St. Landry democrat., 1878-01-26
Three thousand sharks have been caught

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for premiums at Melbourne.
An old bachelor in Boston wants to
adopt girl baby eighteen years cid.
The production of tea in India has
reached thirty million pounds recently.
Reading car shops are overcrowded
with work, the men working twelve
hours day.
There are said to be many impecunious
Americans stranded in Paris and Lon
don.
Lately II, 900 Goldfish were landed from
the dories of Nantucket, the largest
number ever landed in one day.
A man in Newburyport, Mass, is fat
tenniug 500 frogs. He keeps them in a
barrel and feeds them upon Indian meal.
| A Scotch minister recently told lis
hearers, mostly farmers, that he saw no
harm in garnering the harvest on the
| Sabbath rather than let it spoil. There
! is rods now in pickle for the rash mans
shoulders.
An ignorant colored girl of Norwich,
Conn.,, was caught trying to cut off her
hsnd witha large knife last week, because
she had literally read the scripture: eff
thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut it
off,"
Minister Comfy writes from Honolulu,
that wood cost from $l9 to 500 cord,
"and you have to split it yourself at
that (which will be excellent but
unusual exercise for an ambassador
abroad.
the pope has accumulated fund of
$4,000 00D, which is held by Toctonia
and some French and Brussels bankers,
for the pay OF ex-pontifcial soldiers and
and officials, and divers other purposes
incidental to the papal interests.
The amount of the fluid for the relief
of the widows berett by the Custer fight
has been rendered; it shows total re-
ceipt of $14 068, of which AT was dis,
tributed to the widows of officers, and
$5,773 to those of enlisted men.
Courbet, the French painter, who died
day or two ago, was better known as
the denolisher OF the Colonne Vendome
than as the high priest of the French
realistic school of painting. He was COM
pelled to pay large sum to restore the
damaged column.
For the accommodation and treatment
of its wounded soldiers the Russian gov
ernment has now to rely upon private
and charitable institutions, its own hos
pitfalls having been filled long ago. In
Moscow there are FIVE large hospitals
founded and maintained by donations of
single individuals.
When Miss Jennie Bly,, white girl of
Newport, KY, was recently baptized in
colored church of that town, the affair
excited some remark; but it is difficult
to classify the feeling aroused when,
few days later, she married one of the
brethren, as black as the ace of spades.
There were eighty nine failures report
ed in New York during the month OF
December, together with eleven assign
ments, of which the assets and liabilities
could not be obtained. This is the larg-
est number of failures that occurred in
any month of 1877, and the aggregate
liabilities, which are nearly eighl million
dollars in round numbers, far exceed any
previous month.
That distinguished Boston clergyman,
Phillips Brooks, is thoroughly natural
artless and sympathetic speaker. He
gives an impression of utter personal
uncensciousness. He reads rapidly and
rather weakly, as if short OF breath and
impatient to be done, and puts himself
into quick rapport with his hearers by an
almost anxious fashion of looking over
and among them at every pause.
The World finds that the Fifth avenue
hotel sells its garbage for 81 200 a year,
that the st. Nicholas receives Tor this
refuse $500 year, the New York hotel
5000 year, the Astor House $500 a
year, and the smaller inns in proportion.
Yet the city authorities, whs receive
from the taxpayers 5000 a day for
removing garbage and cleaning streets,
are able to do neither.