Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-02-15
GENERAL ITEMS
Gumnastics


.JorsT-EpUcATIoN-d nnha'
%,~,,nn,o tailoring-A potato patch.
r,r 6orm-Capital punishment.
1,,,xc TO boot: An impairment
dun. Tho ,,orld-
Pig-iron.
RAILWAY track eight inches wide is
a miner item from the BRUSH coal re-
PURPLE squabble-The difficulty
between the producers and refiners OF Pc
troleum.
If YOU want to be rich, give; if you
want to be poor, grasp if you want to be
happy, deny yourself for others.
IT is phrophesied 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 ''fiame" be-
cause it's finder sentiment.
THE Sandy Hook light is to be made
crimson so that 1t may be red by every
vessel that runs.
BRITISH, German, and Russian engi-
neers are all anxious to do deeds of Dari-
en- in the matter of canal through the
American isthmus.
A yIvACIoUs reporter afiirms that the
most doleful sight his eyes have beheld
was an antiquated virgin painfully draw
ing an empty baby-carriage 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.
wouLb-BE suicides IN New Hampshire
complain that the local ap0theearies adul-
trrate their strychnlne with arsenic or
some such comparatively harmless sub.
stance, 80 ~ to rendeO IL inert.
TuE ingenious United States District
Attorney Mt Austin, Texas. has advanced
the novel proposition that u jury com
posed altogether Of white men Is not d
legal body.
A RECENT patent granted for a stove
contains sixty-two claims for improve
ments. What n horrid thing the unregen-
Grated stove must have been to have need
ed so many improvements
THE Duluth Herald says that there IL
no longer doubt that blast furnace will
be put I'm operation In Duluth next sum-
mer. Some of its rivals are already be-
ginning to call Duluth blarsted" city.
A BILL has been introduced into the In.
diana Legislature forbidding the marriage
of persons of different colors. Blonde
and brunette engagements are considered
"ofT' until the fate of the bill Is ascer-
tanned.
THE heaviest brain on record was re.
Gently found in the skull of London
bricklayer who could neither read moi
write. Its weight was sixty-seven ounces
This will be gall and bitterness to the
phrenologists.
The Indiana divorce law is to be made
more stringent, actual residence for two
years being required. Hence those who
are anxious to shuttle off the matrimonial
coil, under the present easy law, must
"hurry up"
AN Iowa county Squire concludes the
marital knot ceremony thusly: "Them
that the Court hath joined together let nc
man bust asunder; but suffer little chill
dren to come unto them,' so help you
God"
TovELE county, in Utah, could think O.
no other means for preventing the extern
slOu OI sIudll-pOA Iildl HOlulnR puDlls
ceremonial of feasting and prayer. On,
would suppose that the ''vealy" part o
its name might have suggested vaccina
ton as an adjunct to vaticination.
A CONNECTICUT boy, just learning t.
read, asked his father what Credit Mobi
lier was. sits our national game, my
boy" replied the father, who, with tn,
shrewdness of a native of the "Land o
Steady Habits" was looking ahead
you'll be able to play it when you ge
big and 90 to Congress-"
RIGHT alongside of this troubled life
that is seen and temporal, may lie tn,
green pastures and the still waters of tn,
unseen and eternal, and they who know
us better than we know them, can at any
time step across that little rill tina
we call death and administer to our com
fort.
JOSH BILLINGS was asked "How fas
does sound travel ?" His idea Is that |
depends good deal upon the noise you
are talking about. "The sound of din
ner-horn, for instance, travels half mil,
in second; while an invitation few gi
up in the morning have known to be
quarters NV an hour goin' pair of stairs
and then not hev strength enuff left to b.
heard"