Houma Ceres. [volume] (Houma, Parish of Terrebonne, La.) 1855-18??, 1855-08-30
OUR CHIP BASKET.

....Ne once heard of q rich u.an who
was run over and badly injured. chs moi
the accident that mind said he, that
isn't the thing, but the idea of being run
over by an Internal swil.cart makes me
mad
lido you think I'll get justice done
mel" said cuIprit to his counsel. Il
don't think you will, )" said the other. ''ior
see two men on the jury who are opposed
to hanging"
....A chap stopping at one Of the ho-
tells in New York. was asked bv the Wait-
er whether he would take green or black
tea? He replied that he ''didn't care wha;
color it was. persided it had plenty 0
sweetnin' in it,
....A hoy at s:reet-crossing having
begged something of a gentleman, the
Latter told him that he would give hit.,
something when he came back. The lad
replied, "Yonr honor would be surprised
if you knew how much money lose By
giving credit in that way
-. 1t is not we'll to set UP for a per-
pctual moralist among persons who love
pleasure. You viii be IKE skeleton at !
feast-dismal and unwelcome.
...Socrates seeing Seeding wife,
who had hung herself on an olive tree. ex-
claimed-.'Oh that all trees would bear
such fruit
-. ."Sure, an it wasn't poverty that
druv me from the ould counthry." said
Mike, ssfor my father had twenty yoke
Of hoxen and a COW, and they gave milk
| the year round
....A part Of The mountain of sorrow
which an inebria.e had hcapcd upon his
own head. ladely slid off, and unfortunate
I " broke down the bridge Of his nose.
1.-THE following is from an Ens ,sh
paper:-s:Wan tcd, 4 man and his wife
to look after farm, and a dairy with a
religious turn Of mind without incum-
brance,' E
...."The longer | live," says Sir T.
F. Paxton, ''thc more certain | am that
the great difference between men-be-
tween the feeble and the powerful, the
great acd the insisnitlcant-is energy,
finvinciple determination, purpose once
fixed on. and then death or victory"
IA young man and female once stopped
at country tavern. Their awkward APP
pearance excited the family, who COM
menced conversation with the female by
enquiring how far she had travelled.
..Traveled!'' exclaimed the stranger, in.
disnantly, tive didn't trayel-we rid"
49,. A conscientious clerk refused a
valuable situation under the Electric Tele-
gta.h Company, because he did not like to
accept ga post where he was a RESPONSE
Il,le agent with unlimited li(e)abilily."
-. An Irishman and an Englishman
falling out, the former threatened his op-
ponent that it he did not hold his tongue,
he would break his impenetrable skull,
and let the brains QUIT Of his EMPTY
head.''
I .....Hans: where was you porn2 ,;
.On the Holderback." "What, alwaysl'
..Yaw, and before too ''How old are
i YOU then ~ s'When the old school. house
is built, was two weeks more nor year
what is painted red, as you go home NIT
YOUR pack pehind you, on der right hand
side by der old blacdsmit shop, what stands
where it was burned down, next year viii
be two weeks.
4 1.-The Bosten Post, in reference to
the wear Of coin, says that gold coin
would last 1900 years before it would en-
Itirely disappear. Mr.. Phatgander Broom
sticks thinks there must be some mistake.
His gold coin, OF the largest dimensions,
generally taking more than week to dis.
appear, while he has known double eagle
to be born down to the size of three cent
piece in the course Of a single evening.
.....How do you get along with your
arithmetic 70 asked father of his young
hopeful. ave ciphered all through addi-
ton, partition, abolition, satisfaction,
distrastion, abomination. justification. dar-
nation, creation and adoption" Hopeful
will shine on some short line railroad.
-. Dante, in his lowest hell, has p!ac-
ed those who have betrayed women and
in fbe lowest deem Of the lowest deep.