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


THE telegraph is now extended to Pan
Ima by the way of Key West, Cuba ant
other West India islands.
Two men crossed Webster Lake il
Franklin, n. H., on May-day, and founC
the ice foot thick, and firmly fixed to the
shore.
The National Baptist knows a man who
is boasting that he has never given hi!
wife cross word in the twenty years they
have been married. Those who know thu
family best give the true reason, "ht
doesn't dare to-"
AUTOGRAPHS of George Washington arr
selling in Philadelphia at ST apiece The
manufacturers are about introducing some
improved machinery, and when that is il
they can be had at forty cents dozen.
The San Francisco Nesos Letter describes
g patriarch Ill years old, who never saw
George Washington, and it thinks his name
should be written in letters of fire for his
moral courage in acknowledging it. This
worthy patriarch is a Digger Indian.
PRINCE EDWARDS Island boasts of pig
which goes ahead of IndiaDa's pet product
The length of the champion is nine feet six
inches, girth seven feet four inches, five
feet around the neck, height three feet
eleven inches, and weight over one thous.
and pounds. tits Of Irish descent.
The present year being generally &C.
cepted as the four hundredth anniversary
of the introduction of the art of printing
into England, the Printers Pension Cor
pGration of London have it in contempla-
ion to celebrate the event by holding in
June next public exhibition of antiqui-
lies and euriosities connected with the art.
A FRENCH surgeon proposes to prevent
the spread of hydrophobia by bunting
the teeth of dogs and cats with files, pin
GERS, or like instruments. This would
prevent bites which would break the skin,
and therefore the virus could not find its
way into the system. While the project
might also put an end to dog fighting, it
would tend to restore harmonious relations
between cats and their present prey.
How it goes to be fresh married in Buena
Vista is thus told by the Sioux Rapids
Echo: lone of our young married men
thinks so much of his lovely wife that he
lights the candle two or three times every
night to look at her. Then hequietly goes
to sleep and chuckles in his sleep like
turkey gobbler, he feels so good"
AT the present time the postal rates be-
tween France and this country are so high
that it is cheaper for letters between the
countries to be first sent to England, then
retransmitted to their destination. either
France or the United States, than for letters
to be carried direct by the FreRch mails.
And there is an agency in London which,
makes money by undertaking this bust
ness OF retransmitting letters between the
two countries.
The noble nature of the male biped has
been strikingly illustrated at Rochester
N. I. The local police prohibited the lit
lie boys from playing ball and flying Kites
On the street. The ingenious and ingenu.
Gus youths now allow the little girls to
elevate the aerial kite and punch the elastic
ball, while they sit upon the edge of the |
pavement and enjoy the sport. This plan
has its advantages in warm weather.
By a return just issued the area of Lon |
don is 122 square miles. The river is |
erossedby seventeen bridges. The average
daily supply of water is 514.269 metric |
tons, and the annual ratable value of prop
erty is G2O,000,000 sterling. Last year the
number of births was III, 100 in fifty-three
weeks, or 2, 2S5 weekly; and as the deaths
were 1854, or l,446 weekly, the excess
ot births over deaths was 4, 1866, or 500
weekly.
HE Union Pacific Railroad Company
llas bored six artesian wells in the arid dis
riots to obtain water supplies for their To-
'omotiVes. All of them were successful,
md from several the water rises above the
urtace. AT Rock Springs the water rises
rom depth of l., l45 feet, Defect above the
urface, and discharges 81 gallons per
our, and at the surface 960 gallons. The
wells have more than paid for themselves.
SOME OF the enthusiastic temperance wo-
nen OF Poughkeepsie, where quite Wig
rous crusade has been going on, have
cen trying to get the Vassar girls to 90
nd plead with Mr.. Vassar, son and innita-
Or in gifts to the Institution of the founder
the college, to shut up the brewery by
Vhlch both men have made their wealth,
ut the girls concluded they wouldn't.
'hese girls sing, "If it wasn't for beer.
re wouldn't be here"
THERE is one very decided change in the
ashions. After having for nine wears
7orn comparatively short waists" the
dies are gradually going back to the old ,
lshioned long ones. 1t is predicted that !
MS fashion will bring tight-laeing into {
ogue.. In fact, slim figures are already I
ecomlng more common than formerly, I
nd art is accused of having something to I
y "4"A No' oSboAo dtC Sldl, anu SO are 4
orset-makers. e
The mother of the lost Earl, George I
ordon, the eccentric fellow who shipped
sailor and disappeared, has given ST.
70 to the American Seaman's Friend So |
ETY. to buy libraries for American sailors {
n foreign bound vessels. Each set is to !
marked, "Sent to sea by his mother. in a
emory of George, Earl of Aberdeen, a !
llor, and lost at sea January %, 1870.
sed 2s." And it may be that she has L
me hopes that he still lives and NAV thus a
brought to think of home and return. q
The lawyers of Indianapolis are tortur-
g. their brains over an extraordinary l |
roblem. Some years ago lady of that =
ty was married, and four months there 7
ter separated from her husband. was d.
'rced and remarked within month, and e
ur mouths thereafter gave birth to a {
hid by her first husband. Quite recent z
the second husband procured a divorce. 9
ID the custody of the child was awarded .
him. Now comes the first husband and Q
aims the child. Who is entitled to its q
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A aENTLEMANan and lady who occupied the II