The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-06-11
GENERAL.


The newspapers of Los Angeles,
CAL are tickled over the fact that q
Boston merchant bought 10000 white
blankets there and shipped them to bos-
ton. b.
1t will no doubt be news to many
that Chinese tobacco is being consumed
to a considerable extent both in this
country and in England. The supply is
so large and the leaf is 50 fine in Color
texture and fragrance that merchants
are exporting it westward to be mlxeo
with llavanas. 1t is used largely in the
manufacture OF cigarettes under the
name of Turkish tobacco. In twelve
months close upon S,"",ooo pounds OF
this leaf were exported from Hankow IN
foreign bottoms alone.
Says Prentice milford: "Iwo
hours work about a hot stove cxhausts
more than four hours work ont OF doors.
Americans in Europe are shocked or
pretend to be, at sight of women doing
mems work in the fields. They are
much better off than the American wom-
An. five sixths of whose life is spent in
the kitchen. The outdoor woman shows
some blood through the tan on her
cheeks. The American kitchen house.
wife is sallow and bleached out"
The Hon. George Grantley Fitz-
hardinge-Berkeley, Of Dorsetshire, Eng
land, Who died recently, left curious
will. The tcstator bcqueaths to his
faithful servant Matilda Leversucl, II IN
his service at his decease, his little ter:
rier doc "Jack," and an annuity OF
ESQ so long as ".Jack' shall live; on
".Jack 50 death he gives her oil annuity
of ESQ for life, and to such person as she
shall leave it to at her dccease for his o!
her life; there are requests to some OF
his other servants, and the residue OF his
property he gives to his sister.
Mr.. Harding, of Philadelphia, had
been guest at the Catskill Mountain
House IN. " for several seasons
lie always had the best in the house
and paid we'll for it. One day last sum
, mcr his little daughter, who was sick
wanted some chicken broth, and Mr.
Harding requested the proprietor OF th'
Catskill Mountain House to prepare 1t
, "if YOU want so much waiting on," wa
= the reply, ''you had better buy som
y LAID aud build hotel yorrsclf.' Nj!
q Harding said: "We!l, I dccIare; ne'e
q thought of that before. | believe vii
= act upon your surgcstion.' HARDING
. LETT the Catskill Mountain House 500
after this incident, and immedlate'
went TO work to erect 4 new house. In
result is the Kaatcrskill House, situate
). q short distance from the CatsklIl Moul
T. tain House, which contains $50 rooms.
II A Durango correspondent describe
l, terrible scorpion known as the alac'a'
q which infests that region. Its sting
(, mortal in every case, and no remedy h;
ever been found to counteract its dead
" poison. The spasms are so violent tn
m it takes three or four strong men to no
a patient stung by it. Happily, the su
1T fering is short, for after two or thr'
N hours it is all over. Patients emit fro
Ill their mouth q grcsnish.y yellow scul
re which turns into black spongy matt
ly in short while. Every year thirty
I'd more deaths are recorded as the wo
of the alacran. The Government pa
," a premium for their scalp, and DO
a hunt them and derive quite revcn
from that source, but the pest does n
t's seem to diminish any. They are said
vn occupy but small belt of land, runnl
east and west, taking in Durango a
ST. Mazatlan. 81,