The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1876-04-27
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o,gr county in Illinois sold its pepper
msnt crop last year for five thousand
dollars.
nWHY should we celebrate Washing
+on,a birthday more than mine z" asked
~ teacher. g Because he never told a
iie ! shouted little boy.
T,HF finest part of the Italian display
iii he in the art department. There
VII 10 two hundred exhibits of statuary
clone and the paintings will be carefully
selected.
TIE entire process of reducing and
oroaI0anaating ores will be illustrated by
a CaIifornia firm. They have contracted
s,r the construction of a miniature
twenty-stamp quartz mill for that pur-
An oyster opener in Toulouse, France,
fo1nd in an oyster magnificent pearl,
woTth several thousand dollars, and she
nocketed it but the person who ordered
ne oysters insisted that the pearl be
ionoed to him. His contention is that
+be shells Juice, oyster and everything
alse in the shell are his property the
knottv question has been referred to the
law courts.
TIFF Bowling Green, Kentucky, Pan
tapraph: Some weeks since MIR.
Eaton. of Lower Green river, killed
rerfectlv white deer. It's hoofs were al
most white, and it had what are termed
WoIasg" eyes. He killed the deer,
which had in company with her half
crown fawn of the same peculiar chaTac.
ferigtics, which he says he could have
killed, but in endeavOring to capture it
after long race it escaped.
FOUR structures in the villa style of
architecture, in addition to the main
building, will be erected to accommodate
applicants for space in which to exhibit
works of art for which there is no room
in the main building. They will each
be one hundred and forty by forty feet.
The cost of the four will be twelve thou
sand five hundred dollars. Four rooms
will also be added to the north side of
the annex to the art gallery.
A MAGNIFICENT cameo, supposed to
be the portrait of Octavia, the second
wife of Mark Antony and the sister of
Augustus, has been brought to the
notice of the Paris academic DIES inscrip-
lions. The stone is sardonyx, with
milky surface, the interior being of
reddish black, and the workmanship of
the cameo is exquisitely delicate. The
face is evidently portrait, and the head
resembles that of the Venus of Milo.
THE preparations for the Centennial
are now in a more advanced condition
as far as the buildings and grounds are
cOncerned-than were those for the late
exhibition at Vienna when the latter
began. The main building, machinery
hall, the woman's pavilion, the govern
ment building and the two sets of officers
one for the Centennial commission and
the other for the Centennial board of
fnance-have all been transferred in a
complete condition to the respective
authorities by the contractors.
THE political outlook among Louisiana
republicans is thus stated, by the New
Orleans Bulletin: "The republicans
are still at work organizing, but there is
not that harmony among the leaders
which has in previous campaigns marked
their proceedings. There are too many
candidates for governor, and among the
many are Warmoth, Anderson, Kellogg,
Steele and Packard. 1t is considered ON
the outside that Anderson has the inside
track, and is considerably in the lead.
He has gone to the country to recuper-
ate, and get in condition for the grand
struggle before the convention. 1t would
appear, however, that Gov. Kellogg and
Warmoth intend making combination,
for the advancement, undoubtedly, of the
latter, for the two have frequent private
consultations, which are looked upon
with suspicion by the other candidates.