Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-10-18
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

what has become OF ancient things. We
are Just informed by diligent investi
gator that the ark is now in good state
Of preservation, but lying under an
eternal mantle of snow, hundreds of
feet deep, at an altitude of II, 500 feet
above the level of the sea As snow
always covers the top of Ararat, it is
for any of Noah's descend.
ants to go up and find the ark. Furth-
ermore. the ark was smaller than the
Great Eastern, had three decks, and was
divided into numerous compartments,
for the safety and order of it's occupants.
England is announced to be the
only civilized country in the world
which has not sent homegrown tobacco
to the Vienna exhibition. Varieties
ere shown from Norway and Sweden,
as well as from the tropics and from all
intermediate territories. 1t is remarked
that the valne varies throughout very
much according to the distance from
the equator, and thus while the unman-
ufactured leaf from HAVANA is valued
at almost 50 80, gold, a pound. that
from Holland is priced at no more than
about S25 hundred-weight.
"A Detroit man recently forwarded
the following letter to the insurance
co rpany in which his wife's life was in
sured: "Dear sir-I take my pen in
hand to let you know that am we'll.
but that my dear wife, insured for s., 900
in your company, is no more. She died
to-day. Her policy is No.. / can
truly say that she was fond wife and a
good mother. Ihave the doctors certi-
ficate, so that there will be no trouble
about the policy. She was only sick a
short time, but suffered much. Doyou
give a check in advance or must wait
sixty days for the money? Yours, &c. "
John Beran had a leg badly crushed
at Washington, last week, but, as he
would not consent to amputation, the
surgeons of the University hospital
sawed off the shattered ends of the
bones, drilled small hole and inserted
an ivory peg in each, and then bound the
pegs together with silver wire. The leg
was then confined in a splint, and the
patient will doubtless have useful
though shortened member of it. This
curious surgical experiment has never
been attempted before.
Mans inhumanity to the oyster is @
solemn thing. They are not only shucked
with knife which was devised in the
form and spirit of murder, but spread
out naked to the eve in their voluptuous.
ness, and, being gazed at, are in various
ways tortured, like the early martyrs,
on grizzlies, spits, stews, etc. Esculent.
succulent, inofensive, delicate, they
have suffered as much persecution as
the Vaudois. never see an oyster but
| feel for him, with fork.
One of the fruit dealers of Portland
caught an urchin stealing nuts, and pro
ceeded to administer condign punish
ment. The boy begged to be released
because be had Just been vaccinated
from a fresh COW. "What has that tC
do with it ?' shouted the Infatuated fruit
dealer. She was a hooking COW, and il
got into my blood" was the whimper
ing reply.
The English railW avs furnish theil
officers with Frodsham's chronometers
locked up in a wooden or tin case, ant
which are the property of the railway
secured by deposit for its safe return
The chronometer is delivered at the enc
of each journey by its custodian, who
does not hold the key of its box, to the
time-keeper, who is responsible for the
time.
A Sunday school teacher was ex
planning the omnipresence Of the Deity
to his scholars, and ended by telling
them that He was everywhere. Where
upon a redheaded boy asked Is He
in NV pocket? ?" The teacher replied
that the question was rather profane
but he would answer eyes, He was
everywhere" "I've got You there, said
the boy, 81 ant got no pocket"
"A deaf and dumb woman who has
been visiting Danbury to solicit aid,
was annoyed by some boys at the low
end of Main street, and gave them 9
talking that they will remember to Their
diving day. She said: "Hecter the
afflicted, will ye? If had You across
my knee for two minutes I'd make
yOu acquainted with astronomy"
"A Michigan butcher takes the bones
out of his meat before selling it now.
He had a dream the other night, in
which he found himself at the celestial
gate, but confronted by mountain Of
bones, which an attendant spirit said
we're what he had sold to customers,
and he must climb over them if he
would enter heaven.
The Union Pacific railroad sold
during the month of August % 1873 acres
of land at an average price of S. 80,
amounting to 1857, 1874. The sales aver.
aged SO acres to each purchase. The
total sales to September LIST, are 779, Sic
acres at au average price of 81. As pei
acre. amounting to 50, 468, 4S9.
The following tender missive was
picked mp in the ladies' sitting-room al
a railroad depot "Dear Chas. de you
love me as much as you did at q quarter
to twelve last night Say yeu do, dear
est, and it will give me spirit to gt
down and tackle those cold beans lef
over from yesterday"
1T is related that an Irishman ono,
visited New Hampshire. and after hav
ing inspected the numerous hills and
mountains ranges, exclaimed Bedad
never was in country before wher
they had SO much land that they had Il
stack it.
With demure glance into the hap
by face beaming upon her, Efie nestle'
closer to the charm that had decide,
her fate, thankful that CUPID in blin'
freak had aimed at the heart of one sh
could both love and respect.
"A westerner speaking of the perfol
nance of his village choir, says that 81
is like driftwood in q stream it drag