Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
low. ia cultiyating tea when 10 'A'N
have a very pekoeliar nsvoi.r o,r n,.to
" the burglars carry On 3t,s not LEFT
why is it all right? Because u n'' ~
..,ks of cultivating oysters
- t t,sa Hic;nity Of its salt springs.
IA 49, wv Iaueh at man with pug nose' |
-, Ant know what may turn up. l
WIEN mans necktie Is united, no"
untidy he looks!
WYOMING objects to being Wyomihgie"
with the adjoining Territories.
THE shadow future, with It's gloomy
phantoms, never comes.
THE "Sisters of Silence" is valuable
MICHIGAN association Of women
Why is the letter Y like young lady !
Because it makes pa pay.
sJ,Asr SEINE OF ALL''-Kero-sene, whcn
has ended 1877 strange eventful histories
during the past yesr.
WHY is a hummipg-top unlike drlli OF
potatoes? One is a rotaper' anu 'ii0
other later row.
A LITTLE girl at Dubuque amended the
Lords PRAYER by asking for "her daily
gingerbread"
IN wordy combat between two social
canals. the best-dressed man has one point
i'm his favor.
"THE PACIFIC ,SLoPE."-The Quaker
Peace Commissioners running from the
Indians.
FRANCE and Germany are not going to
beat each other any more, but both are
going in to beet-sugar tremendously.
SHAKESPEARE understood motherf.-in-
law: he makes all of OthellO's troubles
come from his wife's mother.
GOVERN the child by gentleness; even
the camel moves not swifter before the
whip than behind the flute.
WHAT do you expect to see reflected in
your inamorata's eyes? Yourself, if she
is good looking-lass.
A FLORIDA temperance society has de-
cided that egg-nOgg lis not beverage"
Perhaps because they eat 1t before they
drink it.
PRUDENT Caliiornians nowadays get a
preliminary certificate of insanity h'om
their family physicians before they kill
anybody. ,.a '.r
A WEEK or two back the horses were
laid up with influenza. Now, in many
places, they are laid up again. But it's
snow disease this time.
IT is stated as neurological fact that
the milk of a young cow is apt to be foam
ing. Which is highly probable, as the
creature is naturally heifervescent.
PENNSYLVANIA naturalists can't under.
stand how there can be so many rats in
the coal mines when they have so much
trap there.
WHY will nautical correspondents per-
sist in speaking of the waves 'raking''
their gallant craft when every chemical
student knows that waters HO?
THE astronomers at Kew are preparing
to crafty their Kewriosity concerning
next years transit of Venus, which is ex-
pected to be explanatory of planetary dis
tances. ..E.J ..lC.t ..
If the man who has got to the top Of
the hill by honesty is ashamed to turn
about and look at the lowly road he has
travelled. he deserves to be taken by the
neck and hurled to the bottom again.
TEACH your frail girl that, though she
may find pleasure in the gallant support
of a brothers arm, his care should in nc
way cripple her energies, or rob her of hel
birthright,- noble womanhood.
BRITISH psychologists have announced
that recently deciphered cuneiform de
scription of the Noachian deluge is a.
least thirty-five centuries old, bat Mrs
Camp thinks this is one of the delugiOni
which scholars are always falling into.
A FOREIGN correspondent writes admir-
ingly of the "brown bare legs" of the
Spanish peasantry. This is something tt
be pondered by Mr.. Darwin, who no
where alludes to the brown bear in ex
planning mans origin.
To FIND one who has passed through
life without sorrow, you must find one in
capable of love or hatred, of hope or feal
-One that hath no memory of the pas
and no thought of the future-One tina
hath no sympathy with humanity and M
feeling in common with the rest of thu
species. ,se :. -
A PARIS correspondent argues that &
married woman on the stage exercises lesl
magnetism over an audience than sin
gle woman does that the fact that sh'
belongs to another; that her trightes
glances, sweetest dimples, and most mu
steal tones are for him, unconsciously di
minished her influence; and states In IL
lustration that there were offered in Parii
what were called Christine Nilsson watch
es, which had great sale, but when sh'
took husband their demand so sensibly
diminished that the proprietor changed
their name.