Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-29
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

Several negro families are prepar-
ing to emigrate from East Tennessee to
Liberia.
"A stock company is said to have
been formed at Griffin, Ga, for the
manufacture of coffee from persimmon
seeds.
One female clerk in the treasury
department can count 1900 notes i'll an
hour. and has counted 900 in twenty
minutes.
George Law Mt fOrty-five worked as
a day-labOrer on the docks of New York.
He is now worth about so, 900, 600 law
full money.
Death is as near to the young as
the old. Here is all the difference
death stands behind the young mans
back. and before the old mans face.
There has been a break in the en-
bankment of the Mississippi river, Just
below St. Louis, and the inhabitants
were obliged to contiscate Chicago
mans boots to plug it up with.
A western genius has an idea which
is an idea. He proposes to arrange
church seats on pivots so the devout
NAV more conveniently examine the
toilets of those in the back seats.
The sun is now working about ten
hours per day, but proposes gradual
reduction of time for the next five or SIX
weeks. in order to help the gas compa-
nv. and also the dealers in kerosene and
tallow candles.
A happy misquotation by yourS
lady, whose gentleman caller staid W.
late. caused speedy good-by. a:
clock struck twelve, and she remight,
"Now is the witching hour
when people yawn. fress A
Says the Detroit an'H a 20, on the
New Hampshire m?' who strmoI. o' :, ior
i:ea reao WIN Ia. "a az 1t doesn't damage
was fined W iii'he
sooI Ne" needn't come on SATURDAY.
or any other night" was the
-Ilng remark, written in delicate
mafS imSed 'ia'"u' ;as Wav ffRrapGs pGsta-card which
orth lnt postoffice, the other aadss aaads Leaven-
The whole number of Modocs sent
, the island in South Platte river, near
,rt Mcpherson, Neb, is one hundred
nd ffty-seyen. the most noticeable OF
hon is Miss Mary Jack, who is eigh-
nen and handsome and has long, wavy
L.
wf,llly when anything is said about her
ate father.
An old, rough clergyman once took
Or his text that passage OF the l'saims,
I said in my haste all men are liars.
looking up apparently as If he saw the
,salmist standing before him, he SAID
You said it in your haste, David, did
.ou? Well, if you had been here, you
night have said it after mature reiiec-
ion."
A POET who writes with a metallic
uster in Texas paper, sings:
sThere sat day in splendor,
Amaden young and fair;
With beautiful soft blue eyes,
And gold and silver hair.
Now this fair young maiden
Had a mission to perform
Upon this terresta globe.
The maiden's Emission was specie
We know it by her hair
" gold and silver.
The little things which you may do
for those about yon will fall back upon
your heart as the summer dews fall up
on the vineyards. What if it is nothing
more than kind word to a schOol-boy
CRYING in the street it dries his tears,
and the aching heart grows glad again.
Who knows what cloud of darkness one
kind word may dispel.
DIR. Dio Lewis now tells "our
girls" that if they want to learn to walk
we'll they should walk an hour day,
with q weight--say a bag of beans
upou their heads" A few days ago the
doctor advised ladies to eat beans to
improve their complexion. We begin
to suspect that he belongs to bean
"ring," and is trying to bull the bean
market.
joaquin Miller, in his "Life Among
the Modocs," says "When i die l
shall take this book in my hand, and
hold it up in the day of judgment" AS
the book in question has been univer-
sally damned already on both sides OF
the ocean, Joaquin had better try to
part company with it on Judgment day
II he has any Judgment himself.
The New York Tribune gallantly
remarks: There are those who be-
lieve there is a providence which watches
over drunkards, which sustains their
tottering steps on slippery places, and
which softens the paving stones for
them len they fall. 1t would some
times appear that a similar care has or
dered that whenever an especially mean
and selfish scamp is driven into mar
riage, a woman of more than usually
angelic character is provided for him:
And the more the scamp is developed
in him, the more the angel blooms forth
in her."