The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-03-02

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We are now rejoicing i'll the latest
of scientific discoveries-the wonder
ful PsychometeY. With this marvellous
instrument you can look right into a
persons brain (f he have any, and
you can tell what he is going to think
about. Mind eading is no longer
the secret of showmen and travelling
mouutebanks. The shop girl who
Esells you yard of tape or a paper of
pins, can look in your eye and with
a Psychometer in her inside pocket
can tell exactly how much you are
going to beat her down. We had Il
private exhibition at a fashionable
boarding house ON Wednesday last,
but every body knew SO much about
everybody else that it produced such
disturbance in the company that two
suits for divorce are now pending !;
there were five free fights coming
down stairs, and a couple of actions
for personal damage, are the results
of the evenings entertainment. My
wife has lively curiosity to see how
| the old thing works, but | mildly
suggested that perhaps it might ex
plode, and there the matter rests for
the present.
Our savans are in grief, for we lose
the Castellani collection, which, for
the last year, has been an unqualified
source of delight to all of our intelli
gent citizens. 1t will be long before
we shall again have an opportunity Of
studying such gems of art, bringing
back the most halloWed memories of
the worlds immortal dead I was in
hopes that perhaps Judge Hilton, Mr.,
Stewards lucky heir, would have cast
some bread upon the water, but l
leaned upon broken reed. l had a
faint suspicion that, may be, Mr.. As
tor would respond. Perhaps his judg
ment is more profound on Schweitzer
Kase than Archaeology, and this ac
counts for his silence at the present
interesting jancture. Those of us
who visit Ltulon may perhaps have
thu. pleasure of looking at them in the |
British Museum, unless Kaiser vii
helm or the khedive OF Egypt should |
secure them for their national collec-
lions. The first man that hear talk |
ing about public spirit in New York,
| will send the fool killer in search of,
and if he dues not brain him on the |
spot, I'll have him deposeti from his
Office.
You know it used to be considered |
as rather uncomplimentary to cali il
man after that gentle animal which
assisted Joseph in his fight into
Egypt. / doh't know that the objec
tion is entirely done away with yet,
but if any man wants to call me IA
horse, should rather esteem it a
compliment saw some horses up at
the Aquarium that could do every
thing but talk-such feats as never
were performed by any equine before.
And as for dogs, why the next man
who calls me a puppy, shall think
is trying to compliment me for these
dogs are ahle to do, in these hard
times, that which many Il two-legged
puppy is not, and that is, to earn
their own living.
Notwithstanding the mild winter,
there has been much of suffering and
sorrow. The comfortable merchant
aud mechanic, wrapped in his double
Ulster and Fastening to his home, /
warmed with Baltimore heaters and |
comfortable with all the appliances
of our modern civilization, is apt to
forget that a poor woman or a
wretched child, slIivering il calico
aud rags, may possibly suffer from
cold even when the thermometer
fails to mark ten degrees below zero.
The second murder within u m0Ht..
at Owney Geoghsan's rum hole, I03 |
Bowery. It is true that the murdered |
men are just of the kind that save us
the expense of gallows, but | can't |
say that admire this means of put
thug them oat of the way. If we
could only get up sort of general
prize fight. and induce them to keep
at it till, like the Kilkenny eats, there
should be nothing left of them, it
would be an antold blessing to
society. But now they endanger
honest citizens with their miscellane-
Gus shooting, and, as there are very
few of US left, So it behooves society
to be careful. Three murders, four
suicides, aud couple of disastrous
fires, have failed to make us comfort
able in fact begin to doubt if there
is such thing as truly unqualified
happiness. Hoping that you, Mr..
Editor, and your readers, including
myself, may each get Il share of what
little is stirring, l am, Yours trnly,
BROADBRIM.
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