The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-10-16
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

sue iced, but was choked to death in
the attempt.
1t is stated by one of the guides at
the capitol, in Washington, that fiji.
teen brides an hour is the average
number OF visits to the statuary hall
each day of the year.
There is man in Schenevus, N.
T., getting rich from dog. He owns
q canine which he has sold several
times. but it always returns home, no
matter how far it is carried.
"A farmer of Peasants County. W.
Va, being greatly annoyed by rats in
his barn, filled half-hogshead with
water, put chaff over the top, scattered
meal on it, and in the morning fished
out over 200 dead rats.
An Illinois woman has invented a
DISTINGUISHING machine. AS it never
insists upon having its Sunday out,
with Thursday afternoon for shopping |
and cousinly visits, it is likely to have
a general demand among house
keepers.
The following epitaph on husband
and wife-the husband having died
first-is to be seen in one of the Paris
ian cemeteries: Il am anxiously await
ing you-A. D. 1927" Here / am
A. ID. 1867" The good lady had taken
her time about it.
The following advertisement APP
peared in a recent number of the Lon
don Tablet: ITO parents-Unruly girls
and boys of any age visited and pun
ished at their homes by a thorough
disciplinarian accustomed to admins
ercorporal punishment All bad hab-
its cured by one or two attendances.
Fee, five shillings for two visits. Ad.
dress Birch"
A fire that broke out in shaft OF
coal mine at Birmingham. Ala, i'm.
prisoned miner and sixteen mules.
The miner was reached about ten days
afterward and was found to be dead.
Eighteen days after the fire the mules,
which were much further back in the
mine, were reached and all but one OF
the sixteen were alive, although too
weak to stand.
jewellers in Florida who are fortu.
nate enough to possess pet sand-hill
cranes have discovered that they are
alert night watchers. No tramp or
thief can approach the house without
hearing clear bugle note of alarm.
The cackling OF a goose saved Rome
and the cry of sand-hill crane per.
forms the same service for the Florida
hen-roost and smoke-house.
Among the modern mysteries OF
Paris,'' says the London Figaro, is a
shop devoted to the sale of tea At
the retail counter real live Prince
may be seen any day weighing up
packets of the leaf which cheers but
does not inebriate. This Prince is the
son of an European General, whose
name is we'll known throughout the
continent, and who is related to some
of the most aristocratic of the families
of Paris.
The highest structure of masonry
> in the world is said to be the National
Museum recently completed at Turin.
.. It was originally designed for syna-
gogue, but it proved ill adapted to
: that purpose, and was sold to the city.
F, It was then converted into a museum
' as monument to the memory OF Vic
tor Emanuel. On top of the dome
l rises spire nearly as high as the
1 whole of the rest of the building. The
gilt statue on the top OF this spire
| stands 53S feet from the ground.
J; "A couple of good-natured French
men got into quarrel and challenged
: each other to fight. The morning o
y the duel they and their second:
y tramped through the woods to thu
fatal spot, when one Of the duelists
: the challenging party, tripped and fell
It His second helped him to his feet. g
/ hope you are not hurt?" said the othe7
9 duelist. "I'munot much hurt; l onl.
t bumped my nose on the ground.
+" "Does it bleed?" ayes, a little.
IS .Heaven be praised! Blood flows, ant
my honor is vindicated. Give me you
k hand. old boy!"
s Since it's first year the Thrice
n Club of New York has gone on rid
: culing minor superstitions with all it
Q might, and if it has not succeeded i
Is hurting the superstitions, the super
% stitions do not seem to have hurt tn
Il club Among the other achievement
of which the club is proud is the a
r. legged rehabilitation of Friday-a day
Id whose reputation has been of tn
ty worst from time immemorial. 1t pull
ar lished some time ago list of notabl
h, events, by no means baneful ones
as which happened on Friday. For il
" stance, the clubs archivist professe
40 to have discovered that on Friday
10 August 81, 1892, Christopher Colun
h bus sailed for America. On Friday
October II. 1892, he first discoyere
8, land. On Friday, December %. 1921
g. the MayAower landed the pilgrims o
Mt Plymouth Rock. Bismarck, Gladston
is and host OF great men were born Q
?" Friday. And so on through Ion
;h list.
e. "A citizen of Irwinton, Ga, hs
as dream that some one had entere
10 his kitchen to rob the house. He ro
70 from hia e,umher as he imapine