The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-03-25
ENTERTAINING PARAGRAPHS.

TWENTY years ago an iron theatre was
hhipped to Australia, from England, IN
convenient sections, SO rs to be put up
easily on arrival there.
A WOMAN at West Cornwall Conn,
failing 10 induce her husband 10 move
out Of house which she did not like,
deliberately destroyed il BY fire.
LEr us moi despise homely persons
They serve 10 remind MS that but
slight variation in our facial lines would
have irremcdiably marred our beauty.
A WRITER on dogs says that every ono
given tu sedentary pursuits ought 70
keep d dog, Us the necessity Of giving
exercise to the dog will exercise the man.
The following is an epitaph from
tomb near Versailles: Except in 1853,
during which for several days she tool
lessons on the piano, her life was without
Il stain
~ wIMI, says DIR. Schliemann, that
/ could have proved Homer TO have been
All eye witness Of the Trojan war Alas,
| can not doitn Still the doctor has NOT
lived in vain.
DumSG tho roign Of Napoleon /.
book of birds for children was suppressed
because il contained the phrase: "The
cock is rather the tyrant than chiettaiD
Of the farm-yard.
EVERY shell fired hy All army during
iege operations costs, with the powder
with which the mortar is charged the
sum Of eight dollars enough 10 support
n poor family for fortnight.
OsE of the modes Of punishment in
| China is TO compel criminal to die Of
sleeplessness, Wy keeping him awake a
| week, night and day. Ten days is sure
to prove fatal end is terrible agony for
| the victim.
An official return puts the feminine
snodels" in Paris at 675, The pay for
sitting is from 30 cents 10 $40. Most
| Of the models are Italian; thirty are
| American; 145 have been in the hands Of
the police.
THERE il a man in Newark, N. j., SO
close that when he attends church he
occupies the pew farthest from the pulpit
to save the interest on his money while
the collectors are passing the plate Tor
contributions.
The stages and theatres Of the Greeks
and Romans were SO immense that the
actors, to be heard, were obliged 10 have
! .ecourse TO metallic masks, contrived
! with great months, to augment the
natural sound Of the voice.
4 A oEsTLEMAN in Buckingham County,
Va. has among his domestic animals .
large rat, which was caught twelve
months ago by cat; but, ipstead ol
deyouring it, the cat nursed and fed it,
and they now play and sleep together,
: like cat and kitten.
II A SAD story is related by the Pittsyl
yania (Va. Tribune. a young man II
that county bought house, fitted il ~
from garret 70 cellar and purchased his
, wedding outfit. But the wedding dislut
take place. On the day fixed the bride
:. married another fellow.
The Milwaukee SIM speaks Of q per
e son who turned as pale as the ace oi
: spades" We always supposed the ace O
e spades was red, and was hard TO distin
7 tinguish from the jack of-diamonds, a
D We believe thet card is called where th
figure wears crown NOTris STORM Her
dtd.
AvorHRKR OF the Blue Laws in y
e olden time was: ''No one, shall run o.
e the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden
or elsewhere, except revereptially to an
8 from meeting. No one shall travel, coo
yictuals, mako beds, sweep house, Gu
Is hair or shave on the Sabbath day, \
v woman shall kiss her child on the SAT
e bath or fasting dry"
II Iris melancholy fact that crysts
y palaces do not pay. That at Sytlenhar
E has been inancial.failure, and now th
n Alexandria Palace, on the norther
n heights OF London, with its beautift
te park Of four hundred and seventy acres
to Is announced for sale. The expense {
n keeping up these places is 80 large as
" absorb all the profits,