The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-03-21
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Paris Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals, bull fights have been prohibited
in France.
THE Governor of Maine recently sent to
the Legislature of that State the first veto
for fifteen years. Both Houses sustained
the objection.
INDIANAPOLIS boasts of versatile divin-
ity student, who breaches in English,
prays in Armenian, sings in Turkish, and
holds his tongue in elegen other lam
guages.
Mr.. BEBGH's allies in Providence, r. l.,
have begun the instruction of children in
tho way of kindness to aniElals. Prizes are
given in the schools for the best anti-crl-
city compositions.
A FEMALE dentist is calling at houses in
the upper part of New York, offering to
arrange the teeth of the family, as well as
trim eyebrows and eyelashes, for moder-
ate compensation.
THE enormous profit of street railroads
in some cities is shown by the report of the
Third Avenue Railroad in New York.
Its receipts last year were s., 140, 246; dx-
penses, 81 ,214, 1872, leaving a handsome
dividend of 1926, 694 on two millions of
stock.
In an address recently delivered to an
association of telegraphers in England the
speaker claimed the art OF telegraphy as
''the right hand of peace and the necessity
of war. 1t is already harnessed to every
storm, it outlines each railroad, it feeds
and animates the press, and touches all
things"
THE Convocation of Canterbury in Eng
land declares that liquor prohibition is a
success in l, 47S parishes where it is en-
forced by the land owners. So it might
be here if every real-estate owner were to
inexorably carry out the rule that no man
should remain his tenant who should sell
intoxicating liquors.
The programme of recent fashionable
ball in -colofed-announeed
that it would be strictly moral until Il
o'clock. An explanation elected the fact
that up to that hour members of churches
might enjoy themselves promenading, af-
ter which the backsliders would indulge in
a little chasseZ.
In England they are not satisfied with
putting alum in bread and iron in tea,
but have also taken to adulterating tur-
keys. A dealer in NorwicfI found a method
OF stuffing their breasts with pork fat.
One of his customers took over four
pounds of that material from his turkey.
THERE are two Indian tribes in Maine,
the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots, and
each are represented in the Legislature by
ore of their own number. These two men
take no part in legislation but are allowed
to draw their pay just the same as the rep
resentatives of the white men. They spend
most of their meduring the session in the
rotunda engaged in pipe smoking and in
chatting with each other in the dialect of
their fathers.
THE champion female agriculturist is
Mrs. Kate Hulett, of Buffalo, Mimi. She lost
her husband in the war, and since then has
titled and carried on the farm herself. She
is about the average height, rather dark
complexion from exposure to sun and
winds. She dresses showily in an army
blouse and pantaloons, with ornamental
cowhide boots, wooden hood and dress.
However, to partly humble herself for ex-
travagance in dress, she fOregoes such lux
uries as false curls, paniars, kid gloves,
etc., thus saving her female friends the
modification of being outshone by her.
THE system of giving Immigrants bonus
money for coming to the country does not
work satisfactorily in Canada. Ontario
voted SIS per head TO immigrants who had
resided three months in the Province. but
OF late the residence qualification has been
dispensed with, and the So is paid to the
Immigrant or his agent when the former is
about to depart from England. The result
is that many persons received the bonus
who have not stopped in Canada at all. and
have not even passed through Ontario.
Some who did settle in the Province were
cheated out of their bonuses by their
agents, and now demand the money from
the Government.
A FACT FOR PHYsIoLDGIsTs. -About
twenty years ago the nurse in very re-
spectacle family near Lewes, Nd, dropped
an infant, about year old, from her arms
to the floor. The child was terribly
shocked, and at first supposed to be fatally
injured; but it recovered, and grew into a
blooming young lady, who was happily
wed a few months ago. AT the time the
child met with the accident it was begin
ming to talk, but the only word it could
distinctly articulate was spa" And here
IS the strange part of the incident, for this
IS the only aoord she has ever uttered sineel
After the fall she became, and still is, a
deaf mute, except the single syllable, g pa"
which she is still able to utter.
A CORRESPONDENT of tile Chicago Thib-
aee says there is room ia the house now
occupied by Francis Gibson, in Spring
township, Perry county, Pa, in which oc-
cured the births ofJohn B. Gibson, Chief
Justice Of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vanla; George Gibson, Commissary of the
United States; DR.. John Bernheisel, the
Mormon who first represented the Nor
mons in Congress; the Hon. John Bigler.
Governor of California from 1852 to 1855
and the Hon. William Bigler, Governor of
pennsylvania from 1852 to 1856 who is now
living in Chesterfield, Pa. He asks: g Is
there any other room in the United States
that can make a claim to. furnishing the
sUns?n
ALEXANDER of Russia has issued a ukase
declaring every male liable to CONSUMPTION
In the army, and repeating the ancient
Of providing substitute. The
whole male population of Russia and Po-
land, on attaining the twentieth year of
age, will be required to draw lots, the re-
suit of the drawing settling, once for all,
who is to be enlisted for active service and
who is not. Those drafted into the army
viii be liable to fifteen wears, service hut |