv the ono by
10, 900. aud Won have Alaska. There is
terrible samenees. One singular fea-
ture of this mass of forest is the absence
of birds; / have seen but one robin i'll
Silka."
They tell qneer story about the
doctors IN certain California town, who
were all away last summer, TO attend a
medical convention. They were absent
about two months, and on their return
they found that all their patients had
recovered, the drug-stores had closed,
the nurses had opened dancing schools,
the cemetery was cut mp into builiing-
lots, the undertakers had gone 10 max
ing fiddles, and the hearse had been
painted and sold for circus-wngon.
An invention has lately been ex-
hibited at Vienna for petrifyiDg dead
people so completely that they are inst
like marble. and can be planned and
polished and wrought into any desira-
bic form. This will enable people to
carve their dead friends into mantel or
nsments, or other souvenirs, or use
them for tombstoaes az their own
graves.
According 10 @ California paper,
young lady of the city, in telling a gen.
tleman about her Yosemite trip. said
the scenery was gorgeous, perfectly raw.
ishing, but she didn't like their style Of
locomotion down there. "How's that 2"
said her friend, chow did Won loco
mote?" "Why, don't you think" she
r pl d. II had to ride a fa clothes
PIN y!
This pathetic appeal Of a dis
gusted Englishulan We are going to
war again 70 soundly thrash the Asian.
tees, and probably put penny or two
pence more on the income tax. Let me
ask, then, why not srbitrate with these
misguided niggers? Get Quashe to
Geneva, as we did Jonathan, and ar
bitrate."
Ono Of the young ladies at the
Elgin watch factory, it is said, IL at
work upon patent watch which will
have hands so made and adjusted as to
seize the wearer by the coat collar every
eve ming about 10 O'Clock and walk him
off home.
-"John Paul us convinced that "itis
sound business judgment to avoid tho
vicinity of any animal whose skin is SO
short that he can't drop his ears without
raising his heels, the more SO If he hap
pens to be SO particular lively that he
can go through both motions at once"
An old lady recently visiting a
prison, asked one of the attendants why
the prisoners received such coarse food.
He told her it was to keep their blood
from becoming impure. When asked
what they would do if their blood was
impure, he dryly responded, Break
out"
The most fashionable circles at pre-
sent are the Elizabeti an rufls, which are
growing in size, sometimes making the
face of the wearer resemble the picture
of a court lady in the days OF Queen
Bess. or tho head of John the Baptist
set on q charger.
Over the shop-door Of a pork butch
er in village III one OF the eastern
counties of England may be seen q
sign-board representing man in black
coat. brandishing a hatchet, with the
inscription, "Jobn Smith kills pigs
like his father"
-McLane's new steamer Sairy Camp,
plying between Fl. Garry and Brecken-
ridge, WAS for some reason denied
egress from the British possessions
should she cross into Johnny Bulls
part of Red river.
For "shutin' at his nabor" citizen
Of Gwinnett county, Ga, was recently
sentenced by a justice of the peace to
"tyerlastin banishment for ever from
tie honorable county of Gwinnett."
"A Georgia woman turned "that lit
tie wheel" on a steam engine, put on
14O pounds os steam, and had the plea
sure of seeing the machinery go gliding
into the street.
OF eighty.nine teachers at recent
state institute in Vincennes, Ind, only
one spelled correctly list of twenty
words in ordinary usr, and one missed
them all.
"A sufferer suggests an improve
ment in the orthOgrapi = Of the world
panics. He thinks it would be better
to spell it pay.nix
We once knew boy who said that
he liked ga good-rainy day-too rainy
to go to school, and just rainy enough
to go fishing"
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