The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-10
OF GENERAL lNT9RGaT..

The flavor Of eggs depends ~.
much ON the kind Of food given to th
poultry. When hens arc fed largely o
almost exclusively on milk the yolk
lighter In color. the white has Q milk.
look. and the svhole e6g II yvatery AM
less arm in texture than those laid b
the granted hens.
-SAmuel jeRries and wife; each aReS
setenty-six, reside at HustDnville, Ky
They had no children in the first sever
years OF their married life, but in tn,
eleven months after that four wer,
born, and in the next fourteen year,
fifteen moro were born. There were
| seven pairs of twins among the nine
teen children.
Young men who were exploring N
Immense cavern In Harding county
KY, few days ago. found in one room
place decayed box containing two
diamond rings. three pistols and q lot
OF earrings and bracelets With the
skeletons were two watches marked
respectively "R. c. A. and s'S J.
| Nick"
| -Tchoa, Wash, has adopted the ball
| and chain punishment for tfamps and
its first applica ton is interesting. The
| tramp was made fast to a ball and chain
and put to work on the street While
his guard was. taking rest the prison
er picked up the cannon ball and start
/ Il.
| was captured, however, and was penal
lied for his attempted escape by having
| three balls and chains attached to him
-Ex-Treasurer Alfred d. Goodrich,
\ of Connecticut. has made collection
| of portraits of the treasurers of that
state who have served since 1869. The
number is thirty-one, and the collec-
ton Is complete. with two exceptions.
OF these, ikenesses cannot be obtained
nor can any be obtained of the eight
treasurers who officiated before that
year. The collection is to be hung in
the treasurer's Office in the state CAP.
itol in Hartford.
Rabbi Solomon SCHNEIDER considers
the orphan asylum ideal and says it
would be well if the world would fit
itself to the asylum. He is inclined to
wish for the death of all poverty-striclx-
en- parents in order that their children
might have the benefit of training in
such institutions 1t is stated by good
authority, however, that children turned
out by orphan asylums do not, as a
rule, succeed in holding their own in
the struggle for existence. The super
pupils never learn to understand the
value of money"
The posted list Of most New York
clubs is a business barometer Such
lists are unusually long and their items
unusually persistent in times of depres~
sunshine they melt like snow at thu
approach of spring. 1t is a point of :
pride with some men never to be thus
posted for debt, but doubtless there arc
snobs who contemplate with satisfac-
ton the appearance of their names
once month on the bulletin board
along with the names of distinguished |
men in whose company they would be |
glad to be seen upon any terms.
Can anyone make black whitc?-l
'twould seem SO. A piebald colored |
woman in a police court, turned white I
in spots, gave the reporters "a clew by !
which they discovered a young woman
who makes Il business of decolorizinp
colorcd folks by applying an ointment
which actually takes off the cuticle
and the pigment beneath, SO that after
the subjects are cured of the scalding
process the tint is much Zig liter. 1t is
very painful and costs five dollars, but
The operator claims to have bleached
one thousand already. She also
'traightens out l<inl<y hair SO it may
be brushed and parted.
One of the latest uses of aluminium is
laboratory of Lehigh
says, after two years of
'ctual experience, that in point of
ightness. cleanness durability and all
'ound adaptability, vessels of alumni
lum are the perfection of cooking uten-
lAS. l1c luSCdHCcS TWO OO1lGrS which |
rave been in daily use for cooking all
orts of food, for preserving, stewing
ruits and the like and are to-day as
fright as new and have not lost Il frac-
ion of weight. One weighs one pound
Se1ve and Il half ounces and the other |
ne pound seven ounces.
IA number of my friends" said a !
nan of moderate means, ''appear TO be
citing on bravcly in life, and making ,
aoney. Among them is my friend the
ndertaker. He used to drive a single |
orse to a plain black wagon, but now he &
rives pair of horses to a wagon that ,
AS plain as ever in color, to be sure. ,
ut which is larger, more costly, and ,
lore elaborate in design, and so per-
ect in construction that it moves
and silently. 1 grudge no ,
IAN his prosperity: it never worries !
he that my friend the merchant makes .
dollar from my purchase, but I am 7
ratcful that have been called upon ! =
'r no ton to tho prosperity :
my friend the undertaken" s
velvets That Are Part Wool. e
The handsome velvcts called velours I
liroir owe their depth and richness of | q
.xture to a by no means Insignificant a
mount of wooden worked up in to their
eft and warp. 1t would be almost I'M |
ossible to obtain a similar effect with | d
Esill<, and certainly not:without double
'e expenditure Of raw material. For.
erly it was necessary to give six dol
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