The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1879-10-30
ALL SORTS.

THE badger is almost extinct in Wis
cOnsin.
A WTrNnNGTON steam fire engine uses
petroleum for fuel.
GENERAL MILES dislikcs to be called
"an Indian fighter"
SANTo MoNIco Cal, has no mosqui-
toes, save in winter
CANE fodder was the death of two
valued FLORIDA cows.
THE Prince of Wales sons are nick
named Sprat and Herring.
Snow fell at Portland, Me-, on the
Fourth of July, and the therm ometer
fell twelve degrees in twenty minutes
If glasses kindlc, as some poet says,
why will servants persist in the custom
of using kerosene.
THERE is single farm in Kansas
which is reported to have Il river front
age of over thirty miles.
DURING the past year six miIlion
acres Of public landS have been
taken up by settlers under the homestead
law.
THE town of Bridgcwatcr, Windsor
County, Vermont, was named advisedly,
for it has scyenty-iiyc bridges within its
borders
On the card issued to the invited
guests to the late Presidential tea, were
the invisible words, "Mcnu! Mcnu Tea
kettle. You pass in?"-G Graphic.
THE violin which Ole Bull performs
t,pon is three hundred and sixteen years
old, and was once the treasured property
of Paganiui
Mrs. WOLF, of Utica, pleaded her
own case before a Justice the other day
with parasoI. She broke it over her
adversary's head.
GEORGE w. CHIbDs, editor Of tho
Philadelphia Lrigcr, and ono of Gen.
Grants chief friends, fayors John Shcr-
man for President.
PRINCE ALBERT NICroE, son of the
Prince of Wales, will, on the return of
the Bacchante next spring, enter the
Wo0iwich Academy rs a military cadet.
HANLAN, the oarsman, condemns tho
Use of alcohol and tobacco, and says tho
best physical performances can only he
secured through abstinence from their
use.
GEO. WIN. CURTIS thinks no gentle
man will smoke in the presence of ladies.
Geo. William is entirely correct. OF
late years there has been somewhat too
much of this.
AT Buffalo Lake, Dakota, there is a
Presbyterian Church of Gty-hyc mem
bers, all full bIooded Dakota Indians,
with the Rev. Mazawacanayana of Iron
TmIndcr as pastCr.
lord BEACoNsFIELp, it is said, moro
than One-half believes in the transmit
grafton of souls, and used to fancy that
the spirit of Ulysses tcnanted the body of
the late Louis Philippe.
TINE goes at its own gait, and you
cannot hasten it by using " the spur of
the moment" You may ask your friend
to 'stop a minute" but neither you nor
he has the power to do it.
This is the Piekwickian form which Il
Western editor adopts to abuse y rival:
"0ur esteemed contemporary, the mis-
cradle, low-lived, scurrilous periodical
published on Larimer street.
THE highest rate of speed ever made
on the by a sailing vessel was accom-
plished by the American clipper ship
Flying Scud, the vessel covering four
hundred and sixty miles in tweHty-four
hours.
IT was the landlord of hotel at
Raleigh, N. G., who posted up during
the session of the Assembly this notice:
"Members of the Legislature viii please
be seated first and gentlemen after
ward"
THE new constitution of Louisiana ac-
cording to the latest adrices, will not
contain the clause prohibiting intermar-
riage between the whites and blacks, its
passage having been blocked by clever
parliamentary tactics.
PHANTOM parties are the correct
thing out West. A good healthy phan-
tom of the gentler sex is not an unpleas-
ant object, although we have known
fellow not to have the ghost of a show
when he has attempted to kiss it.