The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-02-07

/. If one can only make home happy; # til
# domestic circle is cheered and frightened wit
!. sunbeams of tender and devoted love to al
{ winter may be happy and blessed season
VI But, ii the father absents himself, if the wifi
. and children are alone evening after evening
2 when business does not claim him; or if th
| son ,Eanders away for pleasures he cannot fin
at home: or the wife or daughters be not sat
isfed with home comforts, then woe to tina
broken household It's worse than as thong
suEsdered By death.
IF ever I'm married" said Ike, leokin:
n up from the book be was reading and kicking
the stove door too theoretically ever Tn
l married Don't speak of marriage, Isaa
until you are old enough to understand tht
bond that binds eongealing souls. People mus
moi speak of marriage with impunity. 1t il
the first thing that children think Of nova
daas. and young boys in pianafores, and young
girls with their heads fricaseed into spttoor
eulls, and full Of loye-sck stories, are talking
81 marriage before they get into their teens
Think Of such ones getting married! Yet
there's Mr.. spaid, when heaven took his wife
away, went right to young lady's cemetery
and got another, no more fit to be the head Of
a family than am to be the board of mayor
and aldermen
Our lawyer, who FILED bill, shaved a
note, t'cut an acquaintance, . "split hair y
"snade an entry raised haul" "got up
| a case s.framed an Indictment ssimpan-
nelled jury put them in ga box, y mailed
q witness, Hammered Judge" achiselled a
client, and "bored whole court, all in one
day, has since "laid down the law" and turn
ed carpenter.
MIR. Witness, You have said that while you
were walking with an umbrella over your
head, you fell into this reservoir and were
badly injured. Did you break any bones, sir,
at that time? ~ did, SIR "What bones?"
.tWhalebones, sir!"
ttAh you don't know what muthical en-
thuthiathm it'll" said music mad Miss to
Tom Hood. Excuse me, madam" replied
thu wit, "but do; musical enthusiasm is like
turtle soup; for every quart Of real there are
niFaety mine gallons of mock, and calves head
in proportion
There are about 800 verses in Matthew's
gospelthat are also in Marks; more than 800
in Luke that are also in Marx; and about 100
that are also in Matthew. Nearly one half Of
the gospel by Matthew is to be found in Mark,
anti more than one-third Of the gospel By Luke
is to be found in Mark or Matthew
a good priest once said: sMarry pint of
rum to a lump of sugar and in less than an
hour there will spring from the union whole
family of shillelahs and broken heads. The
marriage ceremony can be performed with a
toddF-stick. =
Man is a curiosity-the less use he has for
money the more he worships it. Misers are
always folks Of very small stomachs and no
kin people
Ihe Worcester Transcript knows man Sc
mean, that he won't draw his breath for fear
that lie will lose the interest
There is a voice in some women, which, |
BY some not easily explaiaable sympathy be-
tween it and those who listen to it, viii do al |
most any thing; it will atone for the want of
youth and beauty, and has q power which
may, without a figure Of speech, be called
famous and highly celebrated Cleopatra, and
to such voice as this, it is said, madame Ro-
land owed, IN great measure, the strange fas-
;ination which her eloquence exerted on all
who came within the circle Of her attractions.
The Infamous Roman emperor, Heogaba-
balus, strewed his beds, and the porticos of
his houses with roses, and walked amongst
lilies and vlolets, hyacinths and narcissuses.
The emperor Galieus lay on beds of roses,
which he procured even in spring.
sEMIHAMrs-She was one day dressing her
hair, when tidings reached her that Babylon
had revolted. She had got the curls on one
iide of her head to her mind, but the tresses
IN the other were still in loose disorder. But
he threw herself as she was, at the head of
Ter soldiers, and flew to the siege, and did
lot complete her toilette till she had first redu-
ed the eitv tn ahedianca y