The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-09-13
GENERAL ITEMS.

A FIRM OF wooden DO0t-makers nave
started business iii Minnesota. All put
the leg is made of wood, and those who
have worn them find them easy and dry.
IT is said that the atmosphere in the re-
gion between Big. Trees and Y osemite5 in
California, is often so full of electricity
thatielectric sparks follow the hand when
passed over blanket at night in the open
air.
A BEETLE took refuge in church Or
gan at Florence, Mass, a few Sundays
ago. stopping the music, and necessitat-
ing the taking of the instrument to pieces
before the mang,ed remains of the bug
were discovered.
A FAMILY of three persons were re-
Gently discovered in the suburbs of New
York living in sugar hogshead, and they
could hardly be- forced to leave their
home, which they had occupied for eight
cen months.
AT Sunday-sGhool concert the other
evening, the following occurred: Little
fellow (reeiting his verse)-I''I am the
Bread of Life.'' Superintendent (qnes-
tioning him as to his knowledge of the
Bible)-" Who slid l am the Bread of
Life?" Little fellow Tin surprise) =" /
said it's
The Apache Indians on the Verde Res
ervation in Arizona are not making much
progress in practical agriculture. Some
time ago corn, beans, pumpkin, and other
seeds were issued to them for planting,
whereupon they immediately boiled them
all and had GRIND feast at Government
expense.
. A DISCONTINUED couple living in Ne
braska, being ddsirous of securing funds
wherewith the lady could take journey
to Europe, recently sold their three-Fear
old child, with la COW, to a well-tD-do
farmer for $780, The price at first de-
manded was $1D0 for the child and $25
for the COW, but q compromise was finally
effected on 500 for the two.
THE "grassh@pper twist" is now the
proper thing I'M fashion-circles. tits a
little variation ON the 'sGrecian bend -
that was forward, this backward bend,
with the elbows placed at right angles
with the sides, iA similar fashion to the
jumper of grssshopper when at ease.
1t is supposed the mouth is to be worn
open, though this has not been an
nounced yet.
GREEN TEA as imported is considered
by the English courts as an adulteIated
article, and grocer of Liverpool was re-
Gently fined for selling it. The tea: was
shown by chemical analysis to be eolored
by Prussian blue and mineral matters but
experts in the trade proved that it was
genuine green ten as imported from China.
The British Trade Journal admits that this
tea is adnlterateG, and that the impbrta-
ton of green tea into England villa be
virtually stopped.
A MAN In Whitehall kicked anotherman
and was arrested for SO doing. When
brought before Justice of the peace, he
informed his Honor that the man he had
kicked was lSghtning-rod man. THE
justice at once discharged him with the
remark: Is The man who wouldn't kick
a ightning-rod man wherever he finds
one, is unfit to enjoy the liberties for
which Washington fought and Thomas
Paine wrote. y That justice had paid five
hundred dollars for lightning rods on his
house last spring.
The Journal de Lyon suggests that the
wearing of silk shirts will ward off the
cholera. 1t states that the Chinese who
are well enough off to afford these gar
ments protect themselves absolutely from
all epidemics by wearing them. The
Journal recommends the manufacture of
a silk fabric for the purpose which shall
be so cheap as to place it within the reach
of all. This publication, however, is the
organ of the silk interests, and its sani-
tary suggestion may be merely in bust
ness way. you know.
The Rev. -, of Erie, Pa, is an ener-
getic worker, but as yet he has failed to
convert certain wealthy stockholo4r in
various mining enterprises. Talking to
him the other day, he said: 6 Mr.. F.
you are getting your fortune by investing
in mining stock now want you to take
SOME stock In the golden streets of Beav-
en- The reply was continuance OF the
metaphor: Well, / guess l WON'T in
vest to-day: I've lost considerable on that
North Shore tip investment; and who
knows but the country you refer to may
be salted too?
a YOUTH of ten years, residing in Bing-
hamton, played 30 long on a. recent after-
noon, that he did not get home until sup
per was over, and consequently was told
that he could have nothing to eat. Cast
ing one look behind him he started for the
door, at the same time remarking
Mother, I'm going to die, and when I'm
dead | want the doctor to cut me open
and look at my stomach The mother,
greatly alarmed, inquired what he meant,
when he replieds s want them to know
that died of starvation" A g stay of
proceedings'' was ordered, and the hoy
turned from his evil Intentions to theisup- |
portable.
AMONG the remarkable gas wells III this |
country Is the Newton Well, six miles |
from TitusvilleI Pa. 1t was discovered |
last year and produces three millions of
cubic feet of gasIevery twenty four hours. |
The gas issues under pressure of from |
twenty to thirty pounds per square inch,
and for the most part goes to waste. |
Pipes have been laid to Titusville,G and
some two hundred and fifty dwelling |
houses, shops, etc., are now supplied with |
the. gas for illumination and fuel. For
heating purposes it is admirable, but for |
illumination it requires to be passed |
through naphtha, as it is deficient In car
bon.
Mrs. MARIA WALDEN, who died atBuf |
falo, recently, at the age of seventy-nine,
was the first person in that city who own
ed a piano: and when in her youth she
played upon it, she very much astonish-
ed, it Is said, the Indians. The instru-
ment must have been but DOOR little. |