The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-11-08
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

A MILWAUKEE woman sever feet hlgf
hangs her four-foot husband ait her wats
beit as an ornament.
The word ''non-nativen is being uset
in the Virginia campaign as an elegant sub
stitute for ''carpet-bagger."
A GREEN BAY lover broke his engage
ment with girl worth $4,000 because ht
saw her tacklea plate of cold beans.
A New York glove store has adopted
the Paris custom of having pretty young
girls TO fit on the gloves purchased by la-
dies and gentlemen.
FHTY young ladies of Jersey City have
formed mutual protection association to
watch each others lovers and report any
misconduct.
SABLE Fay of Elmira, Ohio, is learnilsg
the carpenters trade, and it il said that
every young man in that locality is anA-
1ous to become carpenter and join her,
The only break in the line of telegrapbic
cables to encircle the world is that which
it is row proposed to supply by the litle
from San Francisco to Japan.
A MASSACHUSETTS woman has platted a
village called Woburn, and will not sell a
lotexcept to women. She has sold but ole
lot yet, and the buyer will sell back at halt
price.
The plan of correcting the echo in pub
lie halls by stretching wire across from
wall to wall has had practical trial in the
Cathedral at Cork. and is said to haze
given satisfactory results.
A MAN in blouse fscene Paris, of coursn)
presents bottle of perfume to his beloved,
saying: s'When you smell this you Will
regret that your Creator did not make you
all hose"
determination of the latest published
list of those to whom Canadian patents
have been granted, discloses the fact that
fully two-thirds of the patentees are resi-
dentsof the United States.
SolE wag at Fort Wayne mailed letters
to a score of business men telling them 20
look out for man who would visit their
houses that evening to see their wives, alld
twenty business men surprised their wives
by coming home two hoprs ahead of TIME
The discovery is said to have been made
that il is not necessary to groove rife
barrel the whole of its length, but that.a
few inches of growing near the muzzle
will give the bullet all the needfnl amount
of spin.
The Dutch Government is il, the fortu-
nate and exceptionable position of having
its colonies. The expenses are always kept
below the income. The budget for 1874
estimates the expenditure at 100000, 900
horins, and leaves surplus of 100000 flD-
rims.
AMONG the members of the Wyoming
Legislature are 6 Black Jack Bill, . s'Prai-
RE JGe," ssSlim Sam Shaw" and ssGrizz1y
Graham The Speaker viii also have 70
recognize 1.-THE gentleman FROM Hen-Foot
Claim'' and the gentleman from Buffalo
Horn Corners
A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Tras-
script says, on looking over an address of
the Hon. William Sullivan, delivered to the
Suffolk Bar in 1925, he finds that early in
colonial times jury, If they Were not sat
istied with the opinion of the Court, We're
allowed. by law, ito consult any by
stander.''
A MINNEAPOLIS painter received an Or
der from restaurateur to paint a sign
with the word 'soysters'' in various lasl-
guages, so that man of any nationality
might understand that that was the place
to get bivalves. And that painter went 60
work and made the sign read, American,
Dutch, Norwegian and French oysters,''
Any one ought to be able to suit the1tl-
selves from such an assortment,
An Ohio clergyman says that he once
married a couple aud the man said ''Be
short! be short!" [ said, . Yes. I can do
it in three minutes" '.That's right BE
said. | saw that there was some little dis
satisfaction on the part of the other half
L said: . 1ou don't want to have it too
short?' NO." she said; "a body doesn't
want to get herself up SO for nothing.n
Tbs statistics produced at the late medt-
ing Of the Industrial Medical Society at
Berlin showed that the mortality in small
poX epidemles is five times greater AMONG
those who have not been vaccinated than
among those who have been yaccinateH.
During the last epidemic in Berlin 40 per
cent. of the non-vaccinated died, while only
2 per cent. of the vaceinated and one-haff
OF one per cent. of the revaccinated died.
A BLIND man, a woman, a hand organ,
and little girl are a family group travel
ing around the city of Detroit soliciting
aims. The man holds out his hand, the
woman turns the organ, and the little girl
appeals as follows: Won't you please
give few cents to poor blind man who
had his eyes blown up while he was firing
a cannon on the Fourth of July and hair t
got any home and has got to go around
begging and is in poor health and has got
the consumption and broke his arm the
day before last Christmas and God loves d
cheerful giver.'
THE honest farmers of Rhode Islahd
are, no doubt, God-fearing folk, but they
are gradually acquiring modern ideas ot
:" business" An enterprising rustic near
Providence had a cow to sell lately, and
purchaser made an appointment to come
and see her. The farmer arranged that
his man should be milking the COW when
the purchaser arrived, and had three pals
on hand, each half filled with water. The
man MIXED vigorously, and filled the
three pals one after another, to the aston
ishment of the purchaser, who at once
closed the bargain at very high figure
A FEW nights since a sailor living nj
house at Portland, Me-, over which passes
a telegraph wire, dreamed that he was pn
board of ship, and that some of the ropes
needed tauting. He got up, went upon
the roof of the house, and commenced
pulling on the wire. Finding he could rot
manage it alone, he called TO a shipmate
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