The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-16
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

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If has never before been proved tiits any
bird was possessed OF teeun. L.. ,
) "A PARTY of five Indian skeletons siFung (,
in one Grave round succotash kettie , mas :
been disinterred at Mantle, Conn. Inc
coroner is delighted.
,rHEy have man at Vincennes py Tue
name of Welcome Sprinkle. The supposse
'tion is that he was born at the close VI
long interval Of dry weather.
A FASHIONABLE New York dehlsI
charges $40 for simply examining PEI
son's teeth, and S25 an hour for operating
utgon them. and has brought III Dill Vi
500 for filling single tooth.
"A SYSTEMATIC gentleman OF Massachu-
sptts has inst been united in wedlock TO
Young LADY, whom he has been framing loi
the p0sition of his wife ever since she was
two wears old. Happy mortal!
CHINESE immigration seems to pc gu tlle
increase again. The steamer Great hepuo-
lie which recently arrived i'll San Francis,
co. brought 619 Chinese passengers anu
the China 900.
A SAN FRANCISCO paper mentions Dank
in that city which in five years has repaid
i'm dividends to the original STOCKHOLDERS
the value of their stock, and has a ca ~ sur
plus of a quarter OF million Oh ooifiis.
A KALAMAZOO woman raised to the thl[a
mower of widowhood has the photographs
eff her three departed lords ma group'1 VIII
a-yignette of herself in the center, and ufl-
1erneath is the inscription, "Ihe Lora
will provide"
To get to the Stickeen gold mines In
Alaska one must travel fifteen days on the
ice. The diggings are described as very
rich. but before the ground can be worked
III has to be thawed out by building large
fires on il. In spite of these drawbacks
miners are making from $40 to S3o per
clay.
ANOTHER one of those benefactors OF the
human race has made his appearance IN
Worcester, Mass, with an invention Wnlch
he calls Is the boys pocket arrow" Ihere
is not much excitement about it just at
present, but lively times are expected as
soon as the number OF one-eyed people
increases.
STATISTICS of marriages in Ohio, since
1866, show remarkable decline IN matrl-
mony. According to the published hgures
of each year, since 1866, 1t is shown that III
that year there was one marriage 10 every
eiehty-two of population. In 1873 the pro-
portion was one marriage to one hundred
and eighteen of the population.
IT has recently been discovered that the
trees. There is, it appears, in thejrice OF
fir trees, between the wood and the bark,
a crystalline substance called cOuiferin, a
olueoside. as chemists call it, which, when
acted upon by oxydizing agencies is easily
converted to vanillin, the chemical princi-
pie of vanilla.
THE passengers who arrived in Calitor-
MIA on the 4th of June, 1S49, propose to
celebrate their twenty-fifth anniversary by
holding festival reunion in San Francisco
appropriate, to the occasion. "A large
number of men who have risen to positions
of influence, and who have prospered III
business, are included in this band OF argo
nauts.
HERE isa railway president worth haV
ing. Sidney Dillon, the President OF thu
Union Pacific Railway, has removed will
his family to Omaha, for the purpose O
being near the scene of his work. This i:
not the action of the Wall street operator
who, when he received intelligence of hi
having been elected to a prominent Office
on the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne Rail
road, said: ts'Yes, Pittsburgh, that's III
: Ohio; but where the deuce is For
WayneT'
A BUFFALO street-car conductor refused
to permit female in ssbloOmer costume;
to ride on his car, believing her to be
woman dressed in mems clothes. Ih
ease was carried to court, when the con
ductor's counsel stated that there was a
ordinance against female wearing man
dress, and thought that worn by tn
woman came very near to it. The justice
however, held that the 'bloomer'' was
female costume.
A MONUMENT to the Confederate deaG
Just erected in New Orleans, is a column
of Italian marble on terraced pyrami
topped with granite, sarmounted by lif'
size figure of Confederate soldier o
picket duty. On the side of the colum
are busts of Generals "Stonewall" Jacl
son, Albert Sidney johnson, Leonidt
Polk, and Robert Z. Lee. Itwas execute
in Italy, cost $4,000, and is put up by I'll
Ladies' Benevolent Association of Louis
ana.
AN electric light of new invention III
been put in the tower of st 1gnatius Co
lege, San Francisco. The apparatus COS
$1,000, and weighs about as many pound
Itcensists ola great number of coils of co
per wire revolving close to magnets,
such la way that sparks of electricity a
produced in unceasing streams. The
currents are concentrated and carrie
through heavy copper wires to the i'll
minating point in the tower, where Il
1OSuS SINSo q LIZ III OduehA w 1oOAA A'tANA'
gasjets.
Mr.. Fl. G. CARDwELL, of Shelby, K!
has double tree on his farm which pI
sents the same anomaly in vegetable tn
the Siamese twins did in animal natul
There are two distinct stems standing t
feet apart and joined together at poi
twenty feet from the ground bya ligamer
if we may so call it, passing frGm the boz
of enc into that of the other. The he
ment is uniform in size, and it is impos
BILE to tell of which tree it is branc
This lusus nature is a strong argument
favor of capital punishment, forming
natural gallows, perfect in constructic
and beautiful in design.
Ara meeting of the Swedish Medic
Society in Stockholm, the case, of YOU
map was reported who had exhibit
symptoms of arsenical poisoning. He b
suffered in similar way year previousl
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