Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-06-14
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

kENTrCKY's fruit crop is damaged.
THERE is & scarcity of fish in New Eng
land.
VEGETATION and the season are late all
over the country.
A HARTFORD man has left $4,000 for
the support of lame horses.
DULUTH, the Zenith City" is still
frozen
CALIFORNIA has a wheat field of 5000
acres.
EVEN Boston used 10000 postal cards
the second day.
THE question of the day in the South is
"WhO burnt Columbian
THE KickapoOs are kicking up muss
in Texas.
THE CRY on THE sTREET-Down with
the dust,
MISSISSIPPI hires out her cOnvicts al SIG
month, and doesn't find them.
TWENTY thousand people took the
pledge in the recent Maine teetOtal revival.
BISMARCK is in Minnesota. 1t is the
name of a new town there.
GRAssHOrPERs are setting the wheat
crop all awry in Texas.
The Hibernian citizens of several Wes-
tern towns demand that the Irish language
be taught in the public schools.
THEY are getting up grand excursion
to Polynesia, at San Francisco.
A DUBUQUE benedict is writing letters
to the newspapers in advocacy of wife
beating, unbeknown to his mother-in law.
PEORIA, ILL.,, wishes to be made a sig
nal station, guaranteeing to furnish the
most astounding weather on the continent.
TIES. L. c. A. of Buffalo has procured
the arrest of a cruel fisherman who cut of
a surgeons tail.
THE invaders Of Khiva have done such
Rushin' business that the Kahn couldn't
prevent his capture.
BUFFALO Teutons have called an indig-
nation meeting because German is not 10
be taught in the public schools.
The authorities of Sank Rapids, Mimi,
have established free ferry across the
Mississippi River.
The Christian Union thinks the Indians
have Fights, but the right to kill white
men is not one of them.
A MAN i'm Chicago announces himself
as the Methodist candidate for consta-
ble."
THE difference between charity and full
dress-One covers multitude of sins, and
the other uncOvers a multitude of necks.
JONES says that all his children take af-
ter him. That's the reason they ain I
worth much, as he generally takes all he
can get.
A BosTON guid n,o,c thinks Captain
Jack cannot be a full-blOOded Indian, be-
cause he must be full of white mems blood
by this time.
The Boston Transcript thinks that chill
dren who play vaccination ought to be
provided with something besides Old steel
pens for the purpose.
How to get rid of the MOdOcs-Run q
New York horse railroad through the lava
beds. The pick-pOckets would clean them
out in dOuble-quick time.
AN exchange says $500, 100000 j. the
amount OF Credit MObilier and other pub
lie frauds. A sum sufficient to build Loo
miles of railroad.
l0.ll7 inches of the barometer. and );
degrees of the thermometer, were the
mean heights last week. meaner than W,
have ever known at the same season.
A CIRCUS proprietor announces his tents
always comfortable, even in the rain
probably because they ere pitched as sOor
rs he gets to town.
A LITTLE Connecticut boy. asking {
mate who Good Friday was, received III,
whitening reply, swell, you 60 home anG
read your Robinson CrIsoe.'"
III is generally believed now by meteor
OlOgists. says the New York Times, thai
we are to have cycle of very hot sum
mers. An eminent sanitarian i'm tn,
Health Department, DIR. Stephen Smith
h., IL -.
measures during the coming summer
which shall prevent the fatal effects of the
expected heat.
The experiment recently made i'm Ohio
of placing women at the head of all the
schools below the high schools is pro
nOunced decided success. The instruc
ton and discipline have been as good as
formerly, there have been fewer difficulties
between teachers and pupils, and fewer
complaints have been made by parents
against teachers.