The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-07-16
GENERAL.


-AA5tense has been issued in Boston
for me marriage of two young Japan.
30 The groom is Il student; his bride
KS seventeen;years cid, and was display
mat,, in Informative land. r.
There is an, interesting fish in the
Lake of Constance. 1t weighs from
sixty to eighty pounds, catches and
eats any birds thai fly too close to
the water, and when taken from its elc-
ment lit make, u noise like that of q
young calf.
"A German ragpicker named j.
Pranch, aged GO years, has just been
elected from the attic of Buffalo On.
W tenemcnt-house, where he bad been
living in the most abject squalOr. Two
bags, containing over $4,000 in gold
and silver coins, were found in his pos
session.
"A very romantic affair took place at
the Falls of Niagara recently. A fine
looking man, known as pr. Harry Oar
ling, OF Atlanta, Ga, recently registered
at Rosli's Hotel, and after remaining q
few days, spending his money freely,
visited The Table Rock House ard Mu-
scum, where he was equally free in his
expenditure. Finally his gaze rested
upon one of Mr.. Davis's handsome as
sistants, Miss Annie Murphy, formerly
of St. Catharine's. He ask cd her if she
would like to be married, and have him
for a husband. She said she would, land
she did. Next day the pair went across
the river and were married.
DR.. Hammond, of New York, sup
posed to be the highest authority on
nervous diseases, condemns as injurious
the ssmatterings' of physiology taught
to children, and especially to girls, in
the schools. He thinks that the lively
imsgipations of young girls will be so
wrought upon by the revelations OF
physiology as to the bodily functions
that nervous diseases are likely to result.
The Doctor does not hesitate to declare
that; !" 1t does q woman harm to know
where her liver is; for instance, / am
quite sure that the large increase in dis.
eases of the nervous system among
women in recent years is to a great ex.
tent due to the pernicious system of
cxiling their attention in schools to or.
gains that they had better know nothing
about. know that such attention de-
ranges their health, mentally and physi-
cally."'
"A member Of the League of Ameri.
can Wheelmen passed through Albany,
N.Y., the other day, on 4 bicycle with
a wheel fifty inches in diameter, on
which he had journeyed from Lima, O.,
to Boston, Mass, and was then on his
way back again to the West. From
Marseilles to Nevada, O., he said, he
rode for forty miles in a rut made in the
hard clay road by heavy wagons. From
Westfeld to Buffalo, N. Y, he rode be.
tween the tracks of the Lake Shore Rail.
road. From there to Syracuse he rode,
in company with another wheclman,
between the New York Central tracks,
frequently going fifteen miles an hour,
and making the whole distance-ninety.
three miles-inS twelve hours. II ex.
perienced," he added, "the hardest
time in New York City. I rode up
Broadway followed by crowd of boot
ing hoodlums, who poked sticks through
the spokcs of my wheels, and haressed
me In other ways. As laid out the trip
wa, ten hundred and sixty.tive miles,
but I shall run enough out of the way
to make it twelve hundred, at least"