The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-01-10
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

600 year.
A PROFESSOR i'm Montreal recently intro
duced two tame skunks, to illustrate a lee
ture on the diffusion of odors.
THERE are tllirty-four Signor Blitzes
performing in different parts OF the coun-
try, ofwhom thirty-three are bogus.
Snow is so much of a luxury in Califor-
MIA that when il falls the entire population
turn out to SNOWFALL Cinnamon.
ESTHER SHAW of Davenport, Iowa,
worked thirteen years in one family before
asking for cent of pay. Needn't write
for her; SHE'S dead.
An English jury recently valued curl
from lady's head at seyenty-five cents.
1t was burned off by barber, who used a
curling iron Which was too hot.
A BLIND woman who was a witness in a
Detroit police court was able to give the
denomination of two currency notes by
simply feeling them.
Mr.. WARREN LELAND is planning and
arranging in San Francisco new hotel, to
be known as 8 The Palace 1t will cover
$4,000 square feet and cost SS50,000.
A DUBUQUE young lady gave up the
man she loved and took the one her par
ents favored in consideration of the sum of
three dollars and sky-blue merino dress.
A CINCINNATI lady offers to lay wager
that there is not a fashionable girl in Gin
cinati but would rather stay from church
than wear pair of sin9le-button gloves.
Nobody takes her up.
ONE years record of disasters on the
lakes shows total money loss of very
nearly $1,000, 900. No fewer than I,31S
vessels have been lost or damaged on the
lakes during this year, good many hay
ing been lost IN the gales of August.
Ii has been ascertained that coasting
vessel ostensibly engaged in the sale Of
turnipS and other I" truck y on the coast of
Massachusetts,, is really employed iii the
sale of "nips 7 of another sort to the
thirsty PuritaIas.
EVANSVILLE. Indiana, repudiates the
: idea that it hasino first -class poets. Walter
Scott works ina sash. door, and blind fac
tory; Oliver Goldsmith works on farm;
Thomas Moore is a finisher, and Robert
Burns is in the city Jail.
The Fab River (Aiass.) Savings Bank,
which has been in operation about thirty
years, and has now deposits to the amount
of over five million dollars, has lost in that
time but one thousand dollars, and that by
one of its board of Investment.
PnIPLEvILLE, VT. is evidently not a
good field for an Independent, outspoken
Journal. The Pimpleyille Post recently
published this Item Those who have
been engaged i'm sheep-stealing had better
stand from under. We know who we are
talking about.n The result was the loss
of sixty subscribers, and the paper will go
into bankruptcy
A MARRIED woman whose will has been
proved IN England gave all her estate to
Mr.. Van Hanrigh, her husband; directed
her clothes to be sold to pay her funeral
expenses, and added HItis also my earn
est wish that my darling husband should
marry ere long nice, pretty girl, who is
good housewife, and, above all to be care
full that she is Of good temper"
A NEW thing in law has recently occur
red in New Jersey. Mr.. Coftlalidt Parker,
an eminent counselor of Newark, not be-
ing able to be present in the Court of
Errors, telegraphed his brief to the Chief
Justice. The brief was read to the Court, |
and answered the purpose. 1t is the first |
instance of the kind known in legal pro-
ceedings.
a CINCINNATI drummer has brought an |
action against the Evansville Journal for
publishing paragraphs saying that a mar
ried man had been passing himself off |
among the young ladies of Evansville as
bachelor, with comments thereon. The |
name of the individual was not mentioned /: |
but salesman for Cincinnati clothing |
house thinks lie was meant, and wants the |
Journal people to pay him so, 1000.
PRoF. PRoCToR, the English astrono-
mer, treats largely upon the probabilities |
OF other worlds than this being inhabited, |
the conclusion being that of the inner /
planets, Mercury, Venus, the Earth, and +
Mars, our planet only was in condition to
be inhabited by beings like the dwellers
upon the earth. Mercury and Venus must
be too hot, and Mars too cold Of the other
planets, their condition was not probably
such as to permit of habitation of creatures
such as ourselves.
ONE of the things woman can't dois
to bring an action in her own name to re-
coyerthe money on the Insurance policy
on her husbands life. In the case of
Elizabeth z. Bailey VS.. the New England
Life Insurance Company, where the COM
pany admitted the plaintiffs right to re-
cover the money, but denied the validityof
an actionA brought in her own name. the
Supreme Court of Boston has Just decided
IN favor of the company, that the action on
such policy should be brought in the
name OF the executor or administrator of
the assured. s
A QUEER and almost unbelievable story
comes from Indianapolis. 1t is said that a
prominent member OF the I Dung Mems /
Christian Association of that city was re-
Gently called upon by two children. who. II
by story of dead mother and home
destitute of fire or wood, awakened his ;
sympathies. Accompanying them to their
home, appearances corroborated their
story--a coffin, containing what the gen
tleman supposed to be the figure of a ,
woman prepared for burial. added to the
gloom of the poverty-stricken tenement.
He gave the children five-dollar bill with {
some loose change, and promising to
make some further arrangements for their I
comfort, left the place. Returning to Saw
something to the children which subse-
quently occurred to him, he was astonished
to find the woman whom be had supposed :
dead sitting up in the coffin, counting the !
money the imposture had gained. Il
AFUNNY suit against an editor has been ]
decided in the Circuit Court at Waukesha.
Wisconsin. The Fays, proprietors of the La )
Belle House st OconOmowoc. brought an .