Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-03-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

If Adam is accountable for - cOnsc-
gucntial damages" he will have a rough
time of it.
"A BUMPER ut parting" as the drunk
en- man said when he ran up against the
post.
The popular notion of genius is-Of
ore who can do almost evcrythlng-ex-
ccpt make a living.
IT is one of the curiosities of natural |
history that a horse eats best wnen he !
has not a bit in his mouth.
THE latest definition Of a gentleman
is a man who can put on a clean collar
without being conspicuous.
CHICAGO is still celebrating whether
less beer would improve its mOre-ale on
Sundays.
The bounty Of Il cents on gopher scalps
is said to have cost Nebraska S23,OOO in
two years.
THE wine product for Los Angeles
county, Cal, this season, is estimated at
10000 gOllOns.
THE Atlantic is the only power on the
earth that cs,n make a woman indifferent
to her personal appearance.
The Governor of Wisconsin runs
afoul of Church fairs on account of tn ir
tendency to foster spirit of gambling.
PHILosopHY of the future: MOraiist
Who knows what tomorrow will bring
forth! Positivist-The day after.
The Lowest thing Southcrncr
says he has read lately ina Northern jour
nal, is the thermometer record for some
time back.
BLESSINGS from the Dominion of Can
ada-lhc cpizooty and the bitter weather.
Talk of anncXin" such Il country. Pre-
pOstcrous
LOUISVILLE, KY, Ortlans the disinfec-
ton Of paper currency to prevent the
spread of smallpox through that chan
mel.
An applicant for a pair of boots was
asked what number he wore, and replied
rs soon as he could recover from his sur
prise ''Why two, of course!'
TIE very much turnover collar OF the
British sailor is to be abolished, ard the
navy is to have neither grOg nor bare neck
tar.
IT is strange question, but rather
pertinent one to ask. whether or not some
of the hOmicdcs now so frequent are not
gotten up in order to advertise the patent
revolver they are committed with.
THE French census enumerates 3D.
$50 more married men than married wO-
men. How is this? DO that number of
French wives keep duplicate husbands?
Or are the men widOwers?
STATE Superintendent Fallows. of
Wisconsin. reports that One-third of the
children of school age between and 2l
in that State, did not attend school during
the year 1872.
THE canon of TuOlumne River, where
it finds its way through the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, in California. is said to rival
the far-famcd Yosemite in grandeur of
scenery.
CAN it be said that the Chicago police
are insurgents simply because they are
not inclined to obey the orders of tie SER
geants who have been detailed to COM
mand them in lieu of their regular cap
tains!
BOARDING-HOUsE chicken soup can be
made, it is said, by hanging up hen in
the sun so that her shadow shall fall into
pot of salt water. The only trouble is
that on cloudy day the soup is liable to
|, be weak.
THE contributions to the printers type
metal statue to be erected in Greenwood
to the memory of Mr.. Greeley, have been
so numerous that the movement Is an en-
tire success. 1t will be made rs speedily
as possible.
THE whalers of San Diego captured two
whales on the 22d of January, but one of
them sank in deep water, and now the en-
on the shore waiting for that whale to
come up.
A WESTERN paper acknowledges the
- oh oil Ia,
Ifdings, asking an exchange. 1t denies
the request for the reason that it is mot
in the habit of looking to Chicago as the
source Of tidings of that nature"
SOME questions very naturally sug-
gest themselves to inquiring mind. An
amateur farmer wonders 'swhy on all
this fair earth, the ground is bottsm side
up, so that it must be turned up with a
pillow before corn can be raised?"
s'DO YOU think am fool?' violent
man asked the late Rev. DIR. Bethune.
"Really," repli' the doctor, 81 would
not have ventured the assertion, but now
that you ask my opinion, must say that
l am not prepared to deny it."
DURING the last ten years, the popula-
ton of New Jersey has increased at the
rate of thirty-fve per cent, that of Penn
Sylsailld dt tWcllty -OHc, WIlilc Tie pOpuld-
of New York has increased only at the
rate of thirteen per cent.
THE MOdOcs are a small band of wan
dering Indians i'm Southern Oregon. Up
to the attempt to locate them upon res
ervatiOn, they were peaceful enough, be-
ing friendly with the few settlers they
came in cOntact with.
A MALICIOUS libel is going the rounds
that vegetation is so scarce ut Cape Cod
that two mullen stalks and whOrtleber-
~ bush is called grove. The truth is
that unless there are three whOrtleberry
bushes they never tank of saying grove.
A SOCIETY has been formed in New
York to provide decent apparel for chill
dren whose parents are too poor to clothe
them suitably to attend the public schools
There are at least twenty-four thousand
vacant seats i'm the schools, and the chill
dren who will fill them fer the most part
attend charity schools, where clothing and
i'm some instances dinners are provided for
them. But these charity schools are par
tally sustained by State aid, whereas their
expenses should be wholly met by their
projectors.
Napoleon Iv.'s First Levee.