The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1874-11-18
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-1Ho ohiy ohuICH III IlllS country
where sermons are preached in Irish.
it is said, is in the town of Elmira.
Illinois.
An Eastern paper thinks women
ought to be hotel clerks. Probably
because they part their hair in the
middle.
-Italy's finances are in such a
shape that she can't get out of debt
for 200 years, even with good man
agement.
1t doesn't look well, to say the
least, for Kansas church member to
draw out his revolver in order to get
out his two cents for the contribu-
tion box. ...a
"A married girl of thirteen years,
seeking divorce on the ground that
she was entirely too young, is one of
the latest social developments of In
dianapolis.
Railroad employees in Nevada,
from the conductor to the fireman,
carry firearms, for the purpose of
putting gamblers and other thieves
off the trains.
After a Kansas City man has
sat by his chamber window and fd-
died "Old Dog Tray eighty or nine
ty times patience ceases to be vir-
tue and bricks begin to lodge in his
hair.
Twenty one girls of Kenosha
have "resolved, that if the young
men won't come and see us, we will
80 and see them" Didn't somebody
say that the race of revolutionary pa
triots wasn't yet extinct?
If our name was Queen Victoria
and the Prince of Wales asked us to
pay his 100000 Indebtedness for
betting, gambling and drinking, my!
how we'd look at that young man
from the corner of our eye!
The grape crop of California was
never in more promising condition,
both as regards quantity and quality,
than at present, the vintage being
placed at 100000 gallons, against
yield of 100000 gallons in 1878
and 100000 in 1872.
Several years ago hopeful
young minister left these shores for
the Cannibal Islands as missionary.
On arriving at the end of his journey
the natives weighed him and cut a
silver off his leg as a sample. He
came home by the next boat, and is
now the travelling agent Of one
horse circus.
-Staunton, Va, has man who
eats glass, not only without injury,
but to the apparent benefit of his di-
gestion. He expresses preference
for watch crystals, as they~are more
easily chewed, but will eat window
glass or even thick tumblers on q
small wager. There is no account
ing for tastes.
The experiment of lighting rail
way cars with gas has been brought
to more successful solution in
Prussia than even in this more rap
idly progressive country. On one
of the railways the experiment has
been 80 successful that there is little
doubt of the ultimate exclusion Of
all kinds Of oil lamps on the railways
of Germany.
AT the National Science Con-
gress in Breslau on September %, a
trial was made of DR.. Reclain's appa-
ratus for the cremation of the human
body. The result was that half an
hour after the corpse was placed in
the furnace the soft parts of the body
were thoroughly consumed, and in an
hour the bones were reduced to a fine
white ash.
"A correspondent describes a new
kind of table decoration that he wit
messed in the house of Russian lady
in London. The table was entirely
covered with moss, and the only ev-
idence of white table cloth was seen
in that portion which hangs at the
sides OF the table. Flowers were
profusely introduced, and the effect
was unique.
Let not sleep fall upon your eyes
till you have thrice reviewed the
transactions Of the past day. Where
have turned aside from rectitude?
What have l been doing? What
have I left undone which 1 ought to
have done? Begin thus from the
first act, and proceed; and, in con-
clusion, at the i'll which you have
done, be troubled, and rejoice for the
good.
The differences in the ordinary