The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-07-01
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and fined So for an unsuccessful at
tempt at suicide.
The sale of the works of the late
Sir Edwin Landseer, which recently
took place in London, realized nearly
$4,000.
The Dunkards wear Quaker
clothes, shake hands and kiss when
they come together. Most of them
live in Ohio.
Passion gets less and less power
ful after every defeat. Husband ell
ergy for real demand which the dam
gers of life make upon it.
The most fashionable of Sara
toga cottages rent for $4,000 for the
season of three months. Others
bring $4,000, others $4,000, and so Oh
down to $500.
Potato beetles of the Colorado
variety are reported to have made
their appearance in alarming num-
bers in Baltimore and adjoining coun-
ties of Maryland.
-Icelanders are beginning to emf
CRATE to this country, and are des-
cribed as bright, cleanly, healthy
looking class of people, closely re-
sembling the Scotch.
-Sartoris' connection with the
Grants has not improved him gram
matically. When asked, "Wilt thou
have this woman to be thy welded
wife?" he replied II do"
Olivia, lady correspondent,
writes to the Capital: 'In all delicacy
may we ask why you apply the term
her to the woman attorney and the
pronoun he to the man?"
New York spends annually
100000 on newspapers, 100000
on theaters, 100000 for religious
purposes, and $50,000,00O on liquor
and liquor establishments.
The intelligent compositor thus
demonstrates the possibilities of the
type: "The parents ofthe bride were
numerous and handsome" And yet
some folks say that there is no hell.
Advice to persons living in the
houses adapted for two families:
When your bell rings, wait; the 9TH
or people may 60 to the door. When
their bell rings, rush to your door
and listen devoutly.
Because q we'll dressed young
man in Chicago omnibus remarked
that "there were no good looking girls
in Chicago the elegant Times Of
that place denounces him as "a pol
ished ass"
The ailantus trees Of New York
are to be displaced by horse-ches-
nuts. It is true that the ailantus is
attacked by the caterpillar, but what
p.oof is there that the horse-ches-
nut will not come down with the
"epizootic"
When Napoleon was a small boy
he was asked whether he could tell
what national ty he was of, and he
Indignantly replied, "Of Corsican."
When Chang and Eng was small
boy he was asked whether he was a
native Of Siam, and he Indignantly
replied, 'Of course SIAM"
The Cunard steamship line is
about to turn cold shoulder to Bos-
ton, and has come to the conclusion
that it does not pay to send their
vessels there. The reason, however,
is clothed in more delicate language,
and is based on the ground of high
cost of railroad freights on grain and
other products.
The attention Of crusaders" is
respectfully called to the significant
coincidence that, for some years past,
the importation Of opium has in
creased pari passu with the advance
of the teetotal movement, one hun
dred and twenty-five tons of that mar
cotic solace being our present annual
allowance.
The Philadelphia Press talks i'll
this rather damp way about the cen,
tennial: yesterday the first pack,
ages of goods for exhibition at the
International celebration of 1870
were received in this city. They
came from Austria, Norway and Swe.
den, and are the first drippings Of
what in a year or two will be a great
stream"
The value of the fruit crop Of
California last year may be estimated
in round numbers at two millions o.
dollars. From the tenor of the re
- f..,,, ell ,,o,t,npo ~ tho Ctatp