Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-12-27

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on learning that the owner had large lam
lily on his hands.
The rolls of the Jacksonville Qll.) pub
the boys and girls, there being just 500 o.
each.
PHILApEIPHIA has reduced the price Of
doctors diplomas. so that fifteen dollars
will now entitle any wood-chopper to Q
sheepskin.
EASTERN farmers may be astonished to
learn that stacked between Greeley and
Green City, Col, are three million tons Of
hay, almost worthless on account of nc
means of getting it to market.
A CALIFORNIA Snowman is wandering
about the country illustrating the execu-
ton of the Mpdoc captives by means OF
puppets. The agony of the hanging il
worked up in most skillful manner.
The Regents of the Mt. Vernon Asso-
cation propose the abatement of the en-
trance fee TO the home of George Wash.
ington, having just come to the conclu.
sion that as public domain it should be
free.
The annual report of the Commissioner
OF Internal Revenue discloses the interest
ing fact that the receipts from the distilla-
.
10 more than one-half of the whole sun
realized from internal revenue.
A Russian naturalist claims to have
found living mammoths in Siberia. he
has seen five small ones, twelve feet high
eighteen feet long, and having tusks eight
to ten feet in length. The brute haunts
great caves, and feeds on grass, etc.
The English courts have just decided
haf \ q. n
day only" cannot be used by the purcha-
ser on any other date. The decision is ex-
actly the reverse of that given by our
courts on the same question.
A MAINE woman ate four quarts of oys-
tiers at one sitting, the other day, and won
500 by so doing, which, after deducting
her burial expenses, eighty-five dollars,
left her fifteen dollars to commence the
next world with.
PETTY smuggling from Canada is brisk.
"A letter from Ogdensburg says that seve-
raj Watertown ladies We're searched at the
Custom House recently on coming from
Prescott, and had their goods taken away
from them. Thirty-three women were
searched, and all but four were trying to
smuggle something over.
MEN who have charge of roads must be
careful to fill up holes. Mrs. Sally ellison,
of Stoneham, Mass, who fell into one of
those Objectionable places and hurt herself
grievously, sued the town for damages,
and few days ago beat that town of Stone
ham, and won verdict of 1880 which
amount she has received in grand cash.
LONDON temperance societies intend to
petition Parliament to compel all licensed
houses to supply their customers with tea
and coffee when desired. 1t is said that it
is so difficult TO obtain tea and coffee at
these houses that many a man takes liquor
when he would prefer less harmful bev-
erage. What is sold as tea and coffee is
often such a miserable compound that
there is little inducement to drink it. The
genuine articles, we'll prepared, would find
customers everywhere, and of course have
q tendency to diminish the use of intoxi-
eating beverages.
THE Norrlstown pa Herald says that
man in Lower Merton wrote to the edi-
tor of horticultural journal, and asked:
"What are the most advantageous addi-
tons to dried grasses for winter orna-
ment?' The editor replied: "Acrolinium
roseum, A. alba, Gomphrena globosa, and
q. globosa camea." When the Lower
Merton man read this, he fairly boiled with
rage, and Immediately sent anote to the
ucd. He said that no editor who swore
that way, just because he was asked sim
pie question, should have his support.
"We judge" says the Rochester Demo
crat, ''that the writer of the verses begin
ming
we must not hope to be mowers,
And TO gather the ripe, gold ears.
Until we have been sewers,
And watcred the burrows with tehrs,'--
is not granger. Corn. let us inform
him, is not mown, but is first plowed up
and then threshed; and it is not sown, but
grows wild in the outrageous forrest.
And, furthermore, the farmer who should
set out to water the burrows with tears,
would find in due season tlfatfit couldn't
be successfully done without more irriga-
ton than the human form is capable Of"
INFLUENCE OF ADREAM.-The Troy On.
~ Press says that the. site of the State
Street NJ. e. Church in that city was select
ed through the instrumentality of dream.
Or. John Louden, prominent physician,
who died upward of fifty years ago, was
leading member and worker of the Metho-
dist denomination, and about the time it
was proposed TO erect an edifice in the
vicinity of State street, the good doctor
dreamed that he saw a flock of white doves
alight on the lots at the corner of State
and Fifth streets. The impression of the
vision was so vivid that the doctor could
not shake it of. He insisted that it was
good omen, and that the church should be
erected on the lots above named. So
strenuous was he in this that he carried his
point, and the old State street sanctuary was
erected, 10 give way in due time TO the
beautiful edifice now located on the site of
the old brick structure.
ADNER McILRATH, the Euclid (Ohio)
giant and fox-hunter, the father of race
OF tall boys and girls, had a reunion of
his family at the old homestead in East
Cleveland formerly Euclid on Thanks
giving. From the Cleveland Voice we
learn that there were assembled father and
mother, seven sons and four daughters;
thirteen in all. The height of the old gen.
tleman, who is now sixty-one years of age.
is six feet six and half inches. The
height of the wife is five feet nine inches.
OF the seven sons, four are each six feet
five and half inches, and three six
feet two inches in height, while the four
daughters are each five feet eleven inches
in height, and the height Of all combined
Is eighty feet three and half inches. The