The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1873-10-18
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Az English railway has paid a lord Gl0O
for having his hat smashed in a collision.
THE Pope has given to the Indiana NotTe
Dame University d marble statue repre-
Z senting the Virgin Mary sittfngin medita-
ton by her spinning-wheel.
DR.. CHARLES F! DRAPER, of Newark,
N. j. is the recipient of a handsome fee.
In 1870 he attended Frenchman in Cali
forIlia during slight illness. who now has
'wllied the docror all his property-S250,-
600.
IT now appears to be certain that the
population of the Empire of India, says
the Pail Mall Gazette, is from onefourth
to olH-third greater than it was believed to
be, or in round numbers, it amounts to
240,0O0,0 900 souls. 8
"a NEW arrangement is proposed for the
& safety of registered letters sent through
the post-office. Special bags are to be pre-
vided for their reception, and only the
postlnasters at distributing stations are to
have Keys of these bags. Such a safeguard
is highly desirable.
NATE S. SMITH, of Clay township, Iowa,
claims that he and two other members Of
his firmly. during the present. season,
have killed 1877 snakes on and near his
Z farm. He.attributes the unusual number
of snakes to the fact that the hogs have
been restrained from running at large.
CHAs. WARREN SToDDARD boils down
Salt Lake City in these words: 1.-THE h0-
tells are handsome enough; the street cars
c0mmendable; the Gentle element brisk
and plucky; the Mormon element suave
and uncompromising, and the two ele-
ments do not mix to any visible extent"
A RHODE ISLAND lady supposed to be ON
her death-bed made the singular request, Ia
few days since, to hear the brass band,
which, was compiled with, the band appear
ing in the evening and playing several
popular pieces, and now she is improving
and likely to recover her health.
a NEW toy, just introduced, is wax
, doll in a crib, the doll being dressed IN
> night clothes and in dainty lace cap. By
some mechanism the doll baby at certain
intervals, after being wound up, lifts itself
up in the crib, puts out its arms, and dis
tinetIy calls q mammal The inventor
thinks "no family should be without
one.n g.
WHEN a man comes home and tries TO
bolt the door with sweet potato, pokes
the fire with spout of coffee-pot, at
tempts to wind up the clock with his boot
Jack, tries to cut kindling for his morning
fire with paper-kIiife, takes cold potato
in hand to light him to bed, and prefers
sleeping in his hat and boots, you may
reasonably infer that he has been making
the acquaintance Of some very friendly
people, i.afaala r. p 5p
An item of news from an English news
paper: does not show that particularly
tolerant spirit is manifested by certain pro-
fessional gentlemen in the city Of Bristol.
1t ,seems that ''the honorary medical and
surgical staff of the. Bristol Hospital for
=, Sick Children and Outdoor Treatment of
Women have, as body, resigned theirap-
pointments as physicians and surgeons, in
consequence of the recent election of a
Lady to the Office of surgeon
II is now definitely settled that the tele~
graph wires in Germany are no longer to
be affixed to poles in the open air. but are
to be buried in underground tubes. The
lines on which the principle is to be first
introduced are those requiring large
number of wires and those first on the
roll are the line from Berlin to the Rhine,
which branches to Mainz and Frankfort
on-the-Main the line from Berlin to Bres-
lau, Posen and Thorn; Berlin to Ham,
burg and Berlin to Hanover and Bremen.