St. Landry democrat., 1880-07-31
MISCELLANEOUS.

den. under the SeNefeSt penalty, 10 an
Choir opposite the Winter Palace on the
river Ne'va.
A census enumeration got q terrible
whipping in Pittsburgh because he
pressed II stalwart Irish woman for an
answer to the question, 8 Are you white
or black?
St Paurs Church ut Troy. N. T.,
aud one in the chancel. A pneumatic
apparatus will enable single player to
play both instruments at once.
A Sheffield manufacturer is re-
ported to have told his workmen to vote
Just as they pleased in fact. sha'n't
tell YOU how Pm going to vote" he
said. ''Atter it is over | shall have a
barrel of beer brought into the yard. y
| e. Hear, hear shouted the men,
s But | sha II tap it unless Mr. WORT
ley, the Tory candidate gets in.
At Cardiff, England, lately. Il hotel
porter WAS sent to get change for t25
and Went OFF to London with the money
Arrested, he was discharged, because
said the magistrate, there was con-
tract between the parties, the prisoner
having undertaken to bring back some
thing different to what he received and
this took the matter out of the range of
criminal proc 1edings.
Rafferty, and Eagan, New Orleans
pugilistS, We're rivals for the hand of the
same girl, and they agreed to settle the
question by a ring fight There were
ropes and stakes, referee and seconds,
a police raid after the encounter and
other characteristics OF such occasions.
after all, for she said she had never in
tended to marry either.
The crown of Hungary has lately,
for the first time been photographed.
1t is greatly revered by the Magyars,
who believe that the inner portion
forms part of the original crown pre-
scented to the first King of Hungary by
the Pope, \. ID. 1000. The regalia are
! kept in chest secured by eight seals
and the royal seal in the center. These
may only be broken by those who af-
fixed them.
The EritiIt Medical Journal says
that garlic has already had great repu-
tation among anti-hy drophobia rene
dies and is found rs principal integral
| portion in a large number of formulse
| long kept secret. a young man bitten
| BY a md dog was shut up i'll a loft. In
| his delirium he seized upon some bun
dies of dried garlic, ate greedily of it,
fell into a deep sleep and awoke calm
and cured.
"A writer in the Scotsman AYERS that
! out of 30, 900 hams imported into Ham
| burg last year, 2o7 were found to con-
| tain trichin1, while of $4,000 sides of
/ bacon eighty five were found to be more
! seriously infested. He adds that re-
! cent commission in this country report
| ed that of the pigs slaughtered at Chi
cago no fewer than eight per cent. were
/ thus infested. At Liverpool and Glas-
| gov there is no examination made as at
Hamburg.
"A boy in Augusta, Me-, recently
found a nest with twelve young rats.
These he placed in q basket and pre-
sented them to the family cat, who is
the mother of two small kittens. Pussy
bounced upon the rats and devoured
ten of them. Then, taking the two re-
naming rats in her mouth, she carried
them to the basket and tenderly placed
them beside her own young, and there
they remain, living in harmony and
drawing sustenance from their natural
enemy. The cat evinces as much solic-
itllde for the safety and comfort of each
new protege as she does for her own
offspring.
A young man, nineteen years of
,I,nr ,rnl frp,,,
ticut State Prison, q few days ago, who
certainly has full claim to the title of
IAN unfortunate Utterly ignorant of
! his parentage, never having known a
home, mother or father, deficient in in
tellect and moral capacity, his earliest
and only memory of childhood as the
inmate Of an aimshouse, his whole life
to the present time as the veriest drift
wood of society, he finds himself now
a discharged convict, after passing
through the various stages of aims
house. juvenile reformatory, reform
school, Jail and States prison. What a
retrospect! What a prospect!
Two young Basques have just been
condemned at the Bases Pyrennees
Assizes to two years Imprisonment for
burning an old gypsy woman, much
venerated in the country as NEGRO
mancer and sorceress. The men found
this aged female lying in the road, help
lessly intoxicated, and set fire to her
clothes, thereby causing her death amid
horrible agony. EXtenuating circum-
stances were. however, found, the doc
tors declaring that the old woman was
so inveterate drunkard that they could
not state positively whether spontaneous
combustion had not forestalled the effect
of the pyre to which she had been SO
Tuthlessly subjected.
Several cases of death resulting from,
or directly following vaccination have
recently occurred in this city, says the
New York Graphic. "This will not do
at least, it ought not to be permitted
to do. Nothing can be more painful to
parent than the reflection that the
death of his child was the result of an
act to which he was at least consent
ing party. An isolated case of death
from erysipelas caused by vaccination
might be set down as anomalous; but
when half dozen such cases follow
each other in rapid succession, it be-