Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-02-15
GENERAL ITEMS.
sDuCATION-GYmnastiCs

JOINT-EDUCATION-Gy
NATURES tailoring-A potato patch.
A mEMr-TIE form-Capital punishment. |
SOMETHING to boot: An impcrtincnt !
dun.
THE most obstinate pig in the world
Pig-irOn.
A RAILWAY track eight inches wide is
a miner item from the British coal re-
gOn.
A rrRE-ILE squabble-Thc difficulty
between the producers and reiinerS OF pc
trOleum.
II you want to be rich, give if you
want to be poor, grasp; If you want te De
happy, deny yourself for others.
IT is phrophesed that the latest an
nOunced gold-field in Arizona will be
well. never mined.
OUR poetic Hibernian explains that love
is commonly spoken of as ''flame' be-
cause it's finder sentiment.
THE Sandy Hook light is to be made
crimson so that it may be red by every
vessel that runs.
BRITISH, German, and RUSSIAN engl-
neers are all anxious TO do deeds of Dari-
on in the matter of canal through the
American isthmus.
A vIvACIOUs reporter affirms that tn,
most doleful sight his eyes have behelC
was an antiquated virgin painfully draw
ing an empty baby-carriagc over the re
cent slippery sidewalks.
SINCE the clergy have held special pray
ers for the benefit of the press, the Chicago
Times suggests that editors unite in sup
plication for the diffusion OF intelligence
and morality among the clergy.
WouLD-gE suicides in New Hampshir
complain that the local apOthecaries adui
teratc their strychninc with arsenic o
some such comparatively harmless sub
stance, so as to render it inert.
THE ingenious United States District
Attorney at Austin, Texas, has advance
the novel proposition that jury con
posed altogether of white men is not
legal body.
A RECENT patent granted for stOy
contains siyty-twO claims for improve
ments. What "A horrid thing the unregel
Grated stove must have been to have neet
ed so many improvements.
THE Duluth Herald SAYS that there
no longer doubt that blast furnace wi
be put in operation in Duluth next sun
mer. Some of its rivals are already b
Ginning to call Duluth blarsteI' cit
A ELL has been introduced into the |
diana Legislature forbidding the maria;
of persons of different cOlors. BlOn,
and brunette engagements are consider
''Ofl7' until the fate of the bill is asce
tanned.
THE heaviest brain on record was l
Gently found in the skull OF Il LOnd'
bricklayer who could neither read n
write. Its weight was siXty-seven ounce
This will be gall and bitterness to Il
phrenolOgists.
THE Indiana divorce law is to be ma
more stringent, actual residence for tv
years being required. Hence those wi
are anxious to shuttle off the matrimOni
coil, under the present easy law, mu
''hurry up"
AN Iowa county Squire concludes Il
marital knot ceremony thusly 1.-The
that the Court hath joined together let
man bust asundcr; but suffer little CHI
dren to come unto them,' so help "
God"
TovELE county. in Utah. could think
no other means for preventing the eXte
sion of smallpox than holding a pub
ceremonial of fcasting and prayer. d
would suppose that the ''vealy'' part
its name might have suggested vaccin
ton as an adjunct to vaticinatiOn.
A CONNECTICUT boy. just learning
read asked his father what Credit Mol
lier was. 'lt's our national game, n
boy" replied the father, who, with Il
shrewdness of a native of the LAND
Steady Habits" was looking ahea
you'll be able to play it when you g
big and 60 to Congress-
RIGHT alongside of this troubled lii
that is seen and temporal, may lie Il
green pastures and the still waters of t
unseen and eternal, and they who kno
us better than we know them, can at al
time step across that little rill tn
we call death and administer to our COZ
fort.
JOSH BILLINGS was asked g How ia
does sound travel?' His idea is that
depends a good deal upon the noise V,
are talking about. 1.-The sound OF di
ner-hOrn, for instance, travels half a m
in a second; while an invitation tew
up in the morning have known to bt
quarters NV an hour goin' pair of stat
and then not hev strength enuff left to
heard
f,vri.uc Fats ho,,f ho rnI