The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-09-02

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"A Danish paper called the Hell
indal. has been started in Chicago.

lister as regular seamen when they
went on the Albion to Iceland.
1t may be the right of an Anne
rican citizen to ride around in wa
gon and howl like wild beast, but
quiet people wish that elections were
further apart.
1T costs less to take weekly
newspaper" argues the Cape Ann
Advertiser, "than diligent hen can
earn in year, at the market price of
eggs" That's SOL
Church services in Green Bay
lasts only three-quarters Of an hour,
but if a Sunday dog fight don't con-
tinue at least an hour and q half. ev-
cry one is disappointed.
"A Massachusetts, man has been
in successful business forty-nine
years, and never advertised. Til e
business consisted chiefly in lying
about his neighbors.
-"Out in Wisconsin a horse kick
ed book agent, whereupon the citi-
zens made a donation party for the
horse, and he has now oats enough to
last him lifetime.
With stupidity and sound diges-
ton men may front much. But what
in these dull, imaginative days are
the terrors of conscience to the dis
ease of the liver Carlyle,
"A young lady asked clerk in
the Wisconsin News company's store
if he had ''Festus." NO." replied
the clerk, "but I'm very much afraid
boil is coming ON the back of my
neck"
"A Michigan girl was killed by
lightning while picking feathers for
her nuptial pillow. This seems to be
q fair warning to those young Ladies
who are too proud to sleep on corn
husks.
Deaths take place, the world all
over, at the rate OF one every two sec
onds. There is a sense of profound
relief in the thought that every time
man goes out Of the world, q baby
and half comes in.
The Israelites have formed
universal alliance for the purpose of
aiding the education Of the INDECENT
Jews. They report over 1000 pupils
in the schools of Adrainople, Smyr-
na, Bagdad, and in Morocco and Bel
grade.
The estate of the late Chief JUS
tice Chase, WI en- liquidated, will
amount to about 100000. The es-
tate owes j. Cook and Co., $4,000,
mostly advanced on stocks, and Mrs.
IIoyt, the daughter of Judge Chase,
about $4,000.
--fhe Grand Rapids (Michigan)
Post thinks that to deny, women the
elective franchise because they can
not bear arms would not be one whit
more unreasonable tnan to deny men
the ballot because they cannot bear
children.
-"Boy," said q traveller to disc
bedient youth whom he encountered,
''do you hear your father speaking to
you?" ooh, y-a-a-s," replied til c
youth, ''but | don't mind what he
says. Mother don't, either; and be-
twixt she and | we've about got the
dog so he don't"
oh, the skeeter, the beautiful
skeeter, filling the air with melodious
metre. Under our hat, and tickling
our nose, taking bite through q
hole in our clothes; in through the
window, opening the door, filling our
chamber and singing the sweeter,
ever is found the untiring muskeeter.
In the time of the second Emper
Or of the Ming dynasty, some learn
ed Cinnamon began to make o digest
of number of Chinese books. The
digest was completed fourteen hun
dred years ago, and has never been
printed, because it would make TWEEN
ty-two thousand eight hundred and
seventy seven volumes, a work larger
than the Chicago tax-list.
Two score years ago Signor Blitz,
who seems to flourish in perpetual
youth, was notified by the Mayor of
Boston and the town authority of Lo-
we'll that he must not perform On Sat
urday; while in Connecticut there was
a law prohibiting his exhibitions.
Now he is regularly engaged for the
entertainment of children in Sunday
schools, just as lecturers are engaged
for lyceums; sometimes being allowed
to set his table on the pulpit Mat