The weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1872-1882, 1874-07-04
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9 A contemporary calls his item
j. '*Nits, to show that he gets ther
+ out Of his own head.
A little boy in st. Cloud a fe,
days ago undertook to see if h
could lift himself by hanging on
mules tail He found out all abou
it, and the doctors think the skin Of
his forehead will grow up, but vii
leave a bad scar.
"Where are you goingq" said
young gentleman to an elderly onf
in white crazat, whom he over.
took q few miles from Little Rock
II am going to hssven; my son.
have been aon the way eighteen
years." ''Well, good-by, old fellow
it you have been travelling. toward
heaven eighteer years. and got no
nearer to it than Arkansas, I'll take
another routei' >.
As a stout old lady got:out of q
crowded coach in front of the Russ
House the other day, she exclaimed,
"Wel], that's a relief, any howl
To which the driver replied, eying
her ample proportions, $50 the 'osses
think, num-"
Hugh Donahue, who is attempting
on Hampden Park the feat of walk
ing thousand miles in a thousand
hours, will finish his eight hundtedth
mile at 12 o'clock tonight. His
walking is OF last beginning to tell
on him. His cheeks are sunken,
and probably not an ounce of |
superduous flesh remains upon his |
body. He finds it difficult to keep |
awake while walking in the night,
md fell sound asleep while on his
O'Clock round last night. He has
grown very nervous and irritable,
lis vexation and rage when crossed
mounting sometimes almost to
mania. At other times he has been
respondent because the gate money
las fallen SO far below his expecta-
ions. His pulse was down to
eventy-one this forenoon, and bis
hysician says that the tremendous
Fort ac is making has developed :.
cart disease, to which it seems he
as been subject before, and that
'oner or later he will drop dead,
J the result of his thousand miles y
ak. The physician still thinks, :,
owever, that his strength will hold VI
1t until Saturday, the 9th, when l
s walk will be complete. In other b
ords. be will probably proform v
o feat, but will do it at the ex- n
lpense of his life. II
An Atlanta child, only three .,
ars old, makes its parents proud 9,
ID happy by carrying forty-eight 4;
'unds Of meal fifty yards. -,
A Delaware man, arrested for fa
arder, proved that on that night ii,
d at the hour Of the murder he in
s at home mauling his wife, and bl
is fact saved him. A word to the hr
80 is, and so forth. TT
The Brooklyn argus is Of opinion ah
It q kind word "will always go OF
'ther than q fatriron or = potato on
,sher." sy
4 Danbury young man who felt -
q Western expedition was bid ]ee
g his friends good-by at the a. .
'ot when q young girl cried out ! m'
ring me the scalp Of a Modoe 90
nt you'" The young man, feel s4''
q little hurt at her Indifference "e
his departure and the dangers be 70. ..
J about to encounter, ndly gu
lied, mo, Emma +; you should &c"
look for more hair until you efa
Q paid for that you now wear" An u
remark appeared to subdue va "n
Did you ever go to a military oen
?" asked a lisping maid Of On mo
veteran. mo, my DEAR" m
yled the oil: soldier? ':iu those f,r
) I once had q military ball .ve
9 to me. And what do you cav,