Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-02-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

Iowa is cultivating tea which Is s;iio ~
have very pekOeliar flavor.
Ir the burglars carry off your pla,e'
why is it all right? Because it's not 'l''
NrnRAsK. talks of cultivating oysters !
in the vicinity of its salt springs.
NEVER laugh at a man with pug nose;
Won don't know what may turn up.
WHEN a mans necktie is united, how
umtidy he looks!
WYOMING objects to being WyomiiiSleu
with the adjoining Territories.
The shadowy future, Win It's gi'oiiS
phantOms, never comes.
The .Sisters of silence is vaiiaDic
Michigan association OF Woiheh'
WHY is the letter like a young lady
Because il makes pa pay.
"LAsT sESE OF AIL"-kero. scne. when
has ended 49, strange eventful histories
during the past year.
why is a humming-top unlike drill OF
potatoes? One is Il rotater, ana lie
other later row.
A LITTLE Girl at Dubuque amended the
Lords Prayer by asking for "her daliy
gingerbread.
wordy combat between two social
EQUALS. the best dressed man has one point
III MS liNor.
"TuE Pacific SLorE."-Thc Quaker
Peace Commissioners running from the
Indians.
FRANCE and Germany are not going to
beat each other any more. but ooth are
going in to beet-sugar tremendously.
SHAKESPEARE understood motherS-ln-
law: he makes all of Othcllo'S troubles
come from his wt,'s mother.
GOVERN tie child by genticness: even
the camel moves not switter before The
whip than behind the flute.
WHAT do you expect to see reflected in
your inamoratas eyes: \ ourSeli, II she
is good looking-lass.
A FLORIDA temperance society has de-
ciied that egg-nogg as not beverage.
Perhaps because they eat 1t before they
drink i.
PRUDENT CaliiOrnians nowadays get a
preliminary certificate of insanity from
their family physicians before they kill
anybody.
AwEEK or two back the horses were
laid up with influenza. Now. in many
places, they are laid up again. But it's
snow disease this time.
IT Is stated as Neurological fact that
the milk of young cow is apt to be foam
ing. Which is highly probable, As the
creature is naturally heiierveScent.
PENNSYLVANIA naturalists can't under
stand how there can be so many rats in
the coal mines when they have so much
trap there.
Why will nautical correspondents per-
sist i'm speaking of the waves ''raking'
their gallant craft when every chemical
student knows that waters Ho?
TIE astronomers at Kew are preparing
to crafty their kewriOSity concerning
next years transit of Venus, which is eX-
pccted to be explanatory OF planetary dis
tances.
If the man who has got to the top of
the hill by honesty is ashamed to turn
about and look at the lowly road he has
Travelled. he deserves to be taken by the
neck and hurled to the bottom again.
TEACH your frail girl that, thosgh she
may find pleasure in the gallant support
of a brothers. arm, his care should in no
way cripple her energies, or rob her of her
birthright, noble wOmantO0d.
BRITISH archeologists have announced
that recently deciphered cuneiform de-
scription of the N0achian delugc is a
least thirty-five centuries old, bat Mrs
Camp thinks this is one of the dclugion!
which scholars are always falling into.
A FOREIGN correspondent writes admir-
ingly of the "brown bare legs" of tn,
Spanish peasantry. This is something t.
be pondered by Mr.. Darwin, who no
where alludes to the brown bear in cX
planning mans origin.
To PIND one who has passed throug
life without sorrow, you must find one in
capable of love or hatred, of hope or fea
ono that hath no memory of the pas
and no thought of the tuture-one tina
hath no sympathy with humanity and m
feeling in common with the rest of tn
species.
A PARIS correspondent argues that
married woman on the stage exercises les
magnetism over an audience than sin
gle woman does; that the fact that sh
belongs to another; that her trightes
glanccs, sweetest dimples, and most mi,
steal tones are for him, uncOnsciOusly ii
minished her influence; and states in il
lustratiOn that there were offered in Pari
what were called Christine Nilsson watch
es, which had great sale, but when sh
took husband their demand so sensibl
diminished that the proprietor change
their name.