The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-08-22
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.


CONNECTICUT hens earn ST per month
each over and above their board and coop
rent.
A BEE cave has been discovered in Los
Angeles county, CAL, containing ton OF
honey.
SAN FRANCISCO rejoices over the fact
that many Cinnamon are departing for
their native land.
HAD to smart for it-For throwing pep
per into the eyes of her enemy Buffalo
woman was recently fined $50.
A SAN FRANCISCO paper says that the
cost of living in that city is higher than in
any other Northern city, with the possible
exception of New York.
The New Bedford (Mass.) authorities
announce that ''all persons having I'M
licensed dogs are requested to call On the
City Clerk and obtain one."
A WASHINGTON widow who is known to
nave $4,000 is reported to have refused
eight offers of marriage from discharged
clerks in one day and two nights.
THEODORE A. w. MORRIS, Xenia,
Ohio, bill-poster, has just received notice
from England that he has fallen heir to
$225, 900 through the death of his grand
father in India.
thicker than the surrounding foliage,
with wings like Apollyon's, a beak like an
Artesian auger, and voice like the sound
of many waters" is poetic description OF
the Minnesota mosquitoes"
CHE Grand Rapids (Mich,) Post thinks
that to deny women the elective franchise
because they cannot bear arms would not
be one whit more unreasonable than to
deny men the ballot because they cannot
bear children.
A CELEBRATED artist, of Boston, who eX-
eels in animal painting, saw as he was
passing through one of the rural towns of
Massachusetts, very Misunderstanding
bull. Thinking he would like to take him
oucanvas, he got permission of the owner,
an honest old farmer. and in due time pro-
duced an excellent likeness of the bull,
which he sold for $500. On seeing the
farmer soon after, he told him he had sold
the picture of his bull for 5000. GOOD
gracious - said the old man, "why
would have sold him the bull for less than
thati''
The names and titles of his Siamese
Majesty, as given in the treaty recently
concluded with the Government of India,
are ssSOmdetch Phra Parymindr Maha
Chulalong Korn Bodindthong Depaya
Malta Mongkut Parusaya Ratorerayar-
wiwongse Varutmawongse Pribat Wara-
kattrya Raianikradom ChaduraIita Pafom
Maha Chakrabantiray Sangkat Poromdha-
nan Mix Maharaja Dhiray Poromnat Pobit
Phra Chula Ghom. KlaW Chow Yuhua,
Supreme King of Siam, fifth of the pre-
sent Dynasty who founded the Great
City of Bangkok Amaratue Kosindr Mo-
hindr Avuthia. .
THIS is the latest: Two thieves, well
dressed, of course, enter a jewelry store
and open conversation with the watch
maker. Presently aicustomer enters. He
wants his watch repaired. The converse
ton of the customer furnishes the rascals
with thenumber OF the watch, the repairs
to be. done, and the time twill be finished.
On the day the watch is to be ready, a boy
calls at the iewelry store and presents an
order for the watch. As the order con-
tams full description of the watch, and is
accompanied by the money, the jeweler
has no reason to refuse to deliver the arti-
Gle. When the owner calls he is minus a
umekeeper. 1t is a Boston idea. 80,
A FEW days ago fashionable lady stop
ping at Sandwich near Detroit, took bath
in some of the spring water of that place.
The water is powerfully impregnated with
sulphur. On emerging from the bath she
stepped to mirror, as ladies occasionally
do, when, to her horror, she saw that her
face, neck and arms had turned black,
She believed that she was dying-that NOR
LITIGATION had set in. Her fears were al
layed when she learned that the startling
color of the flesh was a chemical result,
the sulphur in the water acting upon the l
lead contained in some article for the tot
let she had been using to artifcially i'm
prove the fairness of her complexion.
The Orkney Herald gives an amusing
account of an incident which occurred in
the parish church of Birsay some wears
ago. During the singing of the first
psalm goose entered the church and qui-
city waddled up the passage toward the
pulpit just as the precentor had got out of
the tune and almost come to standstill-
q not very unusual occurrence at that
time. The minister, observing the goose,
leaned over the side of the pulpit, and ad-
dressing the church officer, said, ssR-,
put out the goose" The functionary not
observing the presence of the feathered
parishloner, and supposing that the minis
ter's direction had reference to the precen-
tor, marched up to that individual, and to
the no small amusement of the meager
congregation, collared him, saying, at the
same time, Come out o. that, fallow!"
The Japanese believe that the Milky
Way is river in the heavens, and they
have this tradition In the age when only
deities occupied the earth, Shiokuio was
was the wife of Kenjin. They are now
the stars which we call Castor and Pollux.
lie had box which he commanded her
never to open. She disobeyed, and as she
took off the cover a cloud of five colors
spread from it and rose up to heaven.
Kenjin was exceedingly angry. He sum-
moned the cloud to come to him, and hay-l
ing mounted on it he assembled to heaven.
His wife followed after him.. But he had
already crossed the river Knowing that
she could not follow, she fell on her face
and cried, confessing her disobedience to
his command. Then he appeared on the
opposite bank, and said they could not
live together as before, but would be seen
together in the evening of the seventh
month in every year, and then the river
would be in the condition to be crossed.
Thus they always live on the opposite
sides of the river, and can meet only once
q year.
TIE Danbury Ne,Ds man writes TINS