The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-04-18
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

and eighty-slx small pearls
Two men in Minnesota started bank
on ten dollars capital, took in deposits, ana
in thirteen months ran away with Szo,OVo'
FOURTEEN Quincy men have slgned
pledge not to allow their daughters TO
learn music until they learn to make
bread.
THE old style of combing the hair over
the ears has been revived. Ihls is sup
posed to presage the revival of the old style
of wearing original homemade hair.
AT Fort Wrangell, Alaska, the average
temperature during the winter has been
thirty degrees below zere. The coolest
snap was in January, when the mercury
CONCEALED.
1t costs London milkman S100 II de-
tected in the sale of adulterated mlik once;
If he is again detected he goes TO jan anu
has his name and address publlshed.
A DELAWARE man willed his thirty
eight relatives five cents each, ana S5U,-
600 to college, and the funeral process
sion didn't occupy two minutes passing
given point. Ii.
ANOTHER Napoleonic veteran Is dead
this time at Clermont, Ohio. None OF Ma
poleon's soldiers ever got killed. They
emigrated to this country to furnish para
Graphs for the newspapers.
Two Detroit girls have been arrested for
getting on a locomotive, opening the
Unbelievable and starting the machine.
They then Jumped off, but the engine ran
through freight train, doing S7O dam"
age.
A SAUK county, Wis.,, girl brought suit
against the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway because one of the conductors,
Dan Bullock, kissed her during journey
from Eeedsburg to BaraboO, and recov-
cred 81 600 and costs.
A STRANGE funeral recently took place at
Sturgis, Mich. A German lost a child,
procured coffin, placed the child in it,
carried it on his shoulders to the cemetery,
attended by an old lady, and preached the
sermon himself.
The Boston Post gives its readers this
sage advice: "No one should fail to be
present at Iceland's millennial celebration.
1t will be some time before they have an
other, and you may be busy Them
THE Michigan Legislature has agreed to
submit the question of woman suffrage to
the people. As this viii afford the first
opportunity of direct popular vote on the
subject, the result will be looked forward
to with interest.
CHARLES SUMNER, in his youth, achieved
the arduous feat of swimming across the
boiling rapids below Niagara Falls-a feat
which few men have had either the muscle
or the nerve to perform, and much more
arduous than Byron's venture IN swimming
the Hellespont.
A POOR family residing in Fond du Lac,
Wis.,, consisting of man. his wife, and
eleven children, recently had one hundred
dollars left them, and the poor oEerworked
woman bought seventy dollar silk dress
and has gone to taking music lessons.
THEY have extraordinary children in
Memphis. One recently died there at the
tender age of two months: yet local
paper tells its readers that she rose-as a
star, and beamed lucently with meteoric
resplendency along the horizon Of her
parents, lighting their pathway with the
sheen of hope.''
No more "diyorces secured without
publicity, in Illinois. The bill which has
finally passed both houses of the Legisla-
ture, and been approved by the Governor,
requires that all evidence in divorce cases
shall be given in open court. This ends
the underground trickery of the Chicago
divorce shysters.
DIR. CARL SCHENCK, the new President
of the Republic of Switzerland, was, not
long ago, an obscure pastor, and has late
ly distinguished himself by writing on
political economy. Eminent American
writer's ON political economy need not
migrate to Switzerland, however, for the
President there holds office only for one
year, on salary of 81, 800, with no hope
ef'an increase.
THE greatest bell in the world. the
Emperor William Bell,'' destined for the
Cologne Cathedral, has just been finished.
1t weighs about 10000 pounds, is eighteen
feet high and fourteen feet wide. The
first molding of the bell proved failure,
and considerable has yet to be overcome
in transporting the immense mass from
Frankenthal, where it was cast, to the top
of the tower of the Cologne Cathedral.
THE Legislature of North Carolina has
passed an act entitled, G for the better Sc
curitya Of human life." 1t provides that
any person who manufactures, sells or
deals in spirituous liquors as drink, of
any name or kind, containing foreign
properties or ingredients poisonous to the
system, shall be punished with five years
Imprisonment in the penitehtiary. The
certificate of a competent chemist shall be
prsnsG .tacie evidence against the offender.
A TOMBSTONE dealer in East Haven,
Conn.,, has Just seized the stone from a
grave, because the widow left part of the
bill unpaid for; and a wealthy farmer of
Ludlow, Iowa, when notified of the death
of his father at 81, who along with his
mother, also 81, had spent his last year in
the poor-house, refused to take the body
for decent burial, and allowed tie old
mans bones to rest in pauper's grave.
Such meanness deserves public recogni-
ton.
''MAeAULAY," the clever New York
correspondent of the Rochester Democrat
and Chronicle, says that most of the de-
teetives of New York not only know the
thieves, but are on good terms with them.
One of the best detectives in New York is
said to know 800 thieves and bad charae-
tiers. The detectives do not TO low up any
moderate robbery; it must be large one
to secare their attention. When traced,
they usually recommend the victims to
compromise, and the rewards and emolu-
ments 60 to the thieves and detectives to
getherr, and in fat proportions. Such, at