The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-27
ALL SORTS.

vites him to take bite.
A Milwaukee man stated that he reall,
needed some active, regular exercise
friend suggested that he mix his own coct
tails.
Chicago paper thinks it would be goo(
plan to cut off tie heads of all persons dying
so that there would be no danger of buryine
them alive.
! The Rev. Mr. Frogge, of Kentucky, oppose.
immersion in baptism. This is the first re
corded instance of a Frogge showing any aver
sion to water.
The man who, after being outbd at an auc-
ton sale, went home sick and died, was pro
nounced by the physicians victim of more.
bid jealousy.
The Lighthouse Board, mindful of the
foolish virgins in the parable, discourage the
employment of women in their services as far
as practicable.
Wisconsin nan, whose wife had run
away, paid two dollars to a mt dunn for mes
sage in writing from the departed fair one 1t
said: "Gone to Yurrup."
We notice that two sunny Italians have been
arrested in Quebec for stealing boy named
Patton. This is taking Patton after the Char
ley Ross kdnappers, with a vengeance.
I The Dickens you say Mr. Pickwick, of
Canada, won the sixth prize at the sports
mems tournament at NIAGARA Falls. But
where We're Wrinkle and Snodgrass?
An Indiana clergyman recently stirred up
| hornets nest by declaring in Sc mon that
| certain candidates for office III the town had
cards with their initials printed thereon.
which were exchangeable for drinks at various
bars.
The st. Louis Christian Adrocate has no ear
for music, and complains that church choir
is sacrilegious when the line, ''We are going
home to die no more,' is rendered. Were
going home to Dinah More, to Dinah More, to
Dinah More"
Freezing salmon in summer for winter use
and the artificial breeding of terrapin are
among the most recent OF ingenious con-
triv noes for permanently supplying New
Workers with delicacies hitherto only ocea-
sionally attainable.
The Richmond Dispatch laments the delay
of ''the Virginia hams, one of the most popu-
lar features of the good living of old Virginia
before the war. To be sure there are plenty
of Virginia sons Of Ham lying around loose,
but it's out OF the question to cure them
Human nature is about the same wherever
We 60. As long as tho Icelanders hadn't ever
seen their king there was no end to their loyal
admiration. But since his majesty looked in
upon them at the Millennial they pronounce
him a very plain, commonplace individual
after ALL
Two free bath houses in New York seem to
be well patronized by the public, no fewer
than 597, 800 baths having been taken therein
since June IS. OF the bathers, 469, $50 were
men or boys, and 123, $40 women or girls
The baths are insufficient for the accommoda-
ton of the public, and four more are to be
built.
They are fitting up steamer in Montreal
with stalls and other conveniences for trans
porting three hundred head of cattle recently
purchased in Chicago on English account. II
this experiment proves successful, there will
be a new item Of American commerce added
to the long list required to furnish supplies to
Europe.
In Heidelberg, Germ my, a new invention
has been successfully introduced, by which the
gas lamps Of the city light themselves. The
pressure of the gas from the tank being in
creased to certain point in the evening, an
arrangement in the burner of the lamp lights
the gas In the morning, at the removal of
the pressure, the light is extinguished.
1t is reported by the Chicago Tribune that
Milwaukee clergyman has been studying the
Beecher scandal during his vacation, improved
his return to the pulpit by preaching ser
mon about it. His conclusion is that the
greatest preacher in America is not great all
the way round" For figure of speech this
would do very well, if it were made perfectly
satisfactory which part was not great.
With few except ons, says a veteran OBJ
server. illiterate and half-educated persons
use more "big words" than people of
thorough education. It is very common,
but very egregious mistake, to suppose that
long words are more genteel than short ones
just as the same sort of people i'm CINE high
dress.-Bcstoh Euening Transcript
The manufacture Of butter in England, says
a London paper, is an uncomfortable subject,
and we meet with some ugly revelations there
on. Old horse and slaughtered animals are
boiled down, and their bones are steamed so
as to extract greasy kind of fat, containing
proportion of glue or gelatine. This delight
full stuff, mixed up with perhaps little real
butter and some American lard does duty as
Australian butter.
Gambling WAS inv. nted by the Lydians when
under the pressure of great famine To di-
vert themselves from dwelling on their suffer-
ings they invented dice, balls, table, etc It
is added that, to bear calamity the better, they
used to play whole day without intermission,
that they III ght not feel the effects of the want
OF food. The invention intended as a remedy !
tor hunger is now very common cause for
that evil !
If man is hungry within an hour, more or
less, after regular meal, he is dyspeptic
beyond question, and it shows that the
stomach is not able to work up what he has
eaten SO as to get nourishment out of it; but !
to eat again, and thus impose more work,
when it could do nothing for what had been
already eaten, is an absurdty; and yet all
dyspeptics who ea: whenever they are hungry
do this very thing, and thus aggravate and
protract tn If sufferings.
The State of California allows Mr. James
the unhappy man who first discov-
cred gold there, January 10, lS4S, an annual
pension of 1920, but it is altogether proba-
ole that apowerful popularmovement for its
repeal will be made. This is owing to Mr.
Bret Harte's recent poems and stories, where
n he has run into the ground, and that with
'ut striking pay dirt. The people of the
Golden State argue thus: If Mr.. Marshall had
lot discovered gold there would have been no
Argonauts of 1s49, and if there had been no
Argonauts there would be no Bret Harte
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