The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-02-21
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.


stock of pistols designed for the use OF
sehool-boys."
EACH West Point cadet costs the eoun-
try 5000 by the time ,he is tit to take MS
place ON the active list
IorIsy1rIE thieves steal Grape from the
bell-knob, and yet Louisville thieves are
supposed to be heightened.
A BosToN paper thinks that civilization
will NOT be complete until some substitute
is found for buttons.
A HAND-oRGAN is the latest excavation
at Pompeii. The ancients had their tor
ments as well as the Eaoderns.
o. AN enterprising typo has fitted up. an
Office ON runners, and is visiting various
towns in Minnesota, ldoing job printing
with neatness and Dispatch"
ED. ONG, aged Is. Who lives at Wapello,
Louisa county. Iowa, lis less in size than
Tom Thumb or Commodore Mutt, and is
only half an inch taller than Minnie War
rem.
DUTrFUL son in Minnesota wanted to
send his fathers bodyto Rochester, New
York, and ne packed it in dry-goods box,
labeled the box ''venison," and saved ex-
press charges.
TwENTY-oNE years ago, young LADY
from Portland, Me-, deposited $175 in the
Lowell Institution fo~ Earnings, and then
went away and forgot it. When she re-
membered it, the other day, she found that
$3.50 was awaiting her call, and she Is
happy. 4
fronts the age is howsto marry on nothing
year. A very neat' solution OF the BIZ
forked difficulty is proposed by the Indian
Nation, who will give farm to any de-
serving young man who will marry
squaw.
WITHIN the last three months the Presi-
dent has appointed Airty Postmistresses.
The consequences nlght have been antici-
pated. Twenty-sev4l of them have al
ready notified their Husbands that their
services are no Longer required.-Brooktys
Argus.
eC.S. WAIT, of Westfield, Mass, had
been bald for yeafs and years. Two
months ago he was burned almost to death,
his head being shockingly crisped. A new
scalp has grown, and from it hair grows
lnxlriantly. Bald men who read this will
know what to do now.
A WEALTHY London firmof four brass
founders has just dissolved partnership.
Three of them could not sign their names,
and have always put their cross to the.
s.
used their pens well, remarks the
Court Journal. /" they might have become
Government clerks. at fifteen shillings a
week.
III. TANY, in communication to the
Academic DIES Sciences, objects to yanes
as indicators of the wind, since they indi-
cate direction wheel there is no wind, and
they do not indicate the force or velocity
of the wind. He wyuld substitute a little
flag suspended bysa cord from metallic
ring pufleyed on al vertical rod. This is
worthy of consideration.
A GENTLEMAN IF Salina, Kansas, has
thoughtfully put his front gate in the par
lor, so that his daughter and her young
man can swing omit without taking cold
during the cold weather. This is a hui
name suggestion tS all fathers. A front
gate in the parlorSmay save good many
dollars that would otherwise be paid out
for soothing syrups and cough balsam.
:. THE experiment: of tea growing in Cali
fornia is said to promise success. The CHI
mate of large part of the tea district of
China finds parallel in that of the central
Southern States, aid there seems to be no
reason why Hyson and Bohea should not
come from cotton and old rice fields. The
necessity for ocean transportation would
be done away with, and the native fra
granee of the leaf would thus be preserved.
A sUIToR for the. hand of Princess Bea-
trice, the youngeft daughter of Queen
Victoria, is said to have appeared. He is a
young German Prince, a cousin of Prince
Louis of Hesse, ard an officer in the Ger
man navy Princess Beatrice was born in
April, 1857, and Is consequently not yet
seventeen years OLD. Herseldest sister, the
siad tr1f &
Prince of Prussia when only little over
seventeen years ofage.
The Maine village of Springvale is pay
ing the penalty of having a haunted house.
People are moving away, many houses
are tenantless, and property is depreciating
in value. A man. has been hired by the
authorities to live in the spooky dwelling,
in the hope that tie delusion may thus be
dispelled. This man keeps loaded gun
by his bed, and warns tricksters not to
fool around the premises
A NEW HAMPSHIRE paper says the IA
miliar sentence 'sfOne touch of nature !"
was beautifully illustrated by three little
girls who not long since lost their mother
by death. Hearing that lady friend of
the family was dying, these three little
children went to their grandmother, called
her aside and whispered in her ear: "Mrs.
lis dying and we want you to go to
her and tell her to give our best love to
oIIr mother"
The Russian nation is the one which
speaks the most languages and which
speaks them the best. One may 90
through Germany and not hear word of
French spoken, bat he will be sure to hear
it when he reaches the frontier of Russia.
The Russian schools and gymnasia for
girls are of the highest excellence, and in
some of the girls schools in Moscow the
dresses are all brown to prevent the bad
feelings which might arise from a COM
parison of dresses and toilets.
PARAN G. YoUNG, the postmaster of
Proyincetown, Mass, had his wind-pipe
nearly severed by bullet in the rebellion.
A silver tube, several inches in length,
was inserted, with an orifice through the
side of it, so that the patient could breathe
without using the mouth or nose, and this
he has continued to do. Whenever he
converses he closes the orifce at the neck
1x-ith hic & III b., sAI-