The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1889-08-16
LOUISIANA FRIDAY, AUGUST 1885
ODDS AND ENDS.

1t is asserted that Paris shopkeepers
have raised prices fully 80 per cent,
but only to strangers.
It is an ancient belief that change
In the body Of man occurs every
seventh year. y
The man who boasts that he is ready
to shed his last drop Of blood is apt to
be particular about the first drop.
A Huntington paper says; There are
villages in this county Of 200 or 800
inhabitants where it would be impos.
sible to find a soul astir on Sunday
afternoon. II is a universal custom
to map"
An offensive trunk raised an excite,
ment in the depot at New Oxford,
Adams county, Pa, the other day. On
being opened ii was found to hold
ladies wearing apparel we'll stocked
with naphthaline to keep off moths,
Australia is as cosmopolitan as the
United States, At a hotel in Sidney
the other week there were thirteen
different nationalities represented at
one table ..
The size of the canvas on which
Millet painted "L'Angelus," the ia
nous $1l0, 900 picture, Is 21b by 25t
inches. The painting was paid for at
the rate Of $2O4.05 per square inch.
Lightning struck the house of Col
l.. NJ Edwards of Oxford, Me-, knock
ing kerosene lamp into a thousand
pieces and taking a metal clock from
the wall of the room and hurting it
under the cOlOnel's bed Nothing else
in the house was disturbed,
Miss Mary Graham was awarded the
prize in political economy at the com
menCement of Wesleyan university
at Middletown, Conn. Miss Lily B.
Conn in natural SCIENCE, and Miss
Matte j. Beach in English literature,
A scheme for Matching partridges
for stocking Montgomery county,
Pa, is to be put in operation
by the Game Protective assooia-
ton of that county. The eggs will be
bought in large quantities and hatched
in artificial inCubatOFs
The present English national debt
may be said to have commenced in the
reign of William III, 1859. Eight
years after the date given it amounted
toabout e5, 600, 900 sterling, an amount
then thought to be of alarming mag
nitude.
A curious theft is reported from
Prague. A burglar having gained &C,
cess to the cabinet of we'll known
collector, broke open small but rich,
ly chased steel Golfer fort of antique
Workmanship, and, having taken out
its contents (abOut $3.50 in Austrian
currency, obligingly left the casket,
the worth Of which at moderate com.
putation is said to be Fl, ,250.
When Jacob Foss, of Green Bay, Wis,
died a few weeks ago eight different
men presented bills to his widow, but
she had a receipt for each one in full,
Her husband had filed away matter
Of 1000 of them, saying they might
come handy some day.
An invention has been made which
promises to reyolutioniza completely
the industry of china decoration. BY
a process discovered by J. B. Bonnaud
it is possible to obtain in q few minutes
the same artistic effects which cost the
hand painter on china days of labor
Landscapes, groups of figures and por
traits are produced by this means on
vases plates and plaques in their ma
tural COlors, even to the most delicate
shades.
The New Orleans Times Democrat,
taking the data afforded by reports
from several Of the states, estimates
that very nearly half Of the cotton is
now raised by white labor, whereas
thirty years ago not over 400, 600 bales,
or one tenth OF the crop, was raised by
the whites
The Railroad Age gives the approxi,
mate mileage of railroad construction
during the first six months Of the pres.
ent year, which is estimated at |, 629
miles, or less than half that Of the
same period Of 1888. More than half
of the new construction is in the south.
The Age estimates the total mileage
for this year at from $500 to 5000
miles,
1t is no more possible, says Rev.
Sydney Smith, for an idle man to keep
together a certain stock Of knowledge,
than it is possible to keep together
stock of ice exposed to the meridian
sun. EVary day destroys o fact, re,
latiop or an influence; and the only
way Of preserving the bulk and value
Of the pile is by constantly adding
to it,