The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-01-17
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

HUHE AND n
IT Is estimated that twenty thousand
persons get drunk in London every Satur-
day night.
Mr., JTDFJsT is one OF the prominent
business men of Cleveland, and yet his
name is seldom heard.
A CHILD two years old was recently con-
veyed to the New Haven stalon-house
drunk and disorderly.
THE cost of the London underground
railway for building and equipment was
81 100000 per mile, or 0,vOo,oOo lor the
entire work. @
THREE or four French papers are en-
tleayoring to convince the Government that
criminals ought to be drowned instead of
executed in the usual way
A DUBUQUE man hired policeman at IS
per night to watch his wife. and she was at
the same time paying the same man S4 per
night to watch her husband.
A TEACHER in Waterloo, Iowa, has been
discharged for obeying st. Paul, who says,
% Greet one another with holy KISS" lie
kissed school marin.
PRESTON, Conn, boasts of a cat that
catches clans by putting her tail inside
their shells, then jumps oyer fence and
breaks the shell and then eats the Clam.
The latest Yankee notion is patent
coffin. They have it in Massachusetts,, as
we learn from law suit of the patentee
against ii man who has infringed upon his
rights.
A New. ORLEANS justice has decided
Chat where two families occupy house,
one family can't sing "3Captain Jinks"
over thirty times in succession without
being liable to fine fol- disturbing the
peace.
AMONG the articles put APP at the yearly
sale of unclaimed goods at the depot of
Che Hudson River Railway in New York.
she other day, were seven gravetones with
Che names of the dead inscribed on them.
BOSS y TWEED does not wear the reg
1Ilar penitentiary uniform. The New
York Herald says he has had special suit
gnade of material different from any other
worn in the institution, because there is
30 special uniform for misdemeanor pris-
Oners.
PAPER-CoLLAR factories are about the
only establishments unaffected by the
panic, which has rather increased the de-
mand for their wares-Inany aristocratic
brokers' clerks having exhausted their
credit with their laundresses, who declare
that certified checks won't wash.
S. j: LYMAN of Montreal, in lecture on
the diffusion of odors, introduced two
tame skunks to his audience. They were
only relieved from their fear that practical
experiments illustrating the subjeet-mat-
ter were to be instituted, by repeated as
surances that the secretdry glands of the
animals had been removed.
A NEWSPAPER in southern California adj
Vises greater cultivation of the fig tree bS-
cause the fruit is so good for hog feed. An
acre of figs will fatten more hogs than will
an acre of corn. All that is necessary is to
stick fig cutting in the ground, and in
three or five months the plant will bear
frt1it-three crops a year-and in three
years the tree attains the size of twelve
year-old apple tree.
A YOUNG girl near Marengo, Iowa, is
wonderfully marked by rattlesnakes. Run
ming partially around her neck, side by
side, are two snakes as natural as if alive,
and the skin being transparent they seem
only lying in wait for aYictim. On the
front of the neck and upper part of the
breast are the rattles-as though breast
pin-making a perfect picture and she'd
ding regularly every year.
THE Director-General3 at Philadelphia
has been officially informed by the Secre-
tary of State that the Governments of the
following countries have decided to par
ticipate in the Exhibition: The German
Empire, Belgium, Ecuador, Mexico, and
Hayti. Ecuador has appropriated $4,000
toward paying the expenses of her repre-
sentation, and the resident Commissioner,
Edward r. Shipper, has presented his
credentials at the office of the United
States Centennial Commission.
a A.
Jewell county, Kansas, lost both his feet
twenty eight years ago by frost, being
then with his family in Western Iowa. He
learned to ride pony without saddle,
hunted, sold pelts, and supported himself
and family. Five years ago he pre-empted
l60 acres of land in Jewell county. and
now has one of the best farms in the eoun-
ty. Last fall he put in 100 acres of winter
wheat, riding a plow sulky, and doing all
the work himself. His farm is well
stocked, and his wife and seven children
are8happy. 1t is wonderful example of
what energy and Independence will ac-
complish for man who is lifelong Grip
pie.
IT is well known that i'm his great sledge
journey in search of the relics of Sir John
Franklin, Capt. Hall made distressing dis
coveries, which he resolved never to give
to the light as long hs Lady Franklin
should live. On his last departure from
Greenland in the Polaris he Entrusted all
his important documents to Mr.. Smith
of Tessuisak. From them it is now ascer-
tanned that Capt. Hall made the sad dis
coyery that Franklin and his party were
reduced to the dire necessity of eating each
other. The fact of this discovery would
have added still greater fame to Capt. Hall.
He kept the secret from Lady Franklin;
but now that the tender and heroic ex-
plorer rests under the same dreary skies
with the lost Franklin, this most unhappy
secret has come to light
In the melancholy catalogue of poor
people engulfed i'm the Vile du Havre
there We're several stowaways,' whose
fate has attracted but little attention. The
stowaway is an individual who, at the last
moment, just before the vessel leaves the
dock for her destination, sinks on board,
creeps below, and conceals himself in re-
mote hooks and corners of the lower deck.
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