The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-05-27
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Rock.
kissing your sweetheart" says
trifing young man, "is like eating
soup with a fork; it takes long
time to get enough
Two men crossed Webster Lake
in Franklin, N. H., on May-day, and
found tie ice foot thick, and firm
ly fixed to the shore.
--Rev. DR.. Falsenthal, the learned
Jewish rabbi, says that a "drunkard
among the Jews is a very rare and a
very exceptional person.
In Nevada chicken fights are
held for the benefit of the Church,
and in Montana the magistracy de-
eide how the stakes on prize fight
shall go.
Now that the word "hymeneal''
is so commonly used in reference to
weddings, it is suggested that births
should be headed ''crymeneap' and
deaths "dimeneal"
"A gentleman of Michigan con-
templating the schooner Zach. Chan
dler, said that if she was as light on
water as her namesake, she would
be the fastest craft on the lakes.
The Grange store started last
fall at Winona, Wisconsin, has failed.
Liabilities, $4,000, with no assets;
and & similar one at Owatonna closed
up after a loss of nearly $4,000.
"A Texas paper complains that
since DR.. Brown, local preacher,
found $4,000 of buried treasure he's
been so independent that he won't 90
out in a snow storm to marry a
couple.
"A man applied for divorce at
Burlington the other day because his
better half had deserted him, saying
that she didn't propose to leave
York State to 60 and live with lot
of id Vermont gum-chawers."
"A gentlemen of Louisville has
dog-a pointer. The dog ran up
the steps of a house and refused to
come down. His master followed
and found "a Partridge on the door
plate. This illustrates the force Of
instinct.
Ole Bull was once seeing the
sights at Donnybrook Fair, when he
was attracted by the sound Of very
loud violin in q tent. He entered
and said, "My good friend, do you
play by note?' THE deuce a note,
sir" "Do you play by ear, then?"
"Niyer an ear, yer honor" GLOW do
you play, then?" 'Be main strength,
be jabbers."
The cash value of the ''nigger,"
since the war, seems to tiuctuate. In
Mississippi it cost $1,000 to hang
three black men, and a Kentucky iu-
ry gave black widow $85 for her
husband, who had been feloniously
killed. For hanging purposes, there
fore, the article may be quoted at
5000, and for shooting purposes at
only $S5.
"A convict escaped in Georgia
recently under extraordinary circum-
stances. 1t appears that he with
others had been hired out for agri-
cultural labor. The overseer had
some dogs that he was training to
catch any of the gang who might es-
cape, and he turned this convict
loose to exercise the dogs and in
struct them in their parts. But the
fellow took his part in earnest, and
ne the dogs failed to come up to what
was expected of them, he was not
caught!
Ann Steward, a widow residing
IN Troy, was taken suddenly sick
about l o'clock on Sunday morning,
and died six hours afterward. There
had been q dance at her house on
Saturday night, and to use the ex-
preston of a South Trojan, "she
danced two men to pieces" The
over exertion caused apoplexy of the
BRAIN from which she died. The de-
ceased was SO years of age, and
leaves four children who were de-
pendent upon her exercise for sup
port,
The lawyers of Indianapolis are
torturing their brains over an extra
ordinary problem. Some years ago
lady Of that city was married. and
four months thereafter separated
nom her husband, was divorced and
remarked in a month, and four
months thereafter gave birth to a
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