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Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-05

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ANTIDoTE FOR PoIsoN.-A plain


farmer says: 1t is now more than TWEEN
ty years since learned that sweet oil
would cure thebite of a rattlesnake, not
knowing it would cure other kinds of
poison of any kind, both on man and
beast. / think no farmer should be
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ly, and battle the wound for cure. To
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DARK HoURs.-To every man there
are many, many dark houTs-when he
feels inclined to abandon his best enter
prise; hours when his hearts dearest
hopes appear delusive; hours when he
feels unequal to the burden, when all
his aspirations seem worthless. Let no
one think that he alone has dark hours.
They are the common lot of humanity.
They are the touch stone to try whether
we are currentecOin or not.
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SALT AND ASHES FOR HORSES.
Those keeping horses should, twice !,
week, throw in a handful of salt and
ashes. Mix them by putting in three
pats of salt to one of ashes. Horses
relish this, and it will keep their hair
soft and fine. 1t will prevent bolts, col
ic, etc. A little ground sulphur, mixed
with salt and ashes, and given once III
two or three weeks, is also beneficial
All domestic animals will he thus bene-
iitted.-T TUrf, Field and Farm.
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Killings PHILoSoPHY.--W lsdom
that don't make us happier amt worth
blowing for.
1t liz a good plan to kno menny people,
but let only few kno you.
/ never KIM man ov much wisdom
who cud sing song well or pla on a
fiddle.
don't care how man talks if he
will only say it in a few wurds.
Rewards deferred mekes us miserable;
it IL jist so with punishmentS, when l
was boy rather be licked twice than
to be postponed once.
There liz one thing sertain; reason is
more than master of pashuns. If this
is probably so, the man must be phoOl
WHO amt boss of himself.
We are anvil willing to pay more for
being amused than instructed.
How many folks do you serpoes thare
IL in this world who are satisfied with
things az far as they nave gotl Not
more than 6 I'll bet. This looks rather
dusty for the rest of the trip.
If a young man kant find emmy thing
else that he is fit for. like tew see him
carry a gold headed cane.
The top rounds ov ladder are alwaz
the most dangerous.
] beleaf in the final salvation of men,
but | don't want the privilege of pick
ing the men.
Thar is just this difference between a
success and failure-quarter of an
inch.
Although mankind worship wealth. I
will give them credit for one thing
they seldom mistake it for branes.
Most oc the CRATE things have been
did by taking the chances. Prudence
haz but one eye. while fcrSune has a
Thousand
1t IL eazy enuff tn git religun, but to
hold it bothers fellow. A good grip
is better than rubiz-yes than much
fine cotton clothes.
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A newsboy was given ten cents by a
gentleman in consideration of his not
swearing for a week, and promised more
at the end of that time if he kept his
promise. After receiving the money the
boy said: al understand that / must
not swear, but how in the HI are you
going to know whether l do or not?''
The oldest newspaper in the world is
published in Pekin, China. 1t is print
ed on silk and has appeared every week
for at least one thousand years.
A young lady went ont with rather
timid beau sleighing one evening, com
placently rtmarking to him that she sell
dem went sleigh,ng but she got chaps on
the lips. The young man took the hint
and chapped estt sN
The Empire Parish says that sugar
making has commenced in earnest IN
Plaqucmines; likewise that malarial dis
eases have almost entirely disappeared,
and that several levees are soon to be
constructed.
INJURTEs.---It a bee stings You, will
you go to the hive and destroy it? Would
not thousand come upon you! If YOU
receive trifling injury, do not go about
the streets proclaiming it. aid be anx-
iouS to avenge it. Let it drop. 1t is
nature to do wrong; but it is grace to
rectity.
An Irishman who was reprieved the
night before the day appointed for his
execution, and who wishes to get rid of
his wife wrote to her as follows:
81 was yesterday hanged, and died like
hero; do as did, and bear it like a
mani"
The Boston Transcript prints the fol-
lowing tlaconic" epIStle:
Mr.. B, see no reason why your
piggs should run at large in my gar
den. D.
Mr.. M, see no reason for your
spelling pigs with two gs. A. B..
Eloqupnce, says Emerson, is as natu
raj as swimming, an art which all men
might learn, but so few do. 1t only
needs that they be we'll pushed off into
the water, overhead, without cork, and,
after struggle or two, they will find
the use of their arms, and henceforward
they possess the new and wonderful
element.
Buffers butler having secreted some
teaspoons from his masters cupboard at
Lowell, with various initials,) the Gen
eral rpprOved him sternly; "When ]
took YOU for my butler, L did not think
that YOU would take me for your New
Orleans."-N. Y. World.
A modern Amazon, on her way to a
convention, asked for seat in crowd
ed car. An old gentleman with a keen
eve inquired: ''Be you one of the wo-
men fighters 2'' tsI be - answered the
undaunted heroine. "Do you believe
that women has the same tights as a
man % al do ~ (emphatica1ly.) ''Well,
then, stand up and enjoy 'em like a
man !''-BostOm Paper.
Col. Ward, of the South, declares that
with free negro labor, it will not pay to
open, clear up and fence our timbered
lands. He advocates discarding all
notions of agriculture living and pro
lucing at home what is consumed at
home, and becoming independent OF
the rest of the world,
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If we expect to receive the blessing,
of Heaven, we must work for them.
Gods bounties are hanging over MS in a
cloud, as it were, and ready to shower
upon our hearts the moment we are
ready to receive them. This inspiration
depends upon the use we make of our
faculties of body and mind. If we live
and act right, 'blessngs," as we are
wont to call them, will follow as a nee
eSSary consequence.
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"How," said Mr.. A. to friend who
wished to convey a matter ofimpertance
to a lady without communicating direct
~ with her, show can YOU be certain of
her reading the letter, seeing you have
directed it to her husband 2" THAT j
have managed without the possibility of
failure" was the answer; .'she will
open it to u certainty, for have put
the word private in the corner.''
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The impression is almost universal
among the freedmen that Registration
is an operation somehow preliminary to
their obtaining an allotment of the lands
OF Their late masters; and it is IL common
thing to find them slyly bespeaking from
the Registrars the selection Ola good tract.
Disputes often arise on the important
qnesti On whether the Government is to
furnish mules as well as lands, the negro
logic running in this wise: ''For what's
de use of benz sot free widout landsl-
Aud watts de use of de lands w:dou,
mules2" Charleston CORES. N. Y
Times,
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English and French ladies, it is said,
are divinity pretty and too good natured.
They have an excellent custom among
them that wherever you go the girls kiss
Won. They kiss you when you come,
they kiss YOU when you go. they kiss
You at Intervening opportunities, and
their lips are soft, warm and delicious
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Indians made q sudden attack on de-
tachment of soldiers in the mountains.
The soldiers had mountain howitzer
mounted on a mule. Not having time
to take it off and put 1T in position. they
backed up the mule and let drive at the
Indians. The load was SO heavy that
mule and all went tunblng down the
hill toward the savages, who, not under
standing that kind OF warfare, fled like
deer. Afterward one of them was
captured, and when asked why he ran
so, replied, me big Iniin, not afraid of
little guns nor big guns, but when white
man load up and fire whole .ackass at
Injin, me don'G know what to do
Nashville Press.
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A negro policeman in Mobile, hearing
a distant pistol shot, dropped hat, club,
badse and pistol, and ran all the way to
the guard house to report that a man
had fired at him. The military mayor
discharged him.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-05

An old maid, being at loss for pin
cushion, made use of an onion. On the
following morning she found all the need
les had tears in their eyes.
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The London Times has subscriber a
hundred years old, who has read that
paper since it was first started.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-05

Nothing like love and hunger to drive
a man mad or make him happy. Next
to the feast upon a seventeen year old
pair of lips under The grape vines by
moonlight. is a foray upon a platter OF
cold beals after fishing all day for suck
ers. The one fills the poetic heart; the
other an empty stomach.
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Chief Justice Chase at one time edit
ed an anti-slavery paper in Cincinnati.