Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1886-01-16
THE SPICE OF LIFE.
Being a Variety OF Subjects OF More
orLess importance.

orLess Importance.
The Empress of China is learning to box. |
Pink primroses succeed the chyrsanthe-
NUNS.
A Home for Weary Women" is New
York idea.
One of the Farce Islands has been swal
lowed up by the sea.
A live owl was an Oddity in an opera in
London recently.I
Miss Murfree's new novel is to bear the
title I'm the Clouds"
Shad have of late years nearly abandoned
the Potomac river.
Hold-the-Fort is the name Of a postoffice
in Kingman county, Kansas.
A theatre with seating capacity Of % 900
is to be built in New Orleans.
Steinitz and Zukertort are about to play
game OF chess for stake of $500.
Mr.. Gladstone's autograph sells in Paris
for 20 francs, Bismarck's for 30 francs.
The first steaE.er to navigate the Pacific
ocean was sold at Victoria, b. C., a short
| time ago. She was built in 1887, and called
the Beaver.
At Mcpherson, Kan, the other day; bis
| cults were made from flour ground from
wheat that was standing in the field ninety
minutes before.
| A Georgia man has kept bale of cotton
| for twenty years, thinking that each year
he would see the article at the price which
| he thinks it is worth.
Craigellachie, which means "stand fast"
is the name Of the new railway town that
has sprung up around the golden spike OF
the Canadian Pacific road.
Every French women has three wedding
dresses. The first is for the civil marriage,
the second for the contract signing and the
third for the religious ceremony.
1t is the JOve of that journalistic thunder
er, the London Times, who accuses the ed
itOr Of the Pail Mall Gazette of "garnishing
his words with the frouzy jargon of pimps."
The inhabitants of the Laos country, in
Siam, are the LATEST people in the world.
They are so indOlent that they do little more
than collect rice enough to keep them alive.
The mortality in the city of Mexico,
which is without drainage, Is 5Oper 600 an
nually. In GuanajuatO, city of 5000
inhabitants, also unsewered, the mortality
is "a per 900.
Every few DAYS the report reaches London
that Caroline Patti has fallen down stairs
and broken her leg. English paragraphiSts
are now beginning to wonder how many
legs she has.
A man in Derby Line. Vt, has the identi-
cal tOmahawk which Hannah Dustin of
Deerfield. took from an Indian, and with
|
slept, in 1749.
A clock that was removed for safety from
a house in Lexington at the time OF the bat
tie there i'm IT'S, has just been purchased
by a Boston man for Sis. 1t is in good run
ming order.
One of the Atlanta Prohibitionists, who
was most active during the recent cam
paign, has been turned over to the police by
, his family. His head has been turned b.
the excitement.
: The women journalists of this countr,
, have National Press Association, and
New England branch has just been formed
in Boston, of which Mrs. Sally Joy. Of tn
= Herald, is president.
In Amador county, California, recent,
man found a miners unburied bones, ant
searching further, came aSroSS an old boo
, containing about s., 600 worth of gold dus1
and nuggets.
> Paintings for which the late Mrs. Mar,
j. Morgan paid close upon 81, 5OO, OOO vii
feel the touch of the crier's golden mallet a
auction i'm New York during the first weel
of the coming March.
/ Russian inspectors of provisions at 81
Petersburg not long ago found packages o
tea adulterated with 40 per cent. OF pc
] shells, and also factory where exhauste'
tea leaves were worked over.
Several strips of papyrus, originally takel
from an Egyptian grave and plac ed in tn
J Berlin Museum, have been found to con
tain portions of a lost wolk of Aristotle Of
: the Greek constitution.
r Five years ago two gold fish were placed
in the pond of the Cohassett, Mass, com
mon. When the pond was drained the 9th
] or day it was found that the single pair o
r fish had increased to thousands.
, Manitoba is filling up with people. Th
number of schools there in 1871 was 16, il
1881 it was lbs and in 1884 it reached $50. Tn
g school attendance was Sl6 in 1871, 4,919 L
? 1881 and IL, Gal in 1884.