Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-08-16
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.


to talk on the street, nor to smile " else
| where.
A FLORIDA man has made $500 this
year catching young alligators for North
ern druggists.
A BOY at Union, New Jersey, only ten
| years old, has been convicted of six incen-
diary fires.
A SCHOOL on an island off the coast of
Maine has forty scholars, all. of whom are
the grandchildren of one man.
AS LATE as the 18th of July snow-drifts
and ice-ledges were to be found on the
mountains of Vermont.
A LIVING amphibious monster, twenty
feet long, is soaring the newspapers around
Lake Champlain.
ONE of the new Congressman from Wis
consin brings experience. He has been
superintendent of lunatic asylum for five
years.
A YOUNG lady at Saratoga writing home
to her mother, concludes with: "P. S.
You will see by my signature that l am
married."
IL a Persian turn Christian his head is
chopped off if they catch him. All sorts
of wickedness is cured in Persia by the
Shah's little hatchet.
Va, the other day, remarked as he was
going to the gallows': ~ wish dey had
put it off till after watermelon time"
THE Connecticut State Board of Educa-
ton have assumed control of the enslaved
Italian children in New Haven, and will
care for them.
The Cleveland tunnel, extending one
mile and q quarter under LaSe Erie, Is
nearly completed. 1t is estimated that it
will furnish water supply of GO, ,000, 900
gallons every twenty -four hours.
THE cottage of William Penn, the great
Qnaker, which is now In dilapidated
condition, and situated In the midst of the
great warehouses of Philadelphia, Is used
for beer saloon.
A COACH built for His Majesty the Sui
tan of Turkey, is in Bridgeport, Conn.,,
being used as a ms5del for similar W.
hicle ordered by Senator Latham, of San
Francisco.
Fort ABRAHA An LINCOLN, opposite Bis
marck, now 2. three company military
post, will be fitted up Immediately for ten
companies >>of cavalry, involving an ex-
pendituref of $200, 900, making it the most
important post on the Missouri river.
Custer,S regiment is expected to winter
there.
ONE of the prisoners at the House of
Correction at Fitchburg, Mass, the other
day escaped while at work blasting stone.
Tie fuse had been set on fire, and the
keeper told the men to run, which advice
was followed, and one of the prisoners
forgot to come back again.
D Troy is SO particular about observing
the strict letter of criminal law that a
thief who had stolen watch from deaf
mute was discharged from custody be-
cause, the loser being able. neither to
| speak, hear, write, nor read, no formal
complaint could be entered.
A MORTGAGE for $799, upon which
eighteen months interest had accumu-
lated, was declared null and void at Lv-
ons, N. Y, recently, on the ground that
| $25 paid for services in procuring the
money for which the mortgage was given
constituted usury.
A STRAsBURG, Pa, girl agreed to kiss
young man every day for two years If
he would stop smoking. He quit, and
has smacked regularly for six months,
but the girl has taken to eating onions,
af'd he Is unhappy. Young man neu-
tralize, by chawing few yourself.
NEAR Bridgeton, N. j., lately. Samuel
Penn, aged So, and David NJ. Woodruff,
aged Sc, had novel reaping match with
sickles, after the old-time ways. They
cut width of six feet and a distance Of
six feet and nine and one-half rods In
twelve minutes. Both were awarded the
victory Wy large concourse of witnesses.
A coL0RED man was once asked why
he did noe get mBrried. "Why, you see,
sab" said the, 81 got an old mudder, an
! hab to do for her, ye see, sab, an If 1
don't buy her shoes an stockin's, she
wouldn't get none. Now, if was to get
married, | woqld hab to buy dem tings
for my wife, an dat would be takin' de
shoes an stockinss right out Of my mud
der's mouth"
THOSE who claim that the heather Chi
nee can never become civilized, should
have seen an frate, saffron. .colored Chi
nese gentleman in Detroit the other day
bounce an inebriated person out of laun.
dry. When the battle was over somebody
asked John what 1t w$.s all about, when
he replied: "Melican man gettee tight
foolee around meme put head on him
no go to jail-dollarya dozen.r
AN on City exchange says: "One Of
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