The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-18
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.


land.
A MAN in Needham, Mass, who was
bitten by a neighbours dog. is suing Its
owner for $4,000.
EIGHTY-Two cities in Germany now
boast of cremation societies. But we nave
vet to hear of the first case of cremation.
AN elderly lady in New Hampshire
rneved to another town this spring, carry
ing among her household treasures four
teen cats.
DEFALcATIoNs are not exclusively
American. 1t is just discovered that 2,00O.-
900 rubles have disappeared somewhere in
the administration of the Moscow Rail-
way.
A TRAIN boy on the Chicago and Alton
Railroad recently found wallet contain
ing SIS. 800 which he returned to the own
er, and was rewarded by being presented
with box of cigars.
AN Albany man who was demonstrating
To a crowd that there was no such thing
as hydrophobia, was the first to shin up
BARRIERS pole when a small yellow dog
came rushing down the street.
A YOUNG woman who sued for breach of
promise. of marriage in Dubuque, Iowa,
lost her case because she could not pro-
duce written promise from the gay de-
ceiver, as required by the provisions of the
statute of frauds with regard to al con-
tracts. Love letters will hereafter be at a
premium in that State.
A BARBER on the Rhine has recently
celebrated his Goth year of service with the
razor. He had during that time shaved
2O0.0l2 persons, and earned $500 thalers,
from which it may easily be computed
that The average price of a shave in Ger
many for the past sixty years has been less
than cent.
ACCORDING to statement in the Potts
vile Journal, the largest locomotive in the
world is the "Pennsylvania," on the Phil
adelphia and Reading Railroad. The di-
ameter of the cylinder is twenty inches,
the stroke twenty-six inches, the number
of driving wheels twelve, the diameter of
the drivers four feet, and the weight of the
engine alone sixty tons.
A WRITER in the last number of Notes
and Queries says that the oft-repeated for
muIa, emperor of all the Russias,' is a
gross error. The title, literally translated,
Is ''All Russian Emperor and does not
draw fine distinction between the ruler
of Russia in Europe and Russia in Asia
divisions dear to the schoolboy's heart.
AN instance of plucky women to be
Is
Ware, and party of five American ladies',
who are now journeying on foot through
Germany. The ladies are accompanied by
a lad of thirteen, and they are travelling
with sketch books and light haversack,
picking up information, and making an
art tour of the German towns.
A CURIOUS suit has been brought by a
female vocalist in San Francisco. 1t ap-
pears that recently her goods and chattles
were seized for rent, and among them
was book in which she had pasted all the
newspaper notices of her vocal exploits.
The lady valued this treasure at $500 and
brought suit to recover it, but the judge
did not value newspaper criticisms very
highly, and dismissed the suit.
AN act of true heroism was recently per-
formed by George Bellhymer. on Red
River. While he was lying on the hurri-
cane deck in handouts, for an alleged lar
ceny, a little girl fell from the deck of the
boat into Goose Rapids. Bellhymer i'm.
mediately sprang overheard, swan to the
girl, and, after several attempts with his
manacled hands, succeeded in holding the
child untila boat came to their rescue. The
ACT was witnessed by scores of passengers,
who signed testimonial in his honor for
the noble act.
The London Times recently published
this advertisement "Should this meet the
eye Of the lady who got into the 1890 train
at New Cross Station on Friday, May Is,
with two boys, one of whom was evidently
just recovering from an Illness, she may
be pleased to learn that three of the four
young ladies who were in the carriage are
very i'll with the measles, and the health
of the fourth is far from what her relations
could DESIRE"
A LONDON inventor has devised for ON.
nibuses an apparatus which counts up
once every minute the number of passen-
gers in the vehicle, and prints this number
and the exact time in plain figures, Each
seat is separate, and the weight of the pas.
senger on the seat brings the wire from
that seat in communication with the re.
corder. The instrument also records the
speed of the omnibus at every moment o
the journey, and shows the exact time O
arrival and departure from each station
The cost is said to be but few shiIlings
week. but it does away with the need of !;
timekeeper.
A LEIPsTC professor has invented new
style of crematory apparatus which is a
once simple, cheap, and agreeable. The
corpse is lowered into a vault, plainly
walled and light, and where no objec
other than the body can be seen. Th,
aperture is closed, and air heated to whit.
heat is driven into the room. After tn,
remains have been exposed to the intens.
dry heat for short time the chamber il
cooled down, and all that remains is but
few ashes. The cost of cremating a corps,
is about So, and be it baron or beggar, thu
one can be turned to ashes as cheaply a
e the other.
THE special correspondent of the Lon
don Times in the locked-out districts ha
called attention to the wretched manner il
which thousands of Englishmen ar,
housed, or rather hoveled, more like pig
in sly than human beings. sThere i
nothing new in this" adds the Examiner
I'VE have known it ever so long, and d,
not seem TO care. In London itself Their
are man-piggeries which will stand com
parison with any in the kingdom; and w
almost wonder that Parliament has neve
thought of setting up the worst of then
in corner of Hyde Park, thata all the worlt
may see this grand net result of Englisl
civilization -