The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-06-27
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

tourists talking about San Joeyquinn,'
ssSan Josey,"" Stanislouse," and the Like,
but when they ask about I" Mount Shy
ster," he wants to die.
THE question as to whether the City OF
San Francisco ought to furnish its salarled
officers with horses and carriages with
which to ride around and attend to bust
ness and for pleasure has been settled in
the negative, after an elaborate considera-
ton of the matter.
TOLEDO has a shrewd business man,
who buys car tickets for four dollars per
hundred He sits near the box where the
fare is put, and obligingly places the five
cent nickels of the passengers In his pocket
and one of his tickets in the box, thereby
making clear profit of one cent on each.
They tell of a hen which fioated down
the raging tide at Mill River for some dis
lance in the barrel where she was labori-
ously g covering" nineteen eggs. She at
tended strictly to business during the
flood, finally brought up in friendly har-
Dor, and has since left her barrel with nine
teen chickens at her heels.
THE Dunkards, recently in conference
at Girard H., wear full beard, it not be-
ing permitted to wear moustaehes only.
A prolonged discussion took place as to
whether this rule should not be modified,
but the conservative advocates OF full
beard triumphed. They also decided
against brethren engaging in the banking
business, and against giving their children
collegiate education.
DURING the recent journey of Queen Vic
toria from Windsor to Balmoral the public
were excluded from the stations, except at
Windsor and Oxford, and instructions
were given to the porters to perform all
necessary work on the platform, without
noise, SO that the Queen might be perfect
ly undisturbed during the night journey.
She will remain at Balmoral about month,
and then return to Windsor.
A STORY comes from Fairfield, Herki-
mer county, n. Y, of music-loving dove.
1t is said that when the piano is played in
the house of the doves owners it will fly
into the house and perch on the head of
the performer, where it will remain until
the piece is played, when it will jump on
the keyboard Of the piano and hop about
the keys, thus producing sounds it seems
to enjoy. Friends of the family frequently
visit the house to witness the birds strange
antics.
A SINGULAR natural curiosity is found at
Sadawga Pond, in Nottingham, YER
mont, consisting of one hundred and fifty
acres of land floating on the surface Of the
water, covered with cranberries, and even
sustaining trees fifteen feet high. When
the water is raised or lowered at the dam
of the pond, the island rises and falls with
it, and fish are caught by boring hole in
the crust and fishing down, as through the
ice in winter. A similar island once ex-
listed in small lake near Bangor, Maine,
and there are many such in Southern Flor
ida.
In an English breach-of- promise case let
tiers were read from the wicked wretch,
who wanted to creep out of the scrape,
which proved him an economical man, so
far at least as the use of words is con-
cerned. When he wanted to say, May
God bless you and Kisses he only wrote,
" M. G. B. u. and K.'' I'M. Do in his
letters signified ''my dear,'' and !" L. p
s little pet" all of which reminds us of a
friend who swore off swearing, but when
very angry relieved himself by remarking,
reader, with the examples before him, can
fill out for himself.
THIS is one of the Cincinnati CONNER
Gals letters from the people: SMr. Ed
iter-will you please enquire to some law
yer or advertise in your paper whether
can git a devorce in this State. find it
un possible to live eny longer with my
wife. | hev been married tweed and may
God forgive me for taking the last one 6
months ago. She is 10 years older an
and deceived me by waring falls hair and
teath, and positive fact her breath is so
bad that it rots the falls teath. iZzent that
cause enough afore env court. If you
print your anser mark it * Y z. don't
print my name. Yours in hopes. The
crops is looking good saving we need rain
badly"
WATTERsoN says that Louisville man
is to do without ice this summer. As
substitute be will gather his family about
him every day at II m, and recite the fol-
lowing account of a SpitZbergen winter:
ssStones crack with the noise of thunder;
in crowded hut the breath of the oecu-
pant will fall in flakes of snow; wine and
spirits turn to ice; the snow burns like
caustic; if iron touches the skin, it brings
the flesh away with it; the soles of your
stockings may be burned off your feet be-
fore you can feel the slightest warmth
from the fire: linen taken out of boiling
water instantly stiffens to the consistency
of wooden board, and heated stones will
not prevent the sheets of the bed from
freezing.''
5 Mr.. DIsRAELI has said that most great
men if they were candid, would acknOwl-
edge the advantages they owed to the
sympathy and encouragement Of women.
A female friend, amiable, clever and de-
voted, is, he tells US. a possession beyond
all price, without which as few men sue
coed in life, SO none are content. It.
would scarcely lessen the value of such a
friend to man if she happened to be his
wife, unless home and wife were such
ideas to him as they appear to have been
TO the famous Frenchman who would not
marry the lady whose society had been
his greatest enjoyment for years, because
he would then have nowhere to spend his
evenings.
The New York Tribune draws nelan-
eholy picture of the distinction in law be-
tween man and woman in the matter of
broken hearts: .sDoes mere man." it
asks, whose timid heart has been per-
suaded to throw itself at the feet of CO.
quette only to be cast aside. ever get
thousand dollars, OF a hundred dollars, or
one dollar even, with which to mend the
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