The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-06-07
W.T. AND WIzD0H.

i Old bores-The ancient augurs.
A drop too much-The hangnaan's.
Dress material for courting-Pop lin.
What is the best color for good action Z
Dun. - . =" =
What poet do miners value most : Cole
ridge. NJ :
suffrage. ~ IS 80
The key to the Congressional situation
Whis-key.
Quicksand-The Sc sands of life," which
SO soon " run out"
What roof covers the most noisy tenant 2
The roof of the mouth.
An early springJumping out of bed at
four o'clock in the morning.
Domestic magazines-Wives who are
always blowing up their husbands
Every man complains Of his memory Init
no man complains of his judgment.
Necessity knows NO law Well. me-
cesslty Is like great many lawyers.
IT small boy is called q "lad,n is it
proper to call bigger boy " ladder"
That's my business" as the butcher
said to the dog that was killing his sheep.
Prentice says the Southern negroes ousht,
largely.
to be made by the bands that run the ma
chinery.
A bore2The man who persists in talh;ro
about himself when you wish to talk abonf
yourself 800
To give brilliancy to the eyes-shut them
early at night, and open them early in the
morning.
If you want to see pretty tolerable
specimen of vanity, consult your own
looking glass.
In a game of cards, IL good deal depends
on good playing, and good playing depends
on a good deal. =
have passed through many hartlships,n
as the schooner said after sailing through
fleet of iron-clads.
The young fellow who engaged himself to
half a dozen young women is undoubtedly
n beau of promise.
Soft soap, in some shape, pleases all and,
generally speaking, the more I've YOU put
into it, the better.
: Some wretch of an editor says that ano-
Their twist of the ladies' hair would take
them off their feet.
1t is said that the United States census
embraces seventeen million women Who
be q census9
A cook says that fashionable ladies are
like French dishes-more priced for their
dressing than their substance.
Why are a country girls cheeks like
French calicof Because they are warranted
to wash and retain their color.
Hans, who is a. judge of morals as well "a
money, says that being tender to another
mans wife is not a legal tender"
Man takes woman with a dowry in the
same way that he accepts the hamper that
brings him II handsome present of game
Men have two ways of distinguishing the
lame OF love-they either let it burn out
luietly, or else they snuff it out by ONE
Dlow.
In a dilemma, during the time a man has
'een standing like Il fool, fumbling for am
Excuse, a woman will have invented ten
thousand.
How many men there are who think thew
ire making themselves exceedingly popular,
when they are only making themselves
idiculous
Wives are often foolish enough to sit up
or their husbands; but you hear-ef few
husbands who have the patience to sit up
or their wives.
A lady who was startled out of sleep by
ONE one trying to enter the house, cried
ut: Who's there ~ s! Your late husbandD
vas the reply.
our days on the jury, says he's " SO full of
he law that it is hard to keep him from
heating somebody"
"Stubbs, my dear fellow, isn't it about
ime you repaid me that little loan Z" eau
ustus, my boy, it isn't question of time,
nut a question of money"
A Calvinistic old lady, on being asked
bout the Universalists, observed: eyes,
hey expect that everybody will be saved;
ut we look for better things"
A gentleman praising the generosity of
is friend, observed: He spends his money
Ike water" "Then, of course, he LIQUID
ties his debts" rejoined a wag.
,own-east, lately gave the following toast :"
Here's a health to poverty--it stick by us
fhen all our friends forsake u.s."
An old lady announced in court that she
ad ''no counser'-that God was her law
err My dear madam" replied the
ldgc, - he does not practice in this COURT,