The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-07-25
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.


Wisconsin.
T,HE San Francisco Board of Supervl-
sors contemplates an ordinance winch Is
intended to stop swearing in pubic. IL
imposes a fine not exceeding 81 ,OOO, or I'M
nrisonmcnt for not more than SIX montns,
nnon whoever shall "utter in a public
places or I'm the hearing of two or more
persons, any blasphemOus words or IAN
guage."
A JAPANESE has string of names awful
tc contemplate; for besides the name he
receives at birth. he takes second on at
tanning his majority, third at his mar
rage. a fourth If he be appointed to any
public function, a fifth should he rise IN
rank and dignity, and so on TO the last, the
name given after death, which Is inscribed
upon his tomb.
A CAT-HATING Boston man sets traps in
his suburban grounds with attractive
steak for bait, and catches eight or ten OF
his enemies every night. When he mas
collected fifty he puts them in big wood
ers cage and sinks them in pond: Inc
branch of Mr.. Bergh's society can dissov-
er nothing cruel in his method, and ne
gees ON in what he declares is a good
work.
THE Excelsior Magazine" one of the
choicest and most artistic OF monthiies, Is
published at $3.50 year. New subscrlb,
eFs are offered a $3.50 field croquet set and
the magazine for 81 40, only so cents addl-
tionaI A Observation-Disclosures Fashion
and Etiquette supplement goes with it.
Rare inducements to getters-up OF clubs IN
money or premiums. Sample copies 70
cents. Office, Room SO, No. l57 La Sale
street, Chicago, Ill.
Mrs. DIR. WALKER didn't take her last
defeat before the War Claims Committee
at Washington resignedly, says cores
pondent. Her male costume did not seem
To inspire her with masculine forutude,
and she leaned up against adOorway in the
lobby and gave way to her grief in true
feminine style. The tears trickled down
on her shirt bosom, and her ceat-talls
shook with the force of her emotions, while
she received the coincidence Of her friends.
ONE of the Athol, Mass, schoolma'ms,
saws the local paper, adopts novel meth
cd of punishment. Offenders OF either
sex and all ages are compelled to lie down
fat on the floor, face downward. with arms
stretched out at right angles to the body.
The victims are not allowed to glance
sideways, even for moment. and mos
ing'' the floor forms their only occupa-
ton. And this school is one of the best
managed il the whole town, it adds.
A DIAMOND, said to be the largest YET
discovered In the diamond fields at the
Cane. is at present in the hands of CostoI
& Co. of Amsterdam, by whom it is being
cut and polished. The stone weighs
about 900 carats, and is of the purest wa
ter. Some months will probably elapse
before the diamond is finished. Although
1t is impossible to estimate the exact value
of the gem in its rough state, it is believed
that should the stone when finished realize
the expectations formed of it, its value
will be at least 100000.
A sTREET-CoRNER telescope man in Chi.
cago, on recent night. had his instrument
placarded splendid views of the comet. y
He charged ten cents peep, and those who
bought the privilege saw a flaming body
that covered three or four degrees in the
heavens. Business was brisk, the " Oh
obs " and Good graciouses of the pa
irons exciting great curiosity. At length
one of those prying, incredulOus fellows
investigated and found that the telescope
man had painted nice little comet on The
lens. At this the swindled people pushed
over the apparatus, and so scared the
Snowman that he cordially thanked thu
policeman who took him into custody an(
protection.
AN English mechanic advertised seri
ously for wife, and a woman, equally il
earnest, responded by letter. They met
but the man was not pleased, and court
ship was not entered into. He still want
ed wife, however, and so advertised agail
under another signature. When he hat
an answer he went to see his correspond
ent with heart beating high with hope
and found the equally persevering spinste
again. A third time he wooed fate with
yet differently worded Requirement. HI
reached the appointed place of meeting
twas she. Crushed to the earth and con
WINGED, like Mr.. Swiveller, that destiny
was full of staggerers, he smiled, he con
versed, and neekly at last welded the de
termined woman.
IT happens to some people in this wise
The late j. Heron Foster, of Pittsburgh
in the early part of the California gold
fever, purchased some land in that region
and, editor-like. forgot all about it. Mrs
Foster was not that kind of woman. Hav
ing an aptitude for ferreting out things
she visited California, and succeeded il
finding the title of her children clear t,
property worth half a million of dollars
The young ladies have also become heir
to an estate in England valued at one hun
bred thousand dollars, with castles an
Jewels to match. One has literary tastes
and when asked what she meant to d
with so much money, replied that whe
of age she intended to buy newspaper.
A SMALL child of Mr.. Edmundson, {
Concord township, Louisa county, lows
came running into the house exelaiming
''Look, mamma, pretty, pretty!' Her pa
rents on looking beheld a sight not ofte
witnessed The child had caught rattle
snake around the neck. Its body and ia
were wrapped around her arm, and tn
child thought she had the prettiest thin
imaginable. The mother, thorough
frightened. tainted, but the father, wit
great presence of mind, caught the child
hand and held his snakeship so tight
that it could not bite until, with the othe
hand, he had unwound the snake from tf
child's arm, when, with sudden jerk, b
threw it out of doors, and then killed it.
THERE are now in Naples, where the
have just arrived from Egypt as preser
from the Viceroy of that country for VictC