The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-05-06
sunbeams.

that nine tentiis Of tue persons Whom
he has married we're oyer thirsy-four
years of age - - J-.3
Instead of saying IT'S along
time. between drinks" Western men
now remark, s"Tt's along time, since 1
signed my lastpledge."
IA Texas man claims oshave in
vented Hat iron that wilt smooth a
sheet in aminnte, but it is too heavy
to be used as q domestic missile.
-JWhite<robedf figures With gBast-
Ii; faces stalk the streets of Chicago.
They are advertisements for course
of ghost lectures by one, Professor
Pepper. 49, y
General Banks son Joseph was
assaulted and left senseless on Bos-
ton street by some roughs the other
night for trying to help some, girls
they were insulting: .s.i .s1-s;i
, Here is the way they announce
hotel arrivals in st. Louis: ''The
Hon. J. A. Bryant came from Chica-
20 to Barnum's Hotel, in this city, to
get a square meal" a
Schuyler Colfay,,t who may be
remembered as having been connect
ed with Credit Mobilier and check
for $1,000, has declined to be candi-
date for Congress before being asked
"A salmon weighing over forty
pounds, caught in the Taunton river
Massachusetts, the largest yet raised
in the United States since the revi,
val of fish culture, is on exhibition at
Boston. ..,..,at.. ......
The Troy Times says that the
Rev. TENTS Titus Kendrick, now de
posed by the Protestant Methodists
Of Brooklyn for dancing and drink
ingl once left Cambridge, n. Y, I'm,
der similar charge. e.
AT a ladies' meeting at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. a reporter was diseov-
cred and ordered out. He left, but
shortly returned in the garb of the
gentler sex and remained through
the entire meeting without being dis
covered.
of the fund collected in Eng,
land for the sick and wounded dur
ing the Franco russian war an I'M
expended balance remains Of $780,,
900. This has been invested, and is
to be used in the event of another
war. - e,s@a
Sixteen years ago Tom Kenyon
went to Kansas city with cent, and
the other day he signed a check fol
$4,000. He signed with another
man name, anil his supply OF free
dom's air has been somewhat abbre.
Waited. - '-'i' p ~ q. ''.
20 "A man named Button died re,
Gently il Southern Berkshire, Mass.
ald when the sexton started out with
pick AMI shovel, somebody asked him
what he was going to do. Going tt
make a Buttonhole," was the mol
very grave reply.
An Illinois paper proudly boasts
of the rights now given to womun il
that State. 1t says: ave have ex
tended to married women every right
but that of suffrage. They can keel
their own earnings, and transact
business with their husbands as witt
strangers. ..s''
Nothing, said an impatien
husband, reminds me so much 0
Balaam and his ass as two women
. stopping in church and obstruetins
the way to indulge in their everlast
ing talk" "But you forgot, my
dear, returned the wife meekly, "tha
it was the angel who stopped tn,
way, and Balaam and his ass whit
complained OF it, AZ.
"a correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune says that probably no Stat
in the country is SO overrun will
robbers and'desperadoes as Pennsyl
vania Almost every large city ant
town has within its precincts a regu
larly organized band of outlaws. III
might have added that these outlaw
simply carry out the principles o
Addition, Division, and Silence in
culcated in the notorious letter Q
which VIM. Fl. Kemble has swor1
that he is the author. .T
In Indianapolis the other day,
three and a half year old child climb
ed through an attic window ant
walked along the edge of the ROOF
thirty-two feet from the ground, tn
whole'iengthVof the house, and ther
stood unconeerned and enjoying tn