The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-04-19
W.T. AID WIDOW.


bad as calm enmity.
A wife's farewell to her husband every
morning Buy buy! slf .,-s
Few ladies are SO modest as to refuse to
sit in the lap of luxury.
Virtue is rock from which rebound all
the arrows shot against it.
Prentice thinks that stufing improves
the fair as well as the fowl"
A young lady's COMMUNICATIVE is our
fav0rite Roman hero ! Marius.
1t is more easy to be wise for others than
for ourselves.-LaROchet0 sc0wld.
An idle reason lessons the weight of the
good one you gave before.-Sscif.
The reason pretty feet are admired-Be-
cause " aa's well that's end WELL"
What insect would denote that the Span
iards were defeatedf The Spanish fly.
Take care of the Constitution, and the
Constitution will take care of us rittenden.
. Wit will never make rich man, but there
are places where riches will always make a
wit. 80
The herb doctors think that to be healthy
and vigorous, q man, like tree, must take
root.
Why is person asking a question the
strangest of individuals Because he is the
querist.
The troubles of the country come from
uneasy politicians; its safety from the tran
quill masses.
I had rather have newspapers without
government than government without
newspapers.
Pedantry Grams our heads with learned
lumber, and takes ont our brains to make
room for it.
In what particular is prudent man like
pint Because his head prevents him from
going too far.
The history of the world tells us, that
immoral means will ever intercept good
ends.-Coleridge.
What is the difference between truth and
eggsf Truth crushed to earth will rise
again" but eggs won't.
Diggory says he always respects old age
except when some one cheats him with q
pair of tough chickens.
= The greatest friend of truth is time; her
greatest enemy is prejudice; and her con-
stunt companion is humility.
A young woman, in Chicago, who had lost
her speech by q severe cold, had twenty
offers of marriage in one week.
He who tells a lie is not sensible how
great task he undertakes, for he must be
forced to tell twenty more to maintain one.
The old lady who used to dry her clothes
on the equinoctial line, has gone to Green
land to get the north pole to draw cistern
water with.
A grateful undertaken writes to his friend:
IF you ever want q coffin. call on me. I
shall be only too happy to bury yourself or
family at cost"
"My name," said a gentleman, els COM
posed of seven letters but take the first
two away, and there will remain eight" His
name was Speight.
Doctor, !" asked our friend Gilley, what
is the best cure for bald head Z" "Ampu-
tation, decapitation, cutting it OIL, sir" was
the inpatient reply.
The fence of a graveyard in Richmond,
Indiana, bears this inscription, in large
white letters: "Use IS Bitters, if you
would keep out of here"
CAV! how duth you like my mustache,
Miss Laura?" Gsped a dandy to a merry girl.
ooh, very much. 1t looks like the fur on
the back of a caterpillar"
A coxcomb told a lady that lie knew her
thoughts by her eye. "Do your" said she,
" then am sure you will keep them a Sc
cret, for they are by no means to your ad-
vantage"
A young lady at school, engaged in the
study of grammar, was asked if kiss" was
common or proper noun. After some
hesitation she replied, at. is both common
and proper"
+" Why are old maids so devoted to their
cats 7" asked a young coxcOmb of an elderly |
lady. Z" Because, having no husbands, they
take to the next most treacherOus animals"
was the reply.
A man when asked why his portrait was
painted so fiorid, replied that while sitting
for the picture, near a red-hot stove, he was
requested to assume pleasant expression of
cOuntenance.
" Humble as l am" said bullying
spouter to mass meeting of the unterriied,
b" still remember that 1 am fraction of
this magnificent republic" "You are,
indeed" said a bystander, "and vulgar
one at that"
said of the achievements of medical science
in lis da1r. GO Whom 1 lr,:,lIlatal i hnd