Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-26
GENERAL ITEMS.

NOIIA6ES Uy the Sc8 are gong up In n
the New England towns that pretend t,
be summer resorts.
THEY have girl at Searsport, Maine
thirteen years old, who weighs 40 pounds
and is growing nicely.
LITTLE ebony barrels, with gold hoops
and silver hunting horns, are the latest In
chafelaine vinaigrettes.
LIGHT brown is a very fashionable color
just now among the Partisan ladies,
especially for outdoor costumes.
In Buffalo, New York, the newspaper
| owners run to fast horses, and seeing
which Office can do the best Job work.
"OLD Probabilities" Is a descendant of
Connecticut family. Probably that q
what makes him so good on a guess.
A BosToNIAN asked q few friends around
to strawberry supper the other night.
About twenty went, and there was one
strawberry.
YOUNG woman was recently taken
from Burnham, Maine, to the asylum at
Augusta, who was rendered insane from
impure vaccine matter.
Boston editors care very little for dress
and wear paper collars, but their ambition
Is to own the finest library and have eggs
every morning for breakfast.
AN aged couple in Delaware celeb!ated
their diamond wedding, recently. ryceiy-
ing diamond Tennysons LonQfeiiows .etc..
In token Of their friends kind remem,
brance.
A MAINE girl lost one of her earrings
on the road In recent snow storm. and
day or two after neighbours horse picked
It up, and 1t was found in a SNOWFALL
knocked from his hoof.
COOP society seems to be waking nm IN
. sense Of Its ,luties. Two well.known
bellies have recently been sent to Coyent-
ry for bad behavior in the way of flirting
with other girls intended.
The "Vanderbilt University. - Accord
ing to the Nashville Union, Is to be the
name of the Methodist university soon to
be organized In Tennessee upon the fund
OF ?oOO, 900 donated by Commodore Van
derbilt.
The two Titusville, Pa, editors live IN
hopes that lightning will strike the other
0fice, and thus give their own a lift.
Their chief employment consists in rela-
ting confidentially how hard up the 9TH
er paper" is.
A REMARKABLE collection of china and
pottery, illustrating the history of the va
rious kinds of work In ceramics carried on
In England with so much success more
than hundred years ago has just been
sold In London.
SINCE the breaking of Fosters neck the
opponents of capital punishment have
come en- masse TO the front, showing up
dead Caesars wounds to excite the pity
and disgust of the populace for such bar
barous cruelty.
IT was Hartford swell who attempting
to cross the Connecticut river. recently'
broke through the ice, and when a rope
was thrown to him, requested those who
were trying to save his life to be careful
not to tear his coat.
HATS of "cereal disposition made of
coarse straw and bedecked with ears of
wheat and other agricultural emblems,
IRE already displayed by the wholesale
1ealers, foreshadowing that rural SIM
olicity Is going to be fashionable the COM
ng summer.
A YOUNG woman, while eating stew.
n Middletown, Conn.,, the other evening.
complained that one of the oysters was
ull Of bones, and careful, II not attractive,
showed that it contained for.
y-hve pearls, varying in size from pea
o pins head.
A WKsTFIELD Mass. whip makers wife
Ippeared In person at one of the shops. re-
,ently, to explain his absence, saving:
Jim Is not well; you must excuse him:
'e and 1 had little difficulty at the
this morning, and he won't
'e able to work this week.
A NEW style of rouge has made its an
1t consists of tablet of what
ooks like green tinsel, which, when rub
ed with q damp cloth gives q red pig
nent, which seems very natural when
transferred to the cheek of metropolitan
'eauty. 1t Is a Chinese invention.
The title of the new hair-dressinp is
l0rrible In its associations. "a La quill
otine," 1t Is called, because the hair of
he female victims of the French reyolu-
lon was arranged on the very ton of the
cad, as initiated in the present fashion,
a order that 1t might be cut of the way
{ the knife Of the guillotine.
Mr.. WHIPPLE says women, to the end
{ time, will never be tired Of gazing ON
hose insipidly handsome faces, and those
erfectly but impossibly fitting garments,
which gladden. their eyes when they look
t plates Of the fashions. Mr.. Whipple
lands good show Of being snatched
by uttering such sentiments
8 these.
BosroN papers say that the banks of
nat city have done profitable business
uring the past six months, and the high
rice for money has enabled them to keep
p their rate OF dividends. The fifty-one
ANTS in the city pay semi-annual divi-
ends In April aggregating $a ,432, 500.
'hree pay seven per cent, ten six per
ent., twelve five per cent, two four and
half per cent, and fifteen four Der cent:
ne passes its dividend.
INSTEAD of regarding the letter of the
wv they are going to make the law re-
ard letter -or rather two letters-in
altimore. In that city there is q man by
be name Of Green indicted for embezzling.
ut upon this little error he is likely to
get off," The indictment should charge
Inn with having fraud.lently embez-
ed" but because the two letters "ul,
ere omit ed, and the word left to read
the Indictment has been
uashed because there is no such word in
he English language, and Mr.. Green
rofits by the mistake.
SOME time ago New Hampshire farm
discovered large toad near his bee
I've, actively at work catching and de-