Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1888-08-04
RANVIILE RICI-AND PARISH Ia. AUGUST f. 1885,

THE suit of Mary Berry, of Detroit, for a
divorce from John Berry, on the grounds
of cruelty and non support. came up be-
fore Judge Brevoort. The plaintiffs
mother took the stand and testified to
the first charge. lone night" she be-
gan, BERRY came home drunk and
chased Mary about the house with q
knife. She ran down stairs to get away
from him and he picked up small coal
stove and threw it, fire and all, down
stairs after her. The stove did not hit
Mary and we put ont the fire before the
house was burned down" Mrs. Berry
got her divorce.
THROUGH the simplest remedies relief
comes, and the new methods of medicat
ing n patient by food chiefly are carrying
ont this formula in General Sheridans
case. Tactic acid which is not very far
off from the beverage commonly termed
buttermilk, has been doing peptic won-
ders, it is announced. \ good many
people who are "out of sorts" with liver
troubles might try the buttermilk fure
direct without waiting for an illness to
have it prescribed to them. Especially
old people and worn ont people frequent
ly find fountain of youth i'll the
churns surplus.
THE popular idea that n razor needs
rest occasionally has n scientific founda-
ton in the case of very fine razors. The
grain of the best Swedish razois runs
in diagonal direction from the upper
end of the outer point toward the handle.
Constant stropping will twist the steel
until the grain sets up and down, and
steady use draws the grain still further
over. When it gets into this condition
it cannot be kept sharp, but if laid away
and left alone for while the grain will
resume its first position and the razor be
as good as new again.
THERE grows in Mixteca, Mexico, a
plant which the natives call "The Herb
of Prophecy" 1t is said that whoever
partakes of the herb in few moments
sinks into sort of sleep, or rather hyp-
motto state, in which, apparently quite
insensibly, he has kind of prophetic
gift, or double sight, answers questions
that are put to him, and becomes so
under the will of another that he obeys
iuN CDUlflltDu even W tthlllS lllS oNI
life. When the effects of the herb wear
of he remembers nothing of what he
has done.
An English clogmaker named Green
wood made bet that he would stay I'M
der water longer than anybody i'll Here
ford. He swan out into the river and
disappeared, while friends on the banks
l. II al Il. -. Lin, Whn,,
he had beaten the record they became
alarmed, went after him aud dragged
out his lifeless body. He had won the
wager. in one sense, for the doctors de-
cided that he had not drowned, but that
death had resulted from the sudden i'm.
mersion after heavy meal.
The son and daughter of a woman of
independent means, named Bromheal,
were recently fined S5 in England for
Systematically defrauding railroad by
travelling without tickets until within q
mile of their destination, and then using
tickets for that distance handed them by
friend, giving up those tickets at the
end of the trip rs though that was all the
distance they had travelled. such fraud
being possible un Ter the English rail-
way methods.
ThE pretty daughter of Columbus,
O., preacher is in bad fix. She has
eaten pickles until she has dwindled
from 200 to 60 pounds. She can no
longer eat. Her tongue is as dry and
hard us piece of leather, and her ply
sicians say that the interior of her stom-
ach is as hard and smooth as the sur
face of polished glass. The young lady
is only sixteen years old.
SPEAKING of cantilevers, Mr.. c. G..
Schneider, of Buffalo, who engineered
that great structure across Niagara Falls
is modest little German, and one would
sooner take him for a prosperous mer-
chant than great engineer OF wonder
! full accomplishments, were it not for his
dignity which is gracious without being
obnoxious-a happy medium between
reserve and egotism.
SINKING Mountain, located four miles
from Tailulah Falls, on the river Chat
/ tooga, Georgia, is great phenomena
in nature which scientists can not ex-
plain. Is sinks imperceptibly all the
| time, but on the occurrence of an earth.
quake even in the remotcs. part OF the
world, it sinks instantly from one to ten
feet.
THE big Nova Scotia timber raft.
whose owners are not alarmed at the fate
of the Leary raft, will soon be launched
and started on its way for New York. 1t
is made of 10000 sticks bound together,
being 700 feet long, with spars from %
to 175 feet in length. 1t will be towed,
and will also be manned and rugged to
sail.
The other evening the inhabitants OF
Deering, Me-, were much interested in
luminous cloud that hung over the town.
floating hither and thither. 1t slowly
settled, and thus gave citizen who had
got on a roof chance to report that the
cloud was composed of millions OF fire,
flies.