Rapides gazette., 1873-11-15
GENERAL BREVITIES.


eagle captive for thirty six years, and the
bird is rs untamable as ever.
Four of the old Indian tribes of Della
wares now number but, four persons each,
and the sixteen are drunk most of the timc.
A FRESCHMAN has invented boot with
wheels, which, he says, will enable the
wearer TO go considerably faster than "A
horse.
A MODERN Sarah living in Ritchie coun-
ty, Virginia, aged 50, recently presented
her husband, aged ~. with an infant son.
ANOTHER Oregon legislator has had his
name changed by special act, aud admits
that he has been living under an alias dur
ing many years.
A FIRM at Detroit is freezing fish to send
East during the winter. The fish are kept
in salt and ice twenty-four hours, after
which they are packed in refrigerators, the
temperature OF which is twenty-five de-
grees. The firm will put up eighty tons
during the next thirty days.
Mrs. STEPHEN TREADwAY, of Mt. Ster-
ling. Kentucky, has a saddle mare which
was taken from her by some Federal SOL
diers during the war, and was gone nine
years and nine months, to the very day.
when she astonished the whole family and
neighborhood by returning home by her
self and OF her own accord.
THERE is a lady at Saratoga who is fond
Of pets. She has nine singing birds. one
parrot, one tame dove, one peacock. six
dogs. nine cats (some of which are kittens).
two squirrels, two gold fish, three turtles
and 4 young alligator. Among the dogs is
a black and tan, weighing only two and n
half pounds, for which she paid seventy
five dollars.
'YoUNG men will be rejoiced to learn
that tight boots may be drawn Oh easily by
a simple process. The patient lies down
on the floor, and holds his feet straight up
in the air until the blood runs out of them,
thus diminishing the size of the foot, when
1t will slip into the boot as sleek as getting
into the gutter on dark night. To enjoy
perfect immunity from pedal torture while
the footis thus encased, tits only necessary
to remain in the position until ready to
draw off the boots.
To BE sick is to enjoy monarchcal pre-
negatives. Compare the silent tread and
quiet ministry, almost by the eye only.
with which he is served, with the careless
demeanor, the unceremoniOus goings in
and out (slapping of doors, or leaving them
open) of the very same attendants, when
he is getting little better, and you will
confess that from the bed of sickness
Throne let me rather call it) to the elbow
chair OF convalescence, is a fall from digni-
ty amounting to deposition.-Cha
Lamb.
Rev. CELIA BURLEIGH made new and
telling point against the present style of
feminine attire in the recent New York
Congress. Woman was originally created
biped, she said; the Greater doubtless
intended her to remain biped. But at
present, thanks TO her swinging, trailing,
cumbrous dress, woman was forced to
make use of her hands in ''locomotingn
through any narrow passage-way up or
down stairs, and so virtually reduced to a
quadruped.
FATHER DIXON, of Lee county, ILL.,, the
founder Of the city of Dixon, and the first
white settler on Rock River. entered upon
his Goth birthday last month. hale and
hearty. He aided in the organization of
Peoria county, being the first County and
Circuit Clerk. II then included Cook coun-
ty. He states that John KinZie. the first
white settler of Chicago, sent away down
TO Peoria to obtain from him his marriage
license. The citizens of Dixon insist upon
the old gentleman's going to the Cen
tennial exposition as living representative
OF border life and Western habits.
SOME men have right to be rich. Mr..
Wheelwright, of Newburyport, Mass.
died lately in London, leaving an estate of
nearly million dollars. He left 100000
TO his wife and daughter, which provides
amply for them. Si00,000 to their relatives.
Iwenty-siX in number, and 100000 to es-
fabiish a scientific school in the quaint old
;lty OF Newburyport. Moreover. his books
show that in the last ten years he had
quietly given away to various deserving
objects about 100000.
LADIES, remember that while articles of
Iewelry may of themselves be beautiful.
they do not always enhance the beauty of
the wearers. Having observed the earring.
the eyes insensibly wander to the ear from
which it depends, and the majority of ears
are not pretty. So snowy ring often in
forms us that the owner has very ugly
ears. The same is true of bracelets: we
learn by them how few pretty round
wrists are among us. The sensation caused
by diamond ring on hand whose owner
bites her nails, and ignores nail brushes. is
but the admiration called
Orth by well-cared hand, is indescribable.
THE ToBACco QUEsTIoN.-The Rev.
SEQ. Trask, the noted anti-tobacconist,is in |
his city, and yesterday visited number
Df fSabbath-schools. whose members he ad-
iressed. A good story is told of the |
of one of the schools Mr. |
rrask visited, and the pastor of the church |
to which the school is attached. Upon |
MIR: Trasks entrance, the superintendent |
rushed up to the pastor saying, Look |
here, don't know what to do with Mr.. |
rrask, who has just come in. can't ask |
him to address the school, because | have
ust taken fresh chew. l wish you would |
peak 10 him." The minister replied "All |
light I'll doit. But guess III have to
axe this quid out of my mouth before | |
10. .n-Indianapoiis Journal.
A LEARNED professor intimates that all
Who die under one hundred years of age
re guilty of suicide! The process Of
easoning by which he arrives at this
onclusion is something as follows: Du-
alton of life is measured by the time of
'rowth the camel is eight years in grow
ng. and lives five times eight years the
orse is five years i'm growing, and lives
twenty-five years; man, being twenty
ears in growing should live five times
wenty years. SO Providence having in
ended man to live century, he would ar
i've at that aoa 10 ha did NOT Eill bimaalf