Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-11-01
GENERAL BREVITIES.

market men have formed ProtecuFe
association against folks who don't pay
their bills. oll
Ir is stated that Miss Maggie Anderson,
of Salina, Kansas, aged eight years, can
read any ordinary music, written IN any
key, at sight. 49,, d., Ea..4.
"a HANNAH MOORE, Of Green Bay. Wis,
drove oxen at forty-five dollars per month
until she secured money enough to get
herself sixty-five dollar silk dress.
BoILs are respected annoyanees in Phil
adelphia. A man who kicked another s
boil was fined thirty dollars and sent to
Jail thirty days II a1DAN
The conscience of the United States is
assessed at $4,000. At least. that is the
amount it panned out to the treasury dur
ing the last fiscal year.. .,,l-s 81. m.
KC-iLUxIsM in California takes the form
OF anonymous warnings 10 employers to
dismiss their Chinese seryants, under pain
Of direful punishment.
PATTEE, the Maine wife-mlrderer, speaks
four languages, is Il champion baseball
player, a popular Temperance lecturer.
dabbles in liter;It,lre, and is Il polished fell
low. ~ tffF'R1
a LEADING st. Louis mercantile firm
now undergoing proceedings in bank
ruptcy, report in their schedule cash on
hand twenty cents, TO divide among about
one hundred creditors. - I
PETERS. PosT. resident of New York.
claims TO be the owner of the tract of land
on which the city of Lacrosse is built.
lie says he has owned it for twenty-five
years, and wishes to pay the back taxes
and take possession. Naturally the La
& Crosse people object,
WE are permitted TO mention the occur
renee. though not to give the name of the
gentleman who stopped in at Broadway
restaurant a few days since, and, asking
Tor a plate Of beans, was constrained to
open his eyes when. he heard the waiter.
IN loud voice, order, "Brown-stone front
forone Pc -.
The most personal" inscription we
have read Of In tombstone literature is
thata on a slab i'm Pennsylvania, which
Q reads, .In memory of Tabitha. beloved
wife OF Joseph Wright, Thomas Andrews,
Eben Halsted. Edward Murray, and
Charles Dean. by her devoted husband.
= Cyrus Morgan.''
SOME idea of the rate at which the for
ests of the Northwest are falling beneath
the AK OF the lumberman may be gathered
from the following: The total amount of
this season, is about S0,000,0 900 feet, out of
y the An Ores 100000. out of the Rifle
booms 60.000,000, and out of the Saginaw
River ,Q00, 600. rrc ~ t.sT
THE Aattitude Of servants in this country
has become well nigh intolerable of late.
but, according to Consul Bidwell, they are
not vet quite so bad as in the Balearie
Islands. Matters, he saws. have come to
such pass in those islands that it is the
servants who take their employers char
acters before engaging with them, while
2 masters and mistresses are obliged to fore
go all inquiries, aud even TO close their eyes
to known defects little short of immortality
and dishonesty. s05
THERE is now living one mile west of
Florissant, in st. Louis county, No., aman
whose name is Guiliimne, who is one hun
dred and six years of age, as ascertained
from his baptisnal papers, obtained some
years since from France, of which country
he Is native. He was soldier in the
army of, the first Napoleon, and was born
about two years before the conqueror of
. Italy first saw the light. Age has begun
/ to impair his faculties, and he now scarcely
recognizes those who call ON him. His
wife, who is also living, is seventy-seven
years 0f,age.d = 81 RygI csis 1A
The GALAXY has a story of an :. English
gentleman" on visit to America, who,
upon being asked after dinner if he would
nave cream and sugar in his coffee. replied
that he liked neither when the coffee was
good, and then, Immediately after tasting
the coffee. sent his cup for both cream and
sugar. There, is another OF. an English
LADY and gentleman" dining also in
America. The lady was asked to try some
national dish. She did so, and advised her
husband 70 have some, saying, :" It's not
~ Anew days since J. w. Kenne. of Penn
broke, n. Y, took hisimare from the barn,
leaving atwO-months colt behind. On his
return, some two hours after, he found the
colt on the roof of the barn. Being UNI
able to follow the mare, it had gone up q
Hight Of stairs-fifteen steps-then over
the hay-mOw, and out Of winlow in the |
gable end of the barn, on to a half-roof. |
From this elevation it worked its way to |
the roof of the main barn, which is very |
steep, then it returned to the halfroof, !
whence, on the return of the, mother, il |
jumped to the ground. a distance Of four |
teen feet, feat which it accomplished with |
out being the least injured.
The Staunton (va.) Viadicator tells the
Following "A man is so much more pO- |
lite in church. He is ON adress-parade, as
It We're. Nobody was surprised to see
that young manlast Sunday dive sudden
ly into the bottom of the pew to pick up
her parasol. While he was at the bottom
he saw the embroidered edge of her peck
et-handkerchief sticking from under the
edge OF her dress. He commenced tug
ging at 1t, when there was fierce scuffle,
and q little hand darted down. He came
up without it. There were two red faces
in the sanctuary to which the calm of the |
blessed Sabbath seemed to bring no re-
lief But he was a young man that meant
WELL"
A FULL-BLooDED Esquimaux poodle,
belonging to Lieut.. Almon Bassett, of !
Pittsfield, Mass, went mad and was killed
by his owner. Before the disease was fully
developed the children were trying 90 get
him to play with them, but the little girl
came in and told her father that he
wouldn't play, but wanted to bite her.
Upon going to see what the trouble was,
the father found the dog becoming rabid
and frothing, and before he succeeded in