Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-11-29
GENERAL BREYITIES.


centennial visitors.
THE .Staats-Zeitlolg summoned the LOT
.eign-born population of Chicago 10 the
polls i'm nine languages.
PRISONERS convicted in New York
courts had rather go to Sing sing Tor hve
wears than to Auburn for three.
CAPT. JACKS widows have shaken off
their mourning and now stand arrayed in
sixteen yards of red and orange flannel and
No. 0 cavalry boots.
ROBERT j. McCALLAN lately died intes-
tate in South Carolina, and our Govern
ment is now looking for an heir to his
100000, in his native county of Armagh,
Ireland.
AN exchange i'm describing an accident
recently, says with considerable candor:
''Dr. Crawford was called, and under his
prompt and skillfll treatment the young
man died on Wednesday night"
The widow of the late Hon. Samuel
Kimball, former resident of Jackson.
Mich, has, in connection with her son-in-
law, London architect, taken a contract
to do building for the Turkish Govern
ment amounting to upward of 100000.
A WEsTPoRT Comm man has got
Coroner's jury in tight place. He weighed
$50 pounds, and tumbled head foremost
into well, and they can't tell whether he
died from drowning or butting his head
against the bottom.
A COUPLE living in New York are re-
ported to have had sixteen children within
less than six years, as follows: July "a,
1858, one; June %, 1889, two; March 30,
1850, two; March l, 1861, three; February
ID, 1862, four; April A, 1868, four.
Political advice from the Fremont
(Ohio) Messenger:
Young ladies under twenty summers,
Should never dirt with Cleveland drummers,
Because full often they will find
Those drummers leave young wives behind"
A DAY-NuRsERY has just been estab-
lished in Detroit, where the laboring
women of the city can leave their children
during the day while they are at work.
Ten cents a day is the cost for the kind
care and feeding they receive.
JOHN PAUL says in the New York Tri-
6une: is it not about time that good
many gentlemen began to think seriously
= OF going TO work and doing something
For we can't all be merchants and bankers
and brokers and dealers in rell-estate.
There's good deal of square work 10 be
done about country, and some ones got
to do it?
A REMARKABLE violinist, upon whom
hathC utNCl DtctOhtI Itttllll DR.
rived i'm this country from Europe. He
was induced to visit this country by an en-
terprising manager, who disappeared as
soon as the steamer arrived. The deluded
musician has given private performance.
His playing is accomplished wholly with
his feet and toes, by which he manipu-
lates the bow and strings with wonderful
dclicacy.
The Hon. Mr.. Meacham, lecturing on
the Modocs, narrates the circumstances at
tending the assassination of Gen. Candy.
and also Of his own escape "BOston be-
gan to take my scalp with rather a blunt
knife, when squaw interposed with de
vices to delay the operation; and when at
length he had raised five or six Inches of
skin on the left side Of my head, woman
like, she accomplished by strategy what
otherwise could not be done. She shout
ed Soldiers soldiers = and Boston left his
work unfinished"
GRAPE-sToNEs are said to be better sub
stitute for coffee than chiccory is. When
roasted and ground they are said to pos
sess an aroma very much like that of East
India coffee, and the beverage obtained
therefrom is about the same as coffee in
taste, though inferior in quality. The
beverage furnished by many of the restau-
rants is very far from being "about the
same as coffee in taste," and il is probable
that decided improvement could be made
on the present article by the use of grape
stones.
THE oldest organ in the United States
Is in the chapel of st. Johns Church,
Portsmouth. 1t was imported in August,
17l3, and presented by Thomas Brattle to
the Queens Chapel in Boston, which. af-
ter the death of Queen Anne, was called
Kings Chapel. In 1855 the organ was
sold to st. Paul's Church, in Boston,
where it remained until 1886. eighty years,
when it was again sold to st. Johns
Church, in Portsmouth, for $50. A new
case was added, and it has remained in the
chapel ever since, and it is still Ia good
order.
ACCORDING to the Journal of TeLegraphy
the average actual time of transmitting
messages from New York to London. for
one week, was IL minutes 59I seconds.
This includes the long press and govern
ment dispatches. Every message has to be
written four times. On one day the aver
age time was only six minutes and thirty
five seconds. The shortest average time
was one minute four seconds. This is
wonderful, yet steps are being taken to in
troduce improved instruments by which
the time can be still further reduced.
LAWS allowing married women to trade
upon their own account, and making them
and their separate estate liable for the debts
of the business, are, and must continue to
be, the source of good deal of litigation.
In Bangor, Me-, the wife being in the
millinery business, she and her husband
were sued for goods charged and billed to
the wife alone. The Court charged that
prinsa .facie she alone was liable. But if
fIs.h txof .nt. Il Il IL e.
ness, not merely an interest as a husband,
but over and above that as a partner, or so
held himself out, then he was liable; other
wise not. The jury found that the hus-
band ''never promised"