The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1873-12-31
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to Existence hangs on trihes.
~ Agassix was born in 1907.
~ What is beauty without soap!
w This life is a chrysalis' after all.
" Women do not like a timid man.
~ Poverty never fails to overtako
Incidence.
Nv Faith in u own ability is half of
every battle.
CB There is still yellow fever in Col
umbus, Texas.
~ Sacramento, Cal, has had a snow
fall of twelve inches.
All extra work in the Charleston navy
yard has been stopped.
Ex-Governor elect Taylor of Wiscon-
Sin, is only SO years old.
w Music is to be taught in the col,
ored public schools of Baltimore. 4
w Colorado's gold and silver crop
this year is estimated at Eve millions.
ID" There are two things a man sell
dom forgets, his first love and. his first
smoke. f."
II John Observation-Disclosures is
one of the names in the Philadelphia
directory.
Cy If the best mans faults were writ
ten on bis forehead, he would draw bis
hat wei his eyes.
81 T The habit of employing beef as
an article of food is on the increase
among the Japanese.
Il Sioux City, Iowa, has agreed to
furnish seed to the ''homesteaders'
gratuitously Iext spring.
" The young man who boosted he
could marry any girl he pleased found
that be couldn't please any.
~ 1t is estimated that under the
United states government Cuba would
yield $50, 900, 900 per annum.
. G The daily production of petro
leum in the oil ~regiona5of Pennsylvania
is estimated at $4,000 barrels.
q On the 23d&inst, there wereEsold
1900 bales of cotton in New Orleans,
the largest sale of the season.
Gg7A dandy is a chap who would be
a lady if he conld; but as be can't, does
all he can to show the world he's not a
man.
n~ Trains run between Chicago and
New Orleans in 80 hours; in the summer
season the time may be reduced to IS
hours.
E Ifyou have a bright thought, ex-
press it in the simplest language possi~
BILE. A diamond soould have a plain
setting.
q l look upon death to be as neces.
sary to our oonstitions as sleep. We
shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Franklin.
e. Elgin Illinois, offers the boys two
cents apiece for all the rats they can
kill, and the schools are on the point of
suspending.
EB A law has just been passed at
YeddO, Japan. compelling all children
to be labeled with their parents names
and residence.
E" The steamer Robert Il. Lee re-
Gently arrived at New Orleans with a
load Of SAL bales of cotton, the cham.
pion load since the war.
GT A Cleavelond dry goods drummer
has during the last season, sold 100000
worth Of goods, travelled over II, 900
miles and married four wives.
u George Slosson, the famous Chi.
cage billiard expert, has arrived in
New Orleans. He has been matched to
cross cues with Professor GARNER.
E A family Of emigrants, man, wife
and child, we're murdered near Little
Rock, Ark, by q negro. They were
on their way TO Texas from Missouri.
ES Washing machines will be more
fashionable than ever this winter, and
many young ladies' will take their FIRST
lesson In this household accomplish.
ment.
EgH The receipts oil cotton in savan-
nah, Ga, during the week ending De-
cember 10Th, was the largest ever
known. The feet Of vessels is the lar
gest ever seen in the port of Savannah.
~ There is n good thing about
babies" says a late traveller, "they new
er change. We have girls of the period,
men Of the world, but the baby is the
same self. possessed, fearless, laughing,
voracious little heather in all ages and
in all countries"
&E A kind of Mexican grass which
grows on the shore of the gulf Of Mex.
leo contains sn excellent fibre for the
manufacture Of cloth. Within the thin
fibre which covers the leafis found a
perfect skein Of thread, Of extraordinary
fiueuess and tenaoity. By chemical
process the Cuticle can be removed and
the fbre rendered available at a small