The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-04-26
THE WIDE, WIDE WORLD.

THE Trial was the first ship ever built
in Boston, and she made trip to Bilbao
in 1888.
WILL a man who speaks of " Cupid's
hall F" be accused of refe rring to the we'd
ding presents?
ALL of the new steamers that are
launched these days for ocean travel arc
steered by the aid OF steam.
The Louisville Ceurier-Journal says
that at the hanging of the negro, G. w.
Young, every face was stretched
" taught with anxiety.
A GIRL of fourteen long years recent
ly killed herself in Millersburg, Ind,
because ner father refused to let hor keep
company with young man.
ONE New York lawyer called another
a sweet-scented geranium," the other
day, and the ono 30 spoken of can't make
up his mind whether he ia insulted or
not.
The Richmond (Ky.) Register has the
largest library of any paper in the state;
at least it says we have an indexed re-
cord of all the killings in Madison couD.
ty since the war"
A SAN FRANCISCAN, who was sued
for the value of half dozen shirts made
to his order, pleaded misfit, and APP
peared in the witness>stand wearing one
of the garments. He won the case.
THERE arrived last week at Plymoth,
". H, from California, $4,000 land
locked salmon eggs, for the New Hamp-
shire state Matching house. The eggs
came by express packed in wet moss.
IT is announced, on good authority,
that Mrs. Kate Cobb will not ask for a
new trial, though it is stated that the
| two new witnesses are ready to testify
that Mr.. GLIB took, voluntarily, arsenic
occasionally.
THERE is colony. somewhere in North
Carolina, of 900 hundred negroes, who
are engaged in working a quarry. They
have organized local sell, government,
and the whipping post is the principal
institution.
In the current North American Re-
view the statement is made that the In
dams az a race never before cultivated
30 little land as now. This reminds one
of the old question, Why are there
more white sheep than black killedT'
THE ianitor's instructors to his son !:
"When you meet the first floor, bow
and take off your hat tor the second I'M
cover /; for the third, carry your hand to
your head for the fourth, nod; Tor tn
attic floor, let the ledger nod first.
"No, thank you; I never waltz; ma
says If any of the young men want 70
hug me they must do it on the sly she
won't have them mussing my dress
up, and leaving finger marks on my
white waist, so long as she does the wash
ing and has to support me-
A FEW weeks since mandatory
was started in Manchester, England, for
the making OF Melilotine coffee" A
seizure was made OF the product OF the
factory, and it was found to consist OF
c1ffee, chicory and date stones, the last
being new adulteration for such pur-
pose.
THE New York Times says that the
first va us which lady in that city put
On some recently lost diamonds, was
$4,000; q subsequent investigation
brought their worth down 30 that she
valued them at $500 EACH and finally q
reward OF 800 was offered for the one
that was stolen.
HERE are the dry bones of snake
story: For several years past huge
snake has often been seen by sober peo-
pie near Poughkeepsie, N. Y. A few
days since two men were saving up a log
i'm that vicinity, and found within the
bones OF probably this same snake. 1t
must have been over twenty feet long
when alive.
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