The Louisiana Democrat., 1883-06-06
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This New Haven debtors have
recently shown such partiality for
lemon Juice in prescriptions that the
large drug stores now buy lemons tty
the box. In one prescription; weigh
ing eight ounces, prepared a day or
two ago, there were six ounces of
lemon Juice.
"A WISCONSIN jury has awarded
Timothy Lewis $l4oo for service in
securing a wife for Benjamin A. Jen-
kins, wealthy but aged resident Of
La Crosse, whose want of success in
seeking second matrimonial part.
ner induced him to engage an agent
to act for him. eg
-SoME person with turn for dis
NAL statistics has computed that the
chance for being murdered in Rome
and England are as 237 to l. In
Rome there is q homicide to every
$50 inhabitants; in England one to
every l7S,000. In London there are
four illegitimate children to every
100; and II Rome the proportion Is
243 to 100. s4'1 'st&
WHEN were these eggs bolledl"
asked man Of negro lunch dealer.
dis mawnin', sab" "SWell, then,
no account. can't eat an egg that
hasn't been boiled several days"
"Oh, does. yer mean when da was
fust biled3 Da was fust las week,
an was only billed over dis mawnin,'
sab" [Arkansaw Traveller.
4 -THE perpetual clock which has
been running in Brussels for year
+ without stopping or being touched
! by human hands, is wound up by a
draft of air through q tube which
operates on fan connectedswith the
machinery. The, draft, is made to
pass upward through the tube by
exposing it to the heat Of the sun.
-Ir's said tbs the Indians of Ala.
ka do not belong to the same race as
the North American Indians, but,
. that they are probably the offshoot
t from the Japanese or Coreans. The
missionaries who have been labor.
e ing among, them say that in many
/ l]respects their conceptions Of moral
f law are better than those Of Ameri.
; can Indians. .aa:sai aae
] -FArHER to his little;ison, who
has just handed him the teachers
J report Of progress and hconduct for
. the last month. "Tilis report is
very unsatisfactory; I'm not at all
e Epleased with it," Little son; q
, told the teacher that i Ittbought you
e wouldn't be, but be wouldn't change
it,
AN enterprising Baltimorean has
+ opened bureau for furnishing male
0 escorts to ladies who are so unfortu-
; nate as not TO- have any gentleman
! friends they can depend on. The
t photos of the escorts are kept in al
: buns, which are sent by 9 messen-
!; ger to the house of, the applicant.
0 She selects her man, and be, presents
= himself dressed for opera, church
r and evening calls, and serves her
;. faithfully for 81 an hour, unless the
!, time employed exceeds two hours,
d then it is less. They are most in
n demand during the, amusement
J. season. is3 tsE9i ie ta9o4fs
-Go1Na 70 Europe has got to be
nearly a matter of economy. The
fare to London is only $l10 to 60
y and return, OF my $4 day, merely
e. hotel rates. Carriage fare in Eu-
8, rope is about osix.peuse admile; in
E. this country about two shillings a
'e mile. What can account for such an
d extraordinary difference, particular
'e " since ye raise all the corn and
d fodder and most Of the oats? Tht
le railway companies might relieve us
" from the exaetions Of hackmasters
- aud the Pennsylvania Railroad hal
VI VI put score Of hausoms at a quarte1
20 of dollar the course in its new
W Philadelphia depot.
Us ->)~-
at 7-"MY dear man." said the doctor
ut as be sat by the bedside of Wal
be street speculator, "your case is YER.
ce serious one." fi
to tIn other words, I've sold short,
l replied the patient.
ht "That's it, exactly. 1tis my dut
nd to inform you that you will not liv
ne three days"
no "In other words, if the marke
Mes M falls another peg my broker will Sc
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