The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1877-08-11
JOTTINGS.

A German girl in Buffalo waltzed her.
self blind.
At last the University of London will
confer medical degrees on women.
Hayes sayes he will not summer at
White Sulphur.
Senator Lamar has recovered his
health since returning to Mississippi.
Jenny Lind says that her hHSband is
her truest friend. Every woman's ought
to be.
The Empress of Austria is said to be
the most beautiful royal lady in the
world.
A woman in Baltimore has been fined
800 and costs for sending scurrilous pos
tai cards to ladies.
Eight thousand bushels of Strawberries
were sold in the markets of Cincinnati
on q recent day.
Young county, Texas, claims to have
coal enough to supply the state, when
its mines are developed.
A man and his son in Charleston, Mas
sachusetts, have married sisters, the
father taking the younger.
The Boston fremen year straw hats in
summer. They have a ribbon device
when the men are on duty.
It has been noticed that the man, who
is tnll of "reminiscences of congress and
of anecdotes about big men, always
has to feel the longest for the price of q
cocktail.
Delightful California! The San Fran"
cisco Bulletin says: "The recent heated
term lasted seven days. The highest
readings of the thermometer, we believe,
were 113 degrees at a few points in the
interior"
Hotel business in town is very dull,
and several of the larger houses are we'll
nigh empty and running with reduced
help. The summer is destined to be a
very hard one for hotels, not only in this
hut in all large cities throughout, the
United States. -
The banks of the Thames are lined
with mosquitoes, which have been
brought to London in carg0es of foreign
grain. One of the things upon London
ers have always prided themselves has
been that this annoying insect was not to
be found in their city.
A Boston merchant, on a recent trip,
was considerably impressed by the
~earnestness of a German passenger.
"America," said the returning Teuton,
lis der best coundry in der world. | had
lived dere more as den years, and failed
xjve dimes, aud now l goes home 10 lif
mlea fortune and my family"
Thes=Greeks were disgusted when a
joke was explained, but the American
humorist has 70 Explain, or his point is
forever lost. FoI instance, the Greek
writer would have said: women talk
less in February than in any other
month" and everybody in Greece would
have enjoyed the squib. The American,
however, has to say: "Women talk less
) in February than in ary other month,
because it is the shortest month"
i A writer in the April Blackwood says
! The Ionian Islands have a certain
> strategic value as regards the Adriatic,
) but you'd afford no protection against
i the Russian descent from the Black Sea,
Crete, and Crete alone, combines every
= strategical advantage we need, while its
Q possession by a possible enemy would be
: fatal to all sense of scrutiny. England
is now said to be in treaty for tie pur-
chase of The island from Turkey"
The surnlise that many of the persons
run over by railroad trains have been
previously murdered is usually not sus-
ceptible of proof. An engineer on the
J. Louisville and Chicago railroad, however,
! applied the brake 30 promptly that the
. body he saw ahead on the track was not
struck. It was found that the man had
been robbed, almost killed, and then
placed where a train would he likely to
obliterate all evidence ofthe crime.
r The blackberry industry ia Georgia,
q North Carolina and other Southern
/ states is about to open. The little town
a of Salem, S. c., containing only about
two thousand inhabitants, has shipped
+ during three years over three million
: hounds of blackberries for which nearly
Lolf million dollars Was re- ceiyed, This
q was equal to over nine thousand bales OF
9 cotton at ten cents a pound, and is a re-
8 source certainly not to be despised.
t The Egyptian ladies, as a rule, are not
e as good looking as Cleopatra, but trav-
a eIers and connoisseurs of taste, who were
on the Nile last winter, report that there
are many handsome ones among the
modern lot. The fairest of the fair, in
e point OF beauty, if not of complexion, are
the Coptg in Cairo. Their tint is the
darkest prevalent, but the best artists
proclaim them to be admirably put to-
gether in form and features. The Egyp-
! tians are not much blaeker than the
z Italians.
= The diploma distributed to each Pill
@ grim in memory of the Pcpe's Jubilee is
} a finely Autographed and arabesque sheet
, of paper, on the corners of which are the
q four great churches of Rome-St. John
q Lateran. St. Peters, Santa Maria Mag
~ n.,B- and in oGditiOu tho