Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-05-10
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.

BosroN has just introduced the crystal
cabs.
GREAT roles are the favorite food of star
actors.
WHATEVER a man seweth, that also
shall he rip.
The favorite cape of Massachusetts,
Cape G. D. d.
AN X lent is an excellent argument
against loaning.
SALINAS Valley, CAL, raised 15, 900 sacks
of mustard seed last year.
A MUCH needed Civil Service Reform
Putting civil men in office.
ROCHESTER ice dealers refuse to deliver
ice on Sundays this season.
| AN Abba, Iowa, firm recently shipped
$1,000 dozen eggs to an Eastern market.
WHAT penance man will undergo for a
pretty woman who cares nothing for
him!
JOHN STUART MILL opposes the private
ownership OF land, and favors increased
taxation of real estate.
BEECHER says that babe Is mothers
anchor. Wouldn't it be more correct to
call it her spanker boom?
RHODE ISLAND farmers will plant mini
substitute for scare-crows.
THE latest half-yearly German cata-
lOgue registers 8, 5,4S3 books as published
there the latter half Of 1872.
THK Library of Congress has twice
doubled within twelve years, and now
numbers 250,000 volumes.
KENTUCKY produced in the year 1872,
90, ,207 ,26l pounds Of tobacco, 30, ,236, 1878
pounds short of the product for 1871.
A FASCINATING widow of eighty-ive In
Indiana lately captured in matrimony
thoughtless youth of only seventy-two.
The booksellers throughout the coun-
try talk of having convention to take
action as regards the publishers "cutting
under"
GEORGIA hasn't yet got all the cotton
mills 1t wants; but planter writes that
he has seen an unusual number Of cotton
millers.
AN accepted suitor in California, lately
sold his interest and goodwill in his
affianced to rival for the price of new
waistcOat.
PARADISE, Pa, voted against local op-
ton, in spite of the efforts of the women.
Eve isn't as influential in Paradise as she
was in Eden.
The river on which England's crack
university is situated has been Just the
thing for chaps this past winter. 1t was
Cam for ice, you know.
Mr.. MORTIMER COLLINS has In prepara-
tion treatise on Rhythmic Algebra, |" in
which scientific notation is applied to
the science of rhythm.
"WHAT does the sun bring up in spring9"
asked New Britain Sunday-school teach
er. "Mud," made answer q precoci0us
Gradgrind of an urchin.
THE Chipese sunshade will be brought
into requisltion again next summer; also
the delicate affair Of black lace over white
satin and white coral handle.
For a stout walking boot, those In
broadcl0th, with thick soles and low heels,
bid fair to become popular for mountain
excursions and seaside rambles.
WHITE neckties for full dress are now
worn very wide; our fathers wore Just
such neckties, and we shall soon be back
to the "stock" of our grandfathers.
THEY said they wanted men with
backbone" In Jetersville, Va, and
they've got cerebro-spiRal meninge-
ters," and yet they're not satisfied.
Personal advertisements are like pis-
tols-very pretty playthings, and very
tempting withal; but, like pistols, they
will burn the fingers and are apt to kill.
TIE Pail Mall Gazette says, apropos of
Mr.. Trollope's new Australian book, that
"the colonial man comes nearer to being
uninteresting than any other variety OF
the Species"
FARMERS in Ohio say the potato bugs
are already so plenty In the ground that
1t will be impossible to raise a tuber un-
less hired man Is stationed at each hill
with shotgun.
The "National Straw Works" at West
borough, Mass, seems to be going into
drainage pretty extensively, from the re-
port that there are 800 persons EMPLOYED
In the factory and $4,000 sewers out
side."
The African diamonds are showing
their many shining qualities. Last wear
1t Is estimated that not less than $1O,0UO,-
600 worth were sent from the Cape, and It
Is prephesied that the best have not vet
been found.
SEVERAL of the dozen widows of the
late Rajah Of Jodhpur were anxious to
have the rite Of satti performed upon
them, but the new Rajah restrained the
ladies from this burning evidence of at
tachment to the dead.
A ST.. LAWRENCE County hen has laid
an egg bearing the ominous inscription,
"War with England, '73; America VIC
tOrious." The matter has been laid be-
fore the British Government, and will be
the subject of Cabinet meeting soon.
IF the Chinese cannot be complimented
upon their progress In abstract science,
their applications Of common sense in
many cases are very ingenious. In Pc
king. the doves, of which there are great
numbers, are protected from the ravages
Of the vultures by attaching bamboo wiis-
ties to their tails. The noise made when
the bird flies through the air frightens
away the vultures from their prey.
A YOUNG lady of rather exacting man
ner, dropped into store the other day to
get switch. After pulling and hauling
the miniature horse-tails into an iDextri-
cable tumble, she declared they were not
fit to tie calf with. The young man in
noeently informed her that they sold a
different article for that purpose. TDirty
degrees below freezing point denotes the
GOODNESS between that couple just now
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