The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-11
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.


ROYAL gossip says that Eugene and
Victoria keep up regular correspondence
and tell each other all the news that Is
circulating.
RUMoRs are afioat of marriage between
Prince Arthur, of England, and the eldest
daughter of Prince Frederick Charles, OF
| Prussia.
SOME women in San Francisco became
convinced of the physical value of athletic
exercises and established a gymnasium
with all the usual appliances. Thus far
one leg and two arms have been broken.
and the sprains and bruises have not been
counted.
A CoLoRED girl at Brueetown, KY, aged
nine, has displayed an extraordinarily re-
tentive memory. A man reading in her
presence for some length of time was as
tonished to hear her repeat, word for word,
what he had read twenty-four hours pre-
vious. She has been proved capable OF re-
peating fifty lines from book alter hear
| ing them once read.
In a letter from Paris to the Utica Her
aid, Writ Skies says: "There are Amerl-
cans who keep shops of every sort here !;
one of the most popular and f1ourishing OF
dressmakers is a Connecticut man, out OF
|
whose costumes are bought by hlgh-born
French danes, and whose vogue is like
that of Worth"
AN English paper advertises for sale ''a
| Highland minister's complete vGde me-
cum, =" consisting of miniature Testament,
very large siIver-mounted spirit flask, and
strong, serviceable corkscrew, fitted in SUI
perfine Russia leather case" Highland
ministers, says the Independent, evidently
believe that 'sthe letter killeth, but the
spirit giveth life.''
THE Car has new Bible. During his
stay in London he was waited upon by the
Archbishops of Canterbury and York at
Buckingham Palace, where the Primates
presented to him Bible in Russ, trans
lated under the auspices of the British and
Foreign Bible Society. Dean Stanley was
present at the interview.
/ HENRY M. STANLEY, of Dixfield, Fish
Commissioner of Maine, has about 100000
young salmon which he will soon turn
into the Androscoggin, and about 10000
land-locked salmon for the lakes at the
head waters of thai river. 1t is the inten-
ton of the Commissioner of this State to
thoroughly stock the rivers and lakes with
these valuable fish, and with protective fish
ing laws he may reasonably hope to have
an abundance ofthem in the future.
THE Chinese companies of San Fran
cisco, which are supposed to exercise
control and government of the heather
population of California more effective than
the AUTHORITY of duly constituted law, are
now collecting all the known thieves, cut
Threats, and Migrants among their cOun-
/ trymen, and shipping them back to China.
Several hundred have already departed un-
der the action of this enforcing emigration
scheme.
LITTLE JOE was the medicine man of a
tribe of Indians near Big Pine, California.
Sapsey had fever, and Little Joe killed
: him in bungling attempt to cure him.
The tribe were indignant at the malprac-
tice, and as punishment dosed Little Joe
with the medicine that had killed Sapsey.
But the doctor did not die of his own
physic. Then he was stoned and stabbed
to death. -Four of the tribe have been ar
rested for the murder. They confess the
deco, but do not regard it as crime, arguing
that any doctor who cannot cure ought to
be put to death.
Ell. DORADO, Placer, Nevada, Calaveras,
and other counties of California which lie
at the base of the Sierra Nevada, are max.
ing strenuous efforts to recover something
of their former prosperity They were
once the most populous in the State but
with the decline of mining came the de
cline of their prosperity. Since the tide Of
f immigration has been setting in toward
Southern California their people have be-
, come aroused from the lethargic state into
; which they had fallen, and are endeav
: oring to obtain a portion of the new com
. ers.
! A WASHINGTON correspondent writes
: "Perhaps the woman of the future will
be wise enough to know that she canno
4 obtain situation in any of the Washing
1 ton departments where there are no va
: cancies. The woman of the present ha.
no inkling whatever of such knowledge
The steadiest and worst of all Congress
, sional annoyances is the unreasoning ap
. plicant for a lady clerkship. Pennsylvani;
: Kelley has one general proposition to these
q feminine pests: First, select the position
# you most DESIRE whispers Kelley serious
: ly, then kill the woman holding it, ant
e I'll get you into the vacancy"
!. AT recent meeting in Boston of the
Massachusetts, Anglers Association, ONT
: of the members gave some curious informa
! ton ON the subject of starfish. These tn,
= speaker described as moving in grea
n masses, and when they came to an oyste
: plantation they would spread out owe
g twenty acres of it, and in single nigh
|, destroy every oyster. The only way II
J, fight them was to dredge up the "stars
= constantly, and this was now being done
!, . They find that the five fingers make
). very good dressing for orchard lands, blu
= must be used sparingly for this purpose
IL as they are a very powerful dressing
d Other than this, the speaker knew of NJ
y use in them except to be killed, which save
IS the lives of great many oysters.
! ATHoL, Mass, has strange case of de
; PRAYED youthful propensity in four-year
; old child, that, from its very cradle, ha
e evinced constant desire to bite, or rattle
e gnaw, his fingers and hands, until an in
d diligence in the appetite seems to be al
# most his only source of qualification.
q left alone he would lie on his back for al
: hour at time, chewing his fingers an,
!, ! tearing out pieces of flesh and bone witt
! the voracity of savage animal. He ha
II pursued this habit with such fatal persist
= apau &c RI roduao oil tho fnroro IF hotl