The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-01-24
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Hartford. furnished Christmas dinners to
one hundred and twenty families.
The wooden-nutmeg business has de-
clined, but homemade eggs OF Whipe ma
pie are now being manufactured at bakers
vile. Conn.
SRvEyrY-ErGHT newsboys in Indianapo-
lis each received presents of a handbook
With deposit of fifty cents to each boys
credit.
THE marriage of Miss Milwaukee FL.
Smith is recorded She was the first white |
child born in the village of Milwaukee,
that event occurring in October, 1885.
A New BEDFORD physician prescribed
daily ride of sixteen miles day Tor
young lady, and in less than two weeks
the exhilarating exercise changed her name
into Mrs. Patrick McGuinness. her nus
band was her papa's eoachman.
THERE are lot of people in the town OF
Patten, Me-, who are related so much That
they don't know what to call each other.
Three brothers there have married three
sisters, whose brothers, in turn, have mar
ried their sisters-in-law.
s SHARP Hartford girl, with an eye to
Christmas presents, attended both Bap-
fist and an Episcopal Sunday-school, and
all went well until she gave several answers
in the Church eatechism, and then the
churchmen dropped her.
AN Illuminated cross is to surmount the
spire of st. Malachi's Church in Cleveland.
1t will be the only one in the United States,
and is to be lighted UP on special occasions.
The steeple is 243 feet high, and we would
pity the lamplighteF, only that the hight
ing is to be done by electricity.
a NASHVILLE woman has copied in oil
one of Bierstadt's Yo Semitic paintings,
and the Nashville U1tion and american says
that 81 the copy is an Improvement over
the original, in that it is larger, in addi-
ton to being an exact copy otherwise"
The same journal remarks further that the
lady certainly has brilliant future be-
fore her, Rather, one would say
EDITORIAL work. says the Tribune,
"always has its discouragements, but he
who labors to get out a second-adVent
newspaper, under the impression that the
world will be destroyed before the newspa-
per can reach his readers, engages in a pc
culiar if not disheartening task. Mr..
Bishop, who is Terry Islander and mil
lenarian, and prints warning Journal
called The Watchn1an's Cry, acknowledges
that he sends out the current number with
some misgivings that it may never reach
encouragement are intended"
TAYLOR ADAMS, one of the foremost of
his profession as telegraph operator in the
Western Union office in New Orleans, fell
victim to the yellow fever in October.
He was buried at st. Joseph's Cemetery at
New Orleans. Facing the vault which
contains his remains stands a table with
complete Geographic appliances-the re-
lay, sounder, key, and battery attached
the whole encircled by an immense wreath
of white artificial flowers, and covered with
white Grape. The battery was dry, its
wires disconnected, the relay, sounder and
key were without springs, yoieeless and
motionless. like the dead. A messenger
boy stood by the table, but no message Of
poor Taylor's will ever again be given him
AMONG the enterprises undertaken by the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, is that
of determining by actual test the value Of
artesian wells as means of irrigation
Already several Of these wells have beer
sunk in Wyoming Territory, ranging in
depth from three hundred to twelve hun
bred feet. The average cost of sinking the
wells was nine dollars and sixty-sever
cents per foot,an the supply ofpure watel
furnished by them ranges from eight thou
sand to twenty thousand gallons per hour
The results obtained by these operations
are of great significance, since they may
aid toward the solution of thatvexed ques
ton, How shall the economical irrigation
of the Western plains be effected?
To THOSE unlearned in the mysteries o
female apparel, the names nowadays giveI
to different shades of color are puzzlinl
and meaningless enough. What idea, fol
instance, does Asnes-ofRoses, las applied tt
color, convey to the ordinary mind? L
Moonlight-on-the-W Water any less puzzling
and do we really get any conception of
fabrics hue from the more descriptive
London-Smoke? But fantastic as these
names are, those which were current il
Paris three-quarters of a century ago wer,
stranger and more unsuggestive. VIVA
would one conceive such colors to be a
Toad-in-love, Scared-Mouse, Wonderful
Lamp, Last-Sigh-of-Jocko, Suppressed
Signs, and Mud4ofParis? Yet all thes,
appetlations, and many more equall
BIZARRE, together with some that are so un
refined as to be positively offensive to mod
ern tastes, were i'll common use in thu
French capital at the beginning of the nine
teenth century. g
A FARMER in this county, says a Nort1
Carolina paper, has a mule so awfully con
trary that he can do nothing with it. Pu
him in harness and it is hard to say which
way he will travel. Put saddle on hin
and he appears to doze; but try to noun
him and he will all of a sudden kick everl
way, straight out, straddle-bug, with al
tour legs at once. AS to eating, he viii
eat anything, from his feed trough up to
wooden saddle. The owner took motion
to have him shod; but he kicked out tn
blacksmith shop and returned hong. Th
owner tried to kill him, some time back
40 Erl IN IL Il.
rode him for six consecutive days an
nights as hard as he could under whip an
spur. The fact is, he nearly killed himsel
In the effort, and had to be carried up
stairs to bed, and his firm belief was tina
the mule would die that night; but to hi
establishment, the next morning he foun
that the mule had kicked to death Ches
ter hog, weighing 300 pounds, bit a piec
out OF. his horses shoulder, ate up saddle
blanket, and bride, tore down the fence
and was splurging about, more DEVILS
than ever tn find Somethinu else ueanp