Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-10-11
GENERAL BREVITlES.

board of surgeons Tor the care vi "ouiiuo''
passenger"
The vicar of an English parish has been
fined el0 for sending one of his flock
postal card because he had neglected to pay
his Easter dues for two years.
KELLoGG's ISLAND, Lake Erie, raised 225
tons of Catawba and fifty tons of Concord
grapes this season, besides smalleramOunts
of other varieties.
A PECULIAR throat disease in LuZerne
county, Pennsylvania, is mentioned by the
Scranton Times as having proved fatal to
upward of sixty children within the space
of a fortnight.
The artificial butter made in New ork
is becoming very popular, and tle pro
ducers have been so successful inaI thSy
announce a quarterly dividend 10 Stock
holders. A mandatory is soon 10 De es-
tablished at New Haven.
The attractions of gambling may be
learned from the fact that the company at
Baden Baden this year, when no gambling
was allowed. has fallen from 10000 to DO
600. Did the fifty thousand 90 there be
cause of the gambling?
HERE are the dimensions of a rattlesnake
recently killed near Witter Springs, Lake
county, CAL: Six feet four inches in length :;
circumference of body in largest part, four
teen inches; number of rattles, twenty-six
and button; length of rattles, five and
three-quarter inches.
THE richest man in Rockingham county,
N. H., has received an invalid pension for
the past sixty years of $40 year. he hay
ing been a soldier in the war of 1872. He
has never spent a dollar of the pension, and
his waalth is a result of the accumulation OF
its principal and interest.
A GRACELEss twenty-year old son of Mr..
Gates, of Wallingford, Conn.,. by forged
orders on the Meriden Savings Bank and
the Townsend Savings Bank of New
Haven, drew all his fathers lifelong saw
ings, some 81, 100, and has decamped. Mr..
Gates is blind and unable to work for the
support of his family.
AT Louisville, the other day, appeared
i'm the railway station pretty girl, bare
footed, with a pair of shoes and bag in
her hand. 1t appeared that she had walked
eighteen miles from Salt River to be mar
ried to the young fellow of her heart. She
was modest, and being annoyed by the OBJ
servatiOn which she had attracted, marched
off in search of her intended. Here is a
chance for another Whittier to write a
''barefooted girP' poem.
A POLISH lady of rank, twenty-seven
years of age and "a perfect Juno in beauty
was recently sentenced tofa long term of
Imprisonment in Berlin for INDUCING in
certain acts of theft. While the prosecu-
ton was i'm progress she inherited fortune
of 100000 roubles, and her advocate now
moved the court for her release, in con-
siderltion of heavy bail. The court, how
ever, refused to accede to the request.
AN American has been misbehavine
himself in Germany. lie represented him.
self to be an officer on Gen. GRANTS staff
and, armed with forged credentials. col
lected large sums of money from nearly al
the petty dukes and princes to help build /;
gigantic monument In memory of tho
soldiers killed i'm the war of the rebellion
He was afterwards arrested and found tt
be man named Beatty, who has long livet
in the Western States.
The Human Frog" is the name giver
to deformed inmate of the Orleans county
Poor-house, near Albion, n. Y, who wa.
born in the building twenty-eight years
ago and has never but once moved Outsid,
its yard. His legs and arms are contracted
in such a way that he hops around aftel
the manner of the animal from which h
takes his name, and his only enjoyment
consists in ''lying in the sun covered witt
muck and dirt"
AMONG the many triumphs of science ant
art exhibited at the Vienna Exhibition i
an invention of DIR. Marini for petrifyins
c0rpses, which seems to have proved very
successful. There was shown by the i'm
ventor a large plateau of hard and polished
material, the top slab of which was com
posed of human remains, all petrified to
gcther i'm solid block. The surface o
the block had been planned and polished :,
as to look exactly like marble. BY merel,
seeing the strange product of modern sci
ence il was impossible to imagine of wha
il was composed. Itwas mistaken for al
ordinary slab of marble.
A VIRGINIA man owns crow whicl
serves as a substitute for dogs, cats. and al
other domestic sentinels. He destroy
every frog about the well, allows nous
no chance for his life, drives away hawk
from the poultry, and bids fair to act as TIN
best squirrel dog in the country. Ill
readily spies the squirrel, either upon tn
fence or on the trees, and, with natura
antipathy to the squirrel tribe, his shrill
keen note is readily detected by his owner
accompanied by rapid darts up and down
and the owner is thus led to the game. Tn
most remarkable feature about the crow
that he invariably keeps five or six day:
ratiOns ahead of time, well concealed.
WE find in the Medical Record an az
count of cure in case of hydrophObia. :
little girl was bitten by mad dog who tor
out of her right cheek piece the size of
silver dollar, and also bit her right arr
and leg. She was treated by immediatel
cauterizing the wound with saturate
solution of carbolic acid, and keeping
wet constantly with a weaker solution {
the same, while two drops of liquor an
monia forts We're given her every tw
hours i'm water. Three days afterward I'll
wound was cauterized second time wit
nitrate of silver and the dose of ammon
was increased to three drops. This trea
ment was continued, the wound not bein
allowed to be dry single instant durin
the whole period, and it was healed witt
out leaving a scar. As two years hay
since elapsed without symptoms of q
poison, it is believed that the patient is el
tirely out of danger.
AN UNEXPECTED BILL.-A few da!
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