Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-04-05
GENERAL ITEMS.

been opened in Vienna.
Your genuine cockney is always IA
nous for 'alf- and 'aforisms.
CANNIBAL's epitaph: "Write me as
one who loves his fellow-men." :
WHEN is the weather most like crock !
cry shop? When it's muggy. {
IT is said In Washington the almighty
dollar is almightier than ever.
In Wall street, when bros er can't bun
the market, he grins and bears it.
CALIFORNIA gold miners have taken 10
prospecting by the artesian method.
THE feast of agination-Having no
dinner, but reading cookery book.
Do not imagine an individual is going
to spin yarn because he knits his brow.
Coon news for husbands-Lsdies wear
their dresses longer than they used to do.
THOUGH fine feathers make fine birds,
fine birds don't always make fine feath-
ers.
In 1862 Texas had but twenty-one con- |
victs in her State Prison. In 1872 there |
were 944.
- EGGS are said to be very scarce in Ohio,
because the hens are In the habit Of mis-
laying them.
How do you know a house is often
hungry? Because We see the chimney
swallow flies.
IT'S a way with tailors to recommend
things which are much worn when you
want to buy new.
"MAN is a mystery" said young lady
to her beaux. "Yes, dear" said ne, land
girl Is MISERY"
A NEW HAMPSHIRE pedagogue says he
has more pupils in his eye than any other
man in the State.
A LONDON philanthropist bequeathed
half a million dollars to charities and
thousand to his family.
Coon DIR. Dwight once said: &c He that
makes little child happy for one hour is
a fellow-worker with God"
MORE than 100000 Of briar-wood
and other wooden tobacco pipes are
made yearly in this country.
VERMoNT-where, as is well known, no
liquor is sold, has 10000 drunkards, ,0O0
habitual "hard drinkers" and 10000
young men just beginning to drink.
THE orange is a very hardy tree, will
stand more rough treatment or neglect
than any other fruit trees and is very long
lived, bearing undiminished crops for
century.
KANSAS girls in great numbers are sign
ing a pledge not to marry any man who
vival going on In nearly all OF the west
ern States.
A COLORADO woman's triumphs are
thus set forth: Half an acre of tobacco,
three corn fields, twenty-eight turkeys,
and church congregation in which she
leads the choir.
BRET HARTE's stepfather is dying and
coming to life again all over the country.
No event since the formation Of the Fed.
eral Constitution has afforded such an ar
gument in favor of the resurrectionists
OLD topers in England feel themselves
to be patriots and bear becoming por
since the Earl of Derby has sal !, speaking
about the tax on liquors, "We have drums
ourselves out of the Alabama difficulty
during the past year."
THE gathering Of the tribes has made
little progress as yet, Palestine, according
to the late census, having Jewish popu
lation of only II, 293 souls. OF these s ,OO'
live inJerusalem, 1000 in Safet, 1900 II
Tiberias, and 400 in Hebron.
The Delaware peach growers honestl!
admit that the prospect for good crol
this year is as favorable as last year, whel
an immense crop was harvested. III
"eyes of the world are on little Della
ware;" so far as early peaches go, at an.
rate.
The little postoffice at Rockland, Me.
takes more foreign money orders thai
New York or any other office in the coun
try. A large number of Scotch, Englis
and Irish stone-cutters are employed I
the granite quarries there, who take thi
mode of sending money to their familie
in the Old World.
In regard to disagreeable and formids
BILE things, prudence does not consist !
evasion or in fight, but in courage. II
who wishes to walk In the most peaceful
parts of life with any serenity mus
screw himself up to resolution. Let hir
front the object of his worst appreher
sion, and his stoutness will cOmmonl
make his fear groundless.
Slsfs The passage, by both Houses of Coz
gress, of the bill authorizing the layin
Of the new telegraph-cable between Cal
fornia and Japan gives kind of offici;
sanction to that enterprise, and wi
probably insure its success. This Is Il
last lirk in the great electric chain, ant
when it is completed, we shall be able
put girdle round the earth in a shortt
time than Puck.
The Quebec Mercury is trying to shame
who have been complaining Of the severii
: of the winter here, with the pretense tn
Quebecians are in love with temperatu
Of daily average of 10 to Is deg. belo
zero. 1t says that "with bright sunshil
and even moderate wind, the city m
y irons, beaux, and bellies, never think
missing their daily promenade simply b
cause the thermometer marks 10 deg.
low zero and we have met the most de
cate women out and far from home VIII,
. the mercury was 30 degrees below zero
Let US go to Quebec-in August.