The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1875-02-12

during the year 1874, and three of these
were very thin cents.
EVERY daughter of the queen of
England knows how to cook and keep
house, which shows that queens are not
always devoid of sound sense.
The danger of dabbling in French
politics is shown in the fact that more
than 20, 900 persons have been arrested
in France for insurrectionary commun-
ism.
ALL the axes and buck-saws found in
the ruins of Pompeii are of light make,
as if constructed for women's use.
Those old ancients knew their little
business.
A PARIS merchant who refused to adj
vertise was challenged by an editor and
shot. The man who says anything
against advertising deserves to be shot
on the spot.
AN elephant is ], 1927, 1886 times larger
than q flea, but yet there are women
who growl at paying two shillings to
visit menagerie and, will turn feather
bed over for half day to hunt flea.
ADMIRAL PORTER says We have no
navy, and that there are hundred
iron clads in Europe, any one of which
is capable of destroying in action our
whole feet combined.
THE Indians at Petosky, according to
the Clam Lake News, have the follow
ing expressive if not elegant saying for
one of the Grand Rapids and Indiana
railroad employees: "Ugh, much talk,
id little do"
VAsoUEz, the noted bandit of Califor-
mia, has been convicted of thirty-seven
separate and distinct murders. We al
ways said that when man goes into
any kind of business he ought to do his
best to make success of it. ..,.
THE San Francisco papers boast that
their new " Palace Hotel" will require
four thousand locks and forty-eight
thousand keys to make it just the thing.
These locks and keys will weigh seven
tons and will cost 500, 900 in gold coin.
Chicago stands aghsst. The Grand
Pacific must hide it's diminished head.
KATE, in a note from Brooklyn, ex-
presses her wonder that men generally
are not better skilled in the art of look
ing at pretty woman in the street-ears.
She says that all girls are pleased to
have their attraction recognized in
certain gentle Way-the eyes lingering
for an instant only-but that a pro-
longed stare from man, no matter how
handsome he may be, excites nothing
but feeling Of annoyance and disgust.
PERSONS who may have inclined to the
belief that Dickens, in the exuberance of
his imaginative ideas, created the names
given to many of his characters will
probably be encouraged to believe
otherwise by pursuing the following list
Of brokers, now doing business in the
city of London, as printed in recent
edition of the London Times Clement
Coney Butlin Morris, John Alexander
Petroeocnino, Tom Edward Wilkins
Thomas, Temple Hillyard Hicks soanes,
Edward Hudson Blower Smith, Norman
Percy Miles Trosou, and Spiridion
5tamati Zula.
The Paris gossips call the marriage
of Mile. Giulia Strakosch daughter of
Mr.. Maurice Strakosch, and niece Of
Patti, Marquise De Caux, with NJ.
Ernest Bourdillon, young and rising
advocate of the Cour d'Appel, a splen-
lid match-a love match in the bar
gain, thing not always found in
France. MI. Bourdillon is handsome
young fellow, OF very polished man
aers, and will certainly make his mark.
Nile. Strakosch is a sweet and winning
young lady, who inherits the musical
;alents of her parents. A very large
md fashionable assembly assisted at
he nuptial benediction at the Church
if Saint Augustin.
AN interesting relic Of by-gone time
las lately disappeared with the death,
N December %, of Lord Byron's valet,
at the age of seventy-eight.
After the poets death, his friend Sir
John Hobhouse, afterward Lord Brough-
on, took Falcieri into his employ as
,ourier. Before long, however, the
,ourier returned to his former calling,
nd continued to serve as valet with
saac Disraeli, author of "The Curl
sities of Literature" and father to
he present Prime Minister, until his
aaster's death. In 1852 Lord Brough-
on got him berth as messenger at the
oard of control. He was very
obliging person, and as assist
MT 10 the head ofice-keeper, the po-
lie old italian, with his broken Eng
ish, was often held in friendly chat by
hose who came across him in the way
4 business.
The Southern Society Girl.