The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-06-18

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Master Arcine Alton, aged twelve
years, is a telegraph messenger in New
Orleans. He recently found on the
street q package containing negotiable
bonds to the amount Of $4,000 and
turned them over to lawyer, receiving
for bis honesty fifty cents: A detective
then stepped in and was paid 500 for
having the bonds returned TO the real
owner, while the honest telegraph boy
has to be content with his reward of
half a dollar.
"A dog belonging to James CORN.
ley, Of Parkesburg, Pa, is kept chained
to its box on account of its aversion for
chickens. The dog has sort of friend.
ship, however. for one of the feathered
tribe, and whenever this hen wants to
lay an egg she walks up to the dog
house, and after cackling for few mo.
ments succeeds in attracting the animal
to the outside of the box, where it will
remain in all kinds of weather until the
work Of the hen is finished.
Green canaries were exhibited at q
recent bird show in Berlin, Germany.
Others were red, light brown and gray.
The variations of color had been caused
by the daily use of cayenne pepper in
their food. The pepper was at firstgiv-
en- in small quantities, and the birds ap.
peared to like it, but the feathers soon
fell, giving them q molting appear
ance. In 4 short time new feathers of
divers colors sprouted. The variations
were ascribed to the different qualities of
the pepper and the quantity given.
An Alabama father committed sui
eide because he thought his wife loved
their daughter more than she did him !;
q California girl because her father mar
RED woman who was her junior; q
Rhode Island mason because he care
lessly built wall out of plumb; a Geor-
gia negro because he could not feel that
he had a satisfactory quantity or quality
of piety; a Maine farmer because balky
horse exasperated him; and q Michigan
bride because her husband of three days
swore at her.
"A Kentucky COW raised on the farm
of Erastus Ellsworth, of East Windsor
Hill, has q remarkable record. April,
16, 1877, she gave birth to twins, one
male and one female; March 10, 1878,
she gave birth to triplets, two males and
one female, making five calves in eleven
months and three days; July 9, 1879,
she gave birth to twins, both males !;
Oct. Z, 1880, she gave birth to triplets,
two males and one female, making ten
calves in the three years five months
andtwenty.one days. The calves have
all been Of good size, healthy and
handsome, and have been raised on the
farm. AZ .n.u
Travellers in Egypt are surprised at
the large amount Of ophthalmia and
blindness prevalent among the inhab-
itants. Want Of cleanliness is the cause.
An Egyptian mother, under the inf1u-
ence Of widely-prevalent superstition,
does not wash her child's eyes until
eight days after birth. BY that time the
organ is frequently ruined. The teach
.ers in the American and British mission
schools Of Cairo say that Egyptian
mothers become invariably angry when
urged to wash the eyes of their newly
born infants, and can rarely be per-
suaded to comply with q request Of the
DIR. Thomas, 3 dentist Of Vienna,
was summoned recently to Kirwin, in
Russian Poland, to perform a dental op.
Grafton upon the Countess Waleska. At
the border station of Radjwilow he was
stopped, required to show his passport
aud have his baggage searched. His
name at once awakened suspicion, from
its resemblance to that Of Thomassen,
the infernal.machine man Of Bremen
haven; and when the officials found .
mysterious apparatus in his baggage
this suspicion became fixed and positive,
and the unfortunate dentist narrowly es.
capped faring roughly. He tried to ex-
plain the workings of the apparatus, bat
without much avail; and when he was
finally allowed to 90 on his way q de-
tective accompanied him until he met
the servants and carriage of the Count
ess. The machine, however, had been
previously confscated. Such Is travel
Ing in Russia.