The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-04-01
News and Other items.

veil.
Dead locks should be opened with
skeleton keys.
Az a tree if you wish to know whether
or not it is hollow.
A fire in Elgin, ILL.,, destroyed property
to the Amount of $40 200.
The Louisiana case in Congress has
been indefinitely postponed.
The postmaster at Galveston has been
arrested for ombezzlement.
Young lovers are temporarily reminded
not to stay too long by-cider.
A Keokuk butcher gives away a chro-
mo With every ten pounds OF meat.
The Catholics of New Brunswick de-
mand separate schools for thoir children.
No manners are so fine as the most awk-
ward manifestation of good will toward
men,
Pharohs Phrollicking Phroggs is the
name ola temperance society in Penn
sylvani&.
One of the Younger brothers, mail rob
beers on the Iron Mountain railroad has
beenkilled.
Agenius is popularity said to be one
W no can 30 everything except make a
living.
Abeautiful woman, says F~ontenelle, is
the purgetory of the purse and the para
disc of the eye.
Every twelfth year is regarded By the
Hindoos as unlucky for marrying, and this
is the tabOod year.
Stanley writes to the London News
that he is satisfied that DR.. Livingston is
dead and that settles it.
The Hudson River has yielded tonly
1900 . tons of ice this year, against H.
500 600 last year.
The big lnjins are after Texans on the
frontier again. Recent raids have been
made near San Antonio.
Ada C. Sweet is the female pension
agent in Chicago. Al. pensions there will
Of course be sWeet-scnt-ed.
The American Oxford boat crew had a
rowing match on thd Thames with the
Cambridge crew, on the 18th.
The eyes OF TIL. Mast are troubling him
to such an extent that he will be obliged
to give up lecturing.l
Alexandra H. Stephens is accused of
having studied for the Presbyterian min
lstry when a young man.
The New York raid upOn the gamblers
was scripturally conducted, for the hosts
of faro were engulfed i'll the sieze.
Mankind loves mysteries. Hence a
hole in the ground excites more curiosity
than a star i'll the heavens.
Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man
Message, luggage, sausage, rampage,
marriage, parent-age7 and dot-age.
The Utah Legislature proposes to turn
three Thousand pair of quail loose in the
Territory, at an expense of $1,000.
The aighten-up-maT yjane-and-show
yOur-breast-pin attitude is said to be SUI
preceding the. Grecian bend.
New Orleans artist has presented the
President with a portrait of himself on
horseback, II it is said to look we'll.
A West ern paper will publish marriage
notices on such terms "as the ecstacy and
liberality of the bridegroom may prompt"
The Congregatienalist explains what it
means by lightning-bug ipiety-bright
while it lasts, but cold and soon out.
Turkey raising is a specially among
the farmers of Darlington, Wis, one firm
there having shipped 800 .tlis season.
A never yielding problem to the new
ly married nal is how to carry groceries
so people will not suspect that lie is Just
married.
There are, in the warehouse of London
no less than ten million pounds of tea, so
utterly adulterated as to be unfit for hu-
man food.
Now that Bald Mountain. in North Car
DINA, has proved capable OF eruption, we
have everything in this country that Eu-
rope can boast of.
Justice Haiaes, of Chicago, has decided
that editors are professional men, and
that their scissors, paste pot, &C., cannot
be seized for debt.
There is a Mrs. Peale, in California,
who owns and manages q farm of 1885,
acres. She goes and does it, without
holding any conventions.
The report of the Texas State Superin-
tendent of immigration shows that du-
ring the year 1873, $4,000 persons came
into the State.
You do not need to black your boots in
Pittsburg. Just hang them out of the
window at night, and they are black
enough in the morning.
The Kentucky Lunatic Asylum has a
farm Of 300 acres, and a vegetable garden
of 80 acres. The entire work of c~uItiya-
tIon is done by the patients.
Fourteen fathers in Quincy, Illinois.
have signed q pledge not to allow their
daughters to take music lessons until
they know how to mako good bread.
The year 1872 opened with a producing
capacity OF pig-iron in the United States
OF some 4,OOO,0OO tons, and 1874 sees that
capacity increased to 5 1000, 900 tons.
The inventor of the conductors pinch
now used on many railroads receives
$4,000 annually for his patent. 1t was a
lucky day for him when the punch got in
his head.
a Dutch Congressman remarked, "Ven
l va elected, I fought I would find dem
all Solomons down here but l found der
vas some as pig fools here as mineself.
Fame is like a shaved pig with a
slipped through the hands of some thou
sands, that some fellow, by good luck,
holds on to it.
A California man tied one end of q rope
around his waist, and lassoed a COW with
the other. He thought he had a COW, but
the end OF the first half mile he began
" SOSPSSO tA6S GLo COW ual Dim.
Senator Jones of Nevada, is worth 81
in gold. With that amount of
money o man needn't care very much
what his name is, bnt under the circum-
stances we would pay the Legislature a
million or two to change it to Menominee,
OF something equally rare.
AKentucky farmer recently refused to
look at . sample sewing machine, as he
always "sswed wheat By hand" He is
related to the man who did not want q
thresoing machine on his farm, "For.p ]
he, give me a harness tug or a bar 5
Iel staVe, and / can make my family toe I
me marx according to law and Scripture. I
The printers of New Orleans have beep
a strike for the past week. The pub {
lShers of the different newspapers want :
% cut down the prices for setting types {
md the competitors on all the papers re- Z
use to stand the reduction. The result !
vas that no papers except the Republican
yera issued last .vaak