Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1873-11-22
GRAVE AND GAY.
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man ms own. -iF'Nt""'.
What fruit does newly married
couple most resemble? y green pair.
Puzzle for foreigners studying En-
glish-Eyer take the orphans part
never touch their portion.
Tie young man wLo boastcd that
he could marry any girl he pleased,
found that he couldn't please any.
-"Loss Of China pacbct-ship." cx-
claimed Mrs. Partington. "No wonder,
when iron ones arn't always safe.
A lady reporter, sent to an aGricul-
tural fair, wrote OF lot of pigs, They
look too sweet to live a minute
st. Clair Abbot has recently been
arrested at Carrolton in western Virgin
ia for murder committed l. years ago.
A dandy is chap who would be a
young lady if lac could ; but, as he cant,
does all lie can TO show the world he's
not man.
A company has been organized in
San Francisco, with Il capital of 500,
600, for the manufacture of jutc bags
and twine.
A Frenchman has invented a boot
with wheels, which he SAYS will enable
the weacr to go considerably faster
| than horse.
Josh Billings SAYS: "rherc amt
ennything that will kompletely kurc
lazyness, but 80. ID wife has been
known to hurry it some
Here IS a stauza sad ~ be very
popular III the mountains of Virginia:
| NJ '.'ol i.-.. Hat far-oT land
.- -.ait of salt and streets of gold
D.. ''', 'oI sinful man,
i "i' -cy hoi.s.'
John D.. rv lg. who admitted i'll
San Francisco that he was criminaily
concerned =. the murder of Benjamin
Nathan, III New York city two years ago,
is to be tried for burglary.
Josh Billings divided the human
race into three classes Those who think
it is so, those who think it isn't SO, and
those who don't care whether it is so or
not.
-Thackcray has we'll compared En-
glish society to ladder, which every
one tries to mount first. each holding
on by The heels OF the one who precedes
him.
A silk blanket for fashionable
poodle in New York city costs S16, and
more than 50, 600 lahoring men and wo-
men thrown ont Of employment in that
city.
Flax culture is said to be largely on
the increase III the northwest, but the
crop is mostly grown for seed, there be-
ing no means of manufacturing the
fibre.
Said an old Scotch woman to ply
siciau, who was weighing two grains of
calomel for Il child "Dinna be so mean
wi it. as it is for poor, fatherless
BARN"
How does that look, eh?" caid
biC-fisted Wall street man TO friend,
holding up one of his brawny hands.
''That," said the friend. clocks as
though you'd gone short on soap.
Kaiser William is going to send
=, 500 pounds of cannon captured from
the French in the recent war, to Balti-
more. to make bell for the st. Ma
thew's Lutheran church.
An ignorant negro Justice of Ches-
ter, s. c., recently committed for con-
tempt white lady who remarked in
his court that she was "done with mig
gers on her plantation.
The Philadelphia mint is now coin
ing SO. .0OO, 900 of gold per month. 1t
has ceased coming silver, owing to the
demand for gold coinage. Most of this
gold comes in bars and ingots from
Great Britain.
The st. Louis Globe SAYS that those
physicians who ran away from Memphis
acted upon the scriptural authority:
''Physician. heal thyself." 1t strikes
MS that they did heel it. with great &C.
leritv. "Thus runs the world away"
The following sad paragraph will
touch the heart of every lady reader OF
this paper: The girl who, for eight
sun to bleach her hair, is disappointed
to hear that blondes are ont OF date.
There are experts on all manner of
subjects in these days of litigation. y
woman testified the other day in a tur-
kew case. and declared that she knew
.thesc turkeys by their walk, their
countenanccs and their manner of roOst
ing.
The culture of the orange is iucroas-
ing rapidly in nFlerida. particularly on the
ST. Johns river, where there are IL quar-
ter Ol Il IllillOli lIttN. pt'Iit tiiihh
they are going to get the number up to
800, 600 and derive from them an income
of 81, 600, 900.
We like the style of tine maiden re-
ferred to in the following clipping: !
, clasped her tiny hand III mine; vowed
to Shield her from the worlds cold
, storm. She set her beauteous eyes mp
on me, and with her little lips she said,
"An umbrella will do as well.
e Chicago wants to have the next
D worlds far held there. ''ln the first
e place" says the Boston Post, ''it isn't
: certain that the next world will have Il
: fair. and in the second place those who'd
o be likely to attend it will prefer more
n pious town in which to celebrate.
The fortune of S3,0OD, 900 left for
the maintenance of free schools i'll Bal
timore and New Orleans, % years ago,
/ bv John McDonough of the former city,
J, has all been eaten up but SD, 900 in al
u attempt by McDonough's heirs to break
the will.
Are you very fond OF novels. Mr.
20 Jones?" VERY" responded that inter
a. rogated gentleman, who wished to b'
n thought by the lady questioner fond o
q. literature. ''Have you," continued -
IN lady, lever read Ten Thousand Yeai -
"NO madam. | never read that numb