The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-10-11
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.


FIVE kittens, all joined together at birth,
have been nine days wonder in New
London, Conn.
BY uneeasing industry and attention TO
business New Jersey boy has gathered a
library of six hundred dime novels.
TExARKANA, the southern terminus OF
the Cairo and Fulton Bailroad, is named
from Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana,
A WELL known authoress gives it as an
item of domestic. felicity that the man OF
the family should be absent at least six
hours per day.
A. DETROIT bootblack has a bank account
of ST 100, much to the surprise of all who
know how much backing is required by
the average Michigan boot.
Ten young ladies' joined in swimming
match in the Harlem River recently the
prize being silk dress. One of the pom
testants abandoned the race in order t@ as
sist in the rescue of young man who
had fallen into the water.
A PENNSYLVANIA newspaper announces
that Metanerpes eaythocephatus has been
name frightens away all tile women and
children. The monster in question is the
red-headed woodpecker
u dE Idct lIldI lIdiuFt Is 1ill Ol DOlilpt
sations is beautifully illustrated by re-
cent bit of scientific information, which
announces that the house-fiy is tormented
by parasites, of which it cannot get rid.
and that it suffers dreadful agonies from
their tickling.
GEORGE w. KNOX. of Cleveland, is con-
sidered the champion whittier of the
United States. He is now engaged on a
piece of work for the Philadelphia Expo
sitidn, the material being plank twelve
feetlong, tWenty-six inches wide, and two
inches thick.
al LADY who the other day bought n
barrel of eabbages in the Georgetown
market found live baby in it, well dressed,
with a milk bottle in its mouth, and so
protected by the manner III which the cab
bages had been arranged as to prevent its
suff0cation. e.
A REMoRsEFUL husband who must be
thoroughly contrite and broken up in
spirit, adyertises as follows in a Chicago
paper: ssBe it known that I shamefully
treated my wife. If she will return will
be all a husband can be. WHIT"
JOSEPH w. FooTE, of Cincinnati, owns
oneiof the s. big FARMS in Central Illinois,
near Maroa, and has built thereon abarn,
which was duly dedicated with religious
ceremonies one Sunday recently. Twelve
hundred people were seated in the building
on the occasion and as many more out
side.
Al PAwNEE chief has gone to Washing
ton to getan appropriation of one hundred
pale-faced wives, alleging as a reason for
this unprecedented demand that the pale
faces have made such inroads upon the
available stock of dusky Inaidens that
there are not wives enough lefttO go round
his tribe. - a6s HI ,a, til
THERE is war between the cattle owners
and sheep raisers of southern Colorado.
The cattle owners, who are in the majority,
are the aggressprs. COrrals have been
broken into, and sheep slaughtered; corn
fields trodden down, and herds scattered
upon the plains. The cattle men seem re-
solved to drive the sheep men out of the
country. @ 7fE
"A MAY in st. Paul sued for and recov-
cred the sum OF two and one-half cents,
Illegally collected from him as toll on the
bridge. And. now comes the man who
drove him across in his buggy, and wants
to recover twenty-five dollars for having
been detained a quarter of an hour. The
courts up there don't seem to remember
the maxim, dc anissi,nis non carat ter. h /,
The chief of police of Louisville has is
sueda an order requiring the members of
the police force to stop all persons,
whether men, women or children, found
on the streets after IL o'clock at night, and
ascertain their business. This is done in
view OF the many rohberies which have
taken place of late. S.