The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-10-25
GENERAL BREyITIEs.

IT is stated that Miss Maggie Anderson,
OF Saiina, Kansas, aged eight years, can
read any ordinary music, written in any
key, at sight.
HANNAH MOORE, of Green Bay, Wis,
drove oxen at forty-fiye dollars per month
until she secured money enough to get
herself sixty-five dollar silk dress.
Bo1Ls are respected annoyances in Phil
adelphia. A man who kicked another's
boil was fined thirty dollars and sent TO
jail thirty days.
THE conscience of the United States is
assessed at Si25. 000- At least, that is tie
amount it PANIED out to the treasury did,
ing the last fiscal year.
KU-KLUxIsM in California takes the form
OF anonymous warnings to employers TO
dismiss their Chinese servants, under pain
of direful punishment.
PATTEE, the Maine wife-murderer. speaks
four languages, is a champion baseball
player, a popular temperance lecturer,
dabbles in literature, and is a polished fel-
low.
A LEADING st. Louis mercantile firm
now undergoing proceedings in bank
ruptcg, report in their schedule cash on
hand twenty cents, to divide among about
one hundred creditors.
PETER S. Posi-, resident of New York,
claims to be the owner of the tract of lard
on which the city Of Lacrosse is built.
He 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 a Broadway
restaurant few days since, and, asking
Tor a plate Of beans, was constrained to
open his eyes when he heard the waiter,
Ill loud voice, order, 'sBrown-stone front
for one!p
The most personal inscription We
have read Of in tombstone literature lis
that on a slab III PENNSYLVANIA, which
reads SIN 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
lumber run out of Cass River. Michigan.
this season, is about so, 100000 feet, out of
the Au Ores 60,000,O00, out of the Rife
booms 60,000,000, and out of the Saginaw
River 70, 100000.
The attitude of servants in this countrv
has become well nigh intolerable of late.
but, according to Consul BidwelI. they are
not yet quite so bad as in the Balearic /
Islands. Matters, he says, have come TO |
such d pass in those islands that it is tie |
servants who take their employers char |
:cters before engaging with them, while |
masters and mistresses are obliged to fore
go alliinquiries, and even to close their eyes |
to known defects little short of immortality
and dishonesty.
THERE ia now Iiyinp one mile west If
Florissant. in ST. Ilagis county Mo mon
whose name is Guilliame' who is one hnt-
dred and six wears of aoe. as 5scertainad
from his baptisInal pa{,eTs. obtained some
years since from France. of which co,Intt.v
he is native, He was a soldier in file
armyjof the first Nanoleon and .vas horn
about two wears before the conoueror If
Italy first saw the lipht. Ace has beo,1n
to impair his, faculties. and he now scarcely
recognizes those who call on him. His
wife, who is also living, is seventy-seyen
years of age.
The GaIarV hasa story ofsa1, :. Enolish
gentleman.'' on d visit To America whb
upon being asked after dinner if he wouId
have cream and sugar in his coffee. repIied
that he liked neither when fha Efaffpa WAC
good. and then, imTneGataly af4 E tasti,so
the coffee, sent his gun for batl isrea,n a,5
sugar. There Is another. Of an Fne, In
.sladv and Gentleman !, DINING air9 IN -
America. Tie ladT WAS asked f. try SOME
national dish She did 90 and .,sIy;sad ~.
husband to have some saving :. Tt,S nat /
so nasty. ~ ,
A FEW DAYS since r w Kenna of pa,4- {
IN! n y Il e. ~
leaving two-months Golf behind On bfs
return. some two hhnis after Id f:,und tIa {
colt On the roof 81 tha harm Ro;aor ny, ny |
able to follow the mare # had eo,1a nv, l.
flight of stairs--fiffee,, stens-f7han ~, og..r I
the hay.1now. and ont of Jvin9Iawr in tho Z
gable end of the harm On To ] ba1f-ronf !
From this elevation if worked IFS s way 10 f
the roof of the main barn. which is yefy i
steep, then it returned TO tha haIfroaf
on the return of the mother #
Jumped to the ground. a fJistaIi,a of fo11r-
cen feet, feat Which il accomplished WITH