The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-03-29
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ISs How to be at home in the best society
| Stny at home.
r. The only real safety matches after all
Rich malsiages.
1t is very Natural that bellies should give
tone to society. 20
Not the lich, but the wise, avoid misery
and beconie happy.
Can man who eets drunk on oxy-gin he
| said to be air-tightf
When a man is knocked down it is natura,
he should be offended.
Gods mercy, like circle, begins every
where and ends nowhere.
Anger adds to rebuke neither grace nor
force, but love does both.
What game at cards do quadrupeds best
understand An-Fours. 49,.
More sense has been whipped ont of
schoolboys than into them.
Editorial leading is the term used for
shootlng Western editor.
A motto for the medical profession-"Pa-
lents under monument"
Why are young ladies given to blushingf
Because it's a becoming red.
Many persons study ok-keeping at the
expense OF the city libraries.
The young lady who was carried away by
her feelings, returned in horse car.
Is there no way to bring home a wander
ing sheep but by worrying him to deathf
The rich and truly Firtuous woman feels
pity and no disdain for her who is neither.
In matters of conscience first thoughts
are best; in matters Of prudence, last
thoughts are best.
The repentance that il delayed until old
age, IS but too often regret for the inability
to commit more sins.
1t has been said that any LAWYER who
go al nor kv fol
enemy to his profession.
Why is cold weather productive of be-
nevolence: Because it makes people nut
their hands in their pockets.
\ mans life is too long when he outlives
his character and his health.
A wife complained to her husband that
she couldn't breathe. s. Don't try, my dear,
was the sympathetic response.
What is the difference between y barber
and mother? One has razors to shave,
and the-other has shavers to raise.
Why should you suppose that Job suffered
from sore throat? Because he had three
comforters, and they were all worsted.
fla woman wants to keep her husband at
home, let her send him to the top of the
house, and then take away the ladder.
When y man is tempted to do a tempting
thing, he can find Il hundred ingenious rea-=
sons for gratifying his liking.-Thackeray.
Why wouldn't you sell anything to a man
IN bed Because II cash business is best,
and it is evident that he would be buying
on tick.
He must have been u most imputlens hyp-
ocrite who first wrote: 81 am, sir, Your
most obedient, most humble, and devoted
servant
n farmer who has much on his lant and
yet buys commercial manure, is the victim
OF the worst kind of fate-that is, super
phosphate.
The best remedy yet discovered for crazy
persons Is to employ them in manual labor.
This oRght to be known in all our villages.
towns, and cities.
The sa1rest way of governing both a pri-
vate family and q kingdom, is for IA husband
and prince to yield at certain times some
thing OF their prerogatiye.
A down East paper, in putting off Ger
tam soap, says lit is the best ever used for
cleaning dirty mans face We have tried
it, and therefore we know
If You want to get at the circumference
OF man, examine him among men but if
you want to get at his actual diameter.
measure him Mt his fireside.
A friend has presented Ms with the auto
graph OF the blacksmith who riveted the
public gaze also, one of the timbers Of the
house that celebrated actor brought down.
The Church Union has a correspondent
who writes: ave seen the devil; I've
heard him preach he lives in Brooklyn"
1t is to be hoped nothing personal is in
tended.
A contemporary, in printing the speech of
one Of the Bunker Hill celebration orators.
describing the place where the battle was
fought, made it, instead, the place where
" the bottle was bought"
blithe heart makes a blooming visage.
True but it won't do 10 suppose that every
blooming visase comes from a jolly condi-
ton of the heart. The cause sometimes
lies deeper than that-in the cellar.
What perils ladies will encounter to be in