The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Tiny conversation" is the modern
phrase for ''small talk" in fashionable
circles in New York.
There are now twenty-three cities
in Massachusetts. The most recently
incorporated is Waltham.
A noted San Francisco thief was
sentenced to forty years imprisonment
a few days ago for robbing IL man OF
six dollars at the point of a pistol.
"A few days ago the proprietor of
New York restaurant cut his hand with
an oyster shell, which caused his arm
to swell end py@mia setting in resulted
in death, ~ Y. Sun.
A Government pensioner of Edgar
town, Mass, is the fourth of his line in
direct descent who have drawn pensions
from the United States by reason OF
military service. Boston journal.
All branches of the worlds bust.
ness that amount to anything are seek
ing for the best men that can be found
and employing them at whatever cost.
Robert UeidenSalI, in Y. N. G. 4.
Waterman.
Major Brooke says, in the Rural
Home, that more cherries, berries,
peaches and grapes and less pie, cake
and meat would lessen pain, proiong
life. and greatly increase the mental
and physical vigor of the race.
"A statistical work reports that
there are in Nova Scotia PCS lawyers,
29S doctors and 468 clergymen. Ac-
cording to this, every hundredth full
grown man in the province is engaged
in one of these professions, one in
little over two hundred being clergy
man.
The Palatka (Fla.) Herald says:
"A man and family arrived here one
dav recently; the next morning he
paid four hundred and fifty dollars for
lot, and that evening he had a shanty
erected, a stove put up, and he and his
family slept in it that night. This man
was from Maine"
English people seldom hurry.
Twenty years ago the Mayor of Taun-
ton, Mass, forwarded the Mayor of
Taunton, Eng, a copy of the city char
ter and of the proceedings of the City
Councils. The gift has just been ac-
knowledged by receipt of copy of
the history of Taunton, Eng.-BoSton
Globe.
Russia threatens to beat the United
States as an oil producer. As yet it has
but lis wells in the Caucasian region,
against 10000 American wells, but the
average product of Russian well is
sixteen times as great as of on Ameri-
can well. The oil beds of the Caucasus
co; 60 ha he 1tnlx Ia
and are disposed in horizontal layers.
In 1872 their production of oil was 30, 900
tons, and in 1882 1000, 900 tons.
Mr.. Thomas Barbour, thread
maker at Paterson, n. j., who died
recently worth one million dollars, ii
not several millions, was the SOB of a
threadmaker at Belfast and travelling
salesman in America. His father
wanted to thrash him, big as he was,
for setting up thread-mill in America
against the British manufacturer.
Father" said the son, IN make
more money for you than / ever did,
and make money for myself, too" He
did.-N y Graphic.
BY the recent Spanish earthquakes,
a village in Granada has been moved
bodily some sixty feet in northward
direction, deep semi-circular crevaSse
appearing on its former site. The
course of the little river near which
the village stood has been blocked up,
and a lake is being formed. Many of
the sulphur springs with which the re-
gion abounds suddenly ceased flowing.
but reappeared day or two after in
a state of unusual heat, indicative, no
doubt, of the character of the force at
work below.
"A gentleman who had courted and
married his wife in full beard and
lived for ten years with her
endowed with the same hirsate adorn-
ment, quietly determined to have it cut
off. His wife found it difficult to recog-
nize him, and she sat staring at his
strange appearance for some time
We'll" he exclaimed, have you got
nothing else to do but sit stillp | sup
pose'you expect me to do all the work,
while you loaf, as usual" he snappishly
said. "Why it is you after ALL knew
you the moment you spoke" she re-
piled. Pittsburgh Telegraph.
In a recent lecture on the germs of
disease, DR.. Sternberg said that the
strips of flannel saturated with carboiic
acid hung up in the sick room, and
the chlorine saucer placed under the
bed, are WIDELY valueless in aresting
the progress of pestilence. Such
methods do harm, he thinks, by lead
ing people to neglect the far more i'm.
portant measure of admitting an
abundance of fresh air, which sweeps
away the germs. Many antiseptics
and deodorizers are valueless for the
destruction of germs. For this purpose
he recommends the liquor of the chic
rinate of soda.- Chicago Times.
A Chinaman was caught in cute
trick at jewelry store in San Fran,
cisco short time since. He bar
gained for a one hundred dollar dia,
mond ring, and offered in payment